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How much has Apple paid? How about all the employees? Shareholders? How many millions of jobs has Apple created? I am pretty sure that the net economic value created by Apple has far outstripped any alleged deficiencies in they taxes.

And if you did tax them at 50% would they have innovated and hired as many people as they have? As a thought experiment, would Apple have been as successful if it were started in Paris rather than in a Los Altos garage? Why doesn’t Europe have more companies valued in the hundreds or billions? Why is there little Silicon Valley-style garage-based entrepreneurship in France? Culture is one aspect, but taxes and regulations are the primary reason. If you tax something, you get less of it.
Also a bit curious on this, Debian and Ubuntu have been on 52 for a long time now.
Congrats on the launch! Can you say more about how you drive your costs down?
The plan is that the BFR lands back at the launch pad in the same cradle it launched from which would reduce operational complexity.

The fuel for your station has to get there somehow, and so does the station itself. The BFS-tanker ships would need to be launched with a BFR booster to bring up a meaningful amount of fuel, and there are going to be way more of those than there will be BFS-crew launches (ignoring the Earth-to-Earth transportation segment, where a centralized fuel station wouldn't make sense since each route will take a very different orbital path).

SSTO-ing the BFS-crew would require another BFR booster-plus-cargo launch anyway to replace the fuel and cargo you could have carried up in the BFS if you had launched it on the BFR booster to begin with.

The only angle that makes sense to me for doing a BFS-crew SSTO with minimal payload would be if it is deemed to be less risky for loss-of-crew. In that case you could have a BFS-tanker already on orbit and fully loaded by multiple BFR-plus-tanker launches, ready to rendevous with the BFS-crew ship after it reaches orbit on fumes.

I think that is unlikely though since such a launch might leave the BFS-crew without the fuel margin required to divert or de-orbit and land propulsively without refuelling.
You don't need such definitions but it would be nice to have them yes.

Private entities do not need to have any TOS to justify banning anyone on their services. They can do so without a single reason.

There is no expectation to have access to any private service.
Factually untrue: post-war housing was massively subsidized by the US government directly through FHA/GI Bill to buyers and significant infrastructure spending (US highway system, water/sanitation, etc).

The US social contract was largely predicated on the idea that subsidizing citizens to obtain housing would lead them to be stable and productive workers/consumers and avoid communist tendencies.

Of course, communism is not now a threat and we are likewise not seeing such public investment in any common vision for a renewed social contract.
He's right though, it is fact.
They already do this with your searches and geolocation data. Why not this?
Why does facebook need an excuse to remove something you describe as trash? Spreading trash on their platform reduces its value. Do you claim that spreading CNN on their platform ALSO reduces its value?
> They are already late and will try to catch up time by a number of serious acquisitions. We shall see a multibillion M&A activity from tech giants already next year.
Zen (both Ryzen 2000 and 1000) is on a fairly low-power node, optimized for efficiency rather than clocks. Zen is pretty much comparable to Intel these days, if not slightly better, but runs into a voltage wall much quicker. If you force your way into that wall they do pull a fair bit of power.

The Ryzen 2000 chips have a smarter SpeedStep-type functionality than Intel does, it pretty much squeezes out all the OC performance from the chip while maintaining normal power management, while Intel (and Ryzen 1000) needs to manage voltages on a processor-wide basis, which eats more power.
I've always thought the world was heading in a more Farenheit 451 direction than 1984.
Clench your fist. Take a moment to notice the complexity of the geometry. Consider how you might reduce that shape to simple geometric forms. Consider how you might represent the three-dimensional form as a set of two-dimensional lines. Turn your hand around and look at it from a different angle. Open your fist and make an "OK" or a "peace" sign.

Go to your refrigerator and take out a lettuce leaf or a piece of broccoli. Look out of your window at a tree or a bush. Go to your bathroom and look at the toilet or the faucet. Look in the mirror and make a funny face.

A bicycle is more complicated than many rectilinear man-made objects, but it's a relatively straightforward collection of lines. Even the drawings in the linked article with their horribly mangled geometry are immediately recognisable as a bicycle. It's not a difficult thing to draw, relatively speaking.
It did and I am so grateful. I am currently in an Air BnB near the university campus. Austen, thanks again so much and I look forward to speaking to you more about Lambda School.
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Android 1.1 was called Petit Four
No, I think they do have that expectation. 'Everything but porn' is a pretty widely accepted free for all category on the web. But yes, 'incites violence' is an actively illegal category; I suspect the only reason it's lasted this long is that the moderation muscles have atrophied so hard nobody seemed willing to go first in banning Jones completely.
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Funny. My Essential already has the update, but my pixel doesn't. Go figure...
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, definitely.
"Low Tax" sounds great. Everybody would want that.
Just a pity that so few people benefit from low tax.
Nice name :) Greetings from Cairo.

My team is working on an hyperlocal e-commerce system that connects small stores with people in their neighborhoods. Delivery is limited to walking or bike distance performed by the vendors themselves.

Cairo is full of small vendors in every street. Most of people living in high rises. You can get everything delivered already.

At the first stage we will just save vendors from taking orders via the phone by hand by allowing them to receive orders on their phone. The next step is to create credit system that eliminate the wastes of vendors or customers when they don't have exact change.
Lisa Su sounded like she'd be in the boat to open the PSP source when she was on Reddit. It seems that she only learned later that she can't do that.
Very beautiful code! Thanks for sharing it, I really like the simplicity of your parser combinators.
You're right Google no longer has the trust it used to enjoy. So many apps have been uploading entire call logs and it's really absurd this was so easiy accessible to all apps.
That doesn't make it tone deaf. That just makes it representative of a (widely held) perspective that you disagree with.

EDIT: for backup to my "widely held" claim, here's a poll on what people think has improved life the most in the last 50 years, as well as what they expect to improve it the most in the future. Technology and medicine / health (which is technology-related, of course) hold the top two spots in both results: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/10/12/four-in-ten-...

Also, just by way of info, Africa is now one of the world's fastest growing economic regions, thanks to capitalism: https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/middle-east-and-a....

I genuinely don't get it. We just watched Asia lift literally billions of people out of abject poverty through capitalism, and now that Africa is on track to do the same, people are full of criticism. Unreal.
I find it strange that no one drew the bike projected on a plane other than the plane containing the wheels. No one drew the bike head-on or at an angle.
I think it is because ISPs (unlike Facebook et al.) are not very successful at participating in the public discourse.

If they would manage their brand as well as Apple, people would probably praise the end of net neutrality.
The cat IS out of the bag. If this is a profitable model for AMC, they'll maintain it without considering Moviepass.
No, we don't need any further discussion about hate speech, any more than we need further discussion on whether murder is bad, or torture is acceptable.

We need swift and clear action to remove it from the commons.
> To this day, you can't even reliably search for local files on a win10 system. They literally laid off their QA department.

I would've thought this to be an exaggeration, but I have the discord app installed, it's automatically starting at boot, It's pinned to the task bar, but when I search for "discord" in the start menu, it gives me a worthless "search the web" result. It's almost insulting...
My thoughts exactly; the only feature that I really missed from not having my device upgraded to Oreo last year was the OS-wide credential auto-fill functionality. I see none this time around.

I wonder when they'll have better VPN support: the stock OS is still missing IPSec IKEv2+RSA w/ proper server cert validation (even Strongswan has a few major limitations with their Android app implementation[1]), and their always-on VPN support is quite bad (e.g. lack of domain name support for not good-enough reason[2], doesn't handle tethering properly while connected)

[1]. https://wiki.strongswan.org/issues/813
[2]. https://superuser.com/a/1019661
Curious, as someone who is in the early stages of planning a B2B SaaS company -- can you talk any more to that? How do you get the clients without a product to show them?
There's a substantial community around Hearthstone AI: https://hearthsim.info/
As soon as it lands you have violated ITAR, so no.
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> How can I link to a youtube video and add my own commentary links? I can't (I think) without creating my own video that explicitly copies the original (rather than consuming it).

You can write a blog post and embed the video with timing information.

Of course embedding is largely the same as transclusion, among the features touched upon by open hypermedia.

While you don't get full expressivity without a blog or something that allows full HTML, you can get most of this in other mediums (e.g., Twitter) where the video is embedded automatically given a link. In theory OEmbed (https://oembed.com/) is a standard for something like transclusion, though it's not very widely supported.

Constructing a link to a point in time in a video is a non-standard operation (you just have to know the YouTube interface). Similarly there aren't great patterns for finding a link to a position in a web page. But the pieces are all kind of there, though missing the controls and patterns to bring them together. Which is a failing of browsers, though that points in the opposite direction of the claim in the title of this piece (i.e., it implies to me that we need browsers to go deeper, not increase the breadth of linked applications).
Well, Germany had the advantage of having to build a 100% new infrastructure and that helped a lot to overtake those European countries that were on the winning side.
I've found this on HN, super useful indeed.
Wow. This is really big. Really, really big. Like NVIDIA GeForce Now important. But...

Latency... Latency. Latency. Uh, latency. Numbers. Response time. Latency. Latency.

I see nothing here that talks about latency. What type of FPS on the thin-clients are we talking here? Bandwidth? Delays?

This is purely a numbers piece of software. When you talk about streaming real-time things, things that require input sequences on the order of <16ms, these numbers are super important: they're literally make or break figures.

The experience could be almost great, but maybe just 5% of a perf hit might kill the experience... I hope that as they mature Rainway can speak more to these figures.

Very cool stuff here, and I really like that a little of the tech is on GitHub!
> And they need to address both sides, both extreme right and extreme left conspiracists who incite violence.

Who says they don't? Every time a right wing nut gets chopped you need an equivalent pound of flesh from the left? This just seems like whataboutism to me.

>But the current language is very vague and only emboldens people seeking censorship and coddling.

People always seek whatever they want, it doesn't mean they will get it. Sort of like how you're seeking absolute fairness in equality in corporate censorship. Good luck...
> You can watch Certificate Transparency logs to catch CAs that didn't obey.

Isn't there a timing issue there? Eg, if I get a cert from Comodo and change my CAA record to specify Let's Encrypt immediately afterwards, anyone checking if issuer doesn't match CAA can get a false positive
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Pretty much what I told the main lawyer there — he was circling around words, and I had waited for my bombshell moment and finally said what I'd been preparing for quite a while: "but... looking at all the trademarks, I can see you guys own 'insta, instagram, facebook,' [...a few more] but... I just can't seem to find 'gram', can you refer me to a filing or registration number?" ... silence.

That moment, sitting at home in my jogging pants, I thought I'd literally just beat a tough-nut San Francisco corporate lawyer in his own game and got away with it.

After a long pause he basically said, "yes, there's nothing filed yet, but we'll get to that, it's already being prepared. Regardless, we'd have to file this issue in San Francisco this afternoon, so you'd have to come over and sort this out with our firm in court locally, over the next few months, or years."

And I said I'll call him back. And then caved in. What can you do.
The blockbuster reference is about glorifying violence. I mean, if we belive movie portrayal on film has an effect on real life (you know, ‘40s movies show aggressive machismo, etc., to we need more equal representation) then we agree that Holywood promotes violence.
https://www.youtube.com/yt/about/policies/#community-guideli... - Hateful Content

http://itunespartner.apple.com/en/podcasts/faq ("Why was my podcast rejected or removed?") - Content depicting hate themes

https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards/hate_speech
I think they should come up with a precise definition, but that’s hard and I see no reason to wait for that when presented with someone who obviously crosses the line.

This feels like yet another instance of programmers applying a programming mindset to human problems. When presented with an instance of a problem, we want to solve the general case. That’s fine for code but often falls flat for people. If somebody is doing something terribly wrong, it’s ok to look at the individual case while you figure out how to handle it in general.
I'm specifically referring to the crippled K_af2 mount, which does away with the feelers necessary to read out the aperture setting on older lenses (approximately pre-90s).

The lenses mount, but you need to go into a menu on the camera body each time you adjust the aperture to tell it how much the lens is going to stop down. I think it's perfectly fair to ding some usability points for that.
maybe your peak volume numbers should be normalized by unit capacity.
Northern New England hates southern New England, particularly Massachusetts (aka Taxachusetts) and the Boston area. The dislike between New Hampshire and Maine vs Boston is particularly strong because rich people in the Boston area tend to buy vacation homes in the former two, move their permanently when they want to retire and bring their politics with them.

Lumping part of New Hampshire in with Boston is like lumping Northern Ireland in with London. One side considers it a horrible insult and the other doesn't see why you wouldn't want to be associated with them.

Historically (like since the 1600s) southern New England has been a far more controlling and paternalistic society than Northern New England hence the north side of the MA/NH line being the "free" side.
Breaking them up won't solve anything. Youtube and Facebook are huge specifically because of their network effects. In the case of Youtube without something like ActivityPub aggregating all the different video services into one inevitably some other company will gather more users, thus becoming the more profitable platform for creators, thus attracting more creators which will attract more users.

There's also the question of can something like youtube, where there's pretty much no restrictions on who can upload and how much they can upload, be profitable at a smaller scale or without being the subsidiary of a larger corporation with another huge money pipe?
I wonder if this means that there's something unique about California and New York, or that these two states are trend setters and other states will soon follow suit.
Which might have worked, if they had targeted a geographic domain where their funding would give them sufficient runway to price low enough and advertise hard enough, for long enough, to essentially control the market.

“The whole United States” was far too broad of a market for them to be able to afford to make enough of an impact. They should probably have initially targeted a single metro market.

But they couldn't do it in the market they did target with the deal they had been offering, and targeting the same market with a worse deal may leave them solvent longer but it won't lead them to the kind of dominance they need to force theaters to the table.
Can you explain what this does on the technical level?

nvidia has this similar product but the game runs on their servers, you have to sign into your accounts on their machines. Playing Destiny you login into battlenet using some kind of teamviewer app and then launch the game.

steam link just (poorly) pushes video from your PC to your living room.

Where in this spectrum does Rainway stand? Please be technical for us here
At some point it will become painfully obvious that flooding the world with cheap money has just been the setup for the next crisis, not a solution.
The particularly cool bit: at least the Boox Max 2 has HDMI input so I can pop it up on my thinkpad as an external monitor (kind of clumsy, needs power too, but I've run emacs on it Just Fine...)
So how much cash has Apple amassed in the last fifteen years or so since the iPhone reign? I'd say enough to keep them floating for at least another 20 years. And a lot of that could be attributed to Cook.
During the height of dot.com mania would you have written off all web projects?

People did. I remember reading those kinds of comments.
"The war is unwinnable" is typically a defeatist wording, not a call to action.
2950X is using two dies with 2 memory channels each, basically an update of the original Threadripper with Zen+ dies.
A cube (square prism) enclosing a cubic millimeter has more surface area than a sphere enclosing the same volume.
I don't think Alex Jones knows how to code.

And if he used an existing infrastructure like AWS, I would hope AWS would kick him off of it.
I'm finally vindicated for not using a password on my key :P
Before Oreo finally enabled universal auto fill, Samsung Pass did a good job signing me in with my irises so far. I love the ecosystem of apps they made so far really impressive. Especially the magnification loupe that iOS has had for years.
Doesn't matter. They can ban him for any reason they want. Hate speech is whatever a mod determines it is. I could say "People with usernames that start with a 'g' are the worst," and if a mod decides that's hate speech then boom—banned.
I used my Note 4 for three years and it's still in perfect shape, aside from the headphone jack. I've got several of their SSDs, they're all good so far. I just got a scratch and dent 2017 year entry level Samsung TV running Tizen, the UI is much faster than what I've seen on other devices. My Samsung microwave had issues within the first year, a local service depot sent a person to the house to fix it.

I don't like their choices deviating away from Android to the degree I won't buy their handsets anymore, but have no complaints about them otherwise and think a lot of their hardware and design is very good.
Laws limiting government power are a tried and true technique. They're no panacea, but a nice complement to the necessary eternal vigilance.
Very cool! But, as others said, I'd want to look at the latency. Some animations in Dark Souls 3 are 8-10 frames long (ie, about 300ms). Reacting to such quick animations may completely fall apart depending on the latency introduced by network. Are there any videos of action games being played on this?
The Microsoft and IBM back and forth will forever be a defining characteristic of the history of computing. It's almost a shame they haven't played a good round in a while, but that seems as much of anything IBM's search for relevance post-"We're just a consulting firm, and maybe Cloud, something, something, everything is 'Watson' now".
Since when do we include pharmacists with doctors, lawyers, and MBAs?
I've always regarded the back button as the single most important reason why I prefer Android to iOS. Interesting how different people perceive the world.
I find it interesting that Ireland is the lowest taxed country yet they have bet the farm on providing a haven for companies to avoid paying taxes back home. It’s a gamble they’ve made which seems to paying off but I’ve heard that if other countries closed this loophole they it would absolutely devestate the Irish economy.
CEOs didn't decide this in a vacuum. Many of their customers and users and shareholders don't want to be associated in any way with IW.
I remember thinking OnLive's pitch of letting you stream games to low-end hardware was a very good idea, but it never took off. I think nVidia SHIELD offers a similar pitch, but I don't know how popular it is.

So, this is essentially those services, but allowing you to use a web browser as a client, right? I would only find this valuable if there was any performance gain in doing so, or if those services didn't make a client for the device I wanted to game on, both of which seem unlikely.

Unless I drastically misunderstood what is happening, and the game is actually running on your hardware in the browser, in which case that is very impressive...but then I would have to question the performance.
As someone that doesn't know much about ETL, I don't really see why it's worth mentioning in this context.

Yes, what the OP is doing can be called extract/transform/load, but that's an extremely general set of operations. Do you have some specific tool in mind that would make solving their problem a breeze? Is there a specific process that one should follow for ETL which was ignored?
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Its not whataboutism. If police in some latam country mostly gets its “mordidas” from foreign tourists, and complaining it mostly happens to tourists is not whataboutism toward the locals.
At Gingr (a B2B SaaS), we approached potential customers before writing a line of code. The conversation focused on their pain and how software can alleviate it. After talking about them, we asked if they’d be willing to beta test what we built as a result of our conversations. About 80% said yes. We beta tested and iterated for several months without asking for money. Once everyone loved the product we asked them to pay- everyone was happy to. After that we hired salespeople and opened up to the world.
If you understand how a bicycle works it's easy to draw. Most people don't care to understand things on a deeper level.