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>but I think we as a nation (US) can do better.

No, we can't. If we could, we would. Things are like this because we want them to be like this: it's reflected in how we vote. We've had candidates pushing for "Medicare for all", universal healthcare, etc., and who gets elected? The candidates promising to go the other direction. Clearly, American society and its voters do not want this.
I hear you. There is also ghee. Suitable for the lactose intolerant as well as a preserving method. Many Indians are lactose tolerant/persistent.. clearly a genetic mutation.

But why preserve dairy when you can move the herd with you when you migrate?

Dairy only comes after a cow has birthed. Before artificial insemination, this would have been a tedious task for migrants or nomads.

So yes, I hear your point. I am just wondering if the mutation(lactose persistence) had an evolutionary advantage and helped us move around the globe. And the preservation was a side effect.
.cancerresearch is near empty. Hard to say on some of the restricted ones since you can't usually AXFR anymore.
Really just an excuse to not have any insurance. "Oh, but what about the stress on employers" copout. We all pay for someone if they have a medical emergency, it's a matter of being a citizen, and you know, alive.
> There's also .aero which is pretty exclusive

Makes me feel like I belong to an exclusive club, but I think the list of people and companies that have .aero is fairly long.
huh having some problems connecting at Wed Sep 18 14:22:32 UTC 2019 ... 404 Not Found ... will try later, sounds very interesting!
When all of that content was already paid for via traditional networks, sure. But when everyone is transitioning to streaming, stuff's gotta get paid for.
It isn’t the employers size as much as it is the group plan risk pool. Employees are better risks than people who have to resort to individual pans. Also, employers don’t pay taxes on what they spend on health insurance, individuals do.
I hope we will NOT keep it. It reminds me how my country was occupied and annexed by Soviet Union.
Eh, it's not that difficult. What do you think uses all the power in your phone? It's the display, WiFi, cellular, etc. Most of the time your CPU is under-clocked to save power and reduce heat. A lot of the Intel Atom chips will run as passively as an ARM chip will with comparable throughput.

The only thing is PCB space, but even then, I wouldn't except modern chip processes not being able to replicate the BIOS setup in a small chip. It should even be possible to get a BIOS into the same die as the processor to save space.

By the way, the reason for wanting x86/AMD64 is because OSes that support a BIOS are already built for these architectures, whereas anybody building OSes for ARM doesn't expect such niceties, hence the current state of mobile phone OSes. If ARM gained BIOS support, it would too be suitable.
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How many campaign stops are in Wyoming? How often do Republican presidential candidates campaign in California? How often do Democratic presidential candidates campaign in Alabama? The Electoral College doesn't actually address any of the issues raised in its defense.
I highly recommend if you're looking for diversity and the avoidance of americanization, I would recommend looking beyond the UK settings and into fiction inspired by or taking place in other parts of the world. Speculative fiction has had an explosion of culturally diverse and distint cultural nods lately- The Daevabad Trilogy by Chakraborty for example, or Lagoon by Okorafor, or the Dreamblood Duology by Jemisin, or The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu.

In my opinion it isn't that books aren't increasingly becoming more american. Books are increasingly globally set, from where I'm reading. (Of course, this may not be the case in non-speculative fiction sphere.)
This is a really intresting idea and definitely a big, worthwhile problem.

One thing I'm curious about is how do you expect the economics of a green-fund to work? There's a handful of issues I see with this model:

1. ETFs/trackers are commoditized at the moment and, in a lot of cases, the broad, market-tracking funds are subsidised by more niche products offered by the same provider.
2. From a voting perspective, this only really makes sense at a truly massive scale. Even to get something like 0.1% of each company in S&P500, you need 24 billion AUM - and I doubt a 10bps shareholder can hold much sway, even when actively campaining around AUMs.

So, you need to be really big to have impact (assuming you follow S&P weightings), but you're competing in a highly comoditized space.

I'm sorry if I sound negative, I do hope this works out! I'm really curious to see how you plan on working around the issues I see in the space.
How is that different from the infrastructure the private industry (allegedly) maintains?
Google Stadia is coming to Android TV in 2020, possibly with Android 11 R
I think there’s also a major glut in TV shows right now. I’m not considering subscribing to anything new or pirating either. Just watching what’s available already in my existing ones.

Another thing I’m planning on doing for movies is rotating subscriptions. Use Apple TV channels to subscribe to a different one every month or so and watch the movies that’s there
So much wrong about this listing and company that I feel relieved to hear they are delaying their IPO. The corporate structure defied reason as did the concentration of voting power in their CEO, aside from the self-dealing and other ethical lapses which were apparent. I still don't know why this business is considered a technology play.
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Logitech has (or had) a Skype camera that you’d clip to a TV to do a similar thing; it’s been around for years.
Expanding on this, I wonder how much money all these supposedly "struggling" companies are burning building data centers and the required backbone to support all these stupid streaming services for the various walled gardens of content?

I mean they could just host their stuff on Netflix/iTunes/Amazon but no let's build an entire new server farm doing the exact same work, likely on the exact same hardware and the exact same software, because some executive somewhere got a bug in his ass about Apple taking 30% for providing merely a marketplace, userbase, advertising, delivery model, customer support...

Idk. From a non-industry person this seems like common sense, but I also don't understand how VC backed companies burning billions of dollars to schedule McDonalds deliveries is a long-term business model so maybe this is just some galaxy brain business head stuff.
A mention of AAlib ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAlib , http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/aalib/ ) seems relevant.
And exactly why does America speak English, when a few centuries ago it was filled with native speakers of many other languages that are now very rare today?

Because the British Empire (and the Spanish and French empires) killed a great many of them, and forcibly imported their own cultures, people, and languages.

Which is unquestionably imperialism, and undoubtedly cultural. Hence: cultural imperialism.

If it weren't for cultural imperalism, the only native English speakers would be the population of the UK, which is about on par with Germany.

;-)
Another vote for Overcast. The app is great and things like Smart Speed and per-podcast speed settings are a godsend. The developer behind Overcast (Marco Arment) does a great job with this app and you should check out some of the podcasts he is on like ATP (Apple/tech news) and Under the Radar (iOS dev topics).
You could have used this line of reasoning on civil disobedience in the 60s. Sometimes it just has to be done that way. I don't particularly care that uber or airbnb broke some laws I didn't strongly agree with in the first place.
> Pinch-to-zoom

> On supported hardware (trackpad, touchpad, multi-touch screen), the canvas can be zoomed with the two-finger pinch gesture.

Thank god! As a macOS user, this is really one of my pet peeves because I'm so used to pinch-to-zoom that I almost forget it exists until I use a program that doesn't support it.
But also that's _if_ you can find coverage. The markets are so screwed up in some states that it's a nightmare of trying to find something you can actually get.
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It drives me crazy when I read fiction books which use Fahrenheit (and sometimes don't even specify units) as I don't understand that measurement or many other imperial units at all. One would think in this day and age that authors could use some semantic markup and one's e-reader could use the reader's preferences to format the book for easier understanding/comprehension
aside from google search results for GQL :)
Not the fight government part, but Switzerland actually has an armed militia unlike America. Their gun laws are a lot saner than the states to boot.

Any pro gunner will tell you that the 2nd amendment is sacred, except it’s first clause, that’s meaningless.
My brother in law works at Taco Bell and faces a similar problem. He works between 15-25 hours a week at a franchise, and apparently he needs at least 30 hours consistently to be eligible for insurance. He has asked multiple times to have his hours increased, but they have repeatedly denied him. He can't afford to pay for a plan (which start at around $400/month in NYC), and since he got his green card only two years ago, he can't apply for any kind of government assistance on this.

The really frustrating part of this also comes with the fact that he's trying to get his GED to hopefully get a higher-paying job with benefits, but the GED exam apparently requires that you have coverage.
You’re quibbling over semantics in this thread. Yes, they don’t legally have carte blanche, but they sure act like it does. Have you even looked at the Snowden leaks? They may not be authorized to have carte blanche access to many things, but through programs like PRISM, they had essentially, the entire internet at their fingertips.
Well, they can presumably offer 1Gbps for $50/mo indefinitely.
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>> I can see this being a fun interaction.

Oh for sure, unfortunately, it's the Facebook label that makes this cool product toxic. Since the Facebook brand is synonymous with poor privacy practices (Firefox even has a 'facebook container' to help reduce tracking), I don't see how someone didn't think to market this under a different parent company and make it 'facebook compatible'.
You seem to be advocating keeping the public ignorant. Presumably this only applies in cases the knowledge in question is an instance of the adage "a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing"?

Do you think having norms that advocate hiding knowledge that someone could argue is dangerous from the public will do more good than harm and won't backfire in the form of public distrust of experts?
I read the whole article. It is long.

The TLDR is something like: the 373 max crashes are the result of a lack of “airmanship” by pilots of the airlines of developing countries, a quality the author acknowledges he can’t define. But he feels the pilots make many “really dumb” errors and are incompetent. And the airlines that employ and often train them are crappy.

Meanwhile, Boeing is mostly blameless. Sure, there were “bewildering” design decisions but those didn’t have much to do with it. The article suggests Boeing’s mistake may have been that, unlike Airbus, it failed to appreciate how idiotic pilots have become.

Ok, I failed to make my TLDR short.

This article doesn’t go over very well with me. The problem with blaming the problem on an unmeasureable quality (“airmanship”) is that it leaves no room for a rational solution. He suggests the max should be ungrounded, but how can you do that without improving airmanship, and how can you do that if you can’t meaningfully quantify it?

While it does a great job of presenting many facts across several threads, it reads like the author wants to minimize Boeing’s responsibility and interprets all the facts through that lens.
Thx @truth_seeker.

YugabyteDB CDC support is in early beta right now. To read more: https://github.com/YugaByte/yugabyte-db/blob/master/architec...
Dental plaque can offer unique insights into the diets of ancient people because dietary proteins are entrapped within it when it is mineralised by components of saliva to form tartar or 'dental calculus'.
French was spoken by the educated classes in much of the Western world for some time, had a largish colonial empire. Holy Roman Empire (neither Roman or Holy or an Empire) had German as a primary language.
Extreme positions are just the reality of 2019 culture. I was reading a Twitter war about whether or not a professional Hearthstone player was paying enough attention to the game during one of his matches. It was a sea of hate-filled vitriol from both sides. Reading it, I was honestly a little sick to my stomach seeing what social media has become.

If we're going to get that upset over a children's card game, it follows that we're going to get upset over things that actually matter.
Another factor in the mix is how poor a job a lot of the streaming services do at the mechanics of running their business.

I, for instance, pay for streaming packages from both the NFL and Formula 1, but more often than not the best way to watch the actual events is to download a torrent that some random guy recorded, edited, and posted. The video quality is just plain better. It's not missing the pre-event buildup coverage. And it doesn't randomly cut out and drop down to 160p all the time.

Now I say I pay for these services, but actually as of a couple months ago I can't even convince Formula 1 to take my money anymore. I live in France and first signed up using a US credit card. Now they won't let me put my card back in to renew, because it's not to a French address. And they won't let me buy the US or UK version of the service (as I have cards and mailing addresses in both), because my history shows I previously bought the French one.

But then really, it's not that much of a pain, since even for the couple years I paid for it I don't think I actually streamed more than a couple races. The product itself was just that awful, but still it'd be nice to be able to give them some money...
Oh come on. :-D
> Again, YugaByte DB's Jepsen tests did not pass. They do not currently pass. Correctness issues we identified in our collaboration, mainly due to non-transactional schema changes, are still unaddressed. YugaByte and I have talked about this.[1]

[1] https://twitter.com/jepsen_io/status/1174317882056040456
PowerPoint supports importing SVGs since at least 2016. I am using them constantly and do everything in SVG. Export to SVG you can’t - but online converters make that easy.

Excel Supports JSON and s bunch of other stuff via PowerQuery which is the new way to do things.

Office Development is totally fine, but I would agree with you that development of Add-Ins is slow and there aren’t many I would use.
The bits about autism referred specifically to Stallman's cringetastic political expressions, not the other things he might've been up to.
No, you just have a wildly differing opinion from the people you speak of (well, most of them, anyway... there does seem to be more than one crowd of defenders).

It goes both ways - Stallman's words seem pretty accurate to me, and it's totally alien to me that you would find them reprehensible. In particular, I cannot understand how you came to the conclusion that he "victim-blames" Giuffre - even though he writes that she "was being coerced into sex" and "She was harmed".
Presumably they'd still be ad-free.
>* I think some of the comparisons I've seen in the past have pointed to 2 minute showers*

Wait?

Wouldn't that mean that you bathe in 20L of water? I know it's only the eyeball test, but most of the bath tubs I've seen seem to be filled with more than 20L when in use. Particularly if people are soaking, which would be a fair comparison to a long shower.

I think maybe we need some kind of way to recycle water for more than one night, and reheat it efficiently. Then baths start being better for the environment.

I have no idea how to do that? (Or even if you can do that?) But it seems a good way forward if some company made tubs like that.
Did you not notice the bit where the top two countries on the CT scanner list have "free" government run facilities?
Perhaps Nigeria, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Belize too.
The gaia air quality monitors
> It's a workaround, but it's still making streaming feel more like cable TV, since now you again have to watch shows according to a schedule.

This already happens now if you're only subbed to Netflix.

They are constantly removing titles.

It definitely starts to feel like a schedule because now it's like "I have to watch this before October 1st otherwise it'll be pulled".

The worst is when you deal with series too. Like casually watching a 6 season series and you get to the end of season 1, give it a break for a bit but then when you want to resume it a month or 2 later the entire thing is gone.

Combined with a horrible browsing ability for your watch list and you end up adding these great shows to your list but then 2 months later you have no idea how many of them are gone since you can only browse like 6 titles at a time on your watch list that might have hundreds of titles.

Once you feel pressured into watching things due to a fear of missing out you've entered a dangerous place and this is when people will begin looking for alternatives.
does this mean he similarily hired private investigators to check Jeffrey Epstein?
Sure, i guess, but you have to still pay for it.

I don't have to pay anything for my health coverage.

And before you say, I do through taxes, my tax rate can be pretty low if I have minimal income, which is often the case when starting a new business.
We’re pretty much the same - except for Poetry where we are still using plain old pip. Are you able to say how Poetry makes updating third party libs easier?
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Will never happen as long as "Government bad!" is the predominant thinking in our culture.
Pork? Probably because they noticed pig herders/handlers got various diseases. Maybe not more than other animal handlers in the big picture, but they wouldn't exactly have done statistical trials on it.

As I understand it, boiling a calf in its mother's milk may have been a ritual act of cruelty at one point, to draw the attention of various gods and spirits. Being a cruel bastard has certainly paid off at times, so it's not so strange some concluded that the gods like that sort of thing.
When internet speed is involved, does it make a difference if it is a city or a town? As far as I see, a service is a server, no matter where you are located.
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I'm sure that's very comforting to the people effected by this.
I personally feel that software architecture isn't so much overrated as too much focused on abstract patterns instead of how to best solve common problems.

e.g. last year I needed to model an invoicing system, although this has been implemented hundredths thousands of times, there is very little generalized information on how to best do that so that it doesn't fall apart next year.

The areas that currently are better at this are mostly related to security and operations.
The “rise of mass shootings” is mostly a media phenomenon. They are still extremely rare events.

Gun laws haven’t gotten laxer in the last couple decades either - many states have strengthened them. There isn’t a clear connection between weak gun laws and mass shootings.

(That said, a total and effective ban on guns would of course stop mass shootings and other gun violence - if it could be implemented successfully)
I'm middle of the road. Hard working and highly paid. Healthcare in the USA is broken beyond belief. I pay over 300 bi-weekly for family coverage and high deductibles beyond that. It goes higher each year. My employer pays over nearly 800 per week. I'm not using what I pay and honestly feel we're getting to a point where even a highly paid associate is going to drop out of this garbage plan and just go to the hospital or urgent care and pay out of pocket. Something needs to be done about healthcare! I'm boycotting Amazon for this.
I have a Nokia 8110 4G bought in India and it has Jio store , a carrier specific version Kai OS store. It has apps curated by Jio for the Indian market.

We get Whatsapp, but lose a lot of other apps. My efforts of using the main KaiOS store have met a dead-end.

It's still a nice phone. I just wish I didn't have a carrier specific version of the KaiOS store.
When you become big, famous, influential, anything like that. Then people can register your domains and misrepresent you or just use your namesake as a platform to attack you (write bad things about you at best, do some really nasty damage at worst). Need to play defense preemptively.
> However, I still think waterfall is the only approach when trying to design a hardware product. Electronics require pretty specific requirements up front before you design and order boards, obviously mechanical tooling can be even more expensive.

I disagree, having taken part in agile embedded development.

Sure, it looked a bit different from pure-software, but the same underlying principle of short iterations applied. Our definition of "short" was a bit different, but still...

And yes, you may have some "very specific" requirements, but you may also have some "pretty loose" ones -- just like software.

> But... I think there are lots of ways to do quick experiments and tighten up the feedback look even with robotics or electronics. Breadboards and development kits can be used as initial electronics prototypes. 3d prints help test a mechanical concept

See, there you go.

The core idea behind Agile isn't to have sacrosanct two week sprints (or even to have sprints in the first place), it is to close as many feedback loops as you can as quickly as you can. Whatever that means in practice.

This has been good engineering practice for longer than software exists.

I read that the Mercury space project created their software in half-day "sprints". Back in the '60s, on punch-card machines (I guess).
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> Removing the responsibility of corporations to manage health care would free up a large amount of resources they could invest in expansions, wage increases..

Why are wages in Europe lower than the US, even after adjusted for health insurance expenses? Americans have far more disposable cash than Europe even when health insurance is considered. Why is that?
There was no SWAT, only police.

Pointing a gun is a deadly threat and it's hard to believe (assuming this was a real hostage situation) he couldn't make out even one outline of a human to take aim at.

The police thought they were at the scene of a murder/hostage situation. They weren't just protecting their own lives, they were there to protect the life of the hostage from somebody who they believed had committed murder just minutes before.

Given ten minutes to think about the situation maybe the officer who fired the shot would take a different course of action. But he didn't have ten minutes, he had half a second.