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I suppose Toyota / Lexus is black magic, then?
I've had different experiences with my 70+ year old friends.

That experience is, of course, self selected for folks who have stuff that they will do with younger folks like me... mostly playing music. But I believe that folks that age are capable of a whole damn lot, assuming that they didn't do a shit-ton of coke or something in their 30s.

My dad is pretty far into Parkinsons, and I think that the disease has more to do with why he doesn't do stuff than anything. It's not that he's not "capable" of stuff... it's that he doesn't want to. That is a fine distinction, I know, and I can see how folks don't think it is even a real distinction. My mom describes the issue with Parkinsons as "I've fallen and I don't want to get up".

I wouldn't bother typing that all out, except that I feel like there is a point worth mentioning to people who don't have a lot of older friends:

there's nothing necessary about stopping doing a lot of what we do as we get older.

Eventually, we all get pain and/or a loss of senses, but it's not (I believe) as completely show-stopping. We don't have to give up on living.

I went rock climbing with a 68-year-old last month, and though the climb wasn't super hard, it was certainly a run for my money... it was 5.6R grade IV, and she led the 45M run out pitch, and the 6km of hiking on the return didn't seem to phase her.

Her feeling was that a lot of folks just stop trying around age 60. Their goals become "let's take the RV to AK some time this year" instead of "I'm going to write the best novel that I have written this year" (that was one of her goals).

She is exceptional, I think.

Still, my point is: if you can golf, you can do a lot more than do FB when you're not golfing.

And I hope there are folks who remind me of that as I approach those ages.
I don't know man. It probably got worse around that time, but it sure seemed like it was already News Entertainment during the first Gulf War.
The remaining question is: if you spent the extra 10%, would you get Canadian levels of healthcare or not, for everyone?
Also why compare to Sweden, cherrypicking? Could pick any other EU country. Or Canada.

And it's not 40% towards healthcare. It's at most 27% of total tax (less because it's bracketed alongside education) - most of tax is other social spending, a lot of that being retired people.

So healthcare is 7-10% of Sweden's GDP, or so. And falling. This being one of the most expensive healthcare systems in the EU, if not the most expensive.

I guess you're trying to hide that your argument is invalid. Trying to justify US mismanagement or lack of health policies.

For your information, USA spend almost 18% of GDP on government funded healthcare. And still rising. And USA is 28% richer than Sweden per capita, PPP normalized.
This ignores additional private costs, which are probably significant.

And getting very uneven access. Some in insurance and medical industry are striking it rich, who cares about social costs.

A) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_Sweden

B) https://www.cms.gov/research-statistics-data-and-systems/sta...

C) https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Sweden/Uni...

Who cares about reality when there's a narrative waiting to be pushed.
But the Night Manager novel really is a story about a stylish British tough-guy who seduces various beautiful women in different countries as he works his way towards the bad guys.

The only reason you can read it without it seeming Bondish is that Le Carre manages to make all that strangely bland, if not outright dull.
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But we do need it. Look at traffic on our highways. You need power to safely merge in many places.
If anyone can tell me why they downvoted this straightforward, factually correct and (I would've thought) uncontroversial comment, I would love to hear it.

I'm not talking about your little patch of ground, I'm talking about the globe here.
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It looks like Dex is fairly early stage and has a single founder(?). Many people including myself see this as a fairly rare occurence though YC insists otherwise (and YC is likely correct). I wanted to ask you a few questions about your company and journey leading up to to YC.

* When did you start the company and how many founders are there?

* What was your traction (MAU or anything else) prior to being accepted into YC?

* How do you plan to grow the userbase? Content marketing, ads, partnering with other companies?

* How do you plan to make money?

* How big is the market size?

* Are there any adjacent markets that you could see yourself expanding into?

Good luck!
What’s their corporate culture slogan, “Be evil”?
I agree, this is a harsh place.
Likely too much friction. Native environments benefit from using the expected IDE and tooling integration to build UI apps on respective platform. C or C++ is the best common supported language, and they didn't even like that.

Also the UI frameworks are being written in said preferred language these days, eg SwiftUI, and adding one additional language could be perceived as a pain.
Dunno how this applies across the world, but, my 2 cents:

I'm fully "self educated" like in not even bootcamps, just jumped straight into taking client work from zero programming experience (well, I did hack on some research/side projects while in med school before abandoning that), and having been ob both sides of the hiring process I'd say that hiring CS grads is 100% worth it you can hire the top 10%, probably not worth it after that. People who learn on their own tend to be passionate and motivated, people getting into CS at a good uni have a variety of motivations - they might be smart and capable, and if you're a big corporation you'll always find room for smart and capable people that can play by the rules... but not necessarily what you want. OK, maybe for US ivy-league or whatever that 10% might go to 25%-40%, but a fresh company might still not afford that...

And really, be honest with yourself, having a CS/EE university degree, would you really hire anyone but the top 10% of your classmates?! You know how it is, the 10% are there to study, the rest are there to study 10% of the time (and paaaaarty the rest ;)...) And... would you have any chance to afford to hire those top 10%?
It depends. If you want to write nice looking material design app, then yes, it works really well. As iOS developer I can say that flutter is much more pleasant than storyboards & UIKit (which is probably why Apple is working on SwiftUI).

It's a different story if you want to use native features. Plugins provided by community offer only basic functionality, and are often very buggy: you will encounter iOS bugs, Android bugs, Flutter bugs and plugin bugs, all in one package. Anyway, it sort of works if you plugins provide stuff that you need. If they don't, you are forced to fork the plugin and add ad those features, learning Android or iOS during the process, and writing a lot of boilerplate for communication.
I thought exactly like you and was my view, until I tried to make a small app in Flutter. My startup was trying to build something like Google Lens with AR, and no way to do it in flutter without native code easily.

I like dart lang and done some small apps in it. It's Javaesque with similar style and learning curve. But still prefer Swift which is closer to python (we use python for back-end development) and Kotlin which has some nice functional programming primitives.

Also UX and guidelines are not uniform across mobile platforms. Android and iOS works in their own way to integrate different input like voice, visual and keyboard. Also mobile platforms on Android and iPhone are constantly evolving with new sensors, capabilities. Keeping native SDK itself is a gigantic task not sure how to manage cross platform SDK's. I am sure cross platform SDK can work for some use cases, but I feel it will still be way behind native SDK.

If back-end can take care of all the business logic and front-end manages UI and states with small necessary local data for offline, the efforts spend to develop cross platform app using flutter or natively in Swift and Kotlin won't be very different.

I still prefer REST over GraphQL because I like predictable performance in query and standard interface. Zen of Python PEP-20, explicit is better than implicit.

GraphQL is a solution to a problem of trying to manage business logic on client side so that it can manage ad-hoc query and get ad-hoc results from back-end. It was designed for a problem faced by Facebook. I have seen enough GraphQL code and still stay with REST Architecture, sometimes use protocol buffers for performance intensive parts.
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Last I checked the Rust compiler doesn't output bitcode in the format Apple requires. So no Watch/TV apps.
IMO and in my direct experience, all of my favorite tech has gotten objectively worse over the last few years.

- My phone cannot play music through headphones and charge at the same time. Nor can I use any old pair of headphones with it, and most pairs have to spend time charging before I can use them. My phones 5+ years ago did not have these major usability problems.

- I ordered food while in NYC recently using an app. Out of 5 attempted orders, 4 were stolen by the driver and only 1 order arrived in reasonable condition. The other orders took ~3 hours to sort out. Ordering a pizza 5-10 years ago? No way is that gonna get stolen 4/5 times.

- Google Search on Android (voice) has gotten way worse. It used to offer functions like always offering to search the web (it's Google!), or letting me quickly review past audio search results. Now I cannot see any more past results without redoing the search and waiting for the response. I also cannot find any way to perform a web search on ~50% of my queries. Typing on a desktop computer is way better than voice searching on Android, but I used to have a stellar experience voice searching on Android. It's gone. Will it ever come back?

- Many websites are nearly impossible to use now. I barely use the web because there are so many intrusive ads.

Maybe my point is made. In many many cases, the last few years have seen a sharp drop in technology utility for many regular younger. None of this stuff needs to be getting worse, but it is.
Ah Xamarin, what a horrible mess. Limited UI, limited support, constantly breaking. Never again.

And the same problem with using C++, you have to build the app around it, rather than using the best arch for android and ios.
It looks like that took very poor decisions such as bad frameworks and in-house made libraries vs what was already existing.

First, it's not true that there's no C++ mobile community. There are plenty of forums, blog posts, projects, using C++ in mobile field. Xamarin and Qt are helping C++ Devs go mobile since years.

Second, it depends on which standard they've used. It looks like they choose a pre-C++11 standard, making things more complicated (in 2013 there were already full C++11 compliant compilers, even for mobile), especially threads. They probably forgot that Boost itself has modules for JSON, checks for non null objects and so on.

Third, they probably kicked off the project with some average C++ developers and they left. They haven't found cheap experts (compared to Kotlin/Swift, which are really cheaper) and didn't want to pay high salaries.
The story that those Kotlin/Swift developers didn't want to learn C++ says a lot of the quality of those developers as well. Sure, it's matter of interest, but it was also a great opportunity to earn much more money as well.

As for build systems, it's true that it's an unsolved issue, but CMake is pretty much a standard and it can handle dependencies, if someone knows how it works. Sorry, but this is a story of poor choices and unskilled people for this huge job.
For someone accustomed to Solaris or Irix's good points, BSD is likely to feel even more archaic.
Sadly it has been shown the United States circa 2019 is not an ally anymore ... it is an alien country to most of us now where you have somehow elected a nativist leader who is a racist.

At this stage for us Africans the Chinese seems like a more dependable and friendlier lot.
There isn’t a numerical upper limit. A job isn’t property that can be owned and stolen from you. You’re presenting a false dichotomy on top of a false premise. And it’s not goodwill, it’s a matter of principle and ethics.

An immigrant can’t take jobs from citizens, since jobs aren’t property owned by citizens. Jobs are trades (an agreement, a relationship) between two people. Do I really need to explain that a job isn’t an entitlement you get for being a citizen? I think you know this.

No matter how many immigrants come here, they can’t steal the fruits of your labor. Immigrants aren’t reaching into your bank account and taking your money.
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Many Swadesh lists are micro-etched on the Rosetta Disk made by the Long Now's "Rosetta Project" - an effort to preserve and document as many languages as possible.

https://blog.longnow.org/02010/09/24/swadesh-list-data-now-r...
+1 for the Logitech.
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True, although it's not in a GEO orbit.
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Hi, I'm sorry about this, thanks for spotting this. It should now be fixed - I tried from my iphone with Opera and it seems to work ok now. Have you been you using web3 for projects?
Intelligence amplifies a person's ability to construct a narrative that feels like a good fit to lived experience.

Complicated plot. It's all interconnected...
Feasible? That seems highly dependent on the task at hand. Worthy? Absolutely!

Perhaps MT (machine teaching?) is the next evolution of ML.

My enthusiasm in this instance is probably tempered by the fact that image resizing is on the simple end of things we're using ML for, I'd think.

It's a two dimensional grid of data points. That's it. I mean, that's certainly not trivial (look at all the algorithms we've come up with just in the last 10-20 years! imagine all the people-hours!) but it pales in complexity to, say, weather models or automated scanning of PET scans for tumors or something.

Image the output of any given image sizing algorithm can be quickly assessed by eye so that's a very convenient feedback loop. As opposed to say, using ML to come up with proposed oil drilling locations where testing out each proposed drilling spot is a very expensive proposition.

So plain old human engineers can internalize what
the machine learned, and re-implement the solution
as a run-of-the mill algorithm that does the job
faster than pretending to be a brain.

Perhaps we can cut out the middleman here. Maybe the answer is not for ML models to come up with human-understandable algorithms. Perhaps the answer is for them to produce optimized code that implements the algorithms they've discovered.

Disclaimer, in case it's not blindingly obvious - I am not versed in ML at all.
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Isn't it mostly a consequence of more available free time and possibly boredom?
Google hasn't been involved with WebKit since they forked it to create Blink.
http://swarm.cs.pub.ro/~mbarbulescu/cripto/Understanding%20C...

The original cipher proposed by
IBM had a key length of 128 bits and it is suspicious that it was reduced to 56 bits.

The official statement that a cipher with a shorter key length made it easier to implement the DES algorithm on a single chip in 1974 does not sound too convincing
Indeed ActionScript is a pretty decent language to work with

imagine if you could write command-line tools and server-side apps with it, that would be the dream
Wow, always putting earplugs in when you drive. Don't get me wrong, it is smart, just I lack the discipline to do it every time.
I mean, there's evidence to unearth if you go look for it; for instance, the relative rate of procedures being provided on an outpatient basis in the US vs. Europe, and concomitant overprescription rates here, or the number of vacant hospital beds and general inefficiency of how we provision hospital chains. The provider side of US health care is a mess.
The author of this blog, Shawn Zhang, has been doing important work chronicling internment camps in Xinjiang using satellite imagery.

Here's an article about him: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-ubc-student-us...

Hopefully his account suspension was because of orchestrated mass reporting triggering automatic systems, and his account will soon be restored. (A similar thing happened to many Chinese language Twitter accounts just before June 4, which is an important day on the Chinese political calendar.)
Texas is sitting on the largest natural gas fields in the country

These things take time to sort themselves out. E.g. right now Texas is flaring a lot of natural gas (which they get as a byproduct of oil production).

Looked at dispassionately it seems insane.

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Natural-Gas/Gas-Flaring-Running-...
You tapped into something here. I think for some people, like myself, it depends who I am with and my relationship with them. It can be extrovert and they have a constant stream of interesting things which is mostly fun, so it flows naturally... or there are awkward thoughts or moments that lead to "when will this person shut up".

I wouldn't limit and label myself a certain way based on a few situations with a few people. Keep exploring folks!
Aren’t google searches just ads anyway?
But what does that mean? YouTube keeps a history list, which I download and periodically reset. If it didn't I would need to add some sort of Firefox add-on that remembered which videos I'd seen.

What else are they "tracking"? Does YouTube have tracking on other sites (like Facebook, Twitter etc)? I haven't seen anything like that.

You can switch the history off, I presume that would work even without Premium, but it never occurred to me to even try it since I definitely want history.
I see the propaganda machine has completely brainwashed you. Similar to how the propaganda machine painted USA as completely benevolent in my early years. Opposite effect now.
They prescribe systemic steroids. Steroids reduce inflammation and might help recovery a little.
I don't think 'mass immigration' is to blame for wage depression post-1970s, considering that era also consisted in the destruction of workers rights, unionization and considerable increase in corporate bargaining power.

This also ignore two other big parts of the picture: The fact that in the pre-1970s America still had historically high immigration with the same complaints you bring up now (that the 'dirty' Irish for example were poor, uneducated and a drain on society) just with different color slapped on top. New York was quite literally a city of immigrants.

And then you have automation, which means even if you were to completely stop all immigration would mean the loss of jobs as companies further reduce their bottom line.

I'm not a fan of this sort of historical revisionism where the history of immigration in the US is sort of paved over to make way for new fears of immigrants destroying the fabric of society somehow.
> But what else can us developing countries do? Stop developing and stay poor forever?

This is sad to see, because many of the environmentalists that I've talked to seem to expect that this is the path that the developing countries will actually take.

It's totally unfair that the developed world was able to bootstrap themselves into their current state using dirty power sources, continue to generate a lot of dirty power themselves, and now expect the developing world to somehow leap-frog them and build clean generating capacity from the start. But it just seems to be human nature – just like how the social safety net in the developed world is being pulled out from under the younger generations, now that the older generations no longer need it.
This is a great point -- will look into this. I have to admit I haven't looked into this but agree it's a good idea + probably a quick thing to do!
I’ve bought zero products via google ads, except the case when I search for a company name and their official homepage is the top sponsored result. Which is insane.

And yet, my eyeballs looking at text with less text than a tweet is worth 21 USD. It feels like Google disrupted, but it’s far away from being optimal for companies.
/your/you're/

and I think you meant masochist
I think the worst condemnation came from an ex-Valve friend of mine: "After almost two years I finally learned who my boss was when she fired me."

If there's no overt structure there is politics (ex Valve person told me that).
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See the PatchMatch research project and associated papers[1] for more detail. They are different tools in presentation and implementation within Photoshop but are based on similar concepts of randomized correspondence.

[1]: https://research.adobe.com/project/patchmatch/
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> but because I thought more people under the age 60 would be behind a computer 8 hours a day.

They are, but it isn't counted here (this is "media consumption only", not all screen time) confusingly enough.
It doesn't need to square with it. In some places population can increase, in others it can decrease; add them all up and there is some number, ΔP, that is either positive or negative. For a long time now, it's been an exponentially-increasing positive, which I contend is bad news, and I hope it reverses. If people move around, all that does is move the growth around.
Your reading is more along the lines: "Breastfeeding - when and where it makes sense to do so - is a necessary part of taking care of a newborn that men cannot do."?

Isn't that like "Wearing a bicycle helmet - when and where it makes sense to do so - is a necessary part of riding a bicycle."

That is, your addition negates the seemingly firm statement of "necessary", while the later use of "vital" seems to support the firm intent of "necessary".
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No. Everything I've seen indicates it's much improved over the pre-2008 iSight[1], but still not hard-wired to the power rails.

[1] On those early models it was relatively trivial to upload malicious firmware which was widely reported and verified.
Thank you! such great effort
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Singapore is not a dictatorship. It's a "flawed democracy", according to The Economist Democracy Index, the same category as the The United States. https://www.prensa.com/politica/democracy-index_LPRFIL201901...
> Sadly, coal power plants release more radiation directly into the atmosphere than nuclear,

More on average. Far less worst case.