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There are some good examples in the Wikipedia article on ecological collapse:

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

Let's look at it from a different perspective though. If thousands of scientists are wrong and we improve the environment but there was never any danger of human extinction then we still end up with a more enjoyable planet. If thousands of scientists are right and we don't improve the environment then we all die.

Seems like a pretty easy decision to me.
This is a bit funny to post in hacker news which was written in arc, a language built on Racket and serves large numbers of people.
How many extensions _need_ to send data outbound?
Before approving extensions for store/signing, the schema can be checked and if it's not tight enough - rejected.
Apple has less incentive to exfiltrate your personal data. I hate what both apple and google stand for these days.
Writing code that other people can read and extend, writing the least amount of code possible (as in knowing when not to solve a problem with code, not concision), good communication with coworkers and project managers/clients, deep understanding of the problem that they're trying to solve, the ability to work quickly and with few mistakes or oversights, and lots of experience to build an intuition of what to do in any situation.
> What would you do if your rent went up 10% - 20% a year? Rents follow inflation.

So does my salary expectations.

Not getting the ant/grasshopper metaphor. The trade-off is solely a function of risk ability & willingness (higher risk tolerance pushes toward renting more), not hard work/lazing. In certain markets buying looks bad if you have high enough risk tolerance to handle stocks:

https://medium.com/@usaar33/why-you-shouldnt-buy-a-home-in-t...
I would think the vast majority of “world class” professional software engineers go unnoticed unless they transition into a more academic, entrepreneurial, or otherwise public role later in their careers.

We know the names of people like mentioned above because of what they created or how prolific and widespread their teaching work is. Professional engineering demands no publicity outside the organization and while there may exist legendary engineers within Google, Apple, etc - people who insiders know and may follow their careers - if you aren’t “in” and connected in a big way you aren’t going to be familiar with them.

I certainly am not.
I totally agree, but you at least need a clear fermi approximation to compare. I don't agree off the cuff that renting and buying have equivalent value.
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> it creates the chilling effect-- a business that's technically legal but can't get the services they need

They can get it, but have to pay for that. Just like the porn industry had to build their own payment providers.

The chilling effect is working as intended. You need something in society to make people find common ground and live in a similar reality. The current US seems like a great example of people not being able to do so. They blame more and more blame other side for their problems. And i wonder if that trend can be reversed before you guys start shooting each other.

Recent developments like social media made and the US TV landscape make it easier than ever to live in your favorite filter bubble. Algorithms getting better and better at giving you what you want to hear. I don't see developments emerging to counteract that.

If de-platforming is bullet we have to bite for society to keep functioning, than so be it. It's still somewhat mild tool you can work around... i take that over government intervention any time.
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I think you can say that if privacy is important to you, then you are probably more aligned with Apple's business plan. The article says as much. It's not like Apple are being more magnanimous, it's just that they don't profit off of user tracking so they use it as marketing ammo against Google users.

As a developer, it constantly burns my biscuits that Apple software only runs on Apple hardware. The fact that I have no choice but to buy expensive Apple devices to develop for their platform is irritating.
At significantly higher cost. If you’ll excuse a very broad brushstroke, this is why California — with lots of land — builds so many single-story buildings compared to the UK where there is so little land available for construction. (That the difference is in part due to policy doesn’t change that there is less availability).

I’m looking forward to more automation in construction so that vertical is not significantly more expensive.
No, I expect browser staff/interested technical parties to review extension before publication. Why would your grandma review it?
src https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/10/id_systems_th...
The days of the sole developer are over
I wish I were a world class software engineer like Jeff Dean, Linus Torvalds, Don Knuth etc. There seems to be no single way.
Love the concept. Will try out the product. Immediately, the logo looks a lot like an anus.
I was just trying Xubuntu. There's a setting to switch to 2x scale. Didn't seem to affect It apps. The window decorations stayed small, but there's a theme with larger ones. The cursor stayed small but can be adjusted.
Amazon in advanced talks about putting HQ2 in Northern Virginia
Django is actually quite nice. I like Python 3. I only wish it could have auth and rest support built in. Having to install apps for that kind of turns me off. I guess Laravel shines here in this regard.
How well would sound work? As in listening for the person to yell out to an autonomous vehicle flying above the canopy.

Obviously drones are noisy, so maybe fixed wing. Or maybe you could have a microphone suspended on a cable fifty feet below a quad, with an apparatus that shields noise from above. But there seem to be promising characteristics too for this situation: 1.) human voice is very different than propeller hum, 2.) wildernesses have very minimal background noise. Filter and classify outliers.

I say this as someone whose only SAR situation was getting himself out of the Vermont woods at dusk by hiking roughly a mile towards the sound of a barking dog.
I put lineage on two devices and I must say it's shockingly refreshing to be able to have some say in how much Google you get. I am used to the idea of OEM and carrier bloatware but it's surprising how much unwanted Google software appears in a stock image. On lineage I am pretty happy with the "nano" set of OpenGApps which is about the amount of Googleyness I want. I install a few more from Play on top.
Well housing is a good investment once you pay it off and stay in that home for an extended period of time. The problem is people just want buy ever larger homes. I mean look at the average square footage of homes in the 1970s which was 1500 sqft and by 2014 its 2,657 sqft (https://247wallst.com/special-report/2016/05/25/the-size-of-...). People are buying way over their means.

I purchased a 1800 sq ft home when I was 22 that I am still living in today (I am 45) with a 15 year fixed mortgage. I paid the mortgage off and have lived rent/mortgage free for the past 8 years. Assuming I live here for another 12 years, that will be 20 years of rent/mortgage free living. And yes I am married and have a 2 year old.

And when I do eventually sell, I will get back all the interest I paid and then some even adjusted for inflation. The problem is people just keep jumping int every larger homes. As soon as they can.
That sounds a lot like bloatware to me
Yeah I feel like this point needs to be more upfront in the climate change debate.

Working to prevent climate change is an inherently selfish endeavor and humanity is generally pretty open to hopping on the selfishness bandwagon.

Even for someone who adheres to libertarian ideals the need for regulations specific to environmental concerns should be reasonable since it directly effects every living human being including them in a negative way that will directly inhibit their ability to go about their lives.
1. Pickpockets. Everywhere. Literally.

2. Crazy car drivers. I almost got killed twice during my short stay.

3. Laws. If something happened to you, you can never fight a case against them. It's always Chinese first vs foreigners.

4. Air quality isn't the best. That's a health issue, but just want to add it here.

4. Drunk people roaming at odd times. But this varies from city to city.

5. Food hygiene. (Also a health issue).

Just a few from the top of my head.
How many extensions need to send unique outbound data?
Prior to publishing in store, browser maker can look at schema and query whether it makes sense in context of extension.
If the submitted schema is not tight enough, it can be rejected until it's tighter.
I think /e/ ( https://e.foundation) promising in that respect, and in the longer run maybe puri.sm Librem5.
Well, historically, but not in the past 9 years. Last 9 years S&P 500 return is ~13.9%.

Both housing and market returns have been abnormally high.
The title is incorrect and "Hits AMD and possibly Intel" should read "Hits Intel and possibly AMD"
paid unique usernames? I can foresee a lot of blackmail happening using this.
The justification is people with wealth and power have a responsibility to do good things for their fellow human beings without.
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> Don't think about this in terms of just governments tracking you. Consider if you have any work emails containing company secrets in them. Consider if you have 2FA apps installed that you would use to unlock or change your work password. And since it was almost certainly the Chinese Intel/Military that helps Huawei and other companies, you can be sure that whatever information Huawei gets access to doesn't need to just help them out, but might help any other company the Chinese government wants to see succeed.

-Me, 3 weeks ago on this website

Don't buy Huawei hardware. Their incentives to help their customers is far less than their incentives to help their government.
Ah, I had no idea HN had becoke xenophobia central.
Not yet. (I support friends who work on this policy reform.)

Meanwhile...

I now advocate "buy-in". Incrementally extend eligibility of existing large plans (eg local govt, self insured corps).

One side effect will be to increase customer bargaining power (vis-a-vis insurers).

Rock, paper, scissors.
But if you have a mortgage you're long and leveraged. A 20% fall in the value of a house may end up with you losing 200% of your investment.
It's discontinued, but you can still purchase the device (for fairly low price too!). On top of that, based on Apple's track record for software support, you can expect support for at least another year, if not more. Note that the iPhone 5S, a phone released in 2013 on iOS7, received the iOS12 update not too long ago.
Exactly.

And people still want to pretend that owning a home now is good diversification from the stock market which now is also filled with companies that are utterly dependent on the supply of credit.

The pressure on RE market is already keeling over, not just in the US but around the world (thanks to CB's following largely the same policies for so long in this synchronized "recovery").
Amazon HQ2: Advanced talks about second headquarters in Northern Virginia
We just need a de-Googled fork to become popular and supported. For example CopperheadOS.
What's the best hardware supported by microG? My current phone is not supported and while my previous one is, it's an original Moto G; I don't think I could handle returning to those specs, not to mention the ageing battery.
The center collapsed before deplatforming was a big thing. I think you have the arrow of causation backward. Deplatforming is driven by increasing polarization.

The center collapsed because the establishment discredited itself in the 2000s: Iraq, the housing bubble, banks-before-people bailouts, etc. Now everyone is flailing around looking for alternatives. The hard right was first to the dance, but I see a lot of signs of growth on the hard left too.

I wonder if the hard left will get deplatformed too if the rhetoric starts sounding really extreme? They might, especially if there is a loud call for wealth redistribution.
While funds for low-income subsidized housing languish, much larger pots of money are set aside for promoting homeownership through subsidies like the mortgage interest deduction and capital gains exemption, most of which goes to upper-middle- or upper-class households.

Looking for reasons why house price increases outpace inflation? These two US tax policies are a big part of the answer.

Commentators bewailing the high price of housing and wealth inequality rarely even discuss these two massive giveaways. Deficit hawks rarely point to the mind-boggling amount of tax revenue left on the table by this federal government dole.

Ending the mortgage deduction and the capital gains exemption would be a very effective and quick way to bring about housing affordability and promote wealth equality.

But any representative proposing such a solution would be committing political suicide today. Still, it's interesting to think about the conditions that might be necessary to force a change in sentiment on the issue.
Related: https://blog.wealthfront.com/sell-employee-stock/

TLDR: "When should you sell company stock? As soon as possible."
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Compiled Racket programs are nowhere near the speed of Rust or Go. Racket's GC is objectively much much worse than the JVM.

Of course you can serve millions of users with Racket, like HN. But the JVM today is much better choice. The JVM's GC is world-class and the number of man-hours put in it is probably many orders of magnitudes more than that of Racket's.

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
In inflationary times, your rent will likely outstrip any salary increase. I suppose if you work for the federal gov't or something you might get cola, but I wouldn't count on it. The Carter years were hard times.

I didn't mean the metaphor in an negative way. The grasshopper likes the lifestyle of pay as you go. The ant worries more about a possible winter coming.
Collapse of food chains and loss of natural beauty are the two most obvious ways.
I made the opposite move last month. Ditched my iphone 6+ and went with a Samsung Galaxy S9+.

Apple soured me with their bullshit around throttling the CPU to make the battery last the same. No wonder my phone was performing like shit.

But here's the bad news, this new phone I got is still not so hot. I still run out of battery despite working from home and only using the phone for google maps and calendar/slack when I'm out of office. I don't game on it or anything.

For my next phone I want to find a much more inexpensive phone, swappable battery, with a long-ass battery time. I would go with a Nokia but I don't know if their classic phone supports google maps.
“So, you think these businesses took an existential risk with their reputation for the ephemeral benefit of looking cool?“

Well, yes and no. As you pointed out, they are the 800lb gorilla in the room now. Sort of like FB and Twitter. Others have pointed out that Twitter, for example, started out championing free speech, and that’s part of how they grew to their huge size. Now they have no need to grow in that way, and staying that way can do damage. But beyond potential damage to their platform, you also have the fact that they can afford to lose money now to stay “cool” in a way they couldn’t before.

This is somewhat similar, but we’re talking about a company for money transfer, not communication.

Google grew by saying they wouldn’t be evil. The fact that they are being evil now poses very little short or medium term danger to them.

Long term? Yes. I think they chose short-term profit that will come with a cost later on. Not necessarily in people leaving. (They are the 800lb gorilla, after all.) Maybe in regulation or who knows what.

Having said that, I’m now thinking about other options. As is EasyDNS.
Chrome is the webview for all apps, might be tricky to remove.
This is awesome news. To the people behind this, thank you for the fantastic work.
> Deplatforming fuels polarization

More citations needed! This is a bare assertion that is not widely agreed upon. The polarization was getting worse long before the deplatforming trend started.

Since you started out the game, I'll add a bare assertion of my own. Constantly being bombarded with extremist views fuels polarization! Under that thesis, deplatforming actively works against polarization.

The moral of the story is that you can make almost any argument as long as you are allowed to rely on unproved premises.
Here is one such app (mine) running said approximations and plotting the results:

https://github.com/radekstepan/buy-vs-rent#buy-vs-rent
>What is fundamentally wrong with metal & clean design? >The answer shouldn't come from the fact that "Oh shit, someone is already doing that, let's do something different. May be wood?".

Nothing is "fundamentally" wrong with it. In fact we have gotten to a point that laptop chips can function just fine for many tasks in suboptimal chassis because they are fairly efficient, let alone desktops. The reasons to choose a different design as a customer at least are personal. In my opinion the minimalist industrial design is overused and interacts poorly with my brain. In the absence of any design elements on it I find the products bland and with little character. I have a hard time remembering another glass/metal phone or another bland-painted building with aluminum stairs. Apple knew that years ago and imo it's probably why they stuck with the iphone 6 design for so long, so the market floods with it and thus it becomes memorable. The iphone 10 has more glass and the notch, so in a way it's scaling back the minimalism, closer to the iphone 4/5 era when the phone had a few more geometric elements on it.

In my opinion what is missing from every modern design, be it the applesque industrial or google's kitsch "throw all the colors that don't mix together, remove all textures" material design are little things that make the product memorable. Ideally these come from quirks that add usability or from the materials used. In a different era with a more limited materials available choosing the right thing for the job meant more diverse products. A macbook today is not more memorable than a razer blade or some other copycat. The same goes for chinese phones and iphones. I've confused an iphone with a cheap android replica so many times. Industrial design works when you are the only player doing it. But apple is not.

Product design is a relatively new thing and it is going through the same phase that architecture did with modernism and brutalism( and post modernism probably too). But this endless streamlining and simplifying of devices is not as positive as designers want us to believe. At some point they'll run out of stuff to simplify that people will buy and will try to differentiate by going to the opposite direction or just stick with brand recognition. So while I don't think a wooden pc case is the end all be all of design I'm glad s76 is doing something different. And this kind of change always comes from the "alternative" underdog.
To say that I'm ditching Android is a pretty incomplete statement - because there is no one Android.

I’m sure the author would be glad to add that to the list of complaints. One OS might say, “Surprise! You got the wrong version/model/puppy for your use case!”. The other one won’t.
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That’s a single data point. Extend that rate of growth relative to inflation for the next 10,000 years and you reach absurdity.
I think Racket is by far the better language. But the tools you have on the JVM are unparalleled. Racket's GC is not the greatest and the number of options you have to tune it are very limited. The JVM is very flexible and allows you to tune your application through a multitude of parameters.
> the bloatware might not be a problem on a unlocked Pixel device

Or an Android One device.
I'm in circumstances (allergies, noise, etc.) that leave me feeling relatively poorly in the morning. They can clear somewhat during the day, leaving me feeling better and clearer headed in the evening -- except that then I'm fighting tiredness.

I'd suggest it may not just be morning. It may be also how you feel -- then and at other times. This is my point: That it may not be just time of day, but also your state of health and well-being at that time of day.

I hope to move to circumstances that leave me feeling better in the morning. I miss it.
I conclude that Google has decided once you get off of "normal" roads, it just doesn't care. (One even wonders if Google considers omitting paths that aren't reliable for automobiles to be a feature rather than a bug.) As you say, OSM is better but can't really be depended on.
iOS can also be pretty fun to develop for if you have a mac and xcode.

IMHO iOS is good for developers who are okay with coloring inside the lines set out by Apple. The developer experience isn't perfect by any stretch, but writing personal apps/utilities in Swift using a package manager like Carthage is pretty painless.

Apple has some great features for de-centralization, such as the Multipeer Connectivity framework.

I think it depends a lot on where in the stack you want to work. If you want to customize your baseband or do system-level modifications then Android is the way to go. If you work higher up the stack, writing apps, then you might like iOS more than Android. I certainly did.
yeah and it's then easy to believe in that a 5yo could read 10,000 books, cause the "educational system is different". i am quite amazed that some people buy that with serious face.

there's limit to lies
Here's an example of re-introducing a single species to an ecosystem https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/nature/wolf-restoration.htm

No imagine halving the number of species in yellowstone
How do you get this to not turn into a fascist/racist trash bin worse than 4chan/b/ as other Reddit clones have seemingly fallen into?
I use an SE too. I wish Apple would sell a smaller version of their newest display, camera and chip.
Maybe you should refresh your browser cache.
Hate Speech on Live ‘Super Chats’ Tests YouTube
I want the old IBM PC that was sitting on the side with the monitor on top. Ideally in the old colors with ports and a hotpluggable 3.5 inch drive in front. But I would take it with wood as well.
Are you talking about network marketing or just everyday networking with people so as to increase connections?
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No, that logic doesn't hold. Free speech doesn't require private actors to enable noxious speech, just as the First Amendment doesn't require the government to buy you a printing press.
Lineage seems like a reasonable solution.

Dropping Android for iOS is a joke.
You acknowledged it upthread!
The app wasn't able to load a list of communities in ~15 minutes. Will test when a better version is available.
It isn't a "democracy", votes have a different weight based on the past participation on the specific community sub.
On the other hand, there should also be zero instances of battery-burning apps, and zero instances of unkillable apps.

IMO the blame belongs mostly to the thingies that kills apps so hard that Android blacklists them, and won't start them again until the user explicitly does it. That Android has that blacklist is understandable; that "battery savers" get innocent apps added is IMNSHO offensively shoddy.