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> I'm convinced that one of the main reasons for Brexit is that rich people in England are worried that EU tax harmonization

it's coming January 2020, the UK is terrified of it as they own overseas tax havens all over the world.

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/anti-tax-avoidan...
The United States Federal Trade Commission.
>n both those cases, though, that's still taking an action

No. That is insane.

Being neutral is not the same as taking an action. I know we live in a twitter world where everything is black or white but you don't get to create a false dichotomy of "you're either with me or against me" - there is always a third choice of "I refuse to get involved".

>Staying out of politics" could arguably lead to making s short statement "the NFL takes no league-wide position on players kneeling during the anthem" and taking no action. And: "As a company, Blizzard takes no position on politics and the viewpoints players express are their own," followed by taking no action.

You're parsing out meanings from words that aren't there. Sure Blizzard could have done nothing, but they did decide that their platform shouldn't be used to espouse political messages, even ones they may privately agree with. If you want to be pedantic that's 'taking an action', but the action is NOT "I support China", nor "I support Hong Kong protestors", but rather, "I have no position on the matter because I'm a video game company that is interested in selling video games and running StarCraft tournaments".

Why are you so intent on creating a division where there is none and forcing everyone to choose a side?
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Isn't central heating more efficient than private heating though? Central heating usually works by using heat from a nearby power station, which would otherwise have been wasted, no?
You can also construct malicious payloads which will DoS many implementations with architecture like that.
You went to the code too fast (a mistake I also commit often, since unlike comments/doc, code doesn’t lie...).

From the project description: “A tiny hand crafted CPU emulator, C compiler, and Operating System”
ADIFO: The hyper-agile, omnidirectional, supersonic flying saucer
X.org Server to See New CI-Driven Automated Release Cycles, Big Version Numbers
Okay so we all hate this “censorship.” How can they punish all app users for the potential wrongdoing of a few?

Meanwhile, remind me, how do we feel about gun sales in the US? If Target takes a rifle off their shelves, will we exorcise Target? Thought experiment.

Is it really about the huge principle difference between apps and guns? Or are we just generating principle-excuses to agree with our side?
indeed :) But still a good lesson.
I think a better distinction is between what an app allows and what it facilitates.
Is the Search for Dark Matter an Act of Faith?
Wow is that a thing? I have submitted to many journals and none wanted fees before acceptance.
How does banning cars and making cities more walk-able effect obesity?
Since we're talking specifically about the Second Amendment doing the "reminding", where are the mass casualties taken by the police and government forces by the armed militia?

I'll grant you that it's a protest, but most of the alleged violence described in that story seems to have been committed by the police. Peaceful protesters being beaten and mauled by attack dogs by definition don't count towards a valid argument for the effectiveness of the Second Amendment.

The protestors also lost - the pipeline was built, regardless.
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Right, or Parisians or people in Quebec, non metro Germany, non coastal China, etc. Those aren’t cultural faux pases, really.

The situation described is two people who are acquaintances from different places trying to have an interested conversation, not just random people bumping into each other.
> Apple intentionally held back mobile web that companies cannot build mobile web apps that are as capable as native apps.

Are you suggesting that random websites should have the same level of access to your device as native apps?
> non-Linux OS from the boot-loader to a running HTML browser

Actually he build from scratch a Unix like OS kernel (like Linux), TCP/IP stack, the userland, services, window server, window manager, 2D drawing library, UI toolkit, the HTML rendering library, the HTML browser and other apps.
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Shameless plug for Filewatch (https://filewatch.net), a client-side web application I made which enables you to see who your Google Drive files and folders are shared with.

Filewatch doesn't get any information about you or your files, no information about your files leaves your browser.
Mhm. And shouldn’t they, then, be broken up as well?

Which monopoly breaks up the monopoly upbreakers?
some of the object detection ai systems do actually rotate the images in 4 to 8 ways like in fast.ai. when trained with such input data, the ai detects the object in almost all orientations.
Brilliant! Thanks!!!
What doesn't crack them makes them stronger
Vertical social mobility is pretty bad in the US.

This is for 2012: https://www.epi.org/publication/usa-lags-peer-countries-mobi...

This OECD chart shows how your financial outcome is practically inherited in the US and Germany: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/08/moving-up-the-income-...

This isn't very surprising. For decades, the strongest predictor for a country having high social mobility is a strong welfare program including child care and health care, financed by progressive taxation of income and wealth.

In the US, the rags to riches story has been a myth for at least 50 years.
And how would the camera know without gravity?
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They can leave the GNU Project very easily. The project will still be owned by GNU, but GNU will have to find new maintainers. There's a lot of precedence with this.
plot.ly JS [1][2] is probably the most "batteries included" charts framework I've used, which isn't mentioned on the comparison table on the bottom of that git repo.

[1] https://plot.ly/javascript/
[2] https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/
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So, you have DRMed hands and only Target can sell guns that can be held by those hands? Is that the analogy that you were building there?
I'd guess that nobody knows because we can't do experiments like that without a ton of confounding variables.
Language skills are also a function of economic status. Wealthier migrants are more likely to have the option to attend language classes.
There's a certain irony in that 1984 commercial now, isn't there?
They say they don't do just assembly but I guess they don't make their own chips either so what is the difference vs assembly?
Forgive me for a semi-relevant question... How do you do tab completion in a "dd" command, e.g. "dd if=MyOs_version_<TAB>..." ? The equals always suppresses the completion.
There is whole cottage industry of journals that will publish basically anything in exchange for a submission fee, being kept alive by desperate PhD students who need a couple of more papers published so they can just get their degree and get out of there.
The Great Firewall doesn't yet extend to HK though that likely won't last.
From the first parra:

>”Teams in India and Romania use video snippets sent by customers for troubleshooting purposes and to train artificial intelligence algorithms.”

Very misleading.

Also, if you send someone email, your email may be read by someone!
>This probably would have gone down differently had the occupants not been armed.

I don't know, being armed didn't help at Waco or Ruby Ridge. Maybe there were other factors at play in the government's behavior than simply being afraid of an armed group?
You can also trivially defend against that by having a max travel distance of, say, 4.
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>I’m not sure what my habits have to do with my expectations of US corporations.

Because it's indicative of this armchair general/keyboard warrior mentality where you sure as heck as strong opinions online which have no impact on your life, but you're not willing to sacrifice one iota of your personal comfort to actually live what you espouse.

For some reason you want companies to exit China or get involved in internal Chinese politics but you're perfectly willing to keep buying chinese or chinese-made products - because it would be too hard to boycott them and have it actually impact your life.

Stepping back, you see the same thing at the national level. You're criticizing a VIDEO GAME company for wanting to stay neutral, but you aren't calling for European nations or your country to recall their ambassadors from China to breaking relations? It's indicative.

Corporations exist to create products and services. That's what they are good at. You do not want to push social policy.
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That's exactly what I was thinking too about that site being satire. They even got a disclaimer but it's lightly colored text on a lightly colored background so hard to read.

The data ("the Data") displayed herein is provided "as is" with no warranty
whatsoever, neither express nor implied, and no claims are made regarding its
accuracy, veracity, or suitability. Inclusion of persons in the Data does not imply
or allege their participation in terrorist activities. The Data is intended to be
used for reference purposes only, and should not be relied upon as the sole
determining factor of an individual's participation or non-participation in terrorist
activities. All persons are presumed innocent until proven otherwise.

By using this web site you agree to release from liability and hold harmless the
Terrorist Security Administration (TSA), its employees and affiliates for any errors,
inaccuracies or omissions in the Data. The TSA is an independent, non-government
organization and is in no way affiliated with any branch of any government,
corporation, individual or other entity, whether real or imaginary."
Seems to be a book for a very specific audience. In such case, the sales of that book should complement your income, not be your only source.
I'm really starting to think there's some environmental factor going on that at least in part explains the current obesity epidemic. A person in the 70s who would have the exact caloric intake and exercise as a person today would have been several BMI points slimmer[1].

[1]https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/09/why-it-wa...
HKmap app can survive Apple Store removal with use of PWAs
Looking at the code frequency, it looks like development of Lean 3 all but stopped around January 2018. The Lean 4 repo shows lots of activity since January 2019, but isn't in a useable form.

What are the future plans for the project? How will this be distributed in a form that mathematicians can use and contribute to?
The strength of a police force has only minimal predictive power regarding violent crime in a country.

The best known measure to lower violent crime is lowering inequality (e.g. progressive taxation paying for free education etc.): https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/06/07/the-star...
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To be clear, a game was on Steam, Steam took people's money, Steam let the game be removed from people that bought it, Steam didn't give people their money back, and people blame Epic?
Yes, that's a dark pattern to force you to use the app. If you request a desktop site, it works immediately.
No, they deserve to be punished. Is there counselling for rapists?
Let's focus on the actual victims first though, and stop the bullies. There is a meta-argument with regards to free will and whether and how much choice we have in the things we do, but that's a very different discussion (albeit an interesting one) and shouldn't be confused with the one about the bully's acts and immediate (and long term) results.
How could a company ever be the friend of somebody? That's silly from the get-go.
Can you state what's the mechanism that makes it fast? Is this a breakthrough in rendering optimizations or does it introduce smarter data structures? Or is it an accumulation of small optimizations everywhere?
> default opt-in telemetry

You mean opt-out. Opt-in is when it's off by default.
I think in real life we have a lot of variables related to solve the obesity problem. But I agree that reduce using a car and make everyone use a bicycle/walking will reduce the percentage of obesity. We have to think more.
Not just Amazon either.

Play.com based their entire business on this.
There should be. Society would be the better for it.
I didn't say successfully foiled. Gov't usually "wins" these cases, but at great cost & deterred for long after. Pyrrhic victories.

I didn't say regularly. I said "rare". Sometimes decades between them.

Athens. Waco. Bundy Ranch. Twin Peaks.
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People are not born perfect. People do stupid stuff and post it on instagram when they're young, but people continue to grow and learn throughout their lives. What I'm saying is that I don't see any benefit to dragging up someone from the past's beliefs and putting them into an article next to the IKEA name, except to create a clickbaity article that serves someone else's interests in an obscure way.
Sitting kids in a chair for eight hours a day and feeding them three times a day on refined carbohydrates has predictable effects.

School breakfast programs are good - many children would not eat anything in the morning otherwise - but feeding them the kind of garbage that is typical eliminates most of the potential benefits. No human being should eat cereal or pop tarts, really at any time.
How to design a logo (with the rubber duck methodology)
> Find something that is of value to society and pays enough, then work everyday to be better and better at it until you reach your maximum potential, and you will be rewarded.

Unless society changes what it values, at which point you are fucked.

https://genius.com/Pete-seeger-john-henry-lyrics
> I think I later upgraded to a 100MB IDE disk, but was still lucky.

Well, it really wasn't luck as much as keeping with the electrical specs. Do that, you'd never see a problem, and the later IDE "cable select" schemes did really help to mitigate a lot of the damage from improperly terminated cables.

> Anyway, thanks for contributing to a great OS!

Well, other than living in infamy due to introducing that bug, I didn't start there until the push to turn 4.0 from a tech demo into a real product. So really all the credit for 3.2 and earlier which set the foundation for Coherent belongs to the other guys, many of whom were long gone by the time I got there like Dave Conroy (who wrote the MicroEMACS I loved to use) and Randall Howard (who went on to found MKS). There were some great people from the earlier days still there though, like Norm Bartek, Hal Snyder and La Monte Yarroll who where there when I joined and of course Steve Ness who was the sole man behind the MWC C Compiler (much as Fred was responsible for that remarkable manual).

Also worth a mention, among all the other notable characters I remember fondly is one of the support/QA folks at MWC: Jim Leonard aka Trixter, who became a notable demoscene figure - https://trixter.oldskool.org/2015/04/07/8088-mph-we-break-al...
> Bullies themselves need counselling on managing their own needs and emotions rather than punishment

So, criminals also, by that logic, themselves need counseling on managing their own needs and emotions rather than punishment ?
This is exactly what I'm talking about.

An AI is a machine designed and built by humans for a specific purpose. It is given specific capabilities during its design.

If those capabilities include controlling the power switch, it can control the power switch. If they don't, it can't, and can never.

The machine is designed to do a particular job. If designed well, it will be incredibly good at its job. If designed to teach itself how to do that job, it may eventually surpass human capabilities at that job. In no way does that stop it from being a single-purpose machine, or allow it to suddenly become good at any other job.

Let's try another analogy: your juicer cannot get so good at juicing that it becomes capable of deep-frying.

We infer wider capabilites to "intelligent" machines because we anthropomorphise them, assuming that they must be like us because they mimic aspects of our behaviour. But they're not like us. They're just machines. Designed to perform specific tasks. Anything else is Hollywood.
Right now, it seems that Apple has a lot to lose if the CCP were to suddenly cut off access to China -- both in terms of supply chain and in terms of market access. With an independent App Store, the CCP would have less leverage over the platform, since as a services-only company, it would be far less dependent on China. (In this scenario however, the Apple hardware division as a separate entity will still be very beholden to the whims of the CCP as they still depend on China for its supply chain and market access.)

If you look at Google right now, their Play Store still has the app available, mostly I believe, because the CCP has little or no leverage over Google to force their hand.

I do agree, tho that allowing side loading apps would also sidestep this issue altogether.
You're right - but they certainly deemphasised it.
Compare to an earlier version where it's the first three words:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160202030302/https://abc.xyz/i...

The press at the time ran articles like "Google Removes 'Don't Be Evil' Clause From Its Code Of Conduct"
(https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2018/05/google-removes-dont-be-ev...), even though they mention keeping that mention at the end.
They "manufacture the phones from the motherboards to the packaging" ... perhaps the case, motherboard, packaging, but still importing the components, in particular the system-on-a-chip and display? In that case, "made entirely" wouldn't be accurate.
Are you saying I bought my hands at Target? Or that people were born with their iPhones?
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I’m sorry, but this is totally demented. Everybody is born at a specific location at a specific moment In time — in relativistic parlance, an ‘event’. It’s set in stone. Allowing people to essentially change history for the sake of circumventing a presumed avenue for ‘discrimination’ is an argument why there should be laws and mechanisms in place to avoid that discrimination from being legal, not for tinkering
with the data.

What if that guy moved his birthdate twenty years into the future, but his mother had died when he was fifteen? His birth certificate would no longer make any sense, because he’s be born from a deceased woman. What of the fiscal benefits his family received as a result of his birth? Do they get returned?

This is dumb beyond belief.
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> If not for that requirement, we would have just had UTF-8 implemented as regular VLQs.

There is a requirement that 7-bit ASCII character codes would not appear as a part of non-ASCII character encoding, so NULL-terminated strings, slash path separation and other similar issues could be handled by existing charset-independent code. That would not work with regular VLQs.
Maybe if you counselled them and taught them how to manage their own needs and emotions many of them would not become criminals saving society many ills.

You can not eliminate the personality that needs bullying to validate themselves from the population. You can however hep them channel those needs into other things like entrepreneurship and leadership. To productively shape their needs for power over people rather than harassing and harming them.
I try not to.
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This still makes me angry and I don't know what I can do about it.
Actually not. Don't be a deep-urban criminal, and you'll enjoy great peace.
It's funny how when discussing freedom with a non-American they'll always insist the only measure that's really important is the one America does not excel in.

See how much nothing this adds to the discussion? You may as well say "your definition of freedom is wrong and mine is right".
>The moment a company dips their toes into the Chinese market they are getting into bed with an oppressive, authoritarian regime who dictates the rules of conduct.

And what does it mean for YOU to buy chinese or chinese-made products, or products made by companies that also sell in China. Are you in bed with the CCP?

>There is no neutral;

Yes there is. Why are you so intent on forcing a false dichotomy?

I don't have a strong opinion on what's happening in Hong Kong and I was actually in HK during the July protests. The city looked like any other city with people doing regular city things like shopping, taking the subway and going to work. How am I supposed to take a side when I don't even know what the population of HK (not just the protestors) actually want. Any position I take will be out of ignorance, is that better than being neutral?
Self driving cars are the future. However, it may be a lot better transition (both to gain public trust and to improve the technology) to gradually make cars do more things and evolve the vehicle through incremental steps. This definitely is a logical next step.
Nice post, quite interesting.

I think Rob Pike may have one of the coolest email addresses in the world (r@google.com).
Probably to due with less calories spent in manual work. Like walking instead of driving, washing clothes and utensils instead of using electronics, etc.
Actually, yes, they do.

You want this, especially when you know they will one day get out of jail.
The Law of Attraction: Explained and Hacked
This is an incredible documentary about British tax havens and the influence of the City of London in the running of UK government & foreign policy
https://youtu.be/np_ylvc8Zj8
They replaced it with “Don’t be not okay.”
This argument seems to pop up with respect to proprietary software, where folks can be reluctant to acquire a dependence on a commercial vendor making acceptable offerings in the future.

In more extreme cases, I've seen it as an argument against Microsoft software like Windows and Word.

In less extreme cases, I've adopted this attitude with respect to some tightly restricted engineering (CAD) software used back in grad school. I mean, it was really useful software, but I didn't feel that I could reasonably rely on having access to it whenever I'd need it.
To be clear, I didn't build all of it myself, I've merged a couple hundred awesome patches from other people as well. :)

That said, you are definitely overestimating the usefulness of the available tutorials.
"If you can't be perfect, don't even try."
This is huge for folks developing with VxWorks. And for rust adoption in general.
Not only that, they will have wives, girlfriends, and children; they may eventually have employees. You can not stop them period. They are a part of the human population. They can not be weeded out.
> Bullies themselves need counselling on managing their own needs and emotions rather than punishment

I'd replace "rather than" with "in addition to".
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This suggests that the bully/criminal didn't already knew that. Most bullies i have seen didn't become bully because of some trauma.... its just fun to dominate (not even validation IMO).
Taking care of the victims today does not exclude taking care of the bullies as well.

Stopping them does not mean only punishment, but counselling (and sometimes, because they were themselves victims of abuses).