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I was one of the few remaining people in a startup that employed close to 200 people at its peak. This was during the dot com bust and we faced customers cancelling orders and weren't able to raise any money or find any other way to continue. This wasn't a pets.com story (we weren't an Internet company) and we had a pretty good product with a great outlook 6 months earlier. We had a couple of waves of letting people go while trying to re-focus and somehow survive.

It wasn't great but the writing was on the wall. Those of us that stayed knew it was a long shot. I (and everyone else) got severance pay and I also had an exciting new job lined up by the time we officially closed through contacts I made while working in this startup. Pretty much everyone who worked there did OK as far as I know (some people from later waves went to places people from earlier waves went to...).
It's also just...literally not worth your time to do anything else. Servicing your own car rapidly gets into needing a ton of tools, takes a bunch of time, and makes you no money while taking away your free time.

If you genuinely enjoy the process, and it is cathartic and serves the function free time and leisure needs to in your life, then fantastic. But otherwise it's a false economy.
This is incorrect. en_GB doesn't mean you're in or from Great Britain. It means you want the device to show English as it is used in Great Britain, with extraneous "u"s and rearranged month and day. A user in the US can request that locale instead of en_US if that is the language they prefer. Locale is for localization of the interface, not for telling where you are from.

See the Australian English example in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locale_%28computer_software%...

Now maybe iOS sets the locale based on where the user is from instead of based on how the user would like their interface localized. If it does, it is doing it wrong. Sending a user's data to Tencent based on a setting instead of based on their location is absolutely wrong.
If you've learned to appreciate the elegance, expressive power, readability and overall speed of development of Coffeescript, tell me, are you going to drop that for some virtual type safety that doesn't even exist at runtime? There's no way you'll write a medium to large codebase in TS without the use of 'any' or 'undefined', otherwise you'll get completely stuck. Don't believe the hype.

When you are not writing critical code where lives or huge amounts of money depend on, then I'd say stick to Coffeescript. And when you find a type related bug in your code, fix it and write a test so the bug cannot occur again. Otherwise, first check out Elm, Dart and Livescript. TS is really the last on my list, I've had my share of pain there.
While writing about this [1] recently, I made a chart which shows the adoption rate of each version of Android, X months after release, according to Google's own numbers.

It is indeed dire.

Each new version of Android is typically reaching less and less devices, X months after release.

For example Android M, released in 2015, was on 24% of devices accessing the play store 12 months after release.

Android O, released in 2017, was on 14.6% of devices 12 months after release.

Here's the chart: https://i.imgur.com/yRDIEAs.png

Google stopped releasing these numbers on their developer dashboard, and I think it's possible that the reason is because they're terrible.

[1] https://unlikekinds.com/article/android-updates-are-getting-...
Why designing most mobile apps should be harder than slamming together VB6 form applications is something that is not entirely clear to me.

Although when people start arguing that programming a web page is easy, it really brings home how awful modern programming is, and how long it has been since there was widespread usage of really decent and simple RAD tooling.
It’s certainly the idea although I’m not in the Microsoft ecosystem any longer. But yeah, that’s probably the closest thing to what I have in mind these days.

Also pretty heavy and pricey.
The part where they spoke about various populations sleeping for around an hour longer each night in the winter is very interesting to me.
France also removed most public bins in Paris after bomb attacks in the 90s (I think) but they ended up replacing them with hoops to which transparent plastic bags are attached. I'm not sure on the timeline (ie how long it took them to go from "no bins" to "crappy bins") but this seems like an okay solution. The lack of public bins in Japan is mildly infuriating
These books are counterfeits. Counterfeiting is illegal and intent doesn't matter.

This is not a matter of some other seller providing Amazon with inventory. These are coming direct from a printer to Amazon and being sold in place of the legitimate inventory.

There is no third party to go after here. There's only one seller in this case. That is Amazon.
> assume that the users are idiots

Microsoft didn’t make this assumption. Apple did. My entire extended family are now all Apple users. My tech support calls per year can now be counted on one hand.

In my extended family, the users are idiots, and thanks to Apple, I’m poorer financially but significantly richer in free time.
But why wouldn't they register? It really sounds like trying to make this harder than it is.

Isn't it true that the whole crypto world dreams of mass adoption? Well guess what - institutional money would greatly appreciate a valid S-1/F-1 filing in EDGAR.
Alright, you're talking philosophy and me more about practical usage.

But why do you think apps own CSV any more in Files than in Finder? That's where a lot of my confusion stems.

Your view of x-callback seems off too, it's a way for apps to expose functionality in a generic way, so the opposite from being dependent on the relationship between any specific app vendors. Since there are many apps that let you glue together stuff yourself (and Apple provides one).

> Basically, "I'm on a train and Internet is spotty, or my ISP has an outage, will I be able to open and work on this file or not?"

Anything on the local file system is obviously always available. For iCloud there's that status icon I referred to in my first post, but that's no different from desktop.
Probably this is the page of Tencent safe browsing: https://urlsec.qq.com/ I don’t understand why you trust Google so much. It’s as untrustworthy as Tencent for me.
If the product is a "Philips Boilermaster 3000" kettle then this is true (if we ignore counterfeits).

But not all Amazon products work that way. The "t-shirt with eagle print" could be made by a number of companies with wildly varying quality, all fitting this product description. Similarly there are lots of 10m Cat 7 S/FTP lan cables.
Adobe Flash Player, the web browser plugin, will no longer be updated in 2020.

The Flash IDE, now called Animate, continues to be developed by Adobe. They have not announced an end of life for this tool. It will still be updated after 2020. In fact, it can now export a variety of new formats other than SWF files for Flash Player, and they've been expanding the animation features quite a bit in recent years.

It's unfortunate that many people are confused about what exactly Adobe has discontinued. So many people in this thread are lamenting that this user friendly animation tool no longer exists as a starting point for new users, when in fact, it does and will still be in active development beyond 2020.
trump is trying to kill CAHSR?

No. CAHSR is probably dying but due to CA's own lies and ineptitude.

All the Trump administration did is say, "you were promised funding conditional on it being spent on X, Y, and Z. Instead, CA spent that money on the infrastructure equivalent of hookers and blow[0]. Therefore, we are simply cancelling the funding per the agreement and the law because essentially none went to X, Y, or Z."

CAHSR is free to proceed (as far as the Administration is concerned) however they want with their own funds and the promised investor funds. In other words, pay for your own hookers and blow.

[0] 'In one especially egregious case, in 2017, the CHSRA hired an external consultant to check the work of Parsons Brinckerhoff (now WSP USA), which had been paid $666 million for engineering consulting. The external consultant found that the CHSRA had not received finished work for 145 of 184 tasks that Parsons Brinckerhoff had called “complete.”'

https://www.city-journal.org/californias-high-speed-rail-pro...
> It would be impossible to stop the software, just as they can’t stop bitcoin.

It seems impossible when you think about it for a little while, but when someone thinks long and hard about it because it's their full-time government job, maybe someone finds a way.
Fortnite Is Gone
Is that not just a thin VM on $anyCloudProvider? You can attach however much storage to it, and just ssh to it. It's essentially just a headless storage machine living somewhere off in Califonia.
I bake my own bread precisely so that it’s not sweet, like the store-bought cake bread.
You sound like my alter ego. I'm biding my time, looking for a good point to pull the plug. Like you, health care is my primary reason for staying even though I do like my job. If I was to be let go tomorrow, I don't think I'd really care all that much.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07B452QQS/

Check this product out. It's made in a chinese guy's garage in northern california using equipment he imported in 2014.

It doesn't have legitimate GMP or FDA licensing.

This is the kind of problem we are talking about.

And the issue is worse than it appears, just as toast0 mentioned, because the same exact product with same product page and AMAZON barcode, NO UPC, is also in the online walmart marketplace now! Amazon so controls the market that the other companies just do whatever amazon does. This is a literal antitrust situation we are in- sherman act violations.

There are international food products on amazon marked "made for/picked exclusively for amazon". That's a violation of the FTC act.
We are in a situation where our government is failing to regulate.
What Happened to the West Village?
FWIW, Singapore gained some notoriety a few years back for being the least happy country in the world, worse than eg. Syria, Haiti and Afghanistan: https://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/21/world/asia/singapore-leas...

This seems a bit extreme, but neither would I describe it as a utopia. Life is great if you're rich, and noticeably better than most of neighbors if you're not, but there's an awful lot of pressure on all levels of the pyramid except maybe the very top.
> Yes I'd say nuclear waste is still a problem.

Can you elaborate on what the problem is? I see a photo of a pond with the sun shining, grass growing and seagulls bathing. Authorities say it is safe.

I have friends who live next to an explosives manufacturing plant. They are at a much higher risk then it sounds like you are. I don't see nuclear fuel as being different from any other hazardous industrial material we deal with.

Those are tiny ponds, by the way. I reckon they could have a 2nd set as a backup somewhere near by if it came to it. You should see the size of a mine tailings pond, when they fail it causes real problems.
WiFiCue: Public Wireless Access Security Assessment Tool
Yes Regus does this and is profitable - given Regus is valued at $3 bil It might make sense to buy them instead of pumping another $3 bil into WeWork that doesn't look like it will ever make a profit.
If you buy a generic product with no brand name and no intellectual property, then all you have is the pictures. If they all look the same, they could technically be different quality but there's no reason to expect a certain level of quality without a brand name.
I think the author's point of "made of dependencies, not files" is that they are not human files. They are autogenerated webs of dependent repositories, not to be touched by the user, unless something has gone seriously wrong. I wouldn't qualify personal files that are directly created and managed by a human user as being the same thing as a mass of folders curated and managed by a dependency manager utility.
Praxis has a specific meaning and is a classical Greek concept.
> Losing the word "meme" to the colloquial definition is a loss and a massive disappointment to me

I love "The Selfish Gene", but it make me happy that memes and virality are modern metaphors for chunks of thought transmitted by wet symbolic processors. I believe that children now bellyfeel the meanings which is fantastic, even if they don't know the exact sense.

> Literally should mean literally, and only literally

I think I used to agree, but now I just like to amuse myself (and sometimes others) by misusing it. I do the same with many other words (sophisticated, nice, proud, etc). I like the layers of meaning, and I love multiple connections, although I still don't like most poetry.

> 3) Create new words and change meanings to suit their narrative/sales pitch

This is a true evil: the defiling of words for commercial gain riles me.
You weren’t there when Malaysia was ruining the air then?
Arbitrage at its finest!
I found this: https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2017/12/13/how-to-p...

Which says they do commingle their "sold by Amazon" stock with their FBA stock. I'm actually pretty surprised, I had no idea this was the case.
How could you identify a grey market item? And what/how much were you ordering that this was a daily issue?
While the stated goal is indeed reducing residential segregation, it also has the suspiciously convenient side effect of ensuring that every voting district has a Chinese majority.
Ahh good old flame wars. I'll never miss them.

That said, in the past it was more generally accepted that forum moderators would rule with an iron fist.

Seems more recently, if you're being a dick and you are moderated it's interpreted as censorship and an attack on free speech.

Related. One thing I have noticed in the last decade is people no longer pulling people up on their spelling and grammar as much as they used to in the early days of debating the internet. I like this.
Everyone’s life affects other people by a measurable amount, this is why talk of freedom gets complicated.
Some of it is luck but I think my career path choice was a solid one, I am pretty good at what I do and I'm well paid for that, and I've never really cared to go chase those bright shiny jobs that promise a lot but rarely deliver. If I had, maybe I'd be wealthier but, all in all, I satisified with my career.
There's Costco Business Warehouse, catering to business buyers. Restaurants buy from them. It has whole pig, lamb, lots of soft drinks, and other stuffs to run a restaurant.
Read the IPCC report on 1.5 degrees. Thinking you can extrapolate out to 2100 is not born out by any model anywhere. I have some predictions for the year 2500 I’d like to sell you.

Uncontrollable thermal runaway. We need a WW2 level response right now. 3-4 degrees is billions dead, collapsed fisheries, multiple meters of sea level rise, millions of hectares of farm land gone.

Geoengineering is largely a smoke screen from real solutions so that the greedy can continue on their current ruinous path.
Instead of screenshots, why not provide the actual .gov link?
I know they claim that, and it may be their official policy, but it obviously is not working in practice. Either that, or it's become direct fraud in their part.

And it may work to benefit Amazon in finding problematic sellers, and it may scare most legit sellers to never supply fake products.

But it doesn't seem to do anything to actually benefit sellers or buyers, at this point.

For one, I suspect resold returned items to be a major weakness of this policy. Or orders of multiple quantity with different sources, which are picked, boxed, then returned to inventory for whatever reason.
It’s more because the manufacturers and service providers (some would say intentionally) make Android updates much more difficult than necessary. It’s one of the (many) trade-offs between a walled garden like Apple and an “open” ecosystem like Android.

If the manufacturer still imposes this level of control over the average user, it’s sort of just a worse version of a walled garden, isn’t it?
Hong Kong Police Officer Slashed in Neck as Violence Continues
The way you said it - "join a union" - made me think that unions may be a good idea in software if anyone can join and leave any time. This would be like insurance that funds a big nonprofit with very motivated (and well paid) lawyers. 250 usd / month shouldn't bankrupt a software dev and 100k such devs (a large corp) would bring 250 M/year. There's definitely a room for a few unions in the US with 200-500 m/year budgets. The first thing to do would be banning non competes at the federal level.
No this is classic inventory commingling, for brevity let's say that Amazon has 100 fulfillment centers (FCs). When you ship in 10,000 units, Amazon will then take those 10,000 units and spread them to the FCs closest to the top of the bell curve of the normal distribution of your orders. And the same goes for any third party sending inventory to be sold on your listing. When you use a "manufacturers barcode" ie. UPC / ISBN as the only identifier on the product, that's the only way Amazon can identify what it is unless you use an Amazon barcode.

If people didn't sell counterfeit products, we would enjoy the amazing logistics network that Amazon has built.

My recommendation is that you become Brand Registered on Amazon, you get a hell of a lot more weight to throw around on your listing, ie. kicking off sellers who are not authorized to sell your products. Go look at any Anker product, you will see that "AnkerDirect" is the only seller on any of their listings because they are Brand Registered.

You could also go the Seller Fulfilled Prime route for full quality control, which allows you to keep access to the Amazon marketplace but you are responsible for logistics end of the bill which is a tall order but there are 3PLs that can help with that sort of ask.
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Bill Gates Expresses Regret over Meetings with Jeffrey Epstein
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My Ph.D. from one of the world's best research universities is in essentially the math of operations research. My most important prof was a star student of E. Cinlar, long editor in chief of Mathematics of Operations Research. I've published peer-reviewed original research, taught graduate courses, and applied to US national security and business the math of operations research.

I stand behind my statement.
He really loved it (and I think plans to write some more stuff with it).

I'm coming up on 50, so all of my friends' parents are roughly the same age. The big crackup for me is that they're all worried about their parents falling for a phishing attack or having to update operating systems that haven't seen an update in ten years.

When I call my dad, he wants to get deep into compiler theory. Or talk about Rust. Or moon about how the world would have been so much better if Brendan Eich had just implemented Scheme. Or he'll talk about how much he loves TeX.

You know, he complains that he's not as sharp as he used to be. He's always warning me to take care of my body, because "mens sana in corpore sano!" But really, I just don't worry about him at all.

He's also one of the happiest people I know, and absolutely one of the most well read (I'm an English professor; I'm surrounded by well-read people. It's kind of amazing how many books he's read in his life).
> the likelihood that the URL you happen to be surfing is both a phishing URL to begin with and one of the ones that just appeared since the last delta download you did, compared to the likelihood that it's one of those already in the entire phishing URL database you've already downloaded. I'd expect those odds to be very low.

Ignoring the first condition (otherwise why bother with a list at all)... Consider that this information is very transient (average 15hrs), this is pretty simple: deltaT / 54000

This is still horrible, because your safety is determined by how frequently you can sync with the DB.

> If a user only downloads the deltas periodically they'd risk being out of sync with the master list (which might not be updated even once a month or at all, for all we know).

Being updated monthly doesn't match the statistic of average 15hr lifecycle, because it would be useless after that length of time. And while I don't claim to know 15hrs as a fact, it is intuitive that the average will become ever shorter as malicious URL checkers become updated ever faster.

> but that's the price they'd need to pay to have to send any information about their web browsing to parties they don't trust.

Full URL information need not be sent, a hash of the URL domain and path would probably suffice... if that's not enough then it's a dilemma, but that doesn't make continuous syncing a good or fail safe replacement.
At some point I was using Amazon for almost all shopping. Obviously daily is an oxymoron, but it'd happen several times a month.

I can identify grey market items easily. Buy an item in Amazon UK of product X and get version packed to be sold in Italy (with all labels in Italian) or Russian (with all labels in Russian), instead of the UK version. This is because some smart supplier is doing arbitrage.
This is a chicken and egg fallacy. You can't tell what would or would not be made in the absence of an incentive that has never not been provided.

> Would you rather they didn't have the option which would result in the effort not being expended to generate such information?

Yes, I would argue absolutely that valuable information would still be made because those that would benefit just from the information existing - not from the potential sale of said information - would still fund its creation. Someone that wants a painting will still pay for it if or if not they can sell the finished work. The think tank researching a cure for cancer will still have ample funding sources from those who think not having cancer would be beneficial regardless of those sponsors ability to profit off said cure.

> I don't understand how someone can argue that it is unfair that they have an option to do so if they choose.

Its largely a problem because its both default and implied. Its in the same class of problem as if the government tried to restrict air - you had to pay to breathe and are charged per-month. Despite the air being "free" and "everywhere". Its a tough analogy to write though, because there is no true analog to the modern miracle of information propagation being infinite and endless - we truly have nothing else worth so little as a copy of a number to compare it to.

But fundamentally its having your cake and eating it too - if you want to monetize your creations, you make them for free (at expense to yourself) to try to monetize something that has no value (copies of it). Its so abjectly opposed to reality and true scarcity that subconsciously drive people to feel no serious shame in piracy despite them "stealing theoretical profits from the rightsholder". But thats really all you are taking. In another light, a random stranger is offering you something for free and without recompense that they have, just because its so cheap to store, transmit, and replicate. That is magical. We take this modern miracle of technology and bind it in chains to try to perpetuate a model of profit that doesn't make any actual sense in actual reality given the scarce inputs (creative capability, motivation, and efforts) and infinite outputs (information) involved.
I wonder if we could catch counterfeits by checking a code against some sort of ledger on the manufacturer's end, and do this at scale.