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I can switch my ISP from Verizon to AT&T or Comcast with a single phone call tomorrow. Apple is far more of a monopoly than the ISPs in my area. Should we regulate Apple as a public utility?
"Superior" is meaningless without context. It's all relative to what your goals are. A historian should be reading primary sources. A high school student learning calculus is probably better off with something more modern.
If we are to go down this route, I should hope South Park Mexican is removed from Apple Music next. I am no fan of Alex Jones, but he traffics in conspiracies for entertainment value. He’s a shock jock for the tin foil hat crowd. That doesn’t excuse his ideas, but South Park Mexican is serving 45 years for sexually assaulting a 9 year old girl and his music is available right now on Apple Music — an actual, convicted child rapist can make royalties from Apple Music but Alex Jones gets banned? Jones is guilty of bad taste, SPM is guilty of raping a 9 year old girl.
No, because ISPs are natural monopolies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly). The government allows them to have a regional monopoly in exchange for investing in the infrastructure. As such, there’s no easy way for competition to happen. (You would have to invest in a new infrastructure. Notice how you never have two cable companies or two DSL companies unless it’s one company selling under two names). The reason net neutrality is a big deal is because ISPs want their cake and eat it too. They like the protections of a natural monopoly but they don’t like the regulations that comes with it.

So ISPs dictating what content is acceptable would be like your garbage collection company refusing to collect political flyers for an opposing party or something. Even though it’s not technically the government, I would see it as a government sponsored entity.

Now if you want something compariable, consider the bakery refusing to serve a gay couple. Even though I support gay rights, I agree there with the Supreme Court that a private entity should not be forced to endorse speech they do not agree with. And that would be what Apple is doing here.
Wu’s position is complicated. She can’t say clearly what she is contending, because -from what I gather- that would be a sort of confession that Chinese authorities would use against her. The result is that her arguments come out as shallower then they are. I still think that the bullying is clear, tho, regardless of the core issue
You don't. You track by task, not by time. You also assume that as professionals the remote employees are not taking the piss unless proven otherwise. This is where the task tracking comes in. As long as the engineers complete their assigned tasks on time, and to an agreed level, then it's irrelevant how many hours they worked. You've already budgeted and committed to paying them a working week, so if they manage to do their tasks in 4 days instead of 5, who cares?

If the engineer is failing to meet the task deadlines, THAT'S when you start asking for hours worked proof.

IT will never be considered a 'Professional' industry until we stop viewing employees like McDonald's staff.
Low-end wages are affected by automation, globalization and immigration. In that order, I believe. To his credit, Trump is trying to tackle the last two.

If you provide unskilled services (e.g cleaning) then unskilled immigration is very bad for your income. I don't think any reasonable economist would object to that.

The "job pool" does expand over time to match the labor pool, but if immigrants don't have the same skill profile as "the natives", then some of the natives are gonna lose.
This smells a lot like Xanadu.
I think thats her personality and I think the Chinese authorities will at least allow her that but if she starts drawing too much "controversy" to herself, she will either have to start supporting "socialist values" in public or delete her content.
Good point. I wonder if Apple will/has banned their app too? They did that to Gab.

Just goes to show if you are doing anything remotely controversial do not build in Apple's ecosystem and most definitely do not invest in development of software that relies on being distributed in said ecosystem. If they ban a podcast or an app for hatespeech or wrongthink (under their 'definition' or on the basis of a hyped up PR campaign from a well funded political opponent perhaps) they can ban you for anything on a whim.
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She did not expect Vice to dishonor the agreement; she thought it would help her following in China despite it being illegal. Things should've ended by getting her YouTube video taken down but if the allegations of them getting Patreon to terminate her account are true, then that's a line that's been crossed.
A higher supply of cheaper labour does contribute to the reduced pay but by far the biggest influence is the stagnation of wages over those 3 decades (i.e. it's not that wages have gone down, they just largely haven't gone up).

Average, inflation adjusted wage growth has been projected as low as 0.2% year on year in some cases, and this affects most forms of work not just the low end.
It’s interesting, I had not realized that Apple’s practice of bullying the competition with lawsuits dated from its early days.
Do her racist tweets bother you?
Those 40 points come out of your own points if you have a spouse. You score more without a spouse than with a spouse. Trump's proposal is exactly the same as Canada's in principle, except we don't the points being assigned under Trump's program.

Also, under Quebec's new proposal if single you need to score 50 points, and with spouse you need 59 points. Spousal qualifications are absolutely weighted in. This is not the case with other provincial nominee programs though, Alberta, BC or Ontario.
You pass more effective labor protections, and then stop letting employers get around them just because they hired undocumented workers. You prosecute employers for exploiting a vulnerable labor force, instead of charging the people being exploited.

This seems like the truly left position to me. I heard Clinton mention it once in the 3rd debate, but for some reason people focused on other stuff.
Then put it under the GPLv3 or something similar.
If the actual content was simple enough, you could have just wrote it in straight HTML with some Apache magic and no one would have been the wiser.
IMHO Gloria is just choosing targets, that's why she was deliberately asking provocative questions. The real spies will handle them at their hotel.
You'd think that by asking questions about north Korea and Russia, they'd be targeting left leaning political activists, you might be wrong, they might be on the contrary targeting right wing radicals. An angry reaction from the passenger towards Russia/North Korea might be what she's looking for
I think you're ignoring the point of the article. In science you generally only want to build upon something when you are certain, beyond any reasonable doubt, that what you're assuming is correct. Otherwise it is, at best, a waste of time. At worst it's something that could severely mislead people and undermine your entire field. For instance first let's consider physics. I can explain to you the math of acceleration, gravity, friction, conservation of energy, or other basic aspects of nature. In 30 minutes you can setup an experiment and confirm for yourself with practically 100% accuracy that this is all correct. This, these sort of first principles, can be very safely built upon. But then as you build new ideas upon these first principles and then new ideas upon these new ideas, you run ever greater risk of fundamental mistake. And so going back to the original sources is critical to understand how they came to their conclusions and where the risks might be.

Now let's consider psychology. Psychology itself lacks any real first principles. Different people, and sometimes even the same people, will act in different ways in the same scenario. At best it's a probabilistic science which introduces major and complex issues, when done perfectly. And it's not done perfectly. Outside of flawed logic, these sort of sciences also seem to attract unusually flawed scientists. For instance it's now completely clear that the Stanford Prison Experiment was literally fake. The students were coached on how to behave by the 'researcher', and saw the experiment as literally playing improv with one another. The 'mental breakdown' that caused the experiment to be cancelled after 6 days was fake. And we've now been teaching that experiment to kids for some 50 years, and ongoing. And it's not just older experiments of course. Recent research has shown that some 50-60% of major psychological studies in reputable journals cannot be replicated. You simply cannot build upon this in any meaningful way and to try to do so would turn the field into an even greater mockery of anything that purports to be science.
Louis Farrakhan is on Apple Music and is far more objectionable in terms of his views of Jews than anything ever said by Alex Jones.

https://www.adl.org/blog/louis-farrakhan-delivers-yet-anothe...
I found [1] which reports noise temperatures around 20–30 K for the 34 m antenna that receives Voyager data [2].

The equivalent noise spectral density is around -215 dB/Hz!

[1] https://descanso.jpl.nasa.gov/monograph/series13/DeepCommo_C...

[2] https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/science/
> I'd imagine there'd be an outrage if this were a move by Google.

> but interesting to observe the polarized reactions depending on the corporate in question.

You're interested to see the polarized reactions you've imagined :)

Apple gets plenty of criticism on HN, just for different things to what Google gets criticism for.

There's no reason to believe Google would be heavily criticised on HN if they took the same action Apple is taking here.

People are sophisticated enough to consider context in their reactions to things.
Also leftist but pro-immigration.. (although not American)

I don't have a complete answer but I would point out that some of these immigrants do bring work, eventually. There is a photograph of Sergey Brinn in the article, Steve Jobs is another example.

Also, economically, I am of the opinion that consumption is what drives the modern economy (for better or worse). The production is then typically figured out from that through capitalism. So the additional consumers in economy (immigrants) also add to demand, which acts against the downward pressure on wages.
Paywalled.

Can someone explain this for me please?
I've heard of that before, but it always made me wonder - are we just supposed to accept unquestioningly that powdered eggs are indistinguishable from fresh? Sure, there's no question you can make something edible with dehydrated eggs, but that isn't proof there's absolutely no difference.

In general, the existence of a bias is insufficient proof that you should reverse your conclusion.
I guess the goal should not be to 'not fear' but to win over the competition by not allowing fear of the bigger size of the competitor.

There can be two pronged strategy-

* how is my small size an advantage - how can I maximise that advantage? Can i move fast, can i create specialised features which bigger competitor can not focus on and can those specialised features be of high margin? ex- Mac versus Windows in early 2000.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17695388

* what can the competitor not do, because of the big size? Is doing some of those things bringing me enough advantage to pursue them.
The labour market isn't one market, it's many markets, stratified in all sorts of ways. Hence: bringing in people to do tech jobs (e.g.) for which a local person can't be found will have no effect on working-class wages as, evidently, there's not much competition for that role locally anyway.
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Yo momma so fat she attracts time travelers from the Andromeda Galaxy.

But I don't think frame dragging solves the problem, at least not without a complete rearrangement of relativity, in which case you don't really need frame dragging.

The problem is that frame dragging occurs in the local environment - if you're being dragged along with a frame, you're not traveling at any unusual vector through time.

Time travel necessarily deviates from the spacetime path of the frame, otherwise you'd just be traveling with the frame as normal. And if you deviate from the path of the frame, then ordinary frame dragging isn't going to help you. Of course you could perhaps invent some sort of more spooky frame dragging to handle this case, but it wouldn't have the same physical basis.
If we are to complain about Hannity, then we have to include Maddow. Assuming we are trying to be intellectually consistent. She’s just as “extreme” but from the other side.
Because AT&T is DSL, Comcast is cable, and Verizon is Fiber. If you want the fastest internet, you really don’t have a choice. And telling people “you have a choice, just switch to something slower” is not the same as “you have a choice, download the podcast elsewhere” because in the second case you get the same quality (lol I said quality when referring to infowars but I digress) podcast.
Other Thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17693169
Except Apple receives tons of subsidies.[1] Apple is much more of a monopoly than the ISPs in my local area. I can choose between Google or Apple. On the other hand, I can choose between Sprint, AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Sonic, or T-Mobile.

[1] https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/07/03/google-tesla-apple-fa...
https://www.reddit.com/r/rational - a community about "rationalist" fiction, inspired by HPMOR. A lot of amazing authors and awesome stories, also cool discussion on related topics.

https://www.reddit.com/r/low_poly - a subreddit for 3d low-poly art. Really simple and beautiful artworks. You can easily get into voxel art with MagicaVoxel, or you can try Silo to model low-poly stuff.
The system with the 67-point pass mark very much still exists: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/helpcentre/answer.asp?qnum=692&...

The Express Entry system introduced in 2015 (not 2017) is just a change to who can apply to the system indicated above and the other systems integrated with Express Entry, rather than being first come first served. It doesn't determine approval. (Though for the provincial nomination programs, some of the other hard parts happen before Express Entry, not after.)
well, as it says in the article, she's had good experiences with other western media outlets. she wasn't expecting vice to buck the trend.
I hesitate to say suffer. Pretty sure I have it, though. Similarly, I have alopecia. Hasn't progressed to universalist, but I do have spots all over my body. Still wouldn't call it suffering. Oddly, the aphantasia probably helps. I don't have a personal image.

Still, that is straying. I'm curious what the original aim was.
Immigration policies already set a very high barrier to entry, especially considering that 20% of the US population is functionally illiterate [1].

Immigration is the only hope for me to ever have a family. I was born in Switzerland to British parents who lived in France (in Geneva this is not unusual). Because I'm a citizen by descent, I can't pass on nationality to future children. My girlfriend is Taiwanese, and I'm a conscientious objector who will not take on Taiwanese nationality because of their mandatory conscription.

My life plan revolves around immigration visa requirements. I studied Electronic Systems Engineering at Lancaster University in the UK. That got me a Masters degree from a Washington Accord accredited university, in an English-speaking country (language requirements), in a STEM field (usually on the skill shortage list). Then I used Working Holiday visas to get experience in many countries, before deciding to stay in Taiwan for 4 years to get years of continuous relevant work experience.

Now I have the pre-requisites, I'm trying to find a job, but the majority of job listings require me to already have a visa.

Any leads for jobs would be helpful. I was focusing on New Zealand, Canada, or Australia, but by now I'm getting desperate and I'll take anything.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_illiteracy
Few people from mainland China have high visibility on English-language social media. Wu does. This carries risks in China, which tightly controls public speech. She's mentioned obliquely that she's been told what she can and can't talk about. That's probably why her article is somewhat vague.

She really does make stuff. After the publisher of Make magazine claimed she was a fake, she started posting long, detailed videos of her builds. He backed down.

Her writing and videos about Shenzhen are valuable. She's a native of the city, which is rare; Shenzhen has grown rapidly to 18 million in three decades, mostly people from elsewhere in China. There are thousands of English-language videos about what Tokyo is like at ground level. Not many from Shenzhen, which is a larger city than Tokyo. She sounds proud of her city, and likes how easy it is to get parts to make things. She's probably Shenzhen's most visible booster to the outside world.

Some people are really upset by her.
Wu was target of a Reddit/4chan harassment campaign: they claimed her white boyfriend actually builds her projects.

Wu told VICE that for the interview, all questions regarding relationship, etc. are off limits.

VICE went ahead and made it a topic. Wu refused to answer. In the article, VICE retold the 4chan claims, making Wu's refusal to answer a new nugget for the 4chaners to claim her guilty.

Jeong offhandedly dismissed Wu's troubles and acted as expert on the issue purely on being of Asian descent, which has nothing to do with living in PRC.

Jeong, who is unjustly the target of another ridiculous and purely vile 4chan harassment campaign, decided to not stand up for Wu, when she was the target. Instead she dismissed her struggle and sided with the white male VICE editor.
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Battery life mostly.

I've used the device for 4 hours this week and the battery dipped from ~50% to ~40% (that is witout backlight and other variables which might consumer more energy)

I believe they are also weather proof (mine didnt mind some water splashed onto it).

A Dynamo to power my phone would unnessecarily add another drag coefficient and slow me down.

It is also claimed that the device is more aerodynamic than the competing devices from GARMIN and also a phone based solution.

The device also has some very nice LED indicators for metrics like heart-rate (blue when resting, green in sweetspot, orange/red when burning matches and dipping into non-aerobic zone).

I could go on but this list covers most of the reasons I bought the unit.
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17680958
I do not use them. I'm not even sure if Uber itself exists where I'm at, and have not checked. And No, not really, though it isn't like I'm forcing folks to avoid them. I'm vocal about the dislike, though. I encourage others to use other options when reasonable options exist. I'll encourage folks to talk to their governments to put reasonable options in place. And so on.
What should elected representatives do? You as a citizen have the right to not consume Alex Jones content. Apple has a right to ban it. The government does not have the right to be involved at all unless we are to simply ignore the first amendment.

I definitely don’t want my elected representatives involved in idea curation. That’s far more terrifying. Go be a journalist in Turkey to see what is truly terrifying when elected representatives get involved.
That's a good example. In a way, e-mail was the first federated social network, and nowadays there's no critical UX issue with "there's too many e-mail providers to choose from, there should be only one GMail for people to sign up to".

The only difference is that e-mail is "obvious" and Mastodon is new.
Definitely on the todo! Also want to show an arrow for piece moved.

The board flipping is because they are technically toot detail pages, and in the toots I thought it’d be better to show the board from the side of the player whose turn it is?

Though I’ve also found, while waiting for the other player, planning ahead is also difficult because of this.

Maybe it just needs to show both, side by side, always?
For Quebec's system, the spousal increase to the threshold is not a change from the system before August 2, and as I noted it's a slight impact. Everything is weighed less for the spouse. A less qualified spouse will still not usually hurt. I mentioned August 2 since I don't remember whether children helped in the old system under which I applied; I did remember how spouses affected things, i.e. no significant change.

You're right that I misread the Express Entry table you linked on where the 40 points come from, although I still think the situation would already have to be a borderline case indeed with a very particular set of characteristics for that to matter to the outcome.

In particular, people with a provincial nomination certificate get 600 points just for that, and most CRS draws lately have been something like 441. An entirely unqualified spouse won't hurt that.

And for Federal Skilled Worker Program applicants, the Express Entry table does not determine the outcome, anyway. Just who can apply in which order.

There is a different points grid for FSWP applications after the Invitation to Apply. Yes, the one with a version of the same 67-point pass mark that has long existed. With spouses only able to help, not hurt.

I guess that if you've mostly done provincial nomination programs, and I had only seriously considered FSWP + Quebec for myself, that explains part of our differing perspectives about Canada's systems. :)
My crystal ball is cloudy.

No, no, you're right, back in 1996 the "best in the world" were incompetent buffoons, whereas today we know exactly how to do this right and we definitely haven't overlooked anything /s
The problem is that Amazon has a virtual monopoly on the e-reader market.

If Kindle doesn't adopt a given technology, it won't be commercially viable in the US.

With no competitive market place for e-reader products, consumers buy whatever good enough technology Amazon sells.

There might very well be a high end screen tech that people would pay for, much as how Apple discovered people are willing to pay for higher resolution LCDs on their laptops and smartphones

But without hardware diversity in the e-reader market, that higher price point may never be found, and as such many promising technologies will never have a chance to be further developed and come down in price.
> she thought would help her following in China despite it being illegal.

This is what I'm interested in -- what she imagined a positive puff-piece (which this VICE article basically is) to look like that wouldn't draw unwanted attention from Chinese authorities. Isn't it more or less standard practice for authorities to be suspicious of Chinese non-mainstream citizens who get positive press in American media, nevermind from an outlet that is literally named "VICE"?
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A right winged conspiracy theorist that sometimes makes things up for ratings like Sandy Hook was fake with crisis actors.

He once had to admit that he does it for entertainment when lawsuits happened.

But otherwise he is a right wing nutter. Apple chose not to support his podcast anymore.
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