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I agree with most of the article, but don't really like how it just breezes through this part:

[Apple] can leverage its smartphone share into monopoly profits on digital goods and services that are on iOS not because iOS is anything special, but because that is the only possible way to reach nearly 50% of the U.S. population.

But it is something special precisely because Apple has enforced such strict quality control measures for its apps. It has refused lots of apps because allowing them would damage users' trust of its store. So just having an app show up in the store is a signal of quality. This is precisely why the store can reach 50% of the market. This is significant because without those standards from day one, I don't think Apple would have achieved its reputation as best in class which allowed it to gain the leadership position it has. So its a symbiotic relationship and you can't just focus on one side of the equation.

There probably aren't a lot of people who remember the Palm app experience which was way before the App Store. Apps were horribly unreliable and one had to rely on outside reviewers to determine which if any should be installed. Granted technology has changed drastically since then so its not an entirely fair comparison, but still I believe that you can't simply look at the App Store as a provider that could be replicated by anyone in the exact same manner as Apple if only they were allowed to. I do agree that users shouldn't be restricted from visiting other sites from within apps or even download from outside sources if a particular developer chooses to release its apps through an outside distributor.
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And I find it ironic that in this discussion of choosing words carefully, we still use the basically meaningless (because of all of the different ways to use them) words "conservative" and "liberal". The words have nonpolitical meanings, and political meanings. And even the political meanings are inconsistent.
The Hardy Boys series had to be rewritten hastily in the 1970s due to phrases like “there’s a [n-word] in the woodpile”.

Many of the bad guys in Tom Swift and the Hardy Boys were described as “swarthy”. My girlfriend’s father, who was a truly lovely man, would go on to use that word to describe me back in the 1980s. She and her mother were horrified but I thought it was hilarious.
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Wow, thanks for the insight! All this time I thought I was supposed to be using tools with a half-assed understanding. It makes so much sense now! :)

Seriously though, what I was suggesting is that some companies make promises to their customers, on behalf of their engineering team without understanding (or properly estimating) the impact and technology involved. Then it's a mad rush to get something delivered. I understand this is a bad way to do business but it's a sad reality.
Depending on your definition of "reactor", it was either done decades ago, about to be done (or at least the scientific community is very confident they know how to do so), or several decades away.
That's a very cynical view on things that can be used to justify any inaction on any topic.

Sure, newspapers are trying to sell their papers. That doesn't mean that the dangers they are informing about aren't real.

I wouldn't suggest to let newspapers drive your decisions. They can inform you however that you might have to dive deeper into a topic and find whatever information you can find from more based sources.

I'd suggest you take this opportunity to do some research about the state of the global ecosystem by reading the article and refuting some of the claims made. Or fail to refute.
Well, you can always sit on your phone wrong in the train (or do something physical 'wrong') and wreck 'something' (most likely the screen - coincidental evidence i've seen more phones with broken screen than ones with broken headphone jacks), headphone or not. Why aren't you advocating for the removal of screens from phones?
This is ridiculous.

Jordan Peterson had to fight back this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_UbmaZQx74

The gender neutral is just a dangerous ideology. The example in the article is not even good:

Article example: Type the neutral Turkish phrase “one is a soldier” into Google Translate and it spits out “he’s a soldier” in English.

Ok, since armies worldwide are mostly composed by men due to their physical strength and biologically design to fight. Is it unfair in any way to assume a "he" rather than a "she"? Not at all.

It's just naturally that genders have different preferences and some words are associated with one or another. This politically correctness bullshit is just a way to control what people can say and think.

I get that AIs need to be moderate to avoid things like this: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610634/microsofts-neo-naz...

This gender thing is just retarded. Women today enjoy greater benefits and freedom than ever, makes no sense to police the languages. In German, Portuguese, French, etc. words have gender like male, female and neutral. In English there is no gender in the word but you can attach it by pronoun. Honestly, no one feels oppressed by this. If in a group there is 1 man and 2 women, (in Portuguese) we call the group "eles" which is "male they" and it's a cultural thing and no one cares about this.

Gender in word has an immense importance to poetry where you can invoke cultural properties of each gender in romantic languages. This gender ideology wants to people to thing that men and women are the same thing but (f* obviously) are not.
...and I use Fastmail’s web interface on my iPhone rather than configuring an IMAP service.
One other area which tends to get ignored is opportunity cost: if it's the only thing you do there are many things which aren't that hard to operate but if they're not a primary function the cost of having to pull someone off of other projects to handle problems, security updates, etc. is more than the direct service costs.
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As well as having ecosystem needs, each person has potential to be a supplier of ecosystem services. Each person can be inspiring, inventive, remediative and helpful when enabled and when not diverted by conflicts, economic and so on.

It is incorrect to approximate individuals as necessarily being a drain on the situation. There is little limit how much harm we can do - there is also little limit how much benefit we can do. Humanities gross drain on the system owes to dynamic behaviour and activity, more than its number which is relatively static. Our number changes slowly and with more difficulty than our interest and activity - our culture.

Political efforts to reduce people, to put hardships on family making, to tell people that fellow people are their problem - are damage to culture. The idea this could be solvent and even necessary is a symptom of damaged culture, of bad ideas about what humans are and can be.
This is not correct. I believe there have been eight successful Mars landings: Viking 1 and 2, Mars Pathfinder, the two Mars Exploration Rovers (Spirit and Opportunity), Phoenix, the Mars Science Laboratory (Curiosity), and now this one (InSight).

Failures include (going off of a list on Wikipedia) 2MV-3 (Soviet probe that never left Earth orbit; not sure if you want to count this or not since it didn’t fail during landing), Mars 2, Mars 3 (landed successfully but failed within minutes), Mars 6, Mars 7, Mars Polar Lander, Beagle 2 (landed but solar panels failed to deploy), and Schiaparelli.

So I think there have been eight successes and eight failures, if you only count probes intended to land. Notably, all eight successful landers so far have been launched by the United States.
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The connecting thread through all of them but the last is that there is some cost or difficulty to doing something about them, whereas the last is just a ticket in the bugtracker. Wouldn't it be nice for Google if all the activism in the world was directed towards things that could be solved at no cost by a junior engineer?
I agree on "they" but not "theM". Also I would only use "they" when talking about some generic person that really doesn't have a specific gender (or any other specific characteristics).

If I'm writing an email about my investor I know who that is and what gender they are. Getting "them" as completion option is almost never what I would wan't in that case.

(Above I even used "they" subconsciously, because It was just an example and I don't actually have an investor to talk about here.)
>Mutually assured destruction makes sense if humans and information is perfect .... but it's not so it seems more like it is just a matter of time until it happens.

Or not. If it is chance that prevents our self-destruction then you would expect it to already have happened. Seems like there is 'something' (for lack of a better word) to prevent it. Whatever it is, it seems to work and we're still here.
And what exactly is the real world data actually saying and how does it disprove Google's "ideology"?
And the Rover Boys, the Bobbsey Twins, and others.
As someone who’s small consumption of YouTube is its community of horror ARGs, this is going to bust a handful of them. Sad.
Apple is the only supplier of iOS devices.

"A monopoly exists when a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular commodity."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly
Yeah, this is a hard problem and they probably still have mistakes in front of them. Still, though, I think "we misidentified the antecedent in this sentence" is easier to forgive than "we incorrectly assumed a gender based on profession". The former is just a grammar parsing bug, while the latter carries a lot of cultural baggage.
What is cyberpunk actually? I have only a very vague understanding of it and would be interested in a summary and how it relates to the present.
Its a game of diminishing returns.

Assume there are 80% included in a game and 20% frozen out. Here it makes sense to change the rules of the game to include the other 20%.

Yes it might slightly inconvenience the 80% but the switch from not being included at all to playing the game for the 20% is huge. So, overall it might be a net positive.

Problem is when you get to a 98/2 split. Is it worth it to inconvenience such a large majority for the benefit of a very small minority. And how much are you going to change the rules?

Is it worth the reduced enjoyment/efficiency of the game?

At some point the trade off will become too much, and even moral/emotional arguments will not be enough to silence the dissent.
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I've ever seen \EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.efi used as a last resort used if the system's entries don't point to a valid loader. Pretty grim if that was all your system would allow you to use.
GHz doesn't matter anyways. In general nothing matters since threads can be individually throttled without you noticing (apart from declining performance). See my Lightsail review: https://www.karoly.io/amazon-lightsail-review-2018/
In your own example, you have the option to buy Spotify through other, readily-available distribution channels. That’s evidence against a claim that Apple is abusing its position in an anticompetitive manner. The test for monopoly isn’t what’s best for consumers; it’s whether a dominant player is abusing its position to restrain competition.
It seems data of ~25,000,000 US users was leaked, and of ~174,000 Dutch users.

148 / 25 = 5.92

0.6 / 0.174 = 3.45

That's more proportionate.
A more product quality reason - besides political - is the implicit bias corrupts intent.
We moved to a house in the country about 2 years ago and it seems to be in a small oasis of insect life - I suspect that because it's quite rather hilly it is low intensity cow and sheep farming with a lot of scrub and woodland. Going by prevailing winds its probably 15km (mostly over sea) to the nearest areas with more intensive arable farming.

It's very noticeable that we have more insects here than surrounding areas.

For the avoidance of doubt: I'm not disagreeing with the article!
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Ditto. I can't remember a single instance I needed to turn them on for any reason.
I'm confused by any outrage over this.

It's a tool that's meant to predict things, and they weren't able to successfully predict something that is used extremely frequently in lots of conversations. So they decided, after 'several' other attempts, that they were best off not trying to make suggestions.

If you can't do something right after repeated attempts, don't do it.
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So what does it follow up with? English doesn't have a non-gendered way to say "Do you want to meet him/her?"

Is the idea just to eliminate all useful suggestions that contain genders?
Different wavelengths is the short answer. But yes, there would be enough interference to cause damage after a while.

Note that these robots probably aren't usiu the latest 14nm process so they have a natural immunity to bit flips.
This is completely invalid.

Courts and legislatures in the US regumate limits to corporate behavior in ways that are the complete opposite to what you're saying.
And making a lot of money in the process of "caring".

The majority of people who "care" would have no cushy job otherwise.

This applies to programmers implementing useless features, social scientists, politicians, administrators and many more.
HashRocket. They were great people.
Slightly ironic that the whole point of the original comment is that wireless headphones are junk if you need low latency for music production.
Realizing domains still sell for 800k+ has changed my domain squatting tactics
I recently saw the thread about a company using part (or maybe all) of their series a funding to purchase the domain name covers.com for $825,000 dollars. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18534468)

Neat! And excellent news for me as a domain collector. I also use the term collector because while I average holding ~150 domains at any given time (including my prized possession, e.ht), I rarely set them up to be exposed on a potential market. Anyone who has shown interest in a domain did the dirty work of figuring out how to reach out to me. This has worked out and I've actually sold quite a few to some noteworthy groups.

Fast forward to today. I have a domain that is currently being chased by a Godaddy broker representing a client. It's a good domain, consisting of two words and a .com. My intentions before I read about the covers.com sale were to accept the second offer (I typically ignore the first fishing offers), but woke up this morning and changed my email draft. If a single word .com is worth sub one million dollars, with every other TLD option out there right now, two word .coms are definitely worth at very least more than four digit offers. Change my mind.
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Lawns are one of the most ridiculous human inventions I have ever observed. You take normal self-sufficient grass out, then reseed with some sort of crippled grass that needs constant fertilization and watering. To make things worse, you mandate it to be unnaturally short, so people have to constantly mow and use herbicides to keep the normal grass out. And all of this is made mandatory for some reason. Aside from creating grass mono-cultures, this is just a gigantic waster of time and resources that doesn't produce anything in return.
> It is almost trivial to build and maintain.

I'm interested to know what you've made or helped to make that is more complex and more difficult to maintain than whatsapp.
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Can this be explained due to changed land usage?
For example [1]? Anecdotaly, I experience huge differences. The wild places seems to be humming as 20 years ago but there are less and less wild places.

[1] http://archive.is/UUgzj

Edit: Improved English.
Asus C201P. ~180 euros. Very durable, battery lasts for 10 hours easy, more if only programming. It's preinstalled with ChromeOS. Installing Linux took some tinkering; there are some blog posts around that were very helpful.
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So far, intelligence on Earth has been zero sum. We've wiped out multiple other intelligent species until we were the only ones.
Perhaps there were more than two options?
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I'm glad Google Employees are taking a stand rather than just leaving the company and having their replacements do bad things thinking it will be a one off.
relevant: Taleb's minority rule.

cf. https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
Yep! Monopoly just means there's only one supplier of any commodity. It does not mean there are no alternatives.

A patent is a government-issued monopoly.
The point, I think, is that this is the real problem, and while Dominic might have made it harder for the attacker to get this exploit into the wild, there is nothing that he could have done that would have prevented such an outcome.

If one is writing something as security-critical as a Bitcoin wallet, then not using React (and other things with a similarly wide attack surface) is indeed the best you can do. Security is not tolerant of half-assed measures.
...OR....

Different groups of people call themselves "feminists," and don't agree with each other about changes they'd like to see in the world.

It's kind of odd to me that people (like you apparently) don't understand.
It will end with the boot of the state stamping of the face of Winston Smith, and Winston expressing his love for Big Brother.

Newspeak. When I first read 1984 I thought it so farfetched as to be laughable. I'm not laughing any more.
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I don't agree. Just because a phone needs foresight and charging, doesn't mean that it's not a massive disadvantage if other accessory also require the same effort. It's just an additional hassle and more things to charge.

That logic doesn't scale.
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Singular they works and has been used since the 1300's.

Say do you want to meet them? would work fine in this case.
To my ear, as a 34 year old native English speaker from Scotland, the phrase "Do you want to meet them?", meaning non-gendered singular pronoun, sounds absolutely totally fine and not strange in even the slightest way, and always has done since I was a child.
As mentioned in other comments, "them" works fine. It has been such a convention for hundreds of years.
But are those regulations enforced is the wuestion. Without oversight and enforcement, the regulation doesn’t exist.

What does a lawn need herbicides for anyway? You’re not trying to macimize yield ...

Another question is what does that label say. Is it “Don’t spray in eyes” or something like “Don’t use more than X per square foot” or even something cool like “Only for agricultural use where actual crops are grown”
Quick summary (if you don't know the name "Dragonfly", like I didn't):

> We are Google employees and we join Amnesty International in calling on Google to cancel project Dragonfly, Google’s effort to create a censored search engine for the Chinese market that enables state surveillance.

> Our opposition to Dragonfly is not about China: we object to technologies that aid the powerful in oppressing the vulnerable, wherever they may be.
Going to a Pacific Northwest beach today vs 30-40 years ago, You may also notice a lack of seagulls on beaches. I remember Kalaloch on the Olympic Peninsula used to have thousands of the vermin. Go there now, and you are lucky to see 10 in an entire day.
The App store is completely full of crap. It's easily 99% crap. 20000 new game apps come out a month. 19900 of them are crap. 90 are mildly interesting, 10 are maybe ok at most. Apple is in no way copying Nintendo here. There are 2 million apps. There were less than 1000 apps for Atari.

Not being able to do damage as nothing to do with the store. It has to do with whether or not iOS's sandbox is secure.
"Do you want to meet them?"

"Do you want to meet the <noun>?"

"Do you want to meet <name>?"

"Do you want to meet ___" <prompt for autocomplete from set of pronouns>

etc.
"Do you want to meet them?" works here.
Asking people to refer to you how you want to be addressed is not madness, it's just considerate.
On a hunch. I may be wrong.

It seems to me that a font, suitable for printing, is a niche product with a very old history of proprietary providers and craftsmen.

It's this crafts aspect which makes the open sourcing a bit more difficult, IMO. I.e you need specialists to maintain a certain quality.
Agreed, YouTube shouldn't allow arbitrary re-upload. If they did, then 1) upload a popular song, 2) disable comments, 3) wait for it to get millions of views and tens of thousands of likes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XycBLF6kWuY), 4) re-upload the video to now be a product pitch for your startup, 5) show potential investors how many millions of people are enthusiastic for your product.

And if one's reaction is, "re-uploading a video should reset all views and likes to zero", then re-uploading now has little advantage over making a new video.
"Do you want to meet them?" is perfectly acceptable. People seem to have no issues using it to refer to me, somebody who doesn't feel particularly at ease with referring to themself as either "him" or "her".

I'm not going to repeat myself - my opinions on that topic are recorded in the comments of the article about Richard Stallman's opinion of "singular they".
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I don't know whether other people do this, but when using voice recognition software, such as Google's, I "learn" what it is likely to understand, and then modify my statements to be more easily understood by the software. This is very useful when sending text messages, for example. I am able to quickly send a message in just a moment.

However, because of Google's limitations, the language I use is modified. Their "AI" is shaping my use of language, and thus, how I communicate with others. Multiply this by millions (billions?) of people, and this could have a real impact on culture.

What is Google's responsibility, in this regard? Certainly they shouldn't ignore the ways their technology could affect society. They should be making conscious, deliberate decisions. This is dangerous territory; and not an easy one to navigate. I am glad they seem to recognize that.
If you think people who are working to improve the social climate in which we find ourselves are in it for the money, I can only conclude you don't know any of them.
It appears to be a quote from one of the agencies filing the complaint, which appears to not be the agency responsible for processing and handling GDPR complaints. So, an opinion.
Singular they has been used for centuries in this way.
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You could introduce all kinds of edible plants on your yard; some berry bushes, a small apple tree, raspberries. Don't garden, just rip out the stuff you don't want. Let the remaining plants find their place and time.

You'll have a nice little garden in a few seasons.
How do you determine if the grievance is valid or not? Sometimes "addressing specific grievances" should be to recommend the greivers apply for therapy.

There are people up in arms about Maryland's flag because the checkered pattern is a confederacy symbol which somehow triggers them. The best course of action for those people is not to change the Maryland flag but rather to get them therapy so they can learn how to live without getting offended.