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There is another option available for that I've moved towards. You can obviously purchase content on a digital library. Amazon, Microsoft, and Google Play are my 3 favorite (in no particular order) since a lot of the content syncs with the new-ish Movies Anywhere digital locker. If Movies Anywhere includes your show or movie then it syncs across all your accounts and is available everywhere. So if Google decides to stop selling movies, you can easily just switch over to Amazon, or whatever, without losing your content that you purchased.

Basically, I buy good movies and shows that I actually enjoy rather than subscribing to crappy services that rotate through a dozen or so good movies and a mountain of complete crap. I also don't have to watch commercials, and I can watch my movies on my phone or through a chromecast/fire tv/roku whenever and wherever (as long as I have internet). Also, most of these platforms allow you to download to a mobile/tablet device for streaming on a flight or train or whatever.

This can get expensive, of course, doesn't work for live events and you're still relying on all these systems staying active, but I don't like the societal move away from ownership and towards renting. If I know I love Back to the Future, why do I need to pay Netflix/HBO/cable/etc subscription so that I can hope that they add it to their library on the days that I feel interested in watching it again.

Game of Thrones Season 8 is $27 on Google Play. And if it takes you more than a month to get around to watching it, or if you ever want to watch it again ever, it won't cost you more than that. I think that's pretty nice
Agreed, though what's really fucked up is the native Ethereum language and machine. Almost anything is an improvement on that. I still don't know what to use any of that for though. :-/

Edit: yes I mean Solidity. I mean, it's cool that it works, but look at it, it's insane. They could have picked just about any language, including assembler, Lisp, Lua, Javascript, Visual Basic, LLVM bytecode, whatever and would have been better off. But over time there will evolve compilers which can from another input language provably (-ish in most cases) produce safe output.
Large companies are inefficient because they suffer from a number of problems (calculation, internal politics, Peter's principle, Parkinson's law and so on). However, they can introduce savings due to lengthening the production process, economies of scale, (external) political power and other factors.

The fact that a large company is rich does not necessarily mean that the inefficiencies don't exist.

I somewhat agree with you on "this whole software stuff is really peanuts and their mental energy is better spent on other business-related stuff". For most companies this software stuff can be mostly irrelevant, and it's our fault this is the case. As Erik Dietrich says [1], we are "efficiencers" -- we're supposed to make all kinds of processes more efficient, not just be code monkeys and copy code from StackOverflow.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0722H41SG/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...
Is the graphene thing dead? One paper indicated graphene or even graphite soaked in a hydrocarbon would superconduct at room temperature. I was so excited I purhased some and tried that, it had a DC impedance similar to dry graphite...
well the pressure aspect wouldn't require constant energy input. And I assume it is a lot more economical to use a consumer refrigerator than liquid nitrogen.

But yah, you can bathe a much more complicated "circuit" in liquid nitrogen a lot easier than compressing it with diamond anvils. Though no commercial superconducting computers have emerged, cmos is just too cost effective currently, and the known examples are still in the 4K range.
Amazon's phone failed because it was a new product in a very crowded market that didn't offer anything new of significance.
How does he expect others to take his idea seriously when he's not willing to do what he himself is suggesting? When did I call him a hypocrite? I simply asked him if he is behaving the way he wants others to behave.
No one is arguing against having a higher quality, non-processed diet. The article is pointing out all the impediments to try to achieve that, especially focusing on the lower and lower-middle class. It takes time, coordination, money, and energy to cook right, and that's really hard for a lot of people.
I have done that too but somehow the habit seems to always come back. As it seems to have happened to you.
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> The idea of everyone walking around with a little badge on their chest containing their metadata is oddly dystopian haha.

This idea was tried before, but for just a subset of the population, though:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camp_badge
There are? Now that’s interesting, because I’ve spent the past 5 years developing open source Android apps and such projects. (And e.g. my app Quasseldroid is also on F-Droid)

I’d be interested in what existing, working solution for a FCM replacement there is? Replacing the apps is simple, replacing the services is the hard part.

If there is a working open FCM alternative, please link it, I’d immediately add support for it in my apps.
But I bet the Komodo-steaks are to die for!
Care to say more? Solidity? If so, I agree. That's why this article is interesting.

You are right, the article doesn't address why ethereum might not solve any real problems, if you feel that way.
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Accepting a job offer based on a false representation. Usually by offering you an inflated title and promising responsibilities and opportunities you won't actually have.
Good thing for HBO there's no way someone can buy a VPN and watch their content from outside those regions
Counterexample; the detainee here doesn’t even seem to know what the charges are, and most of the evidence (and its sources) are secret.

There is evidence (here-say) that he fired a rifle during a military confrontation and dug a trench, and according to the guards he said some nasty things to them during his extra-judicial detention, but I don’t see any charges enumerating the laws he broke:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4422825.stm
That's my thought, why would Huawei even care about licensing? They've certainly stolen plenty before (Nortel and Cisco). Any discussion about licensing and contracts is meaningless when you're dealing with an entity perfectly ok with just stealing the product.
It's the same here in the US.
Despite being presented with some data (kcal info) you don't know how to interpret it. It is, in fact, irrelevant. Calorie data is not helpful in determining proper eating habits. The actually useful measure is average meal insulin index times food quantity. This is a better metric of obesification since insulin drives weight gain.
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Terrifying single-lane tunnel. A moment of inattention and instant fireball.

Outside a video game, is anybody going to do better than 40mph in a tunnel?
The end of social networks as we know them?
Is this the long fabled quantum computing application that breaks asymmetric cryptography?
When I first heard about the boring company I understood that they were planning to make electric sleds sort of like a car wash so you don’t have to steer and didn’t propel entirely from your own engine. Later reports made me think this wasn’t the case.

This video makes me think my earlier understanding was correct. It doesn’t look like the person is steering (and it would be quite dangerous to require them to). So how does this work?
I concur. Google ws forced to force their hand for almost no value. If anything they will lose client/data base.

Also google product lost trust, as a business platform in result. So imho they lose double time here. Because they are forcing out 3rd biggest phone seller to competition.

The fact that this competition is practically non existent makes things even more unpredictable imho, which businesses doesn't like.
The problem with prop 65 is that it has a ridiculously low bar for evidence of harm for chemicals to be placed on the list. So the list is full of things that were found to cause cancer when fed to rats at ridiculously high doses, and then not found to cause cancer in human studies.

Like acrylamide, which has landed every restaurant a prop 65 warning because it is present in literally all baked goods and also coffee.
It's difficult to describe but I read it more like converting the raw data (a list of results) to a generator. Akin to the "compression" described in this xkcd: https://www.xkcd.com/1155/
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"Presumably a discussion is held to arrive at some sort of solution or truth, and not to advertise the moral virtue of the participants."

Unfortunately that hasn't been the case for some time now.
> "Lots of families in our study cooked almost every night, in part because it was the cheapest option. But when their cupboards ran bare, they ate ramen and hot dogs, not a pan of roast chicken and vegetables, as food gurus recommend. Mothers said that if they had more money, they'd buy fresh fruit for their kids, but this was just an occasional splurge, not an everyday reality. Even the more financially stable middle-class mothers in our study talked about making trade-offs between the foods they wanted to buy for their families and the foods they felt they could afford."

Chicken, veggies and potatoes, as well as the grill, all cost money. The grill especially. That's a large initial investment - yes, you can buy a cheap grill, but then you have to buy the propane, and the food that comes off it going to be much harder to get palatable.
I mean if you live in a place where you just dont get internet even 100 kbps can be game changing. Sure you cant stream netflix. But being able to some degree go on the internet is pretty big.
Did the arguement stem from the problems of sharing bandwidth due to free space broadcast (instead of wires where everyone can re-use the same bandwidth)? Because, if so, the spot beams for the Starlink sats down to the ground terminal are only ~15 km in diameter. The uplink back to the sats may be a bit more constrained and won't scale. But downstream should be fine.
And how much legal oversight do the FANGS have? Let alone some local US police force run by individuals such as Sherriff Joe
Sounds like it is simply that "if we'e not going to do / fund the thing there's not much for me to lead here" kinda situation.
The problem lies within the generalizations presented by the words “healthier” and “burdens”.

Many families with Downs children describe how much joy and love their Downs children bring to the family, how the family members learned to cherish what’s important in life, etc.

These families compared to many families with non-Downs children are quite healthy and arguably not burdened though they experience different challenges than other families.

EDIT: fix quote; change last preposition in second sentence.
Technically correct. The most annoying kind of correct.
Let's be honest, if Huawei (sponsored by the Chinese government) creates their own open/shared OS together with other Chinese manufacturers, Chinese people will switch eventually.
If WeChat is ported to the new OS, other apps will soon follow. The result: a Chinese OS that's completely independent of American manufacturers.

It's also possible that this will cause Huawei and the Chinese government to pour funding into Chinese chip designs. Eventually, China will become less dependent on the US and the US will lose another point of influence.

Is this bad for Huawei in the short term? Of course. But is this hurting the Chinese economy in the long term? I don't think so.
oh dear this explains my experience now so much, i had not connected these two things..
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Maybe they can hitch a ride on that ridiculous new "Space Force"?
Lower time variance is almost better than lower mean time.
I find that true in my rural community. We're governed by the county and state. And they are vastly more concerned with the opinions of city dwellers than us villagers.

So we are subject to strange rules about parking, shooting, building, water and power that make little sense in our small community.
They're planning to have satellites in several different orbits, ranging from 340km to 1150km. The first phase of launches will all be to ~550km orbits.
There's a lot wrong with this whole thing but the end solution is the wrong way around too - you don't require the client to then take a further step, you get their contact details and then reduce the friction by calling them.

The solution should surely be "enter your phone number and zip code and we'll contact you". Then the central referral agency contact the person immediately, to keep the momentum & check the person's details, reward them for their effort in finding the company, and arrange for the next step -- ideally an at home meeting with the particular agent you booked them with.

Just "right, now call this number" is a bit daft, isn't it?!
$75? That's about half of what I would charge myself, and an agency is going to be $300 minimum.
I'm sure that very smart person thought of problems in 5 minutes in an internet comment that the engineers who just put 60 satellites in orbit with didn't consider about their total addressable market...
This article is written as if you have to be able to make fancy “foodie” or restaurant style meals to avoid ultra processed foods.

Wouldn’t cracking a can of beans and a bag of rice qualify as well? Our ancestors had far less resources than us and still managed to make food without spaghetti-o cans or ramen packets.

Referencing people living in hotel rooms or who don’t own a knife seems like a distraction. Obviously being homeless is bad, but there are plenty of people who can afford a $10 knife and have a stove in their residence who still eat ultra processed diets and become obese.
This is an intellectually dishonest argument as it conflates the definition of "malware" between platforms.

Mobile application permission systems don't cease to exist in the absence of a sanctioned app store. The only thing that disappears is the ability for Google or others to completely remove an application that is abusing the permissions a user granted: but the permissions are still there.

Even in the worst-case scenario, malware on modern phone operating systems is substantially more limited in disruptive and destructive power than what one can achieve on Windows without a UAC grant.
And hell, some people will suck at it. There have always been bad cooks.
co2 is a legitimate reason, and may justify the investment.

Costs.. agreed in theory. But in practice, modern low cost airlines supported by efficient airports are very hard to beat on price. There are economies of scale here too. Very best case scenario, HSTs are similar in price and convenience and it's a matter of taste.
The person you're responding to didn't say that.

I'll go out on a limb and say this though: right-focused news organizations have conditioned the US conservative base to believe highly editorialized articles that aren't fact-based (wether or not the actual assertions of the articles are true or not). I believe that style has seeped into other news outlets as well, but those right-leaning news sources have a head start and at this point their audience is more susceptible.

Maybe in a few years the difference will be negligible, but right now it's not.
The only thing I'd add as a programmer is that the language you learn should depend on your interests too.

If you want to get started in web development, Javascript, Ruby.

iOS app development, Swift.

Android add development, Java.

Game development, C#.

I often think all of these article focus on the highest paying Silicone Valley development jobs.
If there is an app compatability layer (API parity) I'm sure most users won't notice the difference, and app developers wouldn't cry too hard about missing Google play services, provided there is an alternative.

My bet is Huawei will pick up a team or company (lineage team start packing your bags) to move forward with minimal risk. That or partner with a few other b-list manufacturers and create an alternative.

Hell even Google itself is trying to drop Android.
>whereas nowadays producing green energy (wind, solar, geothermal) has become cheap enough

I keep hearing this meme, that either wind/solar is cheaper than X (where X is coal or nuclear) or is soon to be cheaper. The reality is that they are cheap and getting cheaper but the point is moot because wind/solar cannot power a modern economy.

By the way, Geothermal and hydro are great, but we're pretty much done with them. We've dammed every river that can be dammed and developed every geyser that can be developed.

>that the nuclear risk is no longer acceptable.

Our only real alternative to nuclear is wind/solar/natural gas (or coal). I put them as a package deal because they are a package deal. Wind/Solar only work when coupled with natural gas - this is why Germany is signing multi-billion natural gas as they are ramping up their wind and solar deployments. This is why every natural gas company now lobbies for wind and solar deployments. The problem is that natural gas is destructive to develop (for example may need fracking to extract) and is a fossil fuel. So if you really think that CO2 emissions are an existential crisis and cutting them to 0 is important - nuclear is still the only game in town. Otherwise, you're investing in natural gas as you are ramping up your solar panels and windmills.
They definitely do in Amsterdam, and in London that might be different purely because y'all have an even bigger mess on other fronts, somehow.
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I would say that it had other factors that contributed to its sucess, so it succeeded in spite of lacking those features.

However due to the hardware architecture changes and new kids on the block, it is starting to be an issue.

I keep wishing to see them arrive, have watched all the JVM Language Summit, Devoxx and JavaONE talks about them.

Meanwhile I can already enjoy them elsewhere. :(
True, I use that tact rather than starting an argument with someone who would definitely just leave without changing their mind and probably even more entrenched. That way hopefully at the end of the conversation some sort of progress has been made.
> First, it takes money. Healthier diets... generally cost more... They note that the unprocessed diet they fed participants cost 40% more than the ultra-processed diet.

And yet, a paragraph later:

> Lots of families in our study cooked almost every night, in part because it was the cheapest option

So wait, hold on, is cooking more expensive or not? What are they eating that's supposedly healthier but significantly more expensive?

> the labor of shopping (often at multiple stores)

What major grocery chain doesn't carry everything needed to make dinner?

> This means making healthy food more affordable, but it also means addressing the other challenges families face: for example, by guaranteeing workers a living wage and fair working conditions and by investing in families through universal free school lunch and subsidized child care, so that parents don't feel like they're doing it all on their own.

Wait, hold on, what? I thought we were talking about food cooking barriers? I can understand the connection to free school lunch (make sure kids get one solid meal in them a day, if you can call government supplied cafeteria materials food), but, what?
Google kinda pulled a "bait-and-switch" with Android.

When they released it, it was pretty much 100% Open Source, then they moved more and more elements to their proprietary GApps suite, included the Play Services required to run even many 3rd party apps.

At this point Android is barely more Open Source than iOS and its Mach kernel, but the difference is that Google got its market share by selling to manufacturers the fact that they're independant because it's Open Source.
"MCAS is frequently confused with a flight augmentation system which isn’t true. This is demonstrably false. MCAS is a system in the same vein as the MD-11's LSAS. In other words, a hack to ensure the the "piloting experience" of the MAX stays as similar as possible to that of the 737 NG, despite the fact the NG doesn't suffer from directional pitch instability at high AoA."

- This is false because MCAS only activates during stall conditions and is the exact reason why this issue went undiscovered for so long. If it was the system that you say it is, then it would have been constantly making the 2.5-degree adjustments to the horizontal stabilizer all the time! The fact is that it requires an AoA sensor to report an attack angle greater than 25 degrees while airspeed drops below 200 knots. That Aircurrent article was the worst thing for Boeing because it made so many people misinformed. It somehow convinced people that the engine thrust is misaligned making it into some sort of harrier-jet hybrid that's "unstable". Completely false. Look at how many different engines and engine placements have been used throughout the history of flight that didn't require any augmentation system and then tell me that argument still has validity.
US Air Force probes targeted malware attack, blames the US Navy?
I don't get it. Do you really believe that people should file for trademarks in every country on earth just so their app doesn't get shut down in the US?
Or just a macronutrient breakdown.
And this is why getting private industry into space is what matters.

$1.6 billion is a tiny fraction of what we spend on things that will have basically 0 impact on the longterm outcome of our species. But since it doesn't get votes or feed special interests, it's left unfunded. Of course even if it was funded, it might well get cut. For instance one reason Nixon stripped down the space program was literally because he didn't like JFK and didn't want JFK's legacy overshadowing his own. [1]

Bezos, for instance, wanting to spend the majority of his wealth creating a private space industry can be seen as capricious, but I think this is myopic. Some time, ideally not all that far from now, space will have revolutionized every single aspect of our society. It provides endless lands for colonizing, endless mineral resources for harvesting, and an infinite frontier to reach ever deeper into. If we only moved forward once everything else was sound and stable, we'd never move forward.

[1] - http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/jason-callahan/20...
Full text of the draft can be found here: https://www.hawley.senate.gov/sites/default/files/2019-05/Lo...

Upon skimming through it briefly, a could of things pop out at me:

- They seem to swing back and forth between using the term "video game" and "interactive digital entertainment product". The latter could apply to all sorts of things unrelated to video games. So it should be noted that there's some potential overreaching here.

- In the definitions for game publisher/distributor, why are they only legally considered such if their products reach >1K users annually? Why that arbitrary cap? And how do you track that?

I'm all for making sure minors don't fall prey to sketchy gambling systems in video games, and I'm all for motivating game companies away from designing their games with PTW/Lootbox models.

But instead of an outright ban on content or design, why not instead enforce the ESRB laws already in the books? If a game contains any way to spend real money to make progress or participate in a random chance lootbox system, the game is automatilly consider Adult Only, and the existing ESRB restrictions are applied to it.

What do you guys think? I'm only loosely familiar wih the existing legal precedents in the U.S. and am willing to discuss.