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Agreed. Moreover, if their core business model wasn't related to advertising, their data collection practices could (and probably would) have looked much different. For instance, there's no reason to be opaque about exactly what data you collect, or to make the collection enabled by default, or apply dark patterns coercing people to opt back in when they opt out, etc. - no reason to do all that, if the data isn't used for shady purposes.
Impressive Resume. I like your approach
>I think the people who have coerced her into being a propaganda piece are the ones who have stolen her childhood.

Do you have a list of names?
Since you're revisiting this thread. I will try to clarify the issue.

No it is not. It's only assimilation if you aim to wipe out the local language and culture and replace them with your own.

So it's not assimilation in either case, Puerto Rico or Hong Kong, as the US did not attempt to eradicate Spanish, nor is China trying to eradicate Cantonese.

People who accuse China of assimilation are surely smart enough to know the difference. The thing is, they have already made up their minds, China is evil no matter what it does.
It's a surprise to plenty of people who think that their $70,000/yr income makes them a net tax payer when it actually doesn't. And it's relevant because people will reduce their marginal income, or relocate to more favorable tax jurisdictions, when the tax burden of that income is excessive.

It's also relevant because, at a certain point, the productive portion of the population will fall below that necessary to make payment on the debt at which point the shit hits the fan in a big way.
That last one in particular was ridiculous in hindsight.

Apple never had a monopoly on either MP3 players or online music stores.
It's also easy to forget that the high density portions of most American cities were built around long since abandoned light rail or equivalents. San Francisco has turned a couple classic lines of street cars into a working museum, but it's easy to forget a much larger amount of San Francisco was served by them for several decades to the point where neighborhoods were shaped by them. It's even sometimes harder to further recall how many other American cities (almost all of them) had street car routes and passenger train routes lost to time other than as ghost remnants of neighborhood layouts (the odd street circle that used to be a street car turntable, the odd on street parking spaces where once was a street car passenger transit center, the odd railway trellis that used to be for passengers, etc).

It's almost cultural amnesia at this point that so much of North America believes it has used nothing but the car for transport. It's not even that far removed in history (the "Greatest Generation" had a lot more transit options than today, which is not even 3 or 4 generations removed).
From what I understand, social security has more complex effects as well. It enables people to exit the workforce today, opening more senior positions, allowing for more career growth. So while the returns might not be ideal for an individual, it seems to be a case where it's good for the whole.
India isn't going to be uninhabitable tomorrow. They're not even on the equator. It's doubtful it'll ever be uninhabitable and if it does happen, it won't be overnight nor within this century.
Just checked on bestbuy.com, the Lenovo X1 Carbon 14" 1080p 8GB RAM 256GB SSD laptop is $1580 where the Dell XPS 13.3" 4k 16GB RAM 256GB SSD is $1500. Doesn't Dell make the xps 13 in China?
You are right and I must say it's ok to have kids in the US or in Europa (because population growth is declining here), but I am talking about Africa or South Asia, as they are having more and more kids there, and all these kids end up living in extreme poverty and having no hope for the future. For example, each year, Nigeria has 6 millions more people to feed (Nigerian women have an average of 5.5 children).
In his very interesting book "Kicking away the ladder", the Korean economist Han Joon-Chang quotes US merchants discovering Japan for the first time in the 1860s. They all marvelled at how lazy the Japanese were. Surprising, isn't it?

Fact is that 1860's Japan lacked all sort of resources, particularly natural ones. In the absence of resources, there isn't much that you can do to bootstrap yourself. With all the workers you need and the money to pay them, you can't build a house if there isn't any timber, mortar and bricks. Therefore, you're better off simply doing nothing, or things that don't require much, like playing music and writing poetry.
Do you have a source for this ("because of the lobbyists") except the Wikipedia page, which links/refers to an article that doesn't seem to address the claim? (http://www.oecd.org/unitedkingdom/34512257.pdf)

FWIW, pretty much everything in the EU is dictated by lobbyists: https://transparency.eu/lobbyistsinbrussels/
I just watched that episode you spoke of. Wow i loved it thank you.

Im even more a fan of oysters now.
They also pay 0.005% tax in Europe, sure it's legal, but is it morally ok? They certainly benefit from all the European infrastructure and academic research that they are not contributing back to. Some put the figure owed at 14.5 billion dollars:

https://observer.com/2019/09/apple-ireland-tax-lawsuit-europ...
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> Nullable enables you to directly target the flaws in code that lead to NullReferenceException. The lowest layer of the framework libraries has been annotated, so that you know when to expect null.

I hope Java gets this one day.. would be a cool feature
Thanks for breaking it down for me. I figured if it was capable of general purpose quantum computation there'd have been more noise about it in the press.
It's certainly possible to keep population growing at the rate it is and still end global warming.

Is it harder? Sure. But it's possible. More people is more labor to fix things. The labor just needs to be used correctly, and consumption needs to be reduced and changed.

Talking about overpopulation and "shaming Western countries" sounds a bit like a Trojan horse for some racist policies, considering that population is growing the most in non-western countries.
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You don't need to directly control these systems to have a big influence. People in these countries (a tiny minority of humanity) opt to stay and pay the taxes that maintain these systems.

But the main moral culpability is just not caring. Nuclear safety isn't even on the mind of the average voter in the US or Russia. If it were an issue as important as major wedge issues as say guns or religion are in the US even a small fraction of the population could have a major impact.
Yeah, utterly unsurprised that I'm downvoted at HN for agreeing with that sentiment. I
Spinning, yes. Habitable to some kind of life, probably. Habitable on the surface, to complex multi-cellular life, we could very well ruin that.
Because all these grip the commercialization concept very strong. If we have to break the system we cannot do by adding another gate.

This is something which I wanted to convey by mentioning naturally.

Living beings shouldn't be tied up or held in control by means of money and other concepts.

Open source seeding I misunderstood than what it actually means. Sorry.
I agree. I'm not a fan of Facebook at all for this reason. They have a sociopathic ethos, it's been that way from the start and will stay that way no matter how much PR spin they try to put out there. It's baked in at this point.

What's concerning is how much reddit has gone downhill in the last few years. I used to swear by it but you can see how the Chinese investment in it has changed it. Also, the political atmosphere has made it very one-sided as a whole instead of balanced.

I always think of 'E=mc^2' could be used to build a bomb or a reactor, it comes down to the intent and focus of the creator.
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To paraphrase: "This is going to happen a long time from now, so it's not my problem and I'm sure humanity will have fundamentally changed by then."

This is outright utopianism. Look around you. The backlash to even modest immigration has become increasingly violent and reactionary (see: Brexit, Trump). Do you honestly think that at some point everyone will be OK with just opening their borders to billions of people? And how many do you think will die trying to make that journey?
Yeah, but what on earth is the alternative?

Mobile gui's without javascript would be horrendous. On top of that, that's the platform you're minifying for.

I don't minify javascript to hide what's running, I minify it because a 3KB file is a lot less to download than a 12KB file.

So what? You design an entirely new language that:
A) Can't be minified (How?)
B) Has to be open source
C) Can't be obfuscated (virtually impossible to prevent)

I'm sorry, but the stance is kinda dumb.
> Any time we do any transplant immunosupressants are given to the recipient for the rest of their life, but this only slows the inevitable.

Is this true that it is inevitable? My understanding, from my girlfriend attending medical school (only M1), is that for many types of transplants, when immunosupressants are taken properly, it is unlikely that the organ will ever be rejected.

For example, only 10-20% of patients who receive a kidney transplant will experience rejection[1].

[1] https://columbiasurgery.org/kidney-transplant/organ-rejectio...
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You're being pedantic and ignoring the whole point of the article.
>Apple ... never tried to cloak themselves with the mantle of open source.

No, although they weren't shy about having built OS X on top of open source technology [0]. I really miss those days, when they built beautiful computers that were rock solid hardware-wise.

[0]: http://xahlee.info/i/apple_unix_ad-s.jpg
The cost of living in China has been rising steadily for the last few decades as the country has gone from a backwater to a manufacturing powerhouse. Chinese labor rates actually aren't that much less than US ones any more, and so some manufacturing is going to even cheaper places now (e.g. southeast Asia, Africa).

As for milk and cheese, it's the same in Japan: those aren't big parts of the local diet, so the supply is very small and the prices high. Cheese is probably the biggest complaint about food I've heard about in regards to Japan from westerners in all the things I've read or watched on YT: the food in Japan is generally considered wonderful, except cheese: it's hard to find much variety, really tiny, and very expensive. The US isn't that different, if you're looking for some food that's common on the other side of the planet and not well-known here: try finding a durian or starfruit in your local grocery store. You'll probably have to go to an Asian grocery store to get it, unless you have a fancier store near you and a large Asian population.
It would be nice if a probe would find on Venus an ancient poster "Climate change is not real, they all are lying to you!" or a record of an ancient comic speech "It's only Venicians who have problem, Venus is going to be fine".
> * GMO that don't produce viable seeds so I have to buy seeds from you every season.

OK, but unstable hybrids predate GMO by decades. Omitting the last, stabilizing cross for maize seeds has been a thing for, what, 75 years? at least.
Nothing new here, it started when we realized we're naked.

Before we invented artificial fertilizer, we were legitimately afraid that we're run out of land to grow food.
The real thing I fear involving climate change is civilization collapse, or at least famine and warfare. I fear a future where there are a lot of very, very angry, hungry people, lead by governments with nuclear weapons.

This is just based on my casual reading of events and history. If anyone knows of any good articles talking about this sort of thing, link me.
The news seems to disagree: https://www.clickorlando.com/news/international/are-parts-of...
I think it's more nuanced, and goes beyond just the content of the quoted excerpt. While copying the features (acceptable market competition), did Facebook leverage/abuse their monopoly status to prevent users from migrating to the upstart with better features? Further, are users being kept on Instagram using better features, or by abusing network effects? If it's the latter, then I would consider that a clear target for antitrust litigation. And preventing users from switching products while you catch-up (or not) seems squarely in that ballpark.
I go halfway to this -- if I'm flying or leaving the country, I don't bring my phone. But I do bring a phone -- it's just a burner feature phone.

But then, I've never been a picture-taker at all, even when traveling. I learned years ago that the act of taking pictures degrades my enjoyment of the experience.
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that is why I wrote "that fraction", hoping that it means that its the same fraction.

Though, your example still does not mean you lost. that 1/100 time is time that developer is not working on something else, that might be worth much more (though if ita 1%, its less likely. but my point is that developer time is more valuable than proportional amou t of his salary).
Fucking lol
I'm not going to retire tomorrow, but I do have a retirement fund.
While that is true, I think it (the site) gets something of a pass for being almost 20 years old.
Non nullable reference types are so awesome! I'd love for the C# team to publish some posts on the creation of this feature. Most of the non nullable type systems exist in functional, or pseudo functional languages (Rust has rather functional semantics). It's very neat to see a honest to god mutable object oriented language implement non nullability. They probably had some interesting implementation challenges.

Also, is Java working on this too? I heard that they have Maybe, but that's pointless without non nullability.
Could also be citizen’s arrest, but there a risk a judge will call it that, yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen%27s_arrest#Legal_and_p...:

”A person who makes a citizen's arrest could risk exposing him or herself to possible lawsuits or criminal charges – such as charges of false imprisonment, unlawful restraint, kidnapping, or wrongful arrest – if the wrong person is apprehended or a suspect's civil rights are violated.[4] This is especially true when police forces are attempting to determine who an aggressor is. Private citizens do not enjoy the same immunity from civil liability when making arrests on other private citizens as do police officers.“
Well, great :) my experience shows something else :)
I can see already a lot of people with money who are on the fence (PC vs MAC) will buy Macbook pro just because it is MADE IN USA.

Should boost product sales for Apple!
I’ve thought about this but I doubt it. The big change has been the perception shift.

.NET was always really solid tech. Microsoft has always had stellar developer technology. But the love affair with open source and the super villain role that Microsoft played, is what kept people away, not the tech itself.

I remember wanting to give a talk about how amazing C# was to a ruby group. I never did it, but it was definitely a quaint idea in 2011. But rubyists would’ve loved C#.
As opposed to the Republican platform of spending more money while cutting tax revenue?
Optional ? But redoing the standard lib would be no go in javaland ? It's the non nullable reference I find interesting.
SNAP have had a great last 12 months, market cap up to 23.65B
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Yeah, it's almost like trade deals completely decimated domestic manufacturing the last 3 decades and it's impossible to build things here because everything already moved overseas. All the 'little screw' suppliers went overseas or went out of business because their customers went overseas.
You cancel them out against the current liabilities. Retiree spending is entirely funded by current production; the only real question is whether it's through taxation or savings (savings is, after all, current production that is sold and not consumed. This is essentially a tax.)

Social Security's funding level is completely irrelevant - what matters is primarily how wealthy society is when current workers retire, and secondarily how much future workers will be willing to save and pay taxes.
What are your thoughts on Modern Monetary Theory, that the debt will never be a problem because the US is a currency issuer?
I'm sorry to hear about the problems with your Blackbird. I was an early purchaser as well but my unit arrived rather earlier than yours and didn't have any hardware issues (and I had experience with the platform anyway from the Talos). Raptor support was very good in the early days but I haven't had cause to need it lately and I suspect the load is exceeding their capacity. That's a good problem to have in some respects but if your story is any indication, it could be a sign of looming trouble.
I've had the same experience with my group of friends. I know it's a small sample size, but I wonder of that's a common contrast for most folks my age.

When I message/call/text/email my mail friends, I know there's a 1h-24h time window before I get a response. And that's if the message prompts a response. Otherwise, they'll address it next time in person, or just let it fly by. On the other hand, my female friends respond much quicker.

At the same time, I see my current girlfriend ALWAYS on her phone. There's always someone she's in contact with - because it's a priority for her to respond. My male friends when hanging out, are almost never texting/chatting on their phone unless something immediate demands attention. It's an interesting tradeoff
I wouldn't call the analogy between states and parents insane, but I also wouldn't call it libertarian. In fact it may be the exact opposite of libertarian.
The analogy with planes is that planes pay the bills. Spaceships pay the bills. Coffee cups and Wal-Mart items won't pay the bills.

Building iPhones doesn't pay China's bills (they're citizenry is impoverished) so why would we want to compete with them for jobs to build iPhones? Let them keep doing it! We keep building spaceships and airplanes.

The analogy is.... We're currently building high-tech, high value items where the engineering matters. The manufacturing matters. China buys airplanes from the USA because no commercial airport (including the ones in China) would allow a Chinese-made plane to land there.

Our country isn't held afloat by manufacturing jobs at Apple, or Samsung, or Fisher Price, or Vtech, or Daewoo. It's held together by General Dynamics. General Electric. Boeing. Rolls-Royce. Airbus. Big spenders who contractually must source the highest possible quality out of a domestic supply chain irrespective of price. These are $30-50/hr jobs that put food on America's table.

Making iPhones is a $10/hr job with marginal quality. Throw a handful of iPhones and see what sticks. We're competing with China for jobs they're willing to do for $2/hr jobs. For what?
To me, at least, it reads as blatant satire.
It's a consequence of high-pay / prestige and dog-eats-dog culture that attracts all sorts of psychopaths. It's really sad because smaller companies will no-doubt copy from them

The fact that he's fired further proves that what he said is true.
From personal experience, considering the reliability of Kafka, I’d implement this in reverse. Most relational databases are far more resilient in operation.

One idea I’ve had in the past is to implement a Kafka and Zookeeper layer for FoundationDB.
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When the planet has 6.5 Billion more people than it can sustain, why is any of this shocking?
As with the climate, the old people in US power don't care about stuff that extends beyond their own lifetimes. The current policies and regulations (or lack of) are evidence of that.
Your analogs are poor fits:

The solar system is an extremely stable system, while our economic system is not at all stable.

Your proposed money cycle is based on the concept of a closed system, which the US economy is definitely not.

If the US government starts having to pay an unbearable amount of debt, money is going to outflow to other countries and make it harder for the US to issue new debt.

If the US just issues enough money to pay the debt off, then interest rates are going to go through the roof and overcompensate for what just happened, making the situation even worse. The US economy would probably collapse.
I really like that quote, not sure why you left the juicy part out ;)

Yeah, I think basically the problem stems from thinking technology is an end instead of a medium; and even for those that do see it as a medium, they are not quite clear how it fits the education environment.

In the end, we should first try to focus on fixing education - that, from my point of view, is a process that is utterly broken everywhere - before shoving in there something like technology.
Except, and this point gets bungled in the media all the time, the trade deficit doesn't matter. There are some economic reasons (the entire world's currency is based on the dollar) and there are some political reasons (all countries benefit from the free movement of goods so anyone trying to force a balancing would be ostracized), there is also the fact that the US military is strong enough to defend against seizure but, here are the two really big reasons you should walk away with:

1. We are no longer on a precious metal standard so there is no limit to the supply of money.

2. States don't do business with states, individuals do business with individuals - you, personally, likely have a severe trade deficit with Apple (or your computer vendor of choice) you have purchase their services for money but they have never directly purchased yours. This does not matter you are at a deficit and surplus with a variety of players and the world keeps on turning.
The core of the Fairness Doctrine was that the FCC's opinions of what "honest, equitable, and balanced" meant were legally binding. Whether or not that could ever be anything other than forcing people to debate a little more depends, in my opinion, a great deal on a person's faith in the immunity to corrupting influence of executive bodies with political oversight.
I think this will make sense to a ton of consumers around the world.

I can’t imagine it will make any difference to anybody outside the US, it may even be seen as a negative in some regions.
200 years ago slavery was still rampant, war was everywhere, and the vast majority of people were serfs/peasants under the yoke of various tyrants/monarchs. We didn't have electricity, motorised vehicles, etc...

Given everything that's happened since, forgive me for being optimistic about our future.
I'm guessing that Mrs. B. was smart to stay out of the Denver/Boulder area. The Furniture Wars were fought in those foothills. You can still see the corpses of Weberg and Levits stores all down the interstate. Jake Jabbs took no prisoners.

Now, in addition to Jake's American Furniture Warehouse, there's the whole Furniture Row business holding the territory. Now IKEA is trying to find a way in.

Whole books have been written about the Furniture Wars! It's kind of crazy.
I mean, this is the dream of pretty much all technologists.

Humans cannot achieve homo economicus status on our own, we need a machine oracle to give us directions.