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I haven't completely missed any point, you just seem to be insistent on missing mine.

My point is the way that Tesla has gained this, using consumer vehicles as testbeds, not just for collection, but for actual running code in charge of managing peoples lives is utter nonsense and traditional automakers are choosing to stay away from it.

I mean, this isn't even a hypothetical, we've literally seen it happen, AP regressions where a lane transition your car was taking fine one day suddenly sends your car aimed at a concrete barrier!

You can call them slow, or whatever you want, but thank god the real auto manufacturers are not so flippant about the value of human life.
> No neighborhood should be exempt from change.

> No neighborhood should be subjected to radical change.

Is there any dynamic evolutionary system that actually follows these rules? The tech industry is famous for lumbering behemoths that are constitutionally incapable of innovation and then get replaced wholesale by nimble startups. National borders change all at once, in wars or revolutions, rather than incrementally as demographics change. Human beings don't change much after early adulthood; instead they make new humans who replace them when they die. Evolution itself seems to have periods of equilibrium when resources are abundant and nearly every individual survives, followed by abrupt speciation when resources get tight, individuals die off, and populations get isolated from one another.

The only positive example I can think of is democracy, which is specifically designed to enable gradual change so that radical change doesn't happen, and yet still frequently gets party realignments, charismatic strongmen, and the occasional revolution.

I worry that this philosophy sounds great precisely because it's not how the world works. Human beings are really bad at noticing or reacting to gradual change; it tends to pile up until it becomes too big to ignore, and then rapidly reaches a tipping point and crisis where the newly strong force out the weak. This is undesirable, but also seems largely unavoidable.
> a few unusual financial elements to the mix

Isn't this the definition of a red flag? All you are is a profile to them so any unusual activity is going to draw scrutiny whether it's warranted or not. They have to do due diligence.
That's exactly what the commodity futures markets are for. There's a reason why the big commodity trading floor was in Chicago (it's essentially all electronic now of course).
And for the phone number part, “If Bluetooth is ON on your Apple device AND you’re trying to Airdrop something (which you’d expect to send some identifying information) or connect to a new WiFi network (same)...”

To be fair I wouldn’t necessarily expect those actions to send out a hash of my phone number, but the threat indicated by the title is definitely overblown.
Hemp?

Long history of industrial usages (before prohibition)

An excellent material for engineering.

Grows anywhere, fast, a good greenifier.
Can you provide a different citation than a publication known to generate fabricated claims bolstered by fabricated evidence? (I'm serious and taking you in good faith here for the record.)
Google: Protecting election information from digital attacks
That goal seems reasonable, but it seems you're implying that therefore the credit system is reasonable, which doesn't follow.
Give me one reliable source for any of your claims.
When you give every company a log of your rough location, it's not surprising they'll find ways to abuse it contrary to your interests. Information can't be used to hassle you if you're not leaking it in the first place. We're at the point where it's just basic laziness to not be using a VPN that decouples your network access address from what webservices see.

If you travel to a Forbidden Zone, find they block wireguard, and don't have time to set up obfsproxy, that's a much more straightforwardly manageable outcome than being arbitrarily messed with after your return.
YouTube and Twitch are the real winners IMO.
I mean, it is an American company paying out the ad revenue, and deciding which videos can be monetized or not. So yes, if a Russian wants to get paid advertising money by youtube, they would need to follow American laws.
>> This may come as a shock to you, but marketing pharmaceuticals is really no different than marketing other products.

Really? You don't see the difference between marketing, say, a car or a smartphone, and marketing a drug that treats a life-threatening condition?

Perhaps you should think about this subject a bit more deeply.

>> I'd say less than 5% of doctors are cutting edge enough that they require no additional education on new drugs.

What do you base this on? Do you have some citations to support it?
This is, by far, my biggest concern with this acquisition. In markets where the iPhone is the major revenue driver, what incentive will carriers have to optimize their network for non-iPhone modems? I can easily see the US carriers neglecting Qualcomm modems to the point where if you want the best cellular experience, you have to use an iPhone.
I hope so wins the lawsuit!
> Only collective action can make a difference,

But how do you motivate collective action and fight apathy? High prices are one way to do it.
Netflix is your outlier in this group. They're probably losing subscribers (in certain locations) because things are fragmenting and every content creator wants to try and start an app right now. Short term (next 5 years) we're probably going to go through a painful adjustment period where CBS keeps trying to make CBS now happen before they realize they should just shut it down and put everything through Hulu. Consumers aren't going to keep paying 8-$10/month for more and more splintered programming. The sweet spot between massive bundle, massive price (Cable Packages) and "just the content I want for a reasonable price" (netflix, HBO, Disney+) is going to take some figuring out.

100% of nothing is < a 50/50 split of millions of dollars. Lots of these apps are going to realize that.
As someone currently dealing with chronic pain, suits like this are highly aggravating. It's just another front of the failed drug war.

People who need pain relief get screwed as doctors, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies treat every single patient like they're a drug addict waiting to happen. The real drug addicts will continue to get their pills, while the upstanding members of society writhe in pain.
Maybe we agree then. If the objective is to save money for the future virtually everyone has the option of reducing consumption to some extent in order to increase wealth (saving or repaying debt). I thought that you were aligning with the "saving is out of reach for most people" side, I apologize for the misunderstanding.
You Are What You Watch? The Social Effects of TV
Well, following the Matt Levine line of thinking, the easiest way to prosecute this would be as securities fraud. Their public facing statements misrepresented the risks to shareholders, whose stock is now worth less due to 1,000,000 lost subscriptions. Securities Fraud.
"We can't go on like this."

There is a huge HUGE difference between "you must own 1/3 of an acre of land to live within an hour commute of your job" and "microscopic communal living spaces", if you haven't looked at a map recently we are much much closer to the prior than the latter.
I am really glad, these engineers kept their jobs. More interesting is that Munich has similar sized offices of Apple and Qualcomm now. Their topics’s aren’t really overlapping, but the roots of both companies lie in Siemens. Maybe this also hinders their global success.
It amuses me IT management is ok to pay millions in terrible software license fees (i.e. most of Oracle products), but not ok to budget a couple of millions to have a team develop some of that internally. Also another amusing fact is that most IT managers never wrote a line of code in their lives. IT should not just be about expensive vendors and outsourcing for labor cost arbitrage.
I don't like the current system of pharma sales reps either, but black and white thinking like this is not healthy or productive.

Your final sentence isn't conveying any objective information -- in fact, it seems pretty close to emotional propaganda itself. Does that make you an immoral cancer on our society? (No.)
That's fantastic news. Apple will continue to fight Qualcomm.
By the continuation of development 5G modems, which Intel stopped. Over threats by Qualcomm. Qualcomm is easiest the worst bully in the market, by far worse than Oracle.
One has to step up against their continuous patent infringement threats.

Using something like Huawei would have been better though, to get rid of US backdoors in the baseband. Chinese backdoors are only a problem for Chinese, US backdoors for everybody. Apple could e.g. ship phones with Intel modems for the Chinese market.
Its true though. Yes we could turn the Bay Area and LA into something like Tokyo or NYC but its better the way it is, even if its unaffordable.
For the most part, you either stop a merger before it happens, or it's permanent. There's nothing binding the company to any claims that it will lower prices. Nobody honestly thought this merger would lower prices, not the DOJ, not anyone at AT&T or Time Warner.

Note that the exact quote is "enable the merged company to reduce prices". They may not have followed that with the obvious "but the merged company plans to take advantage of its new market power to raise prices".
It seems like it would be fairly simple to give people a minimal USB image that then installs to the M.2.
provide big bounties for drug development. from the government.

we're gonna pay for the drugs either way, so we may as well create our own incentive structures to ensure that it's done right.
I don't think it has been well communicated that you need to do anything special to benefit from an A2 card.
I tried the YouTube Kids app a while back.... it was a terrible experience.

It was either straight merch type stuff "Hey let's play with this very specifically named toy." If I use the account that gets YouTube ads... WAY inappropriate ads.

Or just painfully inane content.

Granted there are channels I liked, anything associated with PBS or Sesame Street... but at the time you couldn't block channels you didn't like, nor could white-list anything so I just deleted the app and my kids don't get to watch YouTube unless I'm actively sitting with them watching, and filtering.

Based on everything else about Youtube, I don't trust YouTube enough to give them another chance.
TIL you can appeal a small claims court judgement.
> do we just push problems elsewhere?

Not necessarily. I'd love to live closer to the Bay; if I could get in walking or biking range of CalTrain I could eliminate much or all of my 40 minute highway commute — thus reducing the congestion on the highway. But it would cost me ~$12k/yr. Similarly, if San Mateo had built adequate housing, 70k people might have shorter commutes, requiring less use of roads, transit systems, etc.

Personally, I am also massively for improvements to the various transit systems. If it were easily possible, I'd love to have CalTrain have grade-separation, level-boarding, electric locomotives, and ideally 4 tracks the whole way instead of the 2 they have, to promote passing and ease recovery during issues. We might get the EMUs someday, but I won't be around to see it. The downtown SF transit center finally reopened, I think, but it was a 8? month setback, not to mention it is way over budget. Also, the HOV lanes would be a lot more enticing if there weren't so much traffic in them, and there easily could have been had CA not hadn't out so many HOV stickers. There are SUVs getting stickered that get equivalent gas mileage to my '97. Also, enforcement.
The Rise of Junk Science: Fake publications are corrupting the world of research
I work at Google on ranking algorithms for Search. I'm aware of everything that controls how web pages are ranked. If I ever encountered a system that was designed to alter the results for political reasons, I would resign.
It looks like a family plan (https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7507349?hl=en) may solve most of that, but you still may have to lie about the age.
> It is a bit disingenuous (to say the least) to claim that having to configure a few dozen presidential candidate's accounts

Even without it being a route around Google fraud controls, there are 791 declared Presidential candidates for 2020, which is a little more than “a few dozen”. [0]

> I could understand your line of reasoning if the figure was on the order of 100s or more.

But...it is; heck, there's close to 300 Democratic candidates. And it would be even more if it was a route around Google fraud controls.

[0] https://ballotpedia.org/List_of_registered_2020_presidential...
‘Honor 20 Pro’ Release Date Announced
This article fails to mention that AirDrop is only enabled for Contacts by default.

Furthermore, each AirDrop session is a TLS session, where the users exchange iCloud certificates to authenticate each other.

See: https://www.apple.com/business/site/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.... (p. 45)

The phone is only as secure as the user makes it.
Medicine is absolutely different from other markets. The entire premise of the multi-catastrophic neverending train crash in the US is that it is treated as though it isn't different. Educating doctors is critical, but that doesn't necessitate treating pharmaceuticals like any other product.

As an aside, it's insulting to preface a rebuttal with, "this may come as a shock to you".
Could be that the decline in quality of the available content has caused people to seek other sources?
They don't even have to be. The truth is that there is not so few 3rd party modems out there, it'd just nobody other than Chinese used them before because of Qualcomm's threat.

Even if they will use that portfolio purely defensively, it will be kind of useful for them
he definitely has context about how things work and help craft a better proposal.
Treating safety critical software like a web server is not being fast moving, it's being reckless.

We've seen regressions in AP behavior.

Situations where a route that was safe yesterday will send your Tesla into a concrete barrier if you don't catch it

Simply. 100%. Unacceptable.

Honestly, the more I think about it, the more I do not want to be on the road with these people. I did not sign away my life to be someone's SDC test environment after all.
What do you expect? It's a discontinued, niche product that probably didn't sell a lot to begin with, so aftermarket prices are going to be insanely high.
Are there any news from Apple's side?
If they're in anything like the last situation I was in that seems similar, continuous deployment may not be possible – not technically, but with respect to other considerations, e.g. management or even the business's finances.

There's still a lot of small software companies maintaining, and selling, on-premises installations of systems that use, e.g. Microsoft Access as a front-end client. Even then, continuous deployment is possible, and all-else-equal, a huge improvement for the developers and support staff, but also something that lots of management or owners may be (reasonably) averse to committing to implementing.
Maybe the unrestrained growth is not a good idea.
Except it's not marketing products to doctors, who are the gatekeepers to access. It's marketing to consumers, who aren't informed, and are then used to badger doctors to make them prescribe medicines they heard about on TV.
> 4xx's shouldn't be taking nodes out of prod. That's wack.

Welcome to AWS, where this is actually part of standard procedure (at least Elastic Beanstalk does this, not sure if it’s actually Elastic Loadbalancer under the hood).
Yes it's new, my repos were disabled today
"How Management Consultants Steal Your Watch and Then Tell You the Time"
You’re right! People don’t select the lowest number because they don’t want to seem cheap. People don’t select the highest number either because that of course costs more money. Shifting the middle number from 20% to 25% leads to more tip dollars.
Genetic testing is far more scientifically revealing than just eyeballing something because it's based on actual objective tests, data, and math.

Just like radio astrology is far more scientifically revealing than just looking up at the night sky and declaring theres nothing more to the universe than meets the eye.

Typically a genetic variance of >2% indicates a different species
[Edited] Two Generals does not apply since it deals with the problem of guaranteeing that two parties agree on the exact same consistent state after a finite amount of time/messages. MQTT's "exactly once" delivery is basically an eventually consistent mechanism -- it just guarantees that the message is eventually delivered to the broker which then does some simple deduplication. Eventually may be infinite. So, no violation of the space time continuum here...

In other words, MQTT's exactly once delivery conceptually works as if the server would store a big hashmap of all message IDs it has seen once and the rejecting any duplicates using that hashmap. The client the simply keeps retrying with the same message ID forever. This guarantees that the message is received by the server "exactly once". The actual protocol is more involved, but the details are basically just an optimization to prevent the server from having to keep around the "received messages" hashmap forever.

The problem that you're thinking of that MQTT of course doesn't solve is that it is impossible to perform any externally visible action (such as moving an actuator, storing a record into another database system or detonating a bomb) "exactly once" in the general case when you take into account the possibility of failures in between the two steps of performing the action and storing the information that you have performed it. You can either first commit and then perform the action, which means you can not safely retry after having failed between the commit and performing the action, because you might have already performed it ("at most once"). Or you can first perform the action and then commit, potentially redoing the action after a failed commit ("at least once"). There is, conceptually, no way around this unless we get help from the environment, such as an atomic perform+commit primitive. To see how this relates to two generals, think about the exchange of the "performed" bit between the external system and the storage as an exchange of messages that can be lossy. We can not come up with any algorithm that guarantees that the external system and the storage always agree on the state of the performed bit after any finite number of steps.
Well, if it worked out for you I guess that settles the debate!

Wait, I think it's _disproof_ that relies on one _counter_ example. I guess it's easy to get confused.
I doubt you'd get very far with that. They lied about their plans to raise prices, but that in general is a good thing for shareholders. It's just that in this particular case they failed to understand the concept of price elasticity of demand and potentially did harm to the company.
everything is ripe for abuse, the problem is we don't have a regulatory framework or the tools to reign in the abuse on Facebook and other digital media.

The question you need to ask yourself is "what kind of society do I want to live in" then you can answer what you want to be possible and not.
First off, "someone can lift your phone number via you merely having Bluetooth running" is entirely not true of this information leak.

The scope of this issue is that an unsalted SHA256 of your phone number is broadcast when you open the Share dialog with AirDrop and Bluetooth active. Your phone number is broadcast to determine whether the sending device is in the receiving device's contacts list.

The feature that causes this information leak (AirDrop) has no equivalent on stock Android, but hundreds of horrifyingly insecure apps exist to replicate it.

Google are introducing a similar feature (Fast Share) soon and we will see how it fares security wise.

This is an interesting cryptography question: how do you allow two mutually untrusted client devices to determine that they share a common secret, without disclosing the secret? And for bonus points, how do you allow this to happen without two-way communication?
So what is it that makes SD cards unreliable for use-cases such as this?

Is it just the limited amount of flash available for remapping? If so, can one use the same trick as with regular SSDs and simply avoid partitioning some space to improve reliability?
Your experience is very different from mine. A cursory review of usage stats and other things indicates that my experience is probably far more typical.
There could have been a consent decree (not sure if that's the right term in this context...) that in exchange for agreement to allow the merger, would have bound the company to keep prices fixed or reduced for a certain period of time. But, aside from something like that, I don't think there is much that could have been done on the regulatory side to stop the company from not following through on their claims.
I agree that there is, theoretically, the possibility for moral advertising/marketing/promotion in medicine, but the status quo has dropped so low I'm not sure any companies today only use moral methods. I think the key is that moral marketing only serves to inform, and must deliberately avoid any bias or intentional persuasion.

- Supply your molecule for free to all researchers without any strings attached.

- Maintain an inclusive directory of research people have performed with your molecule. Publish a journal of all research and redistribute it for free.

- Commission impartial fact sheets that are surveys of treatments for a given condition - what objective measures of outcomes can be made between treatments, both positive and negative?
It's easy to sign a lease with no credit history. At most they'll just ask for a bigger security deposit.
PC drives have had write caches and the necessary barrier/flush commands for many years. This is nothing new or dangerous.

Additionally operating systems also play exactly the same "dangerous" game with writes, they keep dirty pages in memory and flush them out gradually. You are only guaranteed that things actually got to disk when you fsync them which sets off a cascade of writes and flushes if they didn't already happen in the background.

Write performance is largely a very well-maintained illusion if you don't have something like Optane. If you open files in SYNC mode write performance craters, even on NVMe.

What filesystems do to maintain sanity among this madness is to order writes so that if a crash occurs you lose a few seconds of data, but you don't lose consistency, you just get an older state of whatever made it to disk.

SD cards are not special in this regard.
An influx of smelly seaweed is deadly for marine animals in the Caribbean
Four soft parameters :)
I don’t get it either. I just don’t go to Starbucks.
I believe that this information leak occurs BECAUSE AirDrop is only enabled for Contacts by default - you disclose your own hashed phone number when you open the Share dialog in order to allow nearby phones to decide whether you're on their Contacts list.
Interesting idea - each cohort wants to protest at least once.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XBXUlvpeh4
Yet companies build plants on the Great Lakes, hoover up all the water, filter it, bottle it, and sell it to the unsuspecting

I can't speak for every state, but here in Michigan (The Great Lakes state!), companies like Nestle have to apply for a license that subjects them to regular inspections to make sure they're not over-burdening the local groundwater supply. They pump from wells on their own private land using their own facilities. Their license fee is pretty cheap, something like $300USD.

This seems like a common-sense regulation that doesn't overly burden either the company or the regulator.

I buy Ice Mountain spring water with a clear conscience.