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France had no problem supporting the conflicts in Libya and Syria that sought to accomplish similar outcomes as in Iraq (remove & replace Gaddafi and al-Assad). In fact, France has routinely urged Trump and the US to remain engaged in the Syria conflict.

"Emmanuel Macron to urge Donald Trump to keep US in Syria during White House talks"

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/23/emmanuel-macron-...
> parsnips

... wait, what? To think I've been avoiding them my whole life!
People just love to find things to complain about. There are a number of great options:

1)Get a different phone or keep your old phone. Noone's forcing you to use one without a headphone jack. You could even use an older iPhone if innovation frightens you in general and you're happy with your old setup

2)Get/use an adapter. THey're not expensive and sometimes come with the phone

3)Get/use headphones with the new style of plug. You could probably use some new headphones as they get pretty janky over time

4)Use wireless. In lots of ways it's objectively better. Yeah you may need to get used to a new thing, but being good at adapting to change is an important muscle to exercise.

Honestly every time there's innovation there are all kinds of complaints, especially on here.

"Why do I have to change to USB-C? I'm fine with my old peripherals" (well your old computer still works with your old peripherals and if you want to use a new computer there are adapters).

"Why do I have to change to wireless headphones?" (you don't. Your old phone still works with old headphone jacks and there are adapters)

The idea that older people are completely unable to handle plugging a headphone adapter in but are somehow able to plug a headphone jack in is just bizarre. You can just pretend that the adapter is part of the cable with the headphones and always keep them together.
The OP isn't saying "20loc/day implies good developer", his implication is the other way around. That is, at least how I read it, a good developer -- with high-productivity tools -- nets about 20loc/day.
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Not sure if I'd go with "little know-how" - but yes, he most certainly did it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utfbE3_uAMA

If nothing else it proves that the jack removal was not done for space-saving or anything other than business reasons.

However whilst I'm prepared to think ill of Apple under pretty much any circumstance - I'm utterly clueless why so many other vendors jumped in (as they don't have Beats to schill).
Still convinced I'm missing something
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I don't see how an incursion on Ukraine would result in a war with NATO. Ukraine's problem is precisely that it's a formerly neutral party and not part of NATO. In fact, from a Russian POV the reason for the annexation of the Crimean peninsula were fears fueled by Ukraine moving closer to NATO and the EU, violating its neutrality and jeopardising Russian military operations within Ukraine.

I'm not justifying the annexation -- it was clearly illegal and the circumstances of the (also illegal) vote suggest fraud -- but Ukraine is not part of NATO and even an all-out undeniable Russian invasion wouldn't trigger a war with NATO.

Is it in NATO's interests if Russia fully invades or goes to war with Ukraine? No, of course not. Is it a violation of international law? Most likely so. But would this trigger any international treaties that would result in WW3? Hell no.

WW1 and WW2 weren't just escalated because The Good Guys were unhappy with the aggressors. They were escalated because of international treaties forcing nations to declare war in retaliation to the aggressors.

In WW2 the invasion of Poland triggered the defensive pact with Britain and France who declared war after setting an ultimatum. As for WW1, I think most people have heard of the complete clusterfuck of international alliances and naivety that resulted in that escalation[1].

Ukraine is not part of the EU. Ukraine is not part of NATO. Strategic position aside, there's little reason for NATO to get involved as long as Russia has no intentions of moving further westwards. Even if the US invaded directly and declared war on Russia this wouldn't trigger NATO as NATO is a defensive pact, not an aggressive pact. It would of course result in a lot of diplomatic tensions with so many US military bases being located in the EU.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_Crisis
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Thanks for reminding me of that Brazil crisis, that was definitely too-much-money-printing. But as you point out, it did get handled. Which brings me to my main point why I don't believe the hyperinflation scare:

> I was convinced we would have high inflation when the Fed increased the money supply during the financial crisis

MANY people were. But the "mainstream economist" camp of Krugman, Summers, etc. was clearly proven right in this scenario. Adding to that the Euro crisis in 2012 (which disappeared the moment ECB commited for real to saving the euro) and I became sceptical to supply side economics ... And the doubt never disappeared - once you stop to implicitly believe in "sound money", "gov't intervention is bad" or "inflation is bad" their theories fall apart completely.

And central banks & their actions suddenly start to make so much sense. BTC & other crypto loses it. And I've seen no arguments to convince me otherwise.

So I _do_ believe our current low inflation to last for a really long time. If EU falls apart and there will be another war in mid.east and trade war between China & USA erupts we will get it higher, but that's the only way I can see it getting there. Because we keep appointing way too sensible economists to central banks :)
Ask HN: My CIO put our DB online, what should I do?
My CIO made a zip from our production DB and put it on our server on a public url (without password). He had a (bad) reason but it doesn't matter.

What should I do ? Warn his superior ? Shut my mouth and hope someone doesn't notice it ?

I feel like this is a terrible mistake that could cost my CIO his job (and maybe worse if the CNIL is warned or if someone steal the zip).
By choosing workplaces where they’re not welcome in the first place and thus aren’t present and don’t have to be dealt with.
Using phone audio in a way that benefits from that extra increase in audio quality is the minority case (based on my observations). Most people listen on the their phone when they are 'out and about', walking in town with car noise in the background, on the subway etc.. In those environments, the returns diminish quite quickly past a decent pair of noise isolating in ear headphones.

This is the case for which the new situation is the unarguable improvement, but I think it's rare enough that consumers as a group have lost more than they gain.
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Scale and network effects.
How is this different from having a pull request that will go unmerged for potentially years? You still need to maintain your fork etc.
Both Libya and Syria conflicts were started by their respective dictators massacring people.
My takeaway from this is that governments do not always act rationally, and therefore MAD doctrine, which assumes that the actors are rational, is a dangerous nonsense.
If you make a bar into your "local", then you can do so whenever you like.
I don't know if this was the case "back when", but nowadays the pro version does not have detachable cables. The difference is that the cable is coiled (and I think a bit longer) and some parts (that do not affect the sound signature) are of slightly higher quality.
, and greater uptake of them makes them cheaper.

Does it really? I haven't noticed any change in price that could be attributed to this and I bought a pair a few weeks ago, so I'm somewhat up to date with the pricing.
Nooo. Don't take my headphone port from my MBP!

In my home office, I have it wired to my simple mixer and amp with which two other computers also connect to. And from that split into my speakers and a pair of headset.

All non-digital and no USB involved with other things that can go wrong. I am no Hi-Fi buff, I just like one volume and power button when I need to silence or amp things.

Whilst commuting on the train I also use the headphone jack, even though I also have a Bluetooth headset, but it is limited to two sources which are already used up by my iPad and phone.

I don't want to yet again swear internally whilst standing on a busy tube with 1000 other people with Bluetooth devices, and having to reset the pairing on my iPad/iPhone.

Ps. I have an old phone with a 3.5mm jack, but I never use it. I use audio on my phone only when commuting or walking and then use Bluetooth. But my old iPad and MBP are stationary so I only use 3.5mm devices with them.
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The vast majority of tiny takeout places in NYC will never have a line of people outside, and they rent those places because real estate is expensive, not because they’re trying to appear more popular than they are. And if you watch the staff behind the counter and in the kitchen of the truly popular ones with lines, they’re definitely NOT taking their time. The throughput of tiny NYC restaurants is impressive. Occam’s razor applies here, even if it’s less interesting.
>From a security point of view, it's really worrying that a lot of users refuse to upgrade software because of the track record of Apple making devices less usable with every upgrade.

A lot of users? iOS has the fastest and widest adoption rate for new releases of any mobile or not OS. Android specifically used to have awful fragmentation issues and phones never updated by the vendor 3 and 4 releases behind.

APPLE IOS 12 HAS SEEN THE FASTEST ADOPTION RATE, RUNNING ON 50% OF IPHONES AND IPADS (Oct 12)

https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/apple-ios-12-ha...

iOS 11 is now installed on 81% of Apple’s over a billion active iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices in the wild, up from the 76% adoption rate reported on April 25. By contrast, Android Oreo versions powered less than six percent of active Android-driven smartphones and tablets that had been accessing Google’s Play Store during a seven-day period ending on May 7, 2018.

https://www.idownloadblog.com/2018/06/05/ios-11-adoption-rat...
Unfortunately that vendor lock-in is exactly the problem. We don't have easy free consumer choice to just pick up the phone that does have a 3.5mm jack, so we are left to complain as per the original article.
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"AirPods" also cost about the same as one of my phones (a Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 running LineageOS [1]) which comes with a 3.5" jack. With one fell swoop I get a phone which does not phone home (other than through the radio firmware blob of course), which runs for a week on a single charge and connects to all those things with 3.5" jacks which I happen upon, be it headphones or cassette adapters or older car radios without bluetooth.

To paraphrase some marketing slogans from the days of yore:

IBM said "Think" [2]

Apple said "Think different" [3]

I say "Think wisely"

[1] https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/whyred

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_(IBM)

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_different
Making fast cars, downhill racing bikes and hang gliders all hurt the elderly, disabled, and poor, too, by that logic.
It's also misleading because it's talking about a bomb 1/10th the size of the Hiroshima nuclear detonation, while today, even just India and Pakistan alone have nuclear capabilities that are a hundred times beyond that. The implications not just from the initial strikes but the infrastructural devastation that would follow are impossible to estimate.
tl;dr Google may have money and YouTube may be one of their main sites, but there's always more to development than "but c'mon, they can afford it" or "surely they have enough engineers".

I understand what you're saying but based on what we've heard from ex-Googlers about user interface/experience design within the company, that people who've not got the first idea about good design are thrust into the role of designing user interfaces and user-facing features, I think it's a minor miracle we have what we have already — and what we have isn't great.

Plus, look at the variety of users and devices on YouTube. From those who watch 5K video on 27" high-resolution monitors backed by grunty graphics and powerful processors, to cheap $29 Android phones that barely keep the battery from draining to zero within a couple of minutes just showing a 360p video, and all the devices in between.

Between Google's issues with user interface/experience design on a company level and the fact that YouTube needs to cater to so many different kinds of people and devices, there's clearly more than meets the eye when it comes to the hidden scale of YouTube.

Since Google basically prints money, I don't think money could be the issue. Since Google is overflowing with engineers, I don't think throwing more engineers at the problem would help. Rather, I think that removing annotations is a good sign that Google is trying to do something smarter: manage the scale of YouTube.

The removal of just one feature, like annotations, lifts a heavy burden from the main site team, the mobile site team, the mobile apps teams, and everything else. It brings platform consistency, meaning some actually new and innovative features can finally get some of that precious engineering time, rather than the inelegance of supporting what was always a janky feature that could only become jankier as devices became more diversified.
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> Well, to me that is entirely backwards. Customers are looking for something, but are denied that thing because companies have other "visions" for them

I don't think that is really fair. If I really needed a headphone jack, I could have got a new phone with one, but one of my requirements which was more important than a headphone jack was price, so it was a trade off I was happy to make. Maybe if you want to stay in the Apple ecosystem you are out of luck, but this is the sort of thing Apple has always done (floppy drive, optical drive, soldered ram, battery). If you want to stick with their ecosystem, you should be willing to follow whatever they decide is best - it should be expected from them. You could argue it is wrong, but from a financial perspective it is most definitely working, and many people are still willing to support them.

On a similar note earlier this year I switched (around the same time as I got the Bluetooth headphones) from an Apple laptop to a Thinkpad laptop. I couldn't justify the price increases and limitations Apple has put in-place in a quest for thinness, and the way MacOS seems to be heading. For nearly half the price of a new Macbook Air (the previous gen), I got a new machine which is more powerful, has better battery life, has more ports, is smaller (in area, not thickness) and lighter. For the work I do, Linux provides a much more friendly developer environment than MacOS.

(For me this post is still #6 on the front page)
So, they choose Iraq randomly?

The idea of 'doing something' about Iraq was a lot older.

9/11 was just the excuse. When you read about the subject it's interesting to realize how many people in Washington was against that war, including the Pentagon and the State Department, but powerful interest prevailed.

From https://www.haaretz.com/1.4764706:

"Is the Iraq war the great neoconservative war? It's the war the neoconservatives wanted, Friedman says. It's the war the neoconservatives marketed. Those people had an idea to sell when September 11 came, and they sold it. Oh boy, did they sell it. So this is not a war that the masses demanded. This is a war of an elite. Friedman laughs: I could give you the names of 25 people (all of whom are at this moment within a five-block radius of this office) who, if you had exiled them to a desert island a year and a half ago, the Iraq war would not have happened. Still, it's not all that simple, Friedman retracts [..]"
You can't just say "it's a slippery slope" without any evidence or context.

That's not even a statement. Slippery slope to what end? By refusing to spell it out you can claim any interpretation that results in absurdity is a strawman.

"It's a slippery slope" is literally a bullshit statement. It's vague enough to express disapproval without really presenting any argument other than "just don't" yet it has the appearance of sophistication.

Either make an argument or just say you disapprove. Being vaguely ominous doesn't add anything to the conversation.

Here, I'll give you a start: "I think leaving such a wide range to a board's decision is dangerous because...".
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I'm well aware that there's tons of time proven software that serves us well and will continue to do so for some decades. Yes, most of this is not written in the PL/framework combo du jour, true. You seem to think I want everyone to switch to Docker/Kubernetes. I don't.
Has anyone ever been annoyed with a thank you email? Compared to the crap/spam/adverts that turns up in our inboxes every single day, a genuine thank you from an actual human being should be fine. And if not, just stick it in the spam folder with everything else. Github stars are utterly meaningless to many.
There are a couple dozen vile governments all over the world doing terrible things to their people at any given time. That alone doesn't explain why France is so aggressively interested in keeping the US in the Syria conflict. That same exact justification that you just mentioned applied equally to Iraq, Saddam had massacred and brutalized his own people for a long time.

You don't see France egging on the US to get militarily involved in Venezuela for example. What's going on there is a human disaster of a similar scale as Syria, with the Maduro dictatorship brutalizing and starving the people, and millions fleeing the country. There is rarely a shortage of civil wars and other assorted internal conflicts to get involved in around the world. So why is France specifically so amped up to keep the US in Syria?
>It's no coincidence that you never see anybody with a visible disability in any general purpose Apple advertisement -- video or print.

Actually you see several such persons. E.g.:

Ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPv9jFWhzGE

WWDC video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgk_Jawzdwk

Also Apple has the greatest accessibility track record (and tons of awards on such matters), and e.g. blind people etc swear by its products (as opposed to at it).

Blind person describing his use of iPhones etc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlbIF7IOb_Q
You mean this one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB4cjbYywqg

Or the "Designed for ..." series?

Meera https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d6zKINudi0

Andrea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoEUsUWihsM

Patrick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whioDJ8doYA

Todd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PoE9tHg_P0

?
Yes. Scale/volume makes things cheaper. And yes, the price has gone down over the last few years. For example, I've seen ones for AU$20 now, which was not the case a few years ago.
Not sure why you've been downvoted there. Regarding Syria, the same thing happened as with Iraq.

In Iraq, the US and UK said "Saddam has mass destruction weapons, we must attack him", and the French said "okay, just show us the proof, and we'll be on your side". USA said they had a proof but didn't want to show it. France did not support the attack.

In Syria, USA, UK and France said "Bachar use chemical weapons on his population, we must attack him", and Russia said "okay, just show us the proof, and we'll be on your side". France said they had a proof but didn't want to show it. Russia did not support the attack.
Because there's so many other things to give us flak over?

Civilian deaths related to the second Iraq war?
- Between 155,923 and 174,355 (or if counting 2011-2017, 175,792 to 196,572)

Civilian deaths caused by US and SV in Vietnam massacres?
- Between 4,000 and 10,000, or 110,000 to 310,000 (Maybe double that, depending
on how you count which people were killed and for what reasons)

Native American Genocide?
- Between 10 million and 114 milllion killed

Enslavement and Transportation of Africans?
- Between 10.7 million and 12.5 million

But the real reason is we still have the most nukes, and a lot of money and influence. We may occasionally get the ICC or the UN condemning us, but we just ignore it, and all the other major powers do too.

Why would a country that has done terrible things try to remember any of that, unless a more powerful country forced them to?
The crime against humanity was the government of Japan's actions over several decades, culminating in WW II.

Here's a light introduction to some of the atrocities committed by the criminals in this government:

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

Once these criminals attacked the US in Hawaii and the Philippines, it set a series of events in motion. Their unwillingness to stop their criminal activities was eventually met with decisive force.

If you want to blame anyone, blame the government of Japan.
> But these are luxuries afforded to people with the Internet and decades of time to analyze the situation that President Truman did not have.

This is a bit like forgiving Nazis because they did not have the internet to read about Jews that they are not so evil.
Typically when species migrated before humans invented quick transportation, their predators migrated with them. It didn't happen very often that a species becomes invasive without humans having something to do with it.
Yes, I saw one just last week (No, I don't watch much youtube :-). Some people are putting up instructions how to do things that isn't really done any more, to try to save the knowledge for later generations. One can argue how well a choice of youtube is for that but the fact is that many have no other way of getting that information out to a wider audience. I think it's a great way to catch the few that might be interested before the knowledge dies out. Trying to find anyone interested in your little village is usually very hard.
This sounds like a great idea on paper, but with Apple being based in California who has some of the most strict anti-discrimination laws, this seems to violate the Unruh act by deciding who can attend strictly by sex? Is this not illegal? Wouldn’t they have covered themselves better by saying underserved?
That's a marketing strategy and not just nice service?
This whole debacle has really demented my thought that I would probably never maintain an open source project. There is so much downside.
I read some nancy drew from the local library as a kid but I preferred the hardy boys.
They had a secret hideout in their junkyard, a caravan buried under junk.
The bad guys always seemed to drive a black sedan though I had no idea what a sedan was.
Would you always avoid an open office ?
Isn't using a server better in this case? Or Lambda have some benefits in this setup?
Now I just have that smart meter...

The house electrical system emits radio waves, and so do most screens, many lightbulbs, any device with an electric motor (e.g. hairdryers)..

And of course, your house is bathed by radio and TV station broadcasts, cellphone towers, CB radios, and of course, millions of space objects. Like the Sun.
The other being guilty does not acquit you from a crime. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were an act of genocide, there is nothing that makes this OK.
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Especially when they aren't paying.