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Of course Apple has data, we know that, but there are at least two key differences:

1) Apple tries a lot harder to not collect data at all, and when they have to, they try to aggressively anonymise it.

2) Apple doesn't leverage your data as a product. The furthest you could go would be to say that they leverage your data to make more of their products seem attractive to you.
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>> "Even if these immigrants end up to be net tax payers after all the costs of feeding, housing, integrating these people"

So, I don't know how immigration works on your planet, but here in the real world immigrants do not get free "feeding, housing" or free anything-else. In fact a key condition in even the most open/lenient countries is that you must show proof that you can provide for yourself. Any other way would simply not make any sense, and I am always in awe at the level of confabulation needed to believe these nativist fairy tales.

Or maybe you're one of these people who mistake immigrants for refugees?
As an expat Australian I agree.

But as someone who grew up in Sydney, I got to observe first-hand how the rail system / other critical infrastructure development projects...did not develop.

When I first came to Asia and compared Australia to, say, trains in HK, or Japan. I knew the problem.

To some extent, yes, I think we have to control immigration but blaming stressors on immigration is political expedience typical of the change-ineffective democracy we have there. A more useful culprit I see is the refusal / inability to choose to take responsibility to make the changes to critical infrastructure that could have created improvements with alleviating these stressors.

We had a mining boom (thanks, China!) and could have reinvested that free money back into growing out critical infrastructure, with decades-long future planning to exceed capacity.

But we didn't. Credit loosened the banking sector gobbled up the profits in a (mostly residential) property boom, while the population twiddled their political thumbs and battled viciously (assisted by a complicit media) over small-stakes issues, seemingly benumbed by the spectacle of 66 leadership changes in 13 years[0].

But blaming politicians is "public expediency". The people didn't do anything about it, and in the face of some challenges, are they showing much more than learned helplessness and useless blaming of politicians, without creating some changes?

I want to finish by saying that Sydney was fine, back in the late 90s. Before there was any type of pressure. But to think that situation would last forever is the height of naivety, when you have such an attractive resource. We didn't plan ahead, and we wasted the mining piggy bank I think we could have used to extend capacity to meet future projected needs. It's really very sad I find, because you have a great city, beautiful in every way, with decreasing value / utility because the quality of forward looking planning / action was so poor. Maybe the worst part of it is, Sydneysiders / Australians think quite highly of themselves, and are quite aspirational / ambitious, but they didn't enact that attitude into reality.

[0]: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-10/australia-political-le...
For Americans that don't get what the big deal is: Australia has a livable area about the same size as does California. The rest of the continent is desert that gets so hot they had to invent new colors to describe it [0].

Even towns in the 'habitable' area get in the upper 40C [115F] regularly during summer. The last three years have been relatively cool, but in between 2008-2012 there were days where Melbourne and Sydney basically had to shut down because the heat made infrastructure unusable without damaging it.

There is hardly any water and the cities were designed around cars far more than any city outside Los Angeles. Add a population that's three times what the neighborhoods were planned for and you see why Mad Max was thought up here.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/01/it...
I'd agree with that if windows was less bloated. If it was an acceptable position that it never had good terminal support because it did one thing and did it well, and that thing happened to be GUI, then yes, why bloat it with useless shell features that their user base doesn't need. Instead, windows has always been filled with features nobody wants or needs (looking at you, Internet Explorer 10), and most of them are way larger and probably took more development effort than it would have been to just build a good terminal emulator.
Hmmm, that's kind of a stretch. You can hypothesise about motivating factors in people's behaviour without endorsing bad behaviour.

I sort of took it as read that people who break into museums and steal the collective cultural heritage of society are doing bad stuff and I disapprove of them.

I also wanted to make the point the crazy-high valuations aren't really a good, or useful, or socially valuable aspect of the (especially secondary) art market, and they create a false sense of the transferability of that value. That was mainly as a response to the idea of the tradeoffs between security and accessibility that the parent comment was highlighting.

It would be sad if a bunch of "security" was added to art museums, and as a culture we could let go of the idea that for something to be important it has to also have a millions-of-currency pricetag attached to it.

None of that alters the fact that if you tell people something is worth a life-changing amount of money, and put it within their reach, you have to accept that somebody is gonna try to make off with it every once in a while, especially in a society that closes off lots of more reasonable paths out of poverty or hardship.
It depends. Is their current lifestyle supported by that growth? I'm not Australian, so I can't say, maybe an Aussie could chime in.
So you're saying they're bringing feature-parity to Windows, and improving the situation there, and that's useless? Run that by me again?
Sure but Toronto is expensive and they pay isn't very good considering. If it were people lamenting only being paid $300k instead of $400k then we could be like "it's just money!" but I heard when I was there a few months back CAD$120k is pretty typical for a senior dev, which is roughly $90k USD, and the housing and whatnot isn't all that much cheaper than in big US cities.
Try an ML-family language (e.g. OCaml, F#, or Rust) if you haven't already. You get the best of all worlds: expressiveness, safety and speed.
So the purchasing power of a state entity - exactly the solution I proposed for the US. The state has subtle levers of control over all the participants in this industry, which other players (no matter how large) simply don't have.

This is not an objection to using single-payer in the US, quite the contrary.
The interesting thing about the $3000 "upgrade" is that if you actually want to get it, I think you're better off taking the $3000 and investing it in Tesla.

Assuming autonomy is make or break for Tesla in the long term: if Tesla fails at it your stock will still be worth something (versus a useless upgrade). If Tesla succeeds you'll make more than enough to cover a retrofit.
I dislike it too, but I'm also going to be "that guy" and suggest you please don't equate an inclination to be annoyed or particular as "OCD".
The US.

People don't drink land and we get decade long droughts that make California's look tame by comparison. The majority of Australia has the same hospitality to human habitation as does the Sahara.
I think we’re complacent because this theft hasn’t actually come around to affect us yet. If China takes stolen tech and uses it internally, it’s hard to justify stopping them from doing so. If they take it and sell it on the international market, then you can use international trade agreements to enforce intellectual property laws and prevent their sale.

I think a good analogy is that China is pirating some software but not using it commercially, just personally at home, so there’s no way to really enforce compliance.
Which ones are that?

It's an honest question. I can't think of any. But for all I know, immigration to some Andorra/Albania/whatever has been significantly higher than emigration every year for the past ten. I can't recall reading anything with data and I'd like to know.
That seems like a pretty weak example. I use about half a dozen instant messaging apps (iMessage probably the least), and I believe that’s pretty common.
Hit the nail on the head. Decades of underinvestment in critical infrastructure has left the whole system vulnerable to even small influxes.

Driving down the eastern seaboard of Australia one is struck by the hundreds of kilometres of perfectly habitable empty space. You could put two or three Hong Kongs on the coast between Sydney and Melbourne and no-one would even notice. We just need the damn infrastructure!

Given its land mass, Australia at 25m is a joke. We can support ten times that. That "uninhabitable desert" is no worse than Arizona really. All that's needed is a little bit of long-term thinking and investment.

Anyone familiar with my comments knows I'm no fan of "high-functioning autocracies" like China or Singapore but bloody hell - it would be good to get them in charge for just a few years and build stuff.
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What is the livable area of California, and what is the livable area of Australia?

What is the population of California, and what is the population of Australia?
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A password that has already been handed out to thousands or tens of thousands of customers isn't "security".
My point is that R is horrible, even when used for statistics but it's the only solution in statistics so people use it (probably with some self-reinforcing stockholm syndrome)
I think this is a red herring. Not using encryption is unacceptable. Sharing public information is not unethical.
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They'll need phones with two SIM cards. Every Indian IT person I've met in India always look at me with disdain, but also :), when I tell them I can only have one SIM in my phone.
You’re not reducing competition, you’re increasing profit margins and supply of customers. The market incentivizes more competition to reduce profit margins.
At that point it is public information, and sharing it more widely is just journalism or publishing.
> Using Show-Markdown you can take markdown and display it as a VT100 encoded string right in the console.

This is an erroneous description (which in fairness originated with Aditya Patwardhan of Microsoft not with the author of the headlined article here, who is just parrotting it). As Thomas Dickey points out, VT100s had no notion of multiple colours at all. This is not VT100.

* https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/pull/6926

* https://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#what_vt220

> It just feels… odd.

M. Pleau rightly points out the odd division of labour in the commands, here. Oddly, the conversion command not only generates an abstract syntax tree object, it also (but optionally) renders that AST into HTML or text with ECMA-48+T.416 control sequences. The "show" command then picks one of those two renderings from its input.

A more conventional division of labour would have been one tool to create the AST, another tool (or indeed tools) to render the AST into HTML and ECMA-48+T.416 text, and the usual already existing PowerShell tools to paginate/display HTML and ECMA-48+T.416 text.

(I add T.416, by the way, because the examples include T.416 SGR control sequences for indexed colour. Interestingly, they use it for a reverse video effect, for which there already was an ECMA-48 control sequence: SGR 7/SGR 27.)
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Well, ok. I can only speak for my side of the ocean, and not very authoritatively at that. :) Is it really widespread, though, for people in Europe to start seriously drinking before 16?
Python? God riddance!
The real rover code was in C, and the simulator in lisp.
I don’t think these sorts of lists are in widespread enough use to affect the AP operators one bit. This is just handwringing.
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The point that the author is (not very well) making for the “second stipulation” you reference is that if we showed up carelessly we could contaminate existing life and we couldn’t be sure that the life really existed on Mars before we got there if we weren’t careful.
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>Is their current lifestyle supported by that growth?

No.

The people who are the most negative here about population growth are Australians.

It's getting to the point where at a Bunnings sausage sizzle you can't tell if you're talking to someone from One Nation or the Greens when you ask what they think about immigration.
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I wonder how many people have lost their jobs. I don't blame China for banning it, it makes sense, but I would hate to be employed in China knowing that the government might any day ban it with no notice.
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The hardware we use for non-earth stuff is effectively arduino-level (ok, maybe not exactly - but on the order of 70-100Mhz) because of the constraints put upon it by the radiation hardened hardware. Writing python is a trade-off between computer resources and developer time; we've got a lot of developer time and not a lot of hardware resource, so we write in compiled languages.

There are also some safety implications centered around determinism etc which mean interpreted languages are a bit more gray area; with a well understood compiler and language you understand what the code is doing better, and you know it will run the same every time. That may be the case with python if you understand the whole shebang, but not that many people do... And if you have that level of knowledge of python, you may as well be writing C or C++.
Correlation does not mean causation. People migrate to richer countries. Richer countries are higher on the technological frontier and therefore it's more difficult to increase their per capita productivity, and therefore have weak growth.
Yes, apple has made some questionable decisions. But Facebook has made downright unethical decisions. I am not trying to "what-about-it" their mistakes, however for the amount of effort they put in to ensure user privacy and security and also for the sheer delight of using their products, I am glad they are a 1T company and I hope they continue to be so. Imagine FB controlling the smartphone, how much privacy would someone have then ?
I'd love somewhere like Australia to take on a big terraforming experiment. Even "just" digging a channel from the coast to the middle of the desert. Fish, crabs find their way in, birds start feeding along the channel, fertilising the shore, small plant growth, ... or something.

Edit: an example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Canal_(China)
flake8, like black, shouldn't really require any config on most projects yet annoyingly it always requires at least a little. I really would switch to another tool in a heartbeat if they could just fix that.

Ideally instead of needing to be told whether to only show "serious" errors, for instance, it should just give you a project "score" (sum of the errors x their severity) and show the top 20 or so errors in order of importance and by default it should never exit with error code 1 with just stylistic errors unless explicitly configured to do so.
The difference is that in a pyramid scheme regardless of how many people enter at the bottom, people further up are putting in a fixed amount and then stop contributing. The money in the pyramid only flows upwards. In the case of population growth new people act as a multiplier for people already in the network - businesses are able to grow with new customers, provide new services, hire more people, pay them, and they buy things, so money flows both up and down the pyramid.
one for friends and one for jobs ?
If you're not making any money from selling your books, why not make them available for free? They will reach a much wider audience.
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runs ~$10K bot teams, and those are build mainly from off the shelf DJI components.
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I would find something like this to be helpful. As a frequent traveler often you don’t have any sort of cell service when you land. Being able to quickly hop on WiFi is often a godsend for quick communication and navigation to final destinations in foreign countries.

As an example, in Copenhagen airport there is free WiFi but you have to go to wifi.cphairport.com to access it and if you don’t see one of the signs around the airport you won’t figure it out. Some handy guide that has URL, ID of the WiFi and password is super helpful in situations like this.
Australia = 24 million in 296,790 square miles of habitable land.

California = 39 million in 163,696 square miles of total land.

California has twice as many people in an area half the size (not including inhabitable parts of California since half of it is a desert).
If memory serves me well, a few store chains in Europe are exploring approaching this by flipping the problem on its head. Rather than delivering the goods at the customers' houses, they stick to having the local store prep the orders and then having customers show up at a glorified drive-through.

Aren't there grocery stores in North America trying that approach? For all they know it might prompt a startup to actually solve the last mile problem for them, in much the same way as there's a startup or three out there that offer restaurant deliveries for places that don't support it out of the box.
Not necessarily. I acknowledge that a technologist with the goal of doing evil can use technology to achieve that goal.

But a technologist with the goal to do good or neutral will be able to use the same technology to achieve the goal.

Technology itself is ignorant of how it is used, it's not a human. The tools, the technology, remains ignorant of how it's used even if it's for evil because ultimately it's the human wielding the tool that does evil.

You may call technology only made for evil purposes evil if you want (I did say "can be called evil", not "must be called evil").

Or otherwise, did the technology choose to be evil? Was it asked and did it consent to be evil? Where is it's atom of injustice in the tool? Or for software, where is the bit that is evil?

If I make a thousand hammers and use one to murder, are all hammers evil?

I find it dangerous to use chains to bind evil, consider a doctor saving a life and then the patient murders someone. Is the doctor evil? Are the tools of the doctor evil? Should doctors consider if a patient might do evil?

The same process should be applied to tools as well. If a tool is used to save a life and then a life is taken, is the tool evil? What if it doesn't save a life beforehand, is is now evil? How much live must it save before doing evil to be neutral?

That is why I consider technology neutral (even if you may call it evil it remains neutral in nature, not in use), once you allow technology to become moral and political, you open the can of worms that is the consideration if evil is what enables evil in any possible form or shape.
You're rather missing the fact that Windows does not have a terminal I/O model. It has a console model. Consoles are what the 1960s terminal model evolved into during the 1980s; from firmware-mediated access to CGA, through the VIO+KBD+MOU subsystems of OS/2, to Windows NT console objects.

* http://jdebp.info./FGA/tui-console-and-terminal-paradigms.ht...
The world as it is right now, lots of people are unhappy with Global companies making profits within the State / Nation / Country and not contributing back enough.

Why cant we have a model where all revenue generated within the Nation are taxed 10%, and have exemption on basic needs such as Food, Transport, Clothes, Medicals, and Living Apartment ( Any non home owner living housing should be taxed as well ).
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> That said, Apple's business model doesn't require them to violate your privacy -- to derive value, they only need to hold the data you give them, not really do anything with it. Facebook's and Google's business model is only possible with a complete disregard for your privacy rights.

That's a good point! Although Google is commendably venturing out into all kinds of other areas.

Facebook, however, doesn't seem to be doing much other than just hawking data.
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I'm curious to know more about this.

If I've promised an employee $X of retirement benefits based on years they've already worked, am I "debt free" by the definition of that article, or do I have $X of debt?
You can do without French but then again if you're living there make an effort

Winter is worse than Toronto but not by much (and Ottawa winters seem worse than both, to the point a whole canal freezes)
I wonder when we as a human society can get past this silly nationalistic idea that one can steal information or technological ideas or designs. The entire concept of intellectual property is a hack to prop up industry revenues; it is not reality. The free flow of information and discoveries is essential to the advancement of the human condition.

It’s sad that more often than not, chinese hackers get this and US hackers do not.
Copying information is not stealing.
It's a legitimate argument dang, just not expressed in the best way. The Canadian praries (AB, SK, MB) are rough. The crime rate and suicide rate is much higher than other provinces, especially Ontario, and there is very little to do. It's cheap because people don't want to live there.
Well yes, but how suitable is GDP/capita as a measure? e.g. If you care for your own parents or children you have contributed nothing to GDP, but if you put them in a nursing home or daycare then you have. If you grow your own food and eat it, you have contributed nothing to GDP, but if you buy it, you have. If you clean your kitchen you have contributed nothing to GDP but if you hire a cleaner then you have.

A country where your actions are judged on whether they improve improve GDP or GDP/capita would be a terrible place to live.
I think a lot of good horror has moved from the big studios to smaller creators where taking risks is necessary to capture audiences.

That goes from small fiction novels (fan fiction included) on to youtube videos and even multi-media ARG (alternate reality games).

A pretty neat example would be Don't Hug Me I'm Scared, a rather deep exploration of media that I would definitely put into the category of horror.

Another one I recently discovered is the Twitter account @thesunvanished. Twitter as a medium means there cannot be a jump scare. The only way to keep people interested is to keep at the core of horror. Even some of the slenderman ARGs, despite what people might think about the story, are pretty damn good despite using cheap effects (or maybe because they're using cheap effects?).

(Of course, it's all about taste and even the small creators can fail)