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Dear Ethical USA,

You are the largest exporter of arms in the world, in fact, you sold more than half a trillion dollars worth of arms since the 1950s.

Your previous Progressive Presidency sold $115 Billion alone to Saudi Barbaria.

https://www.reuters.com/article/US-usa-saudi-security-idUSKC...

Maybe it’s in your ethical interest to clean your own house first.

You started the Military Industrial Complex, you maintained the Military Industrial Complex, and you will continue propping up the Military Industrial Complex, now eat it.
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Regarding stickiness. Apple introduced the following:

* News+

* Apple card

* Apple Arcade

* And they already have Apple music

Am leaving TV out of this list for now. Most people may not want a particular service. But it’s highly likely a good chunk of apple customers will want at least one or two of them.

And then that becomes a factor at switching time. For instance, I’ve considered Android in the past. What has always stopped me are two thoughts: ‘What about privacy?” and “what about imessage?”

Note that these don’t need to be sticking points for you. I’m saying they’re sticking pointed for many. Now, apple is adding three new service sticking points, to add to their music sticking point.

People will think things like “I really like reading Apple News everyday/I like getting the WSJ”. “Those games are so fun for my kids” “Ugh, I’d have to get a new credit card if I switch phones?’

Apple already has a strong ecosystem effect, especially in the US. These will add to it. The apple watch and airpods are another stickiness factor that’s growing rapidly as well.

I left off TV: I’m not sure how it adds to stickiness. Apple is making it widely available on third party devices. So you can still get a show you want even with no apple hardware. Will there be some tie in to apple hardware announced when the service launches? Or some kind of bundle price that itself adds stickiness? Unclear, the strategy behind the TV service is still a bit opaque.

Personally, I’m excited for Apple Arcade. Don’t know how the games will be yet, but it has potential and will be a nice complement to having a nintendo switch. News in Canada is....ok, though it’s unclear to me how much I’m getting with paid vs the free version and I may not keep it. Depends how much value I get from the wsj.
I do almost exactly the same as you; my install.sh is a glorified wrapper around `ln -s`, but for each file, it verifies whether the file is already symlinked and if not renames the original to something like `.foo.bak.$(date -I)`. This is probably overkill, but it was especially nice when I was just starting to version control my dotfiles and still found unmanaged files sometimes that contained things worth saving.
Money for GM is ok but not for increasing the quality of public teachers.
Does this mean that some hundred years from now, we’ll be blowing MacBooks up to the sky?
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It's orthogonal, isn't it? You keep your dotfiles in a repo, then have stow "install" the checkout/clone thereof.

EDIT: Also on stow - I tried it a couple times and it never seemed flexible enough. Can it handle things like keeping ~/.config/nvim and ~/.vim in the same stow directory? (And for that matter, can it link them together? I like having the same config for vim and neovim)
We've definitely established that it's valuable to some extent, unfortunately making it even more difficult to 'opt out'.
I have to say, living in Indonesia and seeing the start up scene (and financiers recently not to long ago at Global Venture Summit[which included a big ad from a google presenter, as well as one of their VC firm spawn]), seems like google is share cropping startups into their whole ecosystem.

But who can blame em? The government wants the USD flowing in, and the companies (already strapped for talent and cash to pay for such) get their IaaS for free for decent chunk of time… virtually no push back here like there is in the states to 'some' degree… and it keeps their offices from getting raided again!
Are you using stow for some specific reason? Or just trying it out?
I'm genuinely curious how many people you find to like markdown, once you are outside the tech community. My work has always focused on detailed content management, which isn't Markdown's strength (nested lists, embedded tables, detailed options on layout and numbering, etc.), and markdown is therefore a non-starter when we talk about putting authoring capabilities into our customer's hands. I can see where email is simpler, so the tech limitations won't stop you.... but would love to hear what audience/demographic is paying for a service where markdown is the main feature?
The article misses the point of the proverb competely. It erects a strawman by taking the advice at face value.

The coffee stands for any and all small, regular and avoidable expenses, where minor lifestyle adjustments add up to major savings.

Using a family plan on subscriptions and phone plans, cooking your own meals, weighing the actual cost of owning a certain car / carpooling...... All of these are things are very small, yet regular expenses in a person's life. These things add up.

The lack of mindfulness of such expenses leads to fast and untracked lifestyle creep. The proven also warns against that.

My peers living expenses went up 5 fold, and each of them claims that nothing has changed.
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This [edit for clarity: the GP] appears to be intended to be sarcastic. You’re right, but you may have missed the sarcasm, which we know transmits poorly over text-based mediums.
How do I get one?
It would be nice to have better special regulations specifically concerned with DNA usage and collection, just as we do for health information like HIPAA, just as we should for facial recognition as well.
No, I meant this comment: "His relatively simple LSTM-based neural net compressor is 10x faster than one of the more complex state of the art algorithms"
I don't think YouTube can survive that.
I doubt that “we might be able to shoot down your satellites too” is a good deterrent. I also don’t buy that the US aimed slightly next to the targets and just accidentally destroyed satellites, no way that higher ups would be satisfied by that
I expect it would be chaos, not to mention could massively backfire, but would definitely be interesting to watch what would happen if Google coordinated with Netflix to disable both on Apple devices.
I think this is an interesting double strategy with the card: apple now will have a small army of customers asking stores “do you support apple pay? Do you support apple pay?” This will drive adoption.

(For those who haven’t been to the US: unlike the rest of the developed work, contactless payment isn’t universal in America. Many places still require you to swipe and sign. Even chip readers are somewhat new. So this card is a way of pushing merchants to modernize their systems and support contactless. Users get 1% for card use but 2% for apple pay)

Edit: why is this getting downvoted? It seems obviously correct. Apple has been struggling to push us apple pay acceptance for years.
They had to take it into an alley and kill it, mafia style.

More seriously, they probably means find ways to restructure packages and extract shared dependencies into subpackages to avoid cyclical dependencies.
They needed the resources to integrate pocket into firefox
If you are involved in a secret affair without your partner's knowledge or if you're closeted non-hetero sexually, you shouldn't apply for high level security clearances or run for politics.

Competing states can find this information out and potentially blackmail you. U.S. is currently pressuring a Chinese company to sell Grindr, presumably because of potential security risks like these.

I know of people who've gone through the clearance process and it's VERY thorough and personally invasive to minimize the risks of government employees being compromised due to their personal lives.
The most important benefit of sodium batteries is safety, they don't suffer from the runaway thermal failures of LiIon. The 10% or so cost advantage itself is not compelling.
I'm not talking about partisan politics or opinions irrelevant to the clearance. But rather about people being opposed to mass surveillance or other important activities conducted by the the intelligence community or military which might tempt the individual to whistleblow if they learned about unacceptable behaviour in those areas.
I didn't say they enabled me personally.

I was surprised the cops didn't stop me when I posed no risk because that was not the case in other countries and cities.
This is done (or was done) every year at the Falling Leaf BMW Motorcycle rally in Potosi Missouri. It's pretty impressive to see how high the anvvil goes.
There is a drug-resistant fungal strain that was likely produced by overuse of antifungals in agriculture. There is a climate of secrecy limiting awareness (including among medical responders) to the threat, driven by hospitals' concerns that awareness would drive away potential patients. An some medical professionals, apparently lacking the appropriate tools and training to deal with these infections, are scared to treat infected patients because they don't want to spread the infection to others -- in one reported case leading to medical neglect.

At every step of this social etiology, the problem is capitalism. A social disorder in which we prioritize business profits over human needs. Capitalism is killing us.
you do realize they will lose half of their userbase by doing that? Google depends on iphone users a lot, both for their search and youtube, iphone users are more likely to purchase something as well after watching google ads = more money for google
"No one wants a used razor"

I believe there are actually quite some people who would take it.

But along with sex toys, yes usually a razor is something not for reuse. But actually I cannot think of much more conventionel products who outlive their usefulnes.

Except allmost everything with a computer today.. will it connect to other services in 5 years, when the ones from today die out?
Thanks for the explanation. I've never found adding to an SQL query to be any effort. The only place I'd put any value into a DSL is that it doesn't miss including all the conditions for a join.
The other—less terrifying—lesson of Gattaca was that adversity (by not being dealt a great hand) can lead to drive and innovation that surpasses the naturally gifted.
It works for newspapers that people care about -- the WSJ, NYT, and I'm sure there are others.

Ads aren't working too well either with the increasing use of ad blockers -- even on mobile and Google and FB sucking all of the ad revenue up.
congrats on shipping!

I'm definitely not your target audience, so take what I'm about to write with a grain of salt.

I didn't register, and only checked out your Landing Page and your linked Documentation...

The first issue i had was how you didn't mention healthchecks or log aggregation anywhere... how would a developer troubleshoot issues if they'd chose to go with your service? and do they need to use external monitoring to be notified about issues?

my next issue was with the database... how would developers do their database migrations? do they need to connect to their database directly and execute them from their workstation? If so, does that mean that the database is open to dog and world?

How would a developer set secrets and other runtime variables that cant be part of the repository? I couldn't find anything about that in the docs either.

Honestly, nothing about the product made me think PaaS. Its more like an offer to host a single threaded web application of some select languages... But i wish you luck!

The competition is fierce though, especially with Amazon pushing for serverless, Heroku and self hosted alternatives like Dokku around.
I didn't write that, you're making a straw-man argument.

Also, I'm not set on any particular notions.

Have you ever done meth in the Bay Area and walked past tons of cops? If so, then you are educated enough to speak on the issue. What has your experience been with doing meth in the Bay? And how specifically does it differ from mine?
100% this. We're never going to built a perfect sand castle.

IMHO - There are many managerial short comings in software development that lead to abuse of legacy design. OOP by design allows you to abstract and ignore not only original implementation decisions but reflections of those decisions in the architecture. Polymorphism makes sense when it's the classic ICat: IAnimal example but so often it _becomes_ IHouseFly : IAnimal because all the contracts expect IAnimal and the deadline is.....tomorrow.

I personally don't have a good solution given the pragmatic counter argument that the ROI on a system which is cheap to develop but is patched over 5 years may be equal to or cheaper than one that is expensive to develop and _still_ needs to be patched over it's 5 year lifetime. Let's call this the used car problem. A new car is more reliable but now that used cars are reliable _enough_ it's harder to convince people _not_ to gamble with a lower upfront cost.

I absolutely _love_ Rust and the code I'm written feels bullet proof. No idea how long it would take a team of my C# peers to be even 1/10th as productive in Rust/Go as they are in Visual Studio and C#.
Same - git repository (I presume), and GNU stow. Stow is a good way to maintain symlinks, but I see the value of not having that additional dependency. The OP's method is nifty, I might try it out.
You should have a demo, video, or screenshots at least. People will want to see how it works before paying. If you have one of those, launch it everywhere your customers are.
Why do you want different configs on different machines? I think the "easy" solution is "don't do that";) But of course that's useless advice if you actually have some usecase, so a suggestion: Have case/if blocks on $(hostname), or even do something like `test -f ~/dotfiles/bashrc.$(hostname).local && source ~/dotfiles/bashrc.$(hostname).local`
So a volume?

These are several hundred objects travelling with enough momentum to do catastrophic damage to launch vehicles and other orbiting equipment. They’re not icebergs floating on the ocean, they’re bullets whizzing through that volume at incredible velocities.

Would you get on a plane if every airport runway doubled as an active shooting range?
Wow zero sympathy for the author. Amazed he still has his job. The ADF’s values are antithetical to those of any modern organization that values inclusivity at even the most basic level. The ADF actively fights to make gay marriage and civil unions illegal. They are overtly anti LGBTQ. Google on the other hand values inclusion and the rights of the LGBTQ community as a matter of policy. Corporations can discriminate against political ideologies for a good reason. Political ideologies are just a set of beliefs and principles that you choose as an individual. It is entirely possible and even common for someone to choose a bad set of beliefs and principles. Or a set that is antithetical to your organization’s. In that case you wouldn’t want them working for your organization. Your core beliefs and values are not aligned.

I’m not arguing that conservatives have no place at companies like Google. But conservatives with specific and overt ideologies (like anti LGBTQ ideologies) indeed have no place at companies like Google. Their values don’t align.
You can definitely compete with the likes of Mailchimp. It's a big market.
I just have both directories in my dotfiles repo and have the vim one symlinked to the nvim one. Admittedly I haven't fully explored the capabilities of stow, there might be a better way.
Aside: Any idea what that Latin motto is on this blog?

TOTUS VESTRI ARCANA NOCTI NOBIS EST

Google translate refused.
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Having a working anti-satellite program is nothing but a benefit to a country, with the possibility to negatively impact anyone else who has stuff in orbit.

There are a very few problems that are comparable. The only ones that I could think of is climate change and nuclear program, because it's theoretically possible to harm humanity as a whole while doing no harm to locals.

Nobody gets killed, there are no consequences that they could even theoretically face, the possible dangers are someone else's, and you publicly display a defense mechanism that only the strongest nations posses.

From the government's perspective, this is nearly perfect. They'll be talked to sternly by some people, so what? That's where treaties can help, because other nations could point to it and say "we've agreed we won't do this because it harms humanity as a whole".

We've "solved" the nuclear crisis by signing treaties, and we can solve this one the same way. We have an international organization that can walk into any space in any country (that signed the treaty) under any suspicion that they might be making a nuclear bomb. Destruction of satellites, in comparison, is much more obvious and easy to spot.
Even if they did care they couldn't do much about it because they would lose out to the competition that doesn't care.

The only way we are going to get beyond this is to make sure they have to pay for their externalities.
I dont find your comment to be negative at all. You´re raising a valid point. All I am doing is drawing attention to the fact that people are trying. And if just one of all the experiments out there succeeds is a net benefit to us all. IF people can deliver on the other hand is a different thing. Only time will tell but I remain hopeful!
While it seems we agree about religion, I disagree about questioning this person's religion. This person is talking about writing a book about their experience which they believe to be a divine intervention that changed their life and got them off of meth. Clearly, this is a very big deal to them and something that matters to them a whole lot, and they believe the story is so good that they won't even post the details of the divine intervention on HN because they want to save it for their book.

Pushing them on this topic is mean because it's such a big deal to them, and it's counterproductive because you'll never be able to prove it to them. Even if you say something like "go through some sleep deprivation and see if you hallucinate" and then they do, you won't have proven that their previous experience was a hallucination. Instead, all you'll be doing is telling them that things they hold very deeply are all stupid, and never changing their mind. There is no positive effect from this, it's all just negative.
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Yeah, I have found my cardboard Amazon boxes to be much more useful as mulch than putting them in the recycle bin, not to mention the fact that I'm pretty sure my municipality just dumps it all anyway.
Flow batteries have no where near the energy density W/kg of lithium, the only thing that approaches petrol in any practical sense currently. So for vehicles, maybe coupled with a 5-10% supercapacitor for an electronic flywheel, will dominate transport requirements for some time.

Flow batteries, given a non toxic electrolyte, are hard pressed to be beaten for the closest thing to base load a battery is going to get.

The need of the application is everything currently as it is all edge cases and probably will be for an indefinite future, without some kind of totally off the radar break through.
Looks like a managed caprover.com :-)

Is there a way to store immutable files (something similar to S3)?

Is the filesystem available and persistent?

Regarding PostgreSQL and other databases, do you backup the WAL? (DigitalOcean Managed Databases backups the WAL every 5 minutes.)
Most drugs can have serious side effects. Alcohol, caffeine etc. Paul Erdos liked his amphetamines too. I can't exactly argue that we're worse off for it as a society.
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The problem is that reddit randomly ignores this and switches back to the redesign on a whim.
Sure! https://gitlab.com/snippets/1844438

EDIT: Some quirks to note, especially if you want to steal this script: 1. I use ~/.local/etc as my dotfile directory. 2. I support multiple shells but have all of them use ~/.profile rather than shell-specific files (most config overlaps, and there's a case stmt that deals with per-shell settings). 3. The vim/neovim bit at the bottom will fail silently if the directory already exists; thankfully this is rare, but it should be fixed some time.
In the early days, my impression was that the build tools were totally overhauled every few months, and not always in compatible ways. JSON projects, xml projects, dotnet-cli.
Very cool, congrats on getting to this point. I have a few questions as a long time heroku user:

- Can you scale up to more app server instances?
- Where are your servers running? Based on location and the pricing progression, I'm guessing Scaleway?
- How are logs handled?

Thanks!
So Google is both going to continue paying Apple a reported $12 billion a year to be the default search engine on iOS and lose more than half of its audience in the US and lose most of its more affluent audience?
Or maybe Benjamin Franklin?[1]

[1] https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/benjamin_franklin_162078
I beg to differ with you.

It’s obvious you are confused between peers and adversaries.

When it comes to national security, the only best ethic is to reciprocate one’s adversaries polities and acts, and prove one is a credible deterrent.

India initiated non-violent political movements, but that does not mean Indians should remain mute spectator while its gigantic neighbour who has made it obvious that it wants to be a world economic-military superpower indulges in arms race.

Calling such deterrence “opportunistic” and “devoid” is a bit too rich.
FWIW, 23andMe will actually delete your data if you send in a GDPR deletion request. I worked there, and half the company put in a 1-2 month effort into making sure deletions worked correctly, including residual data.
Plus high grade nickel (as in only some refineries make it), cobalt, graphite.

You need lithium, but it doesn't do it on it's own.
Sure, pre 2016 MPBs anyway! ;)
$200 on a $10,000 or $15,000 battery.

I definitely think we can run a nice civilization on sodium batteries if we need to, that wasn't my point.
Not sure how my 4 year old Galaxy S6 still chugs along as fast as the day I got it. I'll purchase a new battery before getting a new phone (still on the original, which still makes it through the day on a charge). I'm pretty sure I could easily get another 4 years out of this. CPU and RAM are not an issue. I don't need or want AR or gimmicks that don't actually add value or productivity. Just a tool. My email and texts all still work fine as well as all of the business apps I need, websites I visit, etc. You don't need to upgrade every 2 years, or probably even every 4 years. People are more than welcome to spend the money if they wish, though. They've been trained well into thinking they do.
YouTube app is nice but so is the web site.
The US obviously spies on China like crazy but we never hear about it, is this Western bias censorship? Is it possible that China spies much more than the US?
I wouldn't be so sure, though it seems more like a Amazon-type play than an ISP pushing plans:

"Customers can get a WizPhone WP006 from vending machines at more than 10,000 Alfamart stores for just USD$7 (IDR99,000)1. Then, with the built-in AllWizapp, customers can unlock shopping benefits in Alfamart by scanning barcodes on each product and making their purchase directly via the app on their WizPhone."
For a completely rigorous definition of simplicity, we can introduce the Kolmogorov complexity of an object, defined as the length of the shortest computer program (in some agreed-on encoding) that produces the object as output when run.