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> Web apps were promoted because Apple didn't have App Store yet,and Jobs always make grand statements to discredit things Apple doesn't have

In 2007 many developers wanted a native SDK, similar to the one that Apple used internally, and were extremely disappointed at WWDC when Jobs announced Apple's "sweet" solution of web apps on the iPhone. In retrospect, two things have become clear:

1) the iPhone's support for web apps was surprisingly good and pointed to a future of responsive, standalone web apps that look and feel like native apps, and web technology as an alternative for implementing standalone apps

2) devs asked for a native SDK, and Apple said no; a year later, Apple gave them the App Store, which wasn't just an SDK but a new marketplace for mobile apps which led to "there's an app for that", millions of iPhone apps...and eventual complaints about Apple's terms

> until the day they have them, (like mice with two buttons, or phones with working antennas)

The trackpad on my Apple laptop actually has zero buttons. The clicking feature is a haptic and auditory illusion.

Jobs was technically correct that the iPhone 4 antenna worked properly when you didn't bridge it with your finger, and as I recall the low tech fix was a piece of insulating plastic to prevent you from doing so.
Not infeasible no, I agree.

But, if you want to know what draconian policy really is, you can look at NZ. That place is no joke. It's state-managed isolation or a quarantine facility for at least 14 days and until you test negative.

There are a bunch of reports of people breaking out of these facilities after having been there for more than a month. Just zero chance this would work in America.
> the chance of a virus like SARS-CoV-2 suddenly arising is fairly low

I don't know if misleading is the right word, but this isn't the whole story and could in fact mislead people. What we should be taking from this breakout is that although potentially not that likely, they are becoming more and more likely. What's bothering me is all this focus on the wrong things. We need to already be preparing for the next spillover event for the next virus, but that isn't even close to being on the table, much less discussed or even mentioned. We shouldn't and can't be treating this as a singular event, but many are.

I learned this from the below article:

http://nautil.us/issue/83/intelligence/the-man-who-saw-the-p...

>> Are spillover events more common now than 50 years ago?

> Yes. EcoHealth Alliance, an NGO, and others, looked at all reported outbreaks since 1940. They came to a fairly solid conclusion that we’re looking at an elevation of spillover events two to three times more than what we saw 40 years earlier. That continues to increase, driven by the huge increase in the human population and our expansion into wildlife areas. The single biggest predictor of spillover events is land-use change—more land going to agriculture and more specifically to livestock production.
I don't know if people that are OK with chainsaw executions worry too much about FCC regulations.
Evidence is a very bad word to use here. It's a hypothesis from (mis) interpretation of data. Virologists say it's not unnaturally evolved

https://virological.org/t/tackling-rumors-of-a-suspicious-or...
I think most of the cost is because of the personal and inventory risk that everyone involved carries. With 100x markup, seizures at borders aren’t as big a deal.

And there are lots of people involved, each one adds markup.
When everyone knows that they can either get paid off or get killed most people choose to be paid off.
Yeah, but I'm stupid and didn't understand all the switches.
Not the person you're responding to, but bitcoin isn't that anonymous. Much more than a credit card, but less so than cash.
I'm curious as to why this was downvoted so much. This chap seems legit (I checked), so he's not one of these "instant Internet experts." He's probably not in line for a Nobel in medicine, anytime soon, but he does seem to fit his description.

I don't see much in his breakdown that is inflammatory.

I am not qualified to judge it on its merits, though, so maybe he puts forth some kind of bad science.
I'm not a lawyer, but I don't think that reasoning holds up. An uninformed reading of 17 USC 102(b) sounds like it directly contradicts your theory:

> In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work.

This seems like a good summary of a relevant case and the relevant copyright law[1]. The gist of it is that even if a work is copyrightable, that doesn't extend to facts contained within it (such as the ingredients and process required to make a dish).

[1] https://lizerbramlaw.com/2015/04/07/copyright-protect-recipe...
Coca tea is far, far too weak to even get a similar effect to cocaine. For example, It takes ~1 lb of coca leaves to get 1 g of cocaine using chemical extraction, so the tea doesn't even come close.

Most coke addicts will switch to amphetamines and booze, which gives similar dopaminergic effects.
in addition, here is the link for covering all changes on June 17, which shows that the section is question was not created or renamed on June 17, though it was substantially modified on that day : https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Excited_delirium&...

I don't know why it being substantially modified on that day would be important. Is there some significance to that date that I'm unaware of, other than it being "1 month ago today"?
You may be misunderstanding (or I’m not understanding your intent). Single-file components were made specifically to overcome those issues, as mentioned on the page you linked.
You don't win a metric.
In some cases, a country will support criminal activity in an enemy country, in order to undermine the later. For example, al Qaeda has made a lot of money from trafficking heroin to Western markets – even though al Qaeda thinks drug use is sinful, it justified that as another way of waging war against the West (get enough Westerners addicted to heroin and maybe the West will collapse). And the North Korean government has been heavily involved in drug smuggling and currency counterfeiting – partly that is just to make money, but I'm sure they justify it to themselves by the harm it causes to what they view as enemy states. Indeed, during World War II, Nazi Germany used concentration camp slave labour to counterfeit massive quantities of British currency, in the hope that they could cause inflation and damage to the British economy. So a country might be happy to host a VPN to help criminals in its enemy country evade detection.

(I'm not suggesting China is doing anything like that right now. But, even if they are not, I wouldn't rule out the possibility that some day the China-West relationship might deteriorate to the point that it becomes something they might consider. )
In Japan, it's not that the government forced everybody to wear masks - it's that people just did that, with nearly 100% conformance.

We aren't certain that it's masks. But they did little else (e.g. no lockdowns or travel restrictions); so it's either masks, or something unknown. Occam's Razor says masks are more likely.

There are other anecdotal cases about mask efficiency. E.g. there is a hair salon in US where two hairdressers got COVID, and they served 139 clients in 8 days, before testing positive; one was symptomatic for the entire period, the other one for 5 days. Per company policy, they wore mask consistently while working with clients.

During that time period, they infected 4 people - but all of these were their family or roommates. None of the clients they serviced developed symptoms then or within a month, and of the half who consented to testing, none tested positive.

Besides, we do have good reasons to believe that masks are efficient just based on physics and biology alone. We do know that masks are definitely effective at stopping saliva droplets, and we do know that droplets definitely spread COVID. So even if it has other vectors (e.g. aerosols), masks would still reduce the overall viral load, and thus chances of infection.
Its likely that Viruses like COVID-19 have come and gone over time, and been completely unnoticed.

The difference being now that we have much older and elderly populations, often with chronic health conditions and deficiencies, kept alive 'artificially' by modern healthcare.

For example, approximately 50% of COVID deaths are to people in nursing homes. Without this population, the virus would be put down as regular influenza/pneumonia, albeit an unusually virulent strain.
A few years ago there was a live news broadcast on Mexican TV of a running downtown street battle between the cops/feds/army and one of the cartels. I think it was in Juarez. We watched in real time as the state forces retreated, outmanned and outgunned.

It's so different to the reality that most of us inhabit that it's hard to imagine.
Important takeaway is they rewrote their website from scratch before even having the A/B testing. Probably one of the best arguments I've ever seen against writing bloated website code. We now know that software can hit a point where it's so slow, that it produces false metrics about its own slowness. Imagine how many people are still out there, who didn't write website B, and are thinking, oh my bounce rate is fine, I don't need to invest money in performance, since the numbers are telling me people don't care. Folks who trust numbers at face value, don't always know what they don't know.
I think it is possible to do tracking responsibly. I don’t really see a problem with server-side anonymized tracking used to improve the product.
(But yes, the blog author also talks about FB and Google pixel tracking, which is very different)
They could ship ... but to whom? Marketing and market timing and product-market fit. (Ref: why didn't Smalltalk take over the world)
Except there are rules, and when they are broken there are consequences. See Lehman Brothers and Enron.

Maybe there are lines in Mexico that cannot be crossed, but from an non-American perspective I struggle to see where those lines are.
We're working on it! Until then you can listen to some of Dr Yapko's sessions on his website here: https://yapko.com/audio/
Employees are already treated as unsecured creditors in the bankruptcy process (unless you're the UAW), and I think lawmakers are reluctant to meddle with employment contracts in a situation which is already quite complicated.
Thank you. I'm fed up with people posting paywall stuff without (as per HN guidelines) a link to an open version.
The point isn't tech scalability - the point is that scaling to that many visitors requires payment, and many cloud providers have anti-fraud mechanisms in place to prevent scammers from doing this quickly and easily without being traceable.
React is built to interop with "general" JavaScript, so in theory you can use it with other rendering frameworks. I used React and D3 all the time.

Performance-wise, it IS better to stick to a single framework, so I see what you mean. Web components being implemented in the browser do mean the user doesn't have to download any more JS.
FoxyProxy. Dedicated servers for each customer so speed is really good (at least for me). Video streaming sites are guaranteed not blocked. And here's US Secret Service subpoena for logs that was handled well:

https://blog.getfoxyproxy.org/2017/11/04/secret-service-subp...
Luc Montagnier is the guy who claimed to invent a way to teleport DNA using electrical signals. His paper was so bad, so stupid and and ignorant, I initially took it for satire. It might be the worst research paper I've ever read, and it was universally mocked by everyone except supporters of homeopathy.

Speaking of which, he also buys into the homeopathy thing. Yes, he did important work on HIV, but given his overall track record, his support of COVID conspiracies should make you less credulous, not more.
Im starting to trust Mozilla less since they discovered the camera in Firefox keeps recording even when you lock your phone and that they wont fix it until October....
And one of the best.
all of your traffic? Or just insecure DNS/HTTP requests?
It seems to me that they want Internet protocols to support turning off encryption. This will help PRC Red Party and other fascist regimes to spy on citizens and control what they see.

For example, PRC Red Party installs spyware on phones in places where Uyghur and Tibetan people live. If RFC 8799 and subsequent proposals are adopted, PRC Red Party could implement their spying simply by marking the local mobile network as a "secure zone", causing all phones to disable encryption, and then collecting the unencrypted private info from the network. Their device authentication protocols could be used to prevent folks from using foreign-produced devices which preserve privacy.

I believe PRC Red Party will make proposals that are more and more sophisticated. Eventually, they will produce extremely useful and desirable technology which harms democratic society in subtle and insidious ways. The democratic world will have to choose between values and profit.

We need to start this conversation now. Folks who understand tech deeply must participate and lead this conversation. It is necessary for preserving democracy and preventing worldwide fascism and suffering.
> For all you know, your government is running that VPN you’re using

The NSA is simply not most people's threat model, and if they _are_ running it, it probably means that someone shadier is not. I'm using a VPN because I don't want my ISP to see what I'm browsing, don't want end sites to know who I am, want to watch American Netflix, and because the country I'm in tries to block all adult sites. The NSA is welcome to all of this traffic _shrug_
Yells 'peterwwillis on the internet ;)
Where in the US is the health care system overwhelmed?
Of course they do.

How else do you get people to stick around on a sinking ship? You and I wouldn't stay out of some sense of altruism, why would they? Heck, tech companies have to vest stock options over 4 years because most people would take the money and run.

What does everyone think happens when everybody quits because there's no reason to work there? The money is just returned to investors? Even if that's all you did, you still need people who...

- know where the money is
- how to distribute it
- how to stay compliant with the law
- how to make sure oversight is in place so that people don't straight up embezzle
- keep outside players away that would try and take equity

Why on earth would someone stick around for such a sucky job, if the reward for doing well is getting laid off because the company tanked. Of course you need to pay people to stick around
Can't both be true at the same time? Just because there are ill-advised legislations in effect doesn't mean that your responsibility as a consumer goes out the window.
They could mean good/bad in terms of business acumen and competence, not morality.
I don't remember lockdowns being touted as a solution. I always understood it as a delaying tactic so things could be brought back under some control. Flatten the curve and all that. NYC didn't eliminate the virus but they've kept their curve flat so it's not getting out of control again.

This delaying tactic is all we have for right now, its likely saved thousands of lives, and that's not nothing. What is your plan for the next stage?
They aren't funding armies and bribing governments by skimming off the avocado market. If you take away 90% of their revenue, the cartels' power will shrink quickly.

All crime is not fungible.
I'm a backer of that project and was looking forward to doing bare-metal experiments once the RISC-V alternate SOC comes out (I have implemented some of the RISC-V ISA in Squeak). Are you also a backer? It would be dope to get this working on the ARM cortex
If I were the defense attorney for an accused embezzler, I’d make a big deal about the fact that the victim refuses to testify.
Nah, they pursue the problems that are relevant to them, which are a very small subset of the problems being tackled globally... so you can still win your particular race at your snail pace, if they are not running?
I tried to upvote your parent comment earlier today but the action did nothing. Your karma did not increase.

I was able to upvote it just now, though it's still in the gray.

I have noticed that a minority of comments seem to be "locked" against voting for a certain period of time. I have previously found unvotable comments like yours, spotted them again hours later, and found that voting worked again.

I haven't been able to spot any common patterns in these temporarily unvotable comments. I wonder if there is some sort of cooldown timer on voting for comments that have received heavy voting in both directions. I'm not entirely satisfied with that guess, because IIRC some unvotable comments I have encountered in the past appear to be anodyne and unlikely to have attracted prior vote controversy.

There's also a limit on how frequently your votes will affect another user, but I hadn't voted on any of your other comments in the past day.
Are you open sourcing it?
I think people who talk up Microsoft's phone efforts must have been wearing blinders. I won't argue that Microsoft's phone was decent at one point, maybe even "Great" for a short while. But by the time they had a decent phone, they'd already burned out all the good will people had towards them on Mobile. Microsoft had... 4? Different mobile operating systems over the 15 years or so they were selling mobile OSs. I honestly lost count.

Microsoft had WinCE then Windows Mobile for quite a few years before the iPhone, then Apple released the iPhone, Windows Mobile started hemorrhaging market share... so Microsoft dropped WinMo like a bad habit, leaving developers and users out in the cold. STRIKE 1

Windows Phone 7 came out with piles of great press and hoopla, but notably, it didn't support older hardware so existing owners were left in the lurch. Developers were also screwed because WinPho7 wasn't compatible with older apps. It was a pretty interface with no software, no users, and no developers. It also had some serious shortcomings, ironically iPhone enterprise support was much better. WinPho didn't work well with Exchange server or Office. But that's OK because you didn't have long to be frustrated with WinPho 7 because 2 years later, they released Windows Phone 8 which dropped support for all old hardware. That's right, if you bought a brand new Windows Phone 1 year after launch, you couldn't run the next major release of the OS.

But the few people who managed to stick around after getting screwed over twice... boy did they love their Windows Phones.

After a certain point, there were just no developers, OEMs, or end users left around willing to be Charlie Brown to Microsoft's Lucy.
> Hertz - which recently terminated more than 14,000 workers - paid senior executives bonuses of $1.5 million days before its May 22 bankruptcy, in part to recognize the uncertainty they faced from the pandemic’s impact on travel, the company said in a filing.

Compensate the C-suite for confronting uncertainty, but fire the workers.

This seems like another variant of "brutal capitalism for the poor, socialism for the rich". Normally we hear it for governments bailing out companies but not (normal) individuals, but here it's companies ensuring their highest paid remain well-paid and thousands of workers are fired.
> China owns $1.1 trillion in our debt, and I've just directed the Secretary of the Treasure to deny any future interest payments to them! #MAGA

Boom, the dollar collapses.
> The scientific community widely agrees that the virus was not artificially engineered.

Artificially engineered isn't really the question; the questions are 'is this a lab escape?' and 'if this is a lab escape, did the virus work so well on mammals pre-experiment?'.

The scientists have a massive incentive not to believe that the virus is a lab escape until the evidence is overwhelming. This is a global disaster, if it was a lab escape there will be dire consequences for the funding and regulation of level 4 biosecurity centres and potentially global trade & travel for countries that have them.
Perhaps it would make more sense to you if the headline were phrased: "On eve of bankruptcy, US firms restore a fraction of executives' previous salaries with retention bonuses, now that their options and RSU's are worthless, which of course made up most of their salaries." But that doesn't sell clicks as well to people who already have their minds made up.
I interpreted "the system" of your GP as wider society, not just the normal public education system, because of the first paragraph.

Also, yes Tara was given lots of autonomy early in her education, but she was completely unprepared for the world even at BYU (her undergraduate university), she struggled through many years of therapy, and she claims she was admitted to Cambridge because of luck (on top of lots of talent and hard work) because she still needed lots of remedial coursework to catch up. One interesting quote from a (TED?) talk she gave is that her early childhood was spent reading early Mormon scripture, so she spoke and wrote with the character of a mid-19th century LDS prophet when she arrived at university.
I think a better naming choice would have been "Uprightened Trees" :)
Odd.

I know what you're talking about since I have experienced it before, but I have not encountered the problem often in the past year or so. Perhaps you were just using it during a dry spell from the NewPipe developers or F-Droid. A number of useful features have been added during the past year, such as the ability to view live streams. A few quirks also exist, such as feeds displaying videos that are posted in the future.

As for the recommendation engine, I prefer gaming it. NewPipe is wonderful because it does not feed it. I have a special profiles setup on my desktop for when I want to feed it. This approach works wonderfully for discovering new channels, allows for multiple profiles to get recommendations for different viewing interests, avoids polluting recommendations based upon a single odd-ball view, and allows finer grained control over the information that I feed Google.
Well, that's just what they would want you to think, isn't it?
“What we currently have going on right now is a complete collapse in confidence. So many commenters are debating the death rate, case counts, hospitalizations, etc, which is all besides the point.“

That’s what happens when political parties and now the president and his administration are spreading misinformation as long it helps their short term needs. Nobody believes anything anymore. I am already worried about the election. No matter the result, a significant part of the population will most likely not trust the results. I don’t think a country can survive such distrust without significant damage to its institutions.
Almost always. Have you met reviewer number 2? I suppose he's right most of the time, and feels vindicated as a result. I'm just troubled by the the modulus, the work of merit, rare and precious as it is, that suffers from the statistically justified bias for false negatives.

I can certainly understand opposing an idea for diverse reasons, valid or invalid, but I can't understand how it is that some people seem to feel that opposing ideas on the basis of the balance of their features, rather than digging into the conditional structure and examining their merits and demerits, is something to be proud of, rather than ashamed. I consider that many of that group may have been anti-maskers as well, and that eventually evolution will take care of it, but I probably won't see the benefit of that.
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