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Violence is entertaining on some level. Even cutesy games like Mario have him stomping on mushrooms and turtles and avoiding deadly obstacles. I've also heard it said that all good stories involve conflict. It's a part of human psychology for better or worse. It's why we watch sports. It's why we play video games. It's why dogs play fight. It's deeply embedded in our chemistry.
The most important thing a SAAS founder can do is to clearly understand their own goals (which is exactly what this article's OP did) and then develop a realistic plan of achieving it.

I bumped into a tool recently that helps simplify some basic financial modeling and goal setting for SAAS companies called http://www.Simsaas.co

I'm always surprised how little financial modeling and goal setting is baked into the "side project hustle" mentality.

I've watched a lot of companies wind up on a treadmill - pumping dollars into marketing acquisition for non-sticky customers vs. focusing on product side improvements to extend retention.

Or stagnating at a level BELOW that "hey I'm making enough to live on forever" and letting a project deteriorate vs figuring out how to drive a little more marketing.
> Actually there are no words which can describe my hate of GNU and Linux

Fair enough, I read your comment as supportive of this way of doing things, and therefore Linux in general.
and? it's not worth doing unless every life can be saved? The point is thousands of people die per day at the hands of human drivers. The sooner we can transition to autonomous vehicles, the sooner they'll start saving lives.
Just click and read:

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I don't think it needs more evidence.
Talking to locals, most seem to expect this to last for a while.

Seems like a bad time for Madrid to move like this, HK protests have been in the news for months and will probably inspire many.

E: Can’t reply below because of ratelimit, but I specifically mean tactics here. It’s no coincidence everyone immediately rushed to the airport.
Hey if anyone wants to use their computer spare cycles on something a little more worthwhile ( as far as humanity is concerned ) try: https://foldingathome.org/
I would be interested in giving it a swing, my Discord tag is Haste#0001, that is the best way to contact me.
> everyone should have free access to a basic web based email service.

Everyone with internet access already has free access to email and to any of several basic web based email services [1], but, to get that free access the owner has to be willing to host their own email server on their own infrastructure.

Email (as in SMTP email) is one of the original free and open protocols of the internet. No one is required to have 'google' to have email, although a lot of people prefer to 'let someone else handle the plumbing', which is ok if they understand the ramifications of that choice.

Note -- I am deliberately ignoring the sad fact that SPAM has made 'running their own server' much more difficult than it used to be for many. But a lot of that difficulty stems directly from allowing a single giant corporation to hoover up too much of the service, such that the single giant corporation has gotten big enough to start dictating terms to everyone else who is not part of their system.

[1] some examples (note: just found these via a search, no suggestion of good/bad is being made, just the availability for free):

http://squirrelmail.org/
https://roundcube.net/
https://www.zimbra.com/

This link: https://www.slant.co/topics/1460/~best-self-hosted-webmail-c... claims to reference fourteen clients.

This link: https://www.jotform.com/blog/10-ajax-webmail-clients/ lists ten (some overlap with items above).
According to GDPR I think he can still request data that Google collected about him. Also as per GDPR he can request to delete all data about him and open new account with same username. Google must comply with EU law.
Seriously, Sonia's vision in God-Emperor is of humans being hunted down by machines - this is what the Golden Path was to avoid. So, I'm inclined to err on the side of the notes existing and mentioning machines.
considering that this is organized, I would think you'd get the best of both.

Where kids will learn about rsi and how to mitigate, also how to keep their body in peak condition, etc. Much better than just gaming at home without guidance.
> They could obliterate HK in a few hours.

If the population of HK was sufficiently armed and motivated, the only way the PLA could do that "in a few hours" is with nukes.

But you make a good point: asymmetric tactics can be countered with indiscriminate extermination. However the diplomatic fallout of such tactics is likely unacceptable, even to the PRC.
As above, they know which seller sent it in and at no point did they "choose not to know". Your entire comment is based on a false premise.
I understand the iPhone 8 body report, but think Apple's attempt would be misguided if it's intended as a SE successor.

To put it in perspective, the iPhone SE was announced in 2016, after the iPhone 6 (and ends up being the same generation as the 6S). The 4" is in the title because the new generation were all bigger screens.

They didn't take any random existing design, but the "beloved" 5S, and the cost wasn't that different from a iPhone 6 for instance, which would boast better performance in almost any metrics (short of battery life perhaps). Just to point out the SE resonated with a very specific niche.
Having used Linux since about 2000, gnome has regressed and KDE has improved. I switched to KDE about a year ago and haven't looked back:

> * No way to adjust mouse scroll speed; official answer seems to be "don't want that". (Or install imwheel and change your mouse scroll to be equal to hitting the down button (!) which breaks other stuff)

- Never had to do this, but I checked. Under "Input Devices" I see "Mouse wheel scrolls by:" as a setting

> * To make an icon on the favorites bar in gnome, you have to edit a .desktop text file! Madness. I mean, I'm a programmer, so I'm capable of it, but it's seriously annoying

- With KDE you can drag any application to the quicklaunch widget, or right-click to add.

> * modifying keyboard shortcuts is extremely difficult; I really wish linux had a karabiner equivalent

I've not used Karabiner, but a quick look does make it look more feature-complete than any single GUI tool I know of on linux. However, keyboard shortcuts are all configurable from a central place on KDE. My biggest downside is that the organization of the "Global Shortcuts" has a UI that only makes sense to a KDE developer. IMO a single list would be more useful than having categories.

> * searching for help usually yields results that are half a decade or more old, and it's very difficult to figure out if it's current advice or not

True of most systems these days unfortunately; looking for the date of the post on forums/stack-overflow helps

> * installing a gnome-shell extension was way more difficult than it should be

I've not needed to install a KDE widget that wasn't in the base setup, so I cannot comment.

> * brew isn't the best, but on linux I need to use both brew _and_ apt because you can't reliably get anything approaching up-to-date software with apt

I have nothing good to say about Ubuntu in general except that it's popularity means that it is easier to get the correct answer by googling. It is by far the most finicky distro I've administered, including Gentoo (which is so high-maintenance that you should only run it if administering systems is a fun hobby). If you want up-to-date software from your package manager, use a rolling release distro. Otherwise the best you can do is something like a base setup and then side-load the software you want. This problem has been identified to the point where there are several brew-like systems (and things like snap as well), but no clear winner yet.

> I remain reasonably happy with it, but Mac is still so far ahead of it in terms of usability it's wild.

I think this will always be true. The Mac has such a lead in "There is a bright path and things will be fine so long as you don't stray from it" coupled with the fact that they control both hardware and software means that there just don't seem to be enough people who both want a Linux like that and have the know-how to make it happen. The counterpoint is perhaps chromebooks, which occupy such a different price-point compared to macs that they make their own niche at least in primary and secondary education.
I'll add sixdegrees.com to the "missing" list, which may have been the first social media site.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SixDegrees.com
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Been using macOS and Ubuntu for years now, and while I try to make Ubuntu my primary operating system so I can ditch my slow MacBook Air 2018, I always end up going back to it.

Look, I love Ubuntu. Heck, I am a recognized Ubuntu Member, was the leader of the LoCo Team for my country for a while, helped a few universities in my state switch to Ubuntu from Windows, have a plaque signed by Mark Shuttleworth acknowledging my contributions and everything. But macOS is simply better, even though it sucks monkey balls right now — better for me, of course.

My Ubuntu machine — which I built to edit photos and game — currently runs on a Threadripper 2950X with two VEGA 64 GPUs. It should be a beast, and it is, but the entire computer freezes from time to time and requires a hard reboot to come back to life. Nothing I could find in the logs so far. Sometimes that happens once a week, sometimes it happens five times a day — heck, I had it happen right after a reboot once.

While the MacBook Air chokes when I open more than say, 45 tabs in Safari, I never had similar issues, and I only reboot this computer when I forget to charge it.

You can say Apple is dead all you want, but there will always be people like me that will go the Apple route because they are tired of troubleshooting shit all day — I spent a fair amount of time doing that in my earlier days, and I spend all day doing that at work, so why would I want to do that 24/7?
Regulation saves lives. We don't even have to look at the airline industry. Seat belts saved lives. Tailpipe emission controls saved lives. Tesla's Enhanced Autopilot and other Level 2 (partial autonomy) solutions will save lives.
Yes, the incentives are very perverse. What an average person considers 'dead' and what the organ harvesters consider dead are two completely different things [1].

Organ-carving doctors are desensitized to death. They don't care if you live or die, but they do care if they get to harvest your organs because those are worth a ton of money. I'm sure there's 100's if not 1000's of people getting carved up every year that could have been saved, but the incentives are to let the person die to harvest their organs.

1: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/patient-wakes-doctors-remove-o...
It does and we offer it. It's called the P6000 and it includes 24GB GPU RAM. It's one of the most popular chips we offer for any kind of CV task as you can fit a ton of images, video frames etc. in GPU memory. In any case, here's a link to the full lineup we offer: https://gradient.paperspace.com/instances
> 110MW, which I presume is the thermal energy captured

That would be deceptive advertising. 110 MW is the "nameplate capacity" which is basically its maximum sustainable generation capability. Its storage capacity is specified straight-forwardly as 1,100 MWh (electric)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crescent_Dunes_Solar_Energy_Pr...
Absolutely no proof provided, N=1 for popular youtube pirating app. HN bullshit sense seems to be turned off completely when Google is accused of something bad.
If it was really that easy then we would have SOPA, ACTA, CISPA, PIPA, TPP and about 20 other bad ideas put on paper.

All of those failed, if they had not, MegaCorp would have significantly more power. Heck TPP had ways for a foreign corporation to sue a local government if they didnt like them banning fracking (for example).

Same thing with NN, if it was named honestly it would be called "The More Government Regulation of The Internet Act of 2019". Next up will be some sad attempt at a US GDPR, but fortunatly our beautiful 1st Amendment throws a wrench in that, it's effictively the gov telling people (corps are made of people:) what they can and can not remember.

But in general, I agree with your sentiment, and if it's more than half a page long (written in crayon) it shouldnt even be considered.
I think Facebook did something accidentally right at the beginning. Their first 6 million users, their connections, age and lifestyle was the important part.

Facebook started as Harvard only, then to all Ivy League and Boston-area schools, then other colleges and Oxford and Cambridge in UK. The speed of growth and direction of growth was just right. People wanted to join before they were able to join.

Other have started with limited invites, but they were more random.
Why? What's "good" about it? What if you don't want to? Should you be forced to, just because a government chose your software? On what grounds? Are there any bad things that could come out of this, aside from the obvious use of coercion and infringements of individual rights?
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Interesting idea, and nice to see my hometown represented in the very first sentence.
Most of the "true Quant" funds like rentech and tgs were founded but people with stem backgrounds like Jim Simons
Your reply aptly explains why your peers aren't a fan of working with you. You sound like an a-hole. Even if you were the principal engineer of the entire org and made dumb, rash decisions like this, I'd tell you to go pound sand irrespective of your seniority and title.

So you're 4 months in, you made a hasty prod change on a database with very little oversight. That tells me you're neither senior nor someone who can work well with others.

I'm not saying having 'strict' turned off was a good idea, but nobody working at your firm wants to deal with some new unexpected behavior over the weekend caused by some over zealous dev who made some change because he/she believed they were right.
That’s not because you have 3% macOS downloads that you can say that everyone loses around 95% potential downloads. It may simply be because your app is not marketed towards Mac users and alternatives exists.
Oddly enough my experience in years of computing on different platforms, including some exotic one, is the exact opposite.
For me MacOS is the worst when it comes to external monitors.

It kinds works good enough, but never great.

Especially with old hardware.
Ergo, if you want something "not yet legal", you need violence and be sure to win. Really sad.
Remember the Arab Spring? How did that turn out? How do the Kurds feel right now?

A lot of people want self determination, and they haven't exactly made much progress recently.

(Also, ask the Scots how they feel about the UK and especially brexit right now)
Google linked the usage of New Pipe with the Google Account (despite the person not being logued into their account in New Pipe) and blocked it from all Google services.

Imagine you using adblock in the CNN website without being logged in and they block your access to all Time Warner services (for example HBO).
Conflict doesn't require violence though. It's just that physical conflict is the easiest kind of conflict to represent.
I migrated to Fastmail (it's a one click to import all the mails) and bought an own custom domain + set up IMAP from gmail to fastmail. And I bought an iPhone. I don't have a need for a Google account anymore.
The government already has enough crippling inefficiency, but yeah let’s throw a grenade onto all the software they ever wanted to use.
Exactly.

As an American living in America, I find it fascinating that one of the few things I agree with Trump supporters in my area about is that we should avoid Chinese goods as much as possible.

Now it's for two different reasons - theirs is because of nationalism, mine is because of build quality.

But as an example, Pony woodworking clamps used to be made in Chicago, they shut down manufacturing 15 or so years ago, and recently started remaking clamps. Remaking them in China at the world's largest clamp manufacturer. The quality is not comparable. The older, Chicago made clamps, some of mine are from the 70's, are still good to use every day. I bought a handful of the new clamps to try them out, and the finish just isn't there. They're just shoddy compared to the older versions. I certainly don't see them lasting 40-50 years with constant use.
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Keep in mind that Vilaweb is one of the online media most committed to the independence agenda. I say this so that, in case you read something, you put it in context, either by action or omission of information.
I'm not convinced that BTS had anything to do with the drop in SIDS. The BTS campaign occurred at a time in the US when smoking rates started falling off a cliff. Between 1990 and 2018 smoking has dropped 42% [1]. Between 1992 and 2017 the rate of SUID (includes SIDS and a handful of other things that used to be commonly lumped in with SIDS) has dropped... 42% [2].

Yes, correlation does not equal causation. That said, by definition SIDS has no known cause and smoking has been identified as one of the biggest risk factors.

Edit to add: one other thing that I think is hard to track. As a parent that tried to sleep two kids on their backs, they slept terribly. In the middle of the night, in sleep deprivation fueled desperation, the two options we saw were to put them on their belly or bring them into bed with us. Cosleeping is a far greater risk factor of SUID than belly sleeping but people make that choice every day because of the shaming that doctors and nurses put on belly sleeping.

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2018/07/26/poll-u...

[2]: https://www.cdc.gov/sids/data.htm
I think the point was that the market is so huge that snagging a small part of it via a niche offering might plausibly lead to a successful business.
From a Spaniard who never understood the indepentist movement, and assuming you're in it by the tone of your message: Why this movement, what do you expect to happen if Catalonia becomes independent, and how would the whole mess of issues that, for example, Brexit is facing, get done in this case?

Before we make any assumptions, please consider that I'm asking this truly from an intention of learning, and not trying to bait any flames, or establishing my position. I've just never had the opportunity to talk to someone on "the other side".
Violating terms or not- it's still a lot of power for Google to hold over a person and there should be some consumer protections for this.
I think you're horribly twisting my words. I didn't mean that at all. I meant exactly what you wrote and there really isn't anything there for you to accuse me of otherwise.
I've spent 15 years on a Mac before switching (back) to Windows *

I must say that Windows has... changed... In a good way. But that's not even the point. The point everyone keeps forgetting, is that OSX is tightly coupled with native Apple hardware, while Windows has to work on a zoo of devices.

[*] I actually blogged about this here, sorry for a shameless plug: https://www.jitbit.com/alexblog/277-back-to-pc-after-14-year...
Wow. This is not about the author of Newpipe! This is about a user! Jesus, wtf Google?

It just flashed through my head how much Google services I rely on. I even use G-Suite for my own domain.
Which is where their return policy comes in. I've used it extensively
The NTSB does actually investigate their stuff. And then it does issue recommends.
I meant a note taking application in general is a huge market, I should have been more clear. Think about the amount of non-tech users that still take plenty of notes with a pen and paper (my parents for example), but in their case (and mine) the notes app on Windows/macOS or pen/paper is sufficient enough.

I would assume that the use for a Markdown based (developer focused, as it seems from their landing page) editor such as this one would have a more niche market. Without conducting market research into the topic myself, I would say that his success with this product would serve as a pretty optimistic point that there is a need and use for a product like this.
It's been many years since I've looked into it- but I remember using a program called GameSalad back in the day. I used another couple of similar apps in middle school but I don't remember the names
Agreed. People love to make all sorts of economic and security arguments for why this or that split is a bad deal for the people gaining self determination but the fact of the matter is that people have shown they would rather die poor and young than be told what to do by a bunch of people who's values they do not share. You simply can't put a price on freedom.
> There is no moral equivalence between the US and China.

There certainly is one if you ask one of the victims of foreign U.S. policy.

My point is, there will always be a perspective from which saying "Don't do business with evil" includes the U.S.
The same could have been said about World of Warcraft, but here we are with WoW Classic.

Digital experiences can be recreated, especially if motivated by profit. What won't be created are some of those moments that were unforeseen consequences (e.g. the Seed of Corruption exploit in WoW)
The US government has done some of the greatest technological accomplishments in history. The people who did them are largely the Jews who had immense gratitude and pride for being a part of the nation that halted Nazi Germany. It's the children of the soldiers who stormed Normandy. It's the citizens of a nation riding the most impressive economic wave in history.

As a result, in the 50s and 60s, there was no better job to be had than working for the government. Astronauts were like the modern day equivalent of rock stars who also started Google. It wasn't the money, but the pride of being a part of yet another great accomplishment that the greatest nation in history was embarking on. But that's gone today.

We still had some of this going into the early 90s, and DARPA and the NSA I'm sure could attract and underpay enough talent to make up for other government bloat. But in 2019, we have lost this national opinion (or delusion).
refurb iPhone 8 might be a good choice. i just saw a rumor of an iPhone SE 2 coming 1/2020 for $399 which could work.

an additional 200+ million insecure iPhone 6 devices in the world seems like a pretty bad thing :-(.
Beligerant act means act of war.
Maybe the HK protests were inspired by the Catalans (probably not) but this has been brewing for a long time and Madrid has been acting this way for quite some time now.
This should not be something cash-strapped schools are spending $450,000 on. This is just public-private transfer into the coffers of Blizzard, Nintendo et al.

If it has merit, it has merit with free software.