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It's also worth noting that the financial elites and the CCP aren't really doing business, they're committing fraud and theft. China isn't exporting productivity, it's exporting deflation and corruption.

Arguably, the trade war may have nothing to do with trade and, together with financial decoupling, everything to do with deliberate monetary strangulation.

The Trump administration holds all the cards, the CCP holds none. The challenge is getting the job done without more people getting killed.

https://mises.org/wire/china-trouble

https://mises.org/wire/chinas-biggest-problem-isnt-trump-its...

https://thesoundingline.com/chinas-money-supply-has-outgrown...
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I think it's more a complain about the radio silence.

Hoping they reinstate the account feels a bit like a pipe dream given his activity on 5to9mac, and I'm sure Apple was entirely in the right to suspend his account, but he should have been able to discover that in days, r even immediately upon trying to log in (it's not hard to say "this account has been locked because:..." instead of just "this account has been locked") rather than "never being told".
Totally agree.

MacOS dev is also going down the hill considering all the uncertainity about developing for the platform (deprecations, transitions to new SDKs and language, etc).

For example it would seem ObjC and Cocoa will be abandoned one day. When? In 2 years? 5 years? When will OpenGL not be distributed with macOS?

It would seem the safe bet is switching to SwiftUI for macOS but as of today you lose support for most macOS users. Plus SwiftUI is not ready for prime time yet from all the complaints I've read.

I was planning on working on a macOS exclusive product but for many reasons (including some of the points you have mentioned) this doesn't seem a wise decision at all.
I understand that p.Rot is a shitty approximation of a sum type, but it still works and almost certainly won't break anything since Go forces you to explicitly typecast. The important thing is that the list of possible actions wasn't sealed by the type system, which in the original example it was.

I want to reiterate that I am aware sum types can be useful. I just don't think they're useful _enough_ to outweigh being a footgun for calling code.
People are very dynamic, we either grow together or apart. My current success at marriage is due to a concerted effort not only to find out what interests my wife but to take an active role in it even if I don't wholesale agree. Then we can have a deeper discussion about it and that shows I care even when I don't agree.
This is a poor time to be a PG&E apologist. While there are several factors that contributed to the ignition, scale, and duration of the fires, PG&E has been found criminally negligible.

People are rightly angry. They are still being victimized today for PG&Es long history of behavior. They see no evidence that PG&E is working to correct the situation. They're told, "Hey, but you don't want a fire right" as if that is the only alternative. People want reliable, safely transported power. PG&E is not delivering.

And even if PG&E weren't to blame, they've fumbled on every one of these outages from a customer perspective. I was never even notified of the first outage. They communicated through Twitter and some other media. Even the one we had in common I rarely use and when I use I don't see every post. Their website was frequently down.

During the second outage their website often had no information, vague information, or inaccurate information. Our neighbors got power back days before we did. We literally had parts of our neighborhood all around us with power, but we went without. And during that time they announced a third outage with the same poor-quality information. We didn't even know if we'd get power back on before the next one hit. Also during that time, they stopped having humans answering their phones. Instead they just had a machine parrot the same (lack of) information that was available on their website.

So, I don't know what to tell you. The idea that "a judge made them do it" is absurd. A judge made them do the right thing or to not do the thing at all. It is their history of not doing the right thing, but still doing that thing, that lead us all here.
Perhaps my comment was a bit dismissive, but I think the general point stands: academic economists don’t live in the places that have been economically ruined by offshoring jobs. University professors are white-collar professionals and don’t live in run-down, economically-dead towns.

It’s easy to draw abstract analyses from afar, but without actual hands-on experience, you end up with unexpected side effects - like the current rise of populist protectionism.
>The price was right!

In my opinion, a "right" price would not encourage the kind of behavior that puts bullshit software on a device in the first place. Also, your TV could be connected to mobile networks and you would not know, although I'm not sure what information they can divine from the TV being on or off, other than the times someone is home or not.
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I wonder how long not connecting it to wifi will be a viable option. I wouldn't be surprised if many devices today still attempt to connect to open networks even if you decline to connect it to your home network. Once cell modems are embedded in everything the only option to prevent it from phoning home will be to physically disable the modem or put it in a Faraday cage.
Running to the press is a sure way to get Apple to stop ignoring you.
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Was once a compelling theory, but in the last earnings (Q3 2019), Uber's ride hailing business was "adjusted EBITDA" profitable, with an increase in revenue growth. It's not hard to imagine them being GAAP profitable if they decide to sacrifice a little bit of revenue growth.
> What does internet infrastructure have to do with ads?

It is the medium that makes the ads possible, and it is payed by you and me.

> We're talking about content, and ads are the subsidy that lets billions consume for free.

And I have been telling you every step of the way that there was good content before the ads arrived.

> That there's more content for more people across more channels is objectively true,

That is hardly surprising. There was no moment in the history of the web when the total amount of content available was not increasing. This was already the case before the ads.

Did it grown more than it would have without ads? Maybe. Is it better? I don't think so.

> and advertising pays for much of it.

And yet here you are, consuming content that someone created for free (me) in a platform without ads (Hacker News). So it doesn't pay for all of it, and even you, at least sometimes, seem to prefer the non-ad-funded corner.

> You seem to be conflating ad UX with economics.

Sorry, I have no idea what you mean by this.
I want a key for each finger with no movement required. :)
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What is a "Dark-net pattern"? And cryptolocking implies it somehow bricks your TV with some sort of cryptographic security.
The biggest issue with Trump isn't his domestic policies, which aren't too divorced from typical Republican ones. It's not even his uncouth persona.

The biggest issue with him is how he's destroyed our system of alliances, which administrations of both parties have defended and cultivated over decades. See, for instance, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/11/18/china-signs-defe....

This is disastrous. It's insane that the US is losing South Korea to China, considering we sacrificed tens of thousands of soldiers and considered starting nuclear war to prevent it in the 1950s. And people just shrug, because to the extent people care about politics right now, it's to focus on impeachment hearings, which themselves are happening because Trump blackmailed an important ally.

The core foreign policy of whoever is President should be recognizing China as our most formidable strategic competitor and working to maintain and build upon a system of alliances to limit its power and reach. Instead Trump is just a thug trying to shake down our allies for cheap wins and PR releases based on an idiotic understanding of American foreign policy interests.
Do you really think they care if Joe Random doesn’t develop for their platform? They care about the big companies like Microsoft, Adobe, etc developing for it.

Big companies don’t take a moral stand when it comes to what platform to target. It’s all about where the money is.

Companies don’t make decisions for petty reasons. There is a reason that Google, Amazon and Microsoft develop for iOS even while they compete against Apple.
Why they locked him out? It doesn't look like it.
Bors when introduced at my workplace was summarily disabled after 2 separate incidents where it was improperly applying commit messages (which we patched internally) and improperly applying patches (at which point we disabled it and explored other solutions). Combined with the merge latency overhead, I would be extremely hesitant to advocate running it at scale.
Yes they do, the most recent example is apps using a vulnerability to steal images. Many people are blaming Google and Samsung for not addressing this problem sooner and of course having a faulty permissions system that allowed this in the first place. Samsung is frequently attacked for security issues since they take so long to push out updates. Apple avoids these problems entirely by sandboxing apps and thoroughly reviewing functionality before accepting. It is very rare to hear about security issues for iOS yet we hear about a new one for Android monthly.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2019/11/19/google-c...
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Why do offshore developers “race ahead”?
Nota bene: I swear this question is relevant to startups. I have also been banned from two subreddits for asking it. So I'm taking out the country in question so as to make the whole thing more palatable.

Why do offshore developers "race ahead"? I've never understood this. There must be a sociological reason, right?

For example, I ask for a database to be reconfigured to capture two new user data points. Let's call them used car price and used car color. Nothing will be pushed to production for several months. The first offshore gets excited about this plain vanilla request and states that we will start capturing these back end data points but that he should hop into the Xcode and start making front end changes now. Then the second offshore gets excited and writes that not only can they do that, but they can improve the signup flow by ditching social login for Twilio login with the additional two attributes of used car price and used car color as personal identifiers in the login process (wtf).

I asked for none of this. I made a very simple request (I think). Some days I feel like a comedy routine is going on, other days I feel like I'm being gaslit. And they're not paid an hourly to ask questions, so they're not emptying our pockets. But they aren't "idea people" so what's up with the random ideas? The work when done is competent. But it takes seven hours to explain what should be understood in seven minutes. Is there a ticketing system out there that not only lets you write a clear specification but also forces the recipient to read the spec?

One developer I know has theorized it's because of how they teach math in $country. The first kid in their class to get the answer right is the winner. If you get called first and are wrong, it's no big deal, so there is no disincentive to not rush into a wrong answer or ask the wrong question. Is this true?

Am I just taking crazy pills?
While beer/mead/ale making is noted in descriptions of cultures, it seems like it would be a fun deep dive for teaching history to teenagers.
People over-attribute the impact of culture on drinking habits. In reality genetics plays the largest factor in problematic drinking. Just look at the epidemic of alcoholism in American Indians, despite that culture having no prior traditions of drinking.

The thing is Northern Europeans are probably more genetically prone to alcoholism than other European populations. For example British Jews, even the non-religious subset, binge drink at much lower rates than the rest of Britain. Predictably the population has a much concentration of genes associated with resistance to alcoholism.

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/329933...
> Advertisements in magazines are often somewhat interesting, well-made to be entertaining, or even useful. I used to read ads in magazines and I still sometimes do.

"Believe it or not!" but magazines like Creative Computing, Compute!, BYTE, Run, and other 1980's PC magazines used to be all about the ads. There was often no other way of knowing what new software or hardware was available to buy, especially for smaller companies. You would open these magazines up, and look at the ads, each ad had copy that was either inspiring enough to dream about or cryptic enough to try to envision how it was being done. You were going to buy the magazine anyway so it didn't really matter if the articles were good. A good issue was one that had both. Rarely did you find the stock photo inanity that is beautiful people in a boardroom, all super interested at a whiteboard with arrows that go up, up, up.
Countries routinely disrespect each other all the time.

"War is the continuation of politics by other means." - Carl_von_Clausewitz
As long as "smart" TVs still provide for a way to not connect it to any network (this is true for Roku TVs too) it's all good and we can use them as dumb TVs.

Yes, most people may not realize that's an option. But also, yes, the TV price already factors in the financial benefits of getting people's personal information. I remember reading an article on this, oh yes: https://www.businessinsider.com/smart-tv-data-collection-adv...

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It's not just about data collection. It's about post-purchase monetization of the TV.
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Daring Fireball’s sponsor placement isn’t blocked by Safari or by 1Blocker X

https://daringfireball.net/

I’ve purchased SaaS from his use of Deck in the past, or learned of and purchased deals from that placement this past year.
But survive the procedure or survive due to their injuries. There are two situations going on either of which could cause death.

It would be interesting to see how a healthy person reacts if they go through the emergency preservation and resuscitation (EPR) procedure.
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> Nearly everyone you meet is out to get you

I'm truly sorry that you feel that way. That definitely isn't the case in any general sense, though. Most people are absolutely not out to get anyone.
Please consider adding an Ultranav-like pointing device and an API for the battery-controlling EC (start/stop charging thresholds - unless you already have that). FWIW those are the only things that are keeping me glued to the Thinkpad line.
The first steps of the chain are so generic there will be no useful data in there and the TTL is normally high (~a day). The last one or two steps are pretty directly connected to the service you are connecting to anyway. I don't really see an argument how caching RR is worse than centralized DNS at Google or Cloudflare or whomever, from a privacy perspective.
Really slavery? What next comparing developing for a mobile platform to Nazism?
That's true of a lot of sci fi, but the more imaginative authors foresaw many of the tensions and trade-offs between technology, commercialism and government.

I have vague memories of Philip K Dick short stories in which consumers are egged on to never fix but repeatedly buy new versions of technologies, because the old ones are built with limited lifespans, or the new versions have some superficially attractive feature with dubious actual value.

The story "Foster, you're dead!" springs to mind. Consumers are pressured into buying newer and newer bomb shelters in order to protect themselves from an imaginary enemy with constantly improving imaginary capabilities.

The more general idea that advances in technology would remove agency from the masses feels quite old, you can see the seeds of it in Brave New World for example.
Self driving cars that see my kid waiting to cross the street and stop to let him cross would mean my kid rides the bus home. He is 6 - I don't trust his judgement crossing the busy street the bus runs on. I hate crossing it myself - I often get impatient after waiting 3 minutes with no break in the traffic and run for the left turn lane I(middle lane) to wait for the other direction...
If they leave the EU though they don't need to follow European laws or pay European taxes, but that doesn't prevent European users from continuing to use the actual website.
It's similar to the half glass of water... Do you see the glass half full or half empty?
imagine if they did not shut down the grid and there was another fire

Last time around they shut the power off for days and still managed to start 5+ fires.
Serial killers enjoy murder, but that doesn't mean we necessarily want to encourage it.

I'm all for increasing the safety of nights out, but if it's got a corresponding increase in harmful or dangerous drinking behavior, that's a significant finding too.
Doing the Greek course on Duolingo, I discovered that several of the pronunciations for Greek letters I learned in college are incorrect. In gross terms (I don't really know how to use IPA to be more specific here): beta -> veta, delta -> thelta, for example.
Pretty sure that is not allowed, you are only supposed to run OS X on Apple hardware.
It's not "stealing tips" and it's literally written explicitly into the laws around minimum wage in federal law in the US.

The federal minimum wage is set to $7.25 per hour, with a very clear exemption for tipped workers, that the employer contribution only needs to be $2.13 per hour as long as the tips bring the total wage up over minimum on a weekly basis. If the employee gets lower tips, the employer is required to pay additional wages to bring their total wages up to the guaranteed minimum. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipped_wage

The problem isn't that DoorDash is doing some new, nefarious thing. They're doing exactly the same thing a restaurant does when they pay a server somewhere between $2.13 and $7.25 per hour depending on how customers tip. The problem is that apparently most people don't understand how tipping and wages for tipped employees have worked for traditional restaurants for decades.
Excellent. So I have to replace my VPN provider. Suggestions?
The content is the ads, it’s the “shopping experience” in paper form.
I believe VT52 and VT100 terminals have a physical ESC key where you would expect it to be. On newer models, like VT220, etc, you can use the setup screen to put them in VT100 mode. Once you do that, the F11 key will function as an escape key.

Also note it was viewed as a weird choice to omit the key at the time. Televideo, a competitor, called it out in their ads: https://imgur.com/a/u7KHRjQ

Somewhat interesting that Apple recently took away, then gave back the ESC key on their pro laptops.
You'd also have to piss like a race horse.
Like late night taxis who realize you're a bit drunk and just desperate to get home to bed.

Uber has changed everything here. I can leave the bar at 3am and know I can get home without being sized up for extortion by a professional taxista who is colluding with the other late-nighters on the shift.
but abandoned it when we hired a nanny who took care of cooking
Does anybody here know a good alternative? A device you can connect to a dumb TV to play streaming content that doesn't spy on you? All of the commercially available options seem to be selecting a giant corporation to send all your data to. As a "small" company that does this and nothing else, you would think Roku would be a relatively privacy-focused option, but it appears to be the opposite. I feel like we're being forced to go the Kodi route, which leads to a disturbing correlation of privacy with piracy.
General Motors sues Fiat, alleging it bribed union leaders
Another day another case of an HN user not understanding the definition of a “monopoly”.
Disneyland Paris has one of those, built by Disney Imagineering.
>It creates kinks when unwound and make it extremely likely for knots to form

99% sure that's a side benefit not the reason.

The way the audio techs explained it to me was as a method of reducing stress on multi-strand copper inside. i.e. the reason why it unwinds cleaner is because said tension isn't there.
It's strange how most schools and universities teach students that "the scientific method" was applied since the 17th century and the majority of scientific discoveries were made in the last 500 years, while it seems, after investigation, that all the major scientific methodologies and discoveries were figured out and used by Greeks and Muslims before even the west was a thing.
How is this still a thing in 2019.

Just remap Caps Lock to Ctrl, problem solved.

If using Linux, simply add `ctrl:nocaps` to the XKBOPTIONS= line in /etc/default/keyboard, e.g.:

XKBOPTIONS='other:options,ctrl:nocaps'
I still feel they should've used those resources to improve an existing distro instead of creating their own.

Hardware companies trying to write software usually ends in disaster. (Yes Lenovo, I'm looking at you)
I regularly make my own dressing as well! I have a few basic recipes—most are pretty much the same as yours. One I like in the summer especially is a really simple one:

+ 2 parts olive oil

+ 1 part honey (try and make it good wildflower or clover honey)

+ 1 part squeezed lemon juice (add some zest as well if you're feeling energetic—I hate cleaning graters)

+ Salt & pepper to taste
It is very much the role of the government to watch monopolies and act if necessary. Even if that means passing arbitrary restrictions on their business practices.

Surely not all conceivable restrictions would be good, but some (like GDPR) are clearly net positives.
To be fair, the first version of Modula was released
around the same time as CLU, and the latter additionally includes a number of modularity-enhancing features which were quite influential on later programming languages. So I'm inclined to endorse the claim made in the article.
Nothing stops google from banning your account if you are using AdNausium, not only from youtube, but from gmail and all other properties. Joys of SSO. Maybe a TOC change or two. Few public cases like that and AdNausium is dead in the water.

That's why I'm not using it personally, even though I'd love to...
PG&E is legally allowed only a small profit as a percentage of revenue. Without it they couldn’t raise private capital, and would require public funds directly. They have every incentive to spend as much money on maintenance as is required, assuming the politicians allow the rates to rise.

They also have an obligation to spend their safety budget ON SAFETY RELATED ACTIVITIES. Instead they blew their wad on a cash bonus for the CEO. If they can't find the money to maintain their equipment maybe it's time to claw back the $100,000,000 they stole.
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Confirm. Went from 165 lbs running 55km races to 235 lbs with a 1,405 lbs powerlifting total in 5 years. I started this month to reverse the process, going to run a 50 miler next time this year.
don't be insulting

> European Regulations are law.

Regulations have to be implemented and integrated into each country's laws. Countries may not have yet implemented GDPR

> their primary usage is advertising

I don't see where FB claimed that advertising is primary usage and others are secondary. i can infer from the text that they parceled as part of the "service promise"

> FB does not give all the data, the definition of what data

Facebook says they are GDPR compliant and i doubt they 'd say that without the consultation of at least one EU data authority (perhaps the irish?).
https://www.facebook.com/business/gdpr
And likely invest in assets that can't be moved to foreign soil.