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> I don't want equal at the expense of fair.
> An equal playing field in the way you describe it will never be achievable by humans.

Extreme economic inequality drives unfairness by tipping the scales towards the very wealthy. Nobody is suggesting that we somehow enforce biological equality, whether between individuals of the same age, or among individuals of very different ages. To suggest so is a strawman intended to distract from the real problem of growing economic inequality.

Also, you don't need to abolish inheritance to increase fairness, but in the context of growing inequality, you must limit the extent to which it drives unfairness by phasing it out as wealth grows exponentially.
It seems like the right balance. As the author says:

> As a Mac developer, it's nearly impossible to run a viable software business when this is the first-run experience of new customers. You'll never get any new customers! This is why every Mac developer I know signs up for Developer ID and ships only signed, notarized apps. It would be financial suicide to do otherwise.

If you have hung your shingle out to make a profit, then the developer account, signing, notarizing, etc. is a cost of doing business, and you can easily justify it. The more customers you get, the more money you get, so you are motivated to reduce the first-run friction.

If you are not in it for profit, you probably have a lot more tolerance for a little first-run friction, and having users drop out of the funnel. Fewer users does not affect you financially. As a hobbyist programmer, I wouldn't care. I'm just releasing a program--not looking to dominate a market.
This surveillance capitalism has to be stopped.
Even if you are driving on public roads, there is still a certain expectation of privacy.
I could use Firefox by just clicking the arrow or "continue" i think. But there was a warning.

The audio skips and doesn't loop properly for me on Firefox though. Didn't try any other browser.

Seems well done, extra marks when Firefox is supported ;)
You have to start somewhere. Every C++ component that's replaced by a safe Rust component is a reduction in attack surface.
To be honest, I hoped microsoft and their windows rt experiment would be the 'alternative' to that so you have three choices for the end-user (get chromeOS, iPadOS or Window RT). To get 'stuff done' a user really has no business having access to the system or circumventing controls.

Currently most desktop management structures try to do it backwards by taking an OS, i.e. macOS or Windows, and then trying to glue restrictions on top of it which always leaves holes or undesired side-effects.

The best 'middle of the road' so far seems to be active monitoring with Apple's or Microsoft's native management tools or with stuff like OSQuery; it also tends to be less intrusive for people that are convinced they are 'better than average' (nobody is) and don't need to have an MDM babysitting them.

But even then, there will always be people thinking their personal preference definitely means the big bad corp did it wrong or their personal need is more important than trying to do something about the constant barrage or crap any machine faces during its lifetime.

For the home user, all bets are off.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_electoral_system#Firs...
> An absolute majority of the electorate is not needed, and is rarely achieved. As a result, power has been held by either of two parties for most of Canada's history. The party whose candidates win the second largest number of seats becomes the Official Opposition.
I'm not saying that there isn't a causal mechanism. I'm saying that you can't infer anything at all about the effect size from the proportion of people who die who are obese.
It seems to me like the brackets should actually be the other way around:

90% of "good drivers" "save money" (all relative, of course), while "bad drivers" who cost a lot will pay way more.
> there is no way to really stop a virus in circulation

Sure there is, a vaccine.
Another possible solution is to measure how much fuel (or energy) got in and how much is getting out. You know the nominal capacity and you know the flow rate.
Technically Apple has (or will) terminate Epic's developer program access, which means that they will no longer be able to sign new builds. They have not revoked the certificate at this time, so those binaries should still continue to run until the certificates expire.
How do you define "fixed"? Quic still defines per stream plus per connection flow control windows, on top of the lower level congestion control algorithm.
In the interest of expediency, most groups of people have decided that democracies can make decisions as a proxy for consent, and people continually work to improve that process. Larger groups of people have all found it necessary to delegate daily governance tasks to a subset of people, because the time and effort needed to govern scales with the size of the group.

> Can you reasonably claim that all citizens consent to the policies of their government?

People will disagree with each other whether they have a government or not. Those who live ungoverned tend to experience more coercion, violence, and violations of their rights than those who are governed.
I don't really like Airbnb as a company but they are the only one out of the marketplace based unicorns who's unit economics seem really solid to me. I personally would not be against them.
That's how Apple protects its 30% cut.
You go first. You claimed there were others that agree with you, but that doesn't really seem to be true. Provide a serious citation, and I'll reciprocate.
My memory is kind of fading w.r.t. what exactly happened in London, but I seem to recall their plan was pretty much explicitly "let's embrace COVID so we can get herd immunity"?
The unwashed masses just looking to blame anybody but themselves at this point.
A couple other ways to deal with it (at least for some instances--not sure this applies to every kind of executable).

1.1 Hit "Cancel" in the warning dialog.

1.2 Open "System Preferences" / "Security & Privacy" and select the "General" tab.

1.3 It should have a notice about the unverified app being blocked, and offer the chance to approve it. Do so.

1.4 Try to launch the app again. You'll get the dialog again, but this time it should have a button to tell it to go ahead and launch it. That will also remember that you have approved the app so you should be OK from them on (or at least until the app updates, and you will have to redo this).

Another way is to fix it from the command line.

2.1 Locate the executable.

2.2 Do "xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /path/to/executable"

I just hit this today when doing some web testing with Selenium, and it could not use chromedriver because the developer was not verified. My chromedriver is installed via Homebrew and evidently it had been updated since I last used it. A search for how to deal with that turned up both of the above solutions as part of this Stackoverflow question [1].

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60362018/macos-catalinav...
They require an extra separation step (removing newly bred material from spent fuel, or removing fission products from molten salt). This is more expensive than just doing nothing to the spent fuel.

In the past, the idea was that nuclear would be cheap, but would run into uranium supply constraints, so breeding would save money. But that's not how it turned out. Nuclear was expensive not because of fuel, but because of the cost of the power plants. Uranium prices remain low. Also, the move to gas centrifuges reduced the energy consumed in uranium enrichment by a factor of 50.
> you also have to give them to the rich
because that's what "Universal" means.
There's a segment of open source users who understand these messages and aren't necessarily dissuaded by them. I make an open source app for merging audio files in iTunes/the Music app. The userbase are people who are technical enough to install Homebrew, (generally) use iTunes scripts, and manage Gatekeeper warnings, but not so determined as to replicate the app's functionality with their own set of shell scripts. https://www.davidschlachter.com/misc/trackconcat
Not only is the message opaque, but it is intentionally misleading. I know the security team at Apple occasionally has trouble coming up with good explanations of what is going on, but this message really can't be looked at in any way other than being misleading, sorry. And you are absolutely right that misleading messages like these train users to click through warnings.
The point is that the things that come easy for us are usually those that we value the least, so, after we put in a lot of hard work and time on something, and we had a great accomplishment, we'd say "if it wasn't hard to do, it wasn't worth doing." It's a self pat-on-the-back.

But I totally understand how if you applied this saying to EVERYTHING then it wouldn't make sense, or be seen as "narrow minded" I suppose.

I mean, fishing is pretty damn easy, but every trip I take is worth taking for the peace of mind.
I feel like the problem may be that we have a distorted view of "success" and what it means. Success is much more than a one-dimensional goal of earning more money. Are you really considered successful if that's all that you accomplished? Success itself encompasses many of the goals espoused in the article, such as having quality relationships and being able to take time for yourself. I think it's a perspective problem. You aren't successful just because you did well in your career. There's much more to it than that.
An almost meaningless number when not controlled for age, ethnicity, general health etc.

I don't understand how this number can be reasonably used to say anything about basically anything.

From the document you site:

> Many such serological surveys are currently being
> undertaken worldwide [10], and some have thus far
> suggested substantial under-ascertainment of cases, with estimates of IFR converging at approximately 0.5 - 1% [10-12].

But if we follow reference 12, we get the following IFR study from Stockholm[1]:

> Results:

> Age 0–69 Population %: 88.3, IFR: 0.09%
> Age 70+, Population %: 11.7, IFR: 4.29%

Now, which number applies to the vast majority of us? And this is not even controlled for anything but age.

People, come on.

1. https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/contentassets/53c0dc391b...
I’m always amazed by the sheer number of products Google has built and sunset. I didn’t actually know about this, but it sent me down a rabbit hole. What kind of work was most popular on Helpouts?
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> That's not what a free market means.

It looks like in this thread people have different definitions of free market. For me, the fundamental property is that supply and demand respond elastically to price changes, and a quick test (necessary, not sufficient) is the following: if the price asked by buyers is too low, does supply stop? For example (and simplifying), if people wanted to pay just $1 for consoles, the supply of consoles would drop because it's not profitable, so it could be a free market. Now, for jobs, if companies wanted to pay just $1 an hour, would people stop working? Given that their alternative is starving, they probably wouldn't. So the job market can't be a free market.

> And I don't know how you can say companies have more power in negotiation. They post their rates, and people apply or they don't. There are millions of alternative jobs. If I sell my car, I post the price and if I don't like the offer, I don't take it. Are you claiming that this is not an aspect of the free market?

A car and a job are very, very different things. You can live without a car, you can't live without a job. If the available offer of cars is too bad, you won't get a car (well, maybe you need to because you need a means of transport). If the available offer of jobs is too bad, you will still get a job because you need income to live.

> A friend of mine is a shift supervisor at a food supplier...

I don't know how this is related to the debate at hand. Do you know the situations and motivations of those people?

> There are wages that people will just not work for. Even if minimum wage laws were lifted, people aren't going to go work at MacDonald's for $1/hr.

IIRC, current minimum wage puts people below the poverty line. Why do people go to work on that? Maybe because they have no alternative?

> And you also see this will undocumented labour (i.e. where minimum wage regulations are ignored)

Which is a separate problem. Any regulation of any kind will push incentives towards undocumented labor. That's not an argument against regulation, it's an argument for better oversight.

> Sure they can. What are you talking about? Tens of millions of people, for all kinds of reasons, either choose not to work, or choose to work part-time.

Working part-time is working. And if you've found the formula to live without income, please share it.
I think people are mostly bitching about iOS, since it will be impossible to run the game on iPhones and iPads anymore at all.
I think that is a mistake. Exponential math doesn't fail to work just because you delay it for a while. Everyone started with just one case.
> Applications should see nothing but their executable jail, and whatever was intentionally allowed to them by the user

Whilst this works for some programs, it gets... Difficult... When dealing with others.

What permissions should sh get, for example? And do the programs it will call inherit the same, or do they get their own permissions, or a hybrid?
> Do you know how much $100 is in Iran?

It doesn't really matter, because for developers in Iran, the question becomes do you know how hard it is to pay US companies from Iran?
> Free markets are also free of monopolies

Usually, that's covered by the adjective “perfectly competitive” rather than “free” modifying “markets”, but it is an aspect of textbook idealized markets.
It's a good thing to measure the instant capacity, but the voltage and current (and, hopefully, thermal output) are being measured during the whole flight.
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I think some of the "essential" businesses were more essential to people maintaining their sanity than essential for people to survive. It was a "bread and circuses" play. Liquor stores and dispensaries are on that list; if you're going to lock everyone down for an extended period of time, they're going to get bored. Bored people get unhappy, and unrest increases. Letting people have their booze and weed increases the amount of time they can cope with the cabin fever (although there are certainly downsides).
How so? Looking at this Pew data[1] on median household income in 2017 dollars, which appears pretty comprehensive, if you have a college degree, millennials are doing slightly worse than Gen X, but better than all generations before that looking at the same age range.

Even those with "some college" millennials are slightly worse off, but within 5%.

It's those with only a high school degree that have seen a significant hit.

[1]https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/essay/millennial-life-how-yo...
macOS ships with some of that already; users immediately complained that it turned their OS into Windows Vista. Perhaps the underlying problem is that Apple's sandbox is not under the control of the user, it's mostly controlled by Apple and (to a lesser extent) by the developer of the software itself. It's really a strange model if you think about it…
It absolutely is a cash grab, and part of a series of unethical behaviour from Apple.

Since the latest awful hardware products (terrible keyboard, control strip thing that breaks, no escape key) with MacBooks and a great improvement with using Linux via Purism and System76 I've managed to move away from Apple.
A livable minimum wage is the only way someone can move on. If you're working in an unskilled job, living paycheck to paycheck, how are you going to improve that situation?
> What's the difference between your local grocery store clerk, and a Hollywood actor?

Well, if you didn't know, there's stuff like this:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/college-bribery-scand...

The special access and leg-up in society offered to people with very high wealth (whether an actor, a corporate CxO, or someone who inherits a business empire) is huge, and entire systems are set up to tend exclusively to their needs and the preservation of those advantages.
> The free market is very good at solving information asymmetries of the kind you are talking about.

No, it's not.
Biotech startups are also subject to the fickle nature of living organisms.

When I was in grad school I knew a bunch of grad students who worked on biotech/bioengineering experiments. They would have to take care of their experiments like they were pets, nurturing them and making sure they were well taken care of, because if they died on you, that's months of effort down the drain. Vacations had to be carefully planned, and people had to be delegated to keep those little critters alive.

Whereas folks running experiments with non-living things could actually work 9-6 and take vacations. Computational folks could run their experiments while sitting on a beach in Hawaii (with an LTE signal of course).

Bio is just a different beast.

The worse thing is? Many of these biotech graduates actually struggle to find well-paying jobs after, despite how hot the field seemingly is.
I'm saying that I'm tired of parents saying they "can't" do this distance learning things, or their kids "can't" do it, because they can, and if everyone put in some positive energy and effort, we can make it a success.
Nice work and writeup. All stemming from very basic mistakes -- SQL and command injection.

Worrying that the CloudSQL internals (like the private IP range) aren't strongly walled off. It will be interesting to see how this changes in response to the researchers' work.
> but it is difficult to get arbitrary applications to adopt it

just curious, but what makes it specifically hard?
I don't think they're misunderstanding the meaning. I think there'a just so much "boilerplate unsafe" for such cases that it would distract from other uses which they could meaningfully audit.
As someone whose elderly parents run Windows and have never run 'any executable that any website tells them to download', and I myself have not seen a website that gives me a random executable in over a decade:

Out of curiosity, how often do your parents encounter the dialog in the article?
I am not talking about the intrinsic worth of a human. I’m talking about the price of their labor. Someone’s labor being worth $50 or $5 is a function of supply and demand.
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I didn't realize Scoble was still alive - was almost going to submit "(2008)" :)
Will the >insurance< be >punishing< the drivers?

Or is it more accurate to say it gives them an incentive to address the bad civil engineering through their behavior.

The insurance company is operating on an actuarial table that shows cornering with those accelerometer values is statistically involved in more accidents. The user will slow down because now they're aware of the requirements to make a safer turn. That is a third order effect based on the insurance company adding more information to the driver's calculus.

The 'punisher' here is the design that forces you to choose between dangerous turns or slow navigation.
The minute you admit you are in Iran, American companies aren't supposed to sell to you, generally speaking. So, yeah, that seems like a weird comment.
I liked it a lot, although I’ve later found the depiction of the Eisenhower administration a bit simplistic. Another good and fun read on that is Evans’ _Ike’s bluff_, which paints a more detailed picture on John Foster Dulles in particular.
I'm saying that all adults are capable of making distance learning work for their kids. They CAN do it, but it will be HARD.
You also have to consider it's difficult to measure the exact economic value of an employee.
Yes! Great to hear you've found something that effectively distracts you from getting fit! For me it has always been adventure sport - I grew up having to distract myself with skateboards, climbing, mountain bikes, surfing, etc to keep myself healthy, because just running for the sake of it was awful!

Our take on this is that - like your experience with VR - there is a way to make exercise fun, and therefore distract you from the work you're having to do during it.

Out of interest do you own a VR headset currently?
> Such as what?

UBI/NIT. Or more realistically, just expanding the EITC.
I agree that having realistic tax rates in addition to a cash grant in the experiment is key to determining people's actual behavior.

What'd be ideal is if you could randomly select a group of people and force them into the system, like it or not. Then observe their behavioral changes. This is likely of dubious legality.

A second option would be to offer people upfront an amount of money equal to the extra taxes you expect them to have to pay. E.g., if someone pays $50k/year in taxes now and would pay $100k/year in taxes under a UBI, you offer them $150k in tax-exempt income immediately to join a three year program, and afterwards they can do anything they like, including changing labor choices such that they pay less than $100k/year in taxes. This would get the microeconomic incentives fairly similar to those under a real UBI.
Surely this will be illegal in Europe thanks to the GDPR?

At the same time it demonstrates why laws like the GDPR are needed.
I assume this is sarcasm, but if not, prepare for down-votes because absolutely nobody agrees with me.
That would explain why I always see CF bot prompts when visiting a site for the first time or the hundredth time in Safari with a few layers of tracking protection and no third-party cookies. I prefer to answer captchas if that’s the price I pay for a bit more privacy, then...
Question for you: what exactly does Notarization protect against? I have watched all the videos about it, I read the developer documentation, I notarize my apps because it is required by the OS…but I still have not gotten a single good explanation as to why it's useful. Apple claims that the process is extremely tolerant…so does it try to accept everything but blatant malware? Does it let malware through? What happens if malware does get through? Why does having build-specific certificates help security–is there any reason why Apple would disable a single build of an app from a malware publisher?
I think you’re correct. The story on our species is known to degree that it’s unreasonable that an advanced agricultural civilization existed. I think it’s more likely that far further back, a dinosaur species achieved a more advanced state than we think possible today. Not quite agricultural due to a lack of tool use, but as far as you can go without the opposable thumb. Advanced social structures and nomadic. It’s pointless speculation, but I do think it’s more likely given the timespan available.
"I have no editor" is the first sentence and a grammatical mistake in the second sentence. Boldly played.
> Perhaps the underlying problem is that Apple's sandbox is not under the control of the user, it's mostly controlled by Apple

Absolutely agree. There is a risk of prompt fatigue but that's a UX problem that can be solved during the installation process or first run.
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It seemed that way (I'm not certain it wasn't just incompetence in realising how quickly it was spreading). Then they did strict lockdown and worked hard to shield the most vulnerable. The shielding was poorly executed - like everything the UK government do.