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You're equating different things

You paid real money for the hardware..

You have paid 0 for the use of Google's servers and their software. E.g. you enjoy their Maps app, you enjoy seeing real time traffic. You enjoy using Keep and let them host all your memos on it. You enjoy Photos and like that all your pics are in the 'cloud'. You enjoy......

You paid real money for the hardware yes, and it works with ur without your data. But another cost is your usage of their software...

Everyone does some type of calculus on this cost. I bought their hardware as well, and i don't sell my data to them.. at all.. However, I'm looked at by most of my friends and family as the eccentric privacy guy that runs tech stuff for them.

I run services mainly for myself, but many of my friends/family use them.. NextCloud for backups to a FreeNas and for sharing, ejabberd for chat, Piwigo for sharing photos &blog, davical for contacts and calendar, phabricator to share some of my programs, the all important email, and I've occasionally been conned into running a quake server.

I pay in time and convenience. I use and contribute to apps on Fdroid. I contribute when i can to the OSM project for mapping. I still have to use waze for traffic. And instead of having apps that siphon off my data, i simply go to their websites and check stuff (yelp and occasionally facebook), and yes, it's as painful as it sounds..

I know everyone can't do a lot of these, but a few services have popped up that do some of these for you for cheap, proton mail being the biggest (imo).. Running a mail server is the most challenging, in part because more and more people rely on the big providers for email, and in turn, those big providers are flagging lots if self hosted smaller email providers as spam. Outlook is really hard, i can even send email to an outlook account from a Comcast account and it gets flagged as spam..

So yes, unfortunately you aren't the customer, although you might feel differently and they've definitely marketed things in a misleading way. The truth of the matter is i highly doubt anyone reading this site wouldn't be able to do any of the above, and making it sound otherwise is folly. We all choose who and what to pay and what we pay with.

It's not even as much about privacy, as it is freedom. I was an avid google talk and google reader user, they walled off talk to hangouts and eliminated reader. Once you realize that it's better to have some self reliance rather than convenience, your world will change.
Can you expand on this at all? Your comment fascinated me, and I’m now very curious about what the climate was like in the Soviet Union. Any book or movie recommendations?
Thats what is bothering you? Did you hear about fukushima? Where are the water to cool it and make steam for the turbine to turn? How much water is needed for a reactor to run safly? What other matterial are they going to heat to turn turbine to produce energy? What is the amount of lost metirial expected over time? And what happen when no cooler matirial is available? Boom?
Completely concur that the work environment is brutal. It's unsustainable to say the least, and for FT to advice SV to "follow" this is insanity.

I completely disagree with the whole "copycat" claim though. One needs to travel to China to understand this better.
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When I lived in London I once read a text from my wife to a black cab driver with instructions of where I was supposed to meet her for dinner.

Even though I didn't have the correct name of the street (and didn't have the name of the restaurant at all!), the driver got the right street and the right restaurant. (The street had probably 10+ restaurants on it.) I was astonished, and have never forgotten it.
Looks like the Electron shills are out in full force tonight.
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While I generally agree with that sentiment, Rust's compiler is so hard to please that a lot of C/C++ developers find it hard to do it. I think for a beginner it's even harder.

C is so small a language that you can learn it much quicker. The problems surface later on.
Are gravitons a thing - i.e.a generally accepted concept in the scientific community? I thought their very existence was highly controversial...
I saw these slides. Amazing.
Implemented few things already.
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A bit.

This is the reason why I have learned to only use first party SDK languages for production code.

Anything else that isn't supported by a platform SDK out of the box, means extra work writing FFI bindings, complexity (is the bug on the platform libraries, FFI bindings or runtime library of the new language), harder to debug (lack of support from SDK tools).

Of course, if the goal is to try to push SDK vendors to add support, then this is probably the only path to raise awareness.
Finally, a career fitted to my sharp ability to never follow through on goals.
Plutonium isn't toxic, not any more than any other heavy metal.
When you say you told it to update everything, do you mean this:

$ sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

FWIW, Steam has a long and chequered history with regards to dependency hell - and there are gotcha's with using it on 32-bit systems these days, so it could be that. Your package manager was protecting you from this issue, not limiting you, and I would suggest that the problem you ran into, was more related to Steams' requirements than to your package manager being borked somehow.

The reason you're getting so much push-back on this issue, I feel, is that there are far, far more benefits to package management than disadvantages, and in your special case you managed to get into a state that led you to the wrong conclusion, alas. Your package manager was protecting your system, as it is designed to do - what you needed to do was identify which package had the foul dependencies, and either decide to override the package manager, or uninstall the original app - which I believe was Steam.

Steam on Linux does have gotcha's - one of which, the designers of Steam also don't want to have to maintain a package repo or play nice with distro's efforts to keep peoples systems clean and well-maintained (too expensive to actually play along) .. so the fact that you were being tripped up by Steam, and subsequently blamed Linux-worlds' package management, is double-frustrating for those of us who have been using package management for decades and consider it one of the principle advantages to being Linux users, over the hell of Windows installation that has cropped the industry for decades.
Interesting. I would speculate the high average IQ is a more significant factor.
Is the food in your local supermarket certified to not harm people to eat it? It's regulated, and the FDA can inspect to verify compliance with regulations, but suppliers do not have to get approval from the FDA to ship.
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I did the same: https://github.com/imdario/gluo
> You consider sharing internal ticket information “promotional disclosure?”

Yes, I think it’s fair game to discuss feature requests to a saas business in the comments of a story about feature requests to saas businesses.
"There are other desktops" is a symptom of endless tinkering with the UI.
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Interesting argument strategy. You pose something that will never happen in Seattle (a million employees of two-person startups) with something that actually has happened (Amazon).

If you're a transplant who works for Amazon, then it's because of a choice. You came from somewhere where you lived in a community with people you knew and who knew you. You don't need to be in Seattle.

People who are from Seattle need to live in Seattle. A lot of us don't want to leave our families or watch while our communities (or surrounding) communities are destroyed by waves of outsiders who know nothing about the area and who are only here for career/money.

Is that so hard to understand? How much should we have to accommodate? How many people? Should we sit idly by while people drive us out of our own neighborhoods?

Sorry, that's not going to happen.
John Gruber wrote a tribute to Allen as well:

https://daringfireball.net/2018/01/dean_allen
Since when do anonymous users not have to adhere to publicly-stated terms of service?
Giving themselves huge salaries is another way for non-profit CEOs to put into good use the excess money.
Why would you do that
Czech Fio banka is the one I use, http://fio.cz
Allows you to create read only or full access tokens.
I would prefer to stick with webpack and make it easy and fast again, rather than changing tools -again. We've seen this with grunt, gulp, and now webpack. What if, we're changing strategy this time ?
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I actually agree with the definition you posted. The distinction I'm drawing is this:

The definition you posted above cover's the characteristics of a person's actions, strategies, etc.

In contrast, I understood your earlier post to be about conservative's epistemic habits.

Those two things are certainly connected, but aren't identical.
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I haven't heard that before.

原子力(atomic, using atoms)+発電所(power plant) is the common term

eg 福島(Fukushima)第一(No. 1)原子力(nuclear)発電所(power plant)
And as that page also explains, has restarted some of them, and the long-term policy calls nuclear power "the country's most important power source".
If you can not differentiate your product at all, it will be pretty hard to price non-linearly. You are right there: Customers will run away.

It has happened on the internet (targeting), but people get very angry.
Uber extracts from two sides of the platform, which is a more complicated matter.

For the other examples, you are not exactly correct.
Health insurance is clearly a two-part price, indeed it is a classical example. You pick your tariff and coverage. Whenever you pick, it's a nonlinear pricing scheme.

Salaries are another thing. A base and a bonus are very, very common. That's two part. Also comissions and somesuch.

Hotel rooms? Rate and extras? Minibar?

Cars? Extras and bundling...

All of that is non-linear pricing.

So your point is basically correct. If the customer notices you get to extract all surplus, he might get annoyed. But a two part tariff most often seems beneficial to the consumer, because he gets to choose!
If you're starting a new IoT project, build the updater first and use that for pushing new builds. By the time you're ready for production it will be rock solid and quick to boot.
<< Welcome to America, where effort and talent win over "I was here first"

This is an utterly vacuous and false statement. There are mountains of empirical evidence to prove it if you could spend a few minutes in your favorite search engine.

It's not greedy to protect the area you're from; it's human nature. I'm sorry, but Amazon's tens of thousands of out-of-town employees don't need to live in Seattle. Most of them could work remotely or find jobs at other companies.
For emissions, but not for safety. My understanding is the NTHSA does not actually approve a car for sale in the US, it just requires that the manufacturer certify it meets the regulations.
Really, bigger conglomerates?
I've discovered that a lot of "idea" people (no technical background, no deep connection to their target audience, often B2C products) don't end up paying once they fail.

Yes, there's escrow and other options, but it can be incredibly time-consuming and/or reputation-harming to pursue those people, especially if they're skipping out on only the last payment or two.
Friend of mine went to Hong Kong (from Europe) to work on exactly this: http://libresilicon.com/
As someone who walks in Manhattan, I see where you're coming from, but my experience differs. Specifically, 99% of the time I'm walking in Manhattan, I'm not trying to get somewhere on the same street or avenue I started on, so I can turn and walk along whatever block to avoid the lights. Plus (at least in the 40s), there are plenty of subway entries/passages where you don't need to pay but can pass through to get underneath the street - and buildings you can pass through as well. Of course, figuring out this maze is half the "fun" of walking in Manhattan.
It's a very dangerous thing to do for SEO reasons too.

I'm sure Google and others have automated user-like crawling which attempts to validate their official Google indexing bot.

If the results between the two differ in certain ways you may well get your site buried way down in search results.
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This is how I pronounce it in IPA: /a.sim'to:.ti.kli:/ Why is TOT one syllable?
If we see further fragmentation of cpu architectures it's not going to be fun for users and developers. Already the fragmentation of OS makes that cross platform is a big challenge. It would make the equivalent of a .net/java/webassembly/posix critical.
Disappointed by what? The serotonin idea is not some kooky idea thought up by Peterson; it has massive amounts of evidential backing. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2612120/
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110915102917.h...
https://www.cliniciansbrief.com/article/canine-aggression-li...
http://caspar.bgsu.edu/~courses/Reading/Papers/1997EdwKra.pd...
>“It turned out I knew two of the three Aero principals well,” Caison said during a tour around the airport the day before the commission’s hearings convened. “These were prominent, well-respected business people in our community. Their children and mine were schoolmates. I baked their gingerbread houses for Christmas.”

I had a crazy thought that Caison could have organized an intervention for each. Involve close friends & family & neighbours and sit down with one principal at a time. Encourage them to come face to face with the morality of this.

A small private non-confrontational intervention could perhaps bring about quicker change if the principal's suddenly realize their friends & family & neighbours are aware of the shady aspects of their work.
> Maybe you didn't talk to a representative sample?

I did to some extend. Your initial post sounded quite stereotypical, like the typical communist gulag FUD you get from fox news etc., so I tried to give a counter example. Your follow-up however read much more insightful and I can pretty much agree.

My impression was that it was mostly older people who believed in China being the undisputed number one for all time (after a quick recovery from the western take over), which I like to account to Mao's influence on their views and values. Younger people had much more realistic views, while I have to admit that it was mostly college students I talked to due to my lack of Chinese skills. But even if the less well-educated youth from some remote village is the prime example of a patriot not questioning anything the government does, is that really that different from here? In general I'm very curious what the next generation of Chinese will be like. There is such a huge clash in the current gen that's about to have kids, because many of the habits and ideas of the past generation just don't work anymore in the current Chinese society. This is just one of the aspects that make me wonder where the country as a whole is headed. It's moving so fast and unexpectedly that I don't really dare to take an opinion on whether China will "take over the world" or not and what this would actually be like for the rest of us. I see great potential for this to happen, but also lots of inner-political and social tensions that could have devastating impact on the country and throw it back again quite a bit.
Only if you sign up for Local Guides.

I did out of curiosity after I answered a few questions, and sincerely regretted it. The notifications and junk e-mail were never-ending until I blocked them all. And my time is not worth that little.
>females who are doctors as simply doctors (and likewise for lawyers), not female doctors whereas in tech we have a habit of treating them like female developers instead of developers (and I'm referring to when that's done with the best intentions such as female-only hackathons, bootcamps, and meetups).

Female-only hackathons are what's wrong though. It implies that women cannot compete at the adult table, which is untrue, but if you treat people separately this is what registers in the collective subconscious. Similar to affirmative action making a lot of people think less of academic achievements depending on race, because it was handed to someone. This becomes a problem for those who don't need AA to be competitive, but have to face the stereotypes of the group they're in. Something like affirmative action should be about poverty, not race, because poverty is the underlying reason why people start at a disadvantage. Similarly with hackathons (I'll admit, I'm a guy who never went to one) the problem isn't that women can't compete, but that they're not attracted to these events for some reason. This has more to do with social dynamics. If you're male and a lot of males are going they will advertise it to their friends. So what we need would be more advertisement of these events geared toward women, with no effect on who gets selected.
I'm talking about legit languages people are proposing to replace C with that are actually any good (except C2, it was an afterthought and I regret it because it was out of place and unlike the other languages there purposeless). Ada and perhaps C++17 is the only language people are actually recommending to replace C.
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The same as in any other platform.

Having official status, means anyone coding for the said platform can be confident that everything related to the platform infrastructure (IDE, libraries, debuggers, documentation, discussion forums, build systems) will take into account the language.

Anything that is just 3rd party will have integration issues, as one needs to rely on the language community to step up to sort them out, or even left in a zombie state as interest fades away.
More examples here:

https://darkpatterns.org
You may not be aware, but these days there is basically affirmative action for male college students, at least at elite colleges - they are even exempt from Title IX gender discrimination wrt to admissions. Basically so many women were applying - and qualifying over men - that universities have lowered the bar for men to get in, lest they become even more female than the 50+% women they sometimes are. Cite: https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/07/30/...

One key quote: “Were Brown to accept women and men at the same rate, its undergraduate population would be almost 60 percent women instead of 52 percent—three women for every two men.”
Thank you for the advice, gives me a good idea of where I should start.
> the reactor can just be jettisoned before re-entering Earth‘s gravity well

I think if there’s one thing to be learned from previous missions, it’s that nothing will „just work“. If the ejection mechanism is damaged, or the spacecraft is hit by some object and rendered useless shortly before ejection, then the radioactive payload will make it to Earth. I think a roundtrip would be dangerous, and the core should be left at Mars.
you can use zeroknowledge proofs for things you don't want to reveal. it's called zk-snarks
one example of making customers show you how much they are willing to pay is with leather seats in cars. An f150 with leather seats costs 15k more than a model with cloth.
>All of that is stuff that I think is highly tilted towards a certain profile of devs, and going to be hostile towards anyone who didn't follow the typical CS undergrad route.

Having gone through one of these processes (not with Google, but another big 4 company), I'm quite sure this happens. The CS fundamentals might be easy to test for, but they've had very little impact on real world problems I needed to solve in my career. For someone who's a bit farther away from college and doesn't come from a rote memorization culture (which IMHO is inherently bad for problem solving), this serves as a screening mechanism without actually testing for what's useful on the job.

I've been quite successful at interviews where they ask me to solve a little take-home project. In that case the rote memorizers who get through the Google process usually don't shine, because they're not able to put these things together properly. Recent CS grads still do well on those if they're competent.
Yes and no.

1. If you sell a good where you can not sell different qualities at all, customers get angry. This happened on the internet for example, when there is geo-targeting and other things.

2. In most cases, customers do not notice non-linear pricing. Bonuses, packages, bundles, feature choices, customize, build-your-own, editions, - all just names for nonlinear pricing schemes.

3. You do not actually get to extract all surplus. You have to pay an information rent to the consumer, which comes from not actually knowing his reservation price. If you set only one price, then it depends on many fundamentals who gets how much. With nonlinear pricing, you can approximate the actual demand better by making consumers choose their own poison. But it is still a "second best".

4. "Perfect" markets in any case guarantee only efficiency in terms of allocation. Fairness and distribution are another matter entirely.
A market in which I, the monopolist, use a two-part price to extract 100% of the consumer surplus is in fact welfare maximizing. All surplus is there, and the company is owned by someone. Classical free market econ theory literally does not concern itself with how the ownership is distributed.
That's why we need taxes and redistribution.

Edit: to be fair to econ, the classical should really be underlined thrice
I'll probably prep the "gold master" SD card and then leave it to our SD duplicator.

I'm aiming to distribute SD cards that make some of our Pi Zero kits - Radio, Mood Light, etc - near frictionless to get up and running.

I found the use of Qemu + multistrap in this tooling easy to get my head around and I additionally wanted a stateless RAM disk so customers couldn't fubar it.

I didn't have much luck with Buildroot.

I evaluated TinyCore/PiCors too and I love the concept, but it's just a little contrived to ship to beginners. The way it mounts whole packages of overlays/dependencies is clever though- I am doing something similar (inspired by Open Pandora's pnd format) to add a custom build of VLC to PiratePython for our radio kit. Package the whole app + dependencies into a container image, drop it onto the SD card, mount and simlink everything into place.
It's not so much about changing the IP address, but moving the targeted system out from behind the clogged tube. Changing IP address may or may not do that.
can you provide an example for how uber & airbnb clones be built on blockchain? What would you store, how would it help?
Perhaps you missed this in the post, but both Susan and Valerie have founded companies.
Perhaps the solution is some form of interoperability across processors. Where they primarily run one ISA but have a dynamic converter that can based on some flag interpret memory as code from a different ISA? As chip fabbers and ISAs compete eventually a clear winner emerges and these compatibility layers are mere curiosities just like 16-bit mode on modern x86 CPUs.

Except wait, maybe this is just my cynicism talking, but I have a feeling intel has the resources to just plough forward with x86 and prevent any competition from gaining a foothold in the markets where they hold dominance (laptop, desktop, server). ARM continues to dominate mobile and perhaps some small portion of servers. POWER and SPARC stay in their little niches. Perhaps RISC-V makes its way into a couple of embedded appliances. And that's it, for the foreseeable future.