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How is it pointless?

The article talks about trying to cut down on electronic waste:

> The regulator is determined to cut down on electronic waste being created by obsolete cables, which it estimates generate more than 51,000 tonnes of waste per year.

It's surely much less wasteful to extend the life of the cable standard than to ensure longer cable lifespans. Even if you had a cable that lasted 7 years, chances are the standard would have changed and you would be forced to replace it. You can always purchase higher quality cables that do have longer lifespans if Apple's aren't up to your quality standards.

> In fact it probably works against Apple as it demonstrates that the churn of innovation doesn't really exist if new advances only occur every 9 years.

I think you may have misunderstood the OP statistics. My understanding was that the industry standards have previously been churning at a higher rate than Apple's standards. So Apple's standards are often longer lived than the standard connections.
I thought we sold Taiwan top of the line missile systems?
Rail moves a lot more people than a 10-line highway.
I was literally just looking at this for the same reason. I'm sure it's a bit silly and sentimental, but the notion of there still being a living connection to them in the world makes me feel they're not entirely gone.
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Pretty sure SpaceX has to get licensing everywhere they broadcast (not sure how international waters works).
Because the tunnel is going underneath the Sydney harbour:

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/under-wraps-sydney-s-fir...
Why do they do these tips?! Why not charge a total and pay all expenses and people from that? I don't understand why the complicated setup and all the fuss that comes from it. Seems like they create problems for themselves out of nothing.
> Heme iron is toxic. [0]

Everything is toxic in inappropriate doses.
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You have a badge "Demo Available" too, I'll maybe do a more clear link.
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As I understand it, there are real advantages (other than selling more cables) to making the cable connectors more fragile than those on the device. You actually want most of the wear and tear to take place on the cable rather than the device connector because it is cheaper and easier to replace.
Same anecdote here -- every lightning cable has held up spectacularly. I've still bought a couple of extra long braided ones just because, but the included ones are fine.

And even if the cable failed, it's worth noting that with the various USB variants before USB-C, it was likely the connector in the device that failed rather than the cable (because it bore the load). I had more than one device have the USB port destroyed under ordinary use.

I still prefer lightning to USB-C, but if it wasn't for Apple doing their own thing we'd probably be still on some ridiculous USB variant with a litany of design mistakes.
I think it was Pavel Tsatsouline on Joe Rogan #1399
Yes, most of the random "what if" ideas put forth by laypeople have been investigated and either ruled out by theorists/experiments lists or are non-falsifiable.

Not to offend anyone here, but unless you have a solid grasp of the theory, nobody here is going to be "solving" the mystery of dark matter
While I agree with you that it's nice that climate change related topics are discussed, this is hyperbole:

>more important than technology since technology won't exist when the climate collapses and destroys civilization.

The type of climate collapse you're talking about here would have to be something so extreme that most disaster movies would pale in comparison. The defining trait of our species is tool (technology) use. As long as there are humans around, our technology will matter. In fact, improvements in technology are likely our only way out of the mess of climate change.

I think that hyperbole about climate charge hurts the cause. Some people will believe you, but once they learn that you were wrong (or lying) they won't trust you or anyone else on the matter anymore.
in terms of accumulating a statistical sample of anecdotal data, I'm in the control group for "didn't pursue any particular "cure", and I got better; guess I learned to manage it". I tell my story not because it's interesting but because you might think "I'm better, yoga did it" and I'm better and I didn't do yoga.

In the past (starting in my mid-20's) I have had a number of episodes of very severe backpain, several times on the order of "can't stand up" for a week at a time. A handful of times (each independently) have been given Flexeril or cortisone shot or NSAIDs or mild opioids.

Mostly I've learned to recognize the early twinges of pain and I immediately switch to "being more careful about bending over" and how I sleep etc. and I'm able to not get into an acute situation.

I don't do yoga, work out, etc. I manage my weight by dieting and I'm not fat, more in the dad-bod category of "people with a slight amount of extra weight have better health outcomes from surgery, severe illness, etc".

Running on the daily makes my back hurt, and I can't "run through it", it keeps getting worse. I stopped trying to run on the daily. Twisting playing tennis makes my back hurt. I stopped playing tennis. Shoveling heavy snow makes my back hurt. I still shovel snow from time to time, immediately afterward I pop 3 ibuprofen and relax my back, and repeat if I feel stiffness the next day. Popping ibuprofen at the first sign of stiffness to "get ahead of it" seems to work, but who knows, I'm not conducting trials.

That's all I take ibuprofen for, and I average fewer than 1 ibuprofen a week. I might have a few days of bad back every five years now, and usually because I did something stupid like agree to help somebody move.
I know people who sleep to TV, and it genuinely sounds like torture to me.
OK, but from a designer's perspective, you want to be careful with just inverting colours. The contrast is way too strong here from the demo you offered and the visited link 'purple' is already bleeding on black.

Have a read of an article such as this one, and be smart about colour translation. You might need to calculate contrast or offer a contrast setting as a minimum, and watch for shadows.

https://uxdesign.cc/turn-the-lights-off-designing-the-dark-m...

Side note: I've been really happy with the "Dark Reader" plugin on various browsers. Have a look at it and see how it handles brightness (+/-) and contrast (+/-).
But are they actually building their own ?

Haven't seen anything covered about what they've built or how it compares with anything else on the market.
the Space Force will take care of that
changing anything in GNU (with a few exceptions) is like pulling teeth. it is endlessly frustrating. every proposed change, no matter how small, will be met with essay length responses from the old guard about why it shouldn't be changed. just one example of many: gnu.org is still managed via a cvs repo because rms doesn't like git and it doesn't matter to him that newcomers find it to be a roadblock. it's amazing that anyone has the patience to swim against that current and improve things.
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My feeling is that there has been a change in crypto. It seems in the past, crypto was a la carte.

Over time, this has been shown to open up a big security vulnerabilities such as this one, and also issues with key agility in TLS, etc.

I think the tendency today is to make make crypto more omakase where there are a few well studied, well implemented algorithms that you use for everything.

The Windows CryptoAPI is from that older time.
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Then it isn’t a tip. It’s a fee.
You can be rich and miserable.
It's a result of how paying works in this economy, essentially. You scan your card at the register when ordering (or in the app, you plug it all in there) and complete your transaction then. If you're not carrying cash (I tend not to anymore) there's not really any way for you to tip after you've actually had your meal if you already did all the payment up front.

Of course you can tip after in some of these apps, but they don't consistently surface that to you. I know offhand how to add a tip hours after a Lyft ride (i've done it before, there's a little link buried in the receipt) but honestly don't know how I would do that for a doordash or grubhub order, I'm not even sure I can.

I try to tip delivery drivers with cash now that I know the services used to steal tips, I can't trust them not to do it again - but if I don't have any cash on hand I'm probably just going to plug 15-25% into the app when placing the order and if I get unbelievably bad service I can try to claw it back by complaining to support.

FWIW it seems like these services are pretty generous with refunds/discounts when you have a bad experience if you contact them. I've only had to do it once, but my sister has gotten $5-15 refunds from services like grubhub or doordash multiple times when a delivery goes haywire. I assume they build that into their model as an expected expense on N% of deliveries.
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> DoorDash's "innovation" is the black box to obscure the fact.

Classic information asymmetry exploitation, only in this case, they're the ones that created the asymmetry.
There is room for Uber-app-in-cloud-emulator multiplexers. As single app endpoint for a variety of delivery apps so you will have more options to choose from when business is slow.
Sure, Haskell relies on parametric polymorphism and typeclasses to get away with full type erasure with opt-in reification via Typeable. C++ does something similar with templates and has opt-in reification with RTTI. The JVM is just weird because it has some type reification, but not all the way.

RE type safety, it doesn't really make sense to talk about type safety across languages since type safety is tied to a particular language's semantics. I would argue that every ClassCastException is a violation of type safety in Java the language even if it's reasonable at the JVM level but whatever that's just definitions diving.

I see. Basically what you're saying is that you don't really see examples of reified types with unsafe runtime casts? Presumably because that kind of negates the whole point of reifying the types in the first place?
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> I can’t quite see how drugs which modulate existing biochemical pathways can stop, let alone reverse the processes I’ve named.

I'm honestly mystified why this would be a mystery. Your cells have the blueprint to grow a whole new body, but clearly many of these pathways are dormant. Is it really so far fetched that a drug could reactivate some of these pathways?

Like, why is there a loss of hair in the ear when for the first few years of life, that hair grows instead of dies? There is even evidence that age reversal can and has been done:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/acel.13028

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009286741...
Actually i had a better version of this:

Person A: says "hello Joe"
Person B: answers: "Great to see you again buddy!"

After posting message, sender hashes his message with secret salt:
"hello Joe" -> 2959D03A72B897C
and then posts secret, real text to https://secret-share/#2959D03A72B897C

Receiver does the same to read the actual message.

Fun part?

Sender and receiver can actually piggyback on other people's conversations, twitter feeds, newpaper headlines this way to hide secret messages.
I don't think they expect, or even want us to take them seriously.
> Apple would benefit from switching to USB C across its product line if its customers would like that more.

Regarding this specifically, I think it's because Apple makes money from licensing Lightning cables and lightning accessories.
"Significantly worse"? Just getting away from a serif font makes the third you linked way better to me. The text contrast is still good (to head off the "but it's not pure black on white!" cargo cult) and colored headers are distinctive but not obnoxious.
Things like railway gauges are components of a large-scale national network.

That is not true of a device connector, which only has to work between the device and the power brick.
I think Google under Eric Schmidt during the Obama administration was trying to get involved around the Arab Spring time and it engendered a backlash.
With photos on iOS you can delete sensitive content on creation i.e. take photo, delete photo. The trash empties after 30 days, so you can access it there if you need to.
This API do not invert colors, it uses CSS variables and classes for more customization. No mix-blend-mode or anything. The demo has been done quickly this afternoon, I'll probably change it for the next version.
I think you are getting downvoted because the argument is exasperating. It's argument by ignorance: "I don't know therefore it isn't true." It is very easy to find ample evidence of discrimination documented in published peer-reviewed studies. E.g https://www.nber.org/digest/sep03/w9873.html "The results indicate large racial differences in callback rates to a phone line with a voice mailbox attached and a message recorded by someone of the appropriate race and gender. Job applicants with white names needed to send about 10 resumes to get one callback; those with African-American names needed to send around 15 resumes to get one callback. This would suggest either employer prejudice or employer perception that race signals lower productivity."

The other exasperating thing is at presenting evidence almost never work. The step after someone has presented evidence of discrimination is for the person who doesn't "believe in discrimination" to challenge the result. Either the result doesn't actually prove discrimination or the study is flawed in some way so you can't draw any conclusions.
>I don't see concentration camps with millions of Uyghars in them in America.

Strange how the majority of US prison demographics skew toward the minority that was for quite some time a slave class.

>I don't see any state owned companies whose R&D is amplified by state actors engaging in corporate espionage.

Lockheed Martin and Boeing are largely controlled by the US Government to such an extent you could consider it ownership with more steps.

>I don't see people being executed for minor drug offenses.

As a capitalist will never pass up free manufacturing power, instead the US opts for perpetual incarceration. We used the 3 strikes law to systematically incarcerate thousands. https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1996-03-10-960310...

>I don't see tanks rolling through Washington DC used to
crush the bodies of protestors.

No. the US has however shot and killed unarmed protestors without provocation. Union organizers in the 30s were routinely shot or beaten. and in 1921 we killed 300 in aerial firebombing of Tulsa Oklahoma. https://whowhatwhy.org/2017/06/01/classic-day-americans-bomb...

>I don't see artists or reporters being locked up for being critical of the government.

Julian Assange would beg to differ.

>I don't see a one party state with a dictator ruling it for life.

the US has 2 parties but its controlling body is comprised of two houses with no term limits.

>And I don't see a population that is fine with any of the above because they nominally increased the standard of living over the last 30 years.

In the United States few people protest any of this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_espionage_in_the_Sovi...
induced demand is often (intentionally?) misunderstood as demand being literally insatiable (and by extension, "why bother?"), but really, we're just severly underserving the market, and there are very limited price signals we can rely on to understand the cost and value of a road foot-second (or meter-second).

people want more fast, affordable, on-demand, point-to-point private transportation. "induced demand" tells us we're woefully under-providing that demand. we're very far from the desired equilibrium point in nearly every metro area. elon seems to understand that better than a pithy quip might indicate.

along with mixed-use-as-default along transportation corridors, i would prefer more underground trains, dedicated busways, and small personal transport infrastructure (for electric bikes, scooters, etc.) in our cities (particularly in LA), but every effort, including the boring company's, that addresses that overwhelming demand helps.
But if costs come down, that is effectively a raise in wages. The cost of many goods has come down (for some of the same reasons wages are down!), but as OP said housing/education/medical have gone up. So if we can target those rising costs, that can be very effective, without raising wages.
Incidentally tips are like this for many regular non-gig-economy food service workers too - many areas allow an employer to pay less than the minimum wage as long as the total pay (including tips) meets the minimum. So a person who gets $0 in tips gets (say) 7.25/hr from their boss, but if they get 5/hr in tips they might just get 2.25/hr from the boss and not come out ahead at all - your tips are just a fee being handed indirectly to the boss. Of course, if they get more than 7.25/hr in tips they're coming out ahead, and there's still a minimum pay threshold so they're always getting something from the boss.

According to a quick search federal standards in the US requires at least $2.13 per hour be paid to employees who receive at least $30/mo in tips, with the total needing to hit 7.25. It's probably higher in some areas. This is part of why wage theft is such a pervasive problem in the US because it's very easy to get away with it in scenarios where you're supposed to be compensating for variable tip income, etc - sometimes the boss just doesn't pay what they're supposed to, oops!
I assume he meant "absolutely it really would be that underfunded", because that is true.

Elsewhere in these comments people have estimated that Google pays at least 1000 people to work on Chrome. That's about the size of all of Mozilla, and a lot of those Mozilla staff are necessarily not working directly on Firefox --- you need HR, accountants, marketing, etc. Also, Google pays its developers significantly more than Mozilla does, on average; Mozilla developers tend to get big raises when they move to Google.

And that's just direct spending. Historically Google has done a lot of Chrome marketing on its Web sites, which is prime advertising real estate that would cost astronomical amounts of money if it was for sale. And historically Google has paid hardware and software vendors to preinstall Chrome, which is also expensive, though I'm not sure how much that happens these days.
With the Tesla EV, you have to market to the public how the car is better because you're selling it to the end customer. With the Boring company, you don't have to prove to anyone but yourself, or the governments or the project investors that your bid is good.
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The "right to remain silent" comes from the Miranda warning, which is a simplified formulation of the constitutional right. Your "Miranda rights" are a superset of the rights directly guaranteed by the constitution. But they're judge-made (i.e. "activist judge") procedural protections which only exist in a narrow context. Importantly, the Miranda warning also says you have a right to an attorney. The notion is that until you have an attorney to explain your inviolable constitutional rights and to counsel you which questions you must, should, or should not answer, the court grants you a [mostly] unconditional right to silence.

The whole notion of Miranda rights is still highly contentious, especially among conservative jurists, and that's why an increasingly conservative Supreme Court has narrowed and carved out exception to Miranda rights. Because of the conservative exceptions, you should never just remain silent. You should politely ask for an attorney whenever a question is asked, but even then you might still get dinged for refusing to answer some types of questions. For example, if you're not yet in custody, or for simple questions like your name. It's complicated, which is precisely what the original Miranda rights were intended to safeguard against.

The irony is the right against self-incrimination, and many other rights copied from English law and enshrined in the constitution, were originally judge-made rules. By creating Miranda rights the "liberal" Supreme Court was following in the footsteps of traditional Anglo-American legal practice, and exercising their inherent powers. Courts have inherent, constitutionally protected authority to control what is and is not allowed to be presented in court. (Though it overlaps with legislative powers to control court procedures.) Almost all the rules for doing so were crafted by the English courts over nearly a millennium. It's not at all out of sorts for the highest court in the land to craft a new rule instructing lower courts that testimony is presumptively compelled if given before a Miranda warning and to reject it at trial.

To be fair, the conservative counter argument is that in England the highest court in the land was the House of Lords, which was also a House of Parliament, which was and remains the seat of legislative power. Procedural protections didn't always arise in the House of Lords, but the closer you get to 1776 the fewer instances there were of lower courts making such procedural rules. So similar to the Second Amendment, you can pick and choose a window of time that best support a claim to historical precedent.
Which is weird given that Return of the King is the shortest book (not counting the appendices).
Induced demand = the product is actually being used. The hoary old cliché that says, "Building roads just increases congestion," is nothing more than an exercise in measuring the wrong thing.

Market demand, induced and otherwise, is a good thing, if the externalities are also addressed. That's basically Musk's whole business model.
Or a bid.
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For example:

I could constantly remark on the current bad weather using an unfunny joke.

Somebody could complain about my terrible sense of humour without implying it was actually lovely outside.
Ta for the considered comment. Your stated opinion gybes very well with my assessment of the state of things and you come from a very, very different part of the world to me, both physically and workwise.
When you have that many layers, it takes a while to pop everything off the stack.
All sorts of reasons, but corruption (along-side organized crime) is a big issue in the construction industry. Imagine Oracle-style of service and business approach coupled with an npm-deep level of dependencies/middlemen whose palms need greasing and to have their cut of the project. Then on the other side you are boxed in by physics, thousands of regulations, zoning laws, complaints, city council, government bureaucracy.
Part of his point. :-) (Bombadil's, that is.)