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Office 97 can be installed on 64 bit windows 10 with original installer. I have done it just last month and it runs without any problems... and it is fast.
The edges. There are people who want to live in the city who are forced to live outside (a suburb) who cannot vote in the local election but can vote in the state election. Also rural farmers do not like seeing their neighbor's land turned into a subdivision (this is a form of NIMBY of course - more than a few of them lost bids to buy the subdivision and keep farming it), so those on the edges are also likely to vote this way
A working one is much harder to find, the hard drive is signed to the individual unit so when it breaks it's impossible to replace and you end up with a brick.
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Do you plan to open source it and adopt e.g. Qt-like business model? e.g. charge for service, not tools (except probably some enterprise chart or reporting components).
Thanks -- this prompted me to actually read Citizens United, that's a really good call out.

Here's another one for you:

Bloomberg is hiring campaign workers at a reported $6K a month with three catered meals a day. As a result, other campaigns are having trouble hiring enough people in every state, because there are only so many idealists in the world.
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Since when is homeownership a requirement for retirement savings? What about IRA's, 401ks? That they chose to stake so much on a more volatile asset is not the fault of the people around them. Should cities sacrifice their urban well-being, pushing people out on the streets and guaranteeing lower-income people can never live there, for the sake of some elderly residents who put their eggs in one basket?
> More neighbors also means more customers for local businesses, which means more shops and restaurants in walking distance

Big reason I moved from Ljubljana, Slovenia to San Francisco. There’s just more stuff here and it’s amazing.

The economies of scale are insane. I have more good restaurants within walking distance now than I used to have in the whole city.
Do yourself a favor, don't buy real estate in California unless you are rich. It's not financially worth it for the majority of people out there. If you must live in California I'd suggest to rent and invest your money instead.

Then come up with a plan and move to a more affordable/sustainable state or country.
The house that the owner lives in is not an asset. It's a durable consumer good.

Wanting your home to appreciate in value forever is like expecting your 20-year-old car to sell for more than its sticker price. It really only works for art installations, created by a collaboration of architect, engineer, and builder, with some living space inside.

Framed in these terms, most families do not have any significant assets, and a hefty chunk of their resources dedicated to maintaining their gigantic shelter-providing consumer appliance.
Can I DoS a candidate by spending a ton on a crappy ad that mentions them? Or heck, even an attack ad against them would count towards the hard cap.
I think if you search in the gmail app, they'll turn up.
I have a coworker who mentioned that he doesn't think my town needs libraries. "I never use them, so why should my taxes go to supporting them?" Trying to have a productive dialogue with someone who doesn't understand the idea of community can be a challenge.
If the city up zones your suburb can empty out making things better for you. It is only those who like their level of busy not far from downtown that will get pushed out.
At a talk a few years back MIT prof John Leonard showed video he took on his commute back and forth to Brookline to highlight all the points where it was going to be really hard to get self-driving to handle. (He was very skeptical about getting to full autonomy before it was fashionable to be so.)

It's not just cities but spend a few hours walking around Boston or Manhattan and just make a note of all the crazy things drivers do. (Sometimes by necessity.)

(Unprotected lefts in busy traffic are one challenging area. There's a certain social aspect to it and the right decision in one set of circumstances is either way too aggressive or conservative to the point where you'll never turn in another.)
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I wonder how many peaks Apple TV+ users is required to hit that. The average bitrate is 30mbs so maybe 834 simultaneous 4K streamers.
For the six month contract I did at Apple, they were violently opposed to using any GPL software in any way, shape, or form.

Just because you can do something, doesn't necessarily mean you should. That rule applies to the implementation of corporate policies regarding licensing, too.
A Java based network filter on i.MX6 SoloX (2019)
Yes, SSL.

That makes me wonder... I wonder if there is a process by which providers would sign certs to individual ISPs and providers to let them intercept low/medium security content like streaming.

Like, if Netflix is going to serve streams over TLS for philosophical/privacy-from-government/privacy-from-wifi reasons, but wants to lets ISPs cache data, they could create a certificate for each ISP/organization and provide the keys to that org.

Then, if NF can identify you are coming from a particular ISP, they can have your content served from the ISP's netflix subdomain, and the ISP could intercept/cache/re-encrypt the data.

Just a thought.
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> I’m not sure why Amazon didn’t just block non-verified-purchaser reviews, increasing spammer costs significantly.

I don't think it'd do much good. There are already large groups that subsidize verified purchases to get 5 star reviews. I read an article about it, confirmed some investigation on Facebook of on my own.

Basically someone runs a Facebook group where sellers advertise free product, promising Paypal reimbursement of the purchase price in exchange for reviews. There are at least (or were, I haven't checked recently) hundreds of Facebook groups across many languages with thousands of members each doing these activities. The reviewers are randos who like free stuff, and I don't think anyone could detect them if they only casually participate in the review scams.
Not sure why a coffee company is a “tech startup”.

(Though TBF Amazon didn’t feel like a tech company in the 1990s)
I am a traffic engineer and one of the things that I do regularly is write 10 year traffic plans for small to medium sized cities, think 60,000 people max. When a lot of the self driving hype was really kicking off, I was told to make sure to incorporate them into the plans. This mostly consisted of a few sentences about self driving and that was it. When modeling future traffic growth, the client would always say, "these numbers a pretty high, do you thing self driving cars will lower them?" To which I would respond that it is doubtful. I am in the rural west where cars are a large part of life. Ride sharing and public transportation are rarely a thing outside of the core of towns. The idea of a self driving car that one doesn't own would be very odd to a lot of people in this area.

On top of the social side of things, the roads are not in great shape in northern climates and many of the visual cues that we use to drive can be missing or very hard to see for many miles. Striping delineating the edge of the road often gets worn away over the course of a few years and doesn't get re-painted for a few more. Some major roads connecting two towns may not even have a paved shoulder, just 24 feet of asphalt with a stripe down the middle. (For reference, 12 foot lanes with 4 foot shoulders are the general norm for this part of the US.) All of this and I have still yet to touch on weather.

I look forward to self driving cars. However, I don't think that they are going to solve many of our traffic issues outside of urban cores. For me, the incremental steps to reach self driving will result in fewer injuries and fatalities on our roadways, and that is a win.
"not in my backyard" is exactly what you describe- the stereotypical liberal response of "yes, we should build affordable housing, but not HERE, where I live- put it somewhere else, where I'm not affected by them- can you imagine all the crime that the Poors would bring to such a nice area".

in other words, virtue-signalling about vague, general principles of increased development...buuut when that development actually impacts them, well! That particular project is just flawed for various reasons. The general idea is good! But it won't work here.

It's the equivalent of the boss who totally supports unions but, you know, a union just wouldn't be right for our particular company culture.

So, yeah, "yes in your backyard" is just the original definition of a NIMBY.
Stillwell's _Mathematics and its History_ is, imo, excellent.
"Apple Edge Cache (AEC) is Apple supplied and managed hardware for deployment within our ISP partners networks to deliver certain Apple content directly to our shared customers."

This sounds horrifying.
I believe only "recommended extensions" for Firefox are tech reviewed, which this one is not.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recommended-extensions-...
Yes, of course. My point is just that there is also no obvious logical point at which to make the cutoffs in those cases either.
> For example, its still impossible to paste an image from google search onto twitter...

I can do this on Windows 10 using Firefox.

I agree that SD card slots can suck -- I had one that the pins got snarled and trapped a card.
I don't know about iPhones, but the option still appears in Signal for Android even if you don't use it as the default SMS app.
I can't be sure, but:
- It's possible to deliver SSL without putting the keys on boxes; of course there's a need for a network connection to the servers holding keys. It's a tech pioneered by cloudflare, can't rememeber the name.
- or, there's no SSL for the content, which is signed otherwise (like ubuntu or debian repos).
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* Typical school pickup/dropoff situations where cars will line up, often in the parking lane, to get to the pickup/dropoff spot. Sometimes the line goes around a corner.
Qwilt and similar products are really neat, but I don't think they've entirely panned out. The idea to do transparent caching at the network edge was hurt by the move to TLS everywhere, and there's a lot less cost incentive when things like Open Connect exist (eg. if Netflix will give me a rack that offloads XX% of my total traffic, how much additional traffic do I need this transparent cache to offload before it's cost effective for me?). Without transparent caching the economics get trickier.

It seems like their niche is as an easy to deploy, more traditional looking CDN that can run out in the RAN, which does still have value.
Why is it that paying influencers to push agendas (business or political) not considered advertising. I can understand that facebook shouldn't be held accountable for legitimacy of this type of advertising but if an instagram or facebook account has a large enough following they should be treated as advertisers themselves and scrutinized accordingly
Ideally we'd get rid of the presidency and vote for people at the cabinet level instead.
In college, all of my electronics were in my bedroom as well as the communal router. I taped off as many LEDs as I could (even the router wall wart had a big blue light) and disconnected any LEDs that had leads (like inside a PC case). There were only a few instances of LEDs that I actually needed so those got white electrical tape over them to diffuse the light or swapped to red if the tape diffused it too much to see.

I don't mind having a nightlight on when I sleep, I think it helps me fall asleep quicker rather than pitch black but bright blue lights that fill the fucking room with light are the devil. I have much less electronics in my bedroom now since I now have personal space other than my bedroom to put stuff.
Assuming non-containment (starting to look more and more likely), then an unknown fraction of the population will get sick.

The Diamond ~~Princess~~ Petri Dish Experiment, shows that at least 218 out of 3700 people are susceptible ( > 5.9% ).

If we knew how many of these would eventually need respirators then we could estimate a lower bound on respirators for a 330M population.

Working the other way around: 33000 respirators / 330M = 1 / 10 0000

so if 5.9% gets infected and we can only give 0.01% a respirator, then at most 0.17% of covid-positive people can be given a respirator.

This assumes they all need their respirators simultaneously (pessimistic) but also assumes the Petri Disk experiment stays at 5.9% (optimistic)

EDIT: what kind of query did you use to find the number of respirators in the US? How can I find similar numbers for European countries? How hard is it do DIY a respirator?

If we look at the international statistics for dead and serious / critical people per confirmed case, and interpret that as the fraction needing a respirator we get:

22 / 523 = 4.2% of covid-positives seem to need respirators

So we expect 4.2% * 5.9% = 0.25% of the population to neeed a respirator, while we only have enough for 0.01%, so assuming perfect triage of who needs it and who doesnt, 24 out of 25 who actually need one won't get one.

It seems like we really are heading to a CFR of 4.2% * 24 / 25 such that there will be at least > 5.9% * 4.2% * 24 / 25 deaths, where the 5.9% can only rise depending on Diamond Princess evolution...
Or you could not do that. Did he not just show that his way works just fine?
dude i didn't even know there was like a whole "developers" universe to netflix.
But we're talking about what happens after that GHz RF is absorbed by the tissues/fluids in the body. That becomes much more complex. It's not unlike the laser attack on MEMS microphones or a crystal radio powering a speaker in the audio range after receiving AM RF at 1Mhz.

Realistically we've been beaming our brains for decades now without a glut of brain tumors, but we might just be getting lucky, and if we don't know what to look for it could bite us later.
You are oversimplifying. Are you OK with someone opening hog farms all around your house? Setting up fracking rigs? Building a factory and running heavy industry?
This is an issue that actually doesn't align very well on the liberal/conservative spectrum. Most of the YIMBY folks I've met tend towards the liberal end of things, but there are also "market urbanism" groups out there that are fairly libertarian. I've had great conversations with local politicians of all stripes. There are both liberals and conservatives who are very NIMBY.

In other words, it's not a very useful way to look at the issue in my opinion.
It’s pretty simple. If I own property, I should be allowed to build a home for myself on it, subject to relevant zoning. You, and adjacent property owner, should not be able to deny my private property use.

Yet this is not the case in California.
Wow, seems like there was a leaps-and-bounds approach instead of an incremental style with that building. Their rationale may have been to think of a car-less society?
That is correct. So people who got into the "stock market" are being protective about their investment. Unless there is a path to offer them relief they will always vote against diluting their hard earned money. Most of the people who didn't get in often approach the problem as, "yeah, screw them, make it good for me", and then act surprised as to why they don't get the votes. But it seems like you understand the issue.
> You could always manually enter your DNS servers in your iPhone's settings.

Can you do this for mobile connections? From what I've been able to see, you have to set DNS settings on a per SSID basis, and that particular menu doesn't exist when connected to the cell network instead of wifi.
This reminds me of the old SGI postmortem memo [0] which said "optimists tend to be promoted". I've seen the exact scenario described in the 'management issues' section of that memo played out several times, so it resonated with me when it came out and I still see it happening today.

[0] http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/tirix/embarrassi...
For a very informal tour, The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu is a science fiction novel where the history of mathematics, physics, and computation play a large role. So much so that I think it puts many people off the book and its entire trilogy.
The problem is "news" organizations have unlimited "spending". So they are free to talk about how great everyone but Bernie/Yang/Tulsi is. They're free to leave them off polling results, exclude them from debates, etc. The marketing value of this type of thing is larger than the combined ad spend by the campaigns or superpacs.

Someone did a pretty good job of cataloging this phenomenon for Yang. Bear in mind, this is just the most blatant visual removal of him from conversation and doesn't include the way they frame discussions verbally.

https://vocal.media/theSwamp/a-visual-history-of-the-yang-me...

If you're going to restrict campaigns, you must also control corporate press lest they just be given all the power to choose our leaders.
I see the current Tesla system in similar light, it does very well in every day common situations and some of what it does is damn good; driving down country roads with curves and such is exhilarating but still safe.

Now currently the Tesla system does give you a much more clear idea of what the car does see around it but still no option to see what it fully records; there are means to get this footage but its not something every driver can.

Now my TM3 goes in at the end of the month for the hardware 3.0 upgrade which will allow it to process more of what it sees and also relay that to me. The difference in what other's have show in just what the car relays back to the driver exposes just how much information has to be processed.

Then comes the simple fact, the real issue is that the hard decisions are ones we make all day, driving by exception. We make so many choices that are exceptions to the rule we are numb to it, it is nearly subconscious.

Then the other issue, other drivers. Not just people who drive badly but those who will go out of their way to cause self driving cars issues. with the number of people on the road you will find them with too much regularity. More might pop up if regulation comes down which demands self driving cars or semi autonomous cars obey all traffic laws, especially speed limits. On some roads I drive just obeying the limit is enough to impart rage on other drivers.
Against your one paper supporting the idea, there have been 100s of studies that do not. I’m all for science doing investigations, but we can’t accept a premise because it feels right.
I don’t see a clear difference between Swift/WSJ telling you something and your FB feed telling you something. I think Gervais had some truth to what he was saying. Famous people have much more gravitas than they deserve (given any expertise on any particular subject they feel is worthy of advancing). I hope you appreciate the irony in this quip.
Completely right, it would've been more correct to say "saves money" and not specifically call out transit.
Agreed. Democracy doesn’t work when you can send different messages to different people, and pretend that your platform is specialized to each case. Big data targeting helps them do this, but even regional targeting is probably fine.

I should know if you’re telling ____ he can have X before I vote for you to represent me.

That being said, so many people are adverse to critical thinking (on both sides of the American political split) that this feels like a non issue to begin with. So whatever.
Interesting. Is there a way to import Telegram sticker packs into Signal? Or convert them automatically? There is an enormous amount of these packs readily available on Telegram but lacking on Signal, after all.
This shouldn't be downvoted. The relative benefits to the ISP and Apple are part of a negotiation. Pinning the price to 0 means they're only interested in ISPs who will not be too demanding.
Placebos work. If that's what you want, cool. If you want to figure out if RF affects sleep, that's cool too, but you'll need to double blind the experiment. Because placebos work.
Note that peering != edge cache.
I come up with the smallest viable project I can think of that requires the given knowledge, that I'm also genuinely excited about building. I then try to get started, usually fail right away for lack of understanding of the "framework" parts of the problem, and then go off in search of examples, always keeping the goal in mind of getting my small project working.

I find this is applicable to a wide variety of subjects. I absorbed math in high-school with the mindset that I wanted to write a small theorem prover, for example.
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The hassles of having tenants make it not worth the extra income for a lot of people who would only have one. There are real examples of tenants destroying a place and moving out leaving the landlord a large cost to fix the place up. There are real examples of tenants using various discrimination and tenant rights laws on false claims to get months of cost free living. I make no claim as to how common it is, but if you are landlord stuck with the evil tenant it doesn't matter if is only 1 in a million who is that evil.
A neat secret about these cache devices is ISPs that charge for usage. The data the customers use comes straight from the ISP's Central Office, not from "The internet" at all.
You're entering into a bit of circular logic, there. Why should someone trust you in this case? How would anyone know you have their best interests at heart? Journalists have more accountability than a hardline online BB commenter.

Where's the line?
This was exactly my same thought.

One could argue that a lot of the so-called "research" that is conducted at government subsidized laboratories in the United States like MIT Lincoln Laboratory provides a more modern example of this same form of "passive aggressive" workplace resistance.

For example, the former technical director of ballistic missile defense at MIT Lincoln Laboratory used to build miniature Rube Goldberg-style contraptions and display them in his office just to ridicule the military's stupidity for wasting billions of dollars of taxpayer money on useless R&D programs like "Star Wars," which hearkens of course all the way back to the Reagan era.

He famously once told a Lincoln employee that he instructed his subordinates to bill hours against government programs that they never worked. Unfortunately for the laboratory, however, this particular employee chose not to join him and his colleagues in their "passive aggressive" form of workplace resistance.

Instead, he reported the fraud to the FBI, in connection with this famous investigation:

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/401412/postol-vs-the-pent...
This is exactly the approach taken by F-Droid (for Android apps). All apps available on F-Droid have been automatically built from a publicly available repository, and you can either download the binary (APK) or the source tarball that they used to produce it. Updates are manual.
OK, I am puzzled: 2D printing is a dark art, but 3D printing is not?

And comparing this to Chinese PCB manufacturing services is weird, too. If you want double sided, with vias, down to tiny traces, with plating and solder-stop and text, then you may be willing to pay the shipment and wait a few days.

Yes, I admit that this is a fun method. But what is the advantage over laser printing and then, say, using UV light to transfer to a photo PCB?

Honestly, I do not get why laser printers are a dark art, please explain!