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What are the honest chances that Apple is prepping to move off of x86 to ARM for their computers? They are basically the undisputed leader in ARM processors at the moment right?
the new Context API replaces the `connect()`/`<Provider />` functionality, but not the flux data flow model. Nor does it provide a replacement for the surrounding redux ecosystem - so there's still plenty of benefit to using redux.
He's also doing this at when the stock market is very high, which means that this is the cheapest $2 billion he's ever owned. I say that not to undercut the significance, mostly to point out that the stock market is also important to this consideration.
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Nice. Now if every multi-Billionaire built a Desalination plant...
It's not really the same thing, because (assuming a positive ROI) dollar cost averaging will always end up better off than lump sum investing (assuming the same amount is invested).
Well, it's still better than having gone into debt to not get a degree. The support is only worth the money if it was the difference between you making it and not making it. That will be true for some people. Others won't make it even with the support. For them, "support but expensive" is worse than "no support but free".
There's another side to this that isn't discussed and that is - at least for me - the easier and more lucrative path was to take my bachelor's degree in physics and get a corporate job.

My GRE / GPA wasn't going to get me into Princeton anyway.

But the road to a PhD in Physics in 1994 was basically 1) Probably 8 years of study + teaching assistant work and 2) a quality dissertation.

That gets you in the CV pile for the next phase.

The actual career of being a physicist includes 1) multi-year post-doc(s); 2) University job, which would have been associate professor then, adjunct professor now; 3) "Publish or perish"; 4) Hustling grants; 5) Managing TAs and RAs.

For peanuts (unless those grants are fat money) compared to a corporate job.

For foreigners, the difference between academia / corporate work probably isn't as stark economically.
I couldn't even keep reading through this when I got to the "Ruby is slow" section. Well, my beta testers beg to differ with you — the #1 feedback I've gotten on the app I'm working on is how fast it is. Ruby 2.5, Rails 5+, Turbolinks + Stimulus, and this thing screams.

Please folks, there are many articles out there with well-reasoned pitches why you might want to check out another language other than Ruby or another framework other than Rails. This article isn't one of them.
The thing about looking elsewhere is— what alternatives are there on the Android side?

The XZ2 Compact is only marginally smaller than the iPhone 7. At this point the 7 (Apple refurbished) is cheaper than even the XZ1 Compact and will probably be viable for longer with software updates. Many Android users consider the S8, Pixel and Essential to be "small phones" now.

Even though the SE is discontinued, it's still eligible for Apple's battery replacement program. So there's a level of long-term support there that most Android phones lack:

https://support.apple.com/iphone/repair/battery-power

I'd argue Apple now has an iPhone Nano in its product line: the Apple Watch with LTE. Which is great, but still a generation or two away from being a well-rounded device (especially battery life).

Anyways, I'm surprised and annoyed that Android manufacturers aren't clawing for market share with a small, reasonably priced device. Except for Sony, who doesn't seem to be trying that hard in the US market.
> Why is this a problem?

It's not a problem other than the fact that it is a clear signal that the purpose of the invitation is public spectacle, not soliciting testimony whose content had a substantive legislative purpose.

Another clear signal of that is the use of invitations rather than subpoenas, followed by dramatic complaints about the invitation being declined when the person best able to address the substance (though less attractive as a PR punching bag) was offered.

Another clear signal of that is the empty chair theatrics.

And if people learned to recognize these signals of unseriousness, then unserious approaches will become less effective, and if Congress wants to be seen to be addressing an issue, they’ll need to actually seriously address it.
Seeing how few people make it to the huge fortune stage it seems like a very bad strategy if broadly adopted. How we do it now makes sense, contribute as much as you are comfortable with regardless at which step of the ladder you are on.
Found it via MacRumors https://www.macrumors.com/2016/04/29/phil-schiller-dont-plur...

Interesting to know, but nobody's gonna do that. Like how you're "supposed" to say "LEGO bricks" insteado of "LEGOs."
Yes but. It seems to me that forcing somebody to say what you want them to say is a much larger infringement on free speech than preventing them from speaking. Who should be telling Google, or anybody else for that matter, what they have to say? I have heard people suggest that Twitter, Facebook, or Google de-platforming people is an abrogation of free speech, but it seem to me that it would be a worse abrogation if you didn't allow them to do that. Should we pass laws to force the New York Times to print certain articles? That would seem a worse outcome for free speech than what we have now.
Fear of not keeping up with the Technical Joneses is a huge influence in our industry because everyone sees "old" programmers booted first when a company or the economy sours. Nobody wants to be That Guy (or Gal).

If mainframes are perceived as a shrinking or outmoded technology, obsolescence fear kicks in and people avoid it. It may need some clever marketing to trick people into giving up that fear or impression. BS works in other areas, per mind-share. Call mainframes "high-up-time cloud", Cloud++, cloud.js, Deep Cloud, or something. There's better BS'ers out there than I.
I'm not sure how the previous owner got it, but I simply acquired it.

The site that was using it before seemed somewhat neglected so I reached out with an offer to buy the name which the owner, after some negotiating, agreed to.
I will consider developing a plugin for some IDEs
This logic is not applicable linearly across all ages I think.
If someone in the EU buys it while they are in the EU, you just imported something to the EU and the EU's laws apply to you, yes. If that person buys it from you in the US and then carries it back to the EU, they have the liability for following law, paying duties and taxes, etc. When it comes to things that are completely digital, I believe where the money is changing hands is what matters most.
This. A long-term job is indispensable for this kind of programming. Since the tooling is very stable and backwards compatible, you can get really good at it. Now if you get laid off after 5 years of doing just that, you better find another mainframe job because your resume won't look as diverse.

OTOH, body-farming consultancies are excellent for networking and finding a full time job.
For a billionaire who is slowly killing small business (because your margins are his opportunity), forcing people to earn less I find this ironic.
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I think this is a misunderstanding, you're referring to the way you can use art within society and the different cultural things we do. I should have been more specific, I think abstract art is truly art for it's own sake, being measured in value by arbitrary interpretations of meaning. Still, some people make art to practice drawing a certain way or increasing their skill. That even is not art for it's own sake, it's art to increase your skill, and is a representation of the way someone likes to practice and is still a cool thing to look at.

I'm simply making the argument that complementing someone on their art that a child drew came about because of the arbitrary interpretation of what "valuable art" is in school.
What isn't "useless?"
Call me cynical, but shouldn't this $2B go towards compensating his employees well enough to not have to use government welfare programs? [0]

[0]: https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-takes-walmarts-spot-w...
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Group policies are just a UI for certain registry keys I think? I imagine you could do this in regedit, but I can't tell you the exact key name.
GCHQ's mass surveillance violates citizens' right to privacy, ECHR rules
How about paying the warehouse employees more?
True, but Apple likes to keep products around for a long time, unlike other phone makers. Their latest and greatest high end monstrosity comes with premium performance and a premium price tag. Meanwhile Apple is plenty happy to sell you their flagship from two or three years ago a more budget-oriented option.
> It seems silly for Apple to just drop that entire size offering when there is clearly market demand for it.

The question is, how large is that demand, and how worth their while is it to cater to that.

(Note, by asking this question, I'm not implying that I think the demand is small. I'm just trying to clarify the issue at hand).
That's a fair point, I'm sure there are ways to build things that have the benefits of PHP today that may not have been as abundant back when Facebook was starting out.
Didn't they already announce it?
So brave of him to donate 1.2% of his vast fortune to a PR project with his name on it! This really makes up for the whole FOXCONN-level human despair harvesting labor practices thing imo. Hell, we don't even need to go through with that legislation any more.
With that line of reasoning, no one should talk about the cost of any component in a Tesla because it's either made by Tesla or by an entity that is paid by Tesla.

In other words, few things can be said if only independent people can talk about them.
I would happily go for one, if the current 13.5kWh costs $5,900 (plus $700 'supporting hardware') you'd think they could do something like you're asking for in the $1K range. I imagine they don't because they assume people are using so much power in their homes that a pack like that would only keep things on for a couple of hours. Of course, it sounds like the cost of the cells is a very small part of the price, some of which is the inverter and cooling, some of which is recovering R&D costs, but you'd think their profit must still be significant... ($6,600 installed, of which ~ $1,350 is battery, apparently).
I think history gives a bit of the answer. There's always been work done to help homeless people, and it never really got better.

Worst part IMO is that it's not to be a money sink. I deeply believe that homelessness is mostly emotional, these guys need deep moral support and a bit of material support. But you can't buy moral support. Having someone drop 2B might help motivate society and finally realize how to fix the problem, even if not all the money is spent.
Like a human player the AI needs to have some idea whether it's succeeding. Actually, an AI needs this slightly less than humans because it's so purposeful anyway - it's not as though it can get bored and go watch TV. But it needn't be displayed as a "score" number, there's no score in Chess for example, and that didn't stop Deep Mind's chess engine.

In Advent for example there are clear sub-goals and an AI can be programmed to try to achieve these, you actually get points in Advent (all versions I think?) for partial completion, so it's just a matter of exposing that to the evaluation function, but other evaluation functions might work as well, or even better.
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It's also reminiscent of a plot point from "Anathem" which came out almost exactly 10 years ago
Isn't New Mexico State U there? The Aggies?
I hope this works and is successful. Still I can’t help but be reminded of the saying that roughly goes “the people who are paid to solve a problem end up having a vested interest in the problem not being solved.”

Specifically with regards to homelessness, the problem seems to be the critical shortage of housing for people in general, leading to a total crisis of affordable housing, rather than a specific problem of insufficient services exclusively for “the homeless.” Certainly there are people who need support above and beyond affordable housing, but isn’t the bedrock of this whole crisis the shortage of homes in the places where people are trying to live and work?
Nice, maybe now those Amazon warehouse workers will be able to find a home they can afford.
Thanks for pointing that out! Fixed.
I thought I had answered that in my second paragraph. Apple just isn't the kind of company that can offer real choice. Have you ever gone to a restaurant that had like a hundred different menu items? The chances of any one being really really good is practically zero.

Apple has a lot of product lines already. Phones, laptops, desktops, watches. Too much diversification of one product line effectively makes it two product lines, each of which needs its own department and management structure.

If Apple wanted to be Samsung, sure, I guess they could do that. But they don't.
What special skills would Tesla executives from the FINANCE side bring to the table? Do you need that much experience to lose money?
> That's essentially a religious argument.

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Nobody believed that then either because it’s a myth.
Local-cloud or onprem-cloud!
Blockchain could generate $1 trillion in new trade over the next ten years
The best way for companies to care for their down and out compatriots is to pay their workers their due instead of profiting handsomely from underpaying them.
Sure, but it's a big telescope mostly buried in the ground designed to look at the sun. Not sure how much use it could possibly be in relation to its proximity to White Sands and/or Holloman.
Why should he be facing jail time? He was invited to attend and didn't. Declining an invitation isn't a crime.

If Congress really thought it was necessary for him to attend they would have used their subpoena power either initially or after he declined the invitation. Refusing a congressional subpoena is a crime.

The fact that they haven't should tell you how important they really think it is. Most of them are probably happier that he didn't because it gives them more chances for sound bites.

After all the hearing were just for show. The real questions they wanted answered were submitted to the companies in writing and all of the companies including Google/Alphabet provided written responses.
1. Usually will end when you pass away.

2. (Especially if establishing a foundation.) Will outlive you and continue on for potentially hundreds of years into the future. For example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Foundation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Endowment_for_Interna...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockefeller_Foundation
> Please give Rayon iterators another try (...) it's one of the best features of Rust

Isn't it possible to implement these iterators in any language? Why are they a feature of specifically Rust?
Is that true? Does that mean that applications with a more complex setup will break with every feature update?
> If I am long on a stock I applaud the shorts. After all, if they are wrong, they have to buy back and drive up my price more.

You're right but I think a lot of hobby investors don't really get 'long on stock' - once they buy stock in a company they feel personally invested and want the price to go up, and damn the naysayers.

The only time this might not apply is when a company is taking a huge risk (like Tesla with the push for the Model 3) and there's a real chance that grassroots FUD could break a company.
There are huge amounts of fellowships and scholarships available for US citizens to go into grad school. If they don't want to go in whose fault is that. Admittedly, most of them come out with huge debt from undergrad, so I understand the decision to get jobs immediately.
I haven’t looked at UPSes in a while and their ratings are, I see, still essentially a lot of horseshit.

Sifting through the impressive sounding numbers, it looks like you can buy an online UPS with about a tenth of the KWh capacity of a powerwall for about the same price.

Now I want Tesla to build online UPSes...
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Well, what sorts of things would affect whether you’d be interested in the position? Some examples might be a description of the team (size, composition); examples of projects you’d be working on; the manager’s personal philosophy; growth opportunities.
The rub is you really don't know what their motivation is.
You can suspect but if they're willing to put in the all the work, it costs you nothing.

Going on some crusade for no gain or loss and only to deny someone else is just whipping up drama. If you have legitimate complaints, make them.

This doesn't have anything to do with politics. Any argument based around "I don't care so you shouldn't either" is bound to cause issues.
> Progressives make all kinds of noise and virtue signal for people outside our care, but where the rubber meets the road, they fall short on helping fellow Americans

Can you expand on this?
i like the screen size (5.5-6"), but i really don't like extra weight.

i'd much rather have a 4" phone if it was ... 50-80g lighter. but if thats not possible, i'd rather stick with the bigger screen

btw, the 4" and 5.5" are often around the same size if you include the whole phone. there was just so much spacing around the display earlier
Everybody knows that, how do you think night works? It's when it spins around us and shows its back.
Right to read.
There is more glory in philanthropy than in paying your employees. The ROI in terms of reputation is higher.

Addition: the same is true for funding something like a computer lab at a school. Lots of good PR for funding a new one but nothing for keeping an existing one funded for the next few years. Although I think it's more valuable to make sure existing infrastructure stays funded.
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Can you give us some examples of number 2 happening? Because all I've heard about is those companies removing people who are whipping up their followers to abuse somebody. It is possible that there are examples of them removing people who are merely expressing conservative values, but I haven't seen it yet.
He's obviously trying to diffuse the momentum of a movement that is aligning against him. The most popular politician in America just introduced the Stop BEZOS act:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/09/05/bernie-sa...

The 2B are less costly than losing the whole shebang. I would not be surprised in the least if he ends up still controlling the 2B and this ends up as just a headline.
You cannot be further away from truth if you think the Chinese higher education nowadays follows the communist bloc model. I did my undergraduate at one of the best universities in China, and to comment on your point:

> 1. Doctoral level studies are SUPER TOUGH

It's common knowledge that in China, graduate school admission follows government policy mandates. Government says we need more top-tier talent, and this is translated to having more PhDs, and then to admitting more people into doctoral programs. It's not uncommon to have one professor advising 20+ PhD students at the same time. The students often are just cheap labor at university labs, and sometimes even work as free childcare for the professors. I am not kidding.

The schools then set an explicit bar for graduation: publish N papers in SCI-indexed journals. Imagine if your company has a rule that says you need to close N tickets with M upvotes to claim your paycheck. Guess what will happen.

> 3. Lion share of people are totally fine with 2 year technical school programs.

Only those who score below the national cutoff score in the National College Entrance Exam go to technical programs. It's not by choice! There is a reason there are a lot of for-profit "private universities" in China these days: because you can pay to get into a private university and avoid technical school programs.

People want to avoid technical school programs so much that the most lucrative part of running a high school is actually prepping high school graduates who "failed" the NCEE for retaking the exam next year.

> 4. Plentiful supply of tech school talents feed the industry, and keep educated labour cheap.

The strength of manufacturing has nothing to do with tech school talent. It's simply because there a lot of people in China (4x the US population), and generally the Chinese workers have great work ethics thanks to whatever is leftover of traditional Chinese culture. The society is fairly ordered, and kids all follow the sanctioned path. No backpacking-in-Europe-for-a-year. No opioid crisis. Everybody is laser focused on career advancement and making money, and everybody has a sense of urgency.

> 5. This allows university level studies to be what they were supposed to be originally: academic research, and not doing degree milling.

Talk to anyone who graduated from a Chinese university. Seriously, anyone.

> 6. The industry and academia are don't go very far apart despite there being an iron wall in between academic and practical tertiary education.

This is quite true, because it's rare for academic folks to work on fundamental research. In the current incentive setup, doing hard fundamental research is just stupid. You need to get to that N publications quick!
Skeuomorphic is more than a tired cliche buzzword for pretend designers that want to voice their disagreement. It actually is a style for ornamental designs that mimic real-world things.

Three flat-colored circles in a row on a flat surface do not look like realistic items at all, they are actually the opposite, a stylized representation of a real life object.
FWIW, "mass shooting" isn't really defined and can be anything from Columbine to a gang scuffle of four people where nobody died.

https://www.politifact.com/california/article/2017/oct/04/ma...
Let me put it this way: when the entire point is to educate the public about ongoing attacks and to show that these companies are taking all of this seriously... Snubbing our Intelligence Committee because Page didn't prioritize it highly enough seems, to me, to be the least helpful thing your employer could have done.
Thanks for the feedback!
I'll shove it all in GitHub and start working on them.

All help welcome ;)
Looks like a small sliver of the observatory is blurred on Google Maps.
https://www.google.com/maps/@32.7882221,-105.8176836,349a,35...
> It’s about time companies care for their down and out compatriots.

A nit, but this is still a little like dominoes fixing pot holes in the city so their drivers can actually deliver. Sure it's great, but it would be better to pay a more fair share of taxes and provide a safety net for our people and the money needed to maintain common infrastructure.

I don't doubt this will be a more efficient endeavor than a government one, but it's also not really accountable to anyone. And bezos can actually just hire two PR people and shut the rest of it down. He has no obligation to homeless people, and no obligation to see this to the end. I'm sure he will, but it's pretty fucked to think that companies will be less self interested in their charity than in their business, or a government.

The idea that we should just make a few mega rich then depend on their kindness to address societies woes is really toxic.
What are your 30, 60, 90 day priorities for me in this role?