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I don't see how partnering with a few other software companies to distribute software via installers is a bad thing or a sign of monopolistic practices (aka limiting competition and harming customers by forcing them to use a product they wouldn't otherwise)...

It's a bit shady to make it 'automatically the default browser'. But that is a problem with the OS. An installer shouldn't be able to make that choice for the user.
Problem:

1. It can be pretty hard to find more experienced people to guide you when you're trying to learn something new. Online resources are great but having a mentor can REALLY help at times.

2. If you're a creator/experienced person there isn't really an easy way to start teaching your skills to people in your community & potentially generate extra income.

Solution:

Build a strong community of creators who can help each other learn new skills. And a step towards that would be a website that connects creators with everybody else who is interested in learning. Like, Airbnb but for mentors (am I even allowed to say that?) Anybody who has a creative skill to offer can setup a page on Graam by filling in a few details. Once their page is setup, they can share it within their network, or wherever. It's like your own personal website but specifically tailored for teaching. If a prospective student finds this page, they can easily request a private session to learn from you.
>A significant amount of the time when you call your provider about a dispute (fraud or non-fraud), they will just pay out of their own pocket rather than raise it with Visa/Mastercard/whomever

Are you talking about when a customer calls their bank, or when a merchant calls their payment processor? I thought when a chargeback occurs, only the merchant side gets hit with fees?
> How is a web browser not an essential part of a desktop OS.

MS argued that the specific web browser IE was essential and I think that's the type of argument that is problematic, both for MS and Google
Very interesting project. Just a minor detail.

> However, I have always recovered from those periods by catching up on sleep.

This is actually a common misconception. In reality, it is not possible to "catch up" on missed sleeping hours.

Source: https://sleepfoundation.org/sleep-news/you-cant-catch-sleep
I want something like a Herman Miller Embody or Aeron but with a working toilet built into the base of the seat that maybe runs to a septic tank on the back rest or something. I waste a lot of time getting up to use the restroom.
I took this course last year. The lectures/coursework were very helpful (albeit freely available on youtube as well). But it was the mentorship that really makes it valuable.

You get placed in a cohort representing a wide range of business plans and industries. Some were moonshots requiring a lot of capital-raising and dealmaking, and others (including ours) were smaller SaaS products targeting particular business niches. There were participants at each stage of the startup pipeline, some without a product (or even a concrete idea), some just starting to sell to customers, and some mature companies with employees and interns and such.

We were making a lot of mistakes common to first-time founders, building things without first asking our customers about them, not experimenting with our message, etc. Meeting with our mentor helped us combat those issues and probably was the difference between having a functional company and not.

We'll probably try to do it again this year. Our challenges are different; last year we were trying to get our product built and get acceptance for our first few customers, whereas now we're trying to figure out how to scale our sales pipeline. I'd recommend it to anyone working on a startup, regardless of where they are in the process.
Surprised no-one has mentioned the Microwriter [1]. In my teens I saved up for one to use with my BBC computer but never really got on with it.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwriter
I understand that serif fonts are a long-time darling of the newspaper industry, but it's a bit jarring (if not curious) to see the word "BuzzFeed" with a serifed typeface.
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The experiment certainly demonstrates "something" in terms of how not to "measure" relativistic effects with macroscopic tools...

And yet, with relativistic particles, the wild claims are made that splitting photons through a substrate, and then passing them through the wall of a polarizing lens, means we can declare ourselves capable of rewriting and erasing history. Eh, not quite.

But hey, where there's smoke, there's fire, so something must be true, right? Let's just make up whatever.
Good luck for the onsite :)
Generally patent trolling is claimed when a company has never used the patents themselves (a non-practicing entity). Here IBM and Sears, iirc, created Prodigy which was innovative technically on several fronts. They spent a lot of resources solving problems and they got patents on some of those solutions.

I think we risk legitimizing actual patent trolls by lumping them in with IBM's behavior in this case. That being said, I think the patent scheme is broken and "non-obvious" needs start meaning something again, not to mention that granting software (ed.) patents is so problematic.

SSO serves the same function as a credit rating or identity verification service has served for decades. I'd call that non-obvious (applying a concept in one domain to a new domain), even if it took some serious engineering to implement that functionality "on the internet". But I also haven't read the patent.

Another perspective on patents held by publicly traded companies is the perspective of the investors (admittedly an equally unpopular perspective). The person who invests in a company's stock knowing what IP that company holds has a legitimate interest in not letting those assets be devalued. With IBM, there's not a strong claim given that the licensing fees are rounding errors, but the principle is worth considering.
You got it right but here's a link[1] with that original story and also some commentary on how this all relates to software development.

[1] https://blog.codinghorror.com/quantity-always-trumps-quality...
They also don’t have an iOS consortium nor do work with other makers, so there is no bullying makers into doing what they want “or else”.

That's the issue though. It seems that Google is being punished for being somewhat willing to work with other makers.
> the idea of a rapture, in which some chosen humans will be taken up and made one with the infinite while others will be left behind.

Didn't this already happened once? Some chosen animals were lifted to unbelievable heights, while the others were left behind and now are basically at the mercy of the chosen one?
I need increased hours for thinking, but for some reasons my creativity peaks on the rare days I am sleep deprived!! It is weird, as I do not compromise on sleep either!

I wonder if others feel their creativity improved on sleep deprived days? I have never read anything about that.
I can only imagine, but one thing that's really striking to me is how incredibly long the Soviet Union lasted. There have been a lot of awful things that have happened in history, but they tend to go as rapidly as they come especially when it comes to major powers in modern times. For instance the entire era of Nazi Germany was a mere 12 years from start to finish! The Soviet Union lasted for 69 years.

And the USSR itself was a communistic nation where the government even thinking you said the wrong thing was enough to get disappeared. And tens of millions citizens were killed by this government in its efforts to maintain itself. And then there was the fact that the economic system itself was failing as evidenced from decades of completely unnecessary shortages on pretty much everything. There was a joke within the Soviet Union that the only thing that's permanent within the union are temporary shortages. Of course, again, say such a joke to the wrong person and get disappeared.

Imagine living your entire life from birth to your sixties under such a system. I find it remarkable how little focus is given to things like lessons from the USSR as opposed to e.g. lessons from the Nazis.
I feel the EU needs to educate their government. Microsoft != Google when it comes to the Android OS. Google made Android free to make cheap devices possible for everyone to be able to afford a smartphone. They include their search engine as a way to fund all of their contribution to the development of Android. Manufacturers can pay to remove Google, it's still an option for them. How is this not a trustworthy business model?
We'll come full circle

OTA TV => Cable and Satellite Companies => Streaming services => Service or company that wrangles in all streaming services
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My pebble has this feature.
While at the same time they've been stripping out vital features or outright disabling them on mobile. It's almost like gasp they don't care about the users but only their bottom line.
Eventually it'll end up just like a bundled cable subscription. Anecdotally I don't know anyone that pays for all of those services + an Amazon video and Netflix.

Most of the people I know have Netflix + maybe one premium channel add-on subscription.
But given he is part of the Universe, isn't he also expanding?
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But only you can leverage your monopoly on search to know exactly which products are worth having those contracts with.
IMO, the easiest way is text boxes: [DD] [MM] [YYYY] [HH] [MM]. Old people just don't 'get' dropdowns and calendar controls. It can't be perfect unless everyone can use it. Native controls don't meet the criteria because people use browsers which don't support those controls.
It looks like authors have been able to opt-in to the paywall since late 2017:

http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/10/starting-today-anyone-who-p...

But I think this is the first paywalled Medium article I've actually seen (and I think it was free when I came across it on r/math a few days ago)... but I've developed a bit of a reflexive avoidance of Medium content anyway.
It would still be fun to do a simple OLs multilinear regression.

OP: start with a multiple regression, then do a PCA, to see which factors may have commonalities.

If you don't know how, upload your data somewhere. Me or anyone else here could do that in 5 min. The conclusions would certainly be more interesting than the wall of text - even if it covers just 1 person, you have many datapoints!
http://content.atalasoft.com/h/i/90847833-robotron-and-oop

Quote:

So why is this all notable? In 13 instructions or roughly 23 bytes, we have the core of a non-preemptive multitasking operating system. That's the same amount of memory to hold the phrase, "Eugene P. Jarvis rocks!" in ASCII.
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"Certainly, pathological corruptions of perfectionism exist"

I submit that that is exactly what perfectionism is which is, for all intents and purposes, a variation of scrupulosity. What you may be describing is something like a desire for high standards or a general love of growth.
This is just lowering themselves to the same level as every other CI tool. For sure YAML is an easier barrier to entry to overcome, but it's also a low ceiling.

YAML doesn't let you transcribe logic easily compared to any programming language, and build logic always tends to go up. Programming languages also allows you to create abstraction to remove some of the complexity from the users.
Maybe they will be cleaner than groovy pipelines..they look really ugly once your building process involves parallel steps
It's a matter of proportionality. A punishment that is the economic equivalent of the destruction of a small city is proportional to something on the order of mass murder, not the prominence of certain information on a company's web page.
Can someone please explain?

> Neutrinos are the lightest and least interacting of all known particles. They easily fly through planets, stars and whole galaxies, completely unaffected. Because of this, neutrinos can reach us from extreme environments in the cosmos, inaccessible by other messengers.

Two slides later:

> It spies for flashes of light generated when a cosmic neutrino hits an atom of the ice, sparking a cascade of secondary particles that leave their trace in the detector.

So why do neutrinos interact with atoms of ice in detectors but pass through planets and galaxies?
You mean voluntary collaboration between property owners and artists, creating mutually beneficial arrangements (artists get paid to do what they love, the quality of the work improves) instead of regulation and criminalisation was the better answer? Who would have thought.

If anything the state could incentivize certain property owners to allow their alleyways or other areas to allow graffiti. Since the artists aren't going to stop... so you might as well create positive environments for them.

...Just like drugs.
Okay, now I am starting to see the argument against Google. Essentially, that they captured a lot of the market with "free" but are increasingly using the terms that come alongside this "free" to bully other manufacturers now that they're locked in with "free Android!".
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A bit of acronym expansion:

* PMC = private military company

* FSB = Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation

* CAS = close air support

BBC article on the Wagner group, including attack mentioned above: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-43167697
Have you tried asking your parents for an itsy-bitsy teensy-weensy million-dollar loan so you can found your own telecom?
Then maybe consumers will start buying lower priced phones with a different OS.
2018 LOGICAL qubits would break current crypto.
But qubits decohere extremely fast, so you need error correcting schemes. Current estimates require 1000 - 10000 physical qubits per logical error corrected qubit.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_threshold_theorem
Last i had heard, TDP was a manufacturer configurable item and could be set within a pretty wide range, and the limits would act accordingly
> It turns out [Leibniz integral rule is] not taught very much in the universities; they don’t emphasize it.

To be sure, this is typically touched for the first time in advanced calculus at the undergraduate level, which--at least with my alma mater--isn't mandatory for anyone except math majors.
Finland has some interesting literary quirks. My favorite is that it's one of the few places other than the Vatican where you can read the news in Latin, for example:

https://areena.yle.fi/1-1931339

It's an account of the US/North Korea meeting in Singapore. A little out of date on July 18 but still appealing since most other 'news' you can read in Latin happened 2000 years ago.
I‘ve just bought it on that recommendation, but have only read the table of contents, yet.

I was a bit disappointed that he does not discuss some common sleep disorders, only others that I haven‘t recently been diagnosed with.
The real news would be that they join a common platform, saving the user to have 1000s accounts for watching content..
What we should do for people who are addicted to drugs is unclear. What we should not do to people who are addicted to drugs is clear and that is to put them in prison.
I've found that not just with open-source but even in the private sector (engineers at big companies can also be extremely prideful and opinionated) I need to essentially treat them with kid gloves, even if they're a 50 year old bearded man.

I acknowledge the merits of their work in the body of my comments, and I posit that I'm merely trying to further refine their already good ideas. Did I mention how good their ideas are? What great ideas that I'd love to contribute to. Each time I get push back I acknowledge the points addressed, and I carefully guide them to realizing that my pull request is in fact their idea, and it's a great idea because all their ideas are great.

for adressing PR comments I usually try to classify them first upon whether or not their filler (meaningless), require addressing (valid questions) or require action (code change). Sometimes issue tags and stuff can also be helpful. I'll typically go back through the comments after fixing stuff, and like a :thumbs-up: to say i read it, and i'll @ them link to the change if it's action required.

It's really tricky man. Even though we all call ourselves engineers--we're all still just humans. Just remember you're dealing with humans and if it comes down to you've got your own fork you maintain--well make it better and then people will use your fork :D
I did. They tried to make an argument that Google forbids Android OEMs from shipping Google Play on Android without also shipping Google Search, and they can only opt in all of their devices, not only specific ones.

In the form I stated, this is true, to get Play you must ship Google Search, and must do so on all of your devices.

What is not true, but implied by the EU ruling is that, a) Android (as defined as purely AOSP) is incomplete and unusable without Google apps, b) that other app stores do not exist for Android, c) that other search engines somehow magically don't work on Android.

None of those are true. I find it unfortunate that Android does not have higher profile alternative options, but no one else seems to want to put as much effort into their products as much as Google has.

Google's actions simply do not meet any reasonable definition of being a monopoly. Google's only action is requiring the entire Google Apps suite shipped on a device as an all-or-none license, it does not require the end user to use them, it does not prohibit the end user from installing others or disabling built in apps, it does not require signing into a Google account to use the device, it does not prevent APK sideloading.

And, until recently, Google was not even a phone OEM (and arguably still isn't, as they do not build their Pixels, HTC and LG do), and Pixels are not nearly as popular as Samsung Galaxy S series (which are famous for "ruining" the Android experience by using tons of custom Samsung apps), and LG G and V series, and Motorola phones dominating the mid-tier segment, and China and India being largely Xiamoi, Huawei, and BBK (Oppo, OnePlus, and Vivo).

Worldwide, Samsung and BBK are the #1 and #2 phone manufacturers, and they merely use Android as their OS. At what point did the EU have the authority to say Google had a monopoly when they do not sell Android phones in any reasonable capacity.
This is exactly right. You have to get creative sometimes.

I was excited as a kid when I was able to get integral(cos(x^(1/2))) - literally jumping up and down.
Glad it got seen.
For more info on that 1000:1 ratio, see [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_threshold_theorem
Yeah that's what I meant, though I guess it was ambiguous.
Any court forces an adversarial resolution: the parts have failed to come to an understanding so they are investing in a legal battle from which the loser will come out bruised, having wasted money, time, prestige etc. A strongly negative-sum game.

The ease of which you can go to court can motivate parties to use it as a strategic threat even if they feel they don't have a particularly strong case, and the openness of the court system can make that small chance of success a strong threat against a public person or company.

So arbitration, by definition, can find a mutually acceptable solution with a zero sum, as opposed to the negative sum of a legal war. Society stands to gain if arbitration works - but not in cases such as these, were forced arbitration is employed as a stopgap against any and all claims.
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Not quite. The problem is that Google offered Android Open Source for free but then didn't allow its parrtners to use it freely. If they never open sourced Android they wouldn't have this problem.
This will be very cool, if it ever ships: https://waytools.com/
well - with more responsibility the force of natural selection will become more prominent - I don't think that is a bad thing.

and the idea of recent generations having to face less and less responsibility is not just pop psychology. I think it is quite obvious with parents picking up their children at school (helicopter parenting) despite public transportation being more comfortable and crime rates being lower than in the past.

> And it wears at some members of your community more than others.

Those may seek help or suffer - their choice.

> As adults we should take responsibility for our community by fixing what ails us.

And this is not being done by prohibiting drugs but by working on the reasons why people start to abuse drugs.
The reasonable conclusion is that the body knows how to catch up, you just need to get back to sleep normally.

EDIT: otherwise everybody would be dead from the (negative) power of compound interest.
A red herring. Every product on the market—from toasters to lawnmowers—contain numerous choices made by the product manufacturer and not by the end user.
That mentions (without citation) one study about a very extreme and weird version of catching up on sleep. I doubt this person was talking about sleeping an extra 10 hours in one night to make up for 28 hours of missed sleep over 2 weeks.
Does the Tesla driver assistance package often confuse highway signs with large trucks? From parent comment's link:

> Situation: When autopilot is engaged, it somehow sees some shadows/images, and it brakes pretty hard even though no car is in front of you. It does not come to complete stop, but it will go from 65-70 to 45 pretty quickly.

Conditions: Typically for me it has been driving in the dark (evening or early morning) and going under an underpass. I am not sure if others have seen this during the daytime or other conditions.

Another driver's description sounds like Google Maps getting confused by overpasses:

> It just happened to me today when I went under an overpass. The GPS based speed thought I was suddenly off the freeway and on the surface street overpass and said limited autosteer speed to 45. Luckily I had my foot on the accelerator so I could override it but it just jolt me a bit trying to slow down.
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I've seen "What Happens When A Night Owl Is Forced To Live Like An Early Bird"[0] yesterday and wonder how it correlates with this.

It basically says that 27% of the population are night owls and are in an evolutionary sense our natural night watch and when forced into a daytime schedule, always tired.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kZVbE_coSA
So far, this is the only correct reply.

Emoji are represented both as characters and as markup, and there's overlap.

(Markup is the correct approach, IMO, and I really need to finish my blog post on that...)
The GP didn't make the claim that the "product only succeeded because Google pushed it hard". All they said was that Google used their search monopoly to give it a big advantage.

Chrome's quality was a necessary, but probably not sufficient condition for it to gain the market traction that it did.
So what you saying "one example - if you want to use Google services on one Android phone, you can't make a second Android phone that uses your own services" is wrong then?

Does anyone know what the contracts contain?