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> ...we need businesses and executives to value purpose alongside profit.

Profit is purpose. Profit means the value of the outputs of your business exceeds the value of its inputs. It means you've added something to society, it means you've provided a service to the public. It means when people actually have to choose what's important to them they value what your business has done for them.[0]

> ...where businesses...don’t just take from society but truly give back and have a positive impact.

See above.

I don't know why people think this thought process is new. Read The Road To Serfdom by Hayek. It was written in the 1940's about why these ideas don't work.

The free market is the best invention we know of for a society to express what it actually wants and to achieve those goals. Without it you have a small group of enlightened elites deciding what it is that people want.

> Americans overwhelmingly say C.E.O.s should take the lead on economic and social challenges, and employees, investors and customers increasingly seek out companies that share their values....When government is unable or unwilling to act, business should not wait.

No. We don't want businesses to become political entities. If the problem is businesses aren't using their power for good, the solution isn't to give them even more power. That's too close to Fascism.

This whole essay is an argument that businesses need more social power and governments need more financial power. The trade-off is an increase in power inequality (because we're giving the powerful even more power) to decrease financial inequality. At the same time we'd probably take on massive dead-weight losses from abandoning the profit motive which is essential for our economy to function. That looks like a bad deal to me.

There is historical precedent for societies accepting power inequality to the extent of dictatorship in the name of ending the ills of capitalism. It hasn't worked well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship_of_the_proletaria...

[0] - Yes, you can also steal. That's why capitalism exists within a legal framework.
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Every article I read about modern psychology just goes to confirm how useless and pseudoscientific the field is.
If you get a lot of spam, you can always use something like SpamAssasin.
I don't know much about ALS. How does one know that he is going to die "in the coming days"?
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It does (or at least should) put Benioff in a difficult position, in terms of argument, if he cites his own company's pay gap as evidence of why we need broad societal change, but then refuses to provide the transparency and data that would enable society to evaluate his claim.

If Benioff says "our company did an internal audit, discovered an internal pay gap, and took internal measures to correct it", ok then. But if he says they did an internal audit and on the basis of these results, the rest of us need to change, then he needs to allow us to verify his claim, the way we'd do with any policy argument based on data.
Downward Head Tilt Can Make People Seem More Dominant
"perpetually" lol
Prince Bonesaw doesnt seem to have suffered any consequences.
I don't think Tesla can claim credit for development of collision avoidance. They have been vocal proponents of it, but so have Volvo. Tesla just happened to start manufacturing mass market vehicles around the time of the ML revolution in the 2010s.
If that is the case, it might still be problematic to have a society that economically disadvantages ~50% of its members for what they naturally strive for.

Of course this gets philosophical and idealistic fast, but I think it's still worth considering even though it's not a simple design/engineering problem with some obvious perfect solution.
2020 trends in data governance: the blueprint for controlling automation
That is an incredibly flawed statement. Apple's not the one putting any barricades up. The Chinese government is.
Also typos in container names.
The problem with peertube is that it leaks your IP to everyone else watching the video.

I've been looking at the same thing.
I've been asking the same question for years.

Greensock is the only thing that feels remotely like the good parts of Flash to me.

But it does less, and requires learning some Javascript.

https://greensock.com/
It reminds me of how the violence-harm that exists in a democracy vs. a tyranny isn't evenly distributed: there may be very little violence (due to control mechanisms) in a tyrant controlled state - at least until you're their target and then slaughter, mass murder can occur.
Google obviously want to kill all competition
I guess the NYT is going through with their revealed plan to racialize everything in preparation for the 2020 election. Nothing to see here folks, just deliberate and dishonest election manipulation.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/08/new-york-times-m...
MySpace failed to scale with their user base and the site at its peak became horribly slow and felt broken. They didn't get good technical folks to fix the architecture in time, and then combined with the failure to innovate and add more "addictive" features such as a news feed ultimately led it to die a slow death.
I would be looking at the regs to see how the spaces are measured and see if I could create 1" high ceilings for some spaces that are pitch black (and stack those spaces) so that I could use more lighting elsewhere.
So you have wonky audio and bad Wi-Fi and you think it’s fine? That’s very odd, in my reading of it.
I can also recommend posteo.de and mailbox.org
Worth checking out imho
We are talking about current day and there is a world of difference between the shitshow in the US and straight evil going on in China.
and yet, future mistakes are still happening. A lot of work has gone into automation but the outcome is often the same. So is it worth it?
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Montenegro, Slovakia and a long list of other countries would like a word with you[1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_da...
Anyone who thinks this is a good thing should read Flash Boys by Michael Lewis, and look into front-running and HFT.
Jumia lost $2.6bn market cap within 6 months; a look at the bumpy ride
I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Nobody said the USA is perfect, but compared to China they pretty much are.
The sooner Google gets broken up the better.

Soon in a theater near you: Google account blocked for using uBlock origin or jsblock. Citizens shall not opt-out of being relentlessly bombarded with advertising on penalty of digital purgatory.
Sure, all the ones we know about today. It's a bit of an anthropic argument, though. We only know about the coal seams that have survived long enough for us to find them; and, almost universally, we've chosen to exploit the seams we've found. That leaves two questions unanswered:

• What would the statistical yearly probability of a coal-seam fire be for seams we find, check up on, but never mine? (We know of a few seams in protected areas, but I don't think we know of enough to have any statistical power. Also, the natural catching-fire rate might be, say, one per thousand years, which would be a bit like the pitch-drop experiment in its requirements, yet would still mean that coal seams catch fire pretty much "as soon as" they reach the surface, in geological time.)

• More interestingly: how many coal-seam fires have happened historically in the Earth's 4.2 billion years being around, that finished and burned out all the coal, and now there's just a cave there? Or ex-cave sedimentary layer, given that these caves tend to collapse? Can we tell when such a cave/layer was previously a coal seam? (I assume so, because soot, but can pressure-treated soot be differentiated from other kinds of naturally-occurring mineral striae?)
aka anti-vaxxer logic, anecdotes > real world stats.

There are ~1.25 million car deaths per year (20-50 million injured or disabled), a lot of room for "progress" to save countless lives.
It does, nbconvert.

But that's besides the point. The jupyter ecosystem, like other widespread and unwieldy formats such as Microsoft Word and PDF, poses a brutal obstruction to Unix workflows.
Is there any real point in debating numbers like this that are just plucked from the air?
Under Time Pressure, People Tell Us What We Want to Hear
One feature NewPipe has is to import your list of subscribed channels, after you've exported the list from YouTube. So if a NewPipe install queried YouTube to "give me updates for the following channels", YT could "fingerprint" which account the channel list came from. And match the IP of these NewPipe requests to the IP of the account (since the GMail app would also be talking to Google from the phone), and Google can be certain it's the "abuser".

That's one possible vector...
Money? Opportunity?

How many employees (even high earning employees like engineers) are actually in a position to purchase enough shares to make a difference? Even for most "publicly owned" companies the vast majority of shares are held by a small number of investors who aren't giving up their control and power.
Also look at what regulations have done to seat belts. They are almost all identical and the tech hasn't changed much in quite a while. Are they completely optimal, or are they merely sufficient for liability by meeting government standards?
Conspicuously missing, as it always is from these sorts of articles: Livejournal. A quieter, more thoughtful sort of social media, built around long posts, the occasional essay, threaded comments, and much more sophisticated privacy management than most modern sites ever touch, which was happily used by GenX non-techies.

Sold to a succession of owners, it ended up in the hands of
Russians after it established a strong audience there. I still have an account there but it’s dormant because I never agreed to the new terms and conditions that forbid discussion of LGBTQ issues.
Dont read mainland propaganda.
> I guess this is how people justify killing for peace.

Extreme but (hopefully) relevant counter-example: was the killing of tens of thousands of people (soldiers and civilians) by American citizens in Europe during World War II justified? This is a very complex question, and any reasonable answer will be even more complex and nuanced, so I'm not really asking anyone to directly answer it in this venue.

To be clear, I'm not talking about Tesla here, only the first sentence in your response, in isolation.

I think there are some circumstances where some deaths as payment for far fewer deaths that are morally and ethically sound and defensible.

If we can agree to that, then we can move on and analyze what Tesla is trying to do.
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I had hoped to see Ping from Apple [1] on the list. There’s an interesting question between having “social features” and being a “social network”. As I recall though, this was during the MySpace-is-for-music decline and Apple didn’t want to outsource it to Twitter or Facebook, so I believe Apple felt it was a real possibility for a niche-community network.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes_Ping
Not True, Google is living in Tax Evasion heaven. Their company is so big that they can hide YouTube as one company registered in the US and ADs is some tax haven. You only pay the taxes that you want and can never be regulated. Being Free is not worth considering the amount of crap that they do.
I think there exists now a very pervasive and worrying conflation of "public control" with "the government". If you oppose expanding the sphere under control of one, centralized power with no day-to-day responsibility before anyone, I am with you. This is why republican countries were established in the first place. But this doesn't mean that private, feudal and corporate power is the only other option. You can establish institutions that are elected directly by the people, and/or are granted strong legal immunity from demands of the executive branch etc.

Secrecy of correspondence is one of the basic constitutional rights in many countries. And also there is a public postal service almost everywhere.
Orthographic Reform of English (2008)
Feels like a combo?
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/appeal-to-emotion
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/loaded-question
Please enlighten me with examples of successful communist societies. The thing that gets repeated over and over is the classic "Example x wasn't true communism. True communism has never been tried, but if it were, it would surely be great".

Tiring
Please correct title: "and bones ground to powder"
Doesn't surprise me but I think that the VMware trend will flatten out because there will always be a need for full system virtualization. I say this as a huge proponent of both.

There's TONS of needs that Docker just can't cover whereas VMware kills it (desktop virtualization ie: Windows, legacy systems, etc).
I would agree about snapd and flatpak, but AppImage is pretty close to ideal. The only more ideal way I can think of is if AppImage didn't require FUSE and could embed an icon (there was a proposal for an embedded icon standard in ELF, which was thoroughly ignored by the community).

It has been 20 years. How much longer should we wait for functionality the original Macintosh included in 1984?
My one experience with Apple support was a complete disappointment. iOS 11 made my iPhone 6+ unusable. Their only suggestion was to try rebooting it. This was right before the battery scandal broke.
Short shoppers pay an extra “tax” on pants
Planes are stable by design.
Instabilities have causes:

>a rudder power control unit malfunction led to a Dutch roll oscillatory instability

>a Dutch roll incident following structural failure of the rudder

>a trainee pilot's actions violently exacerbated the Dutch roll motion and caused three of the four engines to be torn from the wings
I think you meant $1 a month? (Tutanota also has a free version):

https://tutanota.com/pricing
I'm starting to think we should all just systematically boycott Chinese products and pressure companies not to work with them. China is more and more a real threat to world stability, to democracy and to the humaneness of our world
> I could not instruct it to stop

Bunk. You can take over at any time by turning the wheel, pushing the brake, or pushing the accelerator.

Source: I take over from autopilot all the time.
Think how many lives we could save by loosing regulations on medical experimentation. If we killed not that many people we could save billions.

Good thing we already have decades (even centuries) of research ethics we’ve developed to deal with situations like this. Too bad Tesla is ignoring them. The proposal in the article to treat these like (potential) medical breakthroughs is spot on.

I think we all agree that autonomous cars will eventually save lives, but that was true 50 years ago too. The question is whether these autonomous cars will save lives. We’ve developed the ethics. We’ve developed the standards of evidence. In seems like a no brained to require them here.
Rotary dials might be a usability punchline right now

Punchline? Rotary dials are great. Find number, stick finger in hole, rotate until it stops, release. The only real thinking involved is to figure out which digit you want.

Man, sure a lot more than just punching a button, amirite? Most of the time, yup, and the rotary is an antiquated method of digit input. But because rotary is not on/off, it is more forgiving. I am unable to come up with a suitable explanation without putting a rotary dial in front of you, but you could change your mind while you were dialing. Or more accurately, you could fix your mistakes. In the midst of dialing, some correction was possible. For instance, "oops, that's '3', not an '8'. Well, even if you've already stopped at 8, you can keep going and get the 3 instead (doesn't work the other way around).

Anyway, I'm not saying I miss them, but rather to agree that TFA is missing the things that make rotary dials more than just a circular version of a 10-key.
Seemed interesting enough to post separately; originally found in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4642395
I'm still so sad about vine. I really enjoyed the app at the time, and thought their UI was astounding, especially clicking anywhere on the screen to record the 6 second video.

I think it also spawned all kinds of comedy and culture and while the meme-like aspect of most of them could be considered cringy, there's still a lot to be said of the impact that app had.
This is also why plants are a questionable gift idea unless you ask the person first. I see a plant as a long-term responsibility that takes up space in my not-big apartment, so the ones I buy for myself are chosen carefully.
It's not like we are sacrificing lives to get there. Data shows that, at the margin, Autopilot prevents more accident than it causes.

So, the headline of the article is wrong IMO, but in the article the author makes the correct points.
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I have been using ProtonMail for a year now and am very happy with the service.
I watched, and clearly explains the horrible facts and timeline of what happens.
Wouldn't public transport "save millions" much more efficiently?
The Apple II version definitely used the keyboard.
The issue is that this massive corporations are buying stuff left and right. Google,Facebook,Microsoft are buying things left and right and you are forced(or tricked with dark patterns) to link your Google account with your YouTube account,your Skype account with your MS account etc.

This companies should not be able to suspend your account for everything, if my son broke some TOS rule on my console I should not have to have access blocked to anything except online gaming, my emails. my phone , my apps should still work.
> How did we go from thousands of deaths to zero? Primarily through crashing.

No, the reduction in deaths was through not crashing.

The airline industry would not have got safer faster by deliberately doing more crashing. "Okay, we need to increase safety, so let's crash as much as we can!" is something they didn't say, because that wouldn't have made any sense.

What you've done here, and the reason you've been upvoted to the top spot, is you've applied the Silicon Valley mantra of "failure is good" to airlines, and by extension, to autonomous cars. That mantra isn't really even true for software - it's not that failures are good, it's that learning is good - but it just about works in a world where people turn can turn free VC dollars into Medium posts and acqui-hires by failing, and hence where you might as well learn that way, rather than proceeding slowly with painstaking care; this approach doesn't really work in worlds where failures are underlined in blood.
Didn't realize this, thank you for clarification!
The US has 4 mobile network providers. Sprint is useless, Tmobile is okay in certain areas, but really, the 2 with nationwide coverage are ATT and Verizon. In my experience, Verizon coverage is more solid than ATT, but in general these are the 2 networks that provide the most comprehensive coverage.

A natural monopoly exists anywhere there are extremely high infrastructure costs, such as running pipes and wires to every home. The same thing exists with mobile networks, as it requires towers everywhere.
I don't know anything about this specific story, and won't comment on it. But, this is actually a common attack vector that people with nefarious purposes use. They come up with a story that makes some company look bad, but leave out important details (like they were trying to hijack accounts, spamming, etc...). Some of these people will do this either to get policies changed in their benefit, or as a form of revenge for getting caught.

It's important to remember that all stories have 2 sides, and to consider other possibilities when you only hear one side of a story.
In one sentence you show that you are aware of the piece's satire, and in the next you question whether the author truly believes everything he says?

I think it's pretty obvious that the article was not meant to be taken completely seriously and is poking humour at some "familiar" experiences.
This is my issue with Linux, though, despite having a dev VM environment of several distros. There are a metric f*ckton of Linux distros out there and, for every one of them that fixes the problems mentioned in one breath, they break or ignore a whole litany of other things. When I first started with Linux, it was pretty much Red Hat or bust and that was a pain but you knew what you were getting into. Now, it's nearly impossible to know what a lot of the differences are between all the different distros and which one may or may not work for your particular situation. Worse yet, it's now happened to me twice where I've set up a distro, spent the time to get it mostly working, and then, after using it for a few weeks, there's some annoyance or hardware issue that I can't resolve that is resolved in another distro. So I install the next one, get it mostly working, and then run into some other non-trivial annoyance or issue. Repeat, ad nauseam.

Linux, to me, is still very much a tinkerer's OS. If you don't have the time to tinker and get things working and just want to get things done, Linux is not the way to go.
Because of essentially laziness, in the end?

My guess is that it's just easier to think in old, primitive ways, like "ugh, war!", rather than creative ways at the edge of what's ever been known, like is required for progress in disease research.
Hell, it wasn't yet unusual to only have a landline in 2003.