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Are you suggesting we create a world government to ensure there's nowhere on Earth people can flee to to escape high taxes?

So what do you do when the rich leave for Mars? Chase them there to make sure you get your pound of flesh?

Is this really the kind of world we should strive to create?

>>You lower taxes, the rich suck money out of the local population until they get a better deal.

Maybe you're looking at it wrong. The rich aren't cows to be milked. The relationship between an individual and a jurisdiction should be mutually beneficial.

If the jurisdiction has something the wealthy individual wants, they will invest there.

If the jurisdiction is losing wealth as a result of the activity of the wealthy individual, then clearly there are negative externalities that it is not punishing with penalties, or subsidies that it is providing without a proportionate benefit, that wealthy people are taking advantage of.

The solution there is to change the way government programs are structured to make business models that suck wealth out unviable.

If the programs that the taxes the rich pay for provide a greater benefit to the rich than the cost of the taxes, the rich will move/invest in that jurisdiction. The stable equilibrium is not zero taxes with no government.

As for growing income inequality, the solution is not forcibly redistributing income with a totalitarian world government that destroys/sanctions independent jurisdictions until they fall in line.

The solution is to find out what structural forces allow those with greater capital to accumulate wealth at a faster rate than those with less capital.

Perhaps the government is introducing structural barriers to full economic participation.

One example would be transaction taxes, like the sales tax. These advantage larger organizations that can avoid financial transactions by keeping their activity in-house, something smaller businesses can't do by virtue of being more specialized.

Another example would be securities laws, which necessitate use of highly paid professionals to get approval from the centralized regulatory gatekeeper to offer stock to the public.

It now costs $6 million to do an IPO, and many elite in the government and securities sector are looking to shut down unregulated cryptocurrency token sales that offer people who can't afford those sums a more affordable means of raising capital.

Maybe those concerned with wealth inequality are not concerned enough about these things, and are inadvertently contributing to the very centralization that is behind these problems by calling for more power to be given to centralized governing institutions in their pursuit of tax collection.

Something like 12 out of 20 of the wealthiest counties in the US are suburbs of Washington D.C. Maybe you're not looking in the right place for the source of the problem.
Actually, it isn't. Because it left out all the moving parts that are now in the CSS. That second example is complete, the first one isn't, the second one gives me a fair idea of what the result should look like, the first could look like anything (even a blank page...).
If you replace "robots" with "employees", does that make your questions any easier to answer?
I understand lock downs for security or user experience (e.g. disallow sites to auto-play video, etc). But restricting web apps to the point they're actually broken? No, that really sucks. Shame on Apple.

And if we care about freedom and the opened web, we should not cheer on proprietary, closed platforms like app stores. We should want the opened web to win.
http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1801.1/04345.html has more detail on the dropping of Blackfin support in particular.
Neil Harbison: Life in the age of new body parts and extra senses: https://livestream.com/accounts/6779986/events/2928486/video...

Neil is completely colour blind; he sees no colour at all. So he implanted an antenna on his skull that detects the information he choses (like colour) and converts it to vibrations on his skull. So not only can he now perceive colour, he can even perceive more colours than regular humans, since the antenna can be augmented.
That assumes the profits go to the shareholders. I don't think that's a safe assumption and I don't think that will necessarily persist.
> But I do already own some of the robots. I have Amazon stock in my 401k. That's what "the people owning the robots" looks like.

Is it though? Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't stock only generates value if it increases in price (or the company decides it wants to pay dividends), and not directly from the productivity of robots?

To put it a bit more clearly, your stock only makes you money if Amazon keeps growing. Let say Amazon were to reach a theoretical maximum size: profits and value stop growing. It would still generate massive amounts of money but would it be obliged to give you a cut of it?
I don't think sms, maps, browser, phone, camera, email are the apps most people use though.

Wikpedia(1) says in the US its actually: Facebook, Facebook Messenger, YoutTube, Google Maps, Google Search, Google Play, Gmail, Instagram, Apple Music and Amazon

For other countries you just have to swap out Messenger for Whatsapp and such...but otherwise its basically the same.

Mind you this includes preinstalled apps!

So I'd say if anything, someone should build a Facebook phone, without all the other crap like phone, email and sms apps :)

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_popular_smartphon...
The good news is that Tesla does not manufacture toys for children. Otherwise, for them label "not suitable for children under 3 years, must be used carefully etc" would make every deadly mistake just another user's fault.
Amazon in general, like Uber, considers that warehouse employees and driver are just a needed adjustment until robots take over. They have the consideration that Google/Waymo has for the people filling in “Is this a Stop sign” Catpcha. Thinking of it as sweat labor is not false, but it won’t convince the company change.

If you think of it that way, you understand better how Amazon product managers and engineers are OK with the treatment. Also part of that vision: those employees benefit from constant iteration of the work conditions, from Bezos’ initial suggestion to get knee pad to help filling in boxes (rapidly replaced by the far better option to get tables). All the pain is just a step in the process that has not been automated yet, and the “handful” of people “temporary” suffering now are just there to provide training data for the order of magnitude more orders to come when running around, climbing on step-ladders, will be automated. And, in fairness, a lot of it has, or is about to: Amazon has robots to carry shelves around, raising platforms, etc. They are generally not used at scale yet, but teams are actively working on it.

I’m not saying that to justify the company’s callous take, or pain their plan as a delusional grandeur, but to explain how the stress is part of the process: to reveal what hurts. As far as I can tell, all employees, especially desk-dwellers, are asked to do shifts in the warehouse to build some empathy. It’s far from perfect and seem to hide the reality of family life for the de-facto full-time workers -- but accusing Amazon of having inhumane condition is missing the dynamic angle to it.

I believe there is a massive mis-match between how employees see their service and the efforts so many employees are putting in; I’m not convinced that you can reach automation faster by having humans run around and learn from their mistake. I would be a lot more comfortable with the experiment is participants where excited by the perspective of automation rather than working poor, but I’m not in charge of the company, so it’s hard to grasp exactly what could be done. I believe that warehouse employees with more free-time, more initiative and the ability automate themselves would automate faster than what Amazon is currently doing, but that’s just speculation.
>So China will be 'open for business'

What? China has numerous barriers to being "open for business", from requiring partnerships with local entities to even operate in the country to forced IP sharing to quotas on imports, and has been increasing those restrictions under Xi, not loosening them.

Your statement is so inaccurate that I suspect you're pushing some agenda.
The idea that something in the commons should be funded by the majority isn't a new one. At this point the debate turns into an argument on tax policy and its peripherals...

I don't think that debate will end until we all create some sort of hive mind AI by networking our brains together.
https://www.gnu.org/software/gtypist/index.html

I'm unsure how good it is now, but I used this years ago. Free, ran through a lot of standard typing exercises. It was very helpful in moving me from "proficient with Dvorak" to "filling the keyboard buffer with Dvorak". It should be similarly effective for QWERTY and other layouts. Actually, I think I used the QWERTY exercises with the Dvorak layout.
MediaTek have some highly competitive entry-level and mid-range SoC options, but their high-end offerings are much weaker. Huawei-owned HiSilicon do have some very good high-end SoCs. It's plausible that ZTE could partner with a Chinese semi company to produce a competitive high-end SoC.
Correct link to pwabuilder is https://www.pwabuilder.com/
>When you own the machine, you can physically operate it yourself.

Can I? I've got no clue how to run a Kiva, I just know that somewhere, there's one making me a few pennies right now being run and maintained by people who know what they're doing.
Yeah. That was actually one of the most painful points, and it had nothing to do with the software itself.

And to make matters worse, D&B have a client-side validation bug on their site when updating your profile. I actually had to set a JS breakpoint in their code and change .isValid = true. Just so I could update my profile. Unbelievable.
They control the client but not Browser/DNS/OS
There is a risk of getting supply cut off if the ruse is discovered. It could work temporarily, but it's a risky supply chain to build a large or long-term business on.
> But... operating non-computerized home appliances is difficult, too. Remember all the jokes about the VCR blinking 12:00? This was because every damn thing had it's own completely non-standard, unique interface.

Not really. It was because the device is a VCR (or a car) that happens to contain a clock and people didn't care enough about the clock feature to bother with setting it. Even the people whose clocks weren't set could still play a video tape or drive to work.

What it points to is the need for good defaults. The default shouldn't be to blink 12:00, nobody actually wants that. It should be to get the time from a GPS receiver or NTP server or something like that. It's a problem caused by no external connectivity, which is no longer an issue today.

> Now, with connected appliances? (as any of your 'social network' appliances would have to be) if you didn't apply the security updates (and maybe if you did) the data would be even more public than it is now.

Security is an issue but it's a separate issue. Huge organizations get pwned all the time. Yahoo, Target, Equifax, OPM, it's a very long list. If the thing holding your data gets hacked, you lose. That doesn't really depend on if it's in your home or not.
> It's true that best regulation is self-regulation

You take this as a fact, so do the billionare execs at Apple, but it just isn't true. You can define "best" in however way you want to make it true, but any reasonable definition won't let that happen. Best for whom? Best for the billionares? Maybe, but that's not best for the rest of us.

Regulation is important in a healthy capitalistic society. Regulation by government, which is theoretically run by elected representatives, is not a bad thing like you suggest it is. It is a steadying hand that helps a market and a society run stably, rather than run amok with fast-paced greed that outpaces ability to sustain itself.

The best regulation is not regulation that the hundreds of millions of people in the USA are not even allowed to know exists because it is a corporate secret. No, that is not the best regulation. The best regulation is carefully written, sustainable, fair, reasonable regulation written with unbiased industry experts, the population itself, the government itself.

Trusting the most elite, rich class of secretive billionaries in the world to self-regulate is not the "best regulation", not even for them. They will get more money if they just agreed and allowed normal government processes to continue without their lobbying and interference to create a no-regulation environment that wreaks havoc on the rest of society.
What's the typical walking time to the toilet in a large warehouse? Where do the relevant employees keep the bottles (e.g. are they attached to their legs underneath trousers? If not how do they avoid CCTV?) Are break periods mandatory or optional?
I still have mine, but I haven't pulled it out in quite a while. It was quite slow, but I remember it using it fondly and really liked the sugar UI (https://sugarlabs.org/). My kids were very young and we had fun messing around with it (there was a nifty audio application that I remember). Another thing I remember about it was the security system, bitfrost, which seemed well thought out. It also had LEDs wired into the mic and camera so you knew when they were listening/watching. I'd really like to see that in other laptops.
Imho, dissos are for short term depression fixing, you need them psychedelics to open your mind for long term.
Up Next: A Better Recommendation System
The little I played with it, I remember lots of random UI stuff built by different teams put together haphazardly, and a button press would sometimes take seconds to show a result on the screen... basically what you'd expect from an alpha product put together by volunteers on a shoestring budget.
Building the Brooklyn Bridge, in Graphic Detail
I was 19 when this came out and this essay single-handedly changed my life and led me to Ray Kurzweil, Minsky, the Unabomber Manifesto, Naomi Klein, and then ultimately to spirituality through Hawking-trained-physicist-turned-cave-dwelling-monk Peter Russell's "Waking Up in Time."

The rest of my life quite literally flows from reading this essay over and over when it came out. Genuinely happy to see it here.
> Keeping them as they are also has serious consequences that are rarely examined, or even raised for consideration.

Yes, but the burden of proof lies with those who prefer an alternative. If you want to demonstrate an alternative is better, you need an honest and in depth comparison with the current. Just saying "the current sucks" isn't an argument.

I do agree it is difficult for drugs like ketamine, psilocybin, and MDMA(/MDA/MDE/etc) to get research funding, but that doesn't mean the current options are useless; we know they are useful, just not in every case. Nor does it mean that those mentioned drugs are better; we do not know.
I have an extra one that still works. If anyone is interested in it, please let me know. I will send it to you if you pay for shipping.
Nice read! I was skeptical, but this looks like a fairly simple plan even a dummy like me could put in place. I love getting inbound leads.
I feel you, every time i have to work with anything apple it's painful. Even their dev tools, i wasn't expecting much from XCode and i was still let down.

In this regard Microsoft is way superior.
I can't believe the level of disfunctionality a local authority must attain to even contemplate such an infrastructure. I realize not everyone in local government can be a genius, but the collective IQ/EQ of this must be substantially south of 100. Then again, I know a local mayor that had cobblestones placed on a 30 meter stretch of road, officially to revive a picturesque and photogenic atmosphere near the village church, unofficially because it was right in front of the house of his political opponent which he hoped would be driven insane by the noise.
The public does not know how the world is
Visual Studio debug info files leak uninitialized memory
They are, but like I mentioned in my other comment, their current tech (AFAIK) was cutting edge (Intel) in the year 2000. They're still quite behind. The government is investing gobs of cash to reduce that gap. All the governments with cutting edge semiconductor tech (US/Japan/EU/Korea) are doing anything they can to prevent China from getting it.

>Aren't Chinese companies also engaging in rampant Cyber theft of IP?

I suppose the Chinese don't consider themselves subject to US laws. Not sure if they've signed any treaties..
Lately I am pretty shocked when I try to search for some useful, practical stuff on eBay - almost everything I need is shipped directly from China with free shipping and for peanuts. Sellers outside China buy the same stuff, at best rebrand it and sell with 50%-100% markup. I don't think this is a good sign for Western countries to be honest.
Before people start criticizing nuclear power. This story is about the Hanford Site. This is where they exclusively made plutonium for bombs, starting from the Manhatten Project. It’s a very complex situation with waste all over the site for a number of reasons, some of them really bad (aka management incompetence, government outsourcing of responsibility, etc), some of them sort of understandable (hey Joe, it’s 1945, we don’t know much about this shit but it can’t possibly hurt anyone if we bury over there in this vast wasteland. Don’t worry we’ll remember where it is... doesn’t).

Tours of the Hanford site are available to US citizens. Highly recommend people also go to the Manahatten Project “B Reactor” out there which is available to everyone.
Well then I'll report something about how my PC refuses to stay asleep after I tell it to sleep.
For suggestions Windows Server has a uservoice website. Not sure how often the windows team (if there is still such a team since the reorg) looks at it.

But as a non professional developer-windows user, I don't feel like it is my job to spend some time filling a detailed bug report with crash dump and reproducable steps. That's kind of the Micrisoft support/QA team offloading their job on their users.
It's actually exactly the opposite. Google's most valuable data is the long tail, which is substantial in search, since they have some data for rare searches, whereas Bing as none.
There's a reason why is more difficult to publish an app onto the App Store
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC2jpKfgKko

My guess is, they probably know but ignore it?
How shady is it, when you write these posts without mentioning the "top" product is yours?
Thanks. I'll fix that in the article.

Yeah, PWABuilder is amazing. A web page that analyzes your PWA, tells you any additional things you need to do to your PWA before submission, then generates packages for iOS, Google Play, and Windows Store. Awesome. More web devs need to know about this.
Due to population increase the revenues would grow. When a company stops growing and increasing revenue its not keeping up with population increase and may as well be dying.

There are also stocks with high dividends, which are paid out based on profit and not by the stock increasing in value.

This is obviously ignoring the fact many people either make horrible financial decision or are too poor to invest in stocks.
Ketamine and its analogs are known to have a rapidly developing and profoundly durable (some even say permanent) tolerance, and I find this is often glossed over, especially when studies don't evaluate it over a long enough time period

I think Ketamine itself isn't a real solution but hopefully some of the isolated metabolites will be
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They're really taking the piss.
Yes, though that doesn't fix "the problem", only puts you on the better side of it.
I assume that the engineering would be run like an open source project. Debian is a good example, or the Linux kernel. The best stuff is decided by the contributors and anyone is welcome to fork and compete. Actual labor of manufacturing and distribution is handled by competing companies (which may be democratically operated) but the tech is open source so “lock in” (which is a man made inefficiency in the market) can’t do easily occur.

Life always takes work to run. Getting to work every day to pay for food at the store and run errands etc just to do it all again tomorrow feels like beaurocoracy too. I’d much rather have a world where the work I do to support myself is to vote on local community matters (the next merge request, etc), instead of commuting through a zoo and looking out the window at the sunshine.
Why do you think China is so keep on keeping the world informed that Taiwan is a 'ROC'?

A couple more moves like these and you might see that part dropped in return for something more forceful. Keep in mind that trade wars and sanctions are the prelude to shooting wars and that after NATO let the Russians roll all over Ukraine there is substantial doubt about whether or not the West would intervene if China made a move on Taiwan.
I thought the car was vibrating to create the sound, not the road itself
I agree... With centralization so pervasive in technology today its harder to carve out sustainable business models.

Google is largely pay to play for search, content creators are having to leverage twitter, instagram, facebook and pinterest to try and deliver traffic so 90% of our business is derrived from creating value for thse social networks and search engines in hopes of return.

It really blows when the majority of your day isn't adding value to the web but trying to play in the perpetual game of fighting for morsels of traffic from the giants.

and as we've seen, those with money can manipulate...
Trillions of germs, probably not so many nasty ones.
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I'm interested to know how did you actually integrate with the lock screen? Did you use a wrapper of some kind to access native functionality?
https://www.datenna.com/editorial/china-imports-more-integra...
You're not the only one afraid.

However look at all the factories closing down and manufacturing jobs lost, plus coal mines etc. Many of those jobs weren't that great either.
Wow Linus sounds like an ahole
I have to wonder - what is staring at our phones all day doing to our necks? And are we going to have an epidemic of debilitating cervical spine issues pop up 10 or 20 years from now?
Not that surprising given the current leadership and budgetary direction at the Department of Energy. Micheal Lewis ran a great piece [0] on the Nuclear facility safeguards about a year ago, and it appears it is quite prophetic...

[0]: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/07/department-of-energy...
Covering the keys, like others suggest.

Work on transcribing your notes from your notebook into a digital notebook. Doesn't matter if you keep them, it's the act of typing that you want to practice. One of the biggest improvements I saw was when doing something like this (though transcribing for professors, not for myself). I was already a decent typist at that point, but having to keep my eyes on the text while typing (and not on the screen or keyboard) improved my skills significantly.

Don't put the text behind or beside the keyboard. Put it to the side and up. Get a small stand (like the stands for cookbooks) and set that beside your computer, next to the monitor. Your keyboard will still be in sight, but keep your eyes focused on the text instead.
The dev experience was better with MS's tools, of course. They created PWABuilder, and it *actually generates a Windows Store package (.appx) that can be submitted to the store. No other steps required. Pretty amazing.

Google wasn't bad; PWABuilder generated an Android Studio project. You open in Android Studio, build, and it generates the package to be submitted to the store.

iOS was sadly the most painful. Not least of which is because it requires a Mac, with XCode and dev frameworks, to build.