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> This suggests that if I find a gold nugget while hiking, somehow that hurts society?

Yes, if they sell the gold nugget and purchase wasteful goods and services, assuming they would not have purchased those goods and services otherwise.

If you use the money to purchase a tractor so that you can grow more food, then yes, you probably are increasing global productivity. At best, it is unclear whether private jets make you a more productive human and thus increase global productivity given their enormous costs - even if you include the motivational boost that it provides to non-private jet owners who look at the private jet and work harder as a result.
> but it seems clear that his motor will likely outlive any chemical battery used to power it

... I don't think that whoever typed this sentence up, thought very hard about it.
A Deep Dive into the Past, Present, & Future of Income Share Agreements
And you can still grant that access explicitly - or grant access to a subtree.

The only difference now is that apps won't get full, uncontrolled access to all your personal photos, documents and app data without your explicit consent and ability to limit them.
The aircraft is likely to be very capable and since it embeds so much new technology delays and problems are not something surprising.

Most of the negative coverage is more around that such very expensive aircraft (and program) may not be that useful, for example, to fight terrorism or low-tech nations (and like another person mentioned in this thread, there may be more pressing matters in the US).

In the longer term however, it can be argued that maintaining that kind of advanced aerial capability may be paramount to keep balance vs countries like China.

And if you think the F-35 is too expensive, check out the F-22 which was purely air superiority!
>if I find a gold nugget while hiking, somehow that hurts society?

If one person controls all the money in the world, would you consider that to be harmful to society?

If so, to what degree would that money/wealth need to be shared for that harm to subside to acceptable levels?
Well one usecase I have in mind is a fast distributed datastore that integrates well with the rest of the language. This means I need threads, to do transaction processing. And I also need shared memory at the language's object level, allowing structural sharing for efficiency.
What do I need to make a Tamagotchi pet
I was wondering what i needed to know and what I needed to buy before i start making my tamagotchi pet
Something I don't understand about induction charging: why is it even necessary if the device and charger are still expected to be in flat contact with one another (with at most a few millimeters of separation)?

Is the point just for arbitrary positionability on a flat charging surface?

If so, I feel like there are simpler ways to solve that, just with clever solid-state connector design.

Imagine a BGA processor that could be arbitrarily aligned into a BGA socket (not only rotated, but placed anywhere onto a BGA array larger than the CPU), and would continue working. That's possible, no? It doesn't exist, but it's possible. You could have the motherboard look for known sense pins on the processor by putting its own BGA pins into a sense mode; and then, having found which pins the processor is aligned to, it could "hook up" the rest of the pins appropriately. Any pins the CPU isn't touching would remain powered down or in a low-voltage sense mode, where they're safe to touch.

Well, if you can imagine that, then just reduce the number of pads on the device side from hundreds to two, while keeping all the pads on the socket side. But lose the "socket" part.

Imagine a charger that's just a big flat matrix of tiny copper pads, where each copper pad is actually four quadrants: two for sense, one for power, one for ground. The power and ground are normally powered down.

If you have a device (a phone, say) with two large flat charging pads on the back, and you lay it onto the BGA matrix—then the phone's pads will activate (a number of!) the charger's sense pads; the charger will have an "image" of which pins to power, and discretize that image into two clusters (like discretizing touch-points on a digitizer); and then one cluster of activated sense-pins will have their sibling power pins activated; and the other cluster will have their sibling ground pins activated.

Other than the copper being exposed to the elements, I don't see why this isn't workable.

(And before you say "my phone is in a case"—your case would just need a pair of pass-through conductor pads.)
Returning has a cost (The time+effort).
Some telecoms call app admins, SMEs, Subject Matter Experts. They administrate a service. I'm guessing Tech Administrators are the same thing, they run internal applications, databases, internal tools, non-major platforms, more of a sysadmin+app admin role.

If you bounce around different projects internally, you can grow your experience in that company. You can learn networking, databases, operating systems (diff flavors), deployment tools, etc, and further your career. Major companies offer a yearly educational package also.

This is how I qualified for tiger teams at a few companies. Teams formed to troubleshoot major problems, check new projects for issues, etc. Collection of experts.

Not sure if Intel "Tech administrators" are just production facilities app owners, some of those apps are so old, running dos/95, that upgrading it would be too expensive.
Unless the type of your file is unknown to system. Like, say, a new music format.
I don’t even bring my wireless charging when I travel. One more piece of gear to pack and keep track of.
Yes, I’ve seen that clip before and thought it might be what I’m having. IANAD though.
My take is that frameworks are great when you are building new projects, but become somewhat limiting over time. Also, with a complex application you often find that not everything can be nicely abstracted and there are features which cut across the stack, requiring changes everywhere.

In my fairly large Clojure+ClojureScript app I do not use a framework, mostly because nothing existed when I started. I pick libraries and make them work together. This has advantages, but also brings endless frustration when I have to deal with stuff like web authentication, file uploads, or Oauth2. I really wish there were good solutions for these kinds of generic problems.

Also, not all choices made by the framework are necessarily a good fit for every application size. I used to like Reagent, and I still think it's great for learning. But then it became limiting, I switched to Rum and never looked back.

But in general, why not take the Clojure approach and use the right tool for the right thing? You don't have to chain yourself for life to a framework, you can use a framework for one app and use a bunch of separate libraries in another. I think in the Java world there is so much incidental complexity, that you have to choose a single framework and stick with it, as it's likely the only thing you will be able to learn. Not so in the Clojure world.
Man, this has to be the most intelligent self-aware interview I've ever read. Her insight into her own character is really sharp.
Is the market for condos as insane as for houses?

I think I'd be happy with a 1BR in someplace like SOMA where you can walk to everything you need. Conversely I'm not sure I'd want a long commute (across bay bridge, down South Bay, or in Marin) even if I could have a sweet house.
Money Amplifies Your Character
Yes, they'll keep working. You'll just have to explicity authorize their access via Android equivalent of a file open dialog.
I'm not sure why Apple thought people were willing to spend $100 more just so they wouldn't need to be precise with how products were placed on the charging pad. Just make some indentations for the watch and airpods and be done with it.
I'd guess that max bluetooth transmission strength is less than the maximum allowed by the FCC's spec for the 2.4ghz band (bluetooth and many other things use this). We'll probably just end up in an arms race of transmission strength until we hit legal limits.
> Something like a dotfile for Firefox that I can use to set it up automatically with the rest of the system.

I've not yet tried it, but I think user.js might be helpful for this: http://kb.mozillazine.org/User.js_file
The canonical “I can’t/don’t want to afford to live here therefore it’s crazy/dumb for anybody else to” position
Not sure why this is being downvoted. You could excuse the first model using the butterfly keyboard as them not knowing the issues, but multiple revisions have been released since and the keyboard was untouched. That can't not be deliberate.
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> but inequality probably hurts society overall.

The innovative pressure produced by inequality is something that should not be unappreciated. Although it's a sore spot for many, so is any type of discipline or system that is necessarily harsh for it to work. HOWEVER, inequality that is so stark and dramatic hurts society. My position is that everyone should have the right to the basic necessities of life (as FDR was a proponent of [1]).

As a person from the lower classes, I'm fine that people live like kings and I don't. If I really want that life, I should have to work very very hard for it. What I'm not cool with and despise is having the fear of homelessness and hunger held over my head so that I am forced to dance for my rich masters. In an age of exorbitant wealth and excess, this is getting ridiculous. At the rate we are going, in the future we will have people owning planets with colonies of robots and still have starving people. At what point do we say enough is enough?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Freedoms
I wonder if a particular network can be implemented more economically if we only run it in "transformation" mode, without the need do train it.
Is luck a good criteria for some people having more and other less?

At the very high end (top 10, 1, 0.1 percent of incomes), is progressive taxation on income a tax on lucky breaks more than any other factors?

(other factors = intelligence, hard work, lack of bad luck like disasters, unexpected medical bills, etc.)
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That doesn't matter to that particular employer, and "the economy as a whole" isn't a lobbying group. A big company benefits itself, and does so by protecting its trade secrets.
> The problem with the idea that car drivers pay for the roads out of vehicle tax is flawed, since very often (not sure about the US, but this is true in the UK)...

This is true in the US as well; the cost of road maintenance in most states is not even remotely covered by the payment of vehicle, licensing, and fuel taxes and fees.
Do you measure your self worth primarily on the amount of money in your bank account?
A mirror has no intrinsic color. The "color" of the mirror is whatever is reflected in it from the camera point of view.

If you take a photo of a mirror in a room where there is a single puntual source of light and the walls are far away, and dark to avoid reflection, the mirror will appear black in the photo.

If you take a photo of a mirror in a room where there is a very diffuse source of light (like the sky, or a professional diffuse illumination equipment) the mirror will appear white (or sky blue) in the photo.

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My wife make artistic paintings and sometimes she uses shiny mirror-like materials in parts of the frame. It's difficult to take good pictures of them, because you want to make these parts appear shiny, but not too shiny. Also, you don't want too much light reflection in the normal part of the frame. So you must carefully select the angle to take the photo and the position of the lights and how puntual/diffuse they are.

(Photographs of a real mirror are also difficult, if you want it to appear like a mirror. There is some reflection of light in the borders, where the glass is cut. And that reflections make it appear as a mirror instead of a plain surface.)
> if they sell the gold nugget and purchase wasteful goods and services

That wasn't the premise. The premise was that Carol hurts Betty simply by having something Betty doesn't have.
their RSS just shows it below the comic as well.
“We Choose to Go to the Moon”
that's exactly it, well said.
Is a very good sign that Apple is willing to cancel shitty products. Still got that culture
It's fashionable to hate the Bay Area here, but these kinds of comments are stereotypes, nothing more. It's perfectly fine to not like the area—I could happily live in L.A., Austin, Portland, or Chicago (well, if not for the winter) too. But portraying the Bay Area as some kind of hellhole is just silly. I've been here for ten years and have no plans of leaving anytime soon.

> They are all pretty much overpriced, crappy and old.

My SF condo is new.

> Seriously, take a closer look at the quality of the windows, walls, doors, floor, everything...it is all paper thin cheap stuff way overpriced.

Windows, walls, doors, and floor are all actually high quality in my condo. I haven't had any problems whatsoever with them.

> Not to consider taxes, earthquake and fire insurance.

I recently did some back of the envelope math on what my taxes would be in Texas (where I grew up), and the lower property tax rate here in SF (due to Prop 13) roughly compensates for the high CA income tax. It's pretty much a wash. The main difference is that property would be cheaper in Texas, so the tax rate would be lower, but for the same property value the taxes end up about the same.

> Cost of life, school, pre-school, daycare etc, they are all crazy expensive.

Aside from housing, cost of living isn't that different, at least if you don't have kids. Things you buy from Amazon cost the same. Maybe it'd be a different situation if I had children.

> Public transportation is nearly non-existent.

Compared to NYC or Europe? Sure. Compared to Texas? The transit here is a dream. I take the Muni (or walk) to work every day, and I don't own a car and don't plan on purchasing one.

> Traffic is insane.

SF traffic is nothing compared to Los Angeles or even Austin. Not having a commute helps.

> People who live in SF wake up at 5.30am/6.00am to catch the bus and commute to the Valley oO.

Not me.

> They spend at least 2hours if not more a day in traffic.

Not me, not by a long shot.

> The only thing that imo makes sense is to move there, save as much money as possible. Maximize your 401k and pension plan contributions.

I do that, but not because I want to move away (if I did, it'd be somewhere else in California most likely). Rather it's because I want to maximize my chances of staying, regardless of the economic situation in the future. I quite enjoy my quality of life.

> Get a new job every 2/3 years, so that you can increase your salary quickly + signing bonuses.

I've been working at the same place for a decade and enjoy it.

> Do this for ~10years and then move to a normal place where you could buy a super nice house in cash and then work remotely.

Aside from the fact that buying a house in cash is not necessarily a great idea even if you can afford it, no thanks. I actually like it here and don't want to move elsewhere. And it's easier to get jobs locally, and I'm obviously not planning on retiring anytime soon.
Can't speak to what's available in your country, but I've never had issues returning opened stuff (Best Buy, Microcenter, etc) as long as it's in new condition and in the original box, with receipt (most stores have a 14 day return period)
Thankyou, I think so too.

I find that once a company uses the product, they never stop. The customer base is very sticky.

I have also found that I bounce a lot of companies that don't "get it". They don't understand that it's about making things better for candidates and so all they see is Hackerrank with less features.

My challenge for growth is finding better ways to explain the ethos and the benefits to those companies.
I had the same thought.

I l suspect that Apple has so little in house experience with moving parts these days that they’d have a hard time shipping a good one that worked this way.
So obviously it depends on the country.

In many parts of the world there are consumer rights which guarantees the ability to return items even if opened.
Inequality, but also mobility. A society with one rich person, or even an oligopoly, isn't going to motivate many people since there are only so many spots.
The height of wealth doesn't have much impact either - a person isn't going to work 1000x harder because someone has 1000x more money.

There's also inefficiency - rich people tend spend personal money in inefficient ways that other people can't, such as on private jets, luxury yachts, etc., vs. poorer people, who spend a much larger fraction of their income investing into themselves with medical care and investing in efficient things such as public transport or biking, efficiently sized homes and apartments, or energy efficient appliances, for example.

EDIT: the reason why you get a negative reaction is that you imply that it's good almost everyone to be poor - everyone is motivated to work hard, so that's the ideal society, right? People reacting negatively are thinking what's the point of wealth if practically nobody in society has access to it?
Actually, this won't work at all for music because it makes fundamental assumptions that the signal is speech. For normal conversations, it should work, though for now the models are not yet as robust as I'd like (in case of noise and reverberation). That's next on the list of things to improve.
Unclear if this is going to continue:
https://github.com/intika/Librefox/issues/119

https://github.com/intika/Librefox/commit/45a4d3ce647b8c896e...

may have Terms & conditions violations.
> If one person controls all the money in the world

Finding a gold nugget takes nothing away from anyone else. Wealth is not a fixed pie at all - wealth can be created, which is what free markets do.
Sorry you found it unsubstantial. I mean to express distaste for people who tend to loosely throw the terms "privacy" and "security" around, especially when recommending laundry lists of configuration options, patches, extensions, etc. There is often little to no regard for threat modeling and pragmatism. Take "gHacks/pyllyukko base is kept up to date" for example - these batch tweaks and their effects are hard to understand and apply for the average user, and unfortunately tend to break the mainstream web.

I view projects like these as temporary bandages that pacify users (those technical enough to even be able to use them) in the now to ignore the larger and more fundamental issues at hand. Upstream should adopt reasonably sane defaults, because whack-a-mole with complex software simply isn't sustainable and the projects in question will become less effective over time as maintainership wanes. With regards to further hardening options, there really needs to be better upstream documentation, education, and accessibility. When that is realized in the free/libre browsers with the majority market share, then I am optimistic that the mainstream web will heal in accomodation.
If so, then even the offshore teams are vulnerable to the tsunami change coming with devops, SRE, elastic infrastructure, etc.

It drives me a little crazy inside when I go to clients and see their system administrators have never developed automation for routine "small" events and are still after N years (where sometimes N>10!) responding to the same disk full alerts in exactly the same way, with absolutely zero automation of what they learned, cleaning up the same selection of files, and so on. And this is before I try to extol the virtues of devops over lunches, or go tactical and encourage them to try out Terraform, Pulumi, or the like (MEGO is my usual audience reaction). Fortunately my clients don't pay me to transform their IT, so it's no skin off my back.

But make no mistake, that change is building a powerful head of steam, and I'm excited to work on automation solutions that embrace these principles, tooling, culture, etc., in my own service offerings for another part of my business. The folks who are resisting this change though, are not going to react well if/when the change starts seeping into their worlds.
There seems to be a lot of misinformation and needless alarm in this topis. Let's clarify:

- What's going away is the permission that gives an app full, uncontrolled access to everything in external storage, including data from other apps and your personal photos.

- What IS NOT going away, is Storage Access Framework API (which was available from Android 4.4) which effectively gives you a File/Directory open dialog - same as on sandboxed macOS or Windows app. Using that dialog also grants application access to the selected document or directory tree to do what they will.

This solution allows you, as a user, to explicitly grant an app a full access to a filetree without being forced to give it access to EVERYTHING on the phone.

There are also now special roles for apps which come with some of these permissions granted. For example, an app with GALLERY role will still be able to access photos on device, but you as a user will have to choose a gallery.
This is ignoring the fact that very few people have issues with these keyboards overall.
The balancing slows everything down so much. Is it really needed?
I would recommend Clojure, but not necessarily for every organization. If you have experienced, mature and well-educated developers (which means expensive developers), it's a fantastic tool. But many organizations treat developers as interchangeable cogs with mediocre skills and mediocre pay, and Clojure would not work well for them.

I also think it's very easy to tell a crappy/charlatan Clojure dev from a good one just by looking at a small sample of his code.
And yet in this very thread, we have multiple people saying "no one wanted / needed the AirPower for their AirPods etc so yawn/big deal". Goes both ways.
Reminded me that it’s ok that clients say no to working with me because cost.
If you're talking about the "accredited investor" rules, I believe that those are both intended and have the actual effect of protecting poor and middle income people from scammers (by making the exploitation of them with some fantastical get-rich-quick scheme into a specific federal crime).

Does it also prevent them from investing in Facebook in 2004? Yes it does.
So from the very first day USSR was confronting US?
It's worth noting that, for some reason, this is a Facebook-oriented post posted on Instagram's blog and not the official FB Newsroom: https://newsroom.fb.com/
> That's nothing for Apple. They have released $2000 laptops that don't work well.

Right, and I don't know why you think that's not slimy.
From my personal experience money’s main function is to give you more options to do whatever, which has nothing to do with happiness and given the “paradox of choice” can actually make you more unhappy with every decision because you’re always thinking about the opportunity cost of decision 1 vs decision 10000.
I am not sure but I guess you can start online return or through a support agent and then ship it back?
Apple has a 1-week (or is it 2 weeks?) unconditional return policy. It actually disservices them to announce it after since they may now get a bunch of open box returns.

Additionally your edit doesn’t hold because apple sells iPhones without an official wireless charger either. The AirPods can also be charged with a wire, not to mention any compatible qi charger.

If you’re going to call out apple for making the charging standard based on USB power delivery (an open standard), well then I think you’ve lost everyone. The whole point of Qi, and USB PD is that you can use any charger, even non Apple ones.
Britain First (the political party in question) is a fascist white supremacist group, known for harassment actions and violence, particularly against muslims.

They're the British equivalent of the NSDAP.