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I find your comments all fascinating. I have gone through some sort of spiritual experiences recently and have also had a similar scientific perspective. And how do I reconcile? The subjective with the objective?

I think the book Waking Up by Sam Harris gave me what I needed to take a step in trusting my own subjective experience. And realizing that there is knowledge and wisdom that science has not enveloped. And that that is okay--it doesn't mean it's out of reach for science, just not there yet.

My two cents.
I have the founders edition, cable with 200 Mbps down/35 up, which is pretty meh compared to many markets, and it works great.
They've selected policies intended to resonate with the majority of working people, rather than trying to out-Tory the Tories but with some social spending as New Labour was. The emptiness of New Labour, and the costs to our public services of Public Private Partnerships, that we will be paying for the next 20-50 years under those contracts has rather destroyed that as a vote winning stratagem.

They threw out the baby with the bath water when getting rid of overly strong, and political union affiliations... The core premise of constraining capitalist excess, of aiming for redistribution, or "fairness" still resonates with a UK electorate. Despite 40 years of neoliberalism.

I suspect the party still hasn't quite found the right balance to get elected, and Corbyn individually is quite a huge negative for the party electorally, but their policies are interesting. Some of them feel desperately needed and long overdue. The Conservatives have brought forth the same policy for 40 consecutive years with almost nothing new or nuanced. Just more of the same - even in areas where they have failed badly. :)

Shitty leaders lose elections far more often than good leaders win them.

> American Presidents don’t get monarchical powers

It's surprisingly close and relates to Congress much as 18th century monarchy related to Parliament.

> the leader a party picks is indicative of the mood of its policy makers writ large.

True, but that again highlights the difference. A UK PM is often a markedly different MP on Parliamentary track record and voting to their administration.
You can't see any benefit to never having to download a game before playing it or running 4K games without needing the latest gaming hardware? Given the obvious theoretical benefits regardless of how Google actually delivers on them, it's hard not to take your claim of "no actual benefit" as disingenuous.
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Microsoft loves Linux ... On the Azure Cloud. And nothing else. This strategy was only discussed in this context and nowhere else I assume.

So do not interpret more in it than what is said. Microsoft earns money. What does not earn Money is not supported.
How many of them were Meetup employees who just got shafted by their acquiring company?

How many of those Meetup employees are sitting on, or exercised, worthless WeWork options?

Talk about no lube...
> layoffs aren’t as destructive as they used to be.

Student loan debt cannot be discharged.

Unsecured personal debt is at all-time highs.

Nearly half of Americans have less than $1000 in savings.

You are wrong.
Luck and timing play into it, but so does design and usefulness. Keep in mind the state of the world when the iPod came out. College kids sharing MP3s across school networks, etc. If you used microsoft's media players, by default they often "protected" the music by converting it to WMA files that were locked. Now you're unable to share with the other kids in your dorm. The cute boy/girl who asks "what song is that" that's blaring out your open dorm room can't just receive a copy. MS tried to win the war by cozying up to the labels.

Contrast this with Apple, which (then) used MP3s and you could plug in the player and have friends copy the music; add in the premium pricing and you've also got a status symbol. "Sharing" mp3s was the modern equivalent of sharing CDs or cassettes, something the labels took way to long to figure out in their early attempts at strict online digital music.

I have no idea if Apple intentionally did this, but it mattered. MP3 players were in their infancy and when people compared, the ipod looked better.
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Not as nice though, as the arguments still depend on the order. Passing a object gives the benefit of named arguments AND position of the arguments no longer matter (as object keys don't have order and also, it's a object with key/values)
Even well beyond the usual norms of Silicon Valley, this dude has lost so many people so much money um, I gotta wonder what sort of security detail he has for himself to prevent some pissed off people from making themselves feel a little bit better.
This is a grammatical nitpick, but I see it over and over and over.

The title says "When Will Google Shutdown Stadia?"

It should be "Shut Down", which is a verb phrase. A "Shutdown" is a noun, eg, "There will be a shutdown in March."

Another common example of this:

You need to log in. (long in == verb)

What is your login. (login == noun)
Allbirds shoes look very very cheap. I stopped into their NYC store downtown twice. Each time I noticed a ton of glue that had seeped onto the wool when they glued the fabric on. I thought the first time it was a one-off issue. The pattern continues. Allbirds really needs to step up their quality. If you look at the product quality of Merrel, Danner, US Made Red Wing Shoes, it's night and day! I would never buy an Allbird.
When will they shutdown Waymo?
No problem. Just reinvent X11 and let the display server render the cursor.
> Google lets users think that [...] phishing is difficult to combat effectively.

It sure is when they don't even bother to show the From address, there's no way to make links unclickable as an email administrator.

At this point, between Microsoft and Google ruining it in different ways, email has very little hope as a medium.
I don't understand why you were downvoted. If someone has concerns over RestorePrivacy.com which is a site I used as well, could they explain what seems to be wrong with their recommendations as they seemed quite professional to me?
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How low is the NYT going to sink with these headlines? Not even a year ago I respected them.
remember like a decade back there was a instant messanger aggregator? it was called like, chatzilla or something, i forget. but in the logic of today's walled garden system of tech fiefdoms, would never happen without some regulatory requirement.
If I'm Neumann, I'm taking 200-250 million dollars of my 1.7 billion in winnings and giving it away to the laid off employees (about 90k each).

Imagine the positive press you could drum up about yourself! All while keeping 1.5 billion dollars!
Sounds like just about every software job I’ve had over the last 7 years. It sounds like a mgmt problem to me. Either they can’t tamp down the devs who move too fast and break things, or they are driving the devs to do so.
cirque du soleil might be a good case study
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They shut down Google+ and that was the "new core of the company" or something like that. So I have no problem imaging a stadia shutdown after a year or so.
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> Honestly I'm surprised there are 2400 employees who have stuck around this long

Based on one friend of mine... he's patching up his resume while waiting for his manager to offer a severance package.
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Does the world ending mean the Party ending?

That might be a more compelling argument.
why not use LED lights? at this point they are much cheaper and a magnitude more efficient compared with halogen
I feel like this product is just a trojan horse for Google to gather and sell customer data in some form. I'm just not convinced that Google has any real interest in the video game industry itself at least not in the same way as a Sony, MS or Nintendo. Further to that, this offering just feels so half hearted that it almost certainly will go the same way as most Google "experiments" - I would avoid putting any money into their budding gaming ecosystem as a consumer.
I have this issue too. I'm not even a C developer but I can understand it. I'm a fan of the idea of rust but when I see it my eyes glaze over.
I hope this service grows, but right now there are no incentives to jump in. Pay $130 to play old games + pay full price for more old games.
Does it have any HW crypto accelerator that could be utilized from ARM side software? I couldn't find anything.
I too want to believe in individual people having the ability to determine fact from fiction. The problem I see, however, is the power dynamic nowadays. What chance does the average person have in rooting out disinformation when it's being spread by interests using million dollar marketing campaigns and rooms filled with PhDs? The average person can't really invest the time in becoming an expert in all of the problems that affect us even if they want to and you need to rely on other people at some point.
Picasa was quite popular before Google bought them, as was Google voice (aka GrandCentral)
> The self dealing was reprehensible and evidence of low morals in my view, but none of those events actually materially impact the value of the business.

Materially WeWork is a real estate company selling itself as a tech company to get a higher valuation. Sure, it's expected that founders don't have a realistic idea of what their company is worth, investors should have done more research. But Neumann's ethical failings in regards to self-dealing is closely related to failing to accurately represent the state of his business. I think Neumann is fully responsible for WeWork's overvaluation, even if he fully believed his own spin.
I don't even know who their target audience was. Many people who work from home do so because they enjoy the privacy of working from home. People who want more social interaction go to coffee shops, and plenty of people do both.

I don't see who would want to pay a few hundred bucks a month to work on a conference table surrounded by strangers.
To be fair, I think her shtick is throwing useless stuff away, not avoiding acquiring it in the first place (because if you didn't have, you wouldn't need to discard it). With this new store, she profits from both ends of the junk lifecycle.
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That's mentioned in the article, but it does bring up the caveat that many consumers are just looking for an answer, not the information they need to form their own answer. That's why VPN review sites are so common, it's a quick and easy response rather than a list of features to sort through and compare.
sure. my personal is a mix of brown and grey with some airline and rain sounds blended in. using the "whitenoise" on iOS and macOS. I think the airline and rain sounds are some of the 'higher' ones that block out other stuff (and I'm usually using qc20 headphones as well).
It's so hard today to constantly remind oneself how much that crap influences our experience. It's an incessant poisoning of the well. To me the habit I need to check most often is reading comments. If I read comments first I engage less critically with the content, as I've already formed some opinion and seem to know what it's about. If I read comments after I'm generally appalled and confused by the responses and remind myself again to never read comments.
There is a no monthly fee version that you only have to buy games to use eventually that will be limited to 1080p streams. 4k costs a monthly fee + the cost of games though they are saying there will be some discounts to games if you're paying for the better service.
It's hard to imagine a more detestable group of living people.
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I prefer 15" or bigger laptops with no number keyboard and something taller than a 16:9 ratio. My tastes are not mainstream.
Marketers and society push the brand loyalty scam hard. Never be loyal or dedicated to a brand.
The guy didn’t shoot up a pizza parlour, he shot a single bullet into the roof, was promptly arrested, and even admitted he was wrong. The world didn’t end, there’s a million worse examples of similar human stupidity that have nothing to do with politics and won’t be solved by letting tech companies choose what is true and what isn’t.

This is wishful thinking in response to an overreaction. This sort of thing isn’t worth sacrificing speech over, largely because it won’t work (for ex: Infowars is still extremely popular even without social media accounts) and the costs of false positives will out weigh the returns.
Yes, I was going to mention Steam, but decided not to. Frankly I don't put a whole lot of stock in the assurances of an "escape hatch," I'm not really sure that such a thing is possible to reliably promise.

The better "guarantee" on that end is the knowledge that Steam makes Valve lots and lots of money so they'll probably want to keep it running. The fact that you do have some sort of local copy and cracking would be an option if it came to it is some comfort also, though that's not really a solution that scales to the size of peoples' massive Steam libraries. There's also of course DRM-free stores like GOG as an alternative.
The criteria for failure at Google is very different from that for a startup.

For eg. Allo was considered a failure because it had 'only' 10 million DAU in first 8 months.
For a startup that would be like hitting a jackpot.
It’s been working well for me since the first 13 release, and I have (as of today) 67616 items, about 2k5 videos. I’m glad I don’t have to debug stuff like that :P
Thanks to surveillance and collusion between politicians and the elite, now the elite is more protected than ever.
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You're talking to SV web devs who's careers depend on and are entirely focused on web tech.
Why is it fake if it has photos? I’ve included photos in my reviews.
> We’re also trying to fund this thing through a “bootcapping” model - putting just enough capital in to get it to ramen profitability, which I hope warrants the “BC” title.

That's cheating. The (YC) in a typical YC-backed launch is a specific designation.
For sure! One thing to take a look at might be markdown numbering rendering in the browser. E.g., if I use `1. 1. 1. ` I only get ones, not 123 (last I checked).
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Yeah... I'm bracing myself for a flood of really bad takes on this post.
Only on the internet I think, if you happen to spend a lot of time in particular areas iver the last 5 years.
do things that don't scale /s
They are different attacks. They're not EEE-ing by not giving Wine devs access; they're maintaining the applications barrier to entry.
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I don't think that's true. They are required to pursue what the shareholders deem important. That's usually profit, but sometimes there are votes to sway the company in a different direction. As a simple example of this, activist investors have spurred change in some industries that wasn't purely based on profit.[1]

1: https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Activist-Investor...
idlewords did something similar with pinboard.in, only

1. It was Yahoo (del.icio.us) not Google and

2. I think he didn't start until at a later stage.

(I'm an happy early user of pinboard.in)
Updated. Cheating is a strong word, though.
Yeah, let´s break Google into a bunch of smaller companies, all managed by Alphabet.
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My biggest gripe with Apple is they keep pushing out “features“ that I don’t want, and I end up with a net negative because of all the new bugs.

I never had crashes on my iPhone, ever, period, until the recent iOS 13 update. Photos crashes on me. The text messaging app crashes on me. Safari crashes just about every other day. Apple Maps, which had gotten so much better over the years, is now crashing too. Screw the new iPhones. Apple, you crapped on my relationship with you by screwing up what I’ve already paid you for. How do you expect me to trust you and give you even more of my money?
>I also don't think it's terribly relevant; 1995 was a quarter century ago.

It's relevant because the context of the conversation was this gp's quote you responded to: "Back then people still thought Java would take off on the desktop."

The "back then" is referencing XUL circa ~1997. And the "Java would take off" was the ambitious idea of most desktop apps being written in Java to weaken the MS Windows ecosystem. Not only was Java hyped to be a Microsoft killer, it was also touted to be a C/C++ killer. (E.g. the idea was that computer desktops have gotten so powerful with so many wasted cpu cycles that manual memory of C/C++ is obsolete and letting GC use the excess cpu to automatically manage memory is the future.) History has now shown us that prediction didn't happen either. C/C++ is still heavily used for new desktop apps. That's a different idea than today's 2019 landscape with some niche Java apps like Jetbrains IDEs.

I do understand your point. Yes, you can also have an alternative definition of "not a failure on desktop " because you can count some current Java apps today. That's also a valid perspective. However, for the sake of not confusing the conversation... that's not what the gp was originally talking about. I don't think there's any misconception about what "Java failed on the desktop" means -- especially among the HN audience. I also regularly use Jetbrains IDEA for Android deveopment and Webstorm for Javascript but my usage of those Java apps doesn't change what "Java failed on the desktop" means to other people.
I get the same black screen on the camera occasionally. If you open another app, then go to the app switcher you can swipe away the camera app. It seems to work for me after that.
I was fortunate to see some of the 2019 projection mapping competition on odawara castle. It is absolutely mind bending technology.

This is the real beginning of augmented reality, not VR or cell phones
None of this is true. People do not seek better social status by arguing with unseen, unknown people, they seek social change. The status quo lies to limit the damage, because when unseen, unknown voices speak truth they cannot stop the change, which all the unheard voices want.
> Tim Cook is probably fixated on efficiency and Shareholder value.

Tim was the 2nd in command of Apple for years. Easy to forget this, but Apple's success in the 2000s is partially attributable to Tim as well (not to forget all the other brilliant folks at Apple).
Thanks Europe for using regulation (PSD2) to open up banking to fintech startups. Would anyone be interested in joining me in championing similar legislation in the US through congressional representatives, the Federal Reserve, and FDIC?
It's probably the HN filter bubble, but I feel similarly. I am excited about the return of 'dead' formats like landscape slider Android phones (Fxtec Pro1) or 'open source' hardware (PineBook/Phone/Time), but for most of the big companies out there, not much is new under the sun.

I could be wrong, but this reminds me a lot of 2006 or so when smartphones existed but were mostly Blackberry / Windows Mobile 5 Pocket PCs. We were ripe for a technology revolution but didn't know it at the time.

Either that or we are progressively turning into grumpy old people who don't like new technology?
Check out https://www.ctan.org/pkg/accsupp which may be helpful. I've only used it a handful of times on small amounts of text though.
Picasa: Smug Mug/Flickr is rather highly valuated again today, now that they are free of the curse of Yahoo! Instagram and Snapchat are a part of this game now too.

Google Code: GitHub sold to Microsoft for a good chunk of change. GitLab, Bitbucket, Source Hut, all seem to be doing fine.

Hangouts: Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, WeChat, Facebook Portal, Matrix/Riot.im, iMessage, Skype is maybe back from the dead depending on who you ask (certainly not kids, though). It's almost easier to ask who isn't in the Messenger game right now. The fact that Google managed to fumble two huge market share leads between Google Talk and Hangouts is maybe only equaled by Microsoft's multiple, complicated fumbles of MSN Messenger and Skype.
It's the same in Europe. Flats in the city closest to greenest areas are occupied by the upper class because it's quiet and the air is clean while the lower income people live by the train station or main road where trucks pass that's the noisiest and most poluted area of the city and naturally, one of the cheapest to live in.
>The notion that we are inevitably on the way to 4C of warming (or whatever other figure somebody would have you believe) is frankly outright wrong.

We are locked already into an increase of a couple degrees celsius, because of the current carbon in the atmosphere. Even if we were to magically stop emitting any new carbon right now, the temperature would continue to coast upward for a few decades.

There is promising technology that could help us address this, but it's hard to believe that we'll be able to avoid a 4C increase at this point. Perhaps we'll be able to correct faster with technological improvements, but calling a 4c increase 'outright wrong' is not really being honest either.
Yeah, no. I’ll take being laid off in 2019 over being laid off in 1919 any day!
It wasn't intended to be a criticism, more of just an evaluation of why I'm personally not interested in it. I like the concept of streaming, just not the bundled steam and the bundled cloud compute.

If I could run Stadia with a game installed locally on my LAN in addition to content from the internet (like how chromecast works) I would give it a try, maybe buy a TV for my bedroom which is currently devoid of technology save an iPad.
You mean other than the laws that were used to break them up?

Generally, just because someone may find a way around a law is not a justified reason for not having the law.
but then you have wasted $60 for each game that you have "bought" for Stadia
Yes,we know, nothing remotely similar to anything else is innovation. Airplanes are just bicycles with bolted on wings.
Neat. Hadn't heard of Tropy
On LSD I've always still been in the room, or at least had some idea of where I was. On DMT, I'm not even on the same planet and I don't remember where my body is.
Nope. It provides an API so that you can make apps that can do things like read your bank statement, get the balance, and many other things.
China has ~1.4bn people they have to feed. If things go pear-shaped with the climate and food-growing cycle, their ability to do that could be substantially impaired. In a (not terribly unrealistic worst case) that could mean hundreds of millions of starving, unhappy citizens revolting and hanging their leaders from lampposts. I don't expect the CCP to deal with climate issues out of benevolence, but I do expect them to tend to their own survival.
There is nothing contrary about this report. Coal and renewables don't annihilate each other like matter and antimatter.

China is simultaneously expanding its use of electricity from coal, renewables, and nuclear plants faster than any other country in the world. This is because China is the world's largest consumer of electricity and is still growing.
I don’t understand your position at all.

If you want to open your documents in a decade or more, redesigning a “cleaner” PDF would only make that less likely. If you want something cleaner than PDF, then XPS is already here. I don’t understand what scenario we’d have where designing a completely new format would give us better software support. So, the reason I’d see for designing a new format is if neither XPS nor PDF are good enough for some application.