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Too bad, I was hoping the mesh would mean more bandwidth more places - as the mesh allows much greater signal.
Did you just describe Bitcoin miners?
It’s interesting because Apple, once upon a time, had the exact opposite hypothesis: their language AppleScript barely had a documented syntax, and it aimed to allow any natural language (e.g., and I likely misremember, “tell the first application whose visibility is visible to set its visibility to hidden”). In theory, this could let anyone script their system, even non-programmers. In practice, it was impossible for even a seasoned programmer to know if a program would compile. Their later Automator GUI was much more successful, bringing visible constraints and prompts, but far less flexible. There is so, so much space to experiment and research good interaction methods in this space.
Model 3's are everywhere, especially in the Bay Area. But sure say false things to suit your narrative.
Squeak used to use a font which had a left-arrow glyph where underscore would normally be.
Think of it as one, single "world computer" and it will be much closer to reality. Everyone can access that computer for free, and use it for a price.
Couldn't agree more. I used to buy all my glasses in Japan or Korea - the market there is mature and competitive. Over $100 would be considered "luxury".

These days I go to Owndays, which has successfully expanded out from Japan - I usually go in Singapore. Most of their shops have common lenses in stock so they can make up the finished pair for you in under 30 minutes. Cost is SGD130-ish for 1 pair or under $200 for two. Quality is fine; if anything better than the expensive pairs I used to buy in Australia.

I also can't understand how western markets persist in this profoundly distorted and uncompetitive state. Possibly consumer expectation? Even in this thread there's people claiming "cheap" glasses are worse, their expensive $500+ versions are better somehow. In my experience this is not the case at all and they are in most respects identical. Even if that were not the case, I would rather have numerous pairs of cheapish glasses than one super-expensive "perfect" pair - glasses are fragile and easily breakable by their very nature and until I'm a multi-millionaire I'll choose the RAIG[1] strategy every time.

[1] Redundant Array of Inexpensive Glasses
Ah interesting. I definitely don’t notice it at all.
What you said doesn't contradict him/her. As an X user, XS and XS Max are very minor upgrades and are absolutely not worth the 1450 - 1500 EUR of price.

But the people I know who switched from 6S / 7 are very much happy with their decision to buy an XS.
The miners can choose to fork fork away from those changes. The core team is merely starting the change and the miners are supporting and carrying out those changes by continuing to mine the chain with those updates.
Enough people think the changes are a good idea that they switch versions.
I'm confused as to the purpose of ETH. On one hand it sounds like an investment that you can "hold" as you say. On the other it is a computing platform. So what is it you "hold"? Compute resources? Why is it valuable to allow speculation on compute resources? Can a person ever really reason about the cost of a system running on ETH? How do you plan for those costs?

Is is a compute platform? A cryptocurrency? Something else? Both?
No excuses to Apple.

First, 5G is the future, it may not be important at first but it will eventually change. Is a bit of future proofing too much to ask of a high end smartphone?

Second, 5G is not just about maximum bandwidth, it also gives you access to less saturated frequencies.

The lack of 5G is a very big deal, especially when smartphones vendors struggle to find even minor differentiating factors.
65C816 is faster than 68K, what good is 16 bit bus when you spend at minimum 4 clocks fiddling your thumbs.
Prediction is at best a fools game. I wish people were more forgiving. Just, of course, be extra careful when predictions involve your money.
> People [are] chasing [a] status symbol but they are not fools

I’m not an economist nor social scientist, but I don’t think a simple “fool” judgement necessarily explains what motivates. Mind the story below is from 2009 and of luxury automobiles, but my point stands... I feel like the “rationalization” for events is just post-hoc acknowledgement of “which way the wind blows”.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/porsche-i...
Nearly every video is going to be an amalgamation of original content, licensed work, and public domain work, yet the listed alternatives you've presented both clearly apply to entire videos, forcing the content creator to lie if they want to go forward with a dispute.

It seems quite bonkers that you disagree with the "disputes are discouraged by forced lying" narrative yet keep posting evidence to support it.

Ah well. It's not my fight. I should be grateful for that.
>eliminating the huge parking lots that you half to walk from at the interface of small personal last-mile

We don't need autonomous vehicles to do that. Valet parking exists.
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Netflix delivers a blow to Apple’s services story by ending in-app subscriptions
Well, no. If 5A flows through you from hand-to-hand, sustained for longer than an instant, you're probably dead. But I've touched live power supply terminals for something rated for 20A without a second thought.

And if there's a 10kV differential between your left and your right hand, sustained for longer than an instant... You're probably dead. But I've touched a 10kV power supply (not on purpose, this one), and...still here.

So! What gives?

Well. Place a 0.1 ohm resistor across that power supply. 18V across 0.1 ohms will produce a current of 180A. This will dissipate more than 3kW in the resistor, and it will very rapidly disassemble itself. But that doesn't happen!

Okay, now put a 10 megaohm resistor across that power supply. It's 5A, right? So 5A across 1 megaohm will produce a voltage of 5000kV. This will dissipate 25 megawatts, and destroy the resistor even faster. This also doesn't happen!

In fact, what will happen in the first case is that 5A, not 180A flows (assuming the PSU doesn't detect the apparent short and shut down entirely.). But Ohm's law says that if 18V is placed across a 0.1 ohm resistor, 180A must flow!

Ah, but 18V isn't placed across the resistor. Instead, as current draw approaches the 5A limit, the power supply starts dropping the voltage. No more than 5A will flow, even if that means the voltage must be decreased.

And 5A won't flow through the 1 megaohm resistor, either. Instead, no more than 18V will be placed across the load, even if that means the current must decrease.

So, the power supply won't kill you UNLESS your skin resistance is low enough that 18V causes a lethal (very roughly roughly 1A) current to flow through you. Luckily, humans have a fairly high skin resistance, at least when we're dry, and 18V is fine.

It's not the volts that kill you, it's the amps which the volts are directly related to. 10kV across your body, sustained for a bit, will kill you dead, modulo some sort of miracle. 10kV at 1mA across your body ... is impossible. If you touch a 10kV, 1mA supply- the voltage will drop so that only 1mA flows.

It's not the voltage limit on the power supply that kills you. It's not the current limit on the power supply that kills you. Both need to be high enough to do you in.
Still, 30 minutes is a sizable fraction of most people's free time in a given day. Especially compared to 5 minutes needed at a regular gas station.
Why would the miners agree to adding the "difficulty bomb" which is against their incentives? It's more likely they didn't have a say in it.
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> random app she'd downloaded

Perhaps she should be more selective with apps she installs? Also, how would this be exclusive to Android? iOS apps can have ads on them. Even if the feature is added with an update.
Don't worry. They'll just roll the chain back.
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Well put!

To put it another way, the problems that Ethereum will solve are not ones that could be solved by AWS.
Brain wedgie. I meant six. And direct observations give you four of the six. I guess I was just thinking about 3-d location and just forgot about the time derivatives. Sorry.
That's incorrect. There are plenty of chains with pure PoS, and the reason it's taking Ethereum so long is because they have an established PoW chain that they are trying to seamlessly transition to PoS. At the same time they are also working on taking into consideration more aspects like how it works with their platform/smart contracts and sharding. I'm sure there's many other considerations I'm not aware of as well. All other pure PoS implementations are much simpler as they're just simple payment blockchains which greatly reduces the difficulties and moving parts.
Looked more into it, this seems to put Tezos somewhere in the middle. https://medium.com/tezos/liquid-proof-of-stake-aec2f7ef1da7

However after reading that I am pretty sure the current Ethereum Serenity spec allows for delegation as well, so it seems to be on the same level Proof of Stake
Most higher degrees are supposed to teach some higher level stuff from a broader perspective than what will be required on a daily basis on the job, so someone who only does that particular job might be better at doing it, but will lack the ability to see beyond, and will still require degree-like learning.

Whether it's better to start with the broader or the narrower learning first... well, that's debatable, and it might boil down to personal differences.
IMO you are on point. As an X user I couldn't care less about the XS or XS Max (even though I do want a bigger screen since I read a lot) since they are small and iterative upgrades but people I know who switched from 6S / 7 to XS are very happy with their choice.
A key criterion any good programming language must satisfy is that programs written in it must be comprehensible. Getting the right results from your payroll reports is just as important as getting your Paxos implementation correct. However, since most so-called "business" programming has minimal algorithmic complexity, the languages used to write that can look quite different.
I got my 4 out the other day because I was having the $29 battery replacement done in my SE. The 4 feels a little heavy, but the size is juuuust right. I would gladly pay the same. Hopefully with a headphone jack.
Even Epsilons are useful. We couldn't do without Epsilons. Every one works for every one else.
So this is not the first battergarte-like issue for apple. I've had my battery replaced when it was below spec twice. Once when it failed their diagnosis test, and another time when I had the "swollen" battery causing the screen to separate from the case.

However, when my MBP literally caught fire in my bed while I was asleep and melted the keyboard, apple refused to fix it as the warranty was two weeks out and they claimed that the "liquid sensors had been triggered at some point in the past - and while apple recognizes that the machine catching fire was a safety issue - they didnt find reason to justify fixing the machine. You can purchase a new MBP for $1,299 - or we can replace all the guts of your machine for $1,500"

Bullshit.
With what kind of down payment and termination fee?
I will just answer one of your points, because this is something I looked at recently:

>On charging infrastructure I laugh: try to compute how much energy demand a single classic car, sum that for the total number of car of your nation and try to compute how many GWh/day your nation need to charge an hypothetical all-EV car's nationwide fleet. Perhaps only Norway, Sweden and Swiss with their nuclear+hydroelectric power and very low population can afford that demand. Without counting the fact that we can't distribute such energy without burn our actual transmission infrastructure.

You should do at least some rough maths before making such comments, it is not hard.

In my country - Australia:

- Electricity consumption per capita is about 11,000 kWhr/year

- There are about 0.7 cars/capita

- Annual km driven per car is about 15,000.

Electric cars get roughly 5 km range per kWhr, therefore if ALL cars in Australia became electric, the electricity consumption would increase by (15000/5)*0.7 = 2100 kWhr per year. Less than 20%.

If most of charging occurred at home at night, there would be no need to upgrade the grid, or power generation capacity, as the night-time utilisation is under 50%.

Furthermore, the batteries in the cars could, with just a little thought and effort, act as a grid reserve, feeding power into the grid during peak demand, and, in some countries, absorbing non dispatch-able power generation such as wind and solar.
Nobody is asking Apple to defy chemistry. Problem is iPhone bidding the fact. When your phone crashed at 35% and started working fine on charging you knew it was a battery problem because that's how all phones and batteries had been behaving since 3310.

Now someone at Apple thought instead of shutting the phone why not slow it down so that user can still make that urgent call. That's brilliant and all phones should emulate it. Apple's bad is the did it silently so user didn't know it was a battery problem, the blamed os updates, hardware, weather but not the battery, because degraded batteries never slowed down any phone including iPhone till now. So instead of getting battery replaced they bought a new phone which as a 'side-effect' was beneficial for Apple.

Now once people figured it out they were outraged, so as a PR measure Apple gave discounted battery replacement and once people did that phone was good enough again so delayed new phone purchase. Now as karma striking, all this news and discounted battery may have nudged users who otherwise chuck their phone every two years to get the battery replaced and the fact new device is costing 1000 fucking usd, some delayed for another year.
The moment I see a big-screen & dual-SIM & USB-C port iPhone is the moment I'll go and buy it no matter what.

To me ditching Lightning for USB-C 3.x (Thunderbolt 3) would send a very powerful message from Apple. I really hope they do it in 2019.
I think the additional value the newer iphone provides i.e face id and better screens doesn’t warrant the increased price tag. Ideally the price should also be falling like it did for PCs in the 90s.
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Proof-of-stake will ultimatumly fail. The majority stakeholders can change the protocol at will to their benefit, and there’s no defense
(without mob theft). With proof-of-work, at least miners can defend or fork. Best of luck to them though.
ETH is what you use to pay fees to the network to transact on it. i.e. if I want to transfer you some "tokens" on the Ethereum platform, I would have to pay a fee in ETH. This makes it a speculative investment, since if more people want to use the network, there is more demand for ETH as a currency. Since there is not an unlimited supply of it, there is a supply-demand dynamic on ETH as a currency.
Nothing particularly about Saudi money, its more about consequences of cheap money on Softbank and by extension Silicon Valley "high valuation - no profit" jig being up by the double threat of high interest rates and low/no growth.
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This two minute video seems to say very little. That SoftBank is “investing for a future in about 300 years time when we’ll all have chips in everyday objects like streetlights and refrigerators”.

And that there’s going to be a global economic slowdown in 2019, and this will be a problem for Softbanks vision fund valuation. Doesn’t say anything about taking Saudi money being bad that I can tell...

Also, there are already many chips in streetlights and refrigerators... seems like a very basic error...
They'll sell the service contracts anyway. There's no justification for buying one for any current new car, but people still do.
I'm not sure I can answer that question for anyone but myself. I've worked through quite a few pieces of TAOCP when I've needed to understand a particular topic, but I always find that I lose interest.

But then I've never been able to learn anything by just reading. I always have to have a target problem in front of me, and then I'll read (and get frustrated by) every book ever written to figure out the best way to think about that problem. (Which means I've read a few dozen pages from hundreds of books, and I have pretty huge gaps in my math background -- abstract algebra and category theory being two big examples.)

For some target problems, TOACP has been incredibly helpful, but for most of them it really hasn't. Knuth and I just care about different things.

For the same reason, I can't recommend that anyone work through EVERY problem in my book, either. Find the parts that are interesting and/or useful to you, and work on those. If you get tired or frustrated, work on something else; maybe you'll discover another reason to pick up my book again later. Or not.

Climbing the mountain is much more rewarding than studying the trail map.
I agree about future-proofing a phone from the consumer point of view, but it would decrease Apple's margins or increase the price of an already really expensive phone for no current benefit.

On the technical side, I think 5G has a serious problem of being blocked by just about anything at those frequencies. I'm sure the RF wizards will get it sorted out, but I imagine early adopters are going to suffer with garbage signal indoors.
Have you ever look at the data that an Apple's device exchanges with their servers?
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