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> It would be, but the walled gardens that we have are not propped up by any legislation, so they're creations of the market. Enough people like them that they keep running.

That would be an argument if people were given the independent choice, but the choice is tied to the phone you buy. It's not much of a choice if both of the major platforms are tied to a walled garden and the alternatives are esoteric enough that most people aren't even aware they exist.

And it is regulation keeping them that way. Third parties would sell iPhones modified to add competing app stores if there weren't laws preventing it. To say nothing of the lack of antitrust enforcement as yet -- markets don't work when there is insufficient competition.

> On the other hand, we can boycott and embargo them. Much good that money will do them if nobody will touch it, or if the products developed with it are banned from most well-paying markets.

Then they would reciprocate, oil prices would skyrocket and the dollar would fail as the reserve currency, both because of the oil market and because other countries wouldn't want to accept it if US foreign policy becomes to seize them back from a country where they were used to make trillions in purchases over decades.

You could say "and we could nuke them" with about the same probability of that actually happening.

And what would you even use to justify it, while we continue to do business with China and a dozen other countries with similarly problematic records?
JFDI = Just Fucking do It

(in case other ppl wonder what it means... =) )
Agree. Which is also I think a key argument against "AI will replace everything". You will still need operators to create and maintain the algorithms, and these will have to be pretty skilled and costly. There will be many applications where the cost is simply higher than a few blue collar workers (or white collars!).

In essence it's not new, software has replaced many tasks, but there is a huge amount of manual tasks that could already be automated righ now with non-AI code but where it is simply uneconomical to maintain a highly skilled dev team.

Also there are many domains which are so obscure and complex that really only specialists can write software for it. For some professions it does happen (engineering, finance) some others it doesn't (accounting, law).
you... don't have much real world experience with coding, do you. Big teams, huge codebases that nobody groks completely, weird legacy code etc. All these create tons of sub-optimal implementations on various levels.
It'd be helpful if you argued against the contents of the paper and not some idea you got from the first few lines of what you think it is about. You seem to be mostly talking past it, and it contains counters to your "very simple reason", even if we assume all systems fit that example (which they clearly don't, e.g. which 1000 unskilled workers does a plane autopilot replace?)
On Android, the average spend per user is much much lower, partly because the audience is different, but also because free Android apps tend to be much better than free iOS apps.

There are lots of things on iOS you can't do without some paid app. Even silly things like "make my voice sound like Micky mouse on phone calls" is a paid app on iOS.
No, decent programmers know that no one is perfect and so they design systems so that even when the most experienced programmers ever make a mistake that mistake is less likely to cause an exploit. This is the entire premise of Chrome's architecture. Check the CVEs and you'll see there's the same number of bugs as every other browser but around 10x less code exploits because it's designed under the premise that bugs happen.
Cheap is always relative. The real deal would have to be transported too.
> The idea ... is, putting aside its anti-semitic implications, utterly ridiculous.

And yet it's what any other lobby does. Let's just clear a first point: the lobby exists. It has websites:

https://www.aipac.org/

And it's not just made of "ethnic jews":

https://www.cufi.org/

As for the strategic interest, it might have been obvious at the beginning of Israel, now not so much. Let me remind you that Israel is an aggressive state in contravention of international law since many decades, with a history of ethnic cleansing [1] and apartheid [2], and that such practices are drivers of instability and violence in the region, and that supporting and defending them has a political and military cost. The 9/11 attacks and the subsequent "war on terror" were part of this costs, as stated clearly by the perpetrators of the attacks. [3]

Have a read of this article by a former US ambassador in the region, that discusses the reality of the strategic value and "US power projection" provided by Israel to the US:

https://www.wrmea.org/010-september-october/what-they-said-t...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ethnic_Cleansing_of_Palest...
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/13/palest...
[3] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/nov/24/theobserver
I'll grant you the rest, but I disagree about these two:

> Cuisine, fashion,

Cuisine seems to be universalized in the west. Everyone eats the same stuff, driven mostly by availability and cost. Regional cuisines seems to me 90% scam fed to tourists, 10% something you might find yourself enjoying on a holiday. Fashion, similarly, is almost in lock-step everywhere around the western world; everyone wears the same stuff, and regional clothing is something again fed to tourists, and sometimes seen during festivities.
Current evidence shows that the AS that I run backbone engineering for have hundreds of peers at some of the world's largest IX points, and a number of highly reliable upstream transits. I get the point of your comment, but the reason why my AS is not shunned by the global Internet community is that we're responsible citizens. Unlike some other ISPs that I won't bother naming.

Now, the bar to being a halfway decent and ethical ISP is not really so high these days. You have to actually go to extra effort and make things intentionally more complicated to fuck with your customers' traffic.

In North America, at least, part of that includes not censoring content and not even contemplating doing something like the Saudis do. I can guarantee you that if the C-level executives at my company were asked to implement something that was grossly in violation of the US constitution/bill or rights, Canadian charter of rights and freedoms, or similar concepts upholding the rule of law, they would refuse.

I feel for the people who run telecom and ISPs in Saudi Arabia, who need to implement technical solutions at the whim of a corrupt hereditary monarchy.

I debated whether it was even worth my time to write this comment, since your argument is weak and theoretical. Reality is that major ISPs don't cut each other off for arbitrary reasons. But I'd bet $5 you're not involved in the practical day to day logistics of things like establishing 100GbE PNIs between major ASes.
Fact-checking Facebook was like playing a doomed game of Whack-A-Mole
Is this going to be used as an opportunity to get us all to buy new phones much earlier than we normally would?
> this still doesn't support the thesis that it expands the problems associated with human operator

In some circumstances it might. Look at Air France Flight 447 and the role of the co-pilot in stalling the aircraft.

"Neither weather nor malfunction doomed AF447, nor a complex chain of error, but a simple but persistent mistake on the part of one of the pilots" [0]

An aircraft like that has so many highly automated systems it is impossible for the human operators to fully understand them.

[0] https://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/a3115/what-really-ha...
65 deg north (Northern Sweden) is enough to see the aurora regularly. 60 deg North (Stockholm, Sweden) means you may see them very rarely. So there is a massive difference in those 5 degrees.
Wouldn't it be enough to exclude Taiwan from the interface only for China-based IPs?
The film was based on the novel "No Highway" (1948) by Nevil Shute, who had worked as an aeronautical engineer at De Havilland.
Works great on my iPhone SE–better than it does on my MacBook Pro.
“Cloning” here seems the wrong (click-batey) choice of words.

They have horticulturally propagated redwood trees - that’s a relatively simple technique, commonly used by your average gardener.

What’s special here is that they found which conditions maximize the yield of the redwoods propagation and they are planting colonies of the new trees in areas around the world that offer particularly good/promising climatic conditions.

As these are very large trees, establishing large colonies can have a relatively meaningful impact in carbon capture.
Well, it's a physical product. The version shipped to china is the only one that doesn't have Taiwan in the user creation menu.
Sorry, I miss completely the point.

> At some point in the future

Morality changes, opinions too, and laws too. What then? Should we legalize pedophiles so that we can claim we are an open society and future-proof?

> When you are employed by a company, you are treated 'like a car to rent', yet nobody seems to have an issue with it.

That's work, that's life - if that goes against human rights, yes, I agree, I wish I was rich without doing s*. :)
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Pretty! There's a lot of little details I appreciated, like the little boats and piers, as well as the fact that the birds would move to avoid you if you tried to collide with them.
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Global warming is a likely suspect for changes in the insect ecology that happen faster than any forest can adapt, such as beatle infestation. Some species may profit by, for example, surviving winters that would usually kill them in large numbers. Even more species might suffer, either because they are eaten by the former, or because their lifecycle may require harsh winters.

Of course other factors than just temperature are swinging widely: California is probably drier than before. Increased winds may make fires more likely etc.

Other natural phenomena also don’t respect entry bans: invasive species come to mind, and so does pollution.

I don’t claim to know if interventions are helpful, nor if they could ever be helpful enough to make a real difference. And of course nature will survive, and even forests may eventually adapt to the new regime. But of course the knowledge that there will again be a forest in that location in a millennium or three is of little help to someone who wants to show their grandchildren an old-growth first.
Is there some LaTeX library to have your PDF show up like its been through the printer/scanner at least twice?

On a serious note, why do academics do this? It doesn't help me with readability.
They use those surveys to measure how well brand advertising is working. Brand advertising is where you try to get people to remember your brand, even if they don't buy a product right away.

They'll show you 5 ads for a brand of car, and then a few weeks later ask which brand of car you have heard of for example. They also ask people who haven't seen the ads for comparison.

That data is used by Google to demonstrate how valuable their ads are.

They only need a small percentage of people to answer the survey to get results across the whole population.
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> Of course no one assumes people make perfect decisions 100% of the time

Actually, a lot of economists assume exactly that, call it "revealed preference"[0] and then claim that people are lying when they complain about it.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revealed_preference
It has 12 year old rsync due to Apple not wanting to ship anything that's GPLv3: https://bayton.org/2018/07/how-to-update-rsync-on-mac-os-hig...
Absolutely agree - there should be regulation demanding a 5 year period of security updates (or similar)..

Check out https://www.lineageos.org or one the other dists out there - and get that loaded up..
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That too. But there's a difference between slow deprecation and being instantaneously cut off.

Every time there's a sob story that "Google killed my business by banning my Android app" there's a strong "your fault for relying on Google". But it seems like a blind spot when it comes to e.g. email and collaboration tools. Like Google's too big to fail.

While failure at a grand scale is probably unlikely at this point, I can totally see localised failure, such as a missed credit card payment or suspicious activity on an associated account causing absolute mayhem for an organisation.
Nice pastoral-feeling work. In the readme you feature "Shore detection algorithms for boathouse placement". Does the algorithm have a name, or did you create it from scratch? I'd be curious to learn how it works.
Someone might hear the noise and feel the vibration but think something is broken inside because the drill isn't rotating. I'm not sure exactly how that would lead to an accident but it might.
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It's good that not all of Nevil Shute's predictions were so accurate:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Beach_(novel)
I still think the Comet manages to look more futuristic than other civil planes. Something about the look of those engines in the wing roots with not a nacelle in sight.

Such a shame it turned out to be doomed due to being first and the now well known metal fatigue story.

The article, as with everything Comet related, ends with noting that lesson is why airliners now have very rounded windows. Yet none ever wonder or look at why cockpit windows remain decidedly rectangular. :)
Can anyone summarize what is going on here? It seems like a flamewar with graphs, and not interesting enough to invest the time in reading.
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Is it really that surprising that they don't have a crisp source PDF for a paper from 1983?
Based on the AMAs the founder gave on Reddit, it looked like a scam to be honest.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/uta10/iama_founder_of...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1tw2fy/i_am_bas_lansd...
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People will avoid a fight they could easily win until it becomes a fight they will have to win. (By which time it might be too late.)

Very roughly, the Western Ideal is to win wars by strength and decisive battles. While the Eastern Ideal is to win wars by endurance and maneuvering and, if possible, avoiding battle altogether. The latter is more realistic.

(Permit me the pun: We may one day find ourselves readying for a Marathon, only to discover we've already lost the marathon.)
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Sim is short for simulation. Generally you strip down some elements, but keep some true to reality. Steerable hot air balloon moving seemingly on its own is not that. So this is more of an arcade.
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TL;DR: anything that looks good is an oversimplification. We're all going to die miserable.
I reread everything from OP, and everything from my post, and think I addressed it well enough. Both OP and many of the critics of Cloudflare are casting around, like the philosophical equivalent of a dog with a bucket on its head, hoping that the uninteresting question of "is there some magic neutral principle that will allow us to operate from day to day without making subjective moral decisions" (narrator: "there isn't") will be conveniently resolved with some appeal to local law, free speech absolutism, slippery slope fallacies, catchy Latin slogans, etc.

My stance here is that everyone has to make these subjective moral decisions all the time and that the hope that we can pull a neutral principle out of our ass and Resolve Everything is itself a moral decision and not exempt from moral criticism. It's just yet another value judgement: specifically in the Cloudflare case, it's that "the abstract neutral principle of free speech and the idea that companies shouldn't interfere with who they host" is more important than "maybe we shouldn't let those assholes from the Daily Stormer go about their business with impunity". I'm OK with you believing that if you want to, but it's just as much of a subjective moral decision to prioritize a quest for neutral principle over making your own ad hoc moral decisions (which you will wind up doing anyhow).

In short, it's subjectivity all the way down, so you may as well 'fight your corner'.
It is clearly political, but economics is inherently political - it justifies how society is organised. I would put it that someone having firm ideas of how an economy should be run doesn't in any way disqualify them from making a point and if an economist doesn't have firm opinions on how to organise an economy ... well, that would be fine, but surprising.

The abstract is putting forward a very important point in light of the environment that has developed where governments are expected to 'fix' the economy when a 'crisis' occurs. Both of those words are highly, highly political and also central to the practical branch of modern economics.

The core of this abstract is that there is evidence people have 'fine-tuned intuitions about chance, frequency, and framing' compared to what is currently believed by economists. If that is true, then that should have a bearing on the quantity and quality of regulation being recommended by economists.
GPL2, I doubt you'll find any GPL3 code in there.

Which is why bash on MacOS is from 2007.
My mistake. Didn't notice that.
For those of you who are not New Zealanders or familiar with its news landscape, Stuff is half a rung above The Daily Mail or The Express or whatever.

I urge you to read other sources.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/12/air-new-zealan... is a slower paced and less click baity look at the situation (which includes links to Stuff's claims):

> “This issue relates to a particular aircraft which is not yet certified to operate to China but was unfortunately assigned to operate our Shanghai flight on Saturday night,” the spokesperson said.

You can believe them or not, but my experience has led me to believe nearly anyone over Stuff.
The Comet did go on in a military role as the Nimrod - I once saw an AEW Nimrod parked at the edge of RAF Kinloss - a staggeringly ugly beast:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Siddeley_Nimrod
Granted github access, but always get "GitHub API rate limit exceeded for your IP (60 requests per hour)".
This is a free github account, is it normal? Using Chrome Version 72.0.3626.96 (Official Build) (64-bit)
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...but at least then you're part of a small group of people who are actually colonizing another planet.

I believe the key is economics: by the time the price of fuel is low enough to put Mars at the reach of private tourists, imagine how far mining, industry and even tourism would be in the Moon.

And... a rocket factory in the Moon would offer a different perspective for Mars travel.
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Yeah but Nimrod was bloated, and positively covered with warts and radomes. I'd claim they spoilt the lines a tad. :)
200.000 started the registration, but only 2800 remainend at the end of the process. Problably because they where not willing to pay the fee of $73 Dollar.
That just showed how bad the alternative of staying in Europe at the time was, and how a class system, abject poverty, and the constant risk of death from war, injury, disease, and miscarriage (of justice, and the genuine kind) reduced the value of human life.

All cynicism aside, today’s developed democracies offer vastly improved lives. You may feel bored and adventurous, but I am unsure if those feelings can naively account for the motivation of the settlers.

There is also something to be said for the difference the actual experience would bring. It’s one thing to be alone on a vast green continent, ready to be molded in the shape of your dreams by your bare hands (ignoring here, as always, the existing, native, population).

Something tells me these settlers would have fared less well in a tiny aluminum sphere that requires you to solve differential equations to grow some salad.
> Real data on poverty has only been collected since 1981, by the World Bank. It is widely accepted among those who research global poverty that any data prior to 1981 is simply too sketchy to be useful, and going back to as early as 1820 is more or less meaningless.

Just like for global warming you expect reasonable proxies.
You're mistaken. Decades before the New York Subway (opened 1904), you had the Cobble Hill Tunnel running three quarters of a kilometer under the streets of Brooklyn (1844). And the New York Subway was preceded in an much more substantial way by the Metropolitan Railway in London (proposed in the 1830s, began construction in the 1850s), that would eventually become the London Underground. The Metropolitian Railway took a conservative incremental approach to existing technology. The locomotives were steam and the tunnels were cut and cover. Subway systems as we know them to day are the product of nearly two centuries of incrementing on already proven technology.

If you want a real example of a 19th century Gadgetbahn in New York, the obvious example is the Beach Pneumatic Transit (which was a total flop and was remarkably similar to Elon's "hyperloop" in numerous other ways as well.)
Not at all. People were protesting (already for few years in fact), but if the government would decide to use military to suppress them, they would succeed easily. Army declared 100% support of the government. I still think CIA had its hands in the support of the opposition (that's exactly the type of work agency is supposed to do), but for a change it lead to something positive (and I am pretty sure they were not sure it won't end up in civil war like Yugoslavia).

Why government basically folded without resistance while actually holding the upper hand was explained as an attempt to avoid civil war. The divisive line wouldn't be through religions, regions, classes but through generations - fathers against sons, young wanting a change. So sanity luckily prevailed.

Central/east european slavic nations are just not that bloodthirsty, long experience of being subjugated under foreign powers (austro-hungarian empire in this case).
That's something a bit different and doesn't mean that. A revealed preference means that, if you say you never eat donuts, but when observing your behavior we see you buying and eating donuts, then we know that you actually do eat donuts.

A bias, on the other hand, is if we ask sometime if you want to eat 2 or 3 donuts, and you answer 2, but then after further studies, we see that the amount you eat depends on, say, the size of the plate in front of you, then we know that there's something influencing your decision which you may not be aware of and which theoretically speaking "shouldn't" influence your decision.

Revealed preferences don't mean that everyone makes perfect decisions all the time. It just means that, if you want to find out what people actually want, then the best way to do it is to observe what they actually do.
Do you believe that China should be a country ruled by its current government? Or should the ROC control it? If the ROC shouldn't control it, then why should they control Taiwan? Simply because the invaded it 70 years ago and seized control? If China seizes control back today, will you in 50 years argue that the remaining Taiwanese separatists should just get with the times and accept Chinese control of Taiwan?
America was called the new world for a reason. And only slightly less hostile to 16th century Europeans as Mars would have been.
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