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I'm in the same boat as the guy you replied to and yea, I hear people recommend the 2015s all the time. Might do that, eventually. Then my laptop is 4 years old instead of 8 (and I'll probably still have to pay 4 digits for a used one). But what about 5 years from now? At one point, these options fade away.

My hope is that Apple is secretly listening.

They can't be happy about the negative butterfly keyboard headlines. They can't be completely unaware of "professionals" with a "Pro" model mentioning how they don't care about how flat their MBP is and would rather have better hardware. Any mention of the state of MBPs these days leads to a discussion about how disappointing they are. Every single time they get brought up!

That wasn't always the case, despite all the people making fun of Apple users being brainwashed and whatnot. Up until – yea, basically 2015, Apple users happily chuckled at these discussions as the overall usage of Apple products remained a pleasant experience. But I don't see that anymore. I see desperate clinging to pre-2016 models, a hope that "things will improve" and nervous looks at the alternatives (Win 10, Linux), which don't seem attractive at all.

Basically, if Apple announced a new MBP line tomorrow, 2mm thicker but with a proper keyboard, MagSafe, no-nonsense specs and an option to drop the gimmicks (touchbar) for shaving a few hundred dollars off that insane price (current 15" offers starting at 2.699,00€, here, that's with a 256GB SSD), I bet they'd get overrun with preorders within seconds.

I have hopes because, honestly, I'm out of options and it sucks. So I have to interpret certain things positively. Apple just dropped 3DTouch from the new iPhones, which is an indicator they're willing to let go when shit plain doesn't work out. Jony Ive leaving might be a completely random and unrelated event and I generally respect what he did for keeping things clean and focused – but maybe his departure is a signal to return back to more... "robust" design? Who knows. Whatever the case, Apple needs to get its head out of its ass and acknowledge just how unhappy even die hard fans are with their current MBP line.
Re: The target of UBER EATS this especially interesting news given they will likely be reporting Q3 results soon.

- Last quarter of UBER's $1.2b operating loss almost 50% of that is from UBER eats subsidies. They paid $544m more to drivers to deliver food than they took in. Why? (a) It is their fastest growing (by %) division (2) It's arguably the most valuable battleground in logistics - developing a "last mile" delivery network at scale.

- Their core business - ridesharing - has improved their gross margin and unit economics quarter-over-quarter to the point that operating and discounting losses here are almost non-material (less than $22m total worldwide this quarter, representing less than 1/2 a percent of total ride sharing revenue).

- In addition another area of analyst criticism has been losses in their "other bets" which is almost certainly their freight brokering network at -$50m, and the losses appear to be diminishing.

Seems to me like these layoffs are analyst signaling that there are still inefficiencies in those departments, UBER is aware and working on in preparation for Q3 finances.

(1) https://investor.uber.com/news-events/news/press-release-det...
I disagree with that characterization of "the population". Internet use is mandatory, as government, banking and corporate services use more and more online-only application or submission processes. Lowers costs by eliminating paper, increasing speed and reducing the call center and paper processing jobs. For many thingsb the only choice is online forms, email and online display (anyone used bankbooks recently?)
You have a different objective than the author of this article, who says

> I’m not someone that “needs” to get the best deal - if what I’m buying has a coupon then great, but I’m not going to change my purchases based on coupons

The author will buy what the author will buy, and he may happen to get a discount if any coupons apply.
For other PRC-made military aircraft based on foreign designs, is the IP and form factors typically copied/stolen (as the this article states) or licensed? I am thinking in particular of the Russian aircraft clones.
If this kind of stuff interests you, "Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past" by David Reich is interesting and very up to date.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35749414-who-we-are-and-...
Thank you for sharing! I have exact same experiance and I'm very uncomfortable talking about it. I guess one has to experience it first hand to be able to comprehend in full. Once I tried to explain, but I guess others mistook me for either being arogant or plain stupid. Not wanting more money is beyond their imagination. Thanks again, all the best in future endaveours!
Fair enough, they're technically very loud. But, I guess I wonder if they're extra annoying because most things are nearly silent?
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I can understand Uber wanting to build other tools in house because the existing open source ones might not scale in Uber-scale. But Bazel? That's just absurd.
In which case you want to probably use their headless Docker containers. https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium

You can also use Puppeteer for this purpose (using headless Chrome) https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer
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I did something similar with Safeway's API back in the day. But rather than chew up their API with unsupported usage--CFAA case territory--I now just log into Safeway's website and issue a one-liner on the coupon page:

$(".grid-coupon-clip-button button").click();
This is actually false and the type of dangerous logic that has brought us to where we are today. You are arguing the same tired logic that have been lost on most globalists today (whether out of ignorance or not):

1. Not entering the Chinese market during this time of growth is a lost opportunity.

2. Chinese citizens working and living in a free country will import these values back home (false)

#1 may be true in the short-term, if you are okay with selling out your users and giving up your IP but in the long term, you are essentially investing in the rise of a totalitarian state, which does not care about fairness and individual rights and freedoms. In the long term, investing in China today is effectively chipping away at democracy for our descendants.

#2 is false because it is derived from a western frame of thought. For the majority of Chinese citizens coming to the US to study or work, they do not care about knowledge, enlightenment, or the freedoms that the western civilization values so much. They are here for the thing that their society values most - $$$. Do not think for once that the Chinese care at all about western "freedoms".
> But I do appreciate the fact that some market incentives (profits) exist to encourage greedy companies to come out with new drugs. I fear lower innovation in its absence.

I think of this as a "prayer to innovation", in the cargo-cultism sense. Like tax relief for the wealthy, the prayer goes that "if we can just give these people more money, they'll improve our lives".

Multiple studies have found links between drug pricing and the development of new drugs, but it doesn't work in the obvious way. Large pharmaceutical companies often rely on purchasing smaller startups who do the actual research into developing new drugs [1] but don't have the expertise in bringing the new drug to market and making it successful. The larger pharma companies need financial capacity for this, but since the patents have expired on a lot of other successful drugs before the companies recovered the profits they wanted, they're relying on captive markets for the monopolies they still have in niche pharmaceuticals [2].

These companies are profit-motivated. They aren't working for the public interest. They have no particular desire to "innovate"; their business model instead relies on identifying innovators, buying them, and then selling the product of their research at high prices for as long as possible.

Price controls for pharmaceuticals would ultimately reduce the funding available for the R&D startups, which would limit the creation of new drugs. But it's not clear that allowing big pharma companies to continue charging extortionate rates for life-saving medicines is a good solution to this, nor is it a guarantee for future innovation.

It seems like single-payer insurance and more federal funding for pharmaceutical R&D would be a far better solution than defending predatory drug pricing.

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/stanfleming/2019/06/20/the-rela...

[2]: https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20190228.63655...
Many digital painters seem to have moved to the iPad and apps like Procreate which can be had for a few bucks. I also find eInk hardware like the Remarkable tablet and the like interesting, they run on Linux. Have you thought about a standalone tablet that runs only Krita? Even if it's only black/white, having the tools from Krita on a device like that would be killer.
We've now long reached the point where we can give the market a free hand/carte blanche in pharma matters. Now it's time for Government to act and to do so urgently.

If ethics ever played a role in pharma—which I doubt [remember thalidomide]—then it certainly does not do so now. As health and lives of its citizens are at stake then it's the responsibility of Government to rectify this situation.

After all, the first responsibility of government is to protect the security and well-being of its citizens. If it fails to do so here then it's abrogating its responsibility.
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> I use i3 and basically everything is configured via text files. Keyboard shortcuts are trivial etc. You don't need Karabiner to "rebind" because you can directly bind.

This is the kind of hyperbole that Linux advocates like to throw around a lot, and it’s unfortunate, because it shows a fundamental misunderstanding of what people are asking for when they say things like “I wish there was a decent replacement for Karabiner”.

i3’s config files let you bind i3’s config. That’s not the same thing at all.

With Karabiner, in 3 seconds, I can have ^w bound to “delete word backwards” functionality in every single application globally. You can’t even remotely accomplish that in i3’s config by itself — you need to venture into X config files, and special gtk config files for gtk/gnome apps, and some other set of config for KDE stuff, and then after that you still have to deal with the occasional one-off app like Firefox closing a window when you went to delete a word out of force of habit, and so you get to spend time discovering yet another way to tell it to respect a key binding.

And then at some point during some random update some random set of apps will break all over again. It’s a far fucking cry from Karibiner.
We need to stop using the phrase IP. It’s an illogical euphemistic marketing term invented by the industry. More accurate phrases are intellectual monopoly laws or intellectual slavery laws.

They have done horrible things for the drug industry. The root cause of the opioid crisis is patent law. You made 100x+ more money selling patented drugs, even if the patented drug is worse for the patient. We need to ditch these laws. Perhaps you could switch the system to where you get a bonus check for a novel patent; but we gotta ditch the monopoly rights aspect of these laws as they are horrible for 99% of the population.
> A typical example is that Uber had a team to implement their own Bazel-like system because "Bazel (or any other tool) does not scale in Uber-scale"

Citation needed? AFAIK Uber was using Facebook's Buck and decided to move to Bazel for stacks where Buck is admittedly not good at (e.g. Go). I'm not aware of any org within Uber reinventing Bazel. The web org might be closest to what you're claiming, but even there, it merely wraps over Bazel to bridge over its shortcomings (i.e. package management is typically done "outside" of Bazel, via yarn/npm in web, as seen in the official rules_nodejs and other 3rd party spin-off rulesets)
Is there a trial? I'd like to test it but $99 to even download the app is a hard ask.
Eventually Google will release it to your state as unclaimed funds which you can then claim. I think it took them 7 years to send my $70 over. never could cash it out as it wasn't at the threshold.
My bet would be the real money maker was all the spyware included with the Flash installer.
Imagine if we applied this rule to Silicon Valley. Once you recouped your R&D expenses, you weren't allowed to make any more money (or only a token profit above cost). Do you think Silicon Valley would be the same? Better? Worse?

(Yes, people don't die if they don't have Facebook. That's not relevant to the R&D process. The mechanics of developing pharmaceuticals is the same as developing software. You take large amounts of capital and throw it at highly skilled and scarce labor.)

EDIT: That does not mean there are no problems. There's lots of real problems, such attempts to keep things from going out of patent, how to handle orphan drugs and drugs for rare diseases, etc. My point is simply that we have proven principles for how to enable innovation, and they apply to pharmaceuticals as much as to web tech. Of course, we can make different trade-offs within that analytical framework--e.g. trade future innovation for lower short-term costs. But we can't apply a wholly different set of principles for thinking about the costs of those trade-offs.
Sure, and most (not all) consider that a horrible practice that encourages backstabbing politics. And it's definitely bad for morale. And the people that defend the idea say it's nice to cut the flak once a year, but it's obviously better to just fire people for being bad as needed rather than create this constant annual layoff. The main reason it's done it's because it's so much easier than managing companies correctly.
The papers are operating on a schedule and if the reviewer can’t understand it and there’s 10 other papers fighting for the same spot in the journal with positive feedback then it’s just the nature of the business.

A lot of external success is timing and luck. The legitimate progress stuff will eventually find a voice and in most cases respect will be given retroactively.
This is hitting the nail right on the head. People are blaming “greedy Pharma companies” but at the same time companies are taking lower and lower net prices while the rebates that the purchasers are taking home are absolutely absurd rebates.

I get it, some people don’t feel phama companies should still be able to profit on a drug invented 50years ago. But I just can’t take any discussion about that serious when we are also in an environment where the purchasers take literally twice the profits on all drug sales without having invested a penny in research or having spent a penny in production distribution or marketing.

They eat up all that money all by abusing their position of “representing the buyers”, but at the same time since their rebates are percentage cuts they are just pushing pharma companies to increase prices over and over again.

The American model is rotten and someone has to stop the madness.
First mover advantage isn't worth much for generic drug manufacturing. The product is a commodity at that point. It wouldn't be worth much in tech either if you were allowed to clone a product 100%.

Intellectual property even protects things that copyright and patents don't. Like you can't commit industrial espionage and steal the secret codebase of a SAAS company that keeps its software on its own servers. That's just as artificial as a patent.

Even real estate property is artificial. You didn't make the land that your house is on. Why should you have a monopoly on it? Because someone government issued someone else a piece of paper 300 years before either one of us were born?
>Unique? No. Distinct in character, yes.

So not unique. But actually unique?

>Minecraft. Night in the Woods. Slenderman. Kerbal Space Program. SpaceChem, TIS-80, InfiniMiner, InfiniFactory, a huge portion of Stellaris's gameplay. Untitled Goose Game. Online Go. Candy Crush. Many many subgames in Roblox.

Had you used those examples in your original post, then it would have had less of that implication.

>Can you stop this line of questioning now? It's boring.

If you weren't implying that the west has a "love and expectation of violent solutions" while the rest of the world does not, or that the west has more of a "love and expectation of violent solutions" than the rest of the world, then just say so.

Or you are free to stop responding if you're bored. I won't be offended.
> > Given the discrepancy mentioned by reviewer 1, we have sadly concluded, on balance, that your paper would be better placed in a more specialised journal, particularly given the competition for space

Perhaps there's too much competition because there's not enough space? Science is not an industry notorious for excess in investment capacity...
Does anyone has a theory why would Google rename its social network after itself?
Madden is cheaper in terms of liability, game day costs, and grades than real football. I don't buy the cost argument.
I agree. The free-market did not work, time for regulations.
No. Do you really think they can promise anything? It will depends on the direction of the Stock in the next month.
Probably like WeChat, through a bunch of integrations with service providers & payment providers.

IE, text to get a pizza.
> So many apps are not DPI aware.

This is something that Microsoft were highlighting to Win32 and WinForms developers long before HiDPI screens became commonplace. Unfortunately, it's only recently that the API support has been fleshed out. Compare Windows 10 (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/hidpi/high-dp...) with Windows XP to Windows 8.1 support (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dn469266(v=vs.71)).
My argument only requires that people own their own property/labor and have the freedom to trade those things with others.

Without those freedoms we're in some dystopian/totalitarian state.
At risk of ya'll taking "my" safeway gas rewards, this is almost always good for whatever the maximum discount off per gallon is at any safeway that also has a gas station.
advanced nuclear using a molten salt loop fro the buffer: https://usnc.com/MMR.html
Many sites view that as "unauthorized" because they like that top-down control
liquidity creates value by freeing capital to chase new opportunities.
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Coupons have two purposes, which seem contrary, but are essential to understand how coupons are a form of advertising:

1) Saves you money (versus the retail price of the item)

2) Makes you more likely to buy the product on the coupon.

Your use of coupons adheres to both value #1 (saves you money, because you know what's on sale) and value #2 (advertises products on sale, increasing your chances of buying them). This is the core advertising model of coupons and why they've been popular forever.

This automated use of coupons saves you money if you happen to purchase an item for which a coupon exists, without requiring you to do any extra work to save that money — but also without having the desired advertising outcome of making you more likely to purchase that item.

This compares well to adblocking. Internet advertising on websites:

1) Saves you money (versus subscribers-only paywalls)

2) Makes you more likely to buy the product on the advertisement

And in that analogy, ad-blockers are directly equivalent to coupon auto-adders: they allow you to save money without having the desired advertising outcome of making you more likely to purchase that item, in a fully-automated manner that doesn't require you to exert any effort doing so.

Coupons are a precursor form of advertising ("pay-per-clip" :) where you are paid money to view the advertisement, and are more likely to commit to buying the product when you 'clip' the coupon — it's a marketing psych thing. They also have perfect tracking, since retailers provide coupons to manufacturers along with purchase date and location.

Coupon autoclippers break that agreement, such that you're 'paid' for being influenced by the advertisement without ever having been influenced. The coupons are no longer valid for tracking the effectiveness of advertising A/B tests in different markets (your Safeway account's zip code is surely part of that data). They are no longer proof that you viewed an ad at all.

You're not wrong that this app would ruin how you shop quickly, but you're also shopping quickly using a list of products that were predetermined by Safeway and/or other marketing divisions to be of maximal interest to them for you to purchase. As long as you're okay with that, coupon clipping is an excellent approach. For others, autoclippers would minimize the price paid without changing their purchasing methods (which may be paper-based, brand-focused, or random-chaotic)
Of course. Even the article mentions Elon Musk never ever saying anything even slightly off: "uh, now I took my hands off the wheel and it still drives well, but that would be illegal, don't do it, wink wink, nod nod".

Far better to have someone else do the job. Independently, of course: it's definitely NOT Elon Musk saying that, no no no. Nod, nod, wink, wink.
I recently started using Fastmail for a new project I'm working on. The web app might be the snappiest I've ever used. Way better than Gmail. Protonmail is painfully slow in comparison. I'm seriously considering switching everything to Fastmail, but there's always a ton a FUD about surveillance when comparing them to Protonmail. But there's always a lot of FUD thrown at Prontonmail, too. Hard to know how much is true.
Government run or "official" network/app that you need to join whether you like it or not in order to send payments, order stuff, get into school etc.
You seem to have completely misunderstood me. I'm talking about situations where a poor or middle class person is being sued by a rich person or large company. How does a class action cover that? And ambulance chasers sue big companies on behalf of poor people, not defend poor people from lawsuits. Both of your examples are the opposite of what I'm talking about.
It turns out that most of these new drugs have done more harm than good. See Purdue, for example. With very few exceptions, new drugs != better health. Our healthcare industry is a disaster and intellectual monopoly laws are a big reason why. We need to ditch those and focus on good outcomes, which does not mean focusing on giving vast rewards to some novelty regardless of efficacy.
Not sure. What is the impact of you surfing HN in terms of co2 output annually?
> Absolutely no part of the 737 Max is unstable and no part of MCAS has anything to do with stability.

Vs. how Boeing describes it:

> The Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) flight control law was designed and certified for the 737 MAX to enhance the pitch stability of the airplane – so that it feels and flies like other 737s.