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You have every right to say whatever you want about any organization or person, but they don't have to keep on working with you.

Apple is taking it from a relationship standpoint. If someone trash talks you in public and your opinion of them has gone down, you have every right to stop interacting with them.

Now saying they have market power and should not being able to do that, well that is the domain of different regulations.
I feel like you're missing the point. A "contract" with a company shouldn't be at the center of the question of whether you can develop software for a specific platform or not to begin with. It feels like this was understood and controversial only ten years ago, while nowadays people all over the Internet will argue with you to defend Mordors god-given right to rule over every single behavior in the world's most popular smart phone. It's quite worrying to be honest, of this continues people won't know there even was a debate about net neutrality and software freedom a few decades from now.
> Hong Kong have been constant allies to the West

This is certainly an... interesting assertion. HK is the financial conduit that made Chinese rise possible, and the engine that powers Chinese financial influence abroad. HKers enabled this, not so much the generation that's protesting mind you, but most remotely affluent HK migrant in the past 30 years was the beneficiary to this arrangement.

Overall, fairly lazy and unsophisticated, Reddit tier analysis from generic American exceptionalism lens. Just to touch on XinJiang briefly, since people in the west are quick to draw on Godwins law and make ridiculous Nazi + genocide comparisons. The leaked NYT reports confirms if anything that the CPC motivations is consistent with their past claims of de-radicalization and de-secularization. There's no intention to eliminate if only because killing all the Uyghurs means China has to revise 56 minorities into 55, that would look bad on Xi's legacy. What is happening is an extremely immoral and excessive COIN strategy, you know the kind US embarked on post 9/11 that continues to this day. Each using instruments to their strength - US bombs, Chinese infrastructure. At best it would be classified as cultural-genocide, which is basically undefined and unenforceable in UN. The silver lining is that since the motivation is counter-terrorism, there's a chance China will pivot away from the harsh strategies. Mandatory disclaimer that explanation doesn't not mean endorsement.

Regardless, it's always a little cringe to see Americans try to play the moral Trump card. Argue security, argue hegemony, argue influence, but don't argue morals like that has any weight anymore. HK rights bill passed on the same day US changed stance on West Bank settlements. Chinese containment is cold geopolitics. The appeal for international condemnation is particularly out of touch. China is a driver for global growth, economically and demographically, most countries including the majority of developed g20 has their future prosperity pegged to China. US is the least trade dependent major economy int he world with enviable geopolitical posturing that enables her to disengage with China on a long enough timeline, no one else has that benefit, and they have even less incentive to as US is becoming increasingly unreliable and withdrawn from the global order that she created. There's a reason why, including US, only 2/5 and 3/195 countries in the world banned Huawei despite years aggressive US posturing. South Korean just signed a defense agreement with China. Being near peer power with US means China is afforded the luxury of getting away with crimes against humanity like the US have.

Want the world to shun the future Chinese order? Propose and _demonstrate_ a better one.
Presumably when a merge breaks the main branch, the merge gets reverted and it is the task of whoever pushed that to fix it. In the mean time the CI server can continue with the next branch/commit in the queue.
>Bolivia has 9 million tons of unexploited lithium reserves in their salt flats. "The region has 50% to 70% of the world's lithium reserves in the Salar de Uyuni salt flats."

>I actually think that it's less likely for companies to be going after the lithium than it is that they're going after the natural gas. BP has every incentive in the world to want to overthrow Morales.

So basically lithium is Quantum, and some organisation wants the world to hold on to most of the World's Lithium Reserves?
"Intellectual terrorism"? This makes no sense. Using this kind of extremist language doesn't help.

> "healthy alternatives out there"

That's the real myth. You either pay for content up front (by going to work, getting paid in cash, and using that cash) or you see some ads (which convert your attention to payments in real-time on demand for exactly what you're consuming). For billions of people, ads are faster, easier, more passive and more fair.

Donations are not a scalable business. Podcasts are in an advertiser boom and are making record amounts of money from ads so I'm not sure why you used that example. Very few (if any) channels of size are completely user-supported.
> On Jinping: "He is a great leader who very much has the respect of his people. He is also a good man in a 'tough business.'"

Praising him doesn't mean he likes him or he'll make of him his friend. It's more of a respect thing. He respects the man for working on the interest of his country.
My statement "don't blame the player, blame the game" is clearly a gross oversimplification. The damage caused by CA forest fires is a complicated multi-factor problem...contributing factors include the weather, PG&E maineance standards, politicians, fire service, and above all a lack of ability to adapt to changing weather conditions. I feel like the public narrative is hindering possible solutions.
> They simply have no right to quash free speech.

They haven't quashed free speech. They've built a consequence to speech into their developer agreement, as an exercise of their freedom of association.

If you're in a bar and you trashtalk the waitstaff to their faces, it's fully within their rights to eject you. You're free to stand on the sidewalk outside of the bar and continue to exercise your rights. Just as OP is free to speak about their experiences with Apple. But Apple, and the bar, have no obligation to maintain a business relationship with anybody.
That’s still under $100,000 and you can use the same test results for some. Canada and a few other places may also require absorbed radiation tests which are a nuisance.
the newspaper appears multiple times, i have to watch the movie again, but even 22 may be consistent with it.

(btw you'll notice that jwz.net is not an HN fan)
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Is that first one an "H" or an "E"? Is that second one an "E" or a "V"?

That's the problem with home-made solutions, across any form of lossy medium (aka static or accents), the home-made replacements are not always distinct enough.
You missed the first step in cooking Jasmine rice: Return it to store and buy Basmati rice instead.
I'd say, not to believe in the current trends and ideas to last, in general.

For example, Blade Runner has iconic Japanese cultural domination themes (ads, company names etc) because Japan was overtaking the US economically in the '80s.
Nobody expected decades of Japanese stagnation.
Worth noting that DTrace is now available on Windows too as of "recently" [1][2]. It would be great to support that also!

[1]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=580...

[2]: https://github.com/microsoft/DTrace-on-Windows
>Twitch also removed the ad-free benefit from twitch prime.

This seems standard: acquire users, then make the service worse for users. (and better for shareholders and/or advertisers)
> but the sequel keeping with that timeline, kinda changes it out to alternative-history

I think this is a huge problem with the cyberpunk aesthetic today. What defined it was the fact how transgressive and original it was when it was first introduced. When I saw 2049 and how close it stuck to the original, it didn't seem futuristic but retro, including one scene with a CCCP advertisement which obviously made sense as a vision for the future in the early 80s but seems counterfactual now.

I think the movie would have benefitted from taking many more liberties with the setting to avoid this retro-futurism.
I remember back in the early 80's there was a "What If" of the Superman comic series. In that one off story Superman reveals himself to the world on the Eve of 2020, which coincidentally is when all the cities on the east coast of the US are merged into one, and they rename the entire mega-city "Metropolis". The comic's popularity was discussed in Time magazine. That publication started a pop culture treatment where "the future" starts in 2020, partially because 2000 was too close and all the "cool future stuff" was clearly not gonna happen that soon.
I feel like this is anti-progress. My industry's success depends on me sitting in my room coding and not having a gf.
Facebook is not equivalent to law enforcement (not yet anyway). You don't have to use or have a Facebook account. You also don't have to have the app installed on your phone.
they promised us flying cars.

but at least people dont smoke anymore
Article is thin but had loads of links. It's more of a compendium than an article.

I completely agree that microservices are more organizational related than tech related.
There are a few TV series where music played a significant role that, on DVD, much of that has been stripped out because of music rights. You basically can't get the shows as aired. Norther Exposure, and (I've been told) WKRP in Cincinnati come to mind.
Winnie the pooh. Tainamen square
Alternatively go buy a few of those orange plastic extension cable wrap things from the electrical aisle at a big box store (either the plastic ones that are flat, or the big circular ones with a handle). I've had them for a decade, and every year I wind up my cords on them, and they always unwind easily the next year.
We're all using blockchain every day when we use Git.
With a concerted effort we could push india into being the next superpower.
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The very worst case, he'll be denied access to China (and possibly HongKong) but otherwise he's fine. China is more interested in Chinese living in China and not some western somewhere.
Xoogler here. When I left in 2015 there were definitely teams that used merge queues (i.e. TAP presubmit). Generally these were teams with a more monolithic architecture, like YouTube that had a massive Python mono.
it's commonly admitted that the pace of progress has significantly slowed the past 2 decades
Don't worry; your political views are completely mainstream as the discussion here also demonstrates.
Companies do not make decisions. People do. So who was criminally negligent?
I don't agree with this.

Many writers in the 80s would still have been too young to remember WW2 (some might have even been born after it entirely) and there are still plenty of sci-fi stories and scripts being written which are based in the future.

I think the explanation is a simpler one: writers didn't know any better. In the 50s through to 80s exaggerated predictions were made based on observations of the way tech was advancing at that time (much of that kind of tech was new). However after people grew up and realised those predictions were vastly over optimistic they would then go on to set their science fiction stories at a more pragmatic date in the future. Sometimes writers these days don't even specify a date and I suspect that's intentional to avoid jokes about it's "predictions".

Simply put: Writers these days are just more aware of how quickly dates change and how long their content remains in the cultural conciousness.

It's also worth baring in mind that a lot of the time these kinds of stories are "alt universe" type stuff. ie based on some theoretically similar universe to ours as well as x number of years in the future.
> building and testing it against current master and then merge it with the master 20 minutes later when the build is done.

And I'm pretty sure that is the way Google does it too. Test a commit against current master, if tests are green commit. Then run tests against master again (and I think this stage might not run for every single commit) to see if anything broke on the rare times there was an actual conflict. If that run was red, which should be rare, then you can have the system do a bisect to find the offending commit, or just run all the ones that haven't been individually tested.
This is so important. I don't know if you can "learn to cook" in an hour, but you can probably drive to the store, buy some vegetables, come home, and make a great salad with an awesome homemade vinaigrette dressing in less than an hour. I try to eat fairly healthy, but having a salad that's easy to make that I actually crave (oh no, I've turned into an old person) most days at lunch is amazing. It's fast, and I have great energy all afternoon.

Here's my default dressing: salt & pepper to taste. Bit of lemon juice. Bit of dijon mustard. Balsamic vinegar and EV olive oil. Adjust relative quantities to taste and based on what you have in your salad. Gets rave reviews and could not be simpler. ;-)
Durham is getting better in many ways, but it earned it's reputation for crime in some neighborhoods there. I never seriously considered living there for that reason alone. It's weird how it gets lumped in with Raleigh for everything.

I live in downtown Raleigh, and it is seriously one of the safest places I've ever experienced. Even though Seattle was mostly safe on paper, there were so many homeless people who would yell death threats at random people, assault people, and engage in straight up harassing behavior in public places like buses, I soon became uncomfortable walking alone even in the day time hours. I don't feel that way about Raleigh or Charlotte.

The crime in Charlotte really didn't seem that bad to me. I lived in a affordable part of north Charlotte, but the worst things we had in 18 years were 2 car break-ins and someone stealing a grill from the backyard. A neighbor got burglarized when they were out of town once. I never experienced or even witnessed physical violence or threats, never knew a person who has been attacked or robbed with a weapon, though it happened especially to people dealing drugs or doing other illicit stuff.

If you like CT that's great, but I definitely think Charlotte and Raleigh are nice places to live and are good alternatives to west coast cities for the cost. Sorry that your experience didn't match up to your high expectations.
> My industry's success

Maybe you need to choose a different quality metric.
There's a lot of bad things in the way society and technology have unfolded since the movie [and even more so, the book] was originally released, but one thing I'm happy about that contrasts with the story's vision is that, although we do have serious environmental and ecological problems, wildlife and especially owls are still plentiful.
If he broke Apples ToS then fair enough terminate the account however it isn't clear this is what happened.

If Apple terminates an account they should be obliged to provide a reason as to why the account is being terminated, otherwise it's a clear cut refund of the $100 for the dev account at the very least.
Please don't discount the fact that--despite popular perception--economic mobility in America is much smaller than in most developed countries. Your rags-to-riches success (while wonderful) is a statistical outlier. The vast majority of studies bear this out. What one starts with (parents' income/wealth) has a massive impact on what one finishes with.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/us/harder-for-americans-t...
> Now PG&E has stepped it up by doing blackouts and claiming its because of fire risk.

Well, they are going bankrupt because of the liability they bore for the massive fires their equipment triggered the last two years, so it's not too far fetched a claim.

What ulterior motive could they have for doing blackouts now?

This is not to absolve PGE of the responsibility. They apparently asked the PUC for ratepayer money, and received it, to do
fire prevention maintenance, but then supposedly didn't do it, at least not enough [1]. All this while paying handsome dividends to investors (including our 401ks and pension plans). If true, that would be the bigger scandal.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/03/18/business/pge-...
I believe this was the most recent I read.

https://medium.com/@tokata/how-google-play-terminated-a-deve...
>Most of the tin used by the Mediterraneans was imported from Britain.

This is an interesting one because it touches on the evolution of bronze. Early bronze was made from nearby co-occurring deposits, including arsenic bronze which was made from the arsenic that is often found along with copper. However because tin was much rarer than copper, and because there was a lot of it in Britain, the long-term evolved solution was to transport the tin across great distances. I'm not completely sure but I believe that the tin trade route post-dates the invention of bronze.

>Extracting metal from an ore (smelting) does not in general involve melting temperatures, and neither does working the metal into tools.

That's a good catch, but it's also worth pointing out that campfires still can't smelt copper, and also that early iron furnaces, incapable of melting iron as they were, still had to be enclosed and fed with forced air.
Most issues are in old implementations and on Windows, so it's not completely off base.
This is one of the reasons that medical pricing is out of control. If nobody knows the pricing for anything, how can anybody (not just patients, but anybody else involved with the system) make rational decisions?
Apple is banning journalists from submitting apps to the App Store because they don't like the coverage they're getting?

That is worrying.
My two cents: It's a great idea if you find the perfect person but is very hard to go out and do. The compensation you need to provide to bring on someone to run the entire business, in terms of salary + ownership is often ends up with pretty similar economics to just selling. Also very tricky waters to navigate long-term if you both retain a majority ownership of the business but cede all day to day operations and strategy to somebody else. Likely to end up either with some conflict or the hired CEO gets tired of doing 100% of the work in a business they only have a minority stake in. Definitely not impossible and has the potential to work out to better economics than a sale if all goes perfectly.
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A company is only going to move their production to another country where production is cheaper if they know their consumers will continue consuming despite where said production is taking place. So I disagree, trading with China is NOT beneficial to everyone; we are simply feeding the dragon.
Same thing could be said for Microsoft, where employees were upset they were providing O365 and Azure to ICE, but there is no similar outrage directed towards the special China cloud they run
Kinesis Advantage :)
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I feel like you are confusing the issue here. The law states that they are legally to blame no matter what condition their equipment is in. Therefore it would make sense to temporarily shut down the system.

As to whether or not their equipment caused the large fires is another issue and another discussion altogether.
I don't know, but I'd love to see some. Every time I see a movie set on an intact Earth well in to the future it's a bit frustrating they don't even try to address how we fixed climate breakdown.
Los Angeles, November 2019.

Have this intro title clip as my background on Facebook this month. And it is actually raining in LA today, for the first time in six months.

Blade Runner is playing Saturday at the Vista near Silverlake to commemorate.
> Are they going to suspend IP laws and other contracts?

You don't need a war to do that, that's already the law.

The government (not just the military) can force you to license them your patent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_patent_use_(United_...
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Climate Change Is Even Ruining Pokemon Now
I don't use a num pad since I switched my stacks to IPv6, but I do like having my mouse closer to the enter key. I use a 60%.

I also put my keyboard in my backpack 3/4 times a week and move to a hot desk on a different floor when I have some real work to get done.

It works for me, I spend most of my time in vim keybindings and have a layer for arrows if I need it. Even when I use my laptop keyboard, moving over to the arrows is annoying to me since I have to take my fingers off the home row.

It may be, that people who started with laptop keyboards instead of model M keyboards prefer what they are used to and what they learned on.

It's not a trend, it's a workflow. I touch type but I have keycaps with letters, I have a red escape key and a tux for the mod4, because I like the look. I hope I'm not going to hell for that.
Chatbots on Whatsapp are kind of hard from a UX point of view because the platform don't support rich elements like buttons or webviews (unlike Facebook messenger). I hope Whatsapp adds these kind of features soon, otherwise users will get frustrated when interacting with bots and never use it to talk to businesses again. And no, AI/NLP is not the answer to this because users are lazy and prefer to tap on buttons than to write 20 characters...
I know this because I'm the creator of Botonic (a React-based conversational framework) and we've been building conversational apps on Whatsapp and other platforms for years. By the way, if anyone is interested in access to the Whatsapp Business API beta feel free to drop me a line at eric@botonic.io
You work at a multibillion-dollar company, yet live in a state with an (comparatively) uneducated population. That's far from average.

One idea would be to run workshops for children/or families teaching them how to repair their devices, and which devices to get if they want them to last (think upgradability, battery-replacement, similar). If we're wanting to lessen China's power over the working class, making people capable of maintaining electronics in the same way they can maintain cars will go a long way. Bonus points if you teach them how to reinstall operating systems without bricking their systems.

Another idea would be to use your programming ability to create software to help people: think getting past censorship, keeping communications secure, similar. China and Hong Kong both are more or less tech wonderlands, solving the UX issues that stop anyone from throwing a single-board computer (think Orange/Raspberry Pi) online and using it to communicate over the open web and store data without fear of it being compromised in some way by doing nothing more than flashing an OS image and booting would mean that almost everyone would gain, but especially people in those countries.
Sure, but what if your device/software starts pinnings certificates without an option to add new root CAs?
This sounds quite similar to https://bors.tech. If the authors are here, did you see this, and can you compare and contrast it with what you built? https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/1597.html also has a good overview of the problem and the original bors.
To be fair, Western lies or Chinese lies, it's all the same.

A bit disingenuous to only call out the Western lies. What do you think about the Chinese lies?

I don't think you're any more honest than the guy who wrote this article. Neither of you are being forthright. Perhaps that's ignorance? Or maybe willful deceit? Either way, you're not to be taken seriously either.