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You are missing that it makes goods cost more and people poorer. We don’t want to produce many of these goods domestically because it’s too expensive.

Assembling iPhones in the US would mean more crappy domestic jobs paying near minimum wage. It would also make iPhones more expensive, not just for US consumers, but worldwide. So fewer iPhones are sold. Meaning fewer high paying design and engineering jobs at Apple, at app developers, etc. And more of those jobs in South Korea, at Samsung.

Free trade is a wonderful thing that makes everyone better off in the long run. A lawyer who fires his secretary to do his own typing because he can type faster than her is a fool.
This is not true. _Most_ cards do _not_ cover at fault general liability, most cover the damage to the car and that's usually secondary coverage, which is to say if you have insurance already, you will have to utilize that first in case a claim is required.

If you fall asleep and drive a car into a house or hit a pedestrian, you better have to have some third party liability coverage. If you have car insurance already you probably have this coverage, but if you don't... you don't.

This is a pretty complicated topic and I've done some deep dives into it and found it's not as clear cut as most people seem to believe. What kind of card you have matters, whether you have insurance already matters and even with both of those you need to understand what exactly is covered by who and when. If you don't have insurance you should always get liability. If you don't have insurance and rent a lot you should call up Progressive or National and request a quote for non-owner liability coverage.

What one shouldn't do is go around telling people to waive all coverage and that rental car insurance is a scam.
It may increase domestic production for domestic customers, but I think we ran that experiment before. What I found decades ago is that products made domestically, driven by greed, profit seeking, marketing and labor costs were too expensive for your average customer. Tools for example; look at the pricing of simple domestic hand tools, technical and heavy duty. Scopes, meters, soldering tools, socket sets, electronics, schematics and repair manuals, specialty auto tools; there was a time these were too expensive for the average consumer. Sure it created manufacturing, sales and distribution jobs but by lock in - this did not make the technician or the customer wealthy, but it did make the business owner wealthier as they were the moneyed and licensed gatekeepers, charging royally for access. *As a youth I was screwed by electronics manufacturers, car companies for access to semiconductors, schematics, tools, and special tools. I believe that is exactly what China has faced for decades and has been fighting against, at least partially.
Why is Montreal abnormally high for all services?
Early Windows was a great platform for the users that it served. But every few years, the Windows product itself had one of those "off years." It arguably started with NT 4.0 for workstations, then again with Windows ME, then Vista, and then arguably 8.

This interleaving strategy was okay when they were the only market player, but now that there's actually good competition in the computing space (read: smartphones and chromebooks), it's not so good. All of the little sacrifices that Windows has to make to move itself forward are cuts that make people reconsider using it in the first place.

I honestly wonder what world it would be if every Windows release had "stuck the landing." If we had a super solid Vista and a super solid Windows 8, would Microsoft even be in remotely the same position as they are now? Probably not, because it would actually have been the preferred choice, and not just the default.
I use an xps13 9350. I am running fedora on it and quite literally everything works out of the box on install.
This seems like a ridiculous strategy. Who would abandon an ecosystem that they own over 80% of? If they're spending too much money on it, stop adding features and harden what they already have. It's increasingly clear that macOS isn't business-level stable, and Linux isn't polished... No one has an Android device on their desk at work. Maybe if they stopped trying to take over the world they would realize that they already own a huge part of it. If they don't care, they should sell it to someone who does.
Funny - I use a linux desktop in a VM only when I absolutely have to. Because I can't get much done without a struggle. But to each his own!
Natural monopolies are like that. Artificial ones are either Govenrment enterprises or Government enforced taking what was initially natural one and making it into law, and tend to overstay their welcome because of that.

Monopolies are good as long as they can be gone in the flip of a hat if people decide so.
If I still have to open the terminal and edit text files in /etc for essential things like sound, WiFi, accelerated graphics, and so on then it hasn't really evolved in the right ways.

Linux on the desktop has always been a niche experience for a niche audience. ChromeOS and Android (both based on Linux) are mainstream desktop experiences, as are MacOS, iOS, and Windows.
You might be surprised at how fun and rewarding it is to make some simple things by cutting wood. Just in case you can't find what you're looking for on the market, a few ideas:

A. Put a listing on Craigslist asking someone to build you a simple platform. Say that you'll pay for the materials, and get them to quote a price for the labor. Maybe ask them to deliver it, as well.

2. Find a local maker space. They likely have the tools you'd need. You can rent a pickup truck from a local U-Haul or Home Depot usually. Cutting wood is pretty much the easiest thing you could learn to do in an afternoon. Find out the dimensions of your desired mattress, and for a platform bed, you'll be pretty okay if you play it safe and make your platform 4 inches wider & longer than your mattress (2in on each side of the mattress). Pick up some plywood to go over the frame if you don't want to cut 20 slats--you could, say, make a frame out of just 8 boards, and then screw plywood to the top of it. For the legs, you don't need anything other than, say, a 4" high simple wooden furniture leg[0] to bolt to the platform itself. Then you just bolt/screw it all together.

D. If you really don't want to spend an afternoon of your life cutting some wood, buy a decent boxspring with a wooden frame, then go to Home Depot and pick up 5 or 6 4x4 plain wooden furniture legs[0]. Simply drill a hole for each leg into each of the corners of the boxspring, and add the extra 1 or 2 legs in the middle of the boxspring for centered support (1 if your bed is queen or smaller; 2 if it's a king). Screw the furniture legs into the included tee nut that you hammer into the drilled hole. It won't make much of a mess, and you can have it done in 1 hour. Drilling 5-6 holes is about the only thing simpler than spending an afternoon cutting wood & bolting it together. I did exactly this for my boys' beds, and they even had a blast helping.

[0]: https://www.homedepot.com/p/American-Pro-Decor-4-in-x-4-in-U...
Outside of Dev work unfortunately Linux is not that much fun. If you need to do accounting, graphics or other work there are options on Linux but they are usually way behind what Mac or Windows are offering.
I own a small business and I run my accounting with FreshBooks, which I can easily use via my phone, iPad, or MacBook. I haven't used windows for 18 years. I'm probably an outlier, but it can be done.
This will go the way of many of the other articles highlighting the overcorrection of “gender fairness” and will be off the front page by tomorrow (figuratively. Literally, it will never even make it there) . Shame really. Too bad, if it was inline with a feminist agenda it would have had a chance.
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I should wade back in and try again. I attempt to use a Linux distro as my daily driver every couple of years or so. I can usually get pretty close, but inevitably I end up going back to Windows and MacOS.

There's small UI affordances I miss, there's no MS Office (which is becoming less of a problem for sure), Spotify is iffy, etc etc. So many small things that add up.

Finally - Windows Susbsytem for Linux, or whatever it's called, has really made CLI work on Windows painless. With oh my zsh and CMDer I can do just about everything I can on my Ubuntu machines. Even though Windows 10 or MacOS aren't perfect, the pain isn't quite great enough for me to seriously make a change.
I thought your question was why are there a ton of mattress companies but only a (relatively) few tv companies.

As for why mattresses are so expensive, I think a lot of it is "because they can." I think there is also materials and such. A bed with two people in it might hold over 400 pounds for 8 hours a night 7 days a week for years. If a tv had to do that it might be more expensive too.
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In the case of Netflix, there are also some distinctions between their strategy and both Google's and Amazon's strategies that can't easily be erased.

Netflix has a 100% subscription model that includes original content plus enough licensed content (mostly TV) to fill things out.

Google is basically an engineering organization (ADDED: that makes money through advertising) that probably doesn't have a lot of interest in becoming a studio or in licensing a lot of content.

Amazon wants to offer subscription video as part of a broader bundle at a price they want to be attractive even for people who don't use the subscription video a lot. And they also want to sell video a la carte whether online or as disks.
What are some examples of those things??
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If you still have to, except you don't have to.
I'm pretty sure all the iPads I see are not. In all honesty, I can't recall the last time I saw a Windows laptop in the wild.
I've used Linux on the desktop and laptop since about 2000, always with thinkpads.

Back in the late 90s there were genuine hurdles to do with Linux desktops, my 1999 desktop didn't work in X with redhat 5.2 because of the graphics card.

Today's when most productivity programs are web based, and so much more is cross platform, its far easier to run Linux than windows.
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I've had computers since the KIM-1 and the TRS-80 were around so I'm well aware of the world of personal computing before the PC.

That also makes me well aware of how much a fully decked out computer cost before IBM released a hardware spec that allowed companies to compete and the vast economies of scale this involved brought prices down to where mere mortals like myself could afford very powerful machines. Unlike the various 8 bit offerings of the time, which were relatively expensive for the computing power and storage options they provided.

Even though the initial PCs were expensive and anemic and did not even have the same capacities as many other machines aimed at the home market of the time it had staying power because of IBM's formidable manufacturing and marketing capabilities and Microsoft made it useful enough that non-technical users would dare to make the jump. Tandy/Radio Shack tried - and to some extent succeeded - to do this too with their TRS-80 models. Competition by the clone builders then did the rest.

So I'm sure there would have been a 'computing scene' without Microsoft and IBM, and it likely would have been an interesting one. But the machine under my desk would likely not have existed in that world, other than maybe as manufactured by DEC, Apollo, SGI or some other player of those days and it would have been marketed as a scientific workstation and cost North of $10K instead of 10% of that.

General purpose computing for the masses rode in on the back of economies of scale that IBM and Microsoft enabled.

(And trust me on this: I'm not exactly a Microsoft fan but that bit they did actually made the world a better place.)
Opposite. I use Linux in VM because I can't be bothered to do everything in Windows (when I have to be on Windows).
And yet, someone had destroyed the crash barrier prior to this fatality. Locals report this happens often.
> also a lot of half baked buggy stuff

This morning I noticed I have a 3D Objects folder pinned to the This PC item that I can't remove. I also have Mixed Reality Portal and Mixed Reality Viewer that I can't remove.

Why on earth are those apps part of the default install? Worse though - why doesn't Microsoft make it easy to uninstall them? I don't want their crappy news, weather, contacts, maps, music, and other default apps. They should make the apps so good users want them, not force install them and make them uninstallable.
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I know you're asking in jest, but here's an honest answer: Google Fiber. Google's DNS servers are ~15ms further away than a local ISP who runs public DNS servers as well (xmission). Part of this is because google fiber has a peering connection at SLIX (slix.net), and so does xmission, whereas Google's DNS servers appear to be in the bay area.

Whether or not it's noticeably faster, I'm not sure, but I've always used xmission's dns servers without fault for the past 10 years.

--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---

4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0.0% packet loss

round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 17.763/18.264/18.803/0.425 ms

--- 198.60.22.2 ping statistics ---

4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0.0% packet loss

round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 2.906/3.457/3.871/0.408 ms
This “rebalancing” is shitty jobs we were wise to export away long ago. More expensive steel is going to cost our economy more than this crappy jobs are going to add.
Microsoft could kill Linux's foothold in the server + SMB space right now just by simplifying licensing.

Get rid of CAL's. Charge a fixed price for a certain # of simultaneously running Windows instances, no matter how you run it. Even charging an ongoing subscription for this would be acceptable. Simplify the licensing situation for SMBs wanting to run an on-premise redundant systems, without needing diagrams to explain the difference between running, standby, CAL's, virtualization, etc.

If you're developing software for a platform, trying to figure out how to optimally license that platform should be the least of your concerns, so you can focus on your product.
Thanks, that's very helpful. When I first looked at your link #1, I thought the gore area was a lane, so I can see how a machine would get that wrong.

But if it is prioritizing "I'm in a lane, so I'm cool" over "I'm hurtling toward a wall with a very visible marker" then clearly more work needs to be done. (Worse still if it can't recognize such a visible obstruction in the lane.) And, I'd say, should have been done before they were turning people loose with it.
I just went back to using KDE a few days ago afters years on GNOME and boy, did KDE change! Plasma is a welcome change and KDE feels a lot more customizable and flexible.
Sounds like $1.8 per watt once its scaled:

https://youtu.be/KkpqA8yG9T4
That hasn't been the case for a while for me, even for graphics stuff - do you use a desktop setup with gnome or similar? I'm pretty noobish at this stuff but gnome, unity, etc should be coming with gui settings baked in.
Yep, don't configure your servers with Google's public DNS servers but use the ones your public cloud provides.
If you're in an area with free parking, the value of Uber/Lyft is substantially reduced. Alternatively, the total cost of rental cars needs to include $ spent on parking during the rental.

Rentals still come out ahead sometimes, which is why it's great we have both options.
That's "interesting" as opposed to "useful", because The DAO is most famous for being hacked.
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Agreed. They are undermining the areas where they had most strength. It seems rich desktop apps are being pushed aside in favor of the app store model. For new stuff we now usually choose web over WPF.
Memory consumption and speed are apparently not important for you then, and that's fair enough. To each their own. I can only use so many resource hogs before my laptop says no. It starts with battery life and memory consumption. Speed (and benchmarks) is a good early warning sign.
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>Tariffs are an extremely inefficient form of redistribution. If you want to fix the wealth gap, just make the pie as large as possible and redistribute directly.

It's hard to make the pie as large as possible when your second largest trade partner isn't playing fair.

>I'm not sure what to make of this. It sounds like the plan is to make ourselves worse off in the hope that it also damages China? Most of the difference in labor practices comes from the fact that the US is much richer than China. It's unlikely that we can convince China to stop being poor by taxing ourselves.

China has weird rules that restrict foreign companies from doing business there, which is a defacto tariff on all US corporations who want to sell to China. There's a lot of other industry-specific ways in which China is not playing fair. Of course American corporations want to manufacture in China to avoid paying for an American standard of living. And I get that poor countries are going to have lower wages. But these people are working in factories where suicide nets are necessary. We can pressure them to do better. Then of course there's environmental concerns which we're increasingly aware are an international problem, not an localized one.

We can't enact law in China, but we can pressure them to make changes which are more fair to American competitors and healthier for the entire planet.
A mattress is wires and springs. The load limit is irrelevant - a truck body can hold scores of tons for 50 years. We've solved that.

I lean toward the 'because they can' argument, which means, what the market will bear.
> I do think to call something music, the bar is higher than ‘sound made intentionally’

That's exactly the kind of questions and feeling people like Steve Reich and John Cage were trying to explore with their music.

What would you say the bar is?
>IMO there is a difference between “blockchain” and “blockchain technology”. The latter means taking parts of or inspiration from how blockchains are built.

>Even if the technology is not be specific to the blockchain originally, blockchain still helped bring these ideas into the minds of the masses and so I think it is fair to characterize some of these things as “blockchain technology” when that is how some people came to know of them.

What you just described here, when done to obtain money or publicity - is often referred to as "charlatanism".
This has nothing to do with Linux, rather with the publishers who decide not to support Linux or any particular distro at least.
That's like saying having to pay for any product is extortion, just because it's something you want but don't want the consequences of that, in that case paying for it.
Hello, everyone. Dev here. Looking forward to your comments.
They still do 'the work' in Excel
That's quite the aggressive reaction. ;)
No it’s not, because when you turn on Autopilot or any sinilar system, it explains these limitations. They are very good at lane keeping and avoiding traffic at highway speeds, but dependent on driver for detection of stationary obstacles.

On typical sports of city streets, they are much better at detecting stationary objects.
Why is Montreal reporting abnormally high response times across the board?

For example:

# Cloudflare Toronto 3.42ms vs. Montreal 17ms;

# Google Toronto 9.42ms vs. Montreal 16.71ms.
...as attested to by my relatives and friends who work there.
At first I was going to comment on how this is probably just teams playing to their strengths e.g. If Harden played for Indiana, their heat map would probably look different. But then I looked at the stats and Indiana's 3Pt% is slightly higher than Houston's, so you're right! Oladipo needs to jack more 3's.
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It can be done but usually going Windows is the path of least resistance for most non tech users.
Nobody needs, or can even afford for that matter, infrastructure for people that don't exist yet. That's why that process never works. It is nothing more than a giant concern troll: you get to look like the smart one who insists on planning ahead for more development, knowing full well that nobody will seriously propose adding more infrastructure for people that don't exist yet.

Luckily, you can build infrastructure as it's needed. If traffic gets bad because 100k people moved in and it's straining the transit system, you've got an additional 100k people who will help pay for it. We've been doing it this way for thousands of years, so it's pretty hard to argue that it doesn't work.
A tiny linux/windows story:

For the last year I ran a x200 (c2d p8400, passmark 1458) + below average ssd. Win10, almost no cruft, some cortana disabled etc.

It's ok but became worse and worse (regular pointer lag for a minute, pointer lag is very very sad and indicates very low level perf issues)

I don't use full fledged linux Desktops, if at all. I run a bare i3wm + emacs + $browser + mpv setup.

Last week I booted my old x61 (c2d l7500, passmark 967) on old intel 80GB SSD linux machine. I was stunned ..

chromium and firefox are seriously more reactive. They're only slower for graphics/video/intense workloads. emacs and git flies. Everything is tiny and leaner. Even on an older, slower cpu.

It's even mentally easier since I have less things to handle under linux (still too much to my tastes, but windows has so many components and moving pieces..)

I have to run that archlinux/i3wm setup on the x200 to get more data.
> And yet there was no homelessness in the USSR.

Just stop, you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

Source: grew up in USSR, 4 people in a 10 sqm room.
Probably just like the old Mike D'Antoni teams. It's interesting to see how much his 7 seconds offense changed basketball.
>It's good because people think it's good. They think it is good because of cultural/narrative reasons. It's not good for any underlying or objective reason.

I just want to point out that this is true of basically all food, drink, and art. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinction_(book)
Say what you want about bloated Electron apps, but they've improved the Linux desktop experience. Slack, VSCode, Atom, KeeWeb, among others. Also the modern web, PWAs, etc.
Windstream in Ohio does it.

I'm pretty sure I had a previous ISP that did it too, but I can't remember which one now.
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citation needed

http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide
> 3 point shots are high variance

Is there any research into whether this is true? This 538 article suggests it’s overblown.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/live-by-the-three-die-b...
Have you learned that you wish Uber and AirBNB were strangled by regulation before they got off the ground?
Sure. It's not the direct fault of Linux but it prevents wider adoption by non tech users.
I am looking at small business accounting. What are your thoughts on FreshBooks?
What about using Metropolis sampling?
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They're not abandoning Windows or the ecosystem. This is just the end of it as the tip of the spear/driving force for MS strategy. Nadella is (rightly, imo) focusing more on o365 and Azure.

One of the points the article makes is that Ballmer's MS would do things like not release Office for iOS because that would potentially eat into Windows marketshare. That no longer will happen. MS sees its more important to get o365 everywhere they can.

From my perspective, switching small businesses over to Exchange Online and other o365 services - The future is bright for MS in that space. These SMBs we've switched over have gone from using a version of Office they purchased forever ago and an old Exchange license to paying 50-100 a month for Office 365.