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> That's literally the opposite of what happens: Patent-expired drugs can be made more cheaply, and become more popular, precisely because there's no patent holder exerting a pressure to keep prices up.

The parents who got ripped off by the Epi-Pen manufacturers would probably disagree with this assessment of "what happens".

As a counter-point, I offer Wikipedia's assessment of the current usefulness of the old drugs:

New research into MAOIs indicates that much of the concern
over their supposed dangerous dietary side effects stems
from misconceptions and misinformation, and that it is
still underutilized despite demonstrated efficacy.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoamine_oxidase_inhibitor

I emphasize, "misconceptions and misinformation". Robert Whitaker got his start writing about the harm done on patients by the SSRIs when they first launched. These drugs should be "last resort", not first.

> Really, your whole post reads like a screed [...]

I have some personal experience witnessing patients' struggle against professionals who think their patients require palliative drugs. My aunt's friend is dying of anti-psychotic-induced liver failure -- she was always a little 'off' to me, now I know why. My friend was misdiagnosed by industry and is forced to take harmful drugs. I am confident that my reading of these situations is basically correct.

Medicine has come a long way since the days of bloodletting and calomel (mercury) therapies. It has further yet to go.

It's hard for all of us to attain perspective on whatever field we're studying. Here's a neat HN comment I just ran across:

"One of our group leaders in our research institute learned physics at the dawn of quantum mechanics, saw theory translate into practical applications (e.g. laser technology), and then boost and transform theory again. She is 90+ now. It was great to hear from her how long it took for the right theories to overcome the barriers of adoption, how fashion works in science, and how many things we think as new are actually really old stuff in new clothes." - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13998273 (emphasis added)

> [...] with no scholarly foundation to it.

you're cute. I have actually made many trips to the science library to check references. Sometimes I buy copies of these books for my own personal library. I try to provide references and links for all my comments which challenge the status-quo.

I can state with confidence that the core of "mental illness" was figured out decades ago, and was in the science libraries by late 1970's. Everything the scientists knew then should have leaked into practice by now. But our medical professionals are still being trained with theories that are demonstrably false and harmful (e.g. anti-dopamine drugs for "psychosis", SSRIs as first resort rather than withdrawn from use, etc). Maybe you think modern medicine is marvelous, but from my perspective I see a lot of my friends and family's doctors "missing the forest for the trees".

Sanity will eventually prevail, but there is a monetary bias against its implementation.
Doesn't sound dissimilar from a news anchor made of meat.
Chile: Is it humanitarian assistance or is it a racist policy?
I think the reason it works well for me is that I don't keep any photos on the machine except for the ones I'm using in Photoshop on current projects. And even then they're on a teeny weeny USB that barely sticks out of the side, and doubles the storage.
Oh and really low cost. Get an mxroute.com account for $30. They use mailchannels for outbound traffic it's a pretty decent solution with solid delivery.
Every iOS user using any iOS browser is in reality using Safari's WebKit dressed differently.
Mostly happy member here. Depth is less than reddit, but discussion quality easily tops it.
Did not they explicitly tell what's it for?

The title also claims other time-tracking apps were removed, so was is the reason?

UPD. I see the title was edited, and they have retracted the others apps claim now. The first question still stands though.
I don't think Apple cares about any Yelp "IP". It's a local establishment discovery and review site.

You suggest "they can just pay for the POI data." Which is basically what I'm suggesting.

Yelp's actual underlying asset is its POI database. Apple might want that if they decide to own rather than rent (which is a transition Google made a while back). Not at any price, but if Yelp continues to struggle the valuation might make sense.
Important things to point out:

1. The vast majority of devices are LCD, which does not use less power when displaying dark images. In fact, it might increase power consumption slightly. Not only are all discount devices LCD due to lower price, but OLED (as a stop-gap technology akin to plasma) has many shortcomings that lead to even premium devices not including it.

2. Average power consumption of an OLED is significantly higher than that of an LCD, due to poor efficiency of the OLED technology itself compared to standard LED backlighting of LCD's, so OLED devices do not have a power advantage.

Thus, claiming that dark mode would make a difference on global power consumption is false, as it only applies to a relatively niche technology, and suggesting that the technology should be adopted to allow for this saving mechanism would be counter-productive as the technology is less efficient for average workloads.

Your windows phone ran for days due to low screen/wake time (lacking apps, perhaps), not because of dark mode.
They use the API to determine both location and device usage.

I have to wonder whether RescueTime included the mapping feature (to see where you're using your iPhone) just to satisfy this requirement. But in the absence of evidence that this feature was included as a pretext, what should happen?

It would seem fair to require that the "primary purpose" of an API's usage be for the intended purpose of that API. But no such rule exists in Apple's guidelines, AFAIK. Instead, we're just left with the overarching principle that Apple can interpret its rules however it wants.

As someone who's been on the receiving end of this principle, I have to say I'm not a fan.
Password fatigue is easily mitigated by password managers. The issue is that users are too stupid and don't care to spend the time/money to do things the right way, and instead keep on reusing the same password everywhere.
> What is wrong with people in Japan?

The OP is referring to their declining birth rates, paired with general xenophobia and anti immigrant sentiment.

As the average population gets older, they are faced with a smaller and smaller tax paying population and an increasing tax dependent population.

This will eventually lead to the death of retirement funds and an aging country that can't afford to have retirees.

Higher average age also makes old people the main voting bloc and forces the country to prioritize funding towards younger populations needs, as they have increasing lower representation.

The country's general productivity will also drop as even if older people come out of retirement, they can't match the efficiency and vigor of a young work force.

It is an all out impending disaster.
Agreed. Admittedly I've only used JIRA at a couple of smaller places with small teams, and perhaps it fails if you have massive dev teams, but so far it's been pretty great.
Thanks, I just don't get enough lecturing in real life or on the internet.
>Charge extra to non locals if you’re so inclined

These are National Parks, not state parks. Locals don't pay for them, we all do.
It's so much worse to see ML applied to problems that could surely be studied and understood mechanistically, but people are sold on using ML instead in deference to buzzwords alone. The result is that they may get some model of a phenomenon, but they'll never learn a goddamn thing about why it works. What good is that?
So now you want to get the government involved because Sony didn’t allow cross platform play for the PS4?

What type of content will Apple be allowed to ban on its store? Do you want the government telling Apple what they have to allow third parties to access on thier OS? Should the government tell them that every developer should have root access? Access to the Secure Enclave?
Every time I try to do something original I go back to something generic because of the following reasons:

- Supporting all devices makes custom design really hard, with need to design for phones, tablets, PC in all kind of browser window size/ratio. Different screen size, dpi and input type.
- Accessibility is really hard with out of the ordinary designs.
- A website must "give out its content" in seconds. You cannot establish a relation with the user like, say, in games.
Oh, you should see the stuff I've got - all the wires, apart from the one I need.
Fortunately money doesn't take up that much space (and can be used to buy old solenoids when you ACTUALLY need one).
(although I fully agree the transactional costs of selling/buying mean you should at least keep a few spares to hand).
1. Pink Lady > Honeycrisp (though Honeycrisp is very good).

2. "The Honeycrisp variety is now so popular, consumers will spend three times the cost of other apples to experience it." Wow, I'm thankful I live in Oregon. Our local grocery store has about 10 varieties of apples on sale and Honeycrisp are usually no more expensive than other varieties.
You're making the case for why people don't want to match with their immediate friends, but there's a lot of value in matching with people just one degree of separation away, through a mutual friendship. After all, that's how a lot of dating already goes down in real life.

Your Jack example is true if you and Jack share a considerable amount of mutual friends. But almost all the people I meet on Tinder only have a couple mutual friends with me, no more. Often just one. Any sort of failures in our relationship don't have that much reach, yet I still have benefits like being able to query my mutual friend about that person, or leverage them in some other way like having them invite us both to an event to get the ball rolling.
It does say Take with a grain of salt. at the top of the page...
Did you setup a different email account for your new house ? I think they have some very simple check (not that secure obviously) that a single email can only sign up for informed delivery for one address.
Rise officially said they will not cave. Rise Project has exceptional investigative journalism and are very serious about their job.
Yelp is tanking because it is putting profits before customers.

Case in point: let's say you're looking for a restaurant in a certain area, maybe in San Francisco? So you zoom into that area and do a search: find "x" in the map.

So what do they do? They zoom out (sometimes, far out) to include some advertisers.

Rule #1 if you have a customer-facing product: if you give the users choice, then respect that choice! Always respect the user. Always.
Ease Me into Cryptography Part 2: Symmetric Ciphers
I'm not sure if this is just a failed attempt to be funny or you really don't get it.

An individual using public space individually is what public space is for. People have private picnics in public parks. Public roads mostly carry private cars. Parking spaces are again used by individuals for short durations. But what the scooter and e-bike companies are doing is converting public space into private business use. It would be the equivalent of somebody running a used car lot by taking over a bunch of spaces on one street. Or by a company taking public parking spaces and selling them back to members of the public. (Both of which businesses have attempted to do lately and been smacked down.) Or somebody opening up a restaurant on the sidewalk. (Which can be done legally by a permitted food truck or food cart, but not by anybody who just gets the urge.)
Perhaps instead, adapt a screenreader that understood C syntax, and instead of reading punctuation would read it in a higher level form, such as:

for (int i; i < 10; ++i)

"for each int i from 0 to 10"

instead of:

"for left paren int i semicolon i lessthan 10 semicolon
plusplus i right paren)"
Margaret Atwood has written several non-sci-fi novels that would qualify, in my opinion, as Great Canadian Novels - e.g. Alias Grace or The Blind Assassin.
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/Indentation#Explicit_c...

Probably the simplest good example, gives rules for translating between styles
I guess you've never seen: the quarries for the most of the stone blocks were effectively immediately by the pyramids:

https://www.cheops-pyramide.ch/image/map-Karte/pyramid-quarr...
Yes, you can run init code at cold-start time. JavaScript's global scope is evaluated once per isolate created, and you would normally instantiate your WASM modules at the global scope as well.
Speaking as someone from the UK, I'm a little alarmed that you have to pay to enter national parks in the first place.

Are they all that busy?
Pink lady better than Honeycrisp? Pink lady's are okay but they are less sweet, not as crunchy and much more dense then a Honeycrisp. Also Honeycrisp are not that expensive if you buy them on sale, just got some for $1.85 a pound in Minneapolis.
Did you do any other kind of data collection that Apple might have had issues with? Do they get a copy if your source code when reviewing the app?

Also, can you explain a bit more why you need to capture location information for measuring the users screen time? The two things seem pretty unrelated to me (but I’m not an user of the app either).
Puppet anchors
God’s Lonely Programmer (2015)
Over population is a myth, but over consumption is not.

The world easily can support 15 billion Hunter gatherer humans. But, just the number alive today may far beat over consumption limits they started living like a median American.

The world isn't going to "end", but it will become a very uncomfortable place to live in.
That's covered by the ad hoc interviews, which may be for breaking news or the live shot from a pending hurricane zone or something more mundane like a reporter outside the courtroom recapping a verdict from earlier in the day.

What could happen in these cases is there is some sort of "live desk" staffed by someone from the reporting staff when the need arises. Or, rethink the way breaking news is covered altogether ... does it really need a handoff back to an anchor?
The problem isn’t that ML has gotten worse. It’s just as rigorous and far more powerful than it ever was. The problem is ML is hard, it hasn’t gotten orders-of-magnitude easier to understand, and there’s enormous incentive now to pass off amateur understanding as complete. The real ML still happens — it’s just drowned out.
Journalist heroes must be convicted, brave and honest, but they do not need to be OPSEC experts. People who spend all day reading about PGP, and people who decide to risk retaliation by publicizing documents that have come to them, are both minority groups that rarely overlap (because then you'd have to have two unlikely traits, which is a lot less likely than having one.)
Precision was easy. The great pyramid's east and west sides are very well aligned with the meridians they lie on. Impressive? Not really. They surveyed well and they used the two near-polar circumpolar start available to them at the time. The would wait until those two stars were aligned vertically to the horizon and then they laid down ropes/strings/markers along the sides and at the corners, then they built within those constraints and the north side necessarily came out shorter than the south side. They might not even have noticed that the north and south sides came out to be different lengths, who knows.

There were simple, primitive, and basic astronomic techniques trivially available to the ancient Egyptians for precise layout of large objects like the pyramids. This may seem surprising to us now, but if you think about it, it becomes obvious.
I'm speaking as a long term and paid user of both Tinder and OKC. Online dating is complete garbage and I feel regret every time I open the services. The fact that Facebook is joining the game makes my stomach churn.
Still, another dongle to carry (with Mac Mini it's not that important) and a loss of speed/added latency for e.g. video editing. With normal usage patterns even USB 3.0 external thumb/SSD drives were just fine.
Standard human behavior.
Spot on. The alarmist article used the following words: "fall, world is facing... , insufficient, affected, impacted".

The implication are clear: anything other than GROWTH is taboo.
macOS Mojave Patcher Tool for Unsupported Macs http://dosdude1.com/mojave/
If they're using that to a commercial benefit, to the point of being anti-competitive, over other people who are developing for that platform, yes.
What is even more concerning is the fact that they still have so many supporters when they are so obviously up to their neck in corruption. Muie PSD.
I didn't tell the whole video's story, but the use of the word "stalking" should be a tip.
I live near Joshua Tree National Park. We pull upwards of 3 million visitors each year and growing. Expecting this weekend will be extremely busy around town.
How is this any better than IPv6? Each browser having its own overlay sounds like the good old days of AOL.

Ignoring that massive issue, which daemons get installed? Who installs them? Who updates them? End users won't. So it's up to the Software+OS vendor and ISP - Just like IPv6.

Don't get me wrong, IPv6 has been, so far, a pretty epic failure in terms of adoption. But your plan seems to put it all in the hands of the exact same people, but at the same time, gives them a massive incentive to partition the internet into a whole bunch of tiny walled gardens.

Why should this turn out any better than IPv6?
Conducting Good Retrospectives
All 7 principles of Leave No Trace[1] are applicable and should be kept in mind so everyone can have the best time possible.

[1]: https://lnt.org/learn/seven-principles-overview
It could be a bad thing in the medium term if the number of older people requiring care overwhelms the ability of societies to provide (given fewer working age people contributing). In the longer term, yes, sustainable population certainly seems like a good thing. (Although one could make a utilitarian argument that as long as it _is_ sustainable, and assuming people's lives are generally good, you want as many people as possible.)
How YIMBYs Wiped Out in San Francisco
I never had the Wallet app so I'd be confused to receive an email telling me to upgrade, but I'd be happy to be wrong. For as much as I'd rather have banks just natively support digital inter-bank transactions, if I absolutely have to share my bank account details with a third party, at least Google has relatively good security practices.
"I'm not sure how as a coder you'd be able to guarantee that's never been done, except if your code guaranteed that no review could ever be removed by a human moderator, which I'm sure is not the case."

I don't need to prove a negative. You need to prove your claim.

There's no evidence of what you're arguing, anywhere, and I'm telling you that the code didn't have any ability to support it. If there were some system to allow advertisers to influence reviews, I would have known about it. Moreover, if there were some top-secret, non-code mechanism to do it, I would have seen it in the data.

I have never seen any such thing.

On top of all of that, if it were really true that you could get your business' negative reviews removed, there would be ample evidence of this. By definition, it's not something Yelp could hide.

Nobody provides evidence. They just downvote.
> Either you pay for their premium services or a bunch of 1 star reviews start magically appearing on your business

How do you square that claim given that both current and former Yelp employees say they do no such thing?

How do you know those reviews are fake vs coincidence? I've heard a lot of anecdotes and conspiracies about this, but have never seen actual proof. No documents, recorded phone calls, court cases etc? And given how many people have worked at Yelp it's strange no one has blown the whistle yet if they engage in such practices. They would be an instant hero.
Remember LanceH: pack it in, pack it out. Let’s keep our Parks clean, especially when the Park Service has had budget cuts.
They don't clarify who the experience is best for. Is it best for the user? No. Is it best for their business model? Most likely.
$1.85 a pound in Minneapolis? Probably cheaper near you because they're grown closer to you.

I rarely see them for that cheap a cost in the bay area. I think I've seen them as low as maybe 2.20/lb but that's it.
What I really like about the Mac mini is the internal power supply. I'd wish all the PC vendors would offer their mini PCs with internal power supplies too.
EFF's Newest Annual Report
> but is instead packaged up as a zero-argument lambda function

In the .NET class library, this type is Lazy<T>

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.lazy-1
Yes, but also note the follow-up post, after Mute was reinstated: https://medium.com/@nick.kuh/apple-called-a229d86ece30
I don't want a "Brave New World" future... but it really does seem like we're hurtling towards that book + 1984 at this rate.

Can we please have a full-tilt space race to get an out of solar system backup.
Video Friday: Collaborative Humanoid Robot, and More
Yes, for me SQL is very hard to reason about just because of the way it's "phrased"

It's much easier for me to interpret JavaScript or PHP method chaining. I find myself struggling when I can't use an ORM.
That and allow more immigration, as the article says. If one consequence of this is greater openness to immigrants, that's probably a positive for the world.
Less so. Log-normal returns are better because they have the property that a summation of log-normal returns over contiguous intervals is equal to the log-normal returns of the combined interval. In other words: Losing 5% and then gaining 5% doesn’t put you back at exactly 100%, and log-normal fixes that.
"using the persistent location API also allows us to use an acknowledged acceptable way to capture when our users have active screen time." I am confused, how is screen time correlated with user location? If you want to check if a user is on the go and not using screen then there are other iOS SDK API that you can use to determine that. Are you trying to determine if a user is spending certain time on hhis/her phone during transit? Well, what if my phone is on a holder while I am backing and it is showing me the route? What if I am listening to Youtube videos while I am transiting with my eyes closed.

I am sorry, but location data has become a really hot topic to come in digital privacy related debates. And your usage is not justified. I would love to use your app but with "Always" flag off.
An OpenStack Crime Story solved by tcpdump, sysdig, and iostat (2014)
Could this new powder save us from an impending data storage crisis?
> children aren't self-sufficient until they're 23-25

Look at Mr. overachiever over here, moving out at 25.
For the first time, DDG gave me better results than Google
I don't trust the companies that the GDPR is targeting either - who are more involved in my life on a day-to-day basis and can have as much or more effect on it, short of literally putting me in a cell. Information is power, and it's generally private companies wielding it. We exist in a society where companies and Government and the people all continually back each other up in oppressing people.

Fact of the matter is, that the GDPR is a pile of shit (it's basically an argument that only the Government should be allowed to amass and weaponise information, where I'd argue that nobody should be allowed to), but so is the mass centralisation of information in the hands of large, powerful entities that it's intended to target. And one would be entirely unnecessary and unwarranted without the other.
Why I Quit Being a Therapist [video]
Why wouldn’t they be? He told their story before it unfolds. But he isn’t their doomsayer. He is their prophet.
To see if friends and family are safe.