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I love it! I am a super creative person and I spend a lot of time doing what the article suggests. I quit facebook and all other social media two years ago, though I still spend a lot of time scrolling through reddit. At any rate I also write, maintain a few websites, design and build 3D printed robots, and make youtube videos. The author really nails it that you can be creating every day. Today I installed a GPU in my desktop and set up tensorflow to train an image segmentation algorithm I got from github. A couple months ago I ordered a 64x64 LED panel on aliexpress for $26 (search for "hub75") and the appropriate adafruit raspberry pi shield, then took all that stuff on vacation so when I was in a cabin in vermont I could configure the raspberry pi with the appropriate libraries to drive the thing. That was super fun! Earlier this year I took time off between jobs and built a massive four post bed out of redwood. The corner posts are 6" square and 7 feet tall and its all sanded and oiled and it looks phenomenal.

The author discovered something really valuable - even when you've got nothing but your phone you can create. And personally I find creating things way more rewarding. If you've ever thought about logging off of Netflix and social media, I definitely recommend it!

And humbly, if you want to see what I've been working on, see here:

http://tlalexander.com/missing/

https://reboot.love/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToGT3KokPZA
Everyone talks about Uber being a bet on self-driving cars but how do they “win”?

Are they going to own and maintain an absolutely massive fleet of self-driving cars which they can’t afford? If they’re leasing self-driving cars from the owners, you’re right back where you started, paying people to use their cars. Or is the idea they somehow figure out self-driving technology, license it to Ford or whoever, and then shut down the whole taxi business?
Heard an opinion that he used that phrasing in order for it to get translated into Chinese a certain way.
the title is a bit misleading in that this is actually a book review of "Freedom’s Laboratory: The Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science" by Audra J. Wolfe, which describes the role of global politics on the direction of american science in the 20th century.

in college, i read what i assume is a precursor to this book, entitled "The Cold War and American Science" by Stuart W. Leslie[0] which covers much of the same material, particularly the rise of MIT and stanford as top-tier schools.

but to answer the question in the title, yes, science is political, because people are political and science is a process devised and employed by humans.

[0]https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/212074.The_Cold_War_and_...
Realize you have options.

Understanding does not mean acceptance or an endorsement.

Humor can often replace righteous indignation.

You can control your end of a conversation.

You should understand why you argue. It might not be easy to identify. Talk with trusted others.
The United States has over nine million square kilometers of land area. Why is the most portable industry in the world (software) being held hostage by a few square kilometers along the coast of northern California?
Parent's probably referring to Koch-style libertarianism.

I'm not super familiar with the nuances of their worldview, but it's definitely more business / enterprise-centric than non-Koch libertarianism.
Some of these aren’t bad. The Goal, for example, is a great book for helping you build intuition about constraints. But by far, the best manufacturing book I’ve read is Factory Physics, but Hopp and Spearman. It rewards study with a mathematical understanding of how value chains work.

https://factoryphysics.com/factory-physics-3rd-edition
Their billing is HORRIBLE. Its actually a big reason why we are investigating moving off.

Its insanely unclear. I get that their product domain is complex, and thus its hard to bill for, but... its things like, if you're container-focused, you still pay for nodes, and you get X number of containers per node that you're allowed to track. You wire up an AWS integration and it (1) counts as a node? I've heard different things from different salespeople about this, and (2) drives up your AWS bill like crazy because of the amount of data it pulls (our AWS bill is low-five-figures, and the Datadog integration represents 3-5% of it). The datadog-agent inside our kube clusters was constantly one of our largest logging services, until we started filtering those out. We had one of our services go crazy on logs one month, driving up our bill by 1500% until someone caught it (we're small. we make mistakes. we're learning). You can't delete the logs, they wouldn't, so we had to eat a 5 figure bill when we're used to, like $1000/month.

And its expensive. Maybe its comparable to something like New Relic, I don't know, but relative to StackDriver or CloudWatch? Its in a totally different league. Just on logging, its hard to do apples-to-apples because DD bills on lines whereas CloudWatch bills on bytes, but for our logging patterns, even with our annual enterprise discount on DD (and no discounts on AWS) DataDog is about 5x more expensive. CloudWatch (even with the new Insights product) is pretty hard to ask front-line developers to use, but StackDriver is pretty nice, and its also pretty cheap.

We joke about Datadog among our ops team. When we were investigating adopting them, I signed up for an account with my company email. Within a week, members of their sales teams were emailing our frontend developers, who I imagine they found by linking my company email to a LinkedIn company, about setting up a call. I'd get about one unprompted call a week from someone from their sales org.

Their product is great. Possibly even special, though I don't believe its miles better than StackDriver. The company is a nightmare. I tell everyone I can to stay away, at least until they sort out their sales and technical support organizations, if they ever do.
Not to pick on you, but: the fact that people here are discussing Trump's insane drivel as if it were a sensible policy proposal with pros and cons to debate is highly disturbing to me. I can almost see the Overton window inching rightwards in real time.
Golf is an exercise in self control.
I don't think they really knew where they were located in the first place, then headed for somewhere that they were not equipped to get to. They've always been lost.
When you organize the worlds information, then some amount of politics is a necessary part of the job. The product you are selling is built by political talk.

To give a fairly tame example. Lets say someone googles "Can crystal healing cure cancer". Do you put a box saying no? Do you put put a box saying "according to authority it does not". If you defer to authority to do you defer to different one in different countries? What if they disagree? Maybe we need a list of FUBAR countries?
Meh. Even if they kill 100,000 Americans per year, that would probably be one of the greatest public health wins in history.
Apple terminated my developer account for no reason
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By that definition of governance you could argue an individual must engage in politics when dealing with only his own choices. Surely there is a line between direct negotiation and political governance. I'd argue that line is drawn when representation comes into play.
It's waaaaaaaayyyyy early to blame this on "vape lung". Always be skeptical of people who have an agenda to eliminate something.
The authors of the 2010 paper did follow up with another in 2014[1] so "heard nothing since disputed in 2011 - its just wrong" is at least, inaccurate.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S007966111...

>This work builds upon an earlier analysis (Boyce et al., 2010) by taking published criticisms into account, and by using recalibrated data, and novel analysis methods.
I grew up in a rural area with a decent amount of land. We did both. Our dog was walked and he was allowed out on his own. We played with him off leash a lot too.
This topic has been discussed endlessly over the last 40 years (both by local social scientists and people trying to reproduce Silicon Valley elsewhere). The short answer is “it’s a just so story commingling schools, openness, military boom...”.

One thing to notice is that plenty of industries have followed this pattern until they became mature (cars, breakfast cereals, aircraft to some degree). And you see this in software: the pressure discussed is at the frothy end of the market.
And suppose it's 1 million lives per year after a 10-year ramp-up period?
I feel deeply uncomfortable taking Ubers, especially in Seattle. The drivers are inevitably working class folk, just trying to scrape by. They inevitably mention the increasing rent and cost of living. They inevitably ask what I do and I have to respond that I'm one of the asshole carpetbagging tech people who come in and raise the cost of living, raise the rent.

Services like Uber are placing the class barrier front and center. They're making the differences between the have and the have nots bitterly visible. Which...I guess is a good thing? If you're into the whole class consciousness stuff. I'm not so sure myself. Perhaps that's because I'd be a bourgeoisie, not a proletarian.
> ad blocking through DNS-over-TLS on Android 9 and above.

FYI, dns.adguard.com does more or less the same thing, and is free.
> As the mechanism is unknown, it’s unclear what the actual danger is. Is it some byproduct of the nicotine cartidges, or THC ones? Is it the vapor itself? Is it only at certain temperatures or concentrations? Is it directly affecting the lungs or entering the bloodstream? No one knows yet — all they’ve seen is an sudden uptick in respiratory or pulmonary issues where the sufferer also uses vaping products.

We've seen a few studies suggesting certain flavoring agents may cause significant problems, has this been investigated as a possible cause?
> I have to respond that ...

Says who?
That's pretty unlikely.
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How is this different from taking a cab? Honest question.

Maybe the difference is the relationship between employer and employee in that regard.
Bash is so terrible that I love using it. Its one of the most extreme language in that it has a lot of pros and a lot of cons.

Its also ironic adjacent that you want people to install ruby with homebrew but most people install homebrew with ruby.
That part of the essay could be turned back on the essay itself.
> more symbiotic parasitic relationship

This may properly be called commensalism, if the benefitting species avoids harming its host.
> It seems none of this turn people into peon services at behest of capitalists are really sustainable

Like the entire employment sector?

At the core of it, all Uber/Airtasker/AirBnB etc. are doing is cutting out the middle man and replacing it with a far more efficient technology. Regulations will come, but they won't undo the existence of these platforms because they're more efficient and better for everyone except the middle man.

> stealing tips in order to make them seem like they are sustainable or growth businesses

Like the US restaurant industry?
That's fascinating, Maybe there can be a megacity that spans multiple cities or something like that.

Oakland and SF makes less sense than SF and SJ imo, because there's no space between them. At least Oakland has the bay.
The Pentagon wants to boldly go where no nuclear reactor has gone before
When Uber started with their black car service many years ago, the drivers seemed universally happier to work for Uber than the shady limo services that typically served as a ride broker; they knew they would get paid and they knew how much and could make a decision for themselves about what their best options were.

Capitalism always works better when people have enough economic freedom to say "no, I'm worth more than that," or "I can make an investment with this money and even if it disappears I'll still be able to eat." Pretty much all economic models assume that people have enough economic independence. It falls down when people are desperate and have no choice and have to take whatever is given to them. All of a sudden the system that allocates resources to the those who use them best starts to exploit people that have no other choice, and the resources start getting wasted.

Uber's recent years have all been about exploiting drivers that have few other options; they position themselves as a side job, but it's become the job of last resort that everybody is doing on the side, but dislikes the extreme pressure from every single interaction.
This is my number 1 problem when buying books on Amazon especially the classic books (e.g. Meditations or Enchiridion etc.) that has many different translations and editions from various authors. All having the same reviews making it almost impossible for me to choose the right one.
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uber is making money from almost all of the rides and they keep around 35% to themselves. uber has 22000 people (not including drivers) working for it while facebook has 37000. all of Facebook's apps and underlying tech have been tremendously evolving and developing for years which can't be said about uber's app or their tech in general. uber will become profitable when they shed at least half of their employees at which point they will become just like Groupon or Zynga.
I use one. It’s excellent for what it is, though the pushers aren’t as responsive as I’d like after a year or two.
I think NYT misses the point. The problem with Uber isn't some cultural issue, it's that they're in an extremely tough and competitive business. It's really a race to the bottom.

The logic I kept hearing repeated is ride-sharing is a winner take all market. Like once you have a network of drivers setup giving people the lowest times for rides, you can force other competitors out and raise prices.

Time has proven how wrong this thinking was. It's almost impossible to stop competitors in ride-sharing because the cost of switching for customers is low, there are no legal or capital ex competitive barriers, and you can be picked apart city by city. Even drivers are incentivized to download as many of these apps as possible.

The whole situation seems awfully similar to Living Social and Groupon.
Why would there be a "ramp up" period. The number of vapes is going up rapidly, but the death rate would likely stay the same unless someone started suddenly spiking the vape liquid with lead or something. If anything it would go down as the possible culprits causing deaths are discovered and eliminated.
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If you have to be DJB or Bellard to write good code in a programming language, that programming language probably has a problem. I used to write a lot of C back in the day, but I have to admit that C++ code is far more reliable and maintainable, which is a damning thing to say about any programming language.
Okay, but is it impossible? Millions of people saturating their lungs with largely unstudied vapors from a variety of devices...
I love the idea, and am quite tempted to give it a go.

I especially love the option to '3d print your own dummy model to try out the different sizes'

Are you a single inventor bringing this baby to life, or is this a project from a larger company? I'd really love to hear your startup story, particularly as I also have some gadget ideas I'd like to reify.
because my job is totally devoid of meaning

There's a self deception. Meaning isn't out there in the world, meaning is in people's heads. There's no meaning but that which we make for ourselves. It isn't your job which is devoid of meaning, but your interpretation of your job compared to your interpretation of other jobs.

That is to say, your suffering doesn't come from the outside, it comes from the inside.
I’ve shopped at a Barnes and Noble and a smaller local bookstore for many years. Guess what... somehow they manage to find a way to not sell counterfeit or greymarket shit.

All of these technical issues are problems of Amazon’s creation. Amazon wrote a bunch of software that doesn’t provide a supply chain that can maintain the integrity of what they sell. Sound like their problem.
It wasn't exactly easier to have the money in the 19th century?
MorInDette? I lived in Lafayette. Never heard that... you’re talking Lamorinda right?
TIL about popcorn ceilings, and also that before 1977 they typically contained asbestos. I hope you're okay.
this is how i grew up as well, rural setting with a (big) dog (or two) that roamed our property (the boundaries of which they more-or-less knew). however they're pack animals and would rather be with their humans, so they usually stayed close to the house, but sometimes they get bored and chase something in the grass or in the wind or whatever, and come back later.

i now live in an urban area and walk my (little) dog at least twice a day, which gives us both exercise (5+ miles/day), and she seems pretty content with the amount of outdoor time she gets.
Just like smoking it's important that those 10yrs have context around the deaths, assuming they ramp up, it's not just all vape usage = high risk. It's how you use it too.

I personally quit smoking cigarettes and moved from 24mg->3mg of nicotine over a few months (with zero withdrawl symptoms). 3mg is about as low as you can go. You can't do that with smoking cigarettes, "light" cigarettes is mostly just a flavour profile with only small differences in health and nicotine levels.

With cigarettes there were plenty of people who smoked a pack or two a day, those people on a 20yr span are at a higher risk. You see some people who smoke these massive vape clouds and they smoke constantly with high nicotine counts + high heat. Those are all voluntary options and the devices/juice is getting better with time.

Currently nicotine salts are taking over in vape shops, which are smaller devices, smaller amounts of liquid but higher nicotine-liquid ratios, and they have a much smaller exhale clouds which I find easier on the chest and way less anti-social when outside (the exhaled cloud is 10-50% of the size of a normal cigarette, and way smaller than traditional vapes).

Finally, there's second-hand smoke. There was a study showing vape smoke creates extremely small or non-existent second-hand transmission compared to cigarettes. Cigarette smoke stays in the air in a inhale-able state far longer.

> According to Drexel University toxicology expert Igor Burstyn, while the contents of e-cig vapor inhaled by users “justifies surveillance,” there is so little contamination in exhaled vapor that there is unlikely to be any risk.

https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1...

^ This is a big deal for anyone who grew up with a parent who smoked around them like I did.
Unbelievable. As a developer, if I can't feel safe to develop App for iOS/macOS, why should I do it? Apple should explain why they did such a terrible decision.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvc77gn1 for starters.

If we understand Liberalism to be a social philosophy tradition starting with Hobbes, being further developed in various forms through Locke, Rousseau, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, John Rawls, etc. and seeking the liberation of the individual from culture, community, and family then for various the social Liberalism of the democrats (which seeks particularly to liberate people sexually from community judgments and rules) is closely connected to the efforts by the GOP to do the same for people in the business area. They are based on a common view of what it means to be human, a particular view of what freedom is, and so forth.

These assumptions are not really so fundamentally shared outside North America. So in both Sweden and Denmark, society looks a lot more like it did structurally to Aristotle than to Hobbes -- strong family households joining together in local communities to address common issues. Those local communities joining together into larger and larger units to address common needs until you have the overall kingdom. These places are less individualist and more localist.

Growing up in small towns in the US, I can also tell you that this Business Liberalism is most heavily a force politically in the urban centers of the GOP. Rural politicians don't tend to push it in the same way.
To be fair, they have always done an awful job of selling books.

edit - 'Amazon Erases Orwell Books From Kindle' - https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18am...
The sweet spot is 50/50, create exactly as much as is consumed.

How do you apply that to something which is not used up as it is consumed, like a book, film, blog post, song, etc.?
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I didn't know this was really a thing, I've only heard of it on Mad TV when I was younger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgcLfohtFbE
I feel terrified when I saw this news. I'd never expected this news happened to any of developers, especially for those who work very hard and not intended to do anything wrong with Apple policy. We do very expecting that Apple would response to this developer and wish the problem can be solved.

Best luck Ying.
be skeptical of people who don't want another generation of smokers? should I be skeptical of them or you?
Some skeptic’s questions:

1) which people?
2) what agenda?
fashion question to all : are you able to pull off wearing a fitbit and a normal watch at the same time?

edit: changed "not-smart" to normal
It's also very easy to fire someone in the US compared to many other countries.
You didn't do that. It's not tech that's increasing housing prices in Seattle, it's the people that have houses and don't want to have to share their city that are causing rising prices.

The US is a nation of immigrants and migrants, and the cities that have decided "no we are full and only care about current residents" are the ones who have created this situation, not you. Do you have a paid off house, own land and try to keep people out? If not, you are not to blame.

Another problem is that it takes an Uber ride for you to experience the class difference. We have let class and racial segregation become an acceptable and even expected state of matters in our cities. We need to reverse that segregation in addition to reversing the "got mine, forget you" policies of cities that are driving up rents.
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I couldn't parse:

> it’s a just so story commingling

Explanations:

In science and philosophy, a just-so story is an unverifiable narrative explanation for a cultural practice, a biological trait, or behavior of humans or other animals. The pejorative nature of the expression is an implicit criticism that reminds the hearer of the essentially fictional and unprovable nature of such an explanation.

com·min·gle: mix; blend
Unbelievable!Apple should not treat such a pure and good independent developer at all, and does not give any representations and explanations.
Do you do the same complex class calculation every time you interact with a cashier, talk to a receptionist, or pass a janitor? People do honest work and earn a living, no shame in that. Your life must be exhausting if you have a class-based panic attack when you hop in an Uber!