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Long-distance grid connections are technically viable and can reduce the need for storage. The biggest problem in the US is the very slow and uncertain process of getting state-by-state approval for interstate transmission projects. A Florida-California transmission project would need approval from at least 8 states.

The proposed Grain Belt Express transmission project goes through only 3 states and received its first approval (in Kansas) 7 years ago. It is still trying to get the necessary approvals in Missouri. Due to this drawn-out process in Missouri, opponents in Illinois were able to reverse the project's earlier-obtained Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity. Even if Missouri gets on board the project will have to re-obtain approval in Illinois, and perhaps by the time that's over Kansans will have new objections.
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You might be able to use it to prevent BadUSB like attacks. Something looks like an USB stick with data on it, you plug it in. The device tells the computer that it's a keyboard and sends keypresses to install some virus or something. [1]

I don't know about the particulars of this standard though, maybe it's just some DRM thing and soon you'll have to buy expensive dell mice for dell laptops or something like it's already the case with gamepads and consoles.

[1]: https://srlabs.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/SRLabs-BadUSB-B...
Exactly. There are tons of people (like myself) who wanted a small smartphone that gets the job done and gets out of the way. Apple blew every bit of that market away for reasons I can't fathom.

And since everyone copies apple, get ready for massive slabs across the entire smartphone market.
I can't open the link, but from the main scratch site there is an example sketch celebrating the new version, and I see a lot of complaints in the comments about this breaking existing projects:

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/276660763/

I hope that that is just due to a misunderstanding by the users (trying to load a 2.0 sketch in 3.0 or something), and not a sign of badly handling the upgrade?
He finds 189 different models to be "repeatedly useful"? Hmmmm...
I think the OSCP is a great place to start. As others have said in the thread, go bug hunting, do a technical write up and go to meet ups/conferences. I have always been able to get a better job by networking and meeting people.
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> That is simple, if my phone stays functional I'm good, and if it gets fried I take some real world measures (go to small causes court, make a denounce to some government agency) to get compensation.

This is much easier said than done (in the US at least.)

First, you'd be looking at at least a year of going back and forth in small claims court and by the end of it still have no guarantee of winning. Even if you did win, there's no guarantee the judge would award you the full amount to pay for your fried device.

It almost certainly would not pay your time at the courthouse though; you can ask the judge for punitive but you cannot include legal expenses in small claims court demands.

In the end you would still be out hundreds or thousands of dollars and numerous hours of your time. That's why to me the tiny benefit of using a public USB outlet is just not remotely worth the risk of such a nightmarish hassle.
> then it is fair to say that all of the usual criticisms you see on the Internet at large, where people explain why Apple products are not good enough/too expensive/whatever for them personally, are irrelevant.

You could swap out Apple with pretty much anything and you'll be accurate. The person commenting on the internet all day isn't representative of the average person.
This is still nowhere near full resolution - it's at 140 meters per pixel, whereas the camera got 30 meters per pixel. It's going to take a few days to download the full images at 1kbps though.
Hi, I was someone who traded my 64GB 6s in for a 256GB XS.

- $200 no questions asked buy-back
- Better camera
- Larger screen in a just about the same size form factor

I expect to have this phone for ~4 years with probably a battery refresh in ~2ish.

I went 4S -> 6S -> XS. I hadn't upgraded an iPhone in years, Apple has made the process extremely slick and painless. I was seriously impressed at picking up the new phone and being "good to go" in ~45 min when my apps downloaded.

I'm sure I'm an outlier
A strong dollar increases prices in non-US markets, which is most of Apple's revenue now.
China makes tons of money from Apple.

Oh very much so. That's why China is careful about starting a trade war with Apple. They want to get their own manufacturers up to speed to replace Apple, but they don't want to just kick Apple out of China in one stroke and penalize the Chinese businesses that depend upon Apple.

If it wasn't for that, Apple and their strong privacy approach would be Persona Non Grata, IM-uninformed-O.
Can you provide any examples of something that you think is difficult to do? I’m doing research on similar languages and would like to understand barriers people have.
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> rich creditors also suffer the most from inflation.

> Most of the rich are net debtors.

1) Have you ever traded options? You are borrowing. Have you ever taken out an inverse ETF? You are borrowing. Have you ever traded Forex? You are borrowing. Have you never participated directly or indirectly in those instruments? You are not rich.

2) Just do the math. If you're poor, and spending 90% of your day to day on inflation sensitive expenses, and there is x% inflation (let's plug in x=10, because it's easy, but it applies at all percentages, an exercise to the reader) then your margin of living will be impacted by 90%.

Note if you were spending 95% of your day to day on inflation sensitive expenses, you would be underwater after 10% inflation.

By contrast, if you were spending 20% of your day to day on inflation sensitive expenses, your margin of survival would only decrease by ~3%.

The typical retort that I am going to anticipate is that wages keep track with inflation. They don't and, that's by design. I will quote the great liberal economist here:

https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/the-case-for-hi...

> Yet when you have very low inflation, getting relative wages right would require that a significant number of workers take wage cuts. So having a somewhat higher inflation rate would lead to lower unemployment, not just temporarily, but on a sustained basis.

Just to be clear that we understand the policy here in blunt terms: The point of inflation is to cheat the working classes out of their income so that the ruling class can lay claim to high employment metrics.
Aggregate student loan repayment should be capped as a percentage of yearly income. This should have been included as part of the same legislation that made student loans non-dischargable by bankruptcy. If you make 100k / year, and the rate is set at 10% (random number), 10k is the maximum amount you pay on your loans, regardless of the total amount you loans you have accrued.

Currently, there is no downward pressure on either universities or banking institutions for tuition rates or amount of money lent in student aid, because the government guarantees repayment. As a result, tuition rises every year far faster than inflation, and banks are happy to join in the reaping of the profits. Capping repayment rates would correct both of those issues, as the ROI goes down significantly over a certain total amount lent, if indeed the sum total can be repaid within a lifetime.

This would additionally ensure that while student loans are available to all students, all parties involved (student, bank, university) have an interest in ensuring the student will be able to pay back the loans, as opposed to now, where two parties have an interest in loaning as much as possible, and one child has conflicting interests.

This would additionally force some accountability on universities for their programs. For-Profit institutions, which currently largely exist to gather tuition money while providing no real educational value would suddenly become unprofitable, and collapse. Simply put: if your graduating students make little money after graduation, their rate of repayment will be significantly smaller than an institution that provides actionable skills.

Similarly, this would incentivize universities to ensure that all of their students are pursuing reasonable / coherent career paths. Currently, universities have the dual incentives to ensure that their students that go on to significant success and high paying industries do so (alumni donations), but also to collect as much tuition/room/board etc as possible from their existing students. This change would negate impact of the this second option.

This would allow students who go to expensive schools to go into lower paying professions. This would allow students with the best and most expensive education to pursue all types of jobs (for example, teaching), not just the jobs best fit to pay down their debt.

This would cap how punitive the accrued debt can be to the graduating student, and resolve the original issue mentioned in the article: student debt is now so overwhelming, it is preventing a generation from entering financial adulthood.

And lastly, this is just a guess and could be wrong, but I would paradoxically expect that in addition to all of the above changes, capping repayment rates would also result in lower amounts of student debt willingly taken on by students. This is for the simple reason that it is easy to rationalize "I'll be able to pay back {Insert_Any_Abstract_Dollar_Figure_Here} once I graduate and get my dream job", but everyone intrinsically would understand: "If I take out this loan, I'll be paying 10% of my income for the next 30 years"
The trademark for Mickey Mouse, etc. will still be very much alive though. Resell Steamboat Willie as a full work as you will, but use Mickey for anything else? Good luck against Disney's legal team.
That’s fair. But the countries he’s talking about aren’t freer by any reasonable definition of freedom.

Edit: and the countries he’s talking about didn’t take manufacturing by being more innovative, they did it through cheap brutal labor practices and environmental destruction of their ecosystems.
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Apple raises prices outside the US when the dollar strengthens. Prices in Norway have gone up considerably in the last five years due to this
"hi-res" is relative - this is still about 5 times the feature size that was actually captured by the LORRI camera. Going to have to wait at least a few days for the glorious 30m/pixel version.
The battery-protection performance throttling is either on or of, and you can check the status in iOS 12 (settings>battery>battery health). If it's off ("Peak performance mode") and your phone is slow, it's something else (bloated apps or web pages perhaps)
I think reducing the number of hours in the work-week would do more for this than any technological solution.
> We see ostensibly liberal economists calling for increased sovereign spending and sovereign debt without understanding that the debt treadmill enslaves the poorest the in the heaviest shackles.

Your analysis is missing a pretty critical half: Those in support of leaning more on borrow-and-spend are generally advocating for the increased spending skewed towards the poor and for the taxes that pay for debt service/paydown skewed towards the rich. I don't see how this vision, fully-realized, would "enslave the poorest in the heaviest shackles".
The Pygmalion Effect
Let me correct myself. Seems the comment period has been extended until January 10th.

https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=BIS-2018-0024-0042
A stronger dollar in theory should make the prices decrease.

But for whom? If you're outside the US, and I'll remind you that most of the world, including China, is, then goods effectively priced in US dollars will be more expensive.
I get the impression that a lot of offers for contributing to the GIMP would be offers to bring the UI in line with Photoshop. I hope they're not instead scaring off potentially good contributors, because it's a lovely piece of software and there are a lot of buses out there for there to be only three developers.
Google sat on a Chromecast bug for years, now hackers could wreak havoc
The killer feature of Gaussian processes for me is the fact that they provide a posterior distribution rather than just a maximum likelihood estimate. This lets you incorporate fancy loss functions, and can be useful to optimize data collection in real world cases where collecting data is expensive and time consuming.
Developing in containers is massive improvement. Just in terms of having standardized repeatable build environments.
Without naming the size, this just causes people who actually agree to argue.

I assume this does not apply to 99% of people using a repo.
Investing about $5k into starting a cafe. Low risk businesses are actually surprisingly high risk in that the margins are really poor, sometimes even negative once you count inflation.

Also heavily underestimated inflation of developing countries - if it has high growth, it probably has high inflation. In SE Asia, prices will double every 15 years, if not faster.

If you know tech, invest in tech, because your odds are likely above average.
Obviously. I mean that you can't protect the device from malicious power and usb outlets. And for non-malicious things the device should already have input protection, otherwise it's unsafe to use if it doesn't when plugged in and unsafe leaving it plugged in unattended (you can die from electrocution or it can cause fire).
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There is a long-distance transmission line in California that is used a bit like this, allowing the use of power from the North in the South in summer when peak demand is there, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_DC_Intertie

The Pacific DC Intertie is not nearly as long as a connection between CA and FL would be. In that scenario, transmission losses would be quite significant. The cost of building and maintaining the line would also be quite high.
Not really remarkable?

Even if it's just "legislative decisions", it's fucking incredible that a country did what it did to get there. Do you really think the US is 2 inches away from shutting out it's internal big-oil?

Even if tech isn't the solution, and it's just decisions, it can still be remarkable.
I'll say it goes further than that.

I have a few modular power supplies around from different vendors, and I made the mistake of using one cable in a different vendors supply.

The supply side had the same connections; so I thought that I could just mix-and-match.

Turns out, that even though the connections are standardized, I ended up putting ground on a 5v pin, 12v on the 5v, 3.3v on the 3.3v (magically) and 5v on the 12v pin on a standard SATA connector.

As a result, I fried several hard drives, because the output of the supplies wasn't standardized for the connector type. I can't even imagine an end-user using a volt-meter to check which are compatible with which vendor.

This was a problem before USB-C.

TL;DL: Check your modular supply cables, and don't use other vendors cables.
Comet 67P has a similar shape. I have to wonder if there's something inherent in these flying rocks that causes them to take a dumbbell shape.
Also from the letter:

In fact, most of our revenue shortfall to our guidance, and over 100 percent of our year-over-year worldwide revenue decline, occurred in Greater China across iPhone, Mac and iPad.
You can buy type c condoms that do all the negotiation but block data to and from the cable.
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There are also a lot of comments that say that scratch 3 is worse than scratch 2 in general. Doesn't surprise me because scratch 3 seems ambitious, and kind of reminds me of WordPress's Gutenberg.

Whether the big problem is that scratch 2 is arguably better or it that it breaks scratch 2 projects, it would have been nice if they continued to fully support scratch 2, rather than just the "offline editor". I understand if they didn't have the resources to support it though.
Interesting. Your post reminded me of this story in Australia recently. While this man wasn't placed through a charity, he found a similar enjoyment in his job

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3869008/McDonald-s-...
Could you explain a bit about the rules for discharges?
The other meme is about efficient markets.

What is yours about?
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Apple is extremely hostile to users. I'm going in to get a single K key replaced. Maxed out MacBook Pro (around ~$4,500) with the ridiculously overpriced AppleCare+ (another $450), and if they try to pull shenanigans with "full unibody replacement" to fix the moronically designed butterfly clip that's basically DOA in terms of usage, for a $5000 computer, I'm literally never going to buy another Apple product again.

Good luck trying to excise people's money through "Services" when everyone jumps ship after realizing they ship dumbed down products without any regard for people's need for workstations and not expensive toys that break trivially.
Which pays for a lot of marketing. That's not insignificant.
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