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This article has it backwards. Apple is already doing more than it should.

Apple's competitive advantage, historically, is its reputation for making reliable, high quality products with innovations that make them easy to use.

The phone and computer markets are saturated. The strategy of selling higher priced devices isn't a bad idea. The big problem, if Apple wants to avoid a repeat of the 1990s, is that those devices need to merit the higher price. I don't believe they're headed in the right direction on that front.

The more products Apple makes, the less focus each product will get. Apple should simplify its lineup again, and make sure what devices it makes are back up to the quality that they had a decade ago.
DRAM needs refreshing because it's made out of capacitors; if left alone, their charge will stay the same.

No; capacitors slowly leak and lose their charge. This is why DRAM remains powered when your computer sleeps, eternally refreshing.
If it is pointed directly at us, 8000 light years away is close enough to make the gamma ray burst a possible extinction event.

https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/wr-104-nearby-gamma-ray-burst
>It’s literally the only valid use case for it.

Use case: a currency with better inflation characteristics than even gold.
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I was really really hoping this post would be something Bard's Tale related.
The group I'm in at NASA Goddard has two UV300s. They have 96 cores each (no hyperthreading) and 6TB of RAM. And they are loud.

The SGI Altix line, which used Itanium 2, could go up to 1024 cores with a single system image, which is just insane. We had one of those at Goddard a decade or so ago, but I didn't have access to it.
What you are describing is difficulty with 'facilitating a decision' aka selling. I had to find a mentor to effectively learn that ability.

I'm more than happy to refer you to him. Just pm me
Cannon re-used as bollards
I'll grant that it would be handy to have a syntactic feature that would be equivalent to "break", but would apply to the current enclosing block. Basically like "return", but block-scoped - which is basically what this is, except for the whole intent/readability issue. I also like languages that let you do labelled "break" and "continue" out of the loop, rather than forcing you to put the label after the loop - IMO labeling the loop itself is more logical.

But we should be cognizant that those features are still extremely close to a naked goto in terms of the ability to reason about the code - it's just a sprinkling of syntactic sugar on top. So if goto is unequivocally bad, then e.g. early returns are also bad for all the same reasons. Conversely, if those features are fine when used in moderation or in well-established patterns (like "if (error) return") - which I believe is the case - then so is a naked goto. It's the cognitive dissonance of people who use them heavily while insisting that goto is absolutely evil, no exceptions, that irks me.
the hodl gang
Yeah, the loan sharks are absolutely scammers, and the courts are absolutely corrupt to let this happen, but... there's also an element of "you can't con an honest man" at work here.
I believe that is called Resume Driven Development. I see it in my org quite a bit. There are pros and cons. One of the cons is the academic exercises that have no bearing on customer requirements and last far too long. Mgmt won't kill these projects off for fear of losing good talent, so we end up with loads of shiny things that nobody wants to support and nobody will admit that we don't need.
I don't get this. What is the merchant advance product that Square and Strip have to compete against this?
follow them where?
> You likely have a functioning sewer system a

Functioning septic systems are also not paid for by the government and a large portion of the non urban U.S. still uses them. A much smaller portion of the non urban U.S. is still on well water. Perhaps most importantly, federal and state governments don't pay sewer and water systems in most cases.

(Though Hookworm is resurfacing because people don't realize that they have to invest in their septic systems)
I don't see it being higher friction per se; spending Bitcoin and most other cryptos is actually pretty easy (modulo fees, which I'll grant is a not great area right now). If you look at Bitcoin more as a cash replacement than a credit card replacement, then it works better, and there really is no "cash" alternative in online systems, which is fine, mostly, for consumers, but not great, mostly, for vendors.

Credit cards are convenient because there are so many protections for consumers in terms of fraud, but that is an increasing burden on the consumer, as credit cards get rejected because of "unusual spending patterns", and dealing with credit card theft and arranging a replacement card, and having to answer questions like "did you spend $7.23 at MTG ENT LLC last Thursday". Consumers get the benefits of reward systems and deferred payment (which is a blessing and a curse for many consumers).

For vendors the advantage is clear (except for the problems involved in storing bitcoin); in a hypothetical world where bitcoin's value is stable, they could offer substantial discounts for purchases made with bitcoin instead of credit cards, because of the diminished counterparty risk.

All of that said, there's no reason that credit cards can't be offered for cryptocurrencies as the settlement currency, and offer many of the same benefits of existing credit cards; this more goes to the notion of Bitcoin as a settlement system.

The biggest problem with adoption of Bitcoin as a spending platform is price volatility, which is a chicken-and-egg problem; if the supply chain is denominated in bitcoin, then that will make the price stable, but nobody will denominate their supply chain in bitcoin unless the price is stable. I've expressed the idea before that power companies in particular could charge for electricity in bitcoin very easily, because the conversion is pretty direct -- the price of electricity is the number of bitcoins you could mine for that amount of electricity, and the electric companies have a built-in solution if demand falls too low -- they can just mine bitcoin with the "unused" power. This is a little pie in the sky, though.
Could it be that the manufacturer was aware of a bug and chosed to circumvent it by using gamma rays as a pretext ?
You are aware Apple was worth $1tn as a company? $150bn more or less in the grand scheme of things isn't a lot of money, which is about the size of the crypto market.

I just don't see banks and institutions (i.e. Nasdaq and Vanguard) building out crypto capabilities to then not use them. They'll market the hell out of them at some point, and the cycle will repeat.
It's a testament to a corrupt legal system and poor regulation, that's for sure. It's a predatory practice and no doubt brings revenue to Orange County NY and other places.

However this isn't really about financial education. For many people, if there's even a slim hope of a business succeeding, the fees and risks associated with an absurd loan are preferable to being forced to close the business. The anecdotes are almost always of the form "we just needed a small liferaft until business picks up. Once business is good, we can pay it off." That's human nature to an extent.
It doesn't sound like they were dishonest, just naive.
Toilet-scrubbing robot takes over one of the world’s crappiest jobs
Copenhagen does not require nonlocality
I think you meant your reply to go to the homeopathy comment. Unless you have specific research into the effectiveness of bear-repellent rocks.
The past is not always the future.
I doubt think the programmer knew one way or the other, just doing what they were told by the manufacturer, and gamma ray is probably easier to explain to anyone after the 1950s/60s than muon.

I mean after all, did any superhero get their powers from muons?
Not concerned at all. I get paid to de-risk, not to ride the hype train.

> What worked 5 years ago is a joke today, in many cases.

Postgresql was first released in 1997. Lots of the web still runs on PHP, Python 2, and large amounts of Java. What you call a joke, I call a sustainable business and an amortized cost. No one is paying you to use shiny tools, they're paying you to solve business problems.
I think it make sense from a cost/benefit analysis. Swift was created to make it easier for developers to write iPhone apps. Open sourcing the code provides developers with example code (given it was a brand new language), and more eyeballs to potentially look through the code to improve it whereas google open sourcing search should just allow bing to catch-up.
Open core can go wrong if you're not coupling the valuable functionality tightly enough to the open core, though. This seems to be happening with BitWarden, where at least two free third party implementations of the password storage backend exist[1,2].

[1] https://github.com/jcs/rubywarden

[2] https://github.com/Odysseus16/bitwarden-go
About 5 years ago, it was being suggested that the Wolf-Rayet star WR 104 might cause a dangerous gamma-ray burst when it goes supernova, but these things are highly directional, and I think the current consensus is that it is not aligned closely enough to be harmful. Apep is at a similar distance (~8,000 light years), and the article seems to be suggesting it will likely be more powerful than WR 104 is expected to be, but there is at least one news article is claiming that it is probably not pointed at us.

https://newatlas.com/gamma-ray-burst-star-supernova/57308/

(On looking into this, I began to think that Apep and WR104 might be the same thing, but they have different locations.)
CDC Establishes AFM Task Force
Sometimes choice of technology acts as a signifier. If you're building a startup, and you want to communicate to investors that "hey, we may not have the users yet, but we're built to scale!", Kubernetes and microservice architectures and sophisticated ETL pipelines convey that image better than saying "we've built for the minimal load that we're currently experiencing with a LAMP-based monolith.". The reality may be that your product's consumption patterns will never necessitate having anything more than that, even at a large scale. Your product may be great, you might easily be able to scale manually, but someone who holds the purse strings who knows just enough to be dangerous, might decide that if you're not using the "hot" technologies, you must not know what you're doing.
Nonsense. It’s just a rehash of the old steady state model. Further, any theory which itself claims to be unproveable, is a religious sentiment masquerading as science, and is a waste of mental effort.

Wolfram’s article is irrelevant to this discussion. It is a question of empistemology.
Good question! On my roadmap is a feature where you can have more control over what's sent. So for example whitelist or blacklist categories, set specific send times and for example doing a mailing once a week or day or month (user specified time frame) where the posts of that time period end up in a recap/newsletter/aggregate email.
Reminds me of the philosophical question of what happens to one's consciousness if you'd replace their neurons, one at a time, by electronic equivalents.
That's a dangerous oversimplification and dismissal of reality. It's also unclear what you mean by "love seeing all the hate here." You should elaborate, rather than insult.
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In the U.K. we actually use Aztec codes for train tickets, rather than QR. Not entirely sure why.
I never understand why people see these actions all happening simultaneously -- a invention of infinite money will of course go to the top, and create inequality between the rich and poor -- because that's how compound interest works.

But for some reason, that doesn't seem to even register on people's radar.
Isn't the story eerily similar to the Macchiarini scandal at Karolinska from a few years ago? https://forbetterscience.com/2016/04/26/the-stem-cell-faith-... He also thought he could use adipose stem cells for implants but it didn't work and patients died. E.g if the new method causes implants not to be rejected that would indeed be a breakthrough, but many have tried and failed so one should be extremely skeptical about these claims.
2014-2015-2016 saw _A TON_ of stories about Bitcoin. I still remember reading the headlines "Bitcoin hitting $1,000!", "Bitcoin back to $150-200!" etc.

Most people still don't care about crypto
Discussed at the time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14323762

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14335987
>If it is pointed directly at us

Is a gamma burst directional, or spherical in term of high-energy emission?
I think you're right - at least 90% of servers on the web would be fine with a couple of instances at most backed by a decent db. It can get more compex depending on your resiliance requirements but it really doesn't have to be.

I guess I run a CPG stack - Coreos, Postgresql, Go. Don't bother with containers as Go produces one binary which can be run under systemd. It is far simpler than kubernetes and the only real reason for other servers is redundancy. The only bit of complexity is I usually run the db servers as a separate instance or use a managed service. You can go a long way with very boring tech. I've run a little HN clone written in go on one $5 digital ocean droplet for years - it handles moderate traffic spikes with little effort.
Refusing to adopt innovation because it doesn't match with what you knew when you were a technical contributor is risky, too.

Sticking to Python2 is risky. Using a version of Postgres released 5 years ago (9.3) is risky, using legacy PHP is risky, relying on the JVM and Java developers to solve problems that other tech stacks solve faster/better is risky.

What you call a sustainable business with amortized costs I call an un-turnable ship that wastes money dealing with problems that were solved years ago.
This headline is garbage.
First, "mistreating the market" isn't a thing -- a store is under no obligation to continue to sell a product they don't want. There may be an anti-trust claim to be made about walled gardens more generally, but there is no appetite among regulators to make it, and such a claim would be more properly directed toward Google on the basis of current antitrust thinking. Apple can give Tumblr preferential or worse terms for any reason or no reason at all.

Second, as it relates to enforcement. Your post shadows the fact that you disagree more broadly with removing child pornography because of collateral damage. To be totally frank I find that line of argumentation viscerally disgusting.

But it's also the wrong frame for the argument: you additionally claim that given Apple wants to crack down, they are cracking down the wrong way. I am not sure what the issue with selectivity is. Why is it a problem to apply higher standards to large, commercial applications who could easily be coerced to improve enforcement (as opposed to, like, Joe Random making some app that finds images online)? Why, when choosing among large commercial applications, should Apple not go after the worst offenders (in quantities of violation or currently enforcement protocols) first?

This seems like an efficient use of enforcement resources on Apple's part. One target at a time, optimizing for those who are worst in complicity and most able to take action?
Matrix/EA used a visual language for Spore. http://puredata.info/exhibition

Pure Data (Pd) is a visual programming language developed by Miller Puckette in the 1990s for creating interactive computer music and multimedia works

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

This is the one shinning example where a visual language actually accomplishes something that a general language can't not. Make programming accessible to creative people.

This is the only visual language that I felt was worth learning.
I don't think stablecoins are true cryptocurrencies no. Ripple is absolutely not.

IOTA has said you should consider a transaction confirmed if their centrally controlled coordinator has accepted it. So no it's not a cryptocurrency as they should be decentralized.
> As you note, it is illegal for food manufacturers to put anything secret in food, let alone secret and harmful. Why tolerate it in software?

We don't enforce laws against food manufacturers putting secret ingredients in food by opening up food production processes so that any member of the public can walk into the factory and watch them at work. A major reason for that is that the FDA is bound by law to respect trade secrets, so it can't just make public every detail of the food production processes it inspects; all it can say is whether or not they are safe in the FDA's judgment.

If we wanted to make laws against putting secret ingredients in software, the enforcement mechanism analogous to the one we use for food safety laws would be to create a huge government agency that inspected software source code. It wouldn't be to open up the source code to anyone who wants to see it.
Body language and intuition.

You're right, there may be times I don't notice. I have no data to prove that.

IME, being in the moment and my body instead of in my head made it apparent that we aren't as clever as we think we are in social situations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-structure_constant#Measur...
No, the Ares interconnect is brutally fast but it fundamentally isn’t doing anything as complicated as that. It acts as both storage and networking between the nodes.
Wow. As a person who pays NYC and NYS taxes, I'm disgusted by this and sort of ashamed.

I will definitely be writing to my state reps to outlaw this practice.

Also, the fact that NYC enriches someone responsible for helping this is shameful and inviting corruption (though it is unsurprising to me that this is the norm here).
Fair points. A lot of the issues with Visual Programming are related to the supporting tools - something the author mentions. That being said, text input easily supports search, pattern matching and code sharing, so what are the benefits to visual coding to justify building all these tools?

In my experience it is harder to implement good programing practices in a visual programing environment. For example, abstracting, consolidating and refactoring visual code is much more challenging because of the sprawl of wires...
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It was wrong in the sense that epicycles are an entirely imaginary math artefact, and reality works on different principles.

Revolutions happen when a new mental model - or frame of reference, or whatever you want to call it - can generate new kinds of math.

The old model is certainly wrong in the sense that it's not a good picture of how reality actually works.

If you really want to, you can still use epicycles for certain kinds of problem, just as you can use Newtonian physics for basic mechanics.

But this is engineering, not physics. These theories are useless for frontier research. They're absolutely wrong in the sense that their lack of completeness means they cannot be used to generate theory[n+1].
At a family dinner I once jokingly described my gluten-free girlfriend as "glutarded," which was our inside joke way to refer to her dietary restrictions. I forgot that my aunt's husband, who has some congenital language issues that leave him with a speech impediment, had grown up being bullied and called 'retard,' until he gasped when he heard my words. I felt horrible, and have since been more conscious with my words. I share this story here because I think it points to a similar issue--the tech world is often a homogenous environment without much representation for African Americans. Can you imagine walking into a classroom full of African American students and casually throwing around the phrase "master and slave" without evoking discomfort in that audience? If we continue to use this language comfortably it implies to me that we aren't inviting to the table the community for whom slavery is still very much an open wound.
In what way were the Duncan's dishonest?
Now that is an interesting question that I think the next generation is going to have to answer.

There is still plenty of tribal lands available. Currently, people tend to settle in the tribal lands that are close to roads and towns. Next step I guess is moving further away from towns. People also have land which they grow crops. This tends to be separate from the homestead and quite substantial in size. A good 100metres by 50/100metres. I see people have started subdividing these fields and settling in them. Fewer people are depending on the harvest now to survive so some of this land is not in use.

I know I haven't answered your question. I really don't know how we are going to transition from the rather informal way in which land is dished out and houses built to the more formal approach. What I do know is it is going to take a long time. Africa currently has other pressing problems. Healthcare, education, corruption ... Whilst there has been the odd controversy here and there land in the tribal areas is not one of the big issues. A lot of it is allocated to families that have lived in the area for generations.
Unless that customer is Kraken itself who may be able to redeem the USDT for USD.

The market cap for tether went down 750 million recently so there appears to be some way to take it out of circulation.

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/
I think you misunderstand. I am not refusing to adopt innovation. I'm refusing to be underpaid to "innovate". If you want to spend sleepless nights troubleshooting beta software in production, it is not my place to stop you. It is my place to not recommend said software to businesses, and this is extremely easy to demonstrate to decision makers.

If you do recommend software to a business that isn't proven (and Kubernetes is still very much unproven, it's first release was only 3 years ago), and it fails, you should be accountable for your poor judgement.
One slightly cynical strategy I've heard is that your next grant proposal should be for the work you've already completed, giving you time to come up with the idea for the one after :)
"5 years on, I know that I did a bunch of things for a bunch of reasons, but I don't really remember what or why."

For my home servers, I've settled on "a default install of distro $X and an idempotent shell script that sets everything up for me". You have to use discipline to do everything in the shell script rather than simply fix the problem, but if you can do that, you end up with documentation as to how your server differs from a default install, and the ability to recover it again reasonably well if you store it in git somewhere or something.

It's only "reasonably" well because when you have one server running for years at a time, your script decays more quickly than you are going to fix it. If your server goes down three years later, and you decide to go with the latest $X instead of whatever you used last time, then your script will be out of date and need to be updated. It isn't nirvana. But it's the best bang for the buck when you're in a situation where chef/ansible/puppet/etc. is massive, massive overkill.

If you're already an expert with Docker, go nuts, but IMHO it's a bit silly to run a server just to run two Docker containers, just so you can say you're running Docker or something. Plus no matter how slick Docker has gotten, it's still more of a pain that just setting a few things up.
or, whether it actually happened. no other cultures with astronomical knowledge have ever been found to have reported on such a star ~2000 years ago. if there was a sighting visible in the med region, it was likely an asteroid or, possibly, Jupiter.
That's what I thought too - I mean this is interesting, but dang -- BT was the bee's knees.