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We start out by acknowledging that we cannot know with certainty. That is always Step One in science -- any science -- biological, atmospheric, physical.

Pointing it out doesn't make you edgy, it just makes you a PITA. You're still on Step One while we are working on the implications of "suppose x:y:z", having ruled out "x:w" sometime back, and "x:y:v" more recently.

Could it be "a:b:c", instead? Maybe, but that would require a to overcome all the problems x satisfied, lo those many years ago, before we embarked on y and z.

Call back when z and all its other alternatives, and the other possibilities given x, have been ruled out. Unless of course you have good evidence calling x in question, that nonetheless accounts for its apparent successes.

Reflexive skepticism and gullibility are two sides of the same plug nickel.
Ah, the lost joy of trying out various screen resolutions and refresh rates on your new monitor.
It will be ironically funny when people start posting benchmarks of macOS on their (Hackintosh) Threadripper based workstations. ;)
I think this might just be your personal preferences; I know quite a few people who are happy to focus on something very specific for years. To them, "the point where the information and knowledge is no longer certain" is where things become interesting, not where they stop.
No it doesn’t there are rules and requirements beyond those of a privately owned company, which is for instance why he can’t just call a vote tomorrow nullifying every share except for his own without seeing it blow up in his face. It’s not his company, it’s a public company in which he has controlling shares. He can’t do whatever he likes without consequence, but he can definitely retain control even in the face of rising criticism.
What horrible 'collective action' policies are you talking about ? Seems entirely made up.
The LTSE wants to give startups all the benefits of being public whilst encouraging long-termism through tenured voting and other gimmicks.

It seems that Zuckerberg has already achieved this however by retaining voting rights. That hasn't stopped investors from pouring money in to FB.

Why would any founder then decide to list on LTSE rather then just implement a dual class structure? Perhaps if market conditions were to change, but right now there appears to be no shortage of investor cash looking for a home.
I think it is to clear the text, thus not giving your full name to the app. I assume when the email is selected it’s not filled with an x but a check mark.
Private Internet Access. Besides providing great service, they sponsor a lot of free and open source software and services, like Freenode IRC.
Does Facebook Have a Leaks Problem?
I disagree. Look at the post-college careers of General Studies majors compared to any specialized major. Our current society rewards specialization and niching.

Dabbling is low-risk/low-reward; specialization is high-risk/high-reward.
Yale physicists can predict the jumps of Schrödinger's cat (and finally save it)
Terrifying indeed. No comment other than for others to please read this.
Russia demands Tinder give user data to secret services
Agreed, which is why I shouldn't have to. Give me root of of the box. Print the root password on a card in the packaging. Yes I can undo all the privacy measures if I make mistakes but that is on me.
The original author is saying success, not proficiency. There's plenty of programmers who didn't end up like John Carmack. Defining success is pretty difficult. I generally agree with everything you're saying though, and it's hard to say any good programmer won't be nominally successful in their own right. Any skill-based career will enable someone to be employable, which in 2019 is more successful than average.
The theory of gravity doesn't try to explain where every apple that ever fell from a tree landed exactly.
Training neural belief-propagation decoders for quantum error-correcting codes
Flash, e-scooter startup from Delivery Hero founder, re-brands as 'Circ'
I find Pipenv very nice, but it is controversial.
Nation’s most ambitious project to clean up nuclear waste has stalled at Hanford
Tesla sells invisible objects. Elon Musk is truly brilliant.
Approximate Metric Optimization in the Age of Deep Neural Networks (Google) [pdf]
> it’s a good idea to double check if the App is compiled with the library-validation option (flag=0x200). That would mean that the OS will verify if all dylibs are signed or not

Actually, library validation will check if the binary is signed with the same team ID.

> I signed up with a new Apple ID for the Apple developer program just because I had the fear that they will ban me, once I introduce an app that can be used for private escalation. In fact they didn’t.

Apple has a history of going after people who try to find holes in the App Store’s security model. This was a huge gamble; they could have your life quite miserable if they figured out who was behind this.
I think subconsciously many people think of slums as godless drug war zones with no sanitation, and that any soul dumb enough to ventures into one will never come back out alive. This census shows with some actual data that reality is a lot closer to what Bill Gates and poverty scholars have been saying about the poor: that they've been slowly crawling up in the quality of life scale, despite all the hardships.

I'm not actually all that interested in the exact cash flow figures. What I think is interesting is people's perceptions of some of the mechanisms in play. For example, take "protection tax". If you think about it, governments and the police operate under a very similar principle (you pay for police services through taxes and if you don't pay, you are punished, perhaps even via force if you resist). Also if you think about it, it's not in a drug gang's interest to extort businesses out of business, since then they would have nowhere to get food or clothes for their kids (yes drug gangs have kids). It's interesting how even in places where one would think anarchy would rule, systems still form that are similar to "normal" civilized systems, and it's interesting that there are local economies within slums and bias from outsiders similar to sentiment from some xenophones in US or Europe. It's almost like it's human nature that certain things develop the way they do.
So what's your competing theory of how flight evolved?
The 10k rule is falling out of social favor nowadays, as are most systems of thinking that suggest success requires hard work and (most importantly) persistence.
Wow that explains a good majority of infomercials to me... Thank you.
Security researchers aren't exactly Apple's target audience, just saying.

Possibly compromising security for everybody just so 0.05% of the users can be happy is not a realistic expectation.
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You could breed it out of them in N generations.

Wolfs are terrifying too!
Psychology definitely plays a role in biasing how people interpret things they see and their priorities, but I think much of this is better understood through an economic lens.

If you consider the actions you take to preserve your privacy, it's a strategy you developed over time. And no one can claim to have a formula for devising the perfect strategy when there are non-trivial unknowns. This isn't just common, but normal in economics.

An economic actor can a. estimate the potential costs and benefits, b. observe other actors' strategy and outcomes but must ultimately c. execute their own strategy.

None of these are fully rational, and you have scarce resources (time & money, ability to survey the problem, limited exposure to the actions and consequences of other actors) to allocate to A and B.

If everything works, you stick to your strategy. If you get burned, you adjust your strategy in response. (Though a strategy may be "eat a cost less than $X.")

And if you observe it working for others or others getting burned, you might also adjust your strategy. This does lead to a natural selection of successful strategies; actors are "eventually optimal."
Note that in this case "suspend" actually means "unload", not "pause".

So if you get on a plane and go to that tab to read that thing you meant to read... it's not there anymore.

In a world where you're always connected, of course, the difference between "pause" and "unload" is pretty minimal.
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The only things that come to mind are some household items. Grease cleaners, motor oil, actual OTC drugs (cough, aspirin, etc.), actual full size brooms, pest control and few other things.
Not really.

An individual can absolutely value their output at any value they so choose and be correct. The idea that "the market" is a "fair" determinant of value should be challenged at every step lest we allow people to suffer because they do not have enough money to pay for the "fair" amount for healthcare.

That is not even mentioning that we do not have perfect information (to come to a "fair" value) and that facets orthogonal to product value (i.e. marketing, brand inertia) play a huge role in determining what customers are willing to pay for.

But even playing along with the naive model: Tidal has a non-zero amount of paying customers. Some people enjoy music (+ Tidal exclusives) enough to treat it as more than a cost:convenience ratio.
Look here. Mods shadow ban/hide comments.

Censorship is very bad on the internet.
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I find Solid incredibly interesting academically, and watch it with interest, but I'm sadly skeptical that it'll find traction— it requires both substantial development resources (as apps need to be rewritten to its standards) and a change in consumer behaviour.

I'm reminded of this Steve Jobs response from WWDC 1997 [1]:

> One of the things I've always found is that you've got to start with the customer experience and work backwards for the technology. You can't start with the technology and try to figure out where you're going to try to sell it. And I made this mistake probably more than anybody else in this room. And I got the scar tissue to prove it.

The beauty of the implementation I described is that it could work with any existing (web) app with little-no development effort while leveraging affordance users already have from using Touch/Face ID to authenticate Keychain, Apple Pay etc.

Until a proposal like Solid is widespread, I'd love for a browser/password manager vendor I trust (for me, Mozilla or Apple) to integrate with a privacy-forward email vendor for unique email addresses to provide a less 'fingerprinted' approach to auth, useful today with all legacy (web) apps.

[1] https://youtu.be/FF-tKLISfPE
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It was one of the standard examples in my introductory computer science classes, along with the Ariane overflow and the inaccurate system clock on some missile defence system that got a bunch of soldiers killed in Iraq when someone missed the scheduled restart hack.
My only Italy experience was Rome and the surrounding area. That remains the only place in the EU I refuse to drive.
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Sorry, yes, Ken passed away, i meant keith cooper, i was writing quickly.
Yet they fail to put their money where their votes are by simply selling Facebook shares.

Regardless of what happens with Zuckerberg, Facebook's best days are behind it. The notion that a change in leadership can right this sinking ship makes no sense.
Apple App Store Outage
> What do you guys make in India?

> It was a fairly simple question, it was a kind of brutal self appraisal, but apart from making soaps and clothing and ball point pens, you really struggle to answer the question. What IP do we build here? and what do we make that we sell, like products?

Just to add to what others had said:

1. Moser Bauer is (was?) the largest manufacturer of CDs in the world. Sure, few people use CDs anymore these days, but 20 years ago, MB was a giant.

2. Essel Propack is the leader by far of packaging material like the tubes your toothpaste comes in.

3. India had a pivotal role in stopping the AIDS epidemic in Africa. India offered a year's supply of anti-retroviral drugs (for AIDS patients) to Africans for $300/year; companies in the West were demanding 100x as much. Just imagine the number of lives saved thanks to this move alone.

4. Lifestyle ideas like yoga, meditation, vegetarianism are all heavily influenced by India.

5. India had been doing "organic farming" for millennia; Albert Howard learned organic farming techniques from Indian farmers, and spread them in the West. He's known as the "father of modern organic farming". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Howard
My friend that's a locomotive engineer in a really pretty part of BC once told me this pickup line "Hey baby, I get to drive a multi-million dollar company vehicle, with a full window view of gorgeous mountain landscapes, with flexible hours!"

(by flexible hours I mean he has no sleep schedule and may have to work 12+ hour shifts at any time of the day, with the possibility of a 8 hour break and another 12 hour shift)
There is a beta going on right now: you can sign up for you place in line.
Running is not boring if you are sprinting. But yes, the standard jog is the truly the most boring thing ever. I have fallen asleep and crashed while jogging. Sprinting is so much more fun - as long as you build up to it slowly to avoid sprains/pulls.
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> They're pretty far behind with software

Examples? They are a platform vendor and have done no worse than other companies when it comes to their platform. Sure macOS has stagnated somewhat, but so have nearly all desktop platforms. Windows 10 started gaining momentum only when Microsoft realized that they had no scope in mobile space and had to save the last fort they had left. And to be honest, I do not consider Windows 10 to be massively superior to macOS. There is a reason they are building a Frankenstein's Monster by grafting a Linux kernel on top of Windows.

And iOS, despite its problem, can't be considered as worse than Android -- the later has its own problems.

At this point, OS platforms are as good as they are going to get. Barring a paradigm shift in computing, all we are going to see are incremental improvements. And IMO, that is not a bad thing. I, for one, do not want to see an interface redesign every other year.

> no real cloud offering besides iCloud.

That is like saying Google and Microsoft have no cloud offering besides Google Drive and OneDrive respectively. Or are you talking about GCP/Azure? If so, how is that relevant? Apple, unlike the other two, remains a consumer focused company with limited investment into enterprise.

> In reality, I don't think people will go back to Cloud 1.0 but at least Apple will keep companies in check while they rot away to oblivion.

What does that even mean?

> They're doubling down on what they can do which is to convince people to avoid moving their life online.

Are you suggesting iCloud is not online?
>As the other person said, if your scripts are executables with an sh or bash 'shebang' at the top, they will continue to use the same shell they always did.

Cool! I do use shebangs, but my concern is that moving forward bash may not be ported to macOS. (Or will I probably be able to, worst case, compile it myself?)
That is a nice analysis, but tbh, I think it overlooks the big pricing problem that is really at the core of it all. Make the SR+ a 20K car and people would flock to it. As it is, it might struggle to sell more than 300K units per year. But then again, the BMW 3 series only sells about 400k per year at similar price points. The Model Y looks sort of like a cheaper BMW X6. The X6 moves ~50K units per year.

The price points, models, and distribution/service channel limit unit volume more than differences in the operating model of EVs.
Fascinating; I want to know if Jack, the baboon, drank the half-bottle of beer each week.

Connected by the topic of railways: Reminded me of the the Peter Dinklage film The Station Agent
(https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0340377/).
Is the difference larger (and more expensive) explosions?

If so sign me up! :D
It would be really helpful to have a little blurb about what it is somewhere. Writing a tool, I know sometimes it's easy to forget that not everyone has the context, but that contexts would be super useful.
Apple's play is clever because, by breeding a generation of users who are more privacy-conscious, they're also breeding a generation of users who are more likely to buy Apple in the future in a marketplace that is otherwise hostile to privacy. It's as much a long-term game as it is a short-term one.
The counter argument is that trade-crafts (of which I include programming) are one of the clearest examples of different people have vastly difference proficiencies in the lower tiers of skill outside mastery.
You didn't leave that clear on your post.
Cool! I'll keep you and your company in mind in the future.

At the time, I think I made the right call. Now with this machine being available I'm reconsidering. The mold bases are pretty inexpensive too. I could make the same investment I was going to make several years ago, but have a machine if it doesn't work out rather than a hunk of precisely machined, rather useless, steel on the other side of the world.
> James "Jumper" Wide had been known for jumping between railcars until an accident where he fell and lost both of his legs.
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> With CVS selling more groceries than Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s combined

WF and TJ are niche supermarket chains, its just another dumb headline. https://www.statista.com/statistics/818602/online-and-offlin...

But my fear is growing...
isn't this happening already? From totally unscientific perspective, if you look at pictures of people from olden days (say high school seniors from 1970s/1980s vs from 21st century) as well pictures of 60+ people from 1940s/1950s,

you will notice people now look a lot younger. It isn't only the sense of grooming/clothing but also physical attributes which have changed
What would they issue a retraction for?

Their Huawei article has been borne out by subsequent developments.
"car note" is a pretty common term, at least in the Southern US, but I haven't heard "house note" before.
> Programmers love creating unitasker software, particularly for end users, frankly because it takes much less thought. And when they do create powerful general purpose highly flexible software, their target audience is most often other programmers. Excel (and a handful of others like hypercard) are proof that this status quo can be broken.

Exactly. If we view personal computing more like a "medium for literacy," then it becomes clear that computing power is wildly imbalanced. This is especially egregious when we consider the original goals of personal computing. Spreadsheets, Hypercard, and things like them were a totally different direction for computing that has largely since been abandoned in favor of market-dictated "wants" and shrink-wrapped "solutions." The upshot is that the people who should be most in the know -- computer people, developers, etc -- are stuck in a rigid world of epistemic closure (where, for example, Unix is more or less the "End of History")

I have yet to find a better definition of programming than "telling a computer what to do." When put this way, a lot of things that the trade-school approach consider "programming" are really only a subset -- and perhaps the most regressive and uninteresting to boot.
Interesting, I was taught about Japanese internment in public high school.
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This is why computers are 100000x faster but feel no faster or slower with many "webapps"
Cool. I have a couple that I forgot to because they're extremely minor (basically just a 4 line set of commands into one) but I can append that easily.

Maybe I'll write a bash script to prep my poorly written bash scripts :D
Great way to put it.

When looking at this like coaches and players, players are often the experts and coaches are often the generalists. We all know, though, in business, coaches tend to get paid WAY more. So it behooves most players to become experts, in order to be the best player, so that one day their efforts will get rewarded and they can ascend to coach-dome.

But there are many, many coaches that were never experts. Some of which are privileged psycho-sociopaths who have worked their way up the coach ladder by playing that game, which is a different exercise entirely.

This leads you to the question, is it better to be a coach-coach or a player-coach? Furthermore, how does a new coach (who is not a sociopath) compete against both coaches and players trying to be the next coach? Where is the lane for the natural, generalist coach?

All lanes are hard, but the generalist-coach lane is very hard for those without an MBA, and without certain cut-throat tactics, which seem to be the base playing rules in that lane. Then, even if you get the title, earning the respect of the player-experts is another challenge.

Generalists may have their day, and lanes-per-niche may be more or less difficult for generalists, but it is not such a triumph. From my perspective, at least.
I've noticed a similar thing happening with prepared food. If there are Wawa stores in an area, there usually aren't as many sandwich or salad places nearby as you'd expect. Where I work, your options are basically Wawa or bottom-tier fast-food chains (McDonald's, Taco Bell, etc.). I really wish there were more health-oriented quick-service options (even a Chipotle would be nice), but I don't think they can compete against a place like Wawa since it's good enough for the vast majority of people.

For people scratching their heads wondering what the heck Wawa is, I have no idea what the West Coast equivalent would be. Sheetz is another similar chain on the East Coast, if that rings any bells...
> I mean the US likes to forget it had concentration camps for the Japanese after Pearl Harbor.

I don’t think this is a fair comparison. some people are ignorant of this, or don’t want to know about it, but there isn’t any active state-sponsored campaign to suppress this. My own experience is that I was at an openly advertised exhibition in San Diego 20 years ago on this very topic and there wasn’t even a scintilla of fear that it could be the subject of any kind of censorship.
>"Whenever I go to a conference and I discover that there will be a presentation about Byzantine fault tolerance, I always feel an immediate, unshakable sense of sadness, kind of like when you realize that bad things can happen to good people, or that Keanu Reeves will almost certainly make more money than you over arbitrary time scales. Watching a presentation on Byzantine fault tolerance is similar to watching a foreign film from a depressing nation that used to be controlled by the Soviets — the only difference is that computers and networks are constantly failing instead of young Kapruskin being unable to reunite with the girl he fell in love with while he was working in a coal mine beneath an orphanage that was atop a prison that was inside the abstract concept of World War II."

James Mickens, 'The Saddest Moment' - https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/mickens/files/thesaddestmo...

edit - further wisdom;

James Mickens, Associate Professor, Authority On All Things, Harvard - https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/wisdom-james-mickens
Tolerance to stress is a 'trade-off' as fruit flies age
Stick with the big players, PIA, airvpn. I trust those two.
What kind of machine do you have?
>One man's lack of anxiety is another man's Stockholm syndrome.

Well, people have escaped kidnappers. None has escaped death, and until this happens (which very well could happen technically at some point) it's just anxiety over the inevitable.
I agree < 100% as this is one of many benefits for a politician to take this stance. Another benefit is leverage over an industry. Leverage is a tool that can be used for different purposes. Even if the courts thwart one possible outcome, there are other possible outcomes.