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> California has FPTP voting and is completely dominated by Democrats

That's a fairly recent phenomenon (California was a Republican stronghold in Presodential elections until 1992, and longer for state executive elections.) And the tendency toward balance that is asserted for FPTP is national; subordinate jurisdictions aren't expected to follow it even by people who adhere to the theory.

> who have a super majority in the legislature and the Governorship, and can pass any legislation they want without a single Republican vote or amendment. That's been the case (with a brief stint by Arnold) for multiple decades.

No, it hasn't; Democrats have only had supermajorities since 2012, and Gray Davis (1999-2003) was the only Democratic governor between Jerry Brown (term ended in 1983) and Jerry Brown (term starting in 2011.)
The thing which really reduced iPhone thefts in the U.S. wasn’t biometrics: it was the carriers begrudgingly cooperating on activation locks. Not being able to get cellular connectivity really took the value out of it since someone couldn’t just pay a disinterested retail store employee to activate a suspiciously cheap phone.
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It sounds like the proceeding comment might be thinking of something akin to the "Cash For Clunkers" program where the cars' engines were destroyed with sodium silicate in the crankcase.

I found this idea an egregious waste as someone who maintains vehicles, often with serviceable used parts.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_Allowance_Rebate_System
Yes. It is painful to realize that Apple has turned into that. My reference example is a Mac Mini and MacBook Pro which I bought around 2012. Both still work, and are upgraded with dual SSD and 16GB RAM. It is, however, not possible to upgrade or even reinstall the OS. Linux is now the only option, which without they would be useless.

With my latest MacBook Pro, I already know that there are no upgrades, the keyboard is almost broken, and that its lifetime is determined through policy. Question is; will it be the hardware or software which determines end of life?
Okay, I’ll throw my hat into the unsolicited troubleshooting advice ring— I had similar problems and it ended up being that the Sonos Bridge is no longer supported. Once I removed the Bridge from my system and plugged a Play:5 directly into the network, all the weird issues you described that I too was having resolved themselves. YMMV.
> Would you be willing to name names? Outside of government and defense contractors I personally have not run into any blocks from not having a degree,

There are _so_ many places where a degree is a must that it's better to ask which institution will happily accept you without a degree without complications (besides the obvious Google and Tesla).

But to give you an answer: lots of hospitals, lots of defense contractors. Me, I was hired by a hospital as a researcher, but there were a great many complications about the pay (my boss said he wanted to pay me more but couldn't).

And, suppose you wanted to emigrate somewhere, say Belgium. It turns out it's just easier to do it if you have a degree than not. You encounter these issues in places you'd least expect them. Just for convenience sake I'm considering getting one.
It deeply depends on your field.

I saw a developer position recently that required at least a four-year degree and it genuinely surprised me because of how infrequent that requirement appears on developer job postings. The vast majority of posts I see are "four years degree or equivalent experience"

I've worked in software shops before where less than half of the staff had a 4-year degree completed—but it is noteworthy y that everyone had at least some college.

>and my own employer when applying for advancement

That I have seen before, but in higher-ed, where it is kind of a given as it is sort of an eating-your-own-dog-food requirement. If your top employees don't have a degree, and you sell degrees, it can tarnish your appearance.
The sad thing is, as hacker news readers, we're a tiny minority of people that even know about or care about these issues. The masses (and that salesperson) are completely oblivious to, maybe 99% of content on HN. :)
I have a sonos speaker at my cabin and while the audio isn’t bad the spotty wifi coverage and the choppy audio that keeps dropping out when I listen to Audible at 1.25 to 1.5 speed is annoying.

It just isn’t a very good product in my eyes. I have cheap Bluetooth speakers that work much better.

So I would be interested in “upcycling” the Sonos with new innards.

Time to watch some teardown videos to see what can be done.
I love reading the advertisements for computer systems. 256K RAM for your business applications - can you imagine the potential?
I had the same reaction to plate tectonics when reading a Time-Life book as a kid.

But for every thing that is amazing because it's so recent, there's another that is amazing because it's so much older than you would think. Like quantum mechanics and special relativity are both older than the airplane.

Edit: Ok, almost exactly the same age would be more accurate.
I'm not even sure their engineers understand how annoying it is. They've implemented links in such a horrible way, and it's gotten worse with time (for example, there is a feature where if you open a link and have the right associated app installed, it will open the link in the app. There used to be a way to force the link to open in Safari in case you didn't want to open the app; it'd show up in the top right. The feature is gone now and it's hidden in a very strange place that is unintuitive to find and difficult to perform–you need to long press on the link and open it from there, but this invariably happens after you've opened the link, it opens the app, and you go back to Safari to now open it there.)
Hey everyone. I get that Sonos does have some value add here allowing mesh networking and encrypted audio. Buuuuuuuuuut, there are tons of alternative options. I like building speakers and I have built my sound bar using components from parts express and some reclaimed hard woods. Parts express has tons of Bluetooth options and the quality is mostly pretty good. I am using morel and peerless drivers and the 2x50 watt Bluetooth amp. The sound is as good or better than any sound bar I’ve heard and I don’t have to update software or deal with obnoxious TOS agreements. My tv connects to it without issues and while it’s not as elegant as the Sonos experience but I will take that over planned obsolescence.
Spot-on.

I have an Apple USB-C to Headphone jack (named the AppleDAC by some of the people I know online) at the core of my setup- it goes from an HTPC (with a type-A to C adapter) to an older Akai amp. Works great for what I need it to, and for $8.99 + adapter, the thingies are lovely- if you have a TRRS headset, the AppleDAC will enumerate as a headset and it just works, too.

Melding new and old tech is where it's at, IMO.
Not super familiar with Sonos, but why do they 'need' to connect to a server in order to work at all? Do they bundle in some kind of subscription streaming service or something?

I always thought they were just wireless speakers that I used locally on my own network...
I've yet to actually use Apple News. I don't understand why the News is not available in New Zealand to this day.
You only have to go through the learning process once. You are able to use the language for a lifetime. I find it so strange how much emphasis we tend to put on things being simple to learn and pick up.
> It also optimizes for leaders who will maintain a middle class.

And yet, since the early 70s, the middle class in the US has continually eroded—with no end in sight. So much for theory.
> all of those things would still cause problems with branching and merging

The deadlock most certainly would not. One would get rebased on top of the other, in the worst case.

(In the best case, Alice and Bob would both be committing/pushing to their respective branches early and often, and could therefore look at each others' branches and see what changed between them; if you really want to emulate locking, you could do so pretty straightforwardly by checking if there are any changes to that file in commits outside of your own branch's commit history, and it should be doable to write automated tooling to that effect. All the "benefits" of locking without getting in the way of anything.)

> And in a world where you can only rebase, locking actually makes sense.

Even in a world where you can only rebase, locking is far more of a hindrance than a benefit, for the reasons already outlined.
my gf just finished her nurse practitioner degree and while she increased her salary from 60k to 90k, her student loan payments, with some loans being 10% !, eat up all of her increased income. She's happier, but after all the bills, she has the same left over. So from an economic standpoint, she got an advanced degree that benefitted her school and the bank.
A dirty secret of higher education is that few people actually pay the sticker price. A lot of people get some degree of funding via pseudo-automatic scholarships.

The government is heavily involved in the student loan industry. Consequently, the entire market is heavily distorted. One of the largest programs is the Direct/Stafford loan program [0]. Essentially the student (and only the student; no cosigners allowed) directly borrows money from the federal government at a fairly cheap interest rate (in the last decade [1], it has ranged from 3.4% to 5.05%). In some cases, the student is not liable for interest accrued while they're in school (see the following paragraph for details if you're interested). The loan limit is $31k for dependent students and $57.5k for independent students.

There's two variants to direct loans: subsidized (where the government pays for the interest while the student is in school) and unsubsidized (no qualification necessary). Anyone can take out unsubsidized loans, limited to the COA (cost of attendance: the amount a college declares it would cost to attend; inclusive of tuition, fees, books, room & board, etc.). Anyone who's EFC (expected family contribution: the amount the government expects the student/their parents to pay annually based upon their income and assets) is less than COA can take out up to the shortfall in subsidized loans (but no more than the specified limit which varies by dependent-status and year in school).

[0]: https://studentaid.gov/understand-aid/types/loans/subsidized...

[1]: https://studentaid.gov/understand-aid/types/loans/interest-r...
> "Other reviewers have complained that the app is a power hog that drains a phone's battery pretty quickly."

I've seen it suggested before, but if this app or one like it only worked while the phone was plugged in, that would eliminate power consumption concerns and also provide cleaner data (a phone plugged in is usually sitting flat on a table, counter, etc, and is thus in a better position to collect seismic data than if it were in somebody's pocket.)
Are you a technical founder?
I feel like this is the same perspective shared by most of them but in reality, it doesn't work for everything. Marketing has proven itself to be quite effective against services with better features or offering.
It's definitely not something to do AFTER you have built that 'perfect' product (it will never be perfect). It's a journey doing both as you move forward.

Although I agree with the sentiment for current unicorns.
I am just unsure how to compete on product alone especially when it comes to software, if some FAANG has any stake or interest in the same field. You will get devoured eg - elastic search, docker etc or anything that requires lot of data or eroding your privacy.

Tech is special that it is very versatile to leverage in other fields and market, should that be considered a violation of anti trust? Why is it not illegal to leverage your existing network to pull one over the small guy?
of course, I understand it's not practical on its own to claim something but it should definitely be a metric.

Edit: Added more clarification and rant.
I've tried everything that I can find and in the end I decided that my best bet was Blender. It's the only thing which is reasonably bug free and has a UX that allows you to get work done at a reasonable speed. I would say that even without considering bugs, the biggest problem with the free/open source video editors out there is that the work flow is truly awful for doing repetitive actions. I think the pull to be "easy for beginners" is just too strong. The applications turn into a frustrating exercise in precision mouse clicking. Blender's UX is actually awesome... but intuitive it is not, unfortunately. I think it too me 2 days just to configure it before I got started LOL.
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> If Turkey intends to sell domestic cars at lower taxes than imported / ones manufactured by foreign companies in Turkey, then it can expect repercussions in its free trade deals with other countries

Who would adjudicate such a dispute? The WTO can no longer hear appeals on trade disputes, because there is only one judge left. Three judges are required to hear cases.

There are normally seven judges, but the US under Bush and Obama used its power to slow down appointments to replace judges whose terms expired, and under Trump to completely stop such replacements. Earlier this month, the terms of two of the remaining three expired.
JavaScriptCore and JS running in a web page using WKWebView are both running in the same app process and do not support WASM since they cannot generate code (cannot write to executable memory pages).

SFSafariViewController does support WASM by executing in a separate more privileged process but interaction with the app is very limited.
That reminds me of a truism I heard about protesting:

The purpose of protesting is to demonstrate the need for violence to the fence-sitters. If protesting results in change non-violently, so much the better. But the purpose is to demonstrate that violence is absolutely necessary.
“There's Definitely No Bonus from Having AMP, When It Comes to Search”
Unfortunately I have not. I should do better at researching prior art. This is something I’ve wanted to do for a while, but never managed to carve out enough time. It’s great that there’s an open source project that I can simply use.
Not to mention at times weird textures.

I use hangers for most of my SO's clothes, because women's clothing is just to inconsistent to be handled otherwise.
Google Cloud Messenger/Firebase.
Hmm, this seems like a solvable problem - install the kernel on disk, but don't promote it to the default kernel on reboot until all the DKMS modules have built.

At that point, you might even be able to optionally background the compile process and have it run asynchronously and update your kernel only once it builds successfully.

Alternatively, teach GRUB to be able to boot "the most recent kernel with all of this set of modules available".
It seems like a lot of commenters here (as well as the tweets) are totally missing the purpose of the recycle mode.

If you want to sell, give away, or otherwise let someone else reuse your Sonos, then DON'T PUT IT IN RECYCLE MODE. Easy peasy.

Recycle mode exists for when you intentionally want to get a Sonos trade-in credit for recycling your speakers for materials. But because you don't send the speakers directly to Sonos (instead to a local recycler), they have to trust you're actually recycling it instead of keeping it or selling it. So the recycle lock is a clever mechanism to ensure that. Otherwise you could "cheat" by getting the credit AND still using/selling your speakers.

So if you want your speakers to be reused... don't take the credit!! Donate or sell them instead! It's your choice.

It seems to me like overall it's a good set of incentives. The credit helps encourage people to recycle them at all instead of just throwing them in the trash, right? But doesn't prevent people from otherwise selling or donating them. Since it gives the consumer all the choice, this seems like a win for all sides, no?
Step 1: convince your customers to brick their own devices.
Step 2: buy back now worthless, and thus cheap, devices.
Step 3: unbrick, resell, profit
Malcolm X's speech on the ballot or the bullet puts this really profoundly.

History is full of bloody revolutions. It takes democracy to make them bloodless.

https://youtu.be/Sc4BPYIqm6k
You're saying talking about politics is somehow different than talking about issues. Your "usage" creates this magical escape route where you somehow consider it apolitical (or more acceptable) to comment on political discourse itself. I disagree.

Talking about issues is inherently a conversation about politics itself, insofar as the power dynamics involved in making decisions don't magically disappear when we don our academic or self-referential hats. And talking about politics inherently touches the base issues that underpin the discussion, otherwise there is no objective way to judge right and wrong, strong and weak.

All politics satisfies both conditions. All politics is about issues, and all politics is meta.

In other words, your "usage" is not really meaningful.
Silicon Valley engineers are questioning the value of startup jobs
I could imagine that things got a bit more tangible with Reason.
There are plenty of things that you cannot consent to under various circumstances. As an extreme example you cannot freely give consent to become a slave no matter how much you would like to (except by going to prison in a certain well known country north of Mexico, I suppose). In many cases you cannot consent to intimate acts with authority figures (e.g. boss, teacher, prison guards). I think in the case of the GDPR the desire was for consumers to be able to make a choice about their data, but such a choice would be meaningless if websites were allowed to make a "click here to consent, or here to close this browser tab" popup, and the "cookie law" shows that this likely the approach that 95%+ of websites would have taken. The cookie popups have shown quite clearly the balance of power between consumers and websites: website owners know consumers will get the exact same deal (accept or fuck off) everywhere else, so the consumers have no real power in this "negotiation". The definition of "freely given" consent in the context of the GDPR was probably written the way it is to correct for this power imbalance.
I have a degree from a no-name university in New Zealand. I'd do it again for a few pragmatic reasons.

1: Lots of companies will reject you on sight without a degree. I don't think it's a good thing, but it is reality.

2: With a degree your ability to move overseas dramatically improves. I moved to America after graduating. I flat out couldn't have done that without a degree. Points based systems immigration systems like New Zealand have dramatic bonuses for people with degrees.

3: You don't have to jump through the hoops and explain why you don't have a degree all the time. Stupid reason I know, but it's something I've seen friends without degrees have to do constantly - and not just in career situations. As I mentioned, I went to a no-name university. If you live in NZ, you'll know it. If you're an American, chances are, you've never heard of it. But because I have a degree, it doesn't ever really come up.

4: The cost isn't that bad, when you spread it out over a career. My degree & living costs cost about $60k NZD (~$40k USD). That's $1k USD / year, or $.50 per hour. Considering how my income has multiplied in the few years since I've graduated (SF wages help tremendously here), the actual cost is barely anything, even when you control for the opportunity cost of studying.

Where I think College returns make a lot less sense

• Paying out of state tuition for lifestyle reasons, when you're going into a relatively low paid field afterwards (e.g. teaching).

• Paying private school tuition at a school without a strong reputation

• Grad school, in general, seems to be a rip off
Indeed I do not. If game developers (and/or game engine developers; looking at you, Unity3D...) showed similar restraint, then they likely wouldn't feel the need to tie themselves to 90's-esque version control schemes.
One of the costs that is often excluded, if you go the "not college" route, is the toll of physical labor on one's body. Medical expenses can be substantial and you didn't earn as much as an office job may have paid.
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I very much disagree with this position.

Privacy is not a super-set of Open Source. They're two different things; somewhat correlated, but only insomuch as the auditability and self-correction of any claims to privacy may be.

Auditability is important, but most people won't do it, and even those who do miss things; OpenSSL is fully auditable, yet security bugs are discovered every year. Its not the same thing, but its in the same vein; just becuase we're capable of catching a needle among the haystack of a million lines of code doesn't mean we will (in the case of the MOTD, its less of a needle and more of a giagantic pile of crap just laying on top).

Self-Correction is important, but even fewer people will do it. Defaults Matter. People just don't dive into VSCode and rip out Microsoft's analytics tracking code en mass. It doesn't happen. People use the defaults.

In the face of these two assertions; Open Source is important in the fight for Privacy, there's no doubt about that. But even more important than that is Trust. Its not enough to see the code; its important that the organization and people writing it have a demonstrated history of caring about the privacy of their users, and that they've taken both "table-stakes" and "above and beyond" steps to assert their position on the matter on behalf of those users.

Canonical does not have this demonstrated history. They barely lurch in the right direction, against their collective wills, when we care enough to crusade across the internet to convince them that they're wrong. By comparison; Apple does care. You can complain that its in the interest of their profit margins (OF COURSE IT IS) or that its genuine (I'd bet my net worth that this is also true); it doesn't matter. They productized full disk encryption with hardware security modules. They don't just support hardware MFA; they make it the default. When they realized phones wouldn't have the power to do natural-language processing on voice in the same way servers do, they didn't just throw their hands up and move everything to the server like Google did; they made better silicon. That's their history; Canonical's history is sending keystrokes to Amazon so they can sell you more expensive toilet paper. The most knowledgeable Ubuntu users turn this off; the most vulnerable won't even know its happening.

Everyone is welcome to their own opinion on this, and you're also welcome to place the value of open source above the value of privacy; but I take the stance that Privacy isn't negotiable, and its more important than a product being open source or having privacy if you tweak the knobs in just the right way.
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Moving overseas is the top benefit of having a relevant (not just any) degree IMO. I'm grateful that American cities are still the best places in the world to work as a software engineer, but that could always change. I'm hoping a non-STEM degree combined with 6+ years of experience will still let me move around easily.
It's almost like the word "millennial" is completely void of meaning...

Who ever would have thought labeling three decades worth of people across the whole globe with a single label AND THEN trying to draw generalisations from it was a fools errand?