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This question is FUD. You are probably referring to Bowman v Monsanto:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowman_v._Monsanto_Co.

Bowman deliberately bought seeds from a third party that contained Monsanto's patented genes and claimed that because a third party was involved, the patent did not apply. This has nothing to do with accidental contamination.
I was pointing out this as a fact, it's not a joke. I agree it looks like a non-respectful machist comment.
Yeah, if we needed to have a rich New Yorker as our president I would have preferred Bloomberg.
The Gravel campaign was recently endorsed by the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at Bush!
> Is this currently "only" a legal problem, or are the GMO crop companies able to produce seeds that produce sterile crops?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_use_restriction_techno...

It's possible to do, but most folks say that they won't ever implement it. The UN has a moratorium on GURT use.
Please keep in mind, Japanese consider cetaceans just another fish. They simply don't understand all the anti-whaling rhetoric.

The other thing to keep in mind is the demand for whale meat has sharply decreased. Japanese would rather eat beef. If you want to eliminate whaling, do so with economic tools. I.e. cheap beef.

Lastly, if you find you are anti-whaling but love a juicy steak, I consider you a hypocrite. They're both mammals. I've never seen any conclusive evidence that whales are any better than cattle. All the 'intelligent' behavior I've ever seen reported of is comparable to other animals 'intelligent' behavior that most have no issues of eating.
Happening to me right now, although I'm going through with it and taking it upon myself to show the company/industry what a good tech manager can actually be.
The non-limited tesla is available... just pay more.

At $30k it's the limited tesla (with rebate) or an ICE.

Both the limited and unlimited tesla owners get a benefit. Higher volumes and more cars to amortize R&D over.

I don't get your point though. The limited range version still gets the promised range, even though the car is heavier.

The unlimited range car gets more for the money because tesla can sell a higher volume of cars, which makes it possible for tesla to sell at such low price points.
ITT everybody doing the same!
Couldn't they just have shutdown orders for SR and offered those who pre-ordered it an SR+ instead?
Is Gitote a fork of Gogs/Gitea?
All external reporting begins with a seed, and that seed plays very different in a closed society without free speech protection.
> The experience is not valued here. So what is? The lack of experience?

Experience in software development is sadly irrelevant for much of the software development industry. Instead what is today valued is knowledge of some new framework, the ability to describe data structures and algorithms (for interviews only), and the ability to pick-up (hack) at things quickly and without complaint.

All of these things are equally well done by a newcomer, of which there are ever increasing numbers. What future does someone increasingly older have over time, in an industry where the only qualifications (really) sought are "smart, eager, compliant, cheerful, and quick to learn"?
Logistically fine, but if it makes financial sense to even manufacture and ship full sized batteries to everyone, you might as well let people use them. Otherwise it's purely wasteful, which contradicts their first principles of existence as a company to have unused and will-never-be-used lithium cells being trucked around by thousands of cars the country.

Software upgrades should only provide better software, not unlock precious resources that would otherwise be wasted.

Also, writing software to deliberately cripple hardware is counterproductive to advancement of technology. It also highly incentivizes people to reverse engineer your system, hack your system, unsubscribe themselves from updates, and IMO they have every right to do so. It would be in your best interest to NOT incentivize this type of behavior. If I buy 5 batteries from you, you have no right to walk into my house, install a safe, and lock up 1 of them for a ransom, which is exactly what they are doing. It's childish at best and unethical at worst. If you did that, I will destroy the safe and recover the 5th battery. It's my property that I purchased and I have the right to use it.
UK is almost a standard 35 hour work week anywhere. Salesforce, Tesco, Skyscanner, Google UK, almost anywhere. Why you part time at 4 days?
Most countries are assholes.
If BOE stole from Samsung, then what did Toptec steal?

> They are accused of passing on Samsung technologies related to curved-edge smartphone panels that use organic light-emitting diodes, or OLED, to four companies.

If you want to play the finger pointing game at least play it straight.
Because the idea that one can separate content from presentation appears as an elegant Platonic ideal to a lot of folks. The trouble seems to be that content and presentation are not actually disjoint sets. And (a perhaps different) set of folks want a slice of the juicy middle.
A school that tracks attendance cannot be called a college or university. Kindergarten, I can swallow.
You make Japanese people sound stupid...of course they understand. They simply choose to ignore it.
You can take a look at my tiny web-server for the simplest hot-deployment implementation I have made/found so far: https://github.com/tinspin/rupy/blob/master/src/se/rupy/http...
Possibly true, but these are tactics any tech company could use. Not illegal. Snooping on competitor communications is a different story though.
What makes it unethical?
Got it, this makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the explanation.
Better that than making another NewLisp, I suppose.
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Read-only access through intermediate proxy that you control (but not to all data like here) + login required for more access (via intermediate proxy or direct).
> They're both mammals.

Whales are not domesticated. They are not farmed. Cattle are not threatened with extinction.
There will be a tesla pirat and tweaker scenen in 10 days.
Maybe so, but that's still pretty far from where this line of discussion started, which (as I interpreted it anyway) was the idea that ads can compel you to desire something that you really don't want to desire.

I'm not saying ads are totally wholesome and good, and made of puppies and sunshine and rainbows or anything, mind you. I'm just skeptical of the degree of power that some people seem to attribute to advertising. To hear some people talk ads are just short of "Manchurian Candidate" level brain-washing.
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>Breeders have "the power" to do all these licensing and patenting shenanigans because they are creating superior seeds.

'the power' also comes from lobbying and gaming the political system; it's not just product efficacy.

That's like saying John Deere has 'the power' to restrict right-to-repair because they make such a superior product, which is demonstrably false. They spend a large effort on securing their products' place in the market via legislation, propaganda, and the threat of discontinuation of service to the lower rung purchasers of their products. All of which are tactics which are effective for profiteering, but not that great morally or ethically -- especially given that we're talking about an industry that is attempting to feed the world with regards to this threads' discussion.
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IBM's mainframes used to use that strategy.
'Some countries' meaning Russia
> We can use advertising to create a demand for plenty of things that are not useful.

Who decides whats useful for not? Pretty much every company making anything thinks they are useful and they want to tell people how or why in order for people to buy them. They would need some way to tell that at scale, and ads are a way to do it.
If we were talking about discrimination against a large number of young people, I would be singing a different tune. Privileged and well-to-do people seeking “justice” for themselves by comparing their situation to that of other people whose situation is really desperate is unfortunately all too common.
Being called a coder.

It's one of my pet peeves.
RE: snails, here's the official document listing them as "fishery product": https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex:32...
They do propose the alternative of donating it, actually.
It's not about GMO, but about conventional breeding.

There is a concept called hybrid breeding, both for animals and plants. The "final" product, the seed for the farmer, the piglet raised for mass production, is bred from two parent lines, one for the male part, one for the female. Both are relatively inbred so they are mostly homocygotic. Their offspring, because of Mendelian genetics, is mostly heterocygotic, but very homegeneous, which is a great thing, industrially speaking.

However, a farmer can't just raise those piglets and breed them on his own. Not because of patents or licenses, but just because the offspring would be all over the map, genetically. And probably less profitable. The breeding companies need a complicated system to develop these lines and provide their customers with the best seed/livestock. That takes a lot of money and effort.
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You kept the original eeprom and put it back in for service.

This is not possible in a Tesla because of the way they designed connectivity.

I’m not asking for an SDK and official support, I’m just asking for it to be allowed. Tesla actively prevents this, Honda doesn’t.
That's just propaganda. The word on good products will spread by Word of mouth. Advertising is an indicator that the product in question is garbage and overpriced.
from a lecturer's perspective -
It's not a problem if students pass - it's a problem if everybody gets an 'A' and there was no way to differentiate the cohort.

It's a problem if too many fail - you have people retaking subjects and you don't have enough lecturers for additional classes - there are new students coming through the pipeline. Consequently, a minimum pass is usually indicative of the 'end of the road' and go get a job.

Your marks are adjusted to pass. Unless you never attended classes at all or didn't hand up coursework, you are unlikely to fail.

If the exams were crazy hard... that's because it was a wrong solution to the problem.
Surely whales r not cheaper than chicken???!!!

Is tuna cheaper than chicken? Is that why they look ready to fish it to extinction?
Moral relativism between species is an endless logic labyrinth. For instance, there are profoundly more impactful conservation and ecosystem role considerations for wild whales compared to domestic cows.

Your free market solution is fantastical, and your supposition that it is more effective than the largely successful international whaling treaties even more so.
Everyone hates murder until they have someone to silence.
I don't know about GMO, but regular crops are sterile because the are hybrids. They also are not really sterile, the seeds just don't have the beneficial traits of the original hybrid.
That's why people voluntarily visit dentists. They don't voluntarily view ads.
If I was to guess someone who grew a sample field for Monsanto was careless and didn't completely clean out his wagon. It either got mixed with regular wheat at a seed plant or at the grain elevator where it was later used for seed.
Not sunk. If they take away these features (the customers didn't pay for) they can (re)sell them.
I was recently rejected for a job for not having enough “API experience.” I have been a backend engineer for 5 years. Regardless of whatever the hell “API experience” is supposed to be, my entire career has been designing, implementing, and calling APIs.
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Software is a collaboration. Almost by definition, all the stuff I don’t know how to do well is at least as important as the stuff I do, even as full stack person.

It’s probably not the stuff you know how to do that makes or breaks your company. Either someone else does it, or you “figure it out” and hopefully you know if you did it right before it’s too late.

How do you hire someone to be good at stuff you aren’t already good at? There’s gonna be a lot of those in the false negatives pile.
Well put. It's true a lot of the negative stuff here isn't technically incorrect, but the hyperbole certainly has a distorting effect on the conversation. Clearly, discovering negative aspects about China serves some kind of convenient narrative. I suspect it's something to do with China's growing power, which is threatening to the hegemony the so-called West has exploited for the last few centuries. Reading between the lines the story is something like, "yeah China is growing but it's not real because pollution, human rights, surveillance, etc - anybody could grow like that if they took shortcuts like them". Which I suppose ultimately is a subconscious projection of the guilt the West feels about the shortcuts it took.
What does domestication or farming have to do with anything.

Whaling is a highly regulated industry in Japan, they have no interest in hunting animals to extinction.
"Each year, 62 Baird's beaked whales are hunted commercially in Japan, with the meat sold for human consumption."

"Estimates for Baird's are of the order of 30,000 individuals."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_beaked_whale

More interesting, the meat contains high levels of mercury and PCBs. Just lost my interest in eating it...
At my small (Dutch) company the standard contract is 36 hours, so most employees work 4 × 8. I have a four month old son, and my wife normally works 4 × 8 as well, but she does 3 × 8 + 4 until we find our bearings with the young one.

That means two days of daycare (partly subsidized by the government), one day, each, at home with the child, and one day where she works from home for four hours.

This is fairly typical for white collar workers in the Netherlands. Four days is more than enough for me.
How to use Docker? No idea
Dev.to is a decent place
Do you have any idea about agricultural breeding?

There are some fundamental factors which are hard to overcome. Mendelian genetics more or less dictates that hybrid breeding schemes are superior, in the big picture, to line breeding. But those schemes require long term organizing and capital investment.

Which is why companies have any say in breeding at all. The Open Source Seed Initiative would need to replicate this through cooperation in a community.

Farmers don't have big margins. They can't afford to waste money on crops that underperform, for whatever reasons. They can't afford to lose money on produce that isn't marketable for whatever reason.
Someone who’s deeply frustrated, maybe?
Well, if manager is blind to your explanations, then it means it is better to search for a new job. Time is precious, and nothing good can come out of this work.
If, in scientists' or journal editors' minds, this is an actual reason not to publish source (as opposed to any other reasons they might have), then shame on them. I can imagine the shrinking feeling when something like that comes out, but hey -- you're a bloody scientist. At least it's for the public good.
well, the general expectation is that people receive a certification of some kind at the end of their study. i mean over here i have seen "graduation from kindergarten" being treated with a ceremony that makes you think you had just received a university diploma. rather ridiculous if you ask me.

but what is the alternative? every university employing their own tests would mean that students now have to prepare for multiple tests based on where they apply.

a job interview system? lot's of bias and unfairness in that too.

in germany school prestige is irrelevant for the university selection process, only the raw grades matter. so actually your best chance to get good grades would be to pick a school that has a tendency to give students better grades.

however if those statistics are not known, as they won't be now in singapore (and i don't know if they are in germany) then your school choice is either random (with respect to learning outcome) or based on perceived reputation of being a "hard" or "easy" school.

there are a number of other statistics that probably need to be suppressed too, such as the number of students that get into university from each school.
They still tried to patent an organism.
When plastics were first invented, they seemed to promise a utopian future
Right, but it’s not like they’re selling and voltage-limiting like a lead acid battery or something like that ... the battery is full of software to measure the discharge current, temperature of every cell, etc. There’s massive engineering complexity in the battery monitoring system.

It’s no different to software providing both free and premium versions in the same binary. What are you paying for? Not the number of bytes.. the R&D hours behind it.

So for the battery, what are you actually paying for? Not the physical battery, but the capital they had to put into designing the system - a system they designed and determined was cheaper to produce at mass with a standard battery layout and configuration (hence the same voltage range, fuses, battery discharge profile etc)

Now if you start messing around with the battery layout then suddenly all your hundreds of sensors, fuses, etc need the ability to achieve remapping and you have to do independent testing, charge profiling etc on the new design.. possibly even design new inverters if you have to change the maximum voltage. So their approach ends up being basic subtraction and scaling on the state of charge. This can be implemented in literally an hour vs. many months and supply chain headache involving hundreds of new PNs.

Disclaimer; I design power systems for a Tesla ‘rival’ kinda.
I still use tables. Always when I need to position things relative to each other and have them squish properly. I tried really hard to use/like divs but they are not helping me most of the time.
I submit that the problem is the denominator: 7

The ratios:

5|2. Just right and too little

4|3. Too little and just right

Weeks should be 8 days

5|3. Just right and just right.

7 has nothing to do with human health and happiness. Why stick with that week length dogma?

8 days a week, thr Beatles had it right.
>The industry is a fundamental conflict of interest, designed to convince people in most cases to buy things that they may not need

Thats a bold assumption. If I have a business then I will advertise my product in the hope that people will see it and make a decision by themselves on if they need or want it, and make an informed choice to buy it.

Besides, its not about needs, but also about wants. Humans are driven by not just strict needs, but also aspirational desires, ambitions and tastes. For e.g, nowdays you don't really need a wrist watch anymore since you can tell the time from your mobile phone which most people already have, still the demand for such watches is there because it seems to fulfill some other desire that there is no longer any strict 'need' for. There are various ways you can make such watches (different price points, aesthetics, quality of materials, after sales service etc) which also appeals to different sets of humans. Ads help in getting the word out on your brand of your wrist watch in the hopes that some people out there will find it appealing enough to buy it.
No. It would only be ok if we rework the whole idea of law, base it not in tradition, but perfect rationality and objectiveness. Consider this: i change lanes at 2 a.m. on an empty road. There's no objective need to signal. I get fined for not signalling. I do 50 in a 30 zone (because there's a school nearby) at the same time. I get fined even though there's no objective reason for it. And these are simple examples, if we get to complex cases of, let's say, self defense, it opens up a major can of worms.
Dave Chinner is an ex-SGI engineer who has been working on XFS since the beginning of the project and is currently a Linux kernel maintainer. Brendan Gregg is ex-Sun and worked on DTrace and currently is helping improve Linux's tracing capabilities. Are they "amateurs who are incapable of learning" or "professional engineers"?

I've seen comments from you about how GNU/Linux is awful in every respect ever since you created your account ~3 years ago. I really can't imagine being so stuck in a mindset that you feel the need to spend so much of your time being angry about such a large community of people. Honestly, I just don't get it and I earnestly hope that this is just an online persona you have.
The authority to patent plants is explicitly granted in the patent legislation from the 19th century.
I don't understand why that is a reasonable concern but I'm not an expert so would like to learn if there is a reason.

My logic is that Monsanto got the gene that gives the wheat its resistance to RoundUp (aka glyphosate) from Agrobacterium (see 1) which is perfectly capable of horizontal gene transfer into plants itself, without Monsanto helping (see 2). Also, there are plenty of weed species that are already glyphosate resistant (see 3). I suspect that a greater problem is that widespread and frequent use of glyphosate will increase the prevalence of resistance in weeds.

1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundup_Ready#Genetic_engineer...

2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrobacterium

3 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29024306
It can get worse, when the managers are the ones who wrote the legacy and still are actively acting as individual contributors themselves instead of empowering their own people
It isn't FUD, its a small leap. Did you read your link? It's about the patent not being exhausted after the first sale. Everyone in the chain becomes implicated. If I accidentally use a patented algorithm, that isn't a defense, and it isn't in this case.

What happens if these farmers keep seed aside for next year? They're intentionally planting gm wheat. Worse, what if they sell their crop?

What would have happened 50 years ago if a farmer had sprayed weed killer and discovered a resistant wheat? They'd be jumping up and down because they'd be rich, now they have to worry about getting sued.
it's like gold. the more people have gold, the less valuable the gold is, because it's no longer scarce.

i don't agree that more university students devalue universities however. on the contrary, more university level education is in my opinion the best response to less jobs and automation.

we need ever greater and greater parts of our society in higher education to study, research and teach, because all the low level jobs will eventually be automated away.

but imagine what our society can do if we are all educated to the level of a college professor. with more educated people we can address issues such as pollution and climate-change much more easily, and this can only speed up the advancement of our society.
Exactly... The debate should not be if GE is good or bad (it's a tool which can be either), but instead if the individual use of GE is good or bad.
,,As a privately held company we are unable to provide forward-looking statements regarding financial performance.''

I thought that being a public company has extra obligations, but I don't understand why a private company couldn't do this. For me it sounds as a lie.
> you need lower-energy atoms for higher-energy ones to rub against to carry away the excess.

Wat? Conductive and convective heat loss are certainly things, but heat radiates away too, and that is exactly how the systems you describe perform. The fact that the hull doesn't radiate much heat away itself isn't suprising, but all things being equal, the system still dies cold. Put the other way: if heat was truly the problem, is there any outcome where ISS melts, short of re-entry?