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Have you ever seen Connections[0]? Do watch it if you haven't[1]. They communicate well what's IMO a crucial point: almost never a single person had invented the "whole solution". The story of civilization is one of individual inventions being made over time, and then coming together to click into place and create something pushing us forward even further. It did happen in the past like it is happening today; both then and now it seems to work better under a stable governance - hence big empires do in fact contribute to scientific progress by their very existence. It's happening faster today than it was then because we're further along the exponential curve - but it's the same curve, the same process, we've been following for thousands of years.

Like it often is with wealth, we're not special - our current empires just had richer parents and bigger accumulated base of inventions. We can build cooler stuff now than our ancestors - but let's never forget that "what makes one step a giant leap is all the steps before"[2].

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[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(TV_series)#Connec...

[1] - I think I've seen them on dailymotion; of course I don't encourage copyright infringement, it's very important to keep our most important works unaccessible until everyone who might be interested in them dies off and only archaeologists will care.

[2] - http://www.ovff.org/pegasus/songs/toast-for-unknown-heroes.h... / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zotaRLROtw
Plus I think it's safe to assume that they can handle themselves, anonymity wise. Tor and bitcoin is not rocket science
I think the issue with all models after 2012 was the lack of being able to replace the parts since everything was soldered on -- I could be wrong about the year though.
I’ve got u, i, o, and p failing!! And it’s funny because I use an external keyboard most of the time.
> because they are desperate to list new tokens to shore up declining revenue.

This exactly.
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Not a good example though. Many Chinese see the current Taiwan government as a failure and use it as an argument that China should NOT adopt western democracy
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I hate hate hate the newer Mac keyboard. Diarrhea is absolutely the perfect word to describe my feelings toward it.
Professional sports is one that is brought up frequently. Athletes seem to be fine with being paid different amounts, and they too must work as a team to succeed.
I’m not really sure that matters. GDPR includes the right to withdraw consent and the right to erasure, unless there are specific legal reasons why data can not be erased. Requests for erasure should be forwarded to third parties who use the data.
And nothing in your argument, addresses the claim that wealth was amassed through slavery.
>Construction of a mid-sized Enterprise DC (just 5000sqft), at just "tier3" availability (3 9s) will cost around 40m. If you want 5 9s redundancy you will need 1-2 failovers, so 3x that. Incld racks, cooling, power, construction and land. Using a colo @Equinix will likely save 20%

I don't get the part about using Colo will only save 20%. You don't have to build a DC just because you don't want to use other's people cloud. Colo is an option, without much of the hassle. But the saving were only 20%?
What would it matter if Google is operating within the parameters of the government's censorship rules and generating tax revenue for the government?
No it doesn’t. There is no threat to google given that the majority voting control is held amongst the founders. Same for Facebook. There is no risk of a hostile takeover or being voted out by public shareholders.
> A quick search suggests that only 20% of programmers in general are female, but 30% of Google programmers are female. I'm not certain these numbers are accurate, but if they are, female programmers are over represented at Google.

The pool of programmers "In general" is not relevant for Google. They don't hire programmers in general, but are focused on a specific subset (usually from some big universities).
I wonder how many of those listeners were already using spotify through cracked APK's.
The entire population of a country is rarely the target market.
World’s 10 most polluted cities, 9 are in India. (2018)
I don't get it. As a Chinese, I can say that the absence of Google (even a highly censored version) will (and have already) only make it worse.

>Google literally building a blacklist

Every single search engine or social media in China already has that. Yes, Google likely will build one for their services if they plan to enter China. But it's not like they come up, or "actively" help with this idea.
One problem with the Pismo (and probably other laptops at the time) was that the backlight would become very dim.

You could buy replacement backlights, but installing them was really difficult. Even if you managed to not break the very thin glass tube, aligning it in a way not to cast any shadows was tricky.

I think that the newer, LED-backlit displays actually have a much longer lifetime (apart from "Flexgate").
It's still very weird to think about how many tiny details will deflect your life 0 or 180.. who decides which class you'll be in as a kid for instance
Biggest deal in my opinion is 2 dedicated USB2 _hosts_, in addition to a USB3 host. The raspberry pi multiplexes (i.e. uses a 4 way USB hub) it's ports. If I remember correctly the Ethernet is also multiplexed on the same bus. This makes connecting multie cameras and streaming over Ethernet a problem.
Funny how no one replied to this.
IAANAL, and I don't mean to single you out here, but this seemingly rational argument strikes me as subtle FUD. It's the type of argument that someone with a vested interest in collecting user data for profit might put forth in the hopes of polarizing the tech community and painting GDPR as out of touch with technical common sense.

Again, I'm not accusing you of anything here, I'm just pointing out who benefits from framing the conversation this way. So far there is a lot of precedent for small operators shutting down their sites out of fear of GDPR, but there is actually no precedent for regulators having actually gone after small operators for anything resembling reasonable practices. The day may come where EU regulators try to crack down on forums for who are unwilling or unable to redact users messages post-facto, but we're nowhere close to that today and I don't see strong reason to believe that's where we're headed either.
That's what the IOMMU is for. USB4 being Thunderbolt could therefore be a good thing, because it will force operating system vendors to actually set that up correctly, making the hardware more secure generally.

The option also exists to require approving or whitelisting devices before they are allowed to work over Thunderbolt.
It was never in the charter. It's not a shield of any sort. It's just a motto in the code of conduct. The motto has since changed but those words are still there, now in the last sentence.

It's meaningless and always has been. Why do people think that this cheesy phrase makes any difference for a giant corporation?
A simple, direct php site without a lot of weird, novel bullshit in it.
But, let's be honest, the experience that Spotify provides is way better than what Saavn does. I can change music remotely on any device, get much better recommendations, and listen to podcasts conveniently.
When the MacBook Pro were presented with this new keyboard I bought the older model in prevision of the 5+ years keyboard winter. Very happy of this decision so far.
Sheer curiosity - why do you still use it?
Even with cracked APK, there was no option to set the region to India. With that, the stats for US must have gone down a bit after users switched their region to India.
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Oh I loved Connections

> Like it often is with wealth, we're not special - our current empires just had richer parents and bigger accumulated base of inventions. We can build cooler stuff now than our ancestors

Yes, totally agree. But what I'm saying is that those old empires didn't have technological evolution as a goal (maybe the latter ones) hence they didn't really think of it.

Sure, evolution and ideas take time, but it seems it took much less time once the right mindset was in place.
I'm using pining many years and they have been persistent so far. Crashing and losing all tabs is a risk though, but it was a long time ago.
I don't think anyone here is arguing for punishment or blame, though

An old schoolmate of mine who was at Google before the James Damore thing happened, was saying stuff just afterwards like, maybe it's time that males got stuff taken away from them.

All I said was that if you look at a group getting much worse outcomes and declare that their opportunities were at least as good as the group getting better outcomes, it logically follows that the members of the group are simply not capable.

Sorry, but it doesn't follow logically. I've dated two women who can code, and who can outperform students I've taught in that, but who don't like doing it at all. Their employment outcomes as programmers would be nil, because that's not what they want to do. People keep explaining this to you, and yet you keep coming out with, "it logically follows that the members of the group are simply not capable." I got a group of two who are capable, but have an outcome of zero. Proof by example, your logical assertion is wrong. (No guff about anecdotes vs. data. You're the one who said, "it logically follows," and even a group of two is enough to refute "logic.")
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Looking around my desk, I see a MagSafe power supply, with strain relief on both ends, a Thunderbolt cable, with strain relief, an HDMI adapter, with strain relief, a Lightning cable, with strain relief...what are you even talking about?
I had a bad experience with their app on Android. The collection is not great either.
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I just wish the financial system around getting it wasn't so complicated. Its a $2000/mo drug - even if you have private insurance, you probably are gonna end up with $1k out of pocket after the manufacturer discount. If you're broke and have a high deductible, you have to pay through the whole deductible every January to get your refill.

If you change providers and its not timed perfectly, you're out the $1k out of pocket cost until you can snail-mail in the form and get reimbursed. It ends up that only the more financially stable, or medicare-eligible people can afford it, and even then its a significant hassle. I'd consider it very worth the piece of mind but its a financial landmine.

Not to be negative on it. If you're thinking you should be on it, you probably should. Be prepared to jump through a few hoops though.
So what you're saying is that the cure will be worse than disease? If that's so, then I guess we agree there's a somewhat concavey-looking function of "limiting generational wealth transfer" -> "sustainable benefit to civilization". Which shifts the problem from "whether to do it at all" to "how to move towards maximum without screwing up". It's a harder problem, but civilization is essentially built of attempts to solve such problem. Here's to hope that maybe our descendants will learn how to do it right.
Interesting point. One thing that speaks for the relative harmlessness of hereditary wealth is, what happens when it gets passed on to an insane/idiotic/psychopathic heir. In these cases, it normally gets rapidly redistributed, as the heir wastes their fortune. In the case of normal 'power', it doesn't get really redistributed, so everybody has to deal with Emperor Caligula.
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Still clinging onto my late 2013 MBP for dear life in hopes that Apple will eventually release a laptop with a reliable keyboard again.
here here. Very well said.
Is there any signal that they are going to introduce a better keyboard?

I just can't grow to like the current ones.
I don’t think you could explain the issues sufficiently on one page. I think you'd be left with more questions and confusion than answers.
Just to be clear folks Jio is run by the shadiest business person in India, with dubious and often serious malpractices.
Suppose the road leading you to safety is not direct. It is at an angle, for example 70 degrees away from the desired direction. You'll need to exceed 112 MPH to outrun that pyroclastic flow.

To escape the tsunami, you first have to drive down a road that runs along the beach. After doing that for a while, you may then turn onto a road that takes you away from the ocean.

Visibility is usually fine in a storm. Hurricanes have intermittent periods of severe rain and insignificant drizzle. Forrest fire visibility all depends on the wind direction, and is often fine if you aren't already surrounded.
It won't be too long, I'm sure, before Spotify gets into the market of licensing music for podcast productions, allowing them to double-dip - once during production, and again upon release.
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I keep lots of tabs open because of "projects".

For example, let's say I'm planning a trip. I will have tabs open for Google Flights, Airbnb, Trip Advisor, Google Maps and so on. A single window is one "project". It doesn't make sense to have those tabs open all the time -- just when I need them. Yet I have to keep them open because browsers don't have a way to treat a single window as a kind of persistent tab set. The best browsers can do right now is to bookmark multiple tabs as a folder and then later restore them. That's not too useful since there's no way to update this folder the same way.

What I'd like is to have windows be "named". I want to save my window as "Puerto Rico trip" and close it. Later I want to open it again and continue where I was. At all times my tabs and history are associated with the same "project".

I've been longing for this feature for maybe 10 years now. I started developing it as a Safari extension once, but ran into limitations in the API's support for opening windows.
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The one thing that caught my attention is that "they keep deleting the issue we post". That is an evil thing to do.
Is that the current MBP? If nothing else fails, you’ll have the glued-in battery to deal with...
In other words, anyone could build a prosperous society on the back of slaves if they have some natural resources to exploit. It's not even a great feat or accomplishment. The legacy of that is still what drives a lot of the economy in the US even today.
It's especially interesting how many times people quote "dont be evil" as a real thing that somehow made the company extra special. It was nothing but a PR statement (and the words are still there) but it shows how big the Google cult/bubble is that refuses to acknowledge that the company has always been just like any other massive conglomerate.
Probably, because for 99% of people, this is not a goal. Most people want physical/mental health and tonnes of dopamine.
Being successful does not make you uniquely qualified to assess how to be successful. In my experience most people will rationalize success stemming from their own superiority and minimize the role of luck and standing.
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Lua also has the nasty case that __gc can throw!
Sure 1m out of 1.3 as a percentage is small.

Out of those 1.3bn, how many are children below 13 or seniors above 65? I wouldn't count those as targets of Spotify.

Further still how many of the remaining pie is connected to the internet? Remember India has vast swathes of the country that are extremely poor. So take those out of the pool.

Now of the remaining pool how many are eligible to pay for a service like this?

Okay and what subset of that started using spotify in the past 7 days?

The number is for sure smaller than 1.3bn and when accounting for the tiny time frame its enormously impressive. I actually find it impressive that you don't think that is a fantastic conversion in the space of a week, I wonder how many products in the history of mankind have achieved something like that?
Shame about the glued-in battery
By making your point, its interesting that you point out just how dependent those red state's economies are dependent on the government. I guess that's one reason the golden cows of conservative fiscal policy is military spending and not touching social security (though they sometimes try for the latter in a way that makes it seem like they're not)
> who can philosophize better about wealth than the people that became successful and wealthy? The other kind of social media philosophers is the Socialist type that were never successful but blame the system and everything else

Sociologist who studied average outcomes, successes and failures. Also, an independent person not personally invested in making oneself sound as awesome. Also, someone not having personal interest in changing how other people act for own benefit.

Obvious example: If 10 people takes same risk and 9 of them ends up super poor and 1 super rich, then the risk taking philosophy wrote by the 1 will be significantly different then the one that takes into account also those where risk part happened.
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If you thought the title was nonsense, it gets worse when the author tries to explain what a certificate authority does:

> Websites that want to be designated as secure have to be certified by an outside organization, which will confirm their identity and vouch for their security. The certifying organization also helps secure the connection between an approved website and its users, promising the traffic will not be intercepted.
Reaction time has an even bigger influence. Slower speed = more reaction time
Easy. The Capitalism system is about predators and those who get eaten.

There's a food web where Lions and Eagles keep everybody else bow down to them.

Most of the other comments tell you to level up and become predator yourself. That's one solution, but that is to become Eagle yourself and then you'll have the problem of defending your territory against others.

So much stress in this system. Those indoctrinated to this won't see this big picture and believe that this is all we can do as humans.

I suggest you listen to Anthropologist like David Graeber instead of Economist.
>(2) people in China benefits from access to much better search and subsequently gets better educated over time.

This is the point I rarely heard here, or any Western communities.

As a Chinese, I was genuinely baffled when I first heard that there are people actually boycotting the re-entry of Google in China, instead of celebrating this milestone. I thought we can finally have a usable search engine.

I guess we get in the way of ideality. Oh well.
This is what I meant, yes, although I could never have explained it half as well as you did!
You can spend all that money improving the society they live in.
They didn't remove strain-relievers, they just moved to ones that look better but don't work as well. That they didn't remove the strain relievers entirely is plainly clear by just looking at their cables. The lower durability from the change was a side-effect that they accepted (well ok, that Steve Jobs rammed through) for the aesthetic benefit, not the goal.
> Google will move forward with expansion into China

Only if the Chinese let them.
I got a nice used 2015 model. Absolutely love it. Great keyboard, MagSafe, SD card slot, hdmi. Physical keys instead of a touchbar.

The other day I walked through the cord while it was charging on the table and my laptop did not get destroyed.

how could Apple f that up so badly is beyond me.
Apple do this and call it "remanufacturing".
That’s fine and good now but when you start to erode trust the relationship becomes transactional. People loose enthusiasm for the job, stop going the extra mile, makes it harder to hire the best, and it puts the culture at risk. It ultimately accelerates a companies time to sunset and with a few bad quarters those benefits start getting taken aaay. You’ve hollowed out your company and have nothing left. Google was better off taking the high road and prospering of the culture and good will rather than a buck.
I've been down that rabbit hole. Math and music aren't really in such harmony as advertised. Yeah, equal tuning gives your instrument ability to play in any key, but it will always be slightly off.

For more enjoyable tuning, your frequency ratios should actually be fractions of small integers. For example, note E to note C ratio should be 5/4. This is called "just intonation", you can hear some examples on youtube when compared to equal temperament described in article. It sounds much better to trained ear, but doesn't work for changing keys.

It would be nice for your digital instrument to be aware of key you are in (much harder than it sounds) and to re-tune all notes into just intonation. This would give you best of both tunings.
Bill Gates isn't really that much of an outlier within the class of people with that level of wealth. There is a long tradition of it stretching to the likes of Andrew Carnegie, and Gates isn't even the only modern example. Warren Buffet has committed to giving 99% of his wealth to charity. Elon Musk is Elon Musk. Any random billionaire is more likely to have a charitable foundation than not. It's pretty much impossible to spend that amount of money on heroin and hookers in practice.

The problem with relying on billionaires isn't that they won't do it, it's that they don't actually have that much money. Gates with ~$90B is #2 in the world, but spending every cent of it all in the same year would amount to less than one half of one percent of US GDP. His entire fortune is not quite half of what the US spends on just advertising each year.
It might be anti your family while being pro 10, 100, or even 10,000 other families, depending on the wealth amassed. That sounds incredibly pro-civilization and pro-society.
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I’ve owned 5 or so and have never had that happened. Is there something magnetized in your workstation or bag that comes into contact with the speaker grill/ side of the laptop?
When orchestras started using blinds for auditions, the population of women hired shot up. Have there been attempts to do blind hiring? If so, what were the results?
What strain relief, the crappy flex neck that stiffens over time becoming itself a strain point making the cables fray on their discontinuity? (Note how normally strain releifs are graduated... but let’s not get function to prevail of form!)

I haven’t had an Apple laptop without the darn thing breaking after a couple years... it’s a tax, as well as guaranteed landfill material.

Just google “apple power supply cable fray”
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