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> But the west didn't just agree to risk nuclear war defending Crimea, the west actually agreed to cause nuclear war to defend Crimea, if necessary:

No, it didn't; the only thing Western powers (as well as Russia!) promised (per your own source) to do to defend the territorial integrity of Ukraine was “Seek immediate United Nations Security Council action”. Which the Western Powers did (Russia, of course, vetoed the action supported by 13 of 15 UNSC members.)

They did not promise to use military force, much less nuclear arms—especially not outside of the context of UN action—in the event of an attack.

Now, admittedly, given that any problem any of states protected by the Budapest Memorandum would face would almost certainly also involve a deadlock between permanent UNSC members who were signatories of the agreements, it should probably have been an obvious critical defect that there was no fallback position besides mutual consultation in the event of UNSC deadlock; particularly, the protected states could have demanded that the guaranteeing states each individually committed also to seek UNGA action under the Uniting for Peace (A/RES/377A) umbrella in the event of UNSC deadlock.

> Hell, Russia went as far as to actually raise the issue in the UN general assembly that the west hasn't lived up to it's obligations under that treaty.

Different obligations than the (weak tea) defensive one.
I personally found z-push very buggy. Also you need your own DAV servers for calendar and contacts AFAIK. I found Horde and SOGo much more reliable, I went eventually with SOGo as I thought it was weird using PHP for a long running server. With php stuff (horde and z-push) I had to edit too many timeouts etc.
> Which pages were featured and on which social media platforms?

This was the “killer feature” of the Google Analytics replacement I built for myself a few years back. I would grab referrers for social and scrape them to give a more useful report of the source of traffic.

Unfortunately this is challenging or impossible for many social platforms due to HTTPS everywhere, the prevalence of outbound link scrubbing, and app-driven embedded web views.

I still think it would be a killer feature to know who tweeted you out or which subreddit you are trending on but it’s just not feasible to do based on a website pixel alone.
>Every Model 3 they are producing is relatively expensive and already has a buyer. What happens when they get to the end of the list of relatively well off buyers? Certainly there will still be demand, but it will be less profitable

they've already run out, did you not see all the tweets about tesla stores being open up until the end of the year and the reduction in price and the extra cars? clearly they've exhausted the areas they're allowed to sell in
Graphene has good company with Fuel Cells and every single new battery technology over the past 20 years.

They're here and in use. To give an example NMC batteries, which enabled smartphones, hoverboards, cleaning robots and other gadgets have been around since 2008 or so.

EDIT: grammar.
Then I guess we have different opinions, because I would only update the parts of the container that need updating, and I wouldn't touch what isn't broken - just like how I do a apt-get upgrade more often than a apt-get dist-upgrade: because even if it should all work fine in theory, in practice it doesn't.

I am mostly interested by gains in security, gains in maintainability, and gains in simplicity. Dynamic libraries reduce the number of parts that need to be managed, reducing overall complexity.

Also, if I remember correctly, UWP apps in windows are managed a bit like that, with the equivalent of a xdelta (binary diff)

Being able to update just one or a few libraries would be handy in other cases - not just critical exploits.

On top of my head, the first use case I see is old apps, those which have deployed say years ago, where the compilation scripts/recipe/call it whatever you want have been lost and the employees left, and you need to change one piece of the whole for whatever reason.

There's totally a place for static binaries, but it is a very specific one, where you have special constraints (ex: when I update a remote server, I want to have a static busybox)
Greenkeeper (and similar systems) comes to mind, too, in the polyrepo case. You can still CI with "the latest" in the polyrepo case. We have the technology to automate that. Including situations like 'let me know when the next version of my dependency that passes this test is released and send me a PR to update my pinned version when it happens'.
Yeah, there are plenty of avenues for Tesla to increase profit, such as:

- new vehicle markets (def. semi trucks, perhaps boats and trains as well)
- solar
- military

They don't have a ton of baggage like their competitors, so they can pivot their battery business in a variety of ways without too much additional investment.

The real question is if they can stay ahead of competition as they expand.
> For the standalone systems, a constant per-energy-unit battery price of $209/kilowatt-hour (KWh) is assumed, with the system costs vary from $380/kWh (4-hour duration system) to $895/kWh (0.5-hour duration system)

“The 19.4 cents per kWh New York households paid for electricity in November 2018 was 45 percent more than the national average of 13.4 cents per kWh” [1]. The four-hour duration system thus costs over 280,000% more than the baseline. How do those numbers make sense?

[1] https://www.bls.gov/regions/new-york-new-jersey/news-release...
My mom discharged her student loan debt by passing away. They didn’t even go after her estate for some reason.

The bar is higher, but not impossibly high.
Summary of what a student loan bubble bursting would be from the article.

The government would guarantee less student loans. This would be means some for profit institutions might shut down.
Completely agree. I was using USB-C earlier than most, with a Google Pixel laptop, and I've added a couple more USB-C devices since then. The situation with different chargers and cables supporting different voltages and features is still insane. The fact that it took three years before I could find chargers with more than one USB-PD port is also insane. Too many vendors (e.g. Sony for their latest ANC headphones) have already had to ship power-only USB-A to USB-C cables just to have something that works.

That kind of brings me to my next point: proliferation of cables and dongles. Whenever I travel now, I need to have the same USB-A to micro-B cables I was already using, plus some pure USB-C, plus USB-A to USB-C. Not uncommonly, USB-C to micro-B gets thrown into the mix. And the variance across all those is even greater than the pure USB-C stuff. Good luck keeping track of voltage, directionality, data vs. power-only, and all the other variables. For now at least, the addition of USB-C has made things far worse.

I for one would be happier if USB-C were only for laptops and tablets, and all the people making the zillions of smaller devices would FFS stick with micro-B like they were already starting to. Then I'd only need one power adapter, two kinds of cables, and no dongles, instead of this mess.
The podcast "How I Built This" featured an episode with Dave Gilboa & Neil Blumenthal the founders of Warby Parker. It's an interesting background into why they chose the eyeglass market and some of their initial problems. The podcast can be found at:

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Your objections are actually based on ICE car assumptions. ICE cars are going away soon, they're irrelevant when talking about the future of transportation.

There are few, if any efficiency gains in one vs many electric motors. They don't produce noise or air pollution. Wear and tear on road surface is actually much worse for heavy busses than cars, they actually deform the asphalt and can cause accidents: https://www.thestar.com/news/2007/07/05/road_ridges_made_by_...

> Then you have to go through an additional middleman, the city, to find parking for your 1/5-of-a-bus and permission to drive on certain roads, in certain lanes, etc. Among other things.

I already have parking for my 1/n-th of a bus. Running an exchange would be a much more valuable use of a city's resources rather than operating bus depots, etc.
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And ios 11 may have shifted sales forward. I was still doing ok on ios 10 on my iphone 6. Ios 11 slowed it down (even with a replaced battery) so I got an iphone 8.

Now on ios 12 my iphone 6 is fast again. But, I probably would have bought the iphone 8 by now anyway, just because of camera quality, etc. The speed trouble just pulled my purchase up by a year. (I even bought a stopgap SE in the summer of 2017)

I suspect others also upgraded early in 2011 due to ios 11. Of course this situation is better long run now that its fixed. I'm so pleased with ios 12.
Containers are usually pushed from the ops side. I don't see how they make things more convenient for developers at all.
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Yep,

But more than 50% of iPhone value is Chinese made.

Materials, labour, machine time, big part of ICs, batteries, passives, cabling, etc.

So, China actually double taxes own manufacturers aside from Apple itself.

The meme that "only $20" of iPhones value stays in China" is completely wrong. China makes tons of money from Apple.
And since the franchisee is representing the franchise's brand they have incentive to help the franchisee succeed and only accept franchisees that are likely to succeed.

Not to mention the franchise collects commission on the franchisee's ongoing sales, not just a lump sum up front and say "you're on your own, have fun." It's quite a different ballgame altogether.
Whether it’s $29 or $79 for a battery replacement for an iPhone 6S, it’s still a good value proposition to get more years out of it. I’m planning to do the same.
I suspect the 'vendor lock in' here comes from the up-front investment to catch up with the existing solution.
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No such devices exist with USB Power Delivery support, I believe. (I believe you cannot make a passive adapter as you could for 5V, 2A-or-less plain USB A/B power connections; you have to speak the USB protocol and register as a device before you can switch to more than 5V or draw more than 2A. And plenty of people want more than 10W power.)

I also don't believe any OSes offer a mode where they negotiate power delivery and not data, though I'd love to be wrong - that would be 90% of my proposal. It wouldn't let you authenticate individual devices, but it would let you go back to having a single port that's just a charging port.
Thanks, I was also considering sogo but I thought z-push would be more reliable as it is older.
> People chasing status symbol but they are not fools

I think that is the real risk to Apple. Right now iPhones (esp. in China) are a status symbol, but public opinion is a fickle thing. It's possible rising nationalism in China could also lead to an atmosphere where buying an iPhone is looked down upon as an exercise in conspicuous consumption but paid to China's enemy (when home grown phones are "just as" good). When that happens, Apple really is in dire straits. Apple needs to ensure they can innovate faster than the competition, but with a lot of value shifting to AI-related services (not necessarily Apple's strong point - compare Siri to Alexa or Google Assistant), that's a tough battle for Apple.
This was a different situation. The union organizing was mostly done in the 30s, alongside voting FDR into office, then the war happened. When veterans came home with the VI Bill a lot of them went to college and got involved with the new science money (military industrial complex, etc.). In addition to the Kaynesian New Deal investments, America was just on top of the world and happened to upon the closest thing it had ever known to socialism.
"Python + C"
I am taking this approach working/learning with the raspberry pi. Although it can do both python and C, I know in electronics working with low level C will be a lot beneficial for my learning and code itself. When I migrate to more advance topics to scripting and ML, I will use both PYthon and C to implement what is needed.
Are vision insurance benefits really widespread enough to make a big impact? I have what I believe to be one of the big ones through my employer and a small number of local places even took it.

I suspect it's much more about being a fashion business which it's hard to opt out of. Non-prescription sunglasses can also be very expensive at (I assume) eye-watering margins. (Owned in many cases by the same brand TBF.)
I bought a few AirPods as gifts this year. I think it comes down to iPhone user's not upgrading (due to cost) and instead looking towards accessories for their existing devices.

My wife should be due for a phone upgrade but instead she got the battery replacement a few months ago and AirPods for Christmas.
>emerging market

>China

pick one

Remember, China is the second largest economy in the world. There was a HN article awhile back arguing that China is taxed as an emerging market (low tax), but is dollar size of a mature market. So, two questions:

Is China considered a maturing market?

Is China considered a mature market?

I don’t think just positive growth counts as maturing (even the US still grows), so I think the answers have to be mutually exclusive. Maybe you could argue the rate of growth makes it maturing, but I would love to compare it to the rate of US growth from 1950's-60's (was the considered US maturing or mature during that period?).
But the SE was newer compared to the flagship then. What would the SE have cost this year?
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Ouch. I suppose the lesson is that a monorepo with both client and server being developed and tested together would have reduced such risk.
I mean, they also can't solve a malicious attacker connecting a powerful taser above a USB port and trying to maim whoever uses the port. What's your threat model again?
It reminds me of a snowman or two snowballs frozen together, except it's red not white.

The 21st century world of asteroid and Kuiper belt colonization is going to be far fluffier and squishier than we thought it would be in 80's Sci-fi!
18V, 5A would be a shock hazard.
The Manhattan project had an immediate, predictable return to its funders of "It will let us kill a lot of fascists, really quickly."

Cui bono? Who will benefit from the DOE sinking a billion tax dollars into building graphene fabs? Will that benefit be greater then sinking it into something else?
It would increase the odds that anyone getting the solutions is using them to enhance their learning experience rather than as a crutch.
" In fact, categories outside of iPhone (Services, Mac, iPad, Wearables/Home/Accessories) combined to grow almost 19 percent year-over-year. "

Wonder why they never break out these products in these sales forecasts.
There's a story of a prof injecting one error into every test.

I had a industrial engineering teacher that did something similar. Every team had a (fake money) budget for each project and bought materials from him (sole source). He'd randomly cut corners, to keep everyone on their toes. Good lesson for the real world.
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node_modules is an interesting worst case of package management systems.

There's some good exploratory work currently happening on making node_modules and the node package ecosystem better in general, but especially in the polyrepo case. Yarn "Plug'n'Play" is one, and Tink [1] the other.

[1] https://npm.community/t/tink-faq-a-package-unwinder-for-java...
Given that 30 minutes of supercharging will add over 200 miles of range to a Tesla, I doubt many people will need to do this every morning.
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I totally agree with you. This also does not make any sense to me:

> US dollar strength-related price increases

A weaker dollar (due to inflation, etc.) is the reason that consumer prices increase. A stronger dollar in theory should make the prices decrease.

EDIT: I understand that a stronger dollar means the prices in other currencies will increase, but I was referring to specifically the price in US markets. Pretty sure the iPhone prices in the United States increased as well.
you mean by selling more oil?
Is that the one that catches fire if you try to use it after it's already unplugged? :)
>Why spend $1,449 on an XS Max when you could have replaced the battery on your phone for $29?

Just have to crack that digitally signed battery cable ;)

Jokes aside, Apple been deliberately reducing their products' repairability since at least iphone 3. I myself had a side business of selling factory refurbished phones when I was an exchange student in Singapore from 2007 to 2009. Malaysian refurbishers told me that in the middle of production run, Apple deliberately began gluing their front glass to the display with impossible to undo glue to nuke any chance of profitable refurbishment.

In contrast to "dumb" phones of Japanese brands, that were designed for extreme manufacturability, Apple's products are unique in that regard to be engineered with an opposite goal.
It's a ploy to get you to to simply buy the watch. Its cheap Chinese junk, the watch cost ~$1 to manufacture and ~$1 to ship and you pay $7 for "shipping."
The Vox podcast Future Perfect interviewed Karianne Jackson, a North Dakota prison official, about just that: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2018/10/17/17983456/futur...
> You have five engines instead of one, and 20 tires instead of four, meaning maintenance and fuel costs are some multiple higher, and wear-and-tear on the road surface is higher, noise and air pollution are higher.

Road wear and tear per vehicle-mile scales with something like the fourth power of vehicle weight, so many small vehicles actually have less impact that one large vehicle even with the fact that they tend to be heavier per passenger.

OTOH, land use impacts are higher since you need more lane capacity for many small vehicles than one large one.
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Once you lose that giant bezel it looks really jarring on phones that still have it. As for the headphone jack, for many, it doesn't make the phone inferior any more than the MacBook is inferior for not including an ethernet port.