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> why aren't these company suing to ban Huawei sales if the copying is so blatant. ...

First, Huawei's sales in the US already is quite limited to have any impact. Second, you can't win any sales or import injunction on 5G SEP violation.
I think Lipidology has now moved on from LDL-P, now it's all about ApoB containing lipoproteins and lifetime burden of exposure.
>Murder, Theft, Deceit, Assault, Terrorism “works”.

Depending on the context, yes.
Murder, for example, if I'm in a remote island and someone is going to kill me and they are weaker than me, then yes murdering them first works, the benefit > risk.

Likewise,in the context of Huawei, stealing works.

Note that I'm not saying the US shouldn't do anything to prevent/retaliate.
I'm guessing that if you log into the device with your apple id you can reset the private keys, otherwise not?
TFA refers heavily to 'free' as in the freedoms associated with this.

You cite 'open source' as something that you admire.

It's well known that 'free software' describes an attitude that the 'open source' crowd wasn't as keen to embrace, hence the subsequent linguistic wrangling.
> but unless if you’re in a very specific population it doesn’t move your all cause mortality risk one iota

Have you got a link to some relevant research?
Agreed. The cloud is great if your workload is low-egress... AWS/GCP bandwidth pricing is predatory at times.
Having just watched the "Striking Vipers" Black Mirror episode, it was mildly frustrating watching men do everything but talk...
Clair Patterson's story is ridiculously good. This Mental Floss article is my go-to share whenever he comes up. It's long, but a bit shorter than a dissertation :) Although I have saved the linked dissertation here to go through in-depth at my leisure.

The Most Important Scientist You’ve Never Heard Of

"For 60 years, American drivers unknowingly poisoned themselves by pumping leaded gasoline into their tanks. Here is the lifelong saga of Clair Patterson—a scientist who helped build the atomic bomb and discovered the true age of the Earth—and how he took on a billion-dollar industry to save humanity from itself."

http://mentalfloss.com/article/94569/clair-patterson-scienti...
I don't think using an API of a GPL software means your software "has to be" GPL. For example, not all software running on Linux using Linux APIs (syscalls) is GPL.
You say that, but constructing infrastructure costs several times more in the US than in, say, Denmark. Why is that?
The problem is many people in the free software community enjoy confusing their audience and then take delight in pointing out their clever wordplay.

No reasonable person would decide that the best way to cut through a complicated overlap of a technical discussion a moral issue with many subtleties was with a pun, of all things.
Sounds like you’re limiting your view to work-related calls. If I could have real eye contact on personal calls, it would make a huge difference.
My current technique of looking just below the camera already makes a huge difference, and it’s only a hack to make it seem like eye contact for the other person.
Open source is not Free software. The blog post is about how Blender is firmly behind the GPL and free software, which is in opposition to just having available source code without assured user freedoms.
> Well, then why does Blender need a development fund?

Why wouldn't they have such a fund? Sponsoring is a viable FLOSS business model, and it heavily overlaps with support (which is discussed in your quote from the blogpost).

The notion that "people" aren't "able to make money" with FLOSS is just a fallacy, and Blender itself is one of the clearest examples of how wrong it is - it was failing as a commercial prospect, and then got "rescued" or "ransomed out" as FLOSS via crowdfunding - one of the earliest crowdfunding initiatives I'm aware of, for that matter; well before there was anything like Kickstarter, Indiegogo etc.
It's an area of open legal debate, with a spectrum of what it means to be using an API and what constitutes a derived work.
Oh look, a post with details of china's dodgy economic situation and how it treats its people is downvoted.

But who would do that? And why??????? So confusing....
Sure do! I typically defer to Mark Sisson for this kind of stuff, who’s very good at linking in relevant research.

https://www.marksdailyapple.com/the-evidence-continues-to-mo...
On the other hand freedom is a really nice word that everyone loves whereas "libre" is some fake French or something that you have to try to pronounce with some kind of rolled r like is that really going to succeed in the American marketplace of ideas
"We've been doing it for (years/decades/centuries)" is not, in itself, an argument that something is safe, wise, or moral.

If you wish to argue that imposing patents preventing farmers from replanting seeds is moral, then it seems like it would make sense to actually make an argument that addresses the morality in any way, shape, or form.
That could actually work. They already make low persistence OLED displays for use in VR, where the screen stays black for most of the frame and a bright bar of image rolls down the screen.

The iPhone can already operate in this mode.

I assume there is a display brightness penalty, but the image quality from the camera should be fine as long as it gets more than half the frame collecting light.
> Please keep in mind, Japanese consider cetaceans just another fish. They simply don't understand all the anti-whaling rhetoric.

I am a Japanese (so sorry for bad English) and I think this is true. It does NOT mean we don't understand whales are mammals. We all understand that fishes and mammals are taxonomically very different. We eat many kinds of animals underwater like fishes, shellfishes, crustacean, eels, octopuses, etc. Whales are one of them.

We should not eat whales because whales are intelligent? There are many evidence that octopuses have very high intelligence.

Because whales are mammals and humans are mammals? We (including non-Japanese) eat pigs and cattles, which are mammals.

Additionally, this is my personal opinion, I think "the animals which have higher intelligence should not be eaten" is not a common sense in Japan. Intelligence is not a only value of creatures.
That's correct. Quantum computers can effectively halve the key size of symmetric encryption, but 128 bits is still secure, and we could always go to 512-bit keys.
Oh it wasn't in isolation - a lot of well known names in many nations had an interest, and there was varying degree of popular interest too. It seemed particularly popular in the Nordic nations, and America. The were eugenics societies in most of the major nations. America had popular societies in many states, it was in the media, and the US were among the earliest to bring in eugenic laws - and the last to keep them around.

So in the context of OP's comment it seems very unlikely that many were completely unaware of what Germany was doing along similar lines, and going so much further. Whether that was still viewed as OK in the context of the time - a time before the holocaust - is of course far harder to judge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States
He looked in the window of a car and saw tons of users' personal information -- visible through the window! Any criminal could walk by and copy the info, privately, without anyone knowing. Maybe some criminals already have.

I think the important thing we miss with car/physical crime analogies is that cybercrime can be so invisible. Nothing is missing, nothing is taken... but users private data is lost. So if an organization is doing something terribly naive like publishing passwords to userdata in plaintext... it's disgusting for our society to punish the wrong people, the people pointing out the flaws rather than the ones who cause them. All the really malicious entities came and went and will never be caught.

They put private information into a JSON file accessible by an HTTPS GET, the only password being one that they put in plaintext onto everyone's phones.

My analogy: They put the private information onto a billboard, but you can only see the billboard from a particular vantage point in a public park.
The #1 cost is increased complexity and opportunity cost of converting your simple app to an interesting serverless/nosql/microservices/etc distributed system. Of course the financial savings can be heroic and justify the effort because everything is very expensive on AWS.
What about “freedom software“? I know it’s grammatically incorrect but it sends the right message.
I am not him, but for me "nothing done" in similar situation meant that I did not learned new programming related things despite needing to, did not contributed to household chores as much as I should, deteriorated/neglected relationships with people actually around me and nearby, personal projects did not moved and stuff I was supposed to organize was not organized.

A lot of these games are designed in a way that makes them less fun when played only a little. Or you become a drag on the team. There are also long term quests and you need to be present to participate.

An explocite agreement on playing twice a week breaks "plausible deniality" here. For some reason it is hard to admit that we are doing it for social reasons. It would be like calling brother on the phone directly - the same block preventing you one action prevents the other.
Libre doesn't have a meaning at all, in English, so you'll have to explain that as well. In other languages that I know there is no such problem because the two meanings of "free" are clearly disambiguated by two different words.
I also don't like the term "free" in the context of money involved. I think it makes instant and, imo, associations in the brain that are not helpful for the project in question.

Rarely are projects of any meaningful size actually free. Someone is paying to afford the hosting/dev/etc. Sometimes that payment is in the form of donations from larger organizations. Often a mix of that and user donations. However I think it's important that we don't so easily undermine a projects funding. Especially projects as great as Blender.

I think I just long for the idea that we all recognized that many of these projects we use could do well with some basic coffee money from us all. Something somewhat like Github is setting up. $3/m to a project I make money off of means nothing to me, but from a couple thousand users it would be amazing for the sole project owner.

It's complex, I know. There's pros and cons to a lot of funding talk. Nevertheless, I just want to see great projects succeed. As Blender is.
I think it's quite real with OLED. But even with screen on, if you use a specialised CCD with huge dynamic range, I think it's doable.
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Yeah, I never said that it is :) I honestly don't get the point of your comments, but I think you may not be getting the point of mine either.

To clarify: the article contains advice about how to fund operations for plugin developers. I doubt that it is viable for all plugin developers to fund their operations off of documentation and services. I am just saying that we should be honest and express that funding the development directly will be needed and probably the only way to get it is donations. That's really all I am saying here.
No doubt the government will take over the operation if they fail to deliver.
The parent isn’t talking about food irradiation, they’re talking about atomic gardening: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_gardening
In NYC there's been a growing trend towards merchants going cashless. There are bills to prevent this. Losing ability to pay with cash means a loss of privacy and anonymity.

The WeChat dominance in payments reminds me a bit of this trend. Luckily some US local governments care about maintaining some level of privacy.
I'm not sure AWS costs are something you can do by remembering a few guidelines, rather than actually assigning an order-of-magnitude estimate to every billable thing and adding it all up.

Like the one that bit me recently was a $0.05/1000 cost per thing, which is easy to translate to $0.00005/thing and then mentally round to $0. That one added up to real money at 10^8 things, and would have been a big problem at 10^9. The cool thing about horizontal scaling is that doing something 10^6 times or 10^9 times is going to feel pretty similar when you do it -- the only difference is the order of magnitude of the bill.
How to Write Better Code?
Sure, you can get shielding and bandpass filters, but by then you're back at $100 bucks and have terrible radio to boot. The Pluto and Lime Mini are very capable transceivers for ~$150.

The RPi isn't going to bring down airliners and start WWIII, but radio spectrum isn't going to work if people don't cooperate and be good neighbors.
Most of my day is productive usually. Sometimes I'm not, and this is when I'm blocked, usually on a build system or similar (I actively avoid multitasking as it is a good way to do multiple things poorly). If I'm blocked for a short while and can do very cognitively light work, I will likely work on it. If it will be longer, I can usually pivot to something else that needs to be worked on.

I think it might be easy to be myopic with your definition though. If I'm pushing the company goals further, I'm being productive, even if I'm not learning. It might not give me more technical expertise, but it will help on my next review. And that helps with success. Helping others with their stuff might not help my learning either, but it also helps them and the company move forward. Meetings are an opportunity to distill and communicate information for target audiences. Scrum ceremonies are opportunities to similar, but also to find ways to balance business and team needs. Now, not all meetings are productive use of time, but I think people will tend to overly discount them.

I feel I'm mostly productive for most of the day. I also spend some time reading and learning about things on the edges of what I know. I've done this for about a decade within one company. I've approximately tripled my salary and earned a lot of equity. I started with some poor knowledge of php and MySQL to many years later a principal developer influencing the designs of our distributed, scalable, and highly available systems. I also have introduced new technologies, strategies, and systems here. I've learned to work with others throughout the organization at different levels in different disciplines. I did not do any of this in a vacuum. I've had great peers, great managers, and others who are knowledgeable that I could learn from. No official mentors, just kind of the village to raise a child kind of thing.

I'm on mobile and should get out of bed now. Hopefully. This stream of consciousness is a bit coherent and doesn't have too many typos and someone gets something out of it.
> Above it are fixing the obligatory 5 minutes of "Can you hear me? I can't hear you" before the actual conversation starts.

Whenever I’m in this mode (which basically means whenever I’m on a conference call) I wonder what percentage of the GDP this represents, in aggregate.
Some folks from the community created that initiative! Let's support!!! https://twitter.com/MATRIX_Creator/status/113722465869100236...
(anecdotal:) Most people all over the world think 'organic' when it's not about organic chemistry or a list of 'approved' things or a label some agency sticks on things that are considered 'organic'. Organic in the sense of organic pesticides are the kinds of pesticides that you'd find in the wild, without them being man-made. That doesn't exclude synthetic replication, because if you can mass-produce that thing that was already there anyway, that's a good way making it available for more uses. That said, some 'organic pesticides' may be introducing an insect that is a predator to the insect you are trying to get rid of. While a 'pest' in 'pesticide' doesn't mean just insects, you usually have organic predators that don't harm your produce while hunting the pest that does attack it.

Say you have a fungus that eats at your corn, maybe there is another one that just eats that fungus but leaves the corn alone. Or maybe you have some insect that eats your wheat, and some naturally occurring compound exists that is bad for the exoskeleton of that insect; put compound (found naturally or replicated synthetically) on the wheat, insects will be sad/dead/gone, there ya go, organic pesticide.

Those natural, or, organic pesticides usually evolved with some specific target in mind, while man-made pesticides are more like chemo therapy: kill as much as possible without killing the produce we want. This has the downside that killing as much as possible actually kills things we don't want killed.
Lol. Anyone who defends a $999 dollar monitor stand is a fanboy. Keep drinking that Kool-Aid
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causeway_Bay_Books_disappearan...

I mean, the reality is Hong Kong’s “autonomy” only exists because Beijing allows it. I guess it means something that so many people still show up despite the “futility” of it.
Currently WSJ articles can be read by appending "?mod=rsswn" to the URL.
All my 7 cars are hacked. Sorry you feel that way.
Using things that already exist in a new application is perfectly valid subject matter. You could easily say that using these genes is a process to enhance crop yield.
The distances are just much larger in rural California than in Denmark. The cost of putting all those wires underground is too expensive.
And every dime spent is one dime less for shareholders.

Well, PG+E just went bankrupt, so there aren't any dimes left for shareholders anyway. It's not like they're making a huge margin of profit.
> Someone makes a virus for targeted killing of cancer cells. Can they patent it? Are viruses organisms?

This raises the question whether advances in medicine should be able to be patented. With jacked up insulin prices causing people to risk their lives rationing doses, I'm not sure it's a good thing. I know patents create an investment incentive, but I have to wonder if there's not a better way. And government subsidized research adds another layer of complexity, although I'm not sure if that can or can't be patented in various jurisdictions.

Also, many people here are opposed to software patents (imo rightfully so), so it should be unsurprising that they'd be against patenting crops.
University education isn't about the destination/exam it's about the journey.

There are more paths to the final destination than just turning up to all of your lectures, particularly if a lecturer is not doing a good job of presenting the material.

One of the controversial issues here in the UK at the moment is how much students are now paying for their university fees compared to how much value the university offers in return. Governments over the past generation or so have turned undergraduate degrees into a much more commercial proposition: you're taking on a lot of debt, but you're leaving with (in theory, according to the marketing brochure) much better career prospects.

At the same time, advances in technology and communications are rendering obsolete the old school lectures where you turn up and transfer the lecturer's notes from their paper to yours without passing through either brain along the way. You can find some of the best presentations of subjects ever given in freely available videos online today. Manually transcribing notes (or typing them on your laptop, or whatever) is largely a waste of time when you can just download well-written notes and spend your time in a lecture actually concentrating on understanding the material. For many courses, you really need to look at multiple sources anyway, to avoid getting tied up with a single view of the subject or a single expert's personal style of presentation and notation.

So if you said to a typical UK undergraduate today that the most important thing about their university journey was to attend all of their lectures, even when they're being phoned in by some researcher who is simultaneously daydreaming about their latest funding application, I don't think many people would agree with you.
To me this conclusion does not fit with a few points: quality of fats, overall quantity of fat, protein quantity, and fiber.

I'm not making any overarching conclusion about what is healthier, but I do think the article's conclusion is pretty weak.
That would be fantastic for the utility. PG+E would love to just drop those customers entirely. The cost of fire risk alone is more than they make from this region. They can't because they're legally required to keep delivering power there.
FYI this is discussed in the conclusion:

> First, the use of lipid-lowering medication was unaccounted for. The risk associated with high cholesterol might have been underestimated. However, in Korea, IHD mortality accounted for only approximately 5% of all-cause mortality, and only 10% of people with hypercholesterolemia received lipid-lowering therapy[39]. Therefore, the impact of not considering medication use is likely to be modest, and the TC levels in this study generally reflect levels without lipid-lowering medications
> banning plastic straws

Can be viewed as the first step to banning all/most non-degradable/plastic packaging. Which is not a small problem, e.g.: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/05/people-e...
You're not going got be able to find that type of knowledge in a couple of books. I used to work as an analyst programming mortgage prospectus documents and the one thing I learned is the system is purposely obfuscating and there are several incentive systems to keep this information private.
We need a third party extensions store.
that’s an impressive laundry list of blatant transgressions that make even Uber look good in comparison.
The idea is to make the API just powerful enough for the most annoying ads to disappear.

In other words, to block ads on third party networks but leave Google ads alone. That's a bold move these days, when antitrust regulators are putting big tech under the microscope.
From what I can see, Blender is trying to pretend it's a hard-and-fast rule, and they are requiring addon authors to label their work as open source to sell on their store.
I tend to disagree.

We actually can measure the biological age. There are clinical biomarkers for that. It is not commonly done. The best one, epigenetic signature, is yet to be clinically approved or widely available.

Now, in that paper, they use broad range of age as a descriptor, confounding many age-associated phenotype and genotypes, which also translate into risk factors. You can definitely say that the 18-34 cohort is different 45-54, and that the later as more risk factors, the same a specific mutation might be associated with higher or even guaranteed chance of developing a disease, and hence will be use as a biomarker.

That being said, it is not typical to measure the biological age of healthy individuals. Actually, we don't know what an healthy individual is. We know a great deal more about diseased individuals. The current status seems to be that if you are not diseased you are healthy. I don't agree with that. That's how science is done. And that is how we end up with half-baked studies in one of the most impactful journal .
1. Surely there are other chemical compounds that are present in the fast food meats and not the plant based meats, and vice versa, but that aren’t listed in the article’s table.

2. The plant-based meats are intended to imitate real meat as much as possible, and I would imagine an intuitive way to do this is to include the same amount of ingredients as on the table presented.

3. “Healthiness” is probably unfortunately best measured through a large and well intentioned study, and not objectively by comparing a limited list of ingredients.
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Funny enough, that song is from 1982. It's looking forward towards the end of the world on 2000-01-01, and to "party like it's 1999".
The article by the wsj seems to be more than sufficient.