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> * There will be only 3 cloud providers of any relevance (AWS, GCP, Azure).

Is this not already true?
Amazon Threatened to Fire Employees Who Criticized Its Environmental Policies
I have the opposite reaction. In the old McDonald’s veggie burger, the main ingredients are peas, carrots, onions and potatoes. In an Impossible Burger the main ingredient is “textured wheat protein”. I would much rather have the old-school veggie burger which has the virtue of being made of stuff that sounds like real food.
It’s pretty common for light switches to incorporate a dimmer. So it’s more the just on/off.
I feel like in the US, the massive domestic airline consolidation has mostly shrunk networks.
You seem to have forgotten https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed_conversion_ratio#Pigs ?
Hope no-one was dumb enough to write that down anywhere
Oh God your website is so crusty and 90s. I love it. Thanks for sharing.
Great post, but I would like to add that the critical question for whether an invention because a useful innovation is usually not "is this novel" but rather "is there a currently viable project here with people who care about the thing and genuine motivation and persistence and adequate resources."

In other words, "how is this effort new to the universe?"

I would say it's certainly at a different scale and a different time. And we should be super thankful that the commercial interest is such that we can try out new chip designs in a different domain now; you can really imagine a rethink for the kinds of things that are possible once you're really at scale here.
they would do better to reward the non smokers.
Without Moore's Law computing will continue to consolidate (mobile, cloud, desktop), like every other industry.

Near the end of the decade, a way to continue Moore's Law will be found.
Even a little tobacco stinks up the place and cigarette butts pollute. Vapes don't do this though.
You heard it here first.

Only 6 years too late.

https://www.rideonvision.com/new/
Most businesses are not required to take incapacitated patients who can't make decisions on if they can afford the care they're about to receive.

Many a hospital has gone under due to the rising costs of ERs.
Apple has find my phone. Problem solved
The most striking thing about the thread is how little of current importance was even mentioned:

- Bitcoin would become the decade's best investment by far

- the President of the US would conduct foreign policy through Twitter

- electric scooters would become a billion dollar business (Bird, Lime, etc.)

- the sharing economy would threaten the taxi and hotel industries (AirBNB and Uber)

- escalation of school shootings

- the explosive growth of quantitative easing

- negative nominal interest rates on sovereign debt

- revelations of mass surveillance by the US government

- streaming video services would begin to produce content rivaling major studios in quality

- Amazon would become the everything company

- DNA testing would become a major recreational activity with numerous judicial and social implications

- the US would approach energy independence, driven largely by a boom in oil extraction technologies

Also interesting to consider how all of these ideas would have seemed more or less ludicrous in 2010.
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Are they as concerned about people's health, or do they just want to get rid of people who waste time on smoking breaks?
And yet, Amazon and Microsoft had the exact same ethical struggles about the exact same issues as Google in the past few years. The outcome for all three firms on these issues was incidental, and could have, very much, gone either way, based on the personalities and individuals involved.

Your second paragraph does not square with the principled stance Google made wrt China a decade ago. VPs abandoning those principles (and trying to keep the entire thing secret) is the unusual behaviour, in this case - not the pushback they met.
heh, you make my point forward looking.

I think I agree.
> Are they as concerned about people's health

Only instrumentally.

> or do they just want to get rid of people who waste time on smoking breaks?

No, they want to get lower group health insurance premiums.
Shrug. As long as U-Haul doesn't get fined more than they save, it's a win.
Is F# usage growing at all?
Not many religions associated with nicotine, though.

Unless one were to count the Juul cult.
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Would you be opposed to companies like MongoDB or ElasticCo suing Amazon for reselling their products as a service when they explicitly said it was against their license?
> that's leverage.

Yup, when Pixar went public, Jobs decided to keep 100% of the shares. (You could argue that he deserved it, since he spent the majority of his fortune on Pixar and Next.)

So his 4 top managers threatened to quit and derail the IPO.

So they got shares, but no other employees did.
A summer house by the beach with no electricity does the job fine. That's our way of dealing with it. I feel that's more about being able to turn off now and then rather than banning. Learning to control the devices rather than the reverse. Talk about it with the kids, most likely they share the same concern as you and you can find a way forward together.

Not being able to resist is related to how well you resist drugs. So it's important to be aware of.
FYI, you could also do this with your charger. (It sends udev events.) It's a lot less likely to get weird looks.
Hillary Clinton. The Trump campaign claims their data operation is how they won in the Rust Belt.
"Why do I want to hitch my wagon to a team that's slowly crippling itself?"

The answer is; you probably are unknowingly, and everything is just fine.
I find it really annoying when it jumps you to another Desktop. If I’m on Desktop 1, and I click Finder in the Dock, often times it will slide me over to another Desktop just because that is where the only Finder window exists. Totally takes me out of what I was doing.
Incentivizing immigrants to learn English and learn about American culture are positive for the society as a whole, as they help encourage the process of integration.

Remember that a nation works best when there is a shared culture and a shared language - these things being inseparable - which encourage unity and community.
Yup. I sometimes let my 2 year old watch videos on YouTube. I tell her “we’re going to watch one more”, and she accepts that without so much as a whimper.

I think some of it also has to do with the kids personality. If it was a battle getting it away from her, I’d probably avoid giving it to her altogether.
I feel that overall much didn't change in the past decade in the tech world. Bitcoin is a great example of that, there was a big bubble where you could raise money just by mentioning Blockchain, and then just as quickly it faded away. AI isn't much different at the moment, it feels much more like a marketing buzzword than something that has changed my life.

Compare this to developments happening outside the computing-tech world (like Musk is doing) and the rise of green building tech. Today it is more than feasible to build a house that generates more energy than it consumes over the course of a year, even in cold climates like Northern Europe. The only thing preventing this from being more common is knowledge (builders keep building what they know) and it costs a little more upfront.
It would be significant if companies start realizing that they could offload some of their debt for “free” instead of using it as a bargaining chip in keeping employees.
Any rationale for 8 ?
Usually producing a lot of oil is correlated with poor economic outcomes, not good ones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse
Are there fintech companies people are clamoring to work for?
Elon goes to Mars, secedes from the US, is declared Emperor.
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Nobody is surprised that, say, a fracking firm would, politically, lean more than a bit right, with a bit of an us-versus-them worldview.

But when a tech company does so, in another direction, that is, apparently, a hold the presses event...
Universal public healthcare would just encourage even more policing of people's habits. If I as a taxpayer am funding someone else's healthcare they better not be drinking heavily, smoking, doing other drugs, eating excess sugars, avoiding vegetables, etc.
- A cheap-to-produce replacement for many types of plastics will be developed. It will consist of microscopic interlocking, organically grown carbon structures that can be combined to give the final material whatever plasticity or strength is needed for an application. The material will need to be milled. Some formulations will be very heat resistant, hard and durable. Genetically modified organisms will produce the microscopic structures.

- Data will become the new plutonium.

- Gen-X'ers in the states will be the first generation to get the bad news that Social Security and Medicare will be slashed and to expect "less than 15%" of what the previous generations received. This will be in response to a major debt crisis and gen-x will roll over without much protest. Millennials too.

- Some US companies will start experimenting with 4 day work weeks, with the caveat that internet and phones be severely curtailed or even outright banned in the workplace in an attempt to goose productivity. Some workers will demand lots of break time so they can escape to get their social media fix.

- No public manned Mars nor lunar missions.
Would a Minié rifle be an anachronism in the Franco-Prussian War, only 20 years and a few hundred miles from the Second War of Italian Independence? (Yes, the Austrians discovered that they were outdated compared to the Prussian guns, and so the French retooled to the chassepot rifles instead.)

It's not so much the fact that the technology was wildly obsolete as it is the fact that there are distinct visual styles that are localized to particular places in certain eras. If you know what those are, seeing people get it wrong can be quite jarring. Imagine a scene supposedly set in Ancient Rome where one character shows up in Prussian court dress.
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World War III begins in Syria. It doesn't lead to nukes, but millions die, including on US soil.
TrueCrypt shuttered in 2014, though an independent audit didn't find any significant issues in 2015. [0]

VeraCrypt is one of the main forks that has picked up popularity, and has addressed some of the minor concerns of the audit.

The hidden volume hasn't had a high degree of success when it comes to deniability [1]. Some leaks closed, probably not all. With the design, it may not actually be possible to close all the leaks. (Especially as "Stoned" can break the full-disk encryption).

TrueCrypt doesn't use the TPM (and nor does VeraCrypt), because the authors didn't believe it added any security whatsoever (as it can't defend against a hardware keylogger, despite making coldboot attacks harder).

TrueCrypt is vulnerable to coldboot, evil maid and the "Stoned" bootkit. Depending on your security concerns, that might be fine, it might not. Other solutions may be better when dealing with those attacks.

[0] [PDF] https://opencryptoaudit.org/reports/TrueCrypt_Phase_II_NCC_O...

[1] https://yro.slashdot.org/story/08/07/17/2043248/schneier-uw-...
You don't see the difference between a private entity that is beholden to no one and a public entity that can be changed through political/democratic means?

You don't see the difference between an entity designed for profit and an entity of the people, by the people, and for the people?

You might not agree its the most efficient solution, but its not a logical contradiction to be against private monopolies but for public entities.
As a manager at a company that I believe is sincere about its message that I am required to report harassment and discrimination even if the aggrieved party does not specifically come to me or want me to (they say it’s required by law), I wonder what the actual outcome of doing so would be.

Legally I believe companies cannot retaliate in those two circumstances (harassment and discrimination), but of course nobody is going to enforce that outside of the expense and hassle of suing them if they do actually retaliate.

Any advice for this circumstance?
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A gentle warning: different Linux distros handle UDEV "remove" differently, and incompatibly, so few people actually use this message it's not well tested (try shipping code for a device that DOES need it!).

Debian was a particular problem until they switched to SystemD (which I think is possibly the only udevdaemon that gets it right) - even so some distros (Ubuntu I'm looking at you) screwed up starting the udevdaemon before they mounted root writable meaning that scripts run from it couldn't really do anything useful

Fortunately most distros are switching to SystemD so this will likely work in most places
That Social failed to win is not the problem. You can't win everything.

The way that Social changed the company culture was.
In the next 10 years, there will be a major change in education which will resemble Alfred North Whitehead's the Rhythm of Education.[0] This will not happen independent of John Dewey's philosophy of pragmatism, learning by doing, participation, connecting personally to ideas, and democracy in the classroom, but will also have a focus on discipline and precision. Whitehead's three stages involve a period of romance, becoming acquainted to a subject and knowledge, precision, systematically learning the facts connected with the subject introduced in the romance period, and, lastly, generalization, where facts are used to create new theory and independent thought by the student beyond what is known. Whitehead explains that this isn't a linear process, like our current approach to education, but rather cyclic.

Using less summative assessment, like standardized tests based on grade level, to compare students and set the rate of learning based on the mean of a group of children, instead, diagnostic and formative assessment using technology, like what we have seen with the Khan Academy, will be widely used to assist in the difficult often boring stage of precision giving teachers more time to introduce students new subjects and lead them to use their knowledge to make generalizations.

My prediction is the end of standardized tests at the grade level by 2030. Homework will not be necessary anymore as this will work will be efficiently done during normal school hours. Lastly, although it is important that we consider learning disabilities a real thing, it might be more fair and pragmatic to call it a teaching disability taking the responsibility from the child to learn putting it onto the adult. (Ok, this is personal, my goal for the next ten years is to eliminate homework.)

[0] https://mast.queensu.ca/~peter/essays/whitehead.pdf
Moon is colonized and we send astronauts there to prepare for colonization of Mars.
Every time my grandma complains about how things are today, I remind her that when she was born, alcohol was illegal, cannabis was legal, and the country was about to elect a president that went onto to illegally detain mostly US citizens of (mostly) Japanese origin in prison camps and take their property.
> Why is it so bad in business and so good for health?

Because a business is answerable to shareholders and a government is (theoretically) answerable to the electorate. This keeps the incentives between politicians and people aligned much more than between a monoploy business and people.
you've inappropriately reduced this into three bins, ignoring all nuance which is the actual hard part of the problem.

in option G, how much $ do we spend on terminally ill patients in order for them to have a few more days with their loved ones?

or how about smokers who will as a result of their actions will cost spades more than "good souls"? or type 2 diabetics on dialysis?

this false trilemma is largely useless and only presents one side of a moral choice and even then ignores the other prickly of it (read: the people paying for this glorious utopia and where the lines are drawn when it comes to saying no)
Here's a really obvious short-term one: superfast SSDs in nextgen consoles lead to the same standard in PCs, and SSD prices drop dramatically, finally replacing HDDs as completely as tape.
i can see 8 as a safe bet. with star wars as well. i can also imagine the fan fiction genre exploding into live enactments with look-alike amateurs acting & editing at a high quality level, with post deep fake blended in seamlessly. many of these will rival hollywood in production value and definitely surpass hollywood in storytelling.
You are correct, they werent bundled with every VIC-20 nor C64/C128 right in the same box. Its hard to get any sales numbers for Commodore branded storage, I found claims of couple million floppy drives shipped up to ~1986 (Compute-Gazette-Issue-32-01 Feb 7, 1986). But third party tape decks/floppy drives must of been a drop in the ocean considering Commodore was a billion dollar company by 1984. Its a widely known secret they were making bulk of profits on peripherals (The Retro Hour podcast EP202-1980s Home Computer Wars. Interview with Michael Tomczyk, Jack Tramiels right hand man).

Realistically every single C64/VIC-20 user, and probably at least 1/2 of C128 ones had a tape drive, bulk of them manufactured by Commodore.

btw C128, considered a failure by many (including me), sold 4.5 million units, right in the ballpark for total Amiga, all models combined, worldwide sales.
Oops, yes...2:25.
1) The world population will not exceed 1b humans by the end of 2020.

2) Some level of nuclear exchange will take place, whether on a limited level using tactical nukes, or an all out strategic rumble e.g. India v. Pakistan

3) The above will be due to resource wars, particularly fresh water.
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So then do you believe that Google acts differently in other countries, and only (allegedly) conducts this abuse in the US?

Note: genuinely curious as to your viewpoint. Not sure what my own opinion is here yet...
This one was pretty pointy if you ask me
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Voodoo and Native American religions use tobacco.
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They have nitrogen-fixing gut bacteria now?
I just adore that someone went the lengths to write such an article and someone else posted this on HN. So geeky and cool at the same time! :)
Or wear slip-ons.
I wonder if he was there at the invitation of the Iraqi government or not.
I wasn't talking about closed/open either. Outlook and Thunderbird are both clients that use known specifications. One is open, one is closed.

Getting both updated to the specification takes more time (and in Outlook's case may never happen), then updating something where no specification exists.
Unless this veers into mental health or Native Americans with a legitimate religious use, yeah, no protected class here.
Prediction: in 10 years we _still_ won't have self-driving cars on common roads nationwide. Tesla will refund the money charged for "full self driving capability" that was supposed to arrive "later this year" in 2019.
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Or bars and casinos. They’re literal time sucks and job creators. Also full of sin. Just like malls, in a way.
Anybody have full text or a link to the original?
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I can't read the article. Does it get into whether the hospitals actually merged process in any useful way? I worked at Kaiser when they were attempting to get their hospitals to share medical records (through SOAP). It taught just how home spun every hospitals IT is. Frankly, I'm a little skeptical much progress could have been made as a result of a recent merger.
It's not that much different than insurance companies and a lot of employers paying people to go to the gym.
For the "new comments since your last visit" I use a tampermonkey script. Last time I posted a link to it my post got flagged, but you can find it by going to Greasy Fork and searching "HN Comment Trees"
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> The meme that "reality has a liberal bias" is one of the things the left should be laughed at for pushing

This stuff hurts the democrat part which should be the party of the left behind middle class and poor.

Except the left keep pushing their party with a smug holier-than-attitude and wonder why the party that caught for labour and civil rights is not seem as the party of the elite and out of touch.

People glibly buy into the identity politics part as proof of dedication to the critical "unrepresented" working poor middle. They wanted someone to talk to them honestly about their problems, not get talked down to and pushing 1970s style labour "we're with you" campaigns to help fix the dying rust belt.

That was a lot cause but Hillary and her out of touch campaign completely failed to get these people.
Interesting to see this in a tight labor market. I also wonder how much they'll save on health insurance.
for profit, non democratic entities, where a single individual uses their access to capital to dictate what moral behaviors are positive for society are not.

The fact that the narratives in most countries continue to be built from the basic assumption that those with power are superior is a pretty basic failing of the promise of the internet in my mind.
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