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> you managed to write two paragraphs and the only relevant arguments you made were the words "not really."

That's because that was the argument. You're comparing apples and oranges.

First, none of the NirSoft utilities are core OS features. Those that look like they might be are just alternate versions of what Microsoft provided.

So your argument isn't a criticism of operating system design. It's a criticism of software distribution model. You're not saying that Windows isn't capable of doing these things, you're just saying, "Windows doesn't have a universal package manager that allows me to easily install them." If Windows did have a good, universal package manager for free user and system utilities, these utilities would almost certainly be in that repository. However, they don't fit well into the design of NuGet (which is developer focused) or Chocolatey (which is generic, but enterprise focused) or PowerShell Gallery (which is PowerShell exclusive) or the Windows Store (which has no traction).

Maybe you're too young to remember when not all distros had package managers and repositories, but having to find your utilities online, having to download them and then compile and install them yourself used to be completely normal. That was standard. It's not an inherently flawed system. The only reason Linux had to go that way from that model was because of dependency hell. There were too many pieces moving in too many different directions and too many breaking changes. In other words, Linux had such a rats nest of incompatible versions that it required someone to create distributions which included vetted package management because it was an absurd amount of work to maintain a system otherwise. That's why even today Linux distros tell their users not to download and install software that didn't pass through their testing process.

Windows has never had that problem because Microsoft worked very hard not to break backward compatibility, even between edtions, so it was never considered necessary. That is, until Apple decided to open their own package manager: the Apple store. And it made Apple even richer. And the Google Play store does the same for Google. And now you see why package managers and repositories can also be bad: they can be walled gardens or revenue farms, neither of which are necessarily acting for the benefit of the user.

So your argument kind of boils down to, "Microsoft doesn't have a walled garden!" You're right! It doesn't! That's not a bad thing!

Windows is an OS. That's all. Linux distributions are an OS and an extremely diverse set of other software components which tells it's users to only use their vetted software unless you're prepared to deal with dependency hell again.
I wouldn't call Norway socialist so much as credit them for having had excellent governance. They invested the taxes they collected very wisely for the long-term common good of their citizens. Any country with any system of governance would be capable of this, but it turns out most human beings when given sufficient political power tend towards corruption and waste. Alaska, in the US, has followed a similar model to Norway with the Alaska Permanent Fund. Alaska issues annual dividend checks to every resident which is, as far as I know, the closest thing to a working UBI model in the world.
The company was acquired and their watches are no longer manufactured or supported.
Well, given the Generals he didn’t like turned out to be pretty bad, I tend to think he knew who was actually good.
There's a lot of research indicating that going back to basics with diet and eating lots of meat may actually be the healthiest option -- see "The Big Fat Surprise", and rise in Keto and Carnivore diets. Not saying which direction it will go, but definitely not a sure bet.
Why doesn't th eycombinator link actually take you to wikipedia?
Neat! Thank you.
My definition of socialism is the absolutely conventional one: Common ownership of the means of production.

Socialism doesn't mean "the opposite of markets", hence the existence of market socialism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_socialism

Norway is in fact far more socialist than Venezuela: https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2019/01/27/norway-is-fa...

> But since the 80s our government slowly divested from almost all these industries leading to much more affordable prices and greater competition.

The percentage of national wealth owned by the Norway government has been steadily growing since the 80s.
The problem with massive corruption is that ownership becomes unreliable. I had an Indian friend once tell me that it happens sometimes that when you buy some land in India, and don't develop it, someone else may, and they will even have a second title. And that the courts are likely to grant it to the person that does the development vs the person that sits on their title. I was obviously surprised, but he said - what makes you think that the title you bought and sit on was ever valid in the first place?

This can also backfire on a more coordinated scale, for example see what the communists did in post WW2 Warsaw:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bierut_Decree

Those cases are still dragging on in (now fair) courts of Poland. And you can't honestly blame Bierut for doing this - the capital was so devastated that there were less than few thousand people living in it (down from like 1mil before WW2). In fact one of the problems with those pre-WW2 titles is that they often intersect multiple properties across streets, because due to the extent of city damage the street layout was re-architected (if you're starting from almost zero, why not rewire the fundamentals?).
So, if a new Toyota Corolla is reliable, surely a lightly used one ought to be too? I mean, provided the owner changed the oil regularly and what not. For the record, I have bought and driven a number of used cars and never had a significant reliability issue. Cars don't magically become unreliable when bought second-hand.

I don't know anyone who buys second-hand who has had significant issues. So if anything your claim about anecdotes would be inverted for me.
Thanks :)

The time to spin a new server and set up the apps back on it is no more than a few minutes (depending if you had a DB and how large it is). You can see it in action when you scale an app up, it will spin a new server, import back the DB on it, build your app and switch DNS to the new location. Rarely takes more than 5 minutes.

I think tho if something happens at the hardware level and we lose our servers we would seriously consider switching providers.
Reading through (and paraphrasing) all the great ideas people have posted here, I'm seeing 3 basic theories: a fraud/scam, a criminal investigation, or activism.

- FRAUD/SCAM. Example: a dishonest health care provider does expensive screening tests on poor Medicaid-eligible people which it then bills to Medicaid (i.e., to the government).

- CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION. Somebody is collecting DNA in targeted neighborhoods hoping to get the DNA of someone related to an unknown perpetrator whose DNA they have from a crime scene. This is essentially how the Golden State Killer was caught.

- ACTIVISM. This might be also called a "social media experiment" or culture jamming. It could be, for example, a subversive critique on the creation of DNA databases or an attempt to convince the public that mass collection of DNA is not a good thing.
WebOS.

When I used it, I saw it as a blend between Android and iOS.

It had the beauty, polish, and responsiveness that I loved on iPhones, but had the developer options and open community that Android had. It was a great product, and it's a shame that now we really only have two choices for smartphone operating system, WebOS being neither.
Buffet, Monger, Pabrai, Town, etc. This is an old theory that's been bashed quite a bit. There are many people who have and do beat the market continually.
I agree with what you're saying, but MOOCs have showed time and time again that they don't work and people lose attention extremely easy. How is that perpetual problem going to stop?
Everything ever published that touches on developments at Xiph.org turns out to be fascinating and unreasonably informative.

If you have experience in the development or deployment of Vorbis, Ogg, Opus, or AV1, please pile on. There can never be too much public information about the history of these deeply inspirational developments. They represent the pinnacle of human engineering achievement. Every generation that comes after will only benefit from studying them, how they came to be, and the people who made them happen.
This is interesting -- I agree as an industry but would have no idea what companies will win out.
China also massively subsidizes its steel industry, and produces it below cost.
Gold. We are in a 6 year bear market and the fed just did a total 180 freezing interest rates. Interest rates will probably never normalize because of high debt loads and this could cause pressure on the dollar. Furthermore we are at year 10 of the bull market and the yield curve just inverted signaling a recession is likely in the next few years.
Occupied is pretty good!

Check out Nobel if you want to watch another Norwegian political thriller with a focus on the interplay between energy resources and international relations- this time about a Norwegian guy who comes home from Afganistan only to become a pawn for international politics
Laundromats and convenience stores.

People are getting poorer and moving towards renting and condos.
I think it was due to licensing. No source (just a thought), but I could imagine a startup like turntable.fm being pretty simple to build, the trouble comes when the legal portion of the entertainment industry gets involved.
everyone feels their phone getting hot when the battery has a high drain for long and will quickly associate to a site.

thinking users are dumb is just gate keeping by oh-so-clever-engineers
I still use my Nexus 7 almost daily! I have the refreshed model with the 1080p screen, and it's still going strong. Not the fastest or most up to date tablet, but internet browsing, email, and basic things all still work flawlessly.

Great product, competitive sector.
Yep, and Y2K was mostly in your data center. 2038 is mostly in your walls.
Yes, this. The s&p500 is a very good bet as those companies are very exposed with the global economy.
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Someone posted Valve's response to this on /r/steam. Basically, they don't agree with it, but stopped doing it years ago since they knew the EU was going to give them problems with it. They also said that it only applied to physical copies of games that included a code to redeem on steam, so they weren't making any money off of this, and it was only done at the request of some publishers.
That research is extremely biased and suspect. I’m very confident that once people have been on these diets long enough they’re going to start seeing some very serious downsides. This is already happening with some prominent boosters of carnivore diets reporting some very alarming blood tests.

Health issues aside the planet can’t support 8 billion people eating like that so practical concerns alone will drive demand for alternatives.
Nutrition per dollar numbers are a bit dubious.
https://efficiencyiseverything.com/food-nutrition-per-dollar...
Flour tends to beat everything since it is so cheap.
For example, flour has 83.3 mg of iron per dollar. However, if you tried to hit your DRI for iron using flour, you would greatly exceed your daily caloric intake.

One could argue just using a vitamin pill for micronutrients, and optimizing protein/dollar for macros.
CMV: every single post in this subreddit and others like it (unpopular opinions, am I the asshole, etc) are all 99% fake and useless wastes of space.
Unfortunately a system like this can't work for every binary: system calls and dynamic libraries can't be statically inferred in all cases.
I had a remote team for years. Opposite schedules etc didn’t allow for a lot of FaceTime.

I used some desktop recording software and recorded myself daily with instructions on how to execute various tasks.

Through out this process I would be talking and narrating the task explaining this or that while doing the work.

Sometimes I would end up finishing the task and just delete the video, I would be really focused and prefixes when making the videos it always felt a bit weird.

Thinking back there were even a few times I would record myself just in efforts to get something specific done.
Create a MOOC mixed together with that service where people watch you while you work, so that students are held accountable.
You can get a relatively recent beta for WinAmp. It was leaked online and the current owners of the software (Radionomy) chose to release the beta[1] following the leak so that people could download from an official source rather than resorting to piracy and grey-area download sites[2].

They claim to be working on a new version but, in the meantime, the leaked/released beta is a perfectly serviceable version of the software.

[1]: http://www.winamp.com/

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winamp#Winamp_5.8
For another example of such honesty, see the paper “HonestNN: An Honest Neural Network ‘Accelerator’”, from the SIGBOVIK 2019 proceedings: http://sigbovik.org/2019/proceedings.pdf#page=107. I love that paper.
I will support nuclear if you have a solid solution that will work for the waste for the island living populations of the world. Hawaii for example. If a good solution for the waste can be presented there, we can more effectively move forward. Looking just at large continental areas when solving the problem leaves some holes to fill.
Not saying nuclear is bad, it does have a solid cost presentation and a low pollution foot print.
I was mostly thinking about things like consumer electronics, tools, appliances, etc. when it comes to this. Items that have to be built by larger companies rather than ones that can be built at a more "craft" scale where the companies developing them aren't beholden to investors trying to maximize their return.
A two years used car may be a great compromise here: it still has another year of warranty left, so you're getting pretty much the same car for 30% off.
A key overlooked aspect of Nuclear is that it is the big government, centralized, big industry, big bureaucracy, anti-freedom, anti-self-determination option.

Renewables like solar and wind can be local, scaled down to the needs of a single family property, and kept under the sole control, if desired, of an individual owner. Nuclear is fundamentally not that way.

If this article isn't it already, expect to see in the near future that the powerful elite subset of climate deniers will pivot to accept climate change while advocating for nuclear as a solution, all because their cronies stand to benefit from massive construction projects and associated safety, security, and control projects.
Other indicators that this segment is poised for growth is that big fast food chains are rolling out these products and meat industry executives are sounding the alarm that this is a threat to their business.

Some huge companies like Tyson are also making significant investments in this area.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/has-the-impossible-b...
The largest part of that 713 TWh is hydro and presumably that's not growing fast - due to lack of remaining suitable sites, and ecological impact.
>> if people would want to quit after a week or kill themselves after a month of pair programming we would see a lot of backslash against it.

That's been my experience. Even at the few places I've been were some do pair programming it's a very rare occurrence. Occasionally upper management will stump for it, likely because they (a) don't actually program all day and (b) see it as some sort of kale-like super habit. None of my IC have ever pushed hard for regular sessions.
Each sparked a revolution in technology:

1. speaking

2. writing

3. printing press

4. telecommunications

5. internet

Wonder what the next one will be!
Aereo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aereo

The Supreme Court decision that killed the company is an excellent example of what happens when jurists don't understand technology... And don't want to, either.
I know, but it beats plastic. I’m not smashing it with a hammer.
First: I'm not anti-nuclear. It's tons cleaner than coal, and coal kills people every year.

But, if nat gas, wind, and solar are cheaper and faster to bring online, and can be build at pretty much any scale we want from single household to freaking huge, why would we build nuclear?
> New build nuclear is not cost competitive with new build wind and solar (even when you account for firming costs), and the cost of wind and solar is still falling at an astonishing rate.

The future will tell, as it is now, Germany already spent more on renewable than the total French nuclear industry, even when you add decommissioning and with the bad results we know. Maybe countries should learn on the German mistakes? Also the renewables built to replace the nuclear plants in France are pointed out for being far over-budget as well.

The cost studies for renewable tend to remove a lot of external costs in order to make them appear cheaper than they are.
I miss how reliable magneto optical storage in a cartridge is. The physics behind it mean the data should be readable for a very long time.
IRC’s problem for deep conversations is that conversations in a chat medium are more ephemeral and that the shorter is better, not unlike Twitter, a format that exemplifies why shorter conversations do not give a great medium for longer/deeper conversations.

With forums, posts aren’t generally deleted except by maybe an admin if someone has been violating rules, and due to the permanence, people generally spend more time thinking what what they post.
IMG its true https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/irc/

Long live IRC
> And we (the human race) have learned.

yet, this is specific to this one incident, one specific threat.

The issue is more likely to be systemic. Once a production system is up and running, it is not consistantly being improved and iterated upon, but instead left to stagnate technologically (and in this case, in safety in light of new research etc).

But the argument is that such level of continuous improvement/iteration is costly, and the owners would not recouperate the costs! And so hence the economics goes, and so does the human condition continues to revolve around profit and loss.
>>Australia has also squandered opportunity in its retirement system: 2.6 trillion in high fee individual accounts (1% given away to the financial sector in fees every year!) instead of in a sovereign wealth fund like Norway's with a fraction of the admin costs.

There are advantages to having hundreds of thousands of individual accounts over one sovereign wealth fund. The latter is a case of putting all your eggs in one basket. Centralization poses enormous risks.

Reducing fees by having a smaller number of fund managers managing a larger amount of capital can also reduce the ROI, as a result of fund managers having to limit their objects of investment to very large companies/projects that can efficiently utilize large capital infusions.
ah therein lies the rub :)
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There have been some strides in the past to work with Russia on nuclear. Nothing is happening in today's political climate however.
I mean a Corolla has less power, weight and smaller wheels, and arguably better aerodynamics (looks count less, needs less cooling, smaller size).

Also, a Corolla will have more inherit more R&D, uses less of new tech, etc.

>they buy the car to signal that they have disposable income to burn

I agree with you there.
It basically doesn't matter if you share your DNA or not-- if your siblings or extended family share their DNA, then a malicious actor knows almost as much about you as they want to. This is how Osama bin Laden was found, as well as the golden state killer [1].

Maybe justified in those cases, but if it's abuse you're worried about, nothing but extremely stringent laws have a hope of protecting you. Probably not even that.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2018/04/27...
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MOOC completion rates are not a good indicator of success.

It's ridiculously easy to sign up, so a a lot of low intent people sign up, but these people would never have enrolled in a college for the class and probably didn't plan to actually do the entire course.
> The apps that MS made for third parties were rush jobs and poorly maintained over time

The Google apps Microsoft produced worked extremely well right up until the day they got pulled due to legal threats. I'm not sure what this is a reference to.

> because the Silverlight runtime was not up to the job, performed poorly.

XNA ("Silverlight") was only one of the platforms Windows Phone supported. It also had support for Windows Phone App Studio and the Windows Runtime. The Windows Runtime never had poor performing characteristics and was the most popular platform after WP8's release.

> Would you really want a bad app, that cannot do what your real offerings do, out there representing you, with your name and logo?

No, but since that wasn't the reality I don't see the relevance of the question. It is largely a strawman situation where the apps were bad (they weren't), had bad performance (they didn't), and were developed using "Silverlight" (they weren't).

You say you post this information a lot on this site. It is unfortunately you didn't research before the first time you posted it.
Make the game informed by data instead of ideology
Ag tech or something along those lines, maybe, but producing a commodity is always a low-margin game, and it's getting harder with farm consolidations.
It was the interface for users essentially all of whom were programmers since there was essentially no on-line access then.

Calling JCL a scripting language is one heck of an insult to Rexx, etc. When Cowlishaw's Rexx became available right, away it swept IBM, e.g., ran the service machines that ran VNET, IBM's early thing to do internally for IBM what the Internet later did for the world.

Rexx could have run on MVS, etc. -- some people at Watson wanted that, but I doubt if it ever did.

I wrote a lot of JCL for MVT on the 360/91 and later on other 360 boxes, and I never saw anything like environment variables.

The horror was the DCB statements: They were to fill in control blocks needed in assembler to do I/O; if didn't understand those assembler control blocks, then DCB statements didn't make a lot of sense.
https://tripleaughtdesign.com, its tactical clothing that at one point was very similar to the stuff special forces guys were wearing. (They are selling more and more 'urban' friendly stuff these days). Most of it is made in America.
To each their own I guess. I bought a 2015 Volt used and have owned it for nearly a year and a half and it's the best car I've owned. I consistently get 40-42 miles a charge.
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I want more information about the application of germ theory to Alzheimer's. Is it a herpes family virus infection? A gingivalis bacterial infection? Some of both? Who is working on this? Are research grants forthcoming, or are they all still earmarked for amyloid genetics? Are papers being approved for publication, or are they being rejected or stalled because the reviewers are not qualified to evaluate infectious-disease papers?

If it is a treatable infection, everyone currently suffering or threatened by Alzheimer's is being irreparably harmed by delays pursuing these treatments.
PS vita. Powerful handheld. Dual analog sticks. Great hardware. Lots of good games but it could never compete with the smart phones. 3DS didn't do too well either as compared to DS. I don't think we'll see a dedicated handheld gaming device any time soon. I'm sad because I don't really enjoy playing games on my mobile phone.