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Back in the 80s it was the norm for chip design companies who produced their chips in high volumes to own their own fab. As the price and complexity of fabs went up they've mostly switched to outsourcing their fabrication to take advantage of economies of scale (since the fab equipment, which costs hundreds of millions of dollars for cutting-edge nodes, can be shared), hence "fabless".
I'd argue that they're no different in all honesty. It's taken them a while, but the likes of Lenovo and Dell have upped their game, so what were once niggles with Apple's offereings appear worse. I've been an Apple user for close to 30 years and the issues we're seeing are nothing in comparison to the Performa days.

As for removing and changing ports etc., they've always done it. Long may it continue as it more often than not forces industry changes for the better.
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> Either the Brexit example is a simple mistake or you're confused

Or it is exactly what it was offered for, an example of an actual withdrawal that, once triggered, takes time, which is why the “(like Brexit)” parenthetical was placed precisely where it was but not (for instance) after the reference to th negotiate-then-cancel strategy, which wouldn't mechanically work with Brexit, as you note, and had never been suggested to be the strategy of Brexit (though trying to effect a cancellation in the face of failed exit negotiation send to be emerging as an idea in some significant corners of British politics, but that's a different thing.)

Your essay was well-crafted, but entirely misplaced.
>facial recognition violates a person's 4th Amendment rights.

Does it really though? Has there been any sort of court cases confirming this?
They have a multi-billion dollar loss because the GOP Congress passed legislation requiring them to pre-pay their employee retirement health benefits instead of funding it on a pay-as-you-go basis.

Given that the USPS is a government established and run service, thus backed by the USG in terms of its liabilities, the idea that somehow the USPS is "saving" this health benefit money somewhere is ludicrous.

It's just as stupid as the SS "trust fund" and "lockbox", which is nothing more than a paper shuffle of US treasuries from one drawer in a filing cabinet to another.
The tail in dogs is fairly important for communication (especially with other dogs - intraspecific communication), as it can indicate many different emotional states, not only excitement. See for example https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/8/8/131/pdf https://www.dogways.info/how-dogs-communicate and https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/canine-corner/201112...

This is another reason why cutting the tail is wrong - besides the fact that it's cruel (it's almost incredible now, but it was common a few years ago, and it is still practiced in some countries).
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It's not a few bad apples. It's a shipping container full of rotten apples, and maybe two good ones.

That is to say, without the analogy, that it's the ad companies who will abuse these, ruining virtually every web site that exists, and jading users against the technology for the few websites who aren't abusing it.
The people behind it could have saved about, oh, a decade's work if they knew about GNUstep before they began.

But no. Instead, they invented yet another wheel...
Conventional Explanations of Changes in Fertility:

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http://uregina.ca/~gingrich/mar1298.htm
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I use Trello quite a bit for various clients and I love the visual/tactile nature of dragging cards. I wouldn't use it for a massive number of support tickets or the like, but it's great for the slightly higher-level stuff (ongoing feature work, etc.).
I saw it in leadership training course in the California Conservation Corps. I imagine it was inserted into the curriculum by a former military officer or NCO.
I've read the article, but I can't seem to answer the question "what does the film still tell us about air combat?". It seems to be more of a history of the movie's production and the people involved.
You say you feel no guilt because you "have no problem with other people considering me a jerk." To me, guilt has little to do with the sense that other people consider me a jerk--guilt is about the knowledge that I've hurt someone.

I think it's respectable, even admirable, to not care about what other people think of you. But if you hurt people when it benefits you and you can get away with it, it's not quite sufficient to explain it by saying "I don't care if other people think I'm a jerk." It would be more complete to simply say "I don't care if I act like a jerk."
> Trump signed a few bills recently, and while they weren't his administration's bill in the first place

This is a bizarre statement. If he's signing the bill, his administration - and him specifically - is explicitly endorsing it. That's the whole point of the thing.
I've never been a Windows user.

I mean I've used windows at work for close to 2 decades, and i still hate it every bit as much as the first time i started up Windows 3.1.

I've been using all sorts of operating systems, from OS/2 in the 90s, to BeOS 4 and 5 (on x86), and Linux (Gnome).

Finally i make the switch to Mac around 2005. I've been a Unix user since 1991 (First Linux was Yggdrasil Plug & Play Linux Fall '93). I wanted the beautiful and functional desktop experience of OS X, coupled with the Unix subsystem.

Later on i noticed that Mac applications (official and 3rd party) usually have a much more "finished" feeling to them. Even shareware (is that even a thing anymore ?) felt much more complete on OS X. Linux applications had the technical groundwork in place, but as soon as it became graphical, things started to fall apart.

And here we are, 13 years later, and i'm thinking about buying a ThinkPad instead as a replacement for my MacBook Pro 13" Retina. My wife recently got one from work, and I'd forgotten how great a decent keyboard is to type on. It's been a few years since i last had that on any laptop.
Apple appears to be stuck in a loop where everything must become slimmer, functionality be damned.

On the software side OS X is still king. I know evil voices say that eventually OS X will devolve into a an advanced iOS clone, but for now it's very functional, and miles ahead of Gnome on Linux.

As for Windows 10... I'll pass. An operating system that pushes out "free" apps along with reporting everything back to Microsoft, and by default shares my WLAN password with "friends of friends", allowing me to opt out by renaming my WLAN. Whoever thought that was a great idea ?
> I've been making web things for a long time.

I've been making internet things since before the "web" existed.

> Forums didn't really exist on the web back then

Gopher didn't really have the necessary interactivity, but nobody cared at the time because if you wanted to talk about something in a global forum, you used NNTP (or email lists).

The web (HTML+HTTP) had comment/forums/etc from the very beginning, because it was designed with IBM 3270 style form submission features (<form>/<input> tags and HTTP POST). I used these (and other interactive features) regularly in text browsers over my 2400 baud modem. Even if I had better bandwidth, there was no way I could run NCSA Mosaic in the 4MB of RAM installed on my 386DX. Yes, it was slow, but submitting comments only required special support by the server, which then returned a new hypertext document to the client.

The feature that arrived later was Javascript, allowing some features to be done directly on the client. However, this was not a necessary required for writing forums software; that always worked as server side software.

Shoving everything into the client didn't create many new opportunities; a lot of that existed already in separate software. What did happen is we attached everything to the same single point of failure and created a lot of security problems because risk is transitive.
you mean category c) in linux? Hello? but yeah full disclosure, i also had many problems with linux. Sometimes as bad as you shut down your computer at the end of the day and next day find out it wont boot because some thing you though was totally unrelated to anything... But as there is learning curve, there is also beating it. In my current workplace i choose to use linux ubuntu without help from our on-site IT over windows10 machine with IT help.. if you know what you are doing and have few years under your belt it might become preference over mac or windows. Yet to encounter any problems here, on workplace but everyday i hear people complaining about their windows machines. I also have VR setup with W10 at home, it's just a VR / game machine so no tinkering or developing but it's also problem free. No idea about macOS
>> In fact, no one has ever said "I wish I could use Bluetooth in my browser"

> I literally just wrote above that I do want that. I also don't care about collecting any data.

I believe you, but frankly, most of the society doesn't want to build mesh apps and (hopefully...) finally started to care about their privacy and data, and that's the point.
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>but I have friends who had quite old macs that were still performant enough after 8 years for running recent software. They paid more, but it lasted more.

The article is about building a desktop, I do not see how building a desktop with latest components and maybe getting double RAM and HDD with the same money you pay for a Mac will last less then the Mac.

Sure buying the cheapest laptop will last less then buying an expensive laptop.
The first one is clearly easier to read than the second. However the first one is slow. I believe fast_any is easier to read than generator code.
> yet we are having less children than we want.

How so?

Evolution has not programmed into us any sort of drive for careful family planning to optimized the number of offspring. We simply have a drive to have sex. For the vast majority of human (pre)history, optimization of offspring number occurred the same way as with all sexually reproducing species: natural miscarriage and child mortality.

Now that we have control of our own fertility, there's still nothing that drives us to especially want to raise a somehow evolutionarily optimal number of offspring. As with almost any other human behavior it's up to societal values and norms and individual preferences.
> I don't mind if an application I explicitly launched as an application asks to make Bluetooth connections

The security model for a desktop-installable 'app' is a superset of a webpage. Or at least it was in Firefox OS, where additional permissions were required for accessing the filesystem or hardware APIs. In this way they were not available to websites to hijack the in-browser sandbox; the system web browser was itself a 'browser app' with a restricted set of permissions.

(I presume it's similar in Chrome OS, while this blog post is in the context of 'appifying' Windows desktop outside the browser.)
The bit I struggled with is that in many fields, either the majority are wrong/don't have the solution (Argumentum ad populum) or otherwise listening to expertise/experience can either give you too much input or, again, implies that there is more chance that experience will give you a better solution to a problem. In their example, if Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis had asked his more experienced peers about approaching the problem of infections, they would have told him he was barking up the wrong tree with hand washing.

The really difficult part of any venture is knowing how to distinguish wise advice from just another opinion.

Many great solutions come from people with "crazy" thinking and I would expect they could have caused great damage (or perhaps have - jet engines) but otherwise we would be moving very slowly as a planet?
The real issue is that the leader of ICE / Military / etc. etc. change power roughly... every 4 years. Police is a local issue, and may change closer to every 2 years (although local municipalities may have a Sheriff, or a Commission, or may rely upon a Mayor to make those decisions).

We already have a mechanism for choosing the leader of these various institutions. And whatever powers we give to these institutions, we have to recognize that they will change leadership as quickly as a single election.

Ultimately, it should be a political issue... first and foremost. We may not have the best political system possible, but its the best that we all can agree to. As such, we should rely upon the culture of this country to provide us the leaders who we would be proud to give these powers to.
I don't get this line of logic (if you want to get a comparable Linux/windows laptop with retinia/5k display, it will cost you just as much as a Mac, so macs are pretty reasonably priced) when justifying Mac purchases. why are you so dead set on getting a 5k display when you can get a comparable 4k display for $600? is the 25% increase in pixel density really that important?
I get replies from Enterprise support reps of this sort. They vaguely address my question without commiting to an answer or solution.

That way the onus is on me to guess what might work for my case, and meanwhile they can mark the issue resolved.
I'm not arguing against dictatorships as much as specific kinds of dictatorships. Singapore has been a one-party dictatorship for a while now, South Korea was under the military dictatorship of Park Chung Hee for a while too. But the Singaporean rule has persisted as long perhaps because the regime hasn't wielded its power as brazenly as the KSA just did, and probably continues to do on a more daily basis inside the kingdom itself.

The point I'm trying to make is that even dictators/absolute monarchs need to recognize the limits of their power and wield it accordingly. This completely unnecessary exercise of state power has exposed that MBS isn't really the savior of KSA that many had proclaimed: he is a thug, a mob leader who grabbed power from his relatives and initiated token reforms to appease the west while silencing his critics in brutal ways. Even if his "ultimate" intentions are good, his means of achieving them will hinder him from doing that.
Do not conflate taming/training (of an individual) with domestication (of a species). Very different things.
The first IS generator code. That's a generator expression, note that it does not have the [] of a list expression.
Ubuntu says the T480s is fully supported, at least with the configuration in this link: https://certification.ubuntu.com/hardware/201801-26058/

I haven't tried it myself (for lack of a T480s), I use Linux on Thinkpads for more than a decade, though.
I'm reasonably sure that it's enough to imprison a small number of dissidents to drastically reduce the number of people using surveillance countermeasures. Making examples of dissidents worked reasonably well for all kinds of oppressive governments.
They will pay more because currently the cost is partially covered by the USPS. Such treaty makes sense in two cases:

- the cost of recovery is high. 140 years ago, doing the accounting for all the parcels, letters sent from France to the US would have cost and from the US to France to then "balance" the accounts would have been way higher than the recovered money from one party.

- the traffic is balanced, that is, both countries send/receive approximately the same numbers of parcels/letters each way, each year.

Once these two assumptions do not hold any more, it makes sense to reconsider the situation. This is a question of balance.
Interestingly this URL gets blocked by my work's security thing. Never saw that before.

edit: I requested an exemption but corp IT staff came back and said there's definitely been malware identified on that site. So... be careful with your clicks.

edit2: Well who knows where the malware alert is coming from, might be an ad or something.
> Second, you risk AWS being seen as non-neutral based on the whims of employees' feelings about a company (as opposed to something illegal).

There are plenty of legal things that I think it’s fine with being non-neutral on. A private company SHOULD be non-neutral based on the whims of the employees! Who else steers their ship?
Why specifically at four in the morning in your analogy? I mean, door-to-door surveys are a pretty common thing at normal hours of the day, and that seems like a reasonable analogy without the arbitrary time change.
This article is very hard to follow to figure out what has actually happened or what CumEx is.

In the beginning of the article is a rough description of the trade in question:

> Cum-ex – this is the name German media have given to this scam. Internationally the different variants of these trades are known as dividend arbitrage.

> Cum-ex and its variant cum-cum were highly complex share deals with no economic purpose other than to receive tax ‘reimbursements’ from the state – but for tax that had never in fact been paid. This is how it went. The participants would lend each other shares of major corporations, creating the appearance for the tax authorities that there were two owners of the shares when in fact there was only one. The bank which settled the trades would then issue a ‘confirmation’ to the investor that tax on dividend payment had been paid to the tax office – when in fact it had not. With this confirmation in hand, the investors were then ‘reimbursed’ by the state. It’s a bit like parents claiming child benefit for two – or more – children when there is only one child in the family.

Late in the article we get a description of the origin of the trade:

> The money machine

> According to Frey, an equity trader at a US investment bank came across the trade accidentally. He had bought shares that were delivered four days later. This interval covered the dividend payment day of the company whose shares he had purchased. This profit is taxed in the domicile of the company (say, Germany). German shareholders can ask for this tax to be reimbursed because they have already paid corporation tax.

> The trader suddenly realised he had this tax payable in his book without actually owning the shares. The amount was £50 million. It was a very large trade.

> The trader wanted to get rid of these funds that were not his. He approached the seller of the shares who had also been reimbursed his tax. The bank’s legal department sought professional tax advice to find out how to return the money to the tax office. The answer came back: “You can keep it.”

> There is no law that prohibits a multiple tax payout, they said. And if something is not explicitly prohibited, it is legal, the tax advisors argued. The trader kept the money. And because the tax reimbursement happened automatically, the scheme could be repeated time and again.

> All you needed was enough funds to trade the shares for a few days around dividend payment date. Or you could even just borrow the shares.

Following "dividend arbitrage", there are a couple of other articles that talk about it, Bloomberg [1] and ProPublica [2], though it's hard to tell if they're talking about the same thing or an older version of the scheme. In Denmark, where there is the most evidence of reimbursement for unpaid taxes, it looks like the investigations date to 2015 [3].

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-18/denmark-t...

[2] https://www.propublica.org/article/denmark-is-big-victim-of-...

[3] https://www.thelocal.dk/20150925/danish-tax-authority-cleans...
Actually, apologies I see now. I always associated generator's with the `yields` keyword, but maybe I have to look into them again. Thanks!
> The president is not picked based on the people’s vote

Yes, the US President is. It's not a straight referendum but that doesn't mean it's not based on people's votes.

> The US is a republic, not a democracy

It's both.

> where government officials cast the deciding votes

No they don't.

> The voting infrastructure can be easily tampered with

The machines appear to be. That's quite a way from saying that the infrastructure is. That would require the tampering to be easily achievable. There's little evidence of that.

> There is no limits on campaign spending

Yes there are. They're not very effective but they exist.

> Two private entities have a duopoly on the presidency

Effectively yes.

> to ensure the party’s pick a spot in the final national election

This would be way more convincing if Trump wasn't the President. He clearly wasn't the pick of the Republicans establishment. Or anywhere near. If anything, his election shows that the parties don't have the control that they'd like you to think they have.

The US presidential elections are far from a joke. Not perfect by any means but internationally important events and, in historic terms, beacons of democracy. And in case it need saying, I'm not American and have no interest in being American.
Personal opinion. I've never used MACs before and just two months ago I've been given a brand new 2018 MACBook pro to do work on.
Long story short, after giving time to work out differences to Windows and XCFE, I still don't understand what people see in them other than looks:

- It crashed Virtualbox while a 200GB VM copied files close to max capacity (10 GB free on host). No RAM problems there

- It stuttered the Settings window for close to 10 seconds while doing some sound configs

- It does not like and does not show some "nonameish" USB2 flash drives

- (My) Safari does not like me setting home page other than apple.com

- The keyboard is crazy flat. I don't feel it at all, and can't touch type on it. There is no HOME or END buttons for command line editing. I've attached a UNICOMP for a change

- Apple doesn't like non-LLVM compilers and I'm stuck with what homebrew provides.

- Virtualbox with Linux has unusable mouse/keyboard after installing the drivers. Ubuntu 14 is the only one that works as it should.

- It has only four USB-C and I have a bunch of converters to connect stuff like headphones, keyboard, mouse and eth adapter. Yes, they take up table space.

- It is above Windows 10 in terms of interface, and looks nice and pleasant to touch (except keyboard)
It might be nice if My PC knows my phone is there a notification doesn't need to buzz my phone too.
Atlassian is a mystery to me. No idea how they have customers.
That's what is explained in the Janus model, both universes coexist in the same space and are rejecting each other through gravity, matter "won" over antimatter only by a tiny bit but sufficient to allow large portions of matter to remain. Though the appearance of both at the early times of the universe was in beyond colossal amounts, both being annihilated by each other when they met.

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I've also come to learn that many things that seem obvious to a layperson often turn out to be false. So just because something seems obvious to somebody or common sense seems to suggest something or their gut instinct says so, really doesn't make it true.