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>WhatsApp can only use data, which is cheaper and used to be unlimited (that's gone) in the EU. In contrast, texting was and still is insanely expensive in the EU (per byte it is staggering even, compared to normal data).

You need to specify where in the EU, because it doesn't mirror my experience in France for instance. Data used to be very expensive while there were no shortages of plans with near-unlimited texts. It also isn't the case in many other countries in the world in my experience. AFAIK the advantage of WhatsApp over plain texts isn't that it's cheaper per-se, it's that it works over wi-fi which means that as long as you find a hotspot anywhere in the world you can use it. No need to worry about roaming fees, no need to worry about how many texts or MB of data are in your plan.
> If this fails, as founder you lose all the things you risked, possibly everything you have. No one else is likely to have as much at risk as you.

> Everyone else except you can walk away.

Tell that to Adam Neumann.
I won't use it because of who owns it (Facebook).
He Says He Stabbed a Student to Defend His Home. His Home Is a Box
The question here is whether the browser is a tool to solve your business issues, or whether it is a a service that is more similar to police, firefighters or healthcare. I am way more biased towards the second.
> reputation of others

This sounds like slander or libel. It also seems that is what is being done to Molyneux, not by him.

> protection of national security or of public order (order public)

This sounds like making threats. Is Molyneux making threats against people or calling for actual violence?

> of public health or morals

Blasphemy or obscenity laws? I thought that we were past these things in the west.

> The real world is messy and rights can't be absolute because each could encroach on others.

Is Molyneux infringing on the rights of other or are others trying to infringe the rights of Molyneux?
The 4th Amendment says that a backdoor shouldn’t exist in our encryption, but that isn't even the point. They literally can't do it. They can't access the data on the phone even if they tried, that's the whole point of encryption.
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Venturing A Perspective On The Drug Pricing Debate

https://lifescivc.com/2019/12/venturing-a-perspective-on-the...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22054139
Founder != CEO

Individual founders that are most likely to be a current or past employees, and not someone that has climbed into the C-suite.

There is no golden parachute for a new private company. If it fails, the founder will likely have to go back to regular employment (much more difficult if he exited stable employment to work full time on his project). Whatever money is used up (usually personal) is lost forever and any plans of retirement must be pushed back.
I'd really love to see companies start being proud to be "dumb" and disconnected.
Right there with you. There are exceptions in all the (US, at least) rules for spam email, spam sms, do-not-call list, etc. for political parties, and boy do they take advantage.
> Putting restrictions around "commercial" use (which is notoriously hard to define) is not open source.

That's... somewhat accurate.

Let's not pretend the GPL team itself didn't have issues with Tivo-ization, that prompted license changes.

Cloud servic-ization is the virtualization of hardware modification locks.

So call it opinions about "commercial" or use another word, but the GPL definitely has them.
Yes, this makes sense, but hard data would be much more compelling.
Nuclear Reactor Development History
Touch interfaces aren't just bad on phones (2019)
Many moons ago I reconnected with an old friend who moved to Switzerland years before; just imagine my face when he told me he was working for a Swiss shipowner:).
> Does Firefox still use NSS when using the Windows Certificate Store for the source of trusted root certs?

Yes. When enabled this feature in Firefox just effectively copies certificates from one of the Windows trust stores but continues to use its own (NSS) logic for trust decisions. Note also that Firefox's config switch only looks at your local changes - a corporate CA, a MITM proxy on a dev's workstation, something like that. Firefox continues to rely on Mozilla's judgement not Microsoft's for global trust policy.

> What about Chrome?

Chrome is probably affected. Chrome uses the platform (in this case crypt32.dll) trust decisions and then layers on additional rules from Google, such as the requirement for proof of CT logging. So unless an additional rule is blocking the weird curves they'll pass on Chrome on Windows.
> I realized at one point that it was probably EMP-proof

The ignition coil will probably not survive an EMP event, so the bike will not run.

However, it should be pretty straight forward to wind a new ignition coil if you ever find yourself in a post-nuclear situation.
I (lycium) wrote a bunch on this topic on a recent thread on reddit r/hardware, with many similar points: https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/enn41z/when_do_yo...
I wish we did less modelling and more shutting down coal plants in favor of basically anything else.
QI is usually explained in terms of many worlds, where there is an objective reality independent of our experience.

Those concepts aren’t incompatible, if that’s what you were suggesting by your last sentence.
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If there will be at least 5 emails, I will build it.
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> s tampering and the problem of car reselling doesn't apply as cars cannot be resold anymore without manufacturer involvement.

I suspect this will become a huge societal problem if it continues like this in a car-dependent country like the US. Yes, the middle-class people will probably still be able to purchase $30,000-40,000 cars for the foreseeable future (even adjusted for inflation), but what will happen to the people who won't be able to purchase a second-hand car that costs more than $5000-6000 (or even $1000-2000)? How will they continue to get to work in a country that values public transport so lowly?
Half the controversy was white people who didn't like a book about a black child, and the other half was black people mad that a white person wrote a book about a black child.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/27/cars-in-europe-could-be-fitt...

You won't be allowed to break the law. The petrol heads will complain but they will lose because "think of the children".
Our phones, too.
I bet you were always angry the hare didn't win when he is clearly much faster than the turtle.
Cut-n-paste into Google Translate to fix the unreadable problem. Interesting they made it that easy to cancel.
or the comeback of vinyl, nice to see that purple curve going up again. :)
The point of the article is that if a 'smart' capability requires going through several pages of documentation, it may not worse it. It is exacerbated when:

- you fall into an undocumented corner case

- you use a dynamically typed language (the case in the article) which essentially makes it impossible to validate the client code, although the API code may be well validated.

That rings a bell in me, a time I wrote a signal processing library but people preferred using Numpy directly :,(
Yes, I'm single right now. And when I was on college I had a lot of free time, cause I was working part time. Several projects that are now on GitHub came from sketches I did while bored in class or on my free time - http://jsfiddle.net/user/victorqribeiro - I'm not young, I'm 35 now. I went back to college at 30 because I went broke (after the last company I worked for screwed me). It's kinda hard to date when you're a broke going bald 35 years old with no steady income. I'm getting back on my feet now. But as you can see, I used my free time to thinker with things like code and electronics.
Not snarky: when was the last time you called your utility to tell them you demand renewables? Or your state (for renewable mandates) and federal (national policy) Congressional reps? Protest at a coal plant?

Wishing is cheap, action pays the bills. I do all of the above. And there are signs of progress. The federal gov approved one of the largest PV plants in the US for California. Nevada is prepping for a 1.2GW PV facility with 600MW of storage.

Utility won’t switch off fossil fuels? Get rooftop solar and capture every damn incentive you can, or convince your local government to form a coop or muni utility to source clean power with a PPA at scale.
Open source is free, but expensive
Ecclesiastes is poetry. The point is that there's a lot of chance involved in one's fortunes in life, not that a fast person will win a race randomly.
Well what has happened with speeding inferences that can be made from electronic tolls?
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I disagree that application developers for iOS have the option of selling their products on their own. No matter how much money a developer invests in their own e-commerce operation they still have no legal method for getting their application on any iOS device.

The only way to sell iOS software is through the Apple App Store.
I predict a strong market for "classic" cars that are exempt from these regulations...
garbage argument. A single cargo container pukes more shit into the ocean and atmosphere than all the little commuter cars put together. And we have fleets of them running 24-7 to make this world possible.

Humans breathe out CO2, I wonder how long until the go-greens suggest a permanent solution to that booming population issue...
I'm learning my way around here. I'm working on Lapa and renting an apartment here to.
As long as self-driving a car will be allowed (and I predict this will become quickly impossible the moment self-driven cars will share the space with autonomous vehicles) I will refrain buying any car collecting AND transmitting data without my consent.

Yes that means in ten years or so I will be riding a used shabby old car.
Will Ivanka Trump's 2020 ILR Succeed Where Microsoft's 2012 LLR Failed?
Restart with add-ons disabled: Russian government resigns
You're showing a curious case of projection. I'm not presenting any arguments in favor of Mr Watson's research, I'm pointing out that you are not basing your opinion on all available facts since you're arguing for censorship of research you disagree with for emotional reasons. And in turn, you accuse me of inventing facts that you're not willing to examine yourself. How curious.
I agree about ligatures. I use them whenever I can because they look cool, but sometimes I think it actually is to my detriment. For example, if I mistakenly type `->` it looks very similar to a ligatured `-->`.
I also suspect that in the near future insurance companies will demand higher premiums from drivers who commute on more "dangerous" roads (i.e. roads on which statistically speaking more accidents happen). The companies already have easy-enough access to most of the drivers' GPS data, they certainly do know the GPS locations of most of today's accidents (via Waze-like services), I'm surprised why they haven't already started implementing this.
But you have that choice at purchase. Hence this aspect does feel akin to somebody buying a Tesla and the customer expecting the ability to switch to diesel, petrol instead of being stuck with electric.

Also remember how long that Microsoft rulling took and what it actualy ended-up being in the end - which for most was an annoying popup for those who already knew how to change web browsers. These days what happens is EU will start the long process and before it hits court some agreement is made.

But the difference for Android and Apple is that Android is `open source`, IOS is not.

Buy an android phone and change the app store - kinda entails rooting the phone in most if not all cases in some way and that for most phone sellers does void the warranty.

So say Apple did offer you to change app store - but in doing that voided your warranty, which would be fair from their perspective. May even be case of, well you have non Apple app store - no Apple services for you as we do not trust your device as you have modified it - enjoy. Again, something that they could justify and in a way which would be fair from their perspective. After all, nobody wants to open up a system in a way that may expose it to outside security or stability issues now. Remember Apple is more about reputation than the products, though they do go hand in hand, it is the reputation that carries them as much if not more than any individual product.

Another way to view this is a hotel has a nice inhouse restaurant, should they be forced to allow McDonalds to open a store in their hotel or leave that choice to the guests who can go to another hotel if they want that experience.
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Just read the three top comments and their threads. There was absolutely no meaningful discussion or worthwhile contributions in any of them, just fans of less popular languages mostly venting their resent.

The weirdest thing is that they aren't even using python nor it seems that they're being forced to use it currently, making all this... Ranting (there's literally no other word for this) all the more inexplicable.

I don't understand it; I've been using Go for a year now at work. I hate pretty much everything about it, yet I haven't ranted about it in an article about the language for about that time. There's just no point to it.
That is already here for motor carriers. New York, Kentucky and Tennessee have been piloting different technologies for a few years for truck and bus inspections.

Cars are required to have certain telemetry capabilities starting in 2020 or 2021 as well. We’ll have automatic inspections and taxation by the end of the decade.

Law enforcement already has fairly pervasive networks of fixed and mobile LPR. You cannot leave most cities without a record of it, and if you attract federal attention, passage through many interstate corridors is captured with LPR and photos of occupants.
It's both. The two aren't in contradiction.

Apple uses vendor lock-in for software used by one customer across devices, and for software used by multiple users (iMessage)
The more technology is built into a car, the more obsolescence shall quickly devaluate it?
I concur. Touch interfaces are great when the UI needs to be re-configurable and space is scarce but for anything else it is more a problem than actually a solution.

Our oven offers alarm timers, timed on-off-functions and such stuff - via a touch interface on the front. Sounds good in theory because if there are no buttons, there can't get any foreign matter behind them. Too bad that it barely registers touches and that the menus reset after a few seconds. So you frantically try to press the buttons to set a time while trying to not overshoot the time you want to pick. The user experience is certainly not great here.
I think to offer a differentiated product in this space, you have to be hostile towards the airlines. I know that Skiplagged will show me hidden city tickets that I won't find elsewhere. I know that Scott's Cheap Flights will alert me to fares so cheap that they seem like pricing mistakes. All of the aggregators that play ball with the airlines just offer the exact same results.
Is this similar to cjdns or yggdrasil?
I highly recommend that you do that. It's awesome when people send pull requests improving your work.
This is Your Brain on Factorio
> ..., in many societies there are myths of equality and everybody having a chance.

LOL
> Cloud servic-ization is the virtualization of hardware modification locks.

Hence why the FSF advocates the AGPL for software that's designed to be performed "as a service" over a computer network. But "no tivoization" and AGPL clauses do not deny these uses; they simply enable the end user of the software to exercise her rights with respect to it.
Nothing to do with abstractions, everything to do with “streamlining” the Google backend to save on maintenance and running costs (which will instead accrue on the integrators’ side). If, by doing so, they also lose a bunch of minor integrations who cannot afford the new burden, further freeing resources, it’s even better.

Google is the new ‘00s-Microsoft, they just don’t care.
and you'll pay a very large premium for it, too, unfortunately, since the company has to close off another revenue stream.
Yeah, this is a bit more strict than I'm use to with a growth fund. Like I said, I couldn't buy a book on elixir since it doesn't relate to the day to day, but I could buy things about professional growth or things like "How to Win Friends and Influence People" or programming books that aren't explicitly about a language we use, but tangentially related to the day to day (Swift/Kotlin book to help with mobile, even though we use React Native)
> Amusingly, there are two sets of people arguing about why Apple is bad, and each have their own argument:

> 1. Android sells more, and offers more variety of mobile and wearable devices than Apple. And here’s the data to prove it.

> 2. Apple is a monopoly/monopsony and should be forced to allow more user choice of apps, allow sideloading, lower their prices, lower their app store cut, &c.

> Which one is is?

Well, these aren't mutually exclusive. Apple can sell less variety, and still exert too much control over their platform--in fact, the first is caused by the second. I'd argue that "monopoly" doesn't really apply to the second situation, so that's sloppy use of the English language, but if you try to actually figure out what people are trying to communicate, rather than being pedantic, you'll have a more interesting conversation with those people.
How is that not cryptographic agility? Which cipher suites to support is a question separate from whether the cryptography should be runtime configurable at all.
Under many worlds, the you who did not step in front of the car avoids broken bones.

If there is anything to quantum immortality, it is only in those circumstances where the probability of immediate death is strictly between 0 and 1. I suspect, however, that quantum immortality is merely the tautology that survivors, and only survivors, survive, and has nothing to do with
interpretations of the QM formalism.
Fond memories of my Merceded W124. You could rip the engine out of the car and it would go on and on. No electricity for motor management required whatsoever.
Great, show me your Nobel price in a relevant field and proof of 20 years of research expertise at Harvard and I'll take your opinion serious.
> In work published last year in the journal Joule, Sepulveda and his co-authors made a powerful case for using a mix of renewable and “firm” electricity sources, such as nuclear energy, as the least costly, and most likely, route to a low- or no-carbon grid.

> Recognizing that “absolutes exist in people’s minds, but not in reality,” Sepulveda sought to develop a tool that might yield an optimal solution to the decarbonization question.

The second part, I think, is very important to keep in mind when discussing whether or not to use nuclear to help solve the climate crisis. I'm not a big fan of nuclear, but if deploying huge amounts of it is what it takes to get us to zero carbon emissions by 2050, I'm for it. Yes, nuclear has its risks, and it's not renewable, but I think it would be worth pursuing as a stepping stone to get us to net-zero emissions sooner, while we figure out how to power the entire world via truly renewable energy. IMO, the potential risks of failing to address climate change rapidly enough are much larger than the risks of wide-spread nuclear power.
> It inflates away savings, which the rich definitionally have more of than the poor.

The rich do not have savings they have assets that generate income thats not taxed the poor have savings like pensions as they need money to support them if they are unable to work.

> It inflates away debts, which the poor definitionally have more of than the rich.

This is baseless inflation increases debt as the value of the debt has not increased but the amount of money you have to pay back does, because of inflation.
Also, the non-technical(?) report is also a great read, and can a good one to share around to managers/non-engineers:

https://fil.forbrukerradet.no/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/202...
Krunner is great (and similar to what you can do with the Gnome shell search or OS X spotlight), but it won't search the menu of your current application.

There are plenty of hints how to restore a Unity-like global menu feeling with Gnome, for instance https://www.linuxuprising.com/2018/05/how-to-add-global-menu... -- you can also get a global menu in KDE Plasma, it's called "Application Menu Bar" and seems to be included by default. I neither tested both of them.

Here is a GIF of a similar function: https://149366088.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/201... -- the name of this tool seems to be Mate HUD, cf. https://github.com/ubuntu-mate/mate-hud
According to the man page for bsdtar that ships with Ubuntu

A tar command appeared in Seventh Edition Unix, which was released in January, 1979. There have been numerous other implementations, many of which extended the file format. John Gilmore's pdtar public-domain implementation (circa November, 1987) was quite influential, and formed the basis of GNU tar. GNU tar was included as the standard system tar in FreeBSD beginning with FreeBSD 1.0. This is a complete re-implementation based on the libarchive(3) library. It was first released with FreeBSD 5.4 in May, 2005.
It's always interesting to see a lot of the rockstar coders I find often don't use any fancy tools. Often just a good old fashioned terminal and text editor.
I'm trying to do a bit of that, but it's understandably difficult. I have an easy day job time-wise, but even then I feel like I rarely do my best passion project work at home. Lately I'll wake up at 5 and work, go to the office from ~8 to ~4, and then get a couple more hours done at home afterwards.