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> Any claim that Google would have helped China censor Chinese citizens ignores the fact that Chinese search engines are already censored.

So what? That does not make censorship morally acceptable. This would be the same as saying that using slave labor is ok, if you do it in a country that already accepts slavery anyway, and you are treating you slaves better.

> And by surfacing better information for queries, it can also help people finding what they want for things that are not censored.

Once the state is performing censorship there is no such thing as "better information". If all information is filtered by the government, then all information is suspicious.

> but do consider how lives of hundreds of millions of people will be affected by your actions/inactions.

I have profound sympathy for the victims of authoritarian regimes, and I absolutely do not believe that the way to help them is to collaborate with the very system that oppresses them. Pretending otherwise sounds like Newspeak to me.

> I know some people prefer to stick their noses up and hold what they perceive as the moral high ground

Maybe some people are like that, but this is unimportant. The important thing is this: you have to put your own oxygen mask on before helping others. If we in the west allow our companies to collaborate with systems that hold values that are repugnant to our own, then we will become like those systems, not the other way around. There will be nowhere to hide. No thank you.

Let's not be naive: say what you want about the Chinese government, but they are not imbeciles. If they did not perceive Dragonfly as something that would help them maintain their repressive apparatus, they would not allow it.
The problem being solved by a 6mo minimum isn't you renting out your spot for a month every year to help make ends meet. The problem is your slightly wealthier neighbor buying a spare apartment or two in your building in order to run a pirate hotel in it all year long. Unfortunately, it's hard to prevent the latter without blocking the former...

... at least legally. I assume you could work something out for your case with people you know who are in need of a place to stay for vacation, or - at a higher risk - with second-degree connections, or even complete strangers. It's not a perfect solution but it does place the risk where it belongs - on you. You have to make absolutely sure that the guests you invite aren't causing problems, or else someone will rat you out.
No, it shouldn't. Even useful businesses have to pay taxes.

Unless Google wants to become a charitable non-profit, the idea that they pay their taxes just by doing regular business is preposterous.
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The homepage has some meaningless marketing bullet points about the greatness of pgp itself. Where would I find the ways in which you rethink the whole ecosystem? It seems like Sequoia is just a library, not even a client. Wondering how this could change pgp by much if at all.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/googl...

"We have long been concerned about the possibility of this kind of snooping, which is why we have continued to extend encryption across more and more Google services and links, especially the links in the slide. We do not provide any government, including the U.S. government, with access to our systems. We are outraged at the lengths to which the government seems to have gone to intercept data from our private fiber networks, and it underscores the need for urgent reform.”

First they say that they were concerned about the possibility.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323949904578539...

"Google's request, made in a public letter written by its chief legal officer, David Drummond, comes after the government last Saturday publicly acknowledged that Internet content companies had received secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act requests about the activities of their users."

Then they say that they handed over the data as legally required.

The only point worth mentioning is the difference between 'access and 'unfettered access'. Google claims the latter never happened, only the former.

>There is no evidence that they have been coerced into cooperating with the NSA on anything.

Okay, you believe what you want to believe. This conversation doesn't seem tb be going anywhere. Goodbye, and have a nice day.
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Chair re-invented by true IT&Health hackers (freaks) for themselves.

Got one, has tooo many features for me to use :) but I love it.
And GMO is another - one that enables genetic expressions not possible with selective breeding.
Great summary!

Any idea how the different plate motion models behave near plate boundaries? There are a few plate boundaries in areas that are interesting for human users. The East African Rift Valley is famous, but there are others as well.
I started working at a web dev job that paid less than being a manager at KFC. This was poor PMF - the employer assumed that someone like me was a commodity that they could replace for a similar price, when I really just wanted to learn.

I took a large chunk of money, sold coffee. We made good money. But in those weeks, I got calls from former colleagues asking me to freelance, and they were paying way better than the coffee business. This was PMF - there was plenty of demand for Android devs in 2013.

After freelancing and failing projects for reasons out of mt control, I quit upon realizing that there were no good entrepreneurs. The market had a huge hole for startup leaders. I founded a startup. We got in a lot of programs because we fulfilled the requirements of having enough potential. Also customers actually bought our stuff, meaning we met some markets. But we didn't fit the VC market - the VCs wanted something sexier. But our startup had an actual value to someone and we sold it for good money.

So, I suppose you can keep chasing PMF. You might have to switch fields a lot - an app developer for a hospital can bring more value than an app developer on a web-first company.

Generally the best places are the ones that are making lots of money, but need something to spend it on. It can be enterprise. It can be a consulting gig for a failing company, or a rapidly growing startup.
Sorry to hear that's your opinion! Besides waiting a bit longer to Supercharge vs getting a tank of gas (which is rare, only when traveling, I charge at home every night), my experience has been much better with a Tesla than any internal combustion vehicle I've owned.
Tourist sights are tourist sites for a reason.

I think there is more than a reason. Some are legitimately full of history or interest, like the Tower of London. Some might only appeal to a niche group of people whether you're a local or just visiting (As a fan of the Blues Brothers, I had to stop by the honorable Richard J. Daley Plaza in Chicago just to see where they got that Picasso). Some just have good marketing that the locals are in a better position to see through.
Only about 14% of total green cards are work based. The rest are family based.
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"people are clearly willing to leave magnitudes of performance on the table just so that they can use their language of choice"

Certainly. It also makes sense, as programmers time is usually worth much more than computing time.
Yeah valid point. I am quite comfortable with HTML but only tolerate JS with heavy use of TypeScript. For me C# and Blazor sound quite cool. The size is my biggest concern as well.
It's hardly a consensus. There is plenty of research suggesting climate change has been a factor in conflicts even now, such as in the Syrian civil war:

https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/full/10.1175/WCAS-D-13-0005...

The Pentagon also has reports on climate change as national security risk.
I don’t know, maybe it’s expected that the legit businesses pay for advertising?

It’s not like people going to switch to Goggle’s competition.

Excuse my cynicism, it’s just that I can no longer find quality content/service/product in Google, I am over reliant on social media for discovering new things but apparently Google’s businesses is doing great.
I was going to say something about how the article does mention several alternatives, some of which far more widely deployed than OpenPGP.

But first: hold up. "Some kid"? You mean Filippo Valsorda? Google's Go Crypto person? The same person who is writing the replacement for that one use case?
The key statement on your source is "Individual solvents may cause one or more of these."

There are some solvents that are really dangerous. My comment is just that methyl ethyl ketone isn't one of them. It's very similar to acetone, which your body creates by itself when it breaks down fats.

Now that's not to say you shouldn't try to limit exposure (you'd be stupid not to), but in the grand scheme of solvent toxicity, MEK is one of the safer ones.
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Same here. I went to a high end office furniture store that seemed to have all of the popular expensive office chairs I've heard of and more. I talked to a salesman (who had a similar build to mine), walked into his office ... and saw a Mirra 2 behind his desk. So I bought it. That was about a year ago and I still love it.

My favorite feature is its ability to let me lean forward into the keyboard but the back follows along and gives full support. Worst problem: it has adjustable arm rests but the side-to-side motion won't lock in place.

I had worried that I'd regret spending so much money on a chair. But it lets me work far more comfortably and longer without losing focus. And since my back doesn't feel torqued when I go to bed I sleep better. It's one of my better investments.
> No TV. No Netflix. No live streaming anything.

> we listened to CBS Radio Mystery Theater on YouTube, a radio program

I would assume they didn't watch anything on YouTube
> Except you can run wasm on an iPhone.

An arbitrary decision made by the manufacturer. If Apple decided they didn't want to support web assembly tomorrow, do you think that would kill the iPhone or WASM?
Those efficiency curves are nonlinear - anything involving what is wanted and what is not wanted in thermodynamics generally is.
You're likely seeing that from a third-party seller, similar to Amazon's marketplace or ebay. At the least, I wouldn't expect the chair to be brand new at that price.
oh wow! absolute unit of a PI heatsink.
> developers learn how to squeeze more and more out of the platform

That's a part of it, to be sure, but another dynamic is that developers have to squeeze more out of the system. Dropping old techniques on new hardware will probably give you a game that looks "better" than what's already out. Once everyone has done that, to look "better" you need something new other than hardware.
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There is some data at https://static.raspberrypi.org/files/about/RaspberryPiFounda...
“So interesting to see “Progressive” Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly......”

“....and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run. Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came...”

This is from the president. If telling four non-white American Congresswomen to go back where they came from isn’t white supremacy, then holy hell what is?
And in my experience, it's usually not the CPU itself that has an issue, but some flaky solder joint, or the BGA under a chip, just like in the Xbox 360 'red ring of death' era. With mass-manufactured products, if you got a device from a batch that was a few percentage points out of tolerance, the thermal stress can cause issues more quickly than if you didn't introduce the thermal stress.
The Colorado River rights problems are exactly why "it could happen in the US too" and it isn't just an "international problem" to US audiences. I wouldn't call it a "lesser example" because mini wars (especially if you count industrial sabotage) have been fought over it in the past, and sure California, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico are friends right now, but given a few more years of droughts in the US southwest and that is likely to change.
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the radio portion is quite different as there are externalities tied to it. the phone portion doesn't
My Aeron is ex-Enron after their bankruptcy, and is more like Theseus’s ship at this point with new arm pads, base mesh, and two new gas lifts since it was made in the late 90s. Parts are plentiful though, and Herman-Miller will send a tech to your office to fit and fix if you want to keep it official. Definitely recommended.
That is a good idea. Keeps player engagement up.
> statically analyzing the assembly

I must concede this notion troubles me now that you mentioned it, it is indeed possible that GCC or Clang could decide that there is some other way explicit memset-like stuff should be done; and boringssl could deal with it, they are not a stable API for one thing, and Google employs GCC, LLVM and Clang developers anyway so it would be easier for BoringSSL than the rest of the world to fix the compilers changing stuff...
I mean if you believe the videos of Bin Laden taking credit for 9/11 weren’t faked by the government, he cites anger with U.S. policy on Israel and climate change as the two things he was most upset about with the U.S.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/jan/29/osama-bi...
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It doesn't have to work perfectly - it just has to work better than humans.

Our sensors ain't real great in snow and rain, either.
When you're at home, do you go out to eat often? If so, how do you choose where to go? I'm sure the answer lies in one of these questions.
I know Cricket user who rooted their Pixel 3a to get around this problem. Seems to work fine for them.
Yes, but 1) it usually takes more than one question, rather a series of questions calling attention to the flaw/s, and 2) even if talker doesn't change course it's likely others in the group will see what's going on and realize OP is actually the one that knows stuff, changing the group dynamic.
> if the regulatory process is truly about safety why does this exception even exist?

Because the risk is worthwhile at times.

The exceptions typically apply to rare diseases that impact a population too small to be profitable enough to justify the $1B or more it may cost to shepherd a device or medication through the normal process.

These are populations who would be potentially unserved otherwise. (I'm of the personal opinion that this is where the government should step in instead of private industry, but I'm pretty left of center.)

https://www.fda.gov/industry/developing-products-rare-diseas...

IIRC, an exception of this sort was used to expedite an Ebola vaccine due to the recent outbreak... because, well, Ebola.
Teacher -> Principal -> Superintendent -> County Executive

Obviously, not everyone wants to go up the management chain, but engineers don't always go to middle-management or C-level either.
Apparently a massive heat sink like the ICE tower (https://www.seeedstudio.com/ICE-Tower-CPU-Cooling-Fan-for-Ra...) can maintain a safe temp even without the fan running... but that also makes the Pi turn into a massive device with no chance of working in a standard case!
They probably haven't developed the whitelisting for this particular phone.
...Then why do you continue doing it?
Tethering automatically subjects you to exactly the same throughput limit the phone already had; the phone needs to personally make each request.
Neat. Only looking at the docs and screenshots:

I think you could add a ssl cert expiration warning to this. It's use case is so similar and the data is already there and only needs to be parsed & displayed :)
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Yes, especially with massive competing investments in the subject.
Once their quantity reaches a threshold, it will quickly become the primary mode of transportation, and expand onto more streets.

Many youngsters don't even want to drive these days, I've noticed. They'd rather sit in a bot car/tram and surf social media. The desire for the product will grow.
The way I see it is that they would have a much better chance of finding a way to overcome these ideological/historical differences through trade if they weren't constantly being exacerbated by these more basic economic/environmental issues.
> take the wage gap

There are many other issues but the wage gap is the least of them. When you control for all variables it's far less impressive than the "women get paid 70ct when men get $1". The wages are the same (legally enforced in any first world country), what they earn is less _on average_ based on many factors like career choices, pregnancy, &c.

I'd be more concerned about harassment, patronisation, &c which are much harder to tackle and much less visible.
Yes and no. Are regular AirBnB hosts actually forming businesses, or are they reporting this as private income and hope the tax man doesn't have time to notice?
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/03/ancient-i...
during the bronze age it's speculated that all the native men were replaced by men from the steppes. so since all the neanderthal genetics came from the X chromosome, then that means the original european inhabitants were decedents of neanderthals.
however, isn't it so that east asians have more neanderthal dna than europeans? is the notion that neanderthal dna is only express in the X chromosome true for east asians as well? if that's the case, maybe a similar event occurred there but at a much earlier date. or were the original european women captured and brought back to east asia?

the notion that a hybrid offspring maybe infertile is imo dominating these discussions too much.

what I find lacking in these discussions is the real possibility that genocide and slavery (the sexual and work kind) would explain so much.
It is phenomenally simpler to have autonomous driving in an area where the only things on the road are autonomous and there is a standard for interacting cross manufacturer.

Many new cars, and in some countries all new cars (by law), have enough sensors to be made self driving.

Standards are already being worked on. A basic level of autonomy - good enough for an area without human drivers - is being worked on by every car manufacturer. At some point, the vast majority of cars on the road (at least in cities where leasing and turnover s highe) will have the capability to be autonomous.

At that point I expect the car manufacturers to work with the larger cities to make central city areas autonomous only. Software updates will be pushed to all those existing cars, and overnight there will be self-driving on a level which is sustainable.

Once that happens, it will push people to upgrade to newer cars, expanding the number of autonomous-capable cars, and by extension allowing for the expansion of autonomous only areas.

As autonomous becomes more standard and accepted in the public conscious, solutions that will look obvious in hindsight will deal with many areas that we consider fringe now.

I read that Fedex originally claimed there would be areas they would never service. Even if they were right, it is less of a deal than they thought it would be. Same thing will happen with autonomous cars.
And thus Tesla created the reason
After Musk's announcement that Tesla will stop selling cars to consumers after cracking Level 5 autonomy, I've stopped even looking forward to it because he's right. Why would a manufacturer sell a self-driving car for $50000 when they can make $300000 off of it as a taxi over its lifetime? Why would anyone make a non self driving car when for a couple thousand dollars in parts they can make money off of it for a decade?

Level 5 self-driving is the death of private car ownership. That may sound great to people living in a city but for those of us to whom visiting family means dirt roads it's stomach-churning.
Really not loving all these systems that go out of there way to confuse me into paying more money.

When you think about it the cleaning fee really does need to be separate because it's a one time fee. So with your scheme it's $190 for one night, but but $121 a night for a week.

That said I used AirBnB for the first time last month, and I was very confused by the different pricing on different pages. The UI did seem to be purposely confusing. It should have been listed as total price for the dates I am searching for.
Herman Miller Aeron with a standing desk - I have both at home and at the office. Best chair I've ever owned, and extremely durable.
This is the right answer. I got mine for $250 on Craigslist. Some office was closing, so they were selling all of their office furniture. You can find good deals out there. I wouldn't buy new.
Anecdotal evidence incoming: I once needed to tow a motorcycle and the guy who showed up used to manage data centers for Amazon. He didn't miss it. The "brain drain" he felt at the end of the day was especially painful for him. Altogether, he was much happier towing motorcycles for a living and tinkering with tech during his off hours. He also made more money towing motorcycles, so it was a win-win for him. Although, he quit before the salaries for engineers skyrocketed.
Hah! That's great. In what kind of bulletproof-vest requiring situation is being strapped to a chair an advantage?!
I bought my wife an Embody for her home office but I've tried it a couple of times and didn't like it.

I use a Herman Miller Sayl. Not because it's cheaper, but because I prefer it over the Embody, but it is way cheaper.