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In my personal life, I use almost exclusively Free / Open Source Software. At least when I'm on a PC, the OS and all the apps I use are F/OSS. My phone runs Android which at least uses an OSS kernel, but I do still use the closed source Google apps. I keep thinking one day I'll switch to something like "Whatever Cyanogenmod is called these days" but I haven't made that leap yet.

I don't really miss anything. I'm not terribly picky about UI, and I've been doing things this way for about 15 years, so I'm pretty much inured to any pain I might feel from missing any closed source stuff. And frankly, I consider KDE to have a strictly superior user experience to, say, Windows, anyway.

At my day job, though, I am stuck using Windows, Outlook, etc. :-(
For someone who doesn't like to mix politics and tech, you're the singular voice having that conversation here while everyone else seems indifferent. Maybe you do actually like to do it.

Perhaps follow your own claimed ethics and don't pollute this conversation with politics? It's not like my list wasn't quite diverse in the political spectrum.
Whatever anyone thinks about whaling, that article from The Guardian has a clear agenda of taking things out of context. It just says "Norway has announced a 28% increase" in year-over-year whaling.

That's true, but compare that to historical values:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NorwegianWhaleCatches.png

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaling_in_Norway#/media/File:...

It's pretty telling that they're not opting to tell you that it's a gradual ramp-up which is still around 1/2 of what they were doing in the 1980s.

The larger context here is that in 1992 Iceland, Norway et al. partially split off from the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and formed their own North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission (NAMMCO)[1].

Whaling quotas are now at an impasse where these countries decide them unilaterally, because the members of the IWC won't even have the discussion of what would be a reasonable science-based quota.

I have yet to see any suggestion that the whales being hunted in the North-Atlantic by these countries are threatened by these whaling practices. An large year-over-year increase on a relatively small quota tells you nothing. You need to look at how large the total stock is, how long it takes to renew etc.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Atlantic_Marine_Mammal_C...
MIT made an image editing AI that can replace the background in any image
Epic's is a useful reference point. The retrospective angle was particularly surprising, but also shows how successful Fortnite has been in terms of revenue.
Such as ? Employers demanding a paper from the police listing all your convictions is everywhere in Western Europe. Even a traffic-related conviction can be a problem. This is also something that comes up when talking to homeless in the Netherlands. Tldr: conviction for something done on the job (can be traffic accident on the way home) -> fired and significant money -> no new job because "strafblad" -> poverty -> homeless
Please re-read the title. Swiss household is now higher...
'Fortnite' is an allegedly very popular game, the biggest thing since sliced bread. This is going to be distributed without the app being in the app store, not sure if that is just Android, but you get the idea. If the app (or game) is as big as 'Fortnite' then people will just seek it out and get it from source. The app store can be completely bypassed.

For everything else then the 30% app store publisher fee is the level playing field you are dealing with. I do wonder if the realities of the 'Fortnite' way of publishing is what is making people question the app store.
Yeah, it is definitely pretty tasty. I'm not sure that the harpooning is really much more gruesome than what happens to other animals we're going to eat.
Well it is all about how you kill animals. People kill animals for food the ones that they grow for food and other animals which population is threatning ecosystem. But killing out of some retarded tradition is idiotic. Especially endangered spieces
> Their economy is obviously capitalist.

Their economy is the exact opposite of Capitalist in fact. It's de facto state controlled top to bottom.

1) The Chinese economy is overwhelmingly state owned or directly controlled. All the major banks are directly owned or controlled by the government. All of their major industries, such as steel, aluminum and energy, are directly owned or controlled by the government. Their largest electronics and telecom companies such as Huawei and China Mobile are directly commanded by the government.

2) No company may do anything out of lock-step with the government. Whether you're Alibaba or Baidu, you must obey at all times, no matter what the stray edict of the week is. You may not challenge the party. Ask Tencent about the government's damaging, arbitrary restrictions on gaming for example. [1]

3) There are no actual property rights. Your property may be revoked, taken from you at any time for any reason. You will not get it back, and you have no ability to challenge this in a court of law. The Chinese Government issues arbitrary rules non-stop that alter your property rights and how property may be used (including randomly choosing to restrict what's acceptable day to day; one day you may have joke apps, the next day they're illegal).

4) The entire economy operates on a system of bribes. You can't operate anything in China without paying bribes. There are no exceptions, whether you're trying to operate a small food business or put up a skyscraper. This means the rule of law is entirely lacking, which is why Transparency International ranks China #77 in the world on corruption.

5) The economy is entirely closed to normal foreign business operations. You can't just set up a business in China as a foreigner. You can't buy Chinese businesses outright, or in most cases take a majority ownership position. Contrast this with the US (which isn't even the best example): you can spend less than a thousand dollars with Stripe Atlas and set up a US corporation at any time, without permission, having never once visited the country and you own it outright.

6) Capital is locked down. You may not take your wealth and flee the country. You and your capital are held captive by their very tight capital controls. You can hardly legally get enough cash out of China to buy a middle class house these days.

7) As a Chinese business you may not operate outside of the country in any manner that the government disagrees with. They approve all large transactions and all large investments. If they don't like something you've done, you will be forced to liquidate out of that position no matter the consequences.

8) It's almost entirely illegal to privately own farm land. This contributes to China having the most backwards and low output farming industry of any major economy.

How is all of this obviously Capitalistic? The state completely controls everything. It's the exact opposite of Capitalist.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-13/china-ord...
Yeah it's hard to tell if this visualization is picking up anything interesting about prime numbers or not.
NCAA introduces artificial intelligence ranking system to replace RPI
Since we have a highly available Kubernetes
cluster with data replicated across all
nodes ..

This sounds like one of the more cutting-edge bare-metal kubernetes setups I've heard of!

Curious what the kubernetes implementation / configuration looks like for the setup they've described. Particularly in terms of HA-cluster k8s configuration, networking solutions integrated, and replicated storage.

Considering there is no AWS / GCE / Azure block-storage primitive to build on, it'd be cool to understand the choices and tradeoffs made in this scenario.

Is all data being stored on something like HDFS or CockroachDB?
Or perhaps the k8s minion slave nodes launch containers with Ceph volumes.
Does Steam take a cut for in game purchases? I think the major issue here is with companies having app stores inside app store. All the companies mentioned i.e Amazon, Steam seem to allow in-app purchases at a scale quite different than normal apps. It does seem weird that if I am purchasing an item through Steam's app store, Steam has to pay Apple.

I mean it would be like Amazon paying Apple a cut, if I buy a TV from amazon. AFAIK, it is only for digital goods that Apple charges, but I am not sure how the demarcation works.

On the flip side, if Apple/Google allow any app to use in-app purchases without a commission, then all apps will use in-app purchases for everything.
> Redis

Redis Labs isn't Redis, any more than, say, Heroku is Ruby because Matz works there.
But what is the distinction between what Fowler describes and what I describe? There's not really a contradiction with what you describe either.

I have a distinct write store and read store, with very different models. As you say, the write store is the source of truth. Since the read store is updated synchronously with the write store there's no need for a queue between them. Indeed there are also multiple projections for different client needs (e.g. the pace chart, vs. workout progress), though in this case I don't generally need them until after the sequence of events is complete, which simplifies things.

Maybe we're just have a pointless debate on semantics, in which case, never mind.

It's just that I see this as a quite valuable pattern without necessarily bringing distributed stores into it. Indeed, part of its value is that you can start simple and later extend it to a scaling distributed system without disrupting the whole pattern.
This article suggests the Minke whale is of "Least Concern." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minke_whale#Population_and_con...
You're 100% correct.

I can't edit it now, but you're absolutely right. Horrible gaffe on my part.
> Doesn't Valve take 30% from games on Steam? But they're complaining Apple taking 30% is too much?

They're complaining Apple is taking too much without alternative. If the app store provided 30% worth of value, it would be voluntarily chosen like Steam is. Why derail with such a ridiculous equivalence?
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That's true for retail but that hasn't been a thing for most developers since the 90's. And traditional retail includes things like physical shelf space in a real store with real boxes etc. Since the late 90's/early 00's developers have been selling and distributing (PC/Mac) software online where the typical processing fees are usually reported as no more than ~10-15%.

The app store narrative has been 'look at how much better developers have it than the old days of retail' when the reality is most of the smaller developers could never realistically sell through the traditional retail channel anyways. (there was a lot more to it than the larger cut involved) The other reality is that mobile devices are locked down in ways that PCs historically have not been (i.e. difficult to impossible for most end users to install software outside of the app store) and the only realistic option they had was to go through the platform owner. (i.e. Apple/Google/Amazon/Microsoft)

I'm all for the app stores getting a cut but the 30% number represents more the fact that the platform owners are gatekeepers rather than any real value being offered.
In traditional retail- there is honest work involved with selling something.
This seems likes good news from an environmental standpoint, but its a real shame that rainforest cover is being lost. I loved reading articles/stories about rainforests as crazy evolution-based chemistry labs that are ever engulfed in the world war of insects vs plants vs funghi vs bacteria vs viruses vs animals. Rainforests are home to some pretty amazing chemistry (and potential medicinal products, though I see society moving away from medicines being found in this capacity)
Richard Stallman has a good description of what the computing environment which has only free and open software is like.

https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html

One big issue is that streaming movies or tv shows might be tough. Some of the decoders used are closed source.
You're right it's not a good argument. A better argument would be taking a look at how long humans have been afflicted by things like heart disease, diabetes, and different types of cancer. I'll give you a hint, they're relatively recent developments in the history of our species.

RE: Dying by 40, how much of that data takes into account infant deaths and things like clean running water? I don't think early humans were dying from "artery clogging saturated fat" and if that was the case, wouldn't we have generally evolved not to eat things that killed us?
You should give Nim a try. It's a Python-like language which can be compiled to C and JavaScript. There is even a SPA framework[1] for it already and the NimForum[2] is written in it.

1 - https://github.com/pragmagic/karax

2 - http://forum.nim-lang.org/
Populism isn't the problem here. Socialist /fascist policies of govt control of the means of production and the removal of the profit motive is what you see at play.
Good to know, thanks for the info
I wouldn't eat whale simply due to its mercury, PCBs, and other bioaccumulated pollutant content: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5519659/

For a 60 kg person, consumption of 100 g of whale meat with the highest concentration of Hg (i.e. MeHg) found in this study (0.49 mg/kg w.w.) would lead to an intake corresponding to 51% of the provisional tolerable weekly intake (PTWI) set by JECFA (1.6 µg/kg bw) or 63% of the tolerable weekly intake (TWI) set by EFSA (1.3 µg/kg bw)

100 grams of meat is very little as far as protein and calories are concerned, but already puts you at risk. Not safe to eat in any sufficient quantity.
> But we can’t comply with CC.

Why not? The point of the CC is literally "pay us to use it commercially." You can't just... pay them to use it? Even when that's exactly what you'd be doing by using an AWS service?
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If your audience cares significantly about the charitable donations and not at all for animal suffering, and your goal is to only to convince them to be against the company, then sure, go for it.

But any effective altruist should have their goals set higher than this, at actually reducing the insane amount of suffering that's created. It does very little good if everyone stops supporting Chik-Fil-A only to flock to another chicken company, which will be the same in almost every way, possibly minus some donations, possibly one which treats animals even worse. Effective altruism is a very different beast than simply appealing to or signaling the crowds' most popular views on ethics in order to persuade.
Steam does not sell me a locked down hardware platform preventing me from buying the software directly from the publisher. Nor does Steam force me to buy DLC through Steam, I am free to buy the DLC directly from the publisher. Steam gets a cut of what I buy from Steam and I am not locked into buying from Steam in order to make my PC useful.

Apple sells me a locked down hardware platform that requires me to go through them for all software purchases and all data purchases made with that software.

> But just from my single viewpoint, it doesn't "feel" unreasonable.

It seems unreasonable to me that Apple should get a cut of my Amazon Video purchases. Apple adds no value there; they just get in the way and try to take a cut. I already have a relationship with Amazon and when I download a video from Amazon, it costs Apple nothing.

The entire thing where I have to make a purchase through the Amazon website rather than the Amazon or Amazon Video app and then download it with Amazon Video app is just stupid.
I kind of end up with the opposite position of the OP, but if you consider eating a whale or a dog barbaric but have no problem eating (say) an overfished white fish or a pig, you have to ask yourself why.
Using a monopoly to squeeze excessive fees that happen to be exactly the same as the fees for a competitive market? There seems to be a logic breakdown there.
> That's not terribly uncommon, or particularly unreasonable

I fly internationally very frequently. I'm aware that it's not uncommon to have to go through security when making a connection. I'm saying that Heathrow's security is incredibly slow.
Can you say something more? How you earn moneys here? What's your business model?
There are Uyghurs in Pakistan, and Pakistan itself borders on Xinjiang. Pakistan even plays up the whole pan-Islam message so they can stave off Pashtunistan nationalism. But Pakistan is also increasingly dependent on China, and you can bet they're fully aware and turning the other way on the current situation.
Neat. There is also vastly more plankton.
> "communist dictatorship" is inexact enough to be outright dishonest.

Describing an oligarchy as a communist dictatorship is near-equivalent. Far from dishonest.

> Their economy is obviously capitalist

It's capitalist at specific granularities. This is a derail, at best.

> They have a process, they have regular handovers of power.

So does an oligarchy.
...the card is highly likely to reuse the same sectors over and over.

One would have expected this to be an area of focus for RasPi developers? Surely some driver could be updated to avoid this?
Eve for my corp became all about politics. Instead of working as a team to find and hold territory, it became all about who was going to be in charge of the team. There was no skill beyond having friends. Battles are now directed, with everyone simply contributing firepower to the slugfest. The only actually combat is between team leaders.

I was a scrounger for my corp (Oberon). I was the guy who went out and bought 100x of some rare bit of gear. Wanted stuff would just appear in our hangars. Quiet cargo swaps in disused systems were my thing. Now corps are so big, the travel system so alterable, that such meetups require days of offline negotiation. That isn't fun.
i'd buy a chicken sandwich regardless

competitors save money not investing in this cloud stuff but instead focusing on their business

nice ad tho
Have you seen the Hans Rosling talks?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8t4k0Q8e8Y
There's a few on TED talks.
It's a must see.
Is it possible he could be sued over trademark issues?
iPhones?
You seem to have missed OPs point. Many of us in the West find hunting wild whales, or dolphins to be repugnant. Meanwhile, we're perfectly happy to eat factory farmed pigs.

And, yes, we do morally owe it to nature not to eat animals. The natural corollary is human rights. Human rights is just a philosophy. Most of us adhere to it today, but we have not for most of our existence. The default has been to kill large numbers of fellow humans, across all societies.

Do people have a natural right to life? Humanity did not think so until relatively recently, but now we see it as obvious.

Do animals have a natural right not to be killed by humans, now that we have other options? Of course, for the same reasons.
> Some of them must have cheated in their CS courses because they were outright incompetent

I suspect they just didn't want to be software peeps. I suck at anything I don't wanna do, and I find a way to get better at anything I'm really interested in.
Cohen already pleaded guilty to multiple charges, so it will be interesting to see what kind of deal he gets offered for helping the prosecution. At this point, he has nothing left to lose by holding onto the information?
There was that time a bunch of Californians move to Colorado and turned the place into California Lite (TM).
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But Minke whales are not close to extinction; isn't objecting to eating a Minke whale because blue whales are endangered something like objecting to eating chicken because passenger pigeons were overhunted?
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Chick-fil-A also has a mobile app that allows you to order your food and pick it up either at the counter or in the drive through, so they need the internet connection for that.
I really like that. I think the first thing people should do when making a startup is finding a consistent revenue stream and business model. Most companies are actually more about the model than the idea. Hell, even Nike only makes about 6% of profit on their $100 shoes. They can do this because they have a consistent and reliable business model (aka not advertisement income). It's not even the shoes anymore. it's the idea of the shoes.
I'd like to add: what I don't understand and find utterly ridiculous is:

>Furthermore, WhatsApp backups that haven't been updated in more than one year will be automatically removed from Google Drive storage

why is it anybody's business where/when my backup was uploaded? yes, it's "free" storage, but it's data I chose to upload that never had an "expiry" on it.
> Do animals have a natural right not to be killed by humans, now that we have other options? Of course.

Well, why? It's equally consistent to simply say that no animal other than humans enjoys rights, whether it's a dolphin or a dog or a pig. You can certainly take the other position as your premise, but I don't see why I should follow you.
Yes, instead of relying on dictionaries, words should mean whatever you want them to mean.
There are definitely some junior bankers who want to kill themselves over this.

That feeling is a good one, though. (Obviously not if you follow it, but still.)

I lost my dad's nest egg in bitcoin. Or rather I have 7 BTC locked up in Gox which I may or may not see <20% of again. When the realization of what I'd done hit me in 2013, it was extremely hard for me to come to terms with it. All I could think about was how much work he'd put into a house next door to us that we owned. We weren't well-off, but at one point we owned the house we lived next to, and my dad always made sure to find reliable tenants and such. Then eventually the city came knocking and said they wanted to buy part of the land so that they could widen a road. And that's where the nestegg came from, and went straight into an investment account where it doubled over the next 4 years.

On the one hand, that was my opportunity to become set for the rest of my life: My friend had been telling me about bitcoin since 2010, and it was easy to roll my eyes at him back then. But of course, being young and having no training in speculation whatsoever, I bought in at the worst time and at the worst exchange.

Ok, so what's my point? Well, the mindset of those junior bankers is what permeates America. We're all temporarily embarrassed millionaires, right? It's a kind of shared madness.

It also causes immense harm to those who lose out. And it's cultural. In some ways it's exactly the same ill effects as certain aspects of rap culture. (I like rap, don't read into this too much.) You get told by your peers that you either have money or you don't, and if you don't then you're worthless. And so you spend all your waking energy trying to scheme how to turn $2 into $200.

We're all going to die, and relatively soon. It's just so dumb to spend so much time on something that truly does not matter. My Bitcoin friend from 2010 wound up a millionaire, but he lost his love along the way, and as far as I know he still hasn't found anyone. Was that rich life worth it?

People in life are what matters. Money matters too, of course, and it's tempting to dream about having FU riches. But when we live in this culture where we're all trying to gamble, and institutions are trying to gamble, and the losers get quietly swept under the rug and silenced, all that's left is the impression that everyone is winning except you. And it's ~impossible to come to your senses when you're caught up in that. It's just so dangerous and greedy.

Admittedly there's not much to be done about it, but at least it can be recognized for what it is.