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North America is too big. And many decisions we made in the 40s and 50s put the car at the center of life. Car ownership was an expression of freedom and a growing middle class. The Eisenhower highway system ensured we could drive coast to coast.

In NYC, Robert Moses put the car at the center of his infrastructure build out. That's why Manhattan has two highways up and down it's waterfront... A squandered opportunity to have created a city that was more attune with it's surroundings.

Ultimately you might need to move to Europe to go car free. But most of the cities I'm thinking of were planned a millennia ago.
> no one answers any difficult questions any more

New people can not answer questions anymore. One needs one or two reasonably positive questions (AFAIK, within their first 10, otherwise they are banned) before being able to answer anything.

This is completely ridiculous, and absolutely upside-down. The expected result is exactly what you say, questions demanding any effort or rare knowledge remain unanswered, while high-reputation users stay on their comfort zone. The fact that questions are still being answered at all is a bit surprising.
It's really frustrating when you need to find information about a specific product on Google but anything you search for yields e-commerce related results. I don't mean the ads - even the organic results will mostly be for shopping or review websites. Google clearly tries to push the user towards those. Sometimes I'm looking for specific technical details and I have to dig around a lot to find anything meaningful.
> an anthropologist claimed in her PhD thesis that women are smaller and weaker than men because of millennia of patriarchal oppression.

That would be a claim of gene-culture coevolution. Not really "100% nurture" in the generally-understood sense.
Sure thing - this is going to happen because their incentives aren’t fully aligned between users and their own long term vs short term goals.

It’s fascinating to watch. It feels like the aging of any industry titan. First they were innovative, lean, and mission-focused. It seems like they’ve been progressing to a bloated company fully concerned only with short term profits.

It’ll be curious to see where this goes and if they’ll continue to suffer from their own momentum. Maybe we’ll start to see newer, niche, nimble competitors start to pick off chunks of search.
In a similar fashion imagine if you created a book and then streamed yourself reading it out loud for 5 hours in 1 video and then someone came in and cut that 5 hour audio book up into 100x 5-10 minute clips where you talk about a specific point and put it all up on Youtube.

And now they are making $15,000 a month from the millions of views it's getting because they did a good job with titling everything. At this point they've even overshadowed your own content because Youtube's search algorithm prefers 100+ smaller videos with really good titles vs 1x 5 hour video with 1 title and also most viewers on Youtube prefer the shorter clips.

Who should be the owner of these clips? In this case the re-uploader isn't adding anything new to the content. They are deciding that from 15:31 until 23:17 the original content creator was talking about X subject, so they cut out that bit and put it directly into a new video.

This is a really hard problem to solve because someone else might come in and cut that ~8 minute clip into 2x 4 minute clips or even change the offsets by a few seconds and now the file is completely different from a file size perspective.

That's why you see all of those videos of people who record certain shows on TV and then frame it in a weird background with moving circles and other artifacts, or they reduce the audio playback speed to 90%. It's to get around Youtube being able to detect it's duplicate content from someone else.
Some people are unable to classify things on a spectrum. You're either a programmer or you're not, a company is either evil or good, piracy either has no effect or a full effect on software sales, NPM is either a disaster bringing down the JS ecosystem or the reason it's great, the economy will either fail or become booming in 2020...

IMO non-spectrum thinking is one of the largest falacies in thinking and debates in the modern era.
They give some examples. Like how it doesn’t show any of the bolts or welds and really is just a shell on a vehicle. A brutalist vehicle would be more raw.
Do you see the methane leak billowing from this tank?
The US doesn't have a great history when it comes to the effectiveness of breaking up monopolies. The breakup of the Bell system just resulted in regional monopolies for example. How would you break up Google? Into search, sites, youtube, android (devices) and cloud hosting? Search and youtube would just stay monopolies on their own but they couldn't cross-finance android development and google sites anymore. And I don't think Android would be a worthy competitor to iOS without Google's ad billions. Stricter regulation with regards to privacy laws and online advertising would probably work out much better for the consumer.
Presumably performance. At that point just use Virtualbox/VMWare.
The website doesn't work without external dependencies, uMatrix blocks Cloudflare for me.
From the intro:

> "Back when the original Whole Earth Catalog was having a heyday in the mid-70s, two products were introduced which we recommended heartily. One was the Vermont Castings wood stove, the other was the Apple personal computer. Both cost a few hundred dollars, both were made by and for revolutionaries who wanted to de-institutionalize society and empower the individual, both embodied clever design ideas and good business sense, and both became famous successes."

> "A 'hacker,' in the emerging definition, is anyone who pushes the edges of the possible and permissible. In Signal are techniques for hacking English, music, audio cassettes, postcards, rubber stamps, video, diagrams, robots and the nervous system, to name a fraction of the myriad represented here. In all of these realms the distance to the edge is not far, and the distance from one to another is no distance at all."
Looking at their earliest investors I don’t think google ever intended to be what they said they were.
10 mins delay is often enough to miss a connecting train, forcing you to wait for the next one, which is typically 1h later than the previous one. So planning for a 1-2h delay on a multi-leg train journey is prudent, if you need to be on time.
A stand-out Twine game that comes to mind is _Horse Master: The Game of Horse Mastery_: https://tommchenry.itch.io/horse-master

It is a slow-burn science-fiction horror story with light elements of simulation and random chance which liven up the CYOA formula.
Furthermore the quality of the attached search engine (measured as useful for a sw engineer) has been declining since 2009.

At this point duckduckgo is just as good and less annoying, not because they are crazy good but because they are about as good as Google was in 2009 and because Google has been going downhill meanwhile.
Why the hell would you want your diet to be salt free? Sodium is essential to proper bodily functions. You're going to hurt yourself by over-limiting sodium and using potassium chloride.
Cables can be thin and long. Look at high tension wires which carry vastly more power. It stands to reason that a much thinner lighter cord could run a combine.
Yeah, I don't see how breaking up them up would fix this. Let's say there's a dedicated company called "Google Search". Why wouldn't Google Search, the search engine company, spam search results with ads? Breaking up a company is one thing, dictating how a company should operate is another. I think what DHH has in mind is a search company that operates more like an utility, but that's not necessarily what we would get if Google were broken up.
Thanks! This is timely information: Moments before seeing this link, i was staring at the dusty Wii on my shelf here and wondering if it could do anything useful.

The question is still open, but this shows it can do something.
Some of this sounds useful, but the author recommends leaded solder instead of lead free.

Hasn't lead free has been the standard for years, due to safety?
That's cynical. You must have your own bugs every now and then. This is no different.

PS: google employee, used to work with torne every now and then, but no stake in the conversation anymore.
Used to be borderline militant in avoiding anything Google. I've calmed down a bit in that I no longer preach at my girlfriend about it. But I have to this day not used any Google app or service other than when mandated by work. And never ever on my own hardware. And yes, still using Windows Phone. I also admit, to my shame, to feeling a bit smug about it.
> For example one way to determine species is as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring. [...] That is a formal, rigorous, analytical division based on intrinsic properties.

No, this is not a rigourous, formal distinction because procreation is not transitive, ie. A and C could procreate, and A and B could procreate, and D could procreate successfully with C but fail to procreate successfully with B. What are the species involved in this case?

"Species" is just as much a social construct as race; all distinctions made in each case are fairly arbitrary. One might have more utility, or be more precise in some equally arbitrary sense, but neither is somehow more intrinsically justified than the other.

> Scientists (in biology related fields) don't use race anymore as a category because it is an outdated and failed model of ancestry differences in the human population

Let's not pretend that scientists are immune from the prevailing political winds of the day. We can't possibly know whether race is a signficant factor in any given scenario until it's studied. Often it produces no meaningful results, but sometimes it does, and we won't be able to figure out why unless these studies are permitted.
Use From and To as input, where the From is automaticly loaded like you do now and To is selectable.

No?
And just to fully complete the thought, I believe the GGP is implying "Break existing Mac games, so that people who want to play games on their Mac have to subscribe to Apple Arcade."
Thanks, that was exactly my point.

The contribution to the conversation, for those it wasn’t clear to, is that regulation exists exactly because companies are prone to behave like Uber and Airbnb, and not the other way around.
Not sure, maybe change the button?

Something like "Discover easy to visit countries" ? But maybe it is too long?

Maybe re-iterate the message on top or bottom, "Tell us where you from to discover easy to visit countries".
I'm actually traveling next week and one of the things I had trouble finding was the customs rules, what I could and couldn't bring into the country. You don't seem to surface that info either.

I also noticed that when I click on a country there's no info about my country's embassies and consulates which is something as a traveler is very important to know.

Additionally, I didn't see anything about membership
Policies must work in the real world, not in the world of our dreams and fantasies. And in this world Google has an actual monopoly that won’t be broken without government intervention.
OK... so? This seems like a pretty meaningless statistic. The reactor core for a magnetic confinement fusion reactor is pretty much the only meaningful radioactive waste from the process, and within 50 years it turns itself into low-level waste. This isn't a zero quantity of waste, but it's comparatively trivial.

Even if you have to replace a piece, you just unfold, crane the old one out, and crane the new one in.
This is the thesis of Naomi Klein books. Current political system and pseudo-market solutions are incapable of solving the climate problem. And so far, unfortunately it is proven right.

I do agree in principle (with some reservations perhaps).

[] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21913812-this-changes-ev...
It's also intended to be something that children can experiment with themselves, and it's pretty good at that.
I don't agree that there should be browser explorability. I don't understand why that would even be a concern. When I explore it's from documentation, postman or curl. The browser is kind of horrible for this why support it at all?
A rebuttal to your rebuttal:

Your rebuttal was not a rebuttal. Read How to Ask Questions the Smart Way and see for yourself.
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high profile failures like this are exactly why i'm taking things into my own hands and starting a company dedicated to making the voluntary purchase of carbon credits/offsets accessible to the public and to small/mid-sized companies.

we can't wait for the political leadership to get their game together any longer, and we can't wait for the part of the population that doesn't belive there is a crisis to come around either.

we need to start financing the prevention or removal of carbon from the atmosphere today, using the voluntary carbon markets that we have. there aren't another five or ten years of indecision that we can afford to waste. and we don't have any better system for emissions reductions, yet.

those of us who understand the gravity of our present climate situation have the burden of carrying everyone else on our backs to the extent that we are able. addressing our planet's health is not something that will be fair in terms of the responsibilities that we need to take. an idealistic few must come forth and create the means for our mutual salvation, and they can expect only to thanklessly toil in the short-term.

it's a bitter pill to swallow, but we need to accept it and start moving forward rather than getting mired in spite towards those who won't help, or fatalism that we can't change our situation. taking action will be our protection against depression, and chipping away at our planet's climate crisis will inspire others to join our efforts.

send me an email (it's in my profile) if you want to help/join me. i need anyone and everyone who wants to contribute.

but be warned: if you want to join my effort, at present i can promise you nothing but my appreciation and the assurance that you're trying to be one of the good guys.
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>But instead of using a different search engine such as duckduckgo.com, we're calling for the government to break up Google?

Without saying whether or not I think they should be "broken up", there's much more to consider than their search engine.
Actually the main purpose is to discover, if there is option for to country, the purpose is lost.
The search bar isn't there unless you start typing, but yes, it's similar to having the cursor in the search bar. And tab works as it usually would, it's not as if you always start tabbing from the search box.
TL;DR - Yes.

Aside: Please remove the "?ampcf=1" from the URL. I think it's doing something hacky to prevent the back button from working correctly - it keeps reloading the same page, with Google in the middle.

The clean URL is https://9to5mac.com/2018/10/19/touch-bar-a-gimmick/
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It’s not better. Specifically, autocomplete doesn’t work as well, and you’re missing not just google but maps, images, and translations. But it’s getting better all the time, and at this point you’ll be hard-pressed to come with a query (even programming related) which doesn’t have the result you want on the first page. The point of the original author is that the quality of DDG continues to improve, not that it’s better.
You're right but that doesn't invidate what i said. I am not talking about how a bureaucracy should work, but how you should approach it.

Of course a helpful bureacracy will ask feedback in order not to waste your work, but unless you know how it will work expect the worst and act accordingly
Well it's a question of magnitude. In theory everything blocks the loop even if it's only 1 CPU cycle before it yields.

In practice I've rarely seen production nodejs applications cause significant CPU blocking issues. Huge JSON parses sometimes, yes, but then it has to be one hell of a payload to cause any significant issue.

Regexes? Have you really seen regexes block CPU for significant time relative to the rest of the application? I'm sure it's possible with a crazy enough runaway pattern, but I've never seen it happen.

I really don't understand what people are getting at here. Nodejs is an async programming model, it's non-blocking by default. Are the people saying it's trivial to break nodejs developers?
Also, it looks like an aerodynamic disaster with its sharp edges and square shapes.
Why? I switched to DDG a while back too, because for my uses it works as well or better than google most of the time. Who cares if it’s objectively better in every way or not. As he said, as DDG continues to improve it will become good enough for more and more people.
And all other kinds of security.

Now, go try to explain that to people.
I personally have used stack overflow in all my projects and the community helps in stating the questions correctly.

The guideline of asking the questions is also very helpful. Even if your questions get marked as irrelevant, it's great learning as they clearly state the reason for the rejection.

P.S: I am a big fan of their yearly survey.
I see. I had to use CDN to serve 300k users every month. Any suggestions how I can make it available for everyone?
It must be found.
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I am more of thee type that creates a new account for answers/question from time to time, because I think the rep system is ridiculous as it is and I simply forget my login details. Neither do I know any names on SO, nor do I even look at the rep someone has that answered a question. Not being able to comment to get specifications to questions is bothersome, but at least the barrier is low.

I think you could scrap it as a whole.
Those aren't concentration camps. You might be able to argue on a technical definition that they are, but that's not how the term is used in everyday language.

I'm kind of getting annoyed by everyone throwing around the term concentration camp. It's like when we were calling everyone a Nazi.

Concentration camps are what's going on in China. People in their own country are being rounded up, murdered, raped, harvested, forced to work, and other horrific things because of their religious beliefs, nationality, or political beliefs.

When someone gets on a boat and tries to immigrate to Australia or any other country without the proper paperwork and then they are held in a center until the government figures out what to do with them (i.e. not harvesting their fucking organs) that is absolutely not a concentration camp.

When you try and create this false equivalency between a real concentration camp and a detention center, you devalue what a concentration camp is, and the terrible experiences of the victims of the holocaust. When people think concentration camp, they are horrified. When you call these detention centers concentration camps, they start forgetting what a concentration camp actually is, and start associating it with these detention centers. It actually enables white supremacists; what great gift you're giving them when they can gaslight us into thinking that Jews were just held at these detention centers and not these horrific concentration camps.

That's not ok. These aren't concentration camps. It's not even close to the same thing, and be propagating this idea that they are, you devalue past experiences, lessen the horrors that people are currently experiencing, and generally make the world a worse place to live.
>In spite of all this, I still moved the company to another state a few years later because of Chicago

This is the cause of the race to the bottom. All that hand-holding is really expensive.
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> Longest-ever round of negotiations fails to make progress on key issue

> The UN climate talks in Madrid ended in stalemate on Sunday, with the negotiations running two days overtime as countries squabbled over rules for a new global carbon trading market.

> At 14 days the talks, known as COP25, set a record for the longest-ever climate negotiations, but failed to produce any agreement about the rules for trading in carbon credits.

> Jennifer Morgan, executive director of Greenpeace International, said: “Governments need to completely rethink how they do this, because the outcome of COP25 is totally unacceptable.”

[]

> Geopolitical tension and the absence of leadership from the US and China, the world’s two biggest emitters, severely handicapped the negotiations, which descended into open bickering on the plenary floor during the final hours of the talks.

> The Paris climate accord, which aims to limit global warming to well below 2C, has been signed by 197 countries in the world, but the US is in the process of withdrawing from it and will leave the pact next November.

> The EU delegation said it was disappointed that the meetings failed to find agreement on carbon markets.
That’s simply false. Testosterone levels drop in men who even cohabitate with young children.

I have no idea what other changes might occur but I wouldn’t be surprised if there were others.
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Kids are 1 and 3. The 1 yo doesn't sleep through the night. No family nearby. I really needed this thread.
I have customs data in my plan and I'm working on it as I'm typing. There is information about embassies of every country on visa list, you can find it from side navigation. Also the membership dialog comes when you click on advanced filters.
Can there exist such a search engine that can stay objective in the long haul?

I'm not particularly mad about Google putting ads, since the world is waking up and I believe in the future it will be obsolete.

But as I see it, the problem is that all search engines have this issue where the more volume it has, the more lucrative it is to game it. Let's say DuckDuckGo becomes vastly superior and widely used, what's preventing it from becoming another spam machine where SEO is the name of the game.

As I see it, there's no really good solution here. Maybe some open source indexing algorithm and a different search engine for different types of content.
I'm guessing it's some sort of a rule here to have at least one anti-google link on the front page at all times but I think this needs addressing:

1. Ads keep the lights on and they are labeled as such.

2. The Basecamp guy was complaining that ads for competing services are showing when searching for his service which is something that courts have affirmed time and again as being pro consumer because it exposes new users to competing services.

This describes a recent case and links to others: https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2018/05/another-court-...
> deciding just based on a sentence or two that a question is low effort or not is usually not the way to go.

No one said that except you. Your responses are based on your hidden assumptions about the meanings of ambiguous, loaded terms, aka "arguing past each other."
Regardless of locale or public vs private entity. Trying to get customer service at many big name corps is a Kafkaesque experience. This is generally a fundamental human problem with how groups interact with outsiders to that group.
Did all of that move to Facebook and get stuck in a walled garde?
The problem is that investors buy up cheap apartments and put them on AirBnB to make insane profits.

This drives up prices for locals.

The other tenants are mad because landlords prefer renting apartments to tourists for 5k a month instead of renting to locals for 1k a month.