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Really good article!
I hope they do something about metrics from custom tags in the future.
> for some mind boggling reason,

What, never seen corruption at work? Somebody at Sanofi, or connected to them, was connected elsewhere, and hey, there's your license :) (No, no cash payment.... but my kid really wanted to get into Harvard, maybe a limited endowment/scholarship? You know somebody, right?)

We humans are predictable.
Yes. And Tcl does expose list-parsing functions, so you can pretend the strings are lists. Also, current versions of Tcl have optimizations around that.
I stumbled upon Godot after seeing (and buying) https://store.steampowered.com/app/1189230/Door_in_the_Woods...

It's an ascii roguelike with a neat 3d aesthetic.

Godot was a pleasure to install and play around with it. I recommend taking a look!
Spotify rules. It's great seeing a company not a part of the big 5 just dominate them all in this space. At least until they get purchased...
I'd love to read some of what you've written, if you're willing to share.
Competition is what drives down costs in a market. If costs are going out of control, perhaps there is something in the current system that is preventing competition? Lack of price transparency?
Yes... Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, AbbVie, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, Biogen, Abbott, the list goes on and on.
Patents are the problem, not the market. Patents are government protectionism. They are a government imposed monopoly — a government imposed cap on supply.

In a free society and a free market, anyone with the knowledge and means to produce insulins would be free to do that.

The high prices are a direct result of the government preventing competition through patent law. Without patents, the price would tend to fall as companies compete on price, more efficient manufacturing, distribution, etc.
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All of this is interesting, but for instance it states that nuclear plants occupy large amount of land (20.5km2 on average) and needs lots of resources. However without a comparison to alternative technology, this is a moot point.

Having a quick look at requirements for solar plants, it's easy to check that typical ones occupy about 14km2 per GW of power. So solar requires several orders of magnitude more land than nuclear (taking into account actual power production: 80% yield for nuclear, 15% at most for solar).

Furthermore, it's also easy to check that contrary to nuclear plants where land grab is largely a safety zone, a solar plant actually covers land with hardware, most of it requiring much more rare earths and exotic materials than nuclear power plants (where 95% of stuff in weight is concrete and steel).

The actual take for me is the following: in the coming years, we'll go through a huge reduction in energy availability, because fossil fuels are at least 80% of world energy consumption and they'll run out at some point anyway; which implies a huge reduction in economic activity. This is absolutely unavoidable in the next few decades unless some actual miracle such as cheap and easy cold fusion happens real soon now .
Do you have historical data? Because in the BBC article, it mentions patents, and how drug companies have a limited number of time to make up profits. The article states drug companies have 10 years to make it up, but I think that's even shorter in the US. I was taught in my health econ class that it's 5 years in the US simply because of the FDA approval process.

R&D money spent is cyclical, and GlobalData's report may just be a down cycle where pharma is just trying to recoup past R&D costs. There's also a large number of drugs that are not approved from past years. Pharma has to recoup those costs, too.

From purely a health econ standpoint, that recovery window offered by the patent system is the main reason we are where we are today.
The iOS app is native UIKit I believe.
Apps are dominant on web because, well, the web sucks. We can gloss over this on desktop because of raw processing power but still, layout if html is just plain terrible.

Of course mobile processors will continue to improve but on mobile you’re making a trade off between performance and battery life and battery life will probably never be not a concern.
Nope, it's only legal in US and New Zealand.
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Ok, so having chips in foam indoors is safe? I have a SID in foam, don't know how else I would store it?
Why is that an equivalent statement?
Every game or graphics library i've used had y-down coordinates. It always confused the hell out of me and I'll still make mistakes sometimes. It's the opposite of the machines I spent every day programming. They're all y-up.
Note that the biggest portion of what’s counted as “pharmaceutical advertising” is actually free samples: https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2019/01/11/51...

The TV ads you see for drugs add up to $6 billion, which is a small fraction compared to industry R&D.
A few years ago I installed XCode on my Mac, started learning it (looked 1000x more complicated than my previous IDE.."Hello world" auto-creates dozens of files and folders..) and read hundreds of pages of docs, started learning Objective-C, to try to draw pixels on the screen. Found out that was impossible! Ok, so basic graphics. Shapes.. I never bothered doing much at all. Too much hassle.

Discovered Tcl/Tk a lil while later. They were already on my Mac. With a half-dozen-line program in 1 minute I'd made a window on my screen with text. Graphics not much harder. I couldn't believe I'd gone through all that! haha. Had no idea GUIs could be so simple to write on a Mac. Noone told me. I wrote a couple of games in a few days. Tcl is a kinda weird language, unique, but very easy to get the hang of and be very productive in, a joy. I loved it.
That sounds super interesting. You should absolutely write a book...or, if not that, a blog. I'd read it.
There's a little note saying that the list may not be complete. If you click that, they pop up an explanation, one of the bullet points in which says this:

> We receive more details and activity than what appears here. For technical and accuracy reasons, this list doesn't show all of the activity that we've received. Activity that is not shown includes information that we've received when you're not logged in to Facebook, or when we can't confirm that you've previously used Facebook on that device. It also includes details such as the item that you added to your shopping basket.

It seems to me that this gives them carte blanche to omit anything they feel like omitting.
I’d be somewhat surprised if they weren’t. Deep, invasive telemetry is widely practiced
Yes, if you do this on the desktop app they'll transfer to your phone's local storage over wifi. It's so much easier than trying to figure out how to get music onto an iPhone the Apple way.
My first experience of Tcl/Tk was circa 2000. The finance house I worked at had used it to implement a real-time order management system.

Even better was the ability to attach to the running ui or server (yes we had both), replace some of the code on-the-fly, and disconnect. Perhaps not so amazing these days, but it was way ahead of anything else I'd seen upto that point and pretty mind-bending for a C/C++ coder.
Who pays for that API and the bandwidth? What’s in it for the data provider? On LinkedIn, viewing the data now shows ads or at least prompts the viewer to join the network. With scrapping and free API access, how exactly does LinkedIn benefit for their work of hosting the data?
If your agent doesn't know the concept of contracts requiring a meeting of the minds, why is he an insurance agent?
Apple Music and Google Play, both applications made by managers hungry and desperate to generate profits but very unconcerned about the usability of the apps themselves. The sad thing is that you can't make apps that compete with Apple Music or Google Play. I would have already paid 100 dollars for a well made Winamp for me.
"Tim's Vermeer is a documentary film, directed by Teller, produced by his stage partner Penn Jillette and Farley Ziegler,[2] about inventor Tim Jenison's efforts[3] to duplicate[4] the painting techniques of Johannes Vermeer, in order to test his theory that Vermeer painted with the help of optical devices."

I figure this might be of interest to anyone looking at the Camera Lucida.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%27s_Vermeer
The best hagiography of St. Tcl is by Yosef Kreinin: https://yosefk.com/blog/i-cant-believe-im-praising-tcl.html

I wowed some students in my operations research class a couple of months ago by writing a few lines of code in the Python interpreter and popping up a window with a button in it with Tkinter. "You keep doing magic!"
Don't discount how important those problems are! Kudos to you for being intentional with them, and good luck. I wish you the best.
Is the Windows client offering better now? I'm still using the old alternative Tunsafe client on Windows because it is more stable than the official client on my laptop (got several bugs with sleep/resume/hibernation/long lived session).

Well... I just tried to install the latest official Windows client and got an error about Wintun missing when activating a tunnel :/
Ok, but how can you tell the two apart?
Wow, you believe companies actually pay taxes? Ok, a bit hyperbolic, but really. A half a century of deregulation and tax breaks isn't making this _worse_ for companies.
We just have different music listening processes. My process used to be supported (browsing my Library by Artist, Album, Genre, etc.) and got pushed to the side to support a process more like yours (Radio, Apple's curated mood playlists, etc.). I wish Apple's designers didn't limit my process in order to make room for other peoples'.
Should anyone buying that insulin have to divulge how much money they make a year and what other things they spend their money on, so that the manufacturer can figure out how much to charge?
It's simpler than you think. You take a pair of offsetting trades, and later you re-write history to book the losing trade on Sucker and the winning trade on Winner.
Exactly your backyard is of course yours. But you are not at liberty to use it to damage others. There's lots of rules about this. For example, opening a brothel on your own land is definitely not legal without considering how it affects the neighborhood.
I wonder if mouthwash is similar, if to a lesser degree? Every morning I use mouthwash until I've "felt" all the pain of it, which is when I am done. And I always hate it, and it never gets easier, but I always feel better afterwards because I accepted the pain.
I don't expect it to solve every problem :)
I understand how examples like this stick in people's minds, however, just because one company decided not to move forward with a technology doesn't mean that all companies will do the same.

Facebook has continued to use it, Microsoft has begun using it heavily, Twitter uses it on the web[0], Discord has been very happy with it -- and countless other examples.

[0] https://github.com/necolas/react-native-web
Having gone through rustlings while learning rust, I can say that apart syntax overview, they are almost useless.

I was much more successful by studying the rust book while trying to solve/implement not completely trivial pet projects.
I had one of those really nice 100GB music libraries that I had been ripping from CDs since 1998. (and Napster/WinMX/Kazaa/Limewire-ing because... I was young, stupid and poor) I had meticulously been fixing ID3 tags, and putting them into the folder structure that made me happy. Then one day, I did a new Mac setup, and forgot to tick the box that said, "let me manage my library layout" and BAM. iTunes moved everything around. 10 years of collating, and sorting, etc, GONE. It's my fault for not backing it up... but wow. I basically just stopped listening to that library. I now do Spotify.
No, his solution is to dial competition back up by reducing regulatory barriers to new entrants, competition being the thing that tends to actually produce durable price decreases in markets, and is, for instance, the reason virtually everyone in the country has a phone in their pocket that only rich people had just 12 years ago.

You can't coherently and simultaneously believe that markets are inefficiently pricing insulin too high and that the government should be imputing gigantic costs on firms that want to introduce new, unencumbered insulin products. The two thoughts aren't compatible.
On the other hand, I hate the general attitude of "don't question your doctor or do your own medical research; the doctor knows what's best"

Doctors are mortals too and can only have so much time to draw on info they crammed X years ago. Patients can quickly become more expert than GPs with regards to their own diseases, especially if they have months to research it.

Anecdotal example - my sister had a wierd skin condition in high school. My mom researched skin images and symptoms for hours and hours and concluded it was shingles. My Mom then brought her in and discussed her findings with the GP who scoffed and said she was far too young for it to be shingles. He then admonished my mom for doing her own research. Long story short and one embarrassed GP later, it was shingles.
Technically it's about the same speed, but idiomatic Rust programs are structured differently, which has its ups and downs.

I wrote an overview of Rust's performance characteristics: https://kornel.ski/rust-c-speed
It just says that web apps can't steal enough data from your phone.
Can anyone from Shopify directly address the points brought up in the Airbnb posts.
Of course there are possible mechanisms. There are heuristics to detect bots. The whole reason for this lawsuit is that LinkedIn blocked hiQ from scraping their website.

I'm also not necessarily talking about a technical defense against unwanted scraping. Write a law makes it illegal to do something like "scraping personally identifiable information and storing or presenting it non–anonymized", and prosecute companies who break it. I'm sure there are loopholes in that particular example, but the point is we can absolutely add shades of gray here.

> Open for everyone but those whose applications you don't like isn't open.

Openness should be a means, not an end. If we make something "not open" but it prevents 95% of undesirable uses and only 5% of desirable ones, is that not a tradeoff worth discussing?
About 20 years or so ago, I was hired at a large online travel site to assist in porting the entire codebase from a mix of TCL and C++ to (then new, popular, exciting) Java. I had a strong background in both C++ and Java at the time but had never even heard of TCL. When I first started looking at some of the code, I could see why it was a natural choice for building websites: the TCL syntax seemed to just flowed naturally into HTML. When I, as the “new Java guy” inevitably got blamed for the shortcomings of Java against the old TCL codebase, I was hard-pressed to defend JSP against it. I never really worked with TCL much, but even 10 years later, long after the migration was complete, the old hands still missed it.
Human interactions are complicated, and ethics is hard. This is why economists have jobs.

Consider the eminent domain problem: a government is considering taking someone's farm to build a road. Relevant facts include: how many people would benefit from using the road, and by how much? (Enormously complex question -- one has to model the rearrangement of businesses and homes as a result of the road's existence.) How much does the citizenry value property rights? (Enormously complex -- how do you quantify the benefit of property rights in the same terms as the benefit from physical goods and services? How do you model the effect of the precedent set by this particular case on future cases?) What is the value of the home in question? (Slightly easier but still not simple: Can you just compare this farm to neighboring farms? What if it's special, because the land is different, or its history, or its brand recognition, or for simple sentimental reasons?)

Outside of certain narrow, prescribed domains, I'm sure artificial ethics would require artificial general intelligence. When I see academic economists being replaced by computers, I'll believe it's within reach.
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and how you automated?
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I asked a supporter of the present POTUS what possible opposition candidate he would vote for. He said Oprah. His even more conservative wife agreed. I started to laugh before realizing they were completely serious.

It was so out of box to me that I think it speaks to how a large portion of the electorate prefers personalities, particularly those who “created” something.
Except they can't. You have to get FDA approval and jump through regulatory capture hoops. Even for drugs already approved on on the market. See Martin Skrelli's case of a generic medication easily made in science class. Sure it was cheap and easy to make but only his company had the FDA approval to sell it and the cost for a competitor to get approval was significantly higher than any potential profit.

People will die, that's the system we have. The only question is do we relent and give in to what amounts to terrorist demands?
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> Plus, history has taught us that retrofitting generics to existing languages with their ecosystems can be difficult and painful (see Java and to some extend C++).

I believe that C# also had retrofitted generics, but the reputation there doesn't seem nearly as bad. But I believe the generic containers there were intentionally not compatible with the original non-generic version.
It's trivial to fix that - the exterior of GP's house then. That's available for public viewing; is intended for it, but is private property. If you monetise livestreaming it and describe it in your ToS, GP can't repaint the front door, or get new windows?

Or perhaps slightly less contrived:

If I publish a monthly lowlights reel of my favourite sports team as a podcast discussion on where they can improve in all their lost games, and then they suddenly go on a winning streak for >1month so my USP is gone and I have nothing to talk about..?
> Theoretically, price caps can be set low enough that no one will produce and sell an item.

But studies show that the US currently pays as much as 7x what the UK does for insulin[0]. How can insulin be so cheap in some places but so expensive in others to the point that manufacturers stop making it?

0: https://insulinnation.com/treatment/u-s-pays-much-uk-insulin...
I have both Apple Music and Spotify, and i also dislike Apple's Music app;

First, it deleted ALL my playlists on a random day for no apparent reason, and i couldn't restore them from backups because apparently the playlists are stored in the cloud or whatever and not in a local file.

Also, after converting my personal library to "iCloud", Apple replaced all my specific versions of songs with crappy alternative versions, without notifying me beforehand. Very frustrating.

Spotify's user interface is so much better, i can't understand how anyone would prefer Apple Music. Also i much prefer Spotify's radio/recommendations.
> The older technology used to give you a reflection of it so that you could still feel it. Today, it’s reconstituted. It’s poorly sampled. It’s garbage that has less bits to save people memory, which is not even relevant anymore.

I noticed this last night when scanning photos I inherited: in the last 20 years or, ID photo prints became so cheap and fugly, they are JUST enough for a person to be identified, whereas ID photos that are older have an astonishing amount of detail in the print (and an absence of compression artifacts), that is not necessary to recognize the person, but makes them seem much more plastic and real, for lack of a better way to describe it.
Also, if there is a specific piece you’d like me to elaborate on, (I mean, beyond my sibling comment) I’m happy to do so!
This looks incredible! I've bookmarked this to check out later, but as an immediate question: do any of these support Apple Music/Spotify as a backend for downloading music? I'd prefer to stick with a monthly subscription for access to all music if at all possible.

Edit: also, you have an incredibly pretty website.
The thing I like the most about Tcl is Tk and Tk works nicely with Perl.

I've used Tcl in various cases in which I needed to provide the client with and executable. Freewrap gives you a reasonably sized executable (it's a lot better than having your end-user install Java or even Perl).
This would only explain the performance for the last 10 years. There were no "sucker" funds for the first 20.
If you use nuclear waste heat for district heating and load follow with steam bypass to make hydrogen or just charge batteries you can cover transportation and heat.
There are several negotiations ongoing in various committees of the UN, where the issues that surface in the "real world" are negotiated: information warfare (such as election interference), responsibility for information across borders etc. https://www.cfr.org/blog/united-nations-doubles-its-workload...

Basically, it's about trying to defend international norms from an onslaught of attempts to make states the primary defender of the informational realm, and thereby legitimise opression.

Yeah, first job for UN was coding a shitty CRUD system in order to keep track of HIV infections in East Africa.
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You decide which fund has which position after it books profits and losses.
No, it's the exact opposite. The limit of how much money you can put through a given strategy mean there is an antieconomy of scale that encourages lots of small firms.
change of gauge just means a rescaling. of course currency is the perfect example of a change of gauge for an expository piece like that arxiv paper (it's relatable). it doesn't mean there's some fundamental relationship to gauge theory to markets. arb free here gets encoded as the curl of the connection being 0 but that's just saying you can't loop through the currencies and come out with more money. it's tautological given your identifications - you get no further insight using the gauge theory. and besides the connection is continuous and currency swaps aren't.

you make the typical mistake of someone that knows a lot of math: you go up the ladder of abstraction from an example and think that the abstraction says something about the example. it doesn't - you've just hidden the simplicity of the example under the mathematical baggage.
Since most flagships now start at 256GB of internal storage, why can't you just copy all of your existing library to your phone and listen to it?