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How would your hypothetical defence mechanism tell which C-suite initiatives are worthwhile, and which are ego driven make-work?
How exactly can a stalker track me online if I simply stop logging in to services? Honest question, because I don't know why Tor would be any better than simply browsing in incognito mode
Essentially, all your numbers are subtly wrong and all of their wrongness is making the final number look much larger. You have to adjust for inflation, including 'weird' inflation. You have to account to suddenly becoming disabled after 20 years. Including the employer contribution is arguably misleading.

Social security is security: no matter how I get screwed, I'm only poor when I'm old, not poverty stricken and dead.
Someone once observed / joked that it may be a result of natural selection:

A lot of the people that left the proverbial Old World for (e.g.) the US were often the most hopeful, so that's why the US is (stereotypically) optimistic. The people that stayed behind were the ones that were more dour and/or laid back.
Then there are people who refuse to read the source material and apply basic reading comprehension, because they have their own imaginary world in which the sky is green and even their own eyes aren't going to convince them otherwise.

Seriously. Go read the source material.
That, and that governments do what they promised they would do in the Paris agreement. It should really not be that controversial.
I just finished up an introductory biology lecture series, and this suddenly makes less sense to me than it did before. What is it about the foreign cells that is identified as foreign by the host cells? The cells ought to be remarkably similar. They're human, with the same function/pluripotency using the same protein interactions. So why attack it?
Praising kids for their hard work/intelligence does NOT impact later performance
Nah, see? The mods got up Monday morning and put the kibosh on the hijiinks.
I am sorry to hear about your food allergy experience! Our baby has reflux issues so anything acidic seems to bother him, but luckily no allergies yet.

Our doctor said to introduce new foods one at a time and wait for a few days just to make sure you know what caused a problem if there is one.
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This is a good point and I think it's a safe assumption that you're right, but here's another tid bit to consider:

Perhaps some people have abnormally SLOW brain aging / metabolism. This would be a way for them to get back to normal?
> The goals of the Paris agreement are not within reach with the current measures

Are you interested in reduction of global emissions or in the goals of the Paris agreement? Decide and then inform yourself about the difference. The Paris agreement is responsible for China and India emitting CO2 recklessly, because it treats them as developing nations and their goals are defined in terms of GDP while "ours" aren't. A 5% reduction in China would be worth more than a 10% reduction in the EU, if you're just looking at total emissions.

> Are you ok with all of the world's coral reefs dying? That's what were are going.

Yes, I'd risk that if the world becomes greener and more fertile at that cost. It's probably not due to CO2 though: https://www.npr.org/2019/07/16/742050975/floridas-corals-are...
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I'd say that evolution would not have worked out anything more detailed, as long as the basic mechanisms worked for its purposes... so e.g. "doing it without an actual partner" might not change much, as long as the reward mechanism gets enough people to do it with a partner...

(Of course I'm attributing intent here, but it's a random process + feedback)
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iPhones and iPads have plenty of creation tools available. What you say is more true of Android, which is fundamentally an advertisement delivery platform.
Curation is a weasel word for control, honestly. II think we are seeing a rush limbaugh effect; people are shocked that AM radio allowed limbaugh and hannity to thrive and blame the platform; same with social media and Trump. I didn't see any "social media is bad" in the obama era, despite it flourishing then too-i noticed a lot of this "curation" is being driven by the bogeyman of the alt-right, as if openness allows them to flourish.
I spend six figures a month in AWS, on a mix of servers and serverless.

Serverless is more cost effective for sporadic, bursty things where the cost of an instance sitting idle outweighs the more expensive per-operation costs of serverless. On sustained load, it is almost never cheaper.

Another price to pay is complexity; it's simply more difficult to build, deploy, and monitor serverless systems.
>other companies in the industry think harder about their own practices because Apple commands such a great reputation

Great reputation to make Profit isn't the same as Great Reputation. Apple is one of the most hostile and anti competitive company in my lifetime.

We should not applaud such business practices.

Edit- ib4 "privacy" buzzword
A bit similar to Ted Chiang (Arrival)’s The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_of_Fact,_the_Truth...
Sure. Excess in most directions is not very good for others and for one's self...
Is the era of the $100 graphing calculator coming to an end?
Find me 7% growth on $10k dollars for multiple decades running and you can have all my money. In other words, that's a very unreasonable mean growth rate.
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Unfortunately, we've built and set in motion a machine that we are no longer in control of, and there is very little we can do. Look at all the environmental damage and habitat destruction (our habitat) that went into this conference as an example.
At first I thought the headline said that Macbook Pro will be assembled in the U.S and got super excited.
Welp... I guess I can finally throw out that 20-year-old uncashed traveler's check.
Well the new lovingly crafted Apple Mac Artisan coming in 2020 will be completely hand made
The stereotypes about British engineered and/or assembled cars (and their... "quirks") are well-known in the US, in my experience. Perhaps you've heard of those in particular?
Is this similar to the hair restoration helmets that use lights/lasers?
Yeah, this can unfortunately happen with almost any communication style mismatch. The best advice anyone can follow is just, start from an assumption of good faith.

I've seen it most bafflingly in a tech help forum I used to frequent: folks coming for help would get really miffed at requests for clarification/expansion from the people who were trying to help. Probably some of those requests should have been worded better -- less terse, a little more "friendly"? -- but I never really understood the starting point of "anything other than an answer to my post is rude" that seemed to come up over and over.
That's true, also government programs to create jobs are pretty misguided in an environment with all-time-low unemployment. We should be trying to create employees.
> a ton of consumers

So like 12 average adults? /s
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> Tech should be about results, it should not be a religion.

I couldn't agree more with this.

I'm trying to get a small library [1] I wrote popular and it's insane how much resistance I get because it doesn't fit the "mainstream religion" of using GraphQL.

People are brainwashed to think API = REST or GraphQL. How many times did I see a RESTful (or even worse GraphQL) for an internal API where RPC would be so so much simpler... (GraphQL is great for third parties but sh*t for internal stuff.)

[1]: https://github.com/reframejs/wildcard-api, a RPC library for Node.js server <-> Browser.
Documentation, comments, code layout and file structure are all critical components to any software project. Minimization removes all of that (right?) and I wouldn't consider it to be in "source form" in the spirit the phrase intends.
I agree that people take an abundance of photos and videos that they rarely or never look at them again. I have short term memory so taking the occasional photo here and there helps bring back memories though.
There's one of her from an interview a few years back, scar tissue from chemical burns.
I travel (for pleasure) a lot with my wife. I want to talk about phone uses besides the camera (which I think others in this thread have covered extensively). We have a
DSLR camera, and those photos IMO are much better than what phones could take at the time.

First, when we were in Japan having a phone was invaluable for transit. We used a few apps to keep track of where each attraction was relative to the subway stops and bus routes. Otherwise we would have had to carry and constantly pull out 3-5 maps.

Second, my wife likes to sleep in and I don’t. So I’ll wander the area around the hotel in the mornings, and she texts me when she’s up so we can have breakfast together.

Third, in China it was basically impossible to get a taxi the “normal” way - everyone was using local ride hailing or taxi apps. In other countries like Vietnam, using the local apps is part of experiencing the culture (we ordered takeout on Dash, and took a ride on the back of a scooter).

Finally, I carried a kindle version of two guide books. I would not have been able to do that without my phone. They were invaluable for making backup plans (ex something was closed, or we finished somewhere early and what do we do now).

There always has to be a balance - being on your phone all the time is unhealthy. But leaving the phone behind can also make it hard to function in the modern world.
>> After the experience, it's clear to me why some of my colleagues in Silicon Valley (even my roommate, now at FANG) take cocaine or adderall.

Absolutely bonkers that an engineer (I assume?) would think they need to do this to push themselves through the day while working at one of those companies (or really, any company besides his/her own). I always chocked this up to leftover substance addiction from college. I'm a bit interested in this - how would you convinced a coked-up colleague that they're literally killing themself for some faceless company and a load papers with symbols on them? Must they crash and burn first prior to getting off their dopamine-riddled high horse? There are just so many options available now, conventional and not.

I strongly feel that anyone who has run though a gamut of SSRIs or otherwise has a substance problem need to give psychedelics like iboga a serious look. (I know, quite a tough sell. One can really only get help if they want it and are willing to make serious changes.)
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> A) They aren't, they're probably already programming in a functional programming style.

This hasn't really been my experience. OOP in particular has a very specific design mindset, and I've seen that play out over several codebases. There isn't really anything I can call "functional" in a system fundamentally based on cyclic (often) graphs of mutable objects.

I think what may be implicit (and hence miscommunicated) in discussions about FP/OOP is that it's not about programming in the small (i.e. specific algorithms, blocks of code), it's about programming in the large (modules and their relationships; management of persistent data). Many examples I see of FP/OOP are algorithmic, and hence uninteresting -- you can get some nice ideas for how to condense your code or express the core ideas better, but it isn't exactly a paradigm shift.

Every Turing-complete language can encode any computable function; algorithms may have complexity distinctions but are ultimately not far removed. The FP/OOP discussion would be better served discussing the architectural implications of these styles.

> B) A lot of FP articles come off as the musings of zealots obsessed with monads, which often barely make any sense to, well, anyone.

Monads are an example of a dominant architectural pattern in FP that takes advantage of the core conceit of the paradigm. I think monads tend to be explained at the algorithmic level, which is unfortunate -- in many ways, they're about decoupling domain logic from control logic, which (I will posit) is desirable in any system, not just one that's FP.
"I like it warmer though, where's my lobby? ;-)"

You have a ton? They kind of dwarf climate change lobbyists in size and influence? They've been wildly successful at breaking the Paris agreement?
TP's I don't think have quite borne out the usefullness-to-complexity ratio
Oh, absolutely. For a tiny percentage of creative and productive people. For the masses, however, I don't see it.
I'd imagine him doing a mudra of the chant...

Devvvvvv-ellll-opersssss

:D
One small way consumers can help is to reduce animal consumption. As an industry it releases a decent amount of greenhouse gasses, it creates antibiotic resistance, and it uses a ton of land and water (many of the people burning the Amazon are cattle ranchers). It's also very closely tied to actual consumer demand so consumers can affect it pretty easily.
> Which reminds a bit of http://www.astrodigital.org/space/stshorse.html as well.

TL;DR - the legend that the width of the shuttle SRBs is derived from a design decision about cart width that goes back to the Romans.

But it's actually a bit more complicated than that...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard-gauge_railway
> there is very little we can do

Science suggests otherwise. Have you read the IPCC report?
It's rather easy. Delete your fb and use bing + ddg. Done.
Thank you.

> The dark web is a vast groups of services that cannot be accessed without using special software / proxy.

Can you name a few for examples?
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How did your six year old find this software?
It's not just skills, it's the supply chain surrounding the manufacturing. There's several articles you can find with a quick Google search about how Apple had so much trouble finding a source for small screws for the Mac in the USA, whereas in China it was trivial to find a supplier that could provide the massive quantities needed. So building the thing in the USA will probably end up costing a lot more, not just because of US labor rates at the final assembly factory (which probably isn't that much of a factor really), but because all the logistics leading up to that point in the manufacture are now so much less efficient.
I have elderly mom and grandma in my home country who have never traveled and now cannot even if I help them.
So I make photos and send them to my parent via whatsapp right there, on the spot.
And this is the closest I can bring my parents to experience what I do and see.
I can navigate without a phone and I search places to it judging by the smell and how many people are eating inside, but can't get rid of the phone because, ironically this will be selfish.
And bare-metal servers can do everything Fargate can without limitations.

The point of both is to sacrifice some capabilities in order to remove operational complexity. Lambda just goes farther along that spectrum than Fargate does.
Where something is made has almost no bearing on quality. There may be some loose correlations, but you will find both high quality and low quality manufacturing in the US, UK, France, China, Vietnam, Turkey, etc.. Some countries, like Japan and Germany, manufacture certain items for which the “quality” is synonymous with the item or brand itself (Leica, Japanese knives, etc.), but that’s about it.

What’s more is that “Made in USA” doesn’t even really tell you much about where something is actually made. It’s more an indicator of where something is assembled. So many things that say “Made in USA” are made from 100% Chinese components and just assembled or “finished” in the US. The standard is so loosely enforced by the FTC that it’s almost meaningless. And while the language of the law about country of origin seems explicit (“all or virtually all”), it’s anything but. Even flagrant violations can often act with impunity for decades, only to be tied up in court for years more if the FTC takes action. Most companies don’t even exist long enough to get caught when they are outright lying.

Globalism happened and there is no going back. Country of origin is pretty meaningless.
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>The printing press may have been good for society in the long run, but in the short run it caused a century of sectarian warfare that killed tens of millions of people.

Compared to the peaceful millennia that preceded it?
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Why to you need to travel without to test your backup plan?
I think the people who have coerced her into being a propaganda piece are the ones who have stolen her childhood. It's not like the earth is on fire right now. In fact, living conditions are better than they ever have been. There's more food security worldwide than at any point in human history. Less war than ever. Less poverty than ever before.

Yes, climate change will cause issues. Then again, the last glacial maximum was fairly recent, only ~20k years ago. Climate change has happened and will happen. And the world won't end. Either the Earth's systems will adapt, or we'll find a technological solution. Or maybe everyone will simply move to Canada, Russia, Greenland and Antarctica.

I'm all for solutions, but at the end of the day, people will keep on living and I suggest this girl do the same (then again, she's probably being bankrolled by someone so maybe she is actually living her dreams).
If you're dealing with businesses where compliance is required, such as PCI, HIPPA, or FedRamp, legal sway is absolutely relevant. If you should have a breach and an associated fine, Amazon can easily push the blame (and the likely-company-breaking fines) back on you.
Did that change from Clinton to Bush? If not, then it wasn't how we got from a surplus under Clinton to the deficit.
I agree, with an elaboration from Marshall McLuhan's theory that technology is an extension of parts of the human body - cognition and memory extending our brain; communication extending our eyes, ears, and mouths; sexuality; transportation, consumption, and trade that used to be limited by walking distance, etc. It has simply extended "us" as humans.
That would be a no from me. I get the spirit of the post, but with a little self-discipline you can reach the same level of 'mindfulness' and living in the moment holier than thou sentiment.

Setting aside the value of the phone when/if you lose or get your documents/wallet stolen, although I love to navigate unfamiliar places, I would like the piece of mind of having a full fledged GPS navigation feature in my pocket. If not for me then for my family's safety. Not to mention calling emergency services. I get the whole 'living in a moment' thing but we also live in reality, where shit happens. And the farther away you are from your homebase, the bigger the shit can be. It's also useful to be reachable in case for example a member of your family is in distress. It would actually be super mindful to find out one of your parents passed away while you were on your 'living in the moment' trips.

> Besides, how often do I look at those photos later, anyway?

Often, actually. I live abroad and my parents and I trade holiday photos all the time. Some of them get framed. That's not the point of the vacation, though. But I would be very sad to not have my phone with me when for example my kid would build a sandcastle.

Next up, travel without money and barter for everything!
Your code also presumably doesn't have to run on an Atari 2600.
It's a company's job to be anti-competitive, in the sense of vanquishing its competitors. It gets pathological in the case of regulatory capture, but I don't think Apple has managed that.
> Go ahead and spec out a similar workstation from Dell or HP: you won't see much difference in price.

Apple: Xeon W, 8 cores, 3.5GHz, 32GB RAM, 256GB SSD, $5,999 [1]

Dell: Xeon W, 8 cores, 3.7GHz, 32GB RAM, 256GB SSD, $3,466 [2]

[1] https://www.tomsguide.com/us/mac-pro-2019-specs-price,news-3...
[2] https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/workstations-isv-certif...
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I travelled internationally before cell phones. Maps. Guidebooks. Pay phones. I would not like to do it again.

Oh plus, your phone functions more or less like a wallet or credit card in a lot of places now. I wouldn't be able to use the suica system in Tokyo, for example, without a phone.
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Most everyone makes fun of that mantra moment, but Ballmer was right, Microsoft has always historically done its best work when it put Developers first. Ballmer wasn't always great at executing a developer-first vision (particularly compared to the modern open source era of Azure/WSL/VS Code/…) [ETA: partly because Ballmer was not himself a developer and needed the reminders], but it's weird to criticize him for shouting about how developers should be the core to what Microsoft builds (and sells).
Was her message to (failing to) act imply actual technical steps and commitment to reduce certain variables in certain years or increase taxes? I am confused here.

sarcasm And yes, of course, global warming is the biggest existential threat to humanity. Poverty, hunger, addiction, homelessness, open defecation, and other trivial issues aren't really the ones Governments' should prioritize, it should be protecting humpback whales and ecosystems! sarcasm

Realize there are finite amount of resources any Government can direct towards any problem. If all attention and resources go to global warming (which is open ended problem as compared to poverty), then we will end up with disastrous consequences, both to humans and to the planet.
“Made in the U.S.A.” is no longer a viable option for most Apple products.

Nothing has changed. The article is still correct.
lol, I didnt know that. It was basically an extortion racket.
Many would be happy with less ambitious roles if you could realistically eke out an existence ...

Like I say not everybody can get these high profile well paying jobs ... and probably not everybody should ...
Yes, my point is how many units could they possibly be making. Even when it was new it barely sold, how many units could they be making today? Dozens a month?
Just because my wallet could be stolen doesn't mean I am going to try traveling without a wallet.

In a lot of countries, a smart phone is necessary. It is how things are paid for, how metro schedules are shown, how tickets are scanned, it is how local taxis[1] are hailed.

When I am abroad, my phone lets me real time translate menus! I recently had a conversation with a 5 year old kid in China mediated by near-real time phone translation.

And while I'll agree knowing how to get around nature w/o a phone is a very useful skill to have, once I am back in the metro, knowing how to use a smartphone within the local ecosystem is just as much a skill for a traveler as anything else.

[1] Well the local Uber equivalent.