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Another no-name website quoting bellingcat does not convince anyone to believe bellingcat. It's easy to falsely malign an old man (who doesn't employ a PR firm) online (and especially in wikipedia). Postol's five decades of experience still stacks up pretty well against Higgins's several years playing video games on the basement couch. (British unemployment benefits might be more generous than ours?) It is interesting that he is the authority who will put his name to these zany conspiracy theories. OPCW have enough whistleblowers to form a band, as one can read at Grayzone linked above or from the original sources. [0]

One less charitable than I would wonder just why you're so committed to this exhaustive parroting of trivial military-industrial complex dogma, to the extent that you'd accuse a random pacifist (not "Leftist") of secretly (so secretly he doesn't himself know it!) supporting genocide. USA doesn't fight in wars in order to "stop genocides". (Again, we were ISIS allies in Syria and even sometimes in Iraq. That is not to mention the hell-world we created in Libya; a less powerful nation would certainly have been called before the Hague for that pile of atrocities.) We fight in wars in order to transfer public assets to armaments manufacturers and to their puppets in government and media, and those puppets will employ any pretext in pursuit of that goal. We gave the publicly-admitted portion of our military $750B this year. The citizens of USA (and everyone else) would be safer if we spent a third of that.

[0] https://wikileaks.org/opcw-douma/document/20190227-Engineeri...
True. Although with the increasing rate of changes, there would be a point where people can't re-skill themselves faster than their jobs are replaced by AI or software. Imagine change to a completely different job every 5 years. Hopefully societies are mostly well-off to give people food while they are busy learning another craft that hasn't been made obsolete.
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Look like they aren't doing payment processing. They're partnering with Paypal and Shopify. So by "commission-free" that would mean the commission on top of payment processing?
> Well, it matters because everyone said they wouldn't do this. The weaponization of space is something we said we wouldn't do.

Why does it matter? What are the first-principles reasons for why firing a missile from a satellite into a satellite is a problem, but firing a missile from an aircraft carrier into a satellite is not? It should also be noted that putting conventional weapons in orbit is not currently banned by any international treaty.

Does it make any difference, but semantics? Kessler syndrome will happen in response to either one.
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Oh, absolutely. I am just following that argument to its logical conclusion and was intentionally pointing out that it doesn't make a lot of sense.

I think you were pretty close in your summary down-thread:

> The issue is whether advocating for the legal use of force constitutes "inciting violence" ...

> The central debate is: should the ToS disallow incitements of violence, even if it's actually legal?

In reality, most of these arguments are working backwards to justify the conclusions they want. Would anyone argue that it should be against the terms of service to say "A woman should be able to fight to defend herself against a would-be sexual-assailant"? Unlikely, because almost anyone is going to think that that is justified (I hope). That is inciting a legal use of violence.

People arguing against the President Trump's statements just don't like what he had to say, whether it's legal or not has nothing to do with their opinions. It's simply that they don't think it's justified, and that's fine. It's just more difficult to get something censored on the grounds of "I disagree with this and don't like it".
Thanks for the feedback! Yes, we're going for a different use case than Facebook Portal or other dedicated hardware devices with video are. We're not just trying to make meetings easier and better, we're trying to simulate the magic of being in the same room.
It's not really 1 vs the other IMO. I use flexbox within grid quite often, for example. They're two different tools with some overlap...

Grid is absurdly more powerful for full-page layout than flexbox (which is amazing for individual columns or rows). Especially once we start getting subgrid. The common comparison is 1 dimensional (flex) vs 2 dimensional (grid) layout.
You still haven't given any argument for how they don't have a monopoly on iOS app distribution, or why iOS app distribution and Android app distribution should be considered the same market when they don't run on the same devices, the set of customers is effectively 100% non-overlapping, and they can't in any meaningful way be substituted for one another when a developer would still need both to reach the entire "market" if the market was defined to include customers on both platforms.
I actually liked the MIPS architecture and used it for many years as my daily driver. True, it wasn't designed with mobile in mind, and ARM was a very good match there. But I don't see any reason why it could not be adapted to that.
> I've seen people pick a tech stack based on developer cost

You'd be surprised how often cost of developers comes into the overall conversation especially when you have tech sprawl and have to spend to get qualified people.

I've seen projects green-light just on the premise that removing legacy code will lead to a payroll reduction.
Alternatively, just use a microcontroller for the USB HID stuff, and talk to it via BT/WiFi/40-pin header.
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I don’t think that’s what the rule of goats is about, but I appreciate your continued commenting.

If your interpretation of the rule of goats is right, then it’s not very useful as it turns lots of people into goatfuckers. And when everyone is a goatfucker, fucking goats isn’t that bad any more.
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My Garmin Connect app is now syncing with wearable and showing steps and other stats again. I briefly had an updated banner that said they were planning system maintenance from 7am on the 24th to some end time, and then it went back to the "down for maintenance" message within a three-minute span. Interesting. They may be staggering trying to bring some workarounds online.
You just mentioned another property that interacts with others, how does that remove the "emergent complexity from the interaction of different properties"?
Super cool idea! Will definitely reach out.
That's an argument from utility, which is not how you should approach matters of ethics.
Seeing the writing on the wall, perhaps ARM could use their expertise to design and sell proprietary RISC-V instruction set extensions. This is the classic Innovator's Dilemma, a hard pill for ARM management to accept. (See Intel and Xscale.) ARM management would probably need to firewall RISC-V development in a subsidiary company.
Slashdot.org was plagued by people posting "first post" to every story, so they implemented an automatic "first post" comment to each article, that was removed as soon as other comments appeared. Maybe this comment ("Google will shut this down like so many other products") should be similarly posted automatically to Hacker News on every Google story?
aggregated api usage stats, api client headers is often enough to identify competitor products and their traction, and is non-sensitive, coupled with account id to customers.
Exactly the same here, except I got Vívomove HR. My fork with WIP implementation for Garmin is at https://github.com/mormegil-cz/Gadgetbridge/tree/garmin-wip Basically everything (time, FIT data sync) is working except the primary thing I wanted (notifications) which seems to work fine, except it does nothing. (And the code is ugly and sometimes problematic.)
Could you expand on "his proposed solution in trying to impersonate traditional PKI simply won't work against even mediocre attackers" ? How would you defeat his proposed solution?
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Sadly I think more and more, that we are in the point of no repair (return). Regardless being US, UK, China, Russia we are in world govern by mafia like diplomacy/politics, and with recent development in nuclear, space and Antarctica militarization ... things does not look great... unfortunately there is no planet B nor there is a good enough bunker :/ ...

My whole life I thought that things could be solved with science and reason, but it seems we need a miracle...
I believe micro-services change the trade-offs, and it's a matter of what you value more.

We certainly have to invest more on infra-structure, monitoring, standardisation, and we have been doing since day one - by now it's pretty robust, to the point our internal tooling allowed us to migrate from raw EC2 to kubernetes (https://www.cncf.io/case-study/nubank/) and it was a transparent change to all services and teams.

On the other hand, failures are more localised and we gain robustness and speed to do certain kind of changes.

Your point about getting domain boundaries wrong is true, but IMO it's a pain orthogonal to micro-services. The solution is the same as if you defined a sub-optimal class interface on a big mono-repo: relentless refactoring. We are often strangling (https://martinfowler.com/bliki/StranglerFigApplication.html) and replacing legacy services.
Knocking out another countries satellites is what would be done in a first strike nuclear attack according to modern military theorists.

China has tested space to space satellite weapons.

Russia has now tested space to space satellite weapons.

The US has not tested any space to space military assets and doesn't have this functionality as far as what is currently known. (The rumor mill also currently says the US has no such functionality and requires ground take off).

The reason this is important is that any response to a direct satellite attack would potentially take greater than 30 minutes using ground based weapons. (Again rumor mill).
A better approach is simply not to grant normal users modify access to IAM, VPC, or anything else potentially destructive, and force them to make all changes via a ci/cd pipeline with ops/sre oversight and review.
In addition to (or instead of) a 20% discount, a referral system might be interesting to you. 'Refer a friend and you each get one month free', or something to that effect.

Paid ads are pretty expensive in everything financial services because churns are low and thus LTVs are so high. So, if you want to grow this, paid ads will be tricky to make work. Never mind that you should stay organic as long as you can.

Serious investors seem to make a habit of knowing other serious investors. Often, in large quantities. There might be something interesting to explore there.
You really think Google -- who has floundered in this space for years -- is going to dominate a market that is already dominated by a company (Amazon) with a 50% larger market cap?

Walmart and Target have been trying to chip away at Amazon's lead, and they're only getting buried deeper in the dust. Google doesn't exactly have a reputation for entering new markets and dominating them, either...
when will we stop being fooled by Google? I still miss gtalk by the way :(
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Perhaps to remedy the situation, SpaceX would do well to introduce a large fleet of freely-accessible amateur astronomy platforms with some kind of timeshare credit component? I ordered several images through a university terrestrial telescope as part of an astronomy course and it was a great experience to refine the object's orbital parameters based on the observations.
I absolutely love the basic idea behind Ceasefire.

I think hosting any online forum, no matter how well-meant, raises some sticky issues. I'd love to hear their thoughts about certain aspects of their terms of service [0] and Rules [1]:

> As a User of the Service, you agree not to: ... 1. Use the Service to create, publish, copy, share, or distribute any Content, whether in whole or in part, which may be libelous, defamatory, or otherwise unlawful to any third party.

The legal standards for these concepts vary greatly from country to country. I'm probably mistaken, but is this saying that a person in the U.S. cannot post a comment that would be illegal to post from certain authoritarian / monarchist / theocratic countries. I doubt Chinese courts care about Delaware law.

> This rule prohibits any submission, comment, or ongoing discussion that could endanger an individual, which includes but is not limited to: ... Promoting/advocating abuse.

Even in debates regarding what constitutes "abuse"? If the goal is to have meaningful discussion of touchy topics, debates on these topics couldn't really happen.

> You have the written consent, release, and/or permission of each and every identifiable individual person in your Content to use the name or likeness of each and every such identifiable individual person to enable inclusion and use of your Content in any manner contemplated by the Site and these Terms of Use.

Wouldn't this mean nobody could even mention, e.g., Bill Gates, without his explicit permission?

> Your Content is not false or misleading.

Is "false" content never allowed? A good debate typically requires explicitly stating premises, which are subject to being challenged as the debate progresses. Should this be tweaked to account for false statements that seem to have been made in good faith?

> Your Content is not obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, violent, harassing, libelous, slanderous, or otherwise objectionable (as determined by us).

Are there plans to clarify these at some point? People hold such varied views of what falls into these categories that it seems impossible to guess what you'd find acceptable.

And what about debates which focus on whether or not particular views, practices, etc. are obscene / lewd / filthy?

> Your Content does not violate the privacy or publicity rights of any third party.

According to what country's laws? Again, I doubt the U.K. courts care about Delaware law.

[0] https://ceasefire.net/terms-of-service

[1] https://ceasefire.net/rules
It's funny because I often shirk video content under the assumption that I can skim for and find the information I'm looking for much faster in text and who has time to watch a whole video?
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For a very nice library in the Elixir/Phoenix ecosystem have a look at https://github.com/sorentwo/oban
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20% YoY Revenue increase, 43% YoY Growth in Datacenter Segment. 76% Growth in Non-Volatile Memory solution, another 7% YoY growth in Client Side computing.

This is truly amazing results.

I get stabbed over at Anandtech every time I made an argument for Intel as an AMD investor. The Internet is full of Intel bashing comments but reality is Intel has been making record revenue quarter after quarter.

For the not so good part.

>The company's 7nm-based CPU product timing is shifting approximately six months relative to prior expectations. The primary driver is the yield of Intel's 7nm process, which based on recent data, is now trending approximately twelve months behind the company's internal target.

The most important bit is that last part, 12 months behind Internal target. To put this into perspective.

Intel original 7nm, ( on the assumption it is still the same 7nm because Intel has already changed their 10nm spec) was suppose to be slightly better than TSMC 5nm+, but not as good as TSMC' 3nm. ( In terms of transistor density, by no means it is the only metric it should be judged on ). It was scheduled for 2019, pushed to 2020 then 2H 2021, and are now looking at 1H 2022, which means in terms of consumer getting their hands on it, it would be more like 2H 2022 assuming no further delay.

Given TSMC has never missed a beat in their execution and has iPhone SoC production. It is highly likely by the end of Calendar year 2022, TSMC would have shipped more 3nm Wafer than Intel's 7nm for the whole year.

I am waiting to see AMD's results.
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Can't tell if you being sarcastic, but AMD is working Intel these days.
It appears to be the same process. Reading junk on the internet the main process innovation they appear to have made appears is large scale die casting to produce entire chassis frames in a single aluminium part. This - like most "innovations" - is less an innovation and more adopting a known process with different tradeoffs, increasing initial capital outlay to obtain enhanced production speed and a simplified production process.

In vehicle manufacturing process engineering, an interesting recent startup is UK brand 'Arrival' who decided to avoid stamped chassis parts entirely and instead assemble from sheet and extrusions (IIRC). They can allegedly assemble a whole van in a 1000m2 'microfactory' and have just brought out a bus concept. https://www.electrive.com/2020/03/20/arrival-moves-into-new-... https://www.pesmedia.com/arrival-bicester-electric-van-manuf... https://www.pesmedia.com/arrival-zero-emissions-bus-17062020... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrival_(company) 3B valuation.
At some point Intel should just dump their own process nodes and go with TSMC. This is getting ridiculous.
I think many of these comnments are missing the broader implications for the fashion modeling world in general.

Right now there are a lot of folks that are not models tied into this as well: photographers, lighting and set people, makeup, dressers, travel arrangers, fixers, etcs.

I can easily see a near future with the equivalent of Unreal Engine for modling. All sets, lighting, makeup, AND people in picture will be life-like. There will be easily configurable random but realistic auto-posing, etc.

The jobs will all become highly comodified down to low paying jobs for long hours much like the video game industry is today.

And none of the afore mentioned jobs or attendent costs will be required.

As for consumers wanting to "know" the real models and their lives and advantures? Ok well, I'll get off your lawn grandpa. If current trends contue, none of that will matter. Folks already form para-relationships with digital/fantasy people (re: go to any cosplay convention). So the models not being "real" will pose no barrier in the long run.
> The survey found that many Americans think a person’s private political donations should impact their employment. Nearly a quarter (22%) of Americans would support firing a business executive who personally donates to Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s campaign. Even more, 31% support firing a business executive who donates to Donald Trump’s re‐ election campaign.

Holy shit. Am I reading this right? 53% of Americans would support firing someone based on a donation to a presidential campaign? Later in the post it says this figure rises to 71% of people under 30.

I've always wondered how far this extends in the minds of people okay with this. If they found out in a year or two that someone donated to trump's campaign, does that justify firing too? I imagine this dystopia where someone gets fired for a donation, only for their new employer to find out about the donation and fire them too, and so on, leaving them either unemployable, or dividing employment along party lines.

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edit: Yes, it crossed my mind that we're assuming these are disjoint groups. We might be double counting the intersection of the two groups. The true total is the percent listed above minus the percent who support firing a Trump donor while also wanting to fire a Biden donor. I can't imagine the intersection being significant, so I left it out. I expect these figures are approximately accurate if the survey is accurate.
I do agree that the ad-based business model is designed to have us hate each other because that is what drives engagement. So I'd like to get your thoughts on this thought experiment. What if it was illegal for social media platforms to base their revenue stream on advertising? Instead, it is mandated by law that their primary revenue is based on a subscription model? "Want to use Facebook? You'll need to pay $4 a month to use it." What do you suppose the nature of Facebook would be like then and, to an extent, its impact to society at large? Perhaps better? It has been my impression so far that services that require paid subscriptions over free usage tend to respect privacy better, have higher quality content, and are less addicting in usage.
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Yeah like any legal battle it's a lot of posturing and back-and-fourth. It's just anxiety producing to not see what their survival plan is (and of course it wouldn't really benefit them to share that publicly!).
I wonder if it would be enough to have global moderators create "issues" like:
- Do you like Havarti or Cheddar?
- Do you support using metric or imperial as a standard in the USA?
- Do you ... ... ...

Have the users fill out these answers on profile creation (the ones you don't answer you can't participate in) - and if you contribute on a specific topic and assign a delta to somebody with the opposite viewpoint, the answer you put on your profile gets swapped? You could track how often someone changes a topic on their profile to see if they're "flippy floppy" or if they're fairly hard-stanced on the issue.

You'd still have to have moderation to make sure you don't have people with profile-marked anti-topics making posts supporting the viewpoints.
I don't disagree. I think the DOD argument for the X-37B would be to argue "its just a transportation system."

That said, given what has been reported in the press about the capabilities of the X-37B, it would seem they might have it transport a payload to sit around nearby and actively video/watch what such things are doing.

My favorite unconventional idea for an anti-satellite device is a small maneuverable can of spray paint that paints the surface of any solar panels of the satellite it "attacks" with an opaque paint. Don't create shrapnel, just take away its source of power.
> But amazon doesn't have a search monopoly, millions of android devices, google maps, or youtube to drive the sales.

Don't forget that something like ~70% of their income comes from AWS. They may not be as visible as Google on the net but they are pretty much the largest provider of web services.
They can collect the data as usual, and they will, but for once they would not even need to. They can just wait until no shop can make a living without it because they dominate the market. They they start charging.
Personally, I can't wait to get back into an office. Working from home has helped me break some previous bad habits and improve my self-discipline - which both positively impacted my productivity while working from home.

However, even with commuting time, I'm happier (due to distinct separation of home-time and work-time) and more productive when I have an office I work from 3-4 days a week.

During my last "remote" engagement I joined a small community co-working space in Boston after two weeks of "true" work from home. I've found my idea balance is 3-4 days a week in-office and 1-2 days "remote".

I envy those of you who can work remote without issue, even as an introvert who dislikes lots of people and distractions I can't see "remote first" as something I enjoy going forward.
Why hasn't Intel given up on their internal process nodes? Their advantage is clearly not in owning their process nodes at this point. Dump them and adopt TSMC.
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