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> But you are avoiding answering my question. What would you do in the scenario I drafted? Would you attack first?

I'm just telling you I find the question irrelevant. If you're threatened with total destruction and think you can win of course you should attack.

> Among the permanent security council members, it is essentially the same. The UK's tiny arsenal could trivially kill ~200 million Americans, give or take some. Russia's is fifty times its size.

There are many more variables involved than just the size of the arsenal. The notion that everybody will just fire all their nukes at once is unrealistic. Silos can be attacked, comms can be disrupted, things can malfunction, there are a TON of things at play. Just looking at the nuclear stockpile makes no sense. In every military domain US has superior capabilities. No reason to believe that in case of nuclear war Russia would outperform the US. And after you're done firing nukes traditional military still matters.
That large percentage is about 25% worldwide and 50% in US.

Not sure how you equate that with a monopoly.
Well, one would certainly have a hard time trying to explain to a 12-year-old how to solve a quadratic equation using rotations (let alone division of vectors).
We're still waiting for them to figure out salt.
Value based pricing isn't based on cost, so discounts aren't either.
It should change color (even just shade) as a function of its radius so you can learn where it is in the cycle from deep peripheral vision.
Sure but COBOL can continue to run on S/360 in emulation. Alan Turing proved any computer can emulate any other computer. Emulation stories regularly appear on the front page of HN. If we can emulate game consoles and graphing calculators and personal computers from a couple of decades ago, why not taxes. I don't understand the issue of a critical skills shortage either. First of all, coding is coding. A real coder can adapt to any language. The required skills are the same to write code in any language. Only the specific syntax changes. And secondly if too few people know the specifics of COBOL and they need to learn it right now, open a COBOL boot camp. Seriously. COBOL can be maintained as long as people just care enough to do it.
GM teases Hummer EV truck and SUV
All the current music AI projects give results which may sound “good“ to a casual listener, but they sound horribly wrong to any educated listener. The reason is that AI can only imitate the surface, but completely misses to recognize/synthesize larger structures.

Lack of "larger structures" is the key here. That's where GPT-1 was. Each sentence, in isolation, seemed to make sense, but after a few lines, it was clear the text wasn't going anywhere. By GPT-2, paragraphs seemed semi-reasonable, but multiple paragraphs didn't hold together. GPT-3 is able to keep it together for a few paragraphs, but probably not for a book chapter.

Music synthesis has the same scaling issue. Generators which imitate known patterns work for a few bars, but after a while you realize the music is going nowhere. The GPT results on text indicate that a scaleup may fix that problem.
The 'skype' name in the network requests is more a remnant of a last minute change from the internal product name (Skype Teams) than a statement of the technologies underpinning the product.

The Teams comms/meeting stack was its own thing - an evolution (or frankenstein's monster mix) of Skype for Business and Skype Consumer technologies. That is one of the reasons why Teams did not have interop capabilities with SfB at launch.

Side note: The Skype for Business communications stack is a descendent of Lync/Office Communicator was completely separate from Skype Consumer (only thing it shared was branding).

Source: worked on Teams
An era of relative peace, prosperity, and cultural production which will define an entire society is often called a golden age. It is rare enough that it needs a mention in history.

Here are a few examples:
https://sites.google.com/site/dobsonandphillipsinc/home/anci... - During this era, the economy, arts, architecture and even commerce, flourished.

Golden age of Gupta empire: [https://resources.saylor.org/wwwresources/archived/site/wp-c...] Under his rule, the Gupta Empire reached its zenith, and this is considered the golden age of India. His reign, like his father’s, was marked by religious tolerance and great cultural achievements

There are very similar notes about Persians, middle ages in Europe etc.

But there is no reason why we are not living in one now.
I read research that to reap benefits of these sources ( collagen, etc) your stomach acid needs to be strong enough to break it down- old people have weaker stomach acid so they get wrinkles easier- Supplement apple cider vinegar, lemon juice etc or other fermented foods raises stomach acid strength and raises blood Alkalinity, or so I heard
Exactly. Unfortunately we humans have a tendency to believe that we can understand what's useful for the rest of the people better than themselves.
I actually do avoid installing all of those, and it is due to profound mistrust, so there's no reductio ad absurdum on that basis.
You raise a good point, but wouldnt taking glucosamine and chondroitin load you up (hopefully) on the base components required to then again make glucosamine and chondroitin locally in one's body?
What evidence do you have that a 10% fee is enough to operate the App Store at the scale Apple does?

When the App Store was launched, Steve Jobs said they plan to run it at break-even, no profit, and for quite a few years that was exactly what they did. Now they are profiting from the App Store and clearly could continue to run it as they do on a lower percentage, but I don't think 10% is that number. If they could run it on 10%, they wouldn't have operated it without profit for the first quite-a-few years at 30%!
Allowed... not required.

They also are crap at supporting local artists.
This is like complaining that it's unfair that only McDonald's are allowed to sell inside a McDonald's.
In good orchestras in the US and western Europe, $100k is actually fairly standard, perhaps even on the lower end. You need to be highly skilled, the competition is fierce, and the job is very demanding.
I don't have a good source, but a quick Google search should confirm that $100k is not exactly wild.
I ran a business where the target audience was on Facebook and the numbers were just shocking. We had about 3500 followers. If I didn’t run any ads, our posts would only be shown to maybe 200-300 people total, out of the 3500 people who actively make the choice to follow our page. As soon as I turned on $1/day ads (the lowest FB allows), those numbers skyrocketed to about 1000 people seeing each post. Still far short of the number of people who went out of their way to tell Facebook that they wanted to see my posts. Every dollar I spent per day increased that number.

That convinced me that Facebook won’t give business pages the traffic they’ve earned unless that business pays Facebook to let that page’s followers see that page’s posts. It’s a racket and you have to pay to play.
I remember installing the Wordnet database on my Arch Linux install 17 years ago so I would have a dictionary I could use without internet connectivity. Wordnet can be used as a traditional dictionary although it is not very good compared to, e.g., the dictionary that comes with any Mac or iPhone.
The problem with the gloss or example field is that it is per synnet and not per (word, sense or synnet) pair as it would be in a normal dictionary.

This means if you try to use it as a normal dictionary the glosses tend to not contain the word for which you are listing the senses.
Curious if corona quarantines have changed folks' perspectives on this. I consider myself pretty high on the "success addict spectrum", but after sitting at home in my sweatpants (or underwear) for the past 4 months, I just feel like some of those "success desires" have lost their luster.

So much of desiring success is really about desiring recognition from others, and for some reason I just feel like I care less after being socially distant for this long.
Source? Didn’t hear this was happening

Edit: https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-tiktok-donald-trum...

This is some very fresh news.
I find the closure of Mixer incredibly short sighted IF they end up buying TikTok. They easily could have rebranded/merged Mixer as TiKTok Live and moved their exclusive contracts over to the TikTok brand.
Yes, but the vast majority of musicians do have formal coaching and training. A net worth is not an indication of musical talent and should not be used as one.
Just because a company with a minority of the market punches above its weight in terms of developer profit, doesn't make it a monopoly.
Don't worry. By the time [insert popular news outlet] finds out about this, it'll be a cure all.
Sure. But in this case musicians have 0 input on how much to charge or how much they get paid.

Politicians decide for them and pass laws to enforce this structure.
who cares about spotify... Dont use it..
There’s no way a linker, no matter how smart, can give us back the object size and performance of the ‘90s.

For starters, there’s 64-bits. Pointers were a quarter of the size in the ‘90s.

Then, there is Unicode. All programs need ICU (http://userguide.icu-project.org/icudata). Even if you dynamically link it, many of its symbols (or entry point IDs) end up in your executable.

Unicode isn’t an exception, though. Every library choice you make adds a bit more in size and takes a bit more in performance than the solution from the ‘90s would have.

For example, the moment you decide to use json, you get its entire feature set (arbitrarily nested arrays, a multi-line string parser, ability to read fields in arbitrary order, etc), even if all you need to do is pass two integers and get one back.

A parser generator that generates code for the json subset you need would help here, but would mean extra work for the programmer and the overhead typically isn’t that large, so why bother? It all adds up, though.

Even if you can’t remove some code, you still could optimize memory layout to move code you expect will rarely run into separate code pages so that it likely will never be mapped into memory, but that’s serious work.

And of course there’s all that argument checking/buffer overflow protection people do nowadays that ‘wasn’t necessary’ in the ‘90s.
IIRC they used StrongARM for the last models, the Apple MessagePad 2000 and 2100. (I bought a used MP2K after the Newton was discontinued that I used in high school. Fun little device!)
Are you saying that you're fine to use the government's force against a company that is not causing harm to anyone just so that you benefit from that intervention (and in complete disregard to all users who are happy to pay for Apple's products and services exactly the way they are)?

There's a name for this: Crony Capitalism.
Case in point: your business currently returns "Something went wrong: 'GPT3 API is currently overloaded, please try again momentarily.'"..

Do you have control over that?
You can already do whatever you want with your device.

Use it as a hammer for all Apple care.

It's just that Apple aren't going to spend their time and money developing software to let you do things they aren't interested in. Why should they?
Yeah, I very much side by this view. It's not coming from a monopoly standpoint but from a ownership standpoint. I bought something, so artificial barriers to installing/tinkering with it must be removed.
You mean like how I can only play Sony approved games on a Playstation, install Tesla approved apps on a Tesla, watch TV shows that a cable company has approved etc. The standard for most products that have addons since the beginning of time.

Forcing companies to build an open ecosystem around every feature is a pretty unprecedented and unworkable concept.
> "Software isn't our product, software is our marketing", would you feel the same way?

It did happen. We call it "In App Purchasing". And we ALL loathe it like the plague.
Even banks don't have 200B in cash?
There was a time when I had a terminal with just the background transparent. I recall that. You could do it in software and even on hardware on a Via Unichrome.
Just because the product you want doesn't exist doesn't mean you can force companies into making it.

You can, on the other hand, support businesses or communities that are.
But working software doesn't mean commercially successful software. It just means it runs and does something.

"Working software" would be comparable to "listenable music". I'm sure every song that producer wrote daily was listenable.

But even if you mean "working software" as something that goes up on the app charts, top 100 in a popular category? I mean, then no -- I could easily see a developer spend an entire year building 1, 10, or even 100 apps and have none of them gain any traction at all.
they're not the only store. and nobody's forcing you to use their store. go get an Android phone.
https://examine.com/supplements/glucosamine/

Always used this site when trying to find unbiased information, and also not be to hyped about a single study. However now the effect matrix is hidden behind a paywall.

When talking about joint health: As a young and very active person my biggest problem is overtraining injuries. Wish I knew how to be able to train as much as I would like to, with just a simple supplement or so...
Amazon, Google will soon follow. I see amazon being worth $10-30 trillion eventually,,, bigger than apple.
How does the customizability of the Advantage2 compare to the Ergodox EZ?
I think its because fraud justifies CC companies charging their fees - i.e. consumers want peace of mind, so they don't complain when CC takes 3-4% cut from merchants on transactions. If fraud was non existent then CC companies couldn't justify those fees (i.e. insurance).
How are you getting rapamycin?

I'm interested in it's benefits for autoimmune diseases but it seems quite expensive (in the US).
Hard to say! Spotify definitely isn’t a magic music marketing machine — you need a decent amount of organic traction before you’ll get any algorithmic promotion, and even more for editorial. It took us years of releasing music, playing shows, networking with other bands, pitching to blogs and buying ads before Spotify became an effective way for us to find fans.

It might be that “listen on Spotify before you buy on Bandcamp” is the 2020 version of “download on Bittorrent before you buy the CD”. But it feels like “is this slightly better for musicians than music piracy” is a pretty low bar for a $50 billion company to shoot for.
I am, and I am not, there's a huge difference between "I am releasing one page of my long graphic novel on a regular basis" and "I am regularly producing stuff designed to stand alone as complete objects" IMHO.
They're holding out for a tax holiday.

Meanwhile they think it's better to hold the cash rather than pay tax on it. The shareholders own the money either way.
What were the problems with this transition?
Google is easy to query in plain English. ask "how many miles from London to Paris?" and you'll get a concrete, factual answer. Same as gpt-3
Rap & Hip Hop are different because historically there's much less of a touring component than there is in Rock, Country, Soul/R&B, etc.

I'm not saying there's no overlap or that nobody can learn from anybody else, but to lump them all together ignores a lot of actual differences between marketing among genres. Heck, I bet TV talent shows are for country music right now what radio has been for hip-hop/R&B since the late 90s, which makes sense because country has (ironically) been appropriating just about all they can find in radio rap for the past many years (way before Lil Nas X).
> Imagine a 17 year old robs a bank and steal 100k from the savings accounts of random people.

I think that's a great comparison. But it's not an armed robbery, it's a break-and-enter where no property gets destroyed.

How many felonies does the robber get after being caught? I don't actually know but I'm guessing 1-3? Certainly stealing $100k is a deserving felony. But 30 felonies seems a bit steep.
Spotify never implemented those APIs.

There were other apps e.g. Podcast ones that used it.
Sure, some (not a huge fraction, I'm guessing single digit percentage) of very physically active people are poorly modeled by BMI but it shouldn't matter if they are explictly handling these covariates.

It's more an issue if there is something they haven't accounted for, as they point out.
Preaching to the choir. It amazes me that the ML and Data Science folks have settled on anti-FORTRAN. (Or maybe, put that way, it’s less amazing.)
nyt 2025: Chinese-russian teenager gets donald trump elected in every single country using birth certificate 2fa
A year or two and return the money. It's not like he tried to break into a nuclear plant. It is a messaging app, mostly nonsense.
So the reward for developing a successful valuable product that hundreds of millions of people like and trust, is to take it away and give it to somebody else? Wow.

If that consortium is so great, why don’t they just make their own product. Let the public decide what they want.
> We deserve to be able to choose

People at Apple choose not to spend their time, money, and energy on supporting third-party app stores.

You can choose to do whatever you want. But you can't force people at Apple to choose to do something.
This argument only works if there is sufficient competition. I would say that Apple has enough competition to agree with the argument that "you don't have to buy an iPhone".
> Apple's rules oblige app vendors

The rules only oblige app vendors if they agree with that contract. Users also only engage in doing business with Apple on a voluntary basis. That's not extortion, by definition.
I think you are missing the social and political implications of your choices.

Its not just about being a monopoly in the economical sense, which is bad per-se, but to let a private company to control what you have access or not based on particular moral, political views.

To forbid you to access technology that can compete with what they offer on the basis of "security".

If you do not get it, they control the only app store allowed where they also control what you can or cannot access to. You are implying they are good actors somehow that are doing all this thinking on you, while in reality they will do whatever they can to maximize their profits, and as long as people like you are fine with it, nothing will change.

Your current government might yet be democratic enough as this can not YET represent a threat to your civil rights or the ones you love, but things changes constantly. (Who could have predicted that the 30's Weimar Republic Germany would fall like that?)

Once your government do not respect civil rights anymore the way it should, a private company with this amount of control on your digital life can represent a big threat that unlike in the past, would be pretty hard to get rid of.

What about the concept of digital property?
Should you have choices?
Can a private company bar your choices?
Can a private company own the things that were bought by you and are in a phone that you have pay for?

Imagine if after having bought a vehicle, Wolkswagen could tell you who can you transport: "We dont allow dogs in OUR cars".

Now imagine someone saying: "I like what Wolkswagen do, its for my safety, dogs will damage my car".. "Just buy a Mercedes then!"

Or what if Wolkswagen did also sell vehicle parts, and even if you know there are pieces for your cars that are better or cheap, you wouldnt be able to buy them because the stores would be closed for you.

But then you would say: "But apple dont bar me from buying apps, i have choices.." and its a illusion of choice, because the apps were not even allowed to enter the store in the first place.

So there's a real danger into letting any private company to choose things for you before you are able to choose them.

We should have by now a good legislation about digital rights, digital property, etc, that could regulate this source of thing.

Because as i've witnessed here in the comments, you cannot let people on their own, because they can be emotionally manipulated into want things that will harm them and their rights in the long run.

It should not be just about being good for you at this particular moment, we should always take into account the collective and social implications of our choices.
You're welcome! It is fascinating, isn't it?

I should have clarified, I'm no Jo Cameron. I'm no different from your average person in how I feel physical pain and empathy. It's extremely rare to have what she has, I think there are only a handful of people in the world that have that. What's far more common, and what I believe I have (and what a few other people in this thread have) is a double FAAH mutation. (That makes up the relentless positivity and lack of fear parts of her personality.) I can't find any estimates on the frequency of that, but around 20% of people have the single FAAH mutation that is basically a less strong version.

The discussion about empathy is an interesting one. But I think treating it like it's some genetic binary thing is completely the wrong way to see it. Empathy, in some ways, is a cultivated skill. The Nazis were elected. Does this mean that Germans were born with less empathy, unable to empathize with the Jewish, disabled, Roma, queer, etc? No, it just means that society succeeded in turning them into an Other who nobody could empathize with. That is to say, I think that if you gave two identical twins entirely different upbringings they would end up with different kinds of empathy. So I think sure, perhaps Jo Cameron doesn't have some of the genetic material for things we may associate with empathy, but she seems to have taken on many empathy-adjacent values like selflessness and really caring about others.

I think the thing with the daughter is just teenagers being teenagers. Having been a teenager once myself, I wouldn't read too far into it :)
>White House officials were concerned about President Donald Trump’s Twitter account, which he uses daily to push out news and other information. They assured the public that his account has extra protections.

I had suspected that they had added special protections on his account after the (2017?) incident where an employee temporarily deactivated his account (and got fired for it). I guess this confirms it.
Is connecting to a VPN through another secure VPN doable/benefit?
Ah, but what will it do for the RISC-adverse?
That depends on who is doing the supposing.
Indeed. I would agree with you if Apple was a monopoly in this space.
Google accused of retaliation for cooperating with House antitrust investigation