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> in the android world that doesn't apply. the manufacturer doesn't have to. because literally anyone can, and does.

I have two problems with this model. The first is that it really only applies to the kind of people who would be in this thread on HN - consumers at large are not updating their phones based on some community-supported Android rom.

The second is this: do we really want to train non-technical people that it's ok to let random organizations on The Internet control the operating system on their phones? These are deeply personal devices that can be relatively trivially turned into 24/7 remote surveillance stations, and say what you will about open source but with rare exception these roms are not undergoing line-by-line code audits.

In my opinion, the world is better served when companies support their own hardware.

If it turns out that Apple is spying on users, we have legal recourse. If orchiddroid928 on GitHub is doing it, that's a different ballgame.
A compass and a gyroscope are two very different devices.

The former measures the Earth magnetic field, which is an external magnitude independent of your craft or movement.

The later measures your rate of rotation, which is an internal magnitude. Even the best gyro will have an small amount of noise and drift, so you need some external reference to periodically correct it. Also, because they measure an speed, to get your orientation you need to integrate the measures over time, which amplifies the noise.

In reality you usually combine both with an accelerometer and a GPS.
I kind of get that, but on the other hand, you could say "Existence is like having a gun to your head. You do what you've got to do."

Because you need food and shelter to survive. There's been no point in time where we didn't have to acquire it. We're just now getting to the point where the production of it requires nominal effort.

These are unprecedented times.
> The UBI is also basically the welfare system most countries have without the expense and pain of trying to find the "cheaters" (See Australia's RoboDebt).

Basically.

> Its still capitalism

No, the modern welfare state is not capitalism, it's a socialist reaction to capitalism. Now, you can argue that it's “bourgeois socialism” that tends to reinforce the class relations of capitalism and which inevitably reverts to capitalism, as Marx—before it actually became the thing that completely displaced old-school capitalism in the developed world—did. But it's not, itself, capitalism. And the longer it is the dominant system of the developed world without a wholesale reversion to unmitigated capitalism, the harder to pure form of the Marxian charge against bourgeois socialism is to defend.
That's funny, when I bought my Nexus 4 I don't remember the front of the box saying, "Nexus 4: A shared branding between Google and LG." It said "Nexus 4" and had Google's logo displayed somewhere on there. I bought it from store.google.com, my credit card was charged by Google. It said "Google" on the box, so if I had an issue with it I would have expected Google to fix it. Anything less and they'd have been in the wrong.

I get what you're saying, I understand it. But from the consumer's point of view it just doesn't matter. The nature of the business relationship between Google and whomever should not be their concern. It rings of the same cop-out Amazon likes to make, that I'm not dealing with them, I'm dealing with a some third part merchant even though I visited Amazon.com, I paid Amazon, and the item is shipped to me by Amazon. They want to you deal with their suppliers.
I feel like this is the perfect example why everyone should at some point be required to start a business. Because some of these ideas stem from to many people not understand the economy in a real sense because they are always workers and see the world through that lens.
only if you put on the same blinders that the author does, and ignore things such as:

- no mention whatsoever of any existential threats e.g. climate change. full faith and credit in Mr. Market to get us out of that rut, i guess

- some definitions of "efficient" involve avoiding policies in one country (say worker and environmental protections) by moving to other countries where those same protections don't apply. so efficient seems to also mean unlawful, to some extent

- we'll trust these UBI recipients to "do the right thing" and goose up the economy immediately, instead of say, investing in infrastructure (education, health, science) that we know is a far better investment in the long term future of the country (but can't really be done by a couple grand per month, more like... i dunno... a government thing)
Is that totally guaranteed though? It’s important to remember that the landlords as well will be getting the 1000$ UBI. So yes, there will be landlords starting their rent at $1000, but there will also be landlords who start lower because they too have become more enriched from the UBI and don’t need to squeeze the margins as much anymore.
I've heard this claim before, but have never seen it supported. Anecdotally, across decades of experience, it's typically not the poorest people I know who own much land, if any at all. Where they do, they own only a little, rather than a lot. Can you speak to your evidence for your claim?
In my tests earlier, CLUSTER only took about 5 minutes (8 if you include creating the index (which would already exist) and an ANALYZE afterwards), and the only things inserting into this table are background celery processes. It would also be offset from when ETL runs by half a day, so I don't think there'll be any performance problems.

My goal for now is minimal effort to set up, so it takes minimal maintenance later on, but I'll keep pg_repack in mind in case something weird does happen.
Secure boot will ensure the bootloader binary itself is signed, but won't do anything for the config itself for obvious reasons. I was working on a high assurance scenario though, so I think my meaning of tamper resistance differed significantly from the above post.

I found the editor option, but the issue was that the config file could be edited offline to enable it again. Stripping the whole feature out of the binary solved the issue for what I needed. I guess it just goes to show there's a broad spectrum of interpretations of tamper resistance. If you're using dm-verity for example, you want to protect your cmdline parameters to at least the level of security offered by secure boot.
If your parents were offered the chance to take an early version of a vaccine that hadn’t been tested as much as usual, what would you recommend they do?
Has anyone ever rioted because of too much money from the government?
Similar arguments were made during our agrarian period, there's only so much farmable land so there is a limit on population and growth. Productivity gains and innovation remove that issue.
maybe garbage disposal is more expensive because the firms do pay more so people now have a greater incentive to recycle and use less.
I was expecting Scatman.
When I worked for a different managed services provider we did the same thing, it's not illegal or anything (depending on the contract/terms .. etc)

Most IT departments do the same on smaller scales (reading cowokers emails, slack convos ..etc)
it's a job perk 'revenge of the nerds' and all that
The argument against that is base wages may drop as business pay less because people can afford to take lower paying jobs, or as low as minimum wage allows.

My country (NZ) pays most families a weekly amount based on how many kids they have and their household income (Technically it is a tax break and so only applies to people who earn money, but for most people it might as well be a payment).

Some have claimed this has suppressed wages and is a subsidy to businesses from the government. Minimum wage rises counteracts this. I am not sure if this theory can be proven.

Regardless I would expect a wage/price spiral causing inflation initially:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price/wage_spiral

https://www.ird.govt.nz/topics/working-for-families/can-i-ge...
Yeah, Bezos really heaped it on with his "American Dream" letter, but in the end he is just another MONOPOLY that needs to be castrated - - - just like he did to the bulls on his Grandfather's Ranch . . .
He can certainly make that part of the contract with seller. , you would have legal recourse for breach of contract and standing to sue.

It is another matter that law should be strong enough to prevent this in the first place and AMZ or any other retailer shouldn't be needed to put in the contract explicitly.
You sound like my legal council, accountant, financial advisors, investor friends and former colleagues from the bank used to work for when I was having the same thoughts about building a micro-payments service.

I wish I had more than one upvote to give.
No, I wouldn’t consider you poor. But it probably wouldn’t take much for you to end up poor.

I know people who make more than $100,000 per year and have a net negative net worth and take on more debt every month. I would define them as “cash poor”.

Point being, these people end up poor when something unexpected happens, despite having made very good money for many years prior. They could have managed their finances better and weathered the storm.
I agree with your post; just not the theistic spin on it. I think you got the symptoms right but the cause wrong. Not because I'm anti-theistic, but because I just don't think it's the binding fabric holding society together and which society becomes lost without, even if it may have cynically and pragmatically served such a purpose in more chaotic times of the past.

I believe in social norms for the inherent sake of the norms, rather than due to doctrine. I jettison no norms - only doctrine. Philosophical systems are orthogonal to theological ones. If there exist implicit beneficial norms associated with Christianity, as you say, then I posit their implicitness implies they can be disentangled from theistic ideology and the case can (and perhaps should) be made for them outside of such systems.
Or crappy jobs should have to pay more. Handling stinking garbage all day sounds like a job that should be high paying given how miserable it is. But due to desperation, people without other options are willing to accept very low amounts of money to do it. With UBI, the price of hiring a garbage collector would equal the price necessary to fairly compensate someone for having to pick up garbage.
I think you're right, and it's not just security. Nearly any every other application vertical (accessibility, performance, localization, etc.) faces the same struggle compared to adding features. If the org doesn't care about it it doesn't get done. Whoever does do this kind of work needs to think very carefully about how to get their influence to scale.
>I would hope that anyone entering in to a market that Amazon, or any big player, is in would already be aware of their competition.

Who isn't aware of it though? Every major retailer has their own store brand, and it's been like that since before any of us were born.

At least Amazon clearly marks their brand, unlike some companies create brands like "Open Nature" which is clearly meant to disguise their origin.
yes yes all of existence is suffering. we’ve known this for thousands of years.

the escape from suffering is wisdom and compassion.

in this new abundance, why not remove all the guns from all the heads?
You don’t need to make an attempt as a business owner to understand why the economy is broken. A change in perspective doesn’t fix a broken system.

Edit: I am absolutely biased against a system that favors the wealthy at the detriment to your average citizen. “Look at how well this system works for us while the rest of you suffer!” is not helpful.
Out of production is most relevant at scale. Not as much as a hobbyist.

010 are easy to get from china. Some of them might be modern made clones, but I couldn't care less if they're equivalent. This many years later, it shouldn't be hard.

030 is indeed great, although no dip variant anymore.
What sort of things do you display with it?
Not every week. Eventually the poeple paying for UBI will leave or guillotine over their head will be used and body will be looted. Rinse and repeat every-time equity is tried.
For most middle class families the most expensive asset they own is their house. Do you really need evidence of that? It should be pretty self evident.
Yeah, we don't need people to work. This will incentivize people to automate work where possible. The ideal world is everything is automated and EVERYONE benefits, vs what we have now: much is automated and the rich benefit while others have to work shit jobs or die.
Fair point, but if I had to counter I’d point to egregious wealth accumulation in our society, which is in it’s distilled form is just greed.

The greedy could siphon away most of the UBI, bringing us back to square one. UBI suffers from the assumption that we have a system with the right incentive structures. We kind of don’t from what I’m seeing.
I've had the most luck with Mini vMac. Shoot me an email if you need a bootable image, I have one for System 6 and System 7.
I like this idea! Stealing it.
> I’m a huge fan of capitalism and free trade, as laid out in Adam Smith’s genre defining book The Wealth of Nations.

The fact that he included an Amazon link to a book that came out over 200 years ago and is available on Project Gutenberg[0] certainly backs up his credentials as a "huge fan of capitalism".

[0] https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3300/3300-h/3300-h.htm
Perhaps if people have not used JS and TS, they would think that typings are in their brain memory but typings are a lot more than scalar and return value typings like defining a structure of a hash and apply that dynamically depending on parameter value or give string an enum like behavior limiting what could be assigned.
To be charitable to the guy, maybe he didn't realize that Capital is actually about capitalism, not communism.
That sounds a lot like forced work!!!
> It seems that most of the actual OS layer of the switch is designed to be hardware independent. I mean they managed to run Skyrim on ARM so it's not a stretch to say it wouldn't take much effort to move to a different SoC. Maybe using a different SoC would be difficult with Linux, but it doesn't seem the case with the OS they're using.

There's no GPU shader compiler on the system, all of the games' shaders are compiled for this exact GPU micro revision. There's a lot of other ways that the games are tied specifically to this SoC. The closest you'd be able to get would be running the games in an emulator.

> uITRON stuff

Their OS really isn't uITRON derived, but I can believe they took the exFAT stack from there.

You can see the shape of the OS here, and it's pretty different from uITRON. https://switchbrew.org/wiki/SVC There might be a compat layer in the driver process for the exFAT driver though. They threw in a FreeBSD kernel space compat layer for their IP stack process for instance.

> This thread started because of a statement on "Asian companies"

That's cool and all. I was correcting your specific assertion that the switch is Japanese hardware.
these statements don't need to be mixed. GDP is bad because a hurricane raises GDP because you have to build a bunch of shit that got destroyed again. this is totally independent of resources and growth.

the split between quality of life and gdp and these variously with resource consumption is the issue.
I have neighbors who barely get 90% of their garbage into their practically free trash cans.

I’m exaggerating a bit, but still...
Of course taxes are going to go up...where’s this $2k a month coming from?
There may also be ways to rearrange the labor if insufficient people wan to step up. For example, there are places where garbage trucks lift trash cans to dump into them. If that is too difficult, one could setup dumpsters at the end of neighborhoods and have a truck that goes dumps that stuff into it. So more work for the individuals.

Similarly, if there were not people to clean offices, then have the office workers do it (assuming there are offices, of course).

For things that are really essential and cannot be done away with, the cost would go up. It seems reasonable to pay more for vital services. That may mean higher taxes or some other payment arrangement, but it is only regressive if the taxes are done in a regressive way.

There may also be deflationary effects (namely eliminating the giant waste of BS jobs): https://medium.com/@austingmackell/the-deflationary-effects-...

A UBI would change the job market. But whether it is a distortion or fixing some externality cost that was distorting the market is certainly debatable.
I think UBI is a pipe dream with the current power structures. A proper UBI that covers all basic living expenses - meaning that you could actually live a dignified life solely on the UBI - would radically shift the power balance from capitalist/business owners to workers. I just can't see capitalists willingly dismantling their own power and leverage.

For this reason, I think that any sort of UBI will likely be woefully inadequate and may even be intentionally devalued over time, especially if it's used as a reason to dismantle welfare services.
Actually it appeared a little before 1991, in 1989. There was first Internet connection to Finland in Demos institute (their demos.su domain is still operational) and I can remember reading their Usenet posting about communist coup d'etat in 1991.
https://macgui.com/ has a lot that neither of those do. Plus the 512k blog is honestly invaluable.
People don’t need money. People need basics like housing, food, and medical care. No UBI scheme is going to work in an economic system like the one in the U.S. that isn’t capable of providing those things. It’s not like there’s a shortage of food or shelter now and yet we still have homeless people while homes sit empty. We still have hungry people while farmers are destroying their crops.

The economic system is the problem.
>There are no real barriers to blogging or using an RSS reader if you want to. (RSS feeds are less ubiquitous than they used to be but they're still common.)

I'm perfectly aware of this and have used RSS feeds on a daily basis for more than a decade, so I'm not sure what's being suggested here.
UBI isn't free money. It's working for the government.

You better do as the government tells you, or you're not getting your UBI payment this month.

This can easily be abused.
You can already do that in most places by just applying for welfare payments and making a fake effort to get a job. The thing is that working a real programming job pays a lot more.
Why would UBI raise rents? The cost of rent is based on supply and demand, and UBI doesn’t make people need more bedrooms.
but the only way to pay for the dividend is through taxing the greedy so even if they do that's a plus, again the greedy/enterprising are what make everything we love like these devices.
Its the opposite of truth. Which isn't a lie its just saying the opposite of facts.

The fact is less people suffer every year, the economy in the west had its biggest expansion every, and there more fruit especially in america than ever.

Every single thing we know about redistribution of wealth does the exact thing he said. Where is his proof.
When I worked at Amazon, I personally knew someone who put in their two-weeks notice, and the next day they found out they were fired when their badge didn't work. From anecdotes I've heard, this happens if Amazon suspects a person is leaving to join a competitor. Amazon is very serious about protecting their data.
Well, .rb types won't have the standard type signatures (that could be consumed by various typecheckers) but could still have a particular typechecker's custom annotations…
>or perhaps even the other party that paid you

What are the damages?

As for suing you? Again what are the damages?

It’s almost certain there are no damages assuming you are just working on a take home project not something that they are going to actually use to compete with your employer.

Just because something is in the terms of your contract doesn’t actually mean you really need to worry about a lawsuit.

A company might fire you if they find out, but the chance that they fire you is to small to worry about.

And even if you don’t do take home work for pay, you don’t want your company finding out you are interviewing. Taking a token payment doesn’t change anything practically.
Yup. I pay USD380 yearly fee.

Cashback with frequent flier miles allows me to take my girlfriend and me on trips around the entire world on business class. Paying only for Airport taxes.

That leaves me with the following costs:
Yearly fee USD380
Airport taxes 2 pax USD600

Total USD980

For these 980 dollars I get air tickets that retail at USD9000.

Conclusion: Amex is great for when you have a structural demand to use whatever the cashback on offer is as good as this.

Of course it also has insurance and concierge service, but I never use neither.
I wonder why people tend to ignore de facto near UBI in those places (for citizens).

And since no one (citizens who get de facto UBI) wants to work, they have to import labor.
What's unethical about distributing abandonware? I don't see any harm in finding use of something that would otherwise be wasted.
Beware of Async/Await
if you really did, then you didn't understand it.
The most interesting part about this page was the audio version of the page. I really enjoyed that. Would love to see more authors record their essays so we can hear it in their voice!
There is not going to be a Capitalism 2.0. Capitalism was progressive for a time, but it has gradually created the conditions for its replacement by democratic socialism. Those conditions are highly socialized production processes (not individual crafts) plus a gigantic class of wage laborers with an interest in a collective approach. A democratically planned economy is entirely possible and would outpace the massive waste and duplication of efforts that capitalism requires to function. Even the bureaucratically degenerated USSR grew to an economic superpower. Imagine what genuine democracy in the plan could accomplish in terms of meetings peoples' real needs.
There is a fundamental difference in the volume of data collected by Trader Joe, Costco et al and Amazon.

Costco at best knows what I bought at their store, Amazon knows a lot more than that. Just from the data they collect on the store they will know how many people compared what products with what else, what are they searching for, what is in who's shopping list, they will likely know demographics and lot more information about the buyers as well.

It is not remotely the same problem between online and offline.
that's an awfully sad and ill-informed perspective. egalitarian communities have existed to varying sizes and durations for the existence of humanity. if anything we are wired for altruism.
Oh, this is perfect! It’s been annoying me for a while that the system menu bar clock in macOS doesn’t allow me to format the current date in ISO 8601 format.

Bitbar will solve this for me! I’ll change the system clock to only show the day of week and the time, and then I’ll use Bitbar in order to give me the ISO 8601 date in my menu bar! :D

Edit: Neat! Someone already made a plug-in for BitBar to do this so I don’t even have to spend any time writing anything at all. And look at that, they even thought about it one step further and made it so that you can copy the date to your clipboard by clicking on it! https://getbitbar.com/plugins/Time/date-picker.1m.sh

Edit 2: Initially copy to clipboard wasn’t working but I modified the script a little bit, removing the space before each bash= and putting single quotes around each $0 and now it works.

Edit 3: I submitted a PR for the above-mentioned change https://github.com/matryer/bitbar-plugins/pull/1471