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Cities are economically efficient. If your praise for UBI is that it reduces economic efficiency (reducing your ability to pay for UBI) then I think you're going off course.
>Almost anything could be described as a fad. //

I think the key thing here is that MS Word had the features most people need back in Win3 days (possibly earlier?).

There's stuff you want to do that punch cards don't allow, eg duplicate a program virtually; but there's not stuff people wanted to do that menu based wordprocessor UI prevented.

Ribbons fine, but no advance for me over menus, on balance I prefer menus but that might just be familiarity and age.
I generally agree. Back in 80's, Romanian and Bulgarian construction workers lined up near "Park of Vuk" in Belgrade in hope to get daily construction site gig for cash. They aren't there since 90's when shit hit the fan.

Best wine I ever bought in supermarket was in Bucharest, not Bordeaux. Tastiest dinner I ever had in a restourant was in Sofia, not Paris. Best nightclubbing in Belgrade, not Berlin.

Yeah, I'm hardcore Balkanian :)
Supply and demand. Prices would likely go up, and you're right to point out that a chunk of it would go to landlords - but unless there is collusion, these landlords are competing with each other to find the fair price in the market.

UBI is generally trickle-up economics, and I think that's a good thing. That extra money is most important to the least wealthy people, and they will naturally spend it in their communities.
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> For me the most important thing is client can request log queue starting from specific log by id

Kafka clients can start at a particular offset ID within a partition.
Speaking from when I lived in the middle of a major city:

I am working and/or enjoying highly limited relaxation time. I am willing to pay a premium to have the food arrive, and have the time surrounding "getting food in hand" be minimized, so as to minimize work interruption or maximize current recreational activity.

It's essentially the opportunity cost argument, applied to utility measure rather than literal dollars.
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This is how the state health and labor departments work right now.

When the CDC recommends action for workplace safety in light of a strain E. Coli found in a crop grown in one state and sold in many, state health departments and state labor departments have full autonomy on how to handle the issue in their respective states.
So do what the GP was hinting at and drop support for Facebook login, drop the SDK, wash your hands and sleep better as well.
Awesome!! The bookmarks folder feature was one I really wanted to get into the app so I'm happy to hear you like it! Let me know if you have any features you'd like to see added and I can add them to my backlog.
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I agree. I am big supporter of some form of UBI but there needs to be some thinking along the lines of what services can or should be privatized. For example, I think housing is one that should be. I would prefer to give people rent checks than to provide public housing in food-desserts and bad school districts. But on the other side, are we going to reallocate budgets from the fire departments and let people subscribe to their own fire fighters? I don't think so.

Would be interested to hear if anyone has a ideas or a framework to think about this.
I don't understand why economists would hate it. The opportunity cost doesn't have to be dollars - it could be in universal "utility measure" units. If I value the utility measure of what I'm giving up to get food > than I value the utility measure of the cost of delivery, I don't want to give up that utility to go get food.
"jpeg2png gives best results for pictures that should never be saved as JPEG. Examples are charts, logo's, and cartoon-style digital drawings."

Interesting value proposition.

There may be equivalents for other misused file types/formats. The obvious one is the inverse case of photos saved as GIFs, but I imagine audio and text (eg. PDF malapropisms?) are possible too.
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That should be a tenant of UI design, especially for any kind of productivity software.

Think of the Blender, GIMP or Sony Vegas GUIs. Daunting the first time you open them, but after you've successfully finished a few creations you'll begin to appreciate their power.

For any serious work, overly-simplified GUIs are quickly exhausted. They may get a pass for IM or social media apps, but I can't think of many other useful applications.
You can implement that without the SDK. This is no excuse!
If you can't understand what Zookeeper is, I'd recommend reading Martin Kleppmann's book Designing Data-Intensive Applications (https://dataintensive.net/).

You don't need a CS degree to work in this field (I don't have one either!) but there are fundamental concepts you need to understand in order to make informed decisions when designing distributed systems.
They’re almost always money-losing ego flights.

BA1 rarely flies full. The ego is right there in the number. It’s a novelty.

SQ hasn’t operated business class only since like 2011. It has 67 business seats and 94 premium economy seats. And still probably loses money.

The one you didn’t mention was Stavenger to Houston which... only flies when oil is flying high. Because it’s not profitable otherwise.
In reality: Even if in a few hundred years we have the capability to travel at FTL to other solar systems, we will still be using GMT as "ship's time".
To make this more clear, the negative repercussions of UBI really center on the 'U' a lot of the time. What happens when everyone has more money for essentials?
I thought about the "sculpture taking a selfie" when I read this article: https://observer.com/2016/01/this-viral-image-makes-a-bold-s...

>The thing about this is that sculptures like these in art history were for the male gaze. Photoshop a phone to it and suddenly she’s seen as vain and conceited. That’s why I’m 100% for selfie culture because apparently men can gawk at women but when we realize how beautiful we are we’re suddenly full of ourselves.
The (bit of) article mentioned 2T, but the thing that was interesting was the 8 channel memory. My current TR4 boards are doing quad, so 2 banks of 4 slots. Sounds like a single set of 8... so wonder if this is a potential BIOS update on the sTR4 or if there is a new chipset on route?
You can download your chat backups as a readable archive file. If you have iCloud mounted, these files can be found in your iCloud folders.

Or do you demand that any file under your control that contains chat should be accessible, rather than just one of them?
It also specifically mentions that doesn't contain all the messages, and takes up to 3 days. You can export individual chats as texts, but not all the attachments, metadata, etc - and you have to specifically select each one.

The statement that "Facebook gives an unencrypted copy of your chat database to Google but will not give it to you" is true; I'm referring to the SQLite database. You can back it up locally, but it's encrypted and Facebook will not willingly give you the key under any circumstance (though it is possible to trick them by impersonating the app). However, the Google Drive backup is unencrypted. But Google won't let you download it directly either (although, again, you can trick them by impersonating the app).
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Not just rent either. Prices will rise across the board. The thing no one ever seems to mention when talking about wealth redistribution in purely financial terms is that there isn’t some untapped reserve of housing, groceries, transportation, or any other good that’s just waiting for more money to buy it. If we give people more money to buy these things, it might spur more production for some things that have an elastic supply, but it’s more likely to inflate prices. Billionaires don’t use their wealth (generally) to consume millions of times more bread than the average low-income person.
Wealth is not distributed equally either, those with a lot of resources find it much easier to maintain and gain wealth. Wealth provides a shield against consequences and accidents.
GP wasn't comparing just the name "Jim", it was comparing "Jim'll Paint It" to "Jim'll Fix It".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%27ll_Fix_It
To be honest, I'm a bit surprised that there's still the level of apparent interest in standalone LibreOffice that there is. I work somewhere that was almost exclusively a LibreOffice shop but we adopted one of the online services. Although we didn't really force people to switch, I don't know the last time I've seen a LibreOffice document even if I imagine some people still use it.
So, Facebook is willing to give up data on its users, it’s highest competitive advantage, to its largest competitor, in exchange for... some commodity backup disk space?
This reminds me of an old magazine article (Acorn User?) that described how to use a pair of BBC Micros with wired in LDRs and flashlights to transmit data wirelessly.
> It's bad UI if people just learn where to click.

That is literally the entire and sole purpose of a user interface.
I work for my state government, so the Enterprise-y Microsoft environment rules over everything else. I would guess most of the developers in my area (50+) aren't even very familiar with Linux.
Heck, we even run most things on Windows servers as for whatever reason they are cheaper for us to provision than Linux servers.
Do you really need the SDK for Facebook Login? It's just OAuth.
Temporary workaround for people who need Spotify as badly as they need oxygen (Eg: me, and my kids)...

Turn airplane mode on, open Spotify, go to Settings > Playback, set it to Offline, then turn airplane mode off.

At least now you can listen to cached music and browse the web again.

Longer term, install a Pi-Hole on your home network and block all Facebook owned domains, because they’re a scourge on humanity and your life will be much better void of their infection.
Give me 1 core for the Chrome shell and then 1 core per tab :)
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Especially given that Disney managed 11% conversion with their awesome catalog and brand recongition. It seems 8% isn't so bad.
I agree with this completely. It's a lot easier for me to read through a list of things in some category than it is for me to scan through a bunch of irregularly sized tiles for the icon and description of the configuration I need. For me, all of the pictures just lower the density of the information and cause it to take longer to parse every single time.

I also question the basic premise that the tabbed interface is somehow more intuitive for new users. Like many UI related assertions, absolutely no concrete evidence is being provided to support this point. I would think that it would be easiest for new users (as it is easiest for myself) to have options sorted into neat menus with uniformly sized elements where information is laid out in a vertical list (which is how lists are written in basically all left-to-right and right-to-left languages) so that it is easier to parse quickly.
>but is an 8% conversion rate bad for converting from free to paid?

It may be if they based their financials (revenue, debt, and investment) on higher numbers.

And I agree, it seemed obvious that this was going to crash and burn very quickly.
Yes, individual chats, and not a complete record last time I tried (no "when received / when read" times; no attachments). There's a simple SQLite file containing everything; They upload it to google drive unencrypted, but neither google nor facebook will give you an unencrypted copy.

When you make a local backup, it is encrypted, and Facebook doesn't think you deserve a copy of the key or an unencrypted copy.
? !0% is a pretty good conversion rate though.

That's a positive number. If they had designed their business around 'the next 2 years' and not 'everyone will buy all of it right away' well then maybe they stood a chance.
It's not just money, there were decisions made over the course of 30 years that got us to this point.

And, yes, those decisions were influenced by money but they were also influenced heavily by American Exceptionalist arrogance. Of course our culture will dominate theirs and they'll take their rightful, subservient place to us in the global order.

Never mind that they literally converted their own conquerers to Chinese culture TWICE (mongols/yuan, manchu/qing) in the last millenium.
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Exact benchmarks are going to vary per product, but yeah it's bad.

For free trials where you don't provide billing info in advance (e.g. a lot of software 30-day trials) 8% would be a great rate. Because the default do-nothing action is nothing.

But for subscription services where you do provide billing info in advance, 8% retention is pretty terrible. If 92% of people are taking the effort to cancel, when the default is to let the subscription charge... it's definitely not great.

(I'm assuming Quibi required billing info in advance, like pretty much every other subscription content service does.)
I’d be shocked to hear that only 8% of people convert with Netflix for example. Or Disney+ or any of the streaming services.
This is sort of already a feature coming to iOS 14, though it's really for switching an existing account to an Apple ID login, there's nothing technically stopping a developer from using it to switch a user from FB login connected account too.
Hi Chris! Looks great! Are you considering a domain blacklist feature? For example, when searching for C++ documentation, I rather never be served results from cplusplus.com.
I think how much someone should save vs. invest depends so much on the person's circumstances. How big does your emergency fund need to be to give you general peace of mind in life? What are your goals? How long term vs. short term are these goals? What's your career plan and/or trajectory? All these things matter a lot.
You can personally believe in mythical consequences, but it's not a good enough reason to write sweeping laws at the cost of infocalypse.
> we don't use it for tracking

True, you're just facilitating, not profiting.

Such a clear and obvious good reason to drop support and walk away.
I'm learning bass guitar. So I'm learning the basics and playing easy songs like 7 Nation Army. I also have the Rocksmith game to help me.

I'm also culturing mushroom spawn to grow shiitake and lions mane. This involves learning about mushrooms, lab equiptment, and sterile techniques. Of course I dont want to buy expensive equipment so I'm homebrewing a lot of equipment like a substitute for a laminar flow hood, or using 4oz mason jars instead of petri dishes.
No, paying poor people to compete with each other for city space is not efficient. In terms of efficiency, it's about on par with stacking cash in a pile and burning it.

City space is finite. We ration it for a reason. We could ration it differently, but we'd still have to ration it. Increasing density doesn't make it affordable to pack everyone in a single place (see: NY). Pretending the problem doesn't exist and throwing money at housing projects doesn't make it affordable to pack everyone in a single place (see: SF). The only way to make progress on the actual problem is to figure out how to deal better with being spread out.
Is the study not poorly framed? It attempted to see if police killings by race were explained by differences in violent crime. However, violent crime rates are reported by law enforcement. If black people are policed harder, they'll have greater rates of crime simply because they are caught more. Studies have found that white and black people commit crimes at the same rate, black people are simply caught more and punished more harshly.
> we tend, as a community, to focus on knowledge of tools and technologies over business results.

Ouch, that is both damning and true.
As I understand it, the basic income idea is based on that realistically almost everyone at some point uses government aid or finances (directly or indirectly). basic income is just making sure that when you need to make use of that aid, you don't have to jump through hoops, requirements and paperwork.

By giving everyone enough to live and not starve, you can do that. Without needing bureaucracy. It goes together with other great ideas like a minimum livable wage[0], pensions, public education and public healthcare.

If we are the rich west, why can't we just take care of everyone? we'll still be plenty productive. And if you want more go work, go study, go for competitive jobs.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_wage
On Android, this used to be the case, but then Facebook and Google reached an agreement in which the WhatsApp backup goes unencrypted, and doesn't count against your Google Drive quota.

You can't download it without impersonating the WhstsApp app.

Do you know if the icloud backup is encrypted or not?
Optimistically, or pragmatically?

An optimist would predict that some people will spend the extra $$$ on a car and a move to the suburbs; others will choose not to work at all, moving to cheap areas to live frugally; and others will find house building much more profitable as rents rise, motivating them to build more.

A pragmatist would say you're completely right, based on my country's many failed attempts to lower house prices by handing out money to house buyers.
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Has UBI ever worked? What does success look like with a UBI program?
I don't think so, but I also don't think that it's going to be popular opinion around foss/computer people

MS Office software is used around shittton of workplaces and from time to time in day-to-day life, so making people somewhat proficent at it is good for everybody except MS competitors.

I'm not sure what do you mean by teaching "UI" - they teach how to get things done with given software.
> What happens when everyone has more money for essentials?

Everyone doesn't have more money with UBI unless it is funded by printing money. If it's funded by taxes, or borrowing, or a combination, there is equal money being extracted as being injected.
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I don't use Pinboard (yet) but I have my own system of many thousands of bookmarks, and the reason is that I can't always remember stuff.

So if I see, say, a good online tool for checking an email for spam-like features, I might bookmark that with tags of 'email', 'spam', etc. Then if in future I don't need to Google "email spam tool" and find 1001 irrelevant things, I can just search my bookmarks instead and find that it was https://spamcheck.postmarkapp.com/ (I just did this very search as I couldn't remember what that tool was called).

Pretty much every valuable tool or site I've ever seen is organized in such a way that I can bring it up on a second's notice.

I also can bring up things I once thought were neat and that I've totally forgotten about just by searching for a tag.
I think we will be contending with this sort of barrier for a while on desktop software. 32 cores used to be massively parallel 10 years ago, 15 years ago it was nuts to think that we'd have that in a get-it-from-Newegg offering.

Massively parallel operations take a different focus on your MPI/bus/queue architecture than we've ever needed for desktop software. BUT I think what we've already seen is that in general purpose computing there will always be someone ready to consume resources as they are available.

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For example, I encounter this bug every day when I open Firefox (latest version) on i3wm. "Opened 9 years ago."

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=686747
Another service that "needs" zookeeper. Has anyone figured out a simple way to manage zookeeper for a small team?
Yeah I'm really not sure on this one. I was only at #7 for a brief moment during a weekday. I have to imagine the apps that are consistently high in the rankings are making much more on a daily basis. On my post on IndieHackers I included screenshots showing the #7 ranking (https://www.indiehackers.com/post/i-made-my-1st-sale-and-mad...).
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Yes it does, can confirm at least the toolchain (Major step 1), and gcc for major step 2. I'm actually working on getting aarch64 working as of right now. If it successful I'd prolly like to submit a lfs hint.
"But why would WhatsApp store it unencrypted on Google Drive, and encrypted (without giving you any access to the key) on your own SD card or local backup? It makes no sense."

The design is pretty clearly to support the bog standard backup use case of "something happened to my device, I got a new one, I want my old data".

It would be nice if they added an option to also encrypt backups, although I think it would be non trivial to design where the key material would live. (phone enclave? Multiple devices? adding/removing devices? etc) Not to mention just having the option might cause more harm than good if people turn it on and regret it.

I think their design philosophy here is likely "let's err on the side of smooth UX and let the 'end-to-end encryption is srs bzns' loonies go to signal"
Oh that’s great, thank you. Hopefully Apple will take it a step further somehow.
You can still work two consecutive days taking the sleeper train. Leave central London at 6.30 p.m. or later, have something to eat/drink, hop on the sleeper and get off at the other end in the centre of the city, bright and early.

Traditionally there has been a large jolt at Crewe where carriages and/or the locomotive gets changed on the train. This will wake you up. But if you are properly tired from working hard then sleep is no problem.

They changed the trains recently. They were with stupidly small 'bedrooms' with absolutely nowhere to put your stuff. Plus sharing a 'bedroom' with a random stranger in the other bunk is slightly weird when they snore and take up all of the available space.

The end carriage used to be a gambling den with an all-night bar. It wasn't supposed to be a gambling den but the large round table and movable chairs made it perfect for betting on card games. The crowd was a regular one for this, working on oil rigs in the North Sea. I liked this illicit activity not that I was involved.

I also did the plane option a few times, but this was not optimal if you were trying to get work done.

Rather than just take the tube across town to Euston for the sleeper train there would be a fraught journey out to the airport - Heathrow. So you would have to do this during working hours hoping not to get caught up in rush hour. At the other end you would need to get a taxi from the airport plus you would need to book a hotel room. There would be no working maximum hours at both destinations, any money saved by the plane would be wasted on taxi and hotel bills and it would also be a mad rush rather than sensibly paced. The 'bump in the night' at Crewe and the guy in the lower bunk snoring was a small price to pay.

Most plane flights are for leisure rather than business. What makes sense for work doesn't make sense for leisure, the cheap flight wins every time when it is you that is paying for it.
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