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>We thought, “Why are we still doing this? We do everything else with our phones. We should definitely be using PayPal to pay each other back. But we don’t, and none of our friends do.”

None of my friends use any pay services. Apple pay, Venmo, Paypal, it's a crapshoot if I can find a way to pay them back. I was able to convince them to use Facebook Messenger pay because we were having a conversation in it once. We are in our 20s. I would be surprised if they had set up Apple/Google pay on their phone to pay contactless (maybe now with covid). My point is -- Venmo doesn't solve any problems it just creates another -- namely another payment system none of my peers use.
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It's not about dumbing things down, since you convey the same information and solve the same problems, just more efficiently. It's about being understood by the users you are meant to serve.
There's no evidence he had even a basic understanding of science, never mind a genuine interest in it.

There's no reason to believe his "interest in science" went any deeper than creating social leverage - at best.

Cultivating scientists, philosophers, and other intellectually prominent people is a far less risky and far more directly rewarding strategy than cultivating politicians - although in fact he did plenty of that too.

But politicians are usually considered sleazy, and someone who is courting them is clearly playing a political game and likely to be sleazy themselves.

Courting scientists and academics is much cleaner and provides exactly the kind of cover you're attempting to justify.

And of course no one should have a problem with othering Epstein. Considering his record, he's about as other as it's possible to be.
> That an identical experiment leads to an identical outcome [..]

So what happens if/when an identical experiment fails to lead to an identical outcome?
>The Soviet Union doesn't have statistics on this because they didn't want those numbers to exist.

The soviet union didn't have stats on this because they knew those stats would make them look bad long before (and regardless of whether or not) the reactor went pop.
At the time, I may have been Director of Community Life for The TAG Project, which I believe is the the oldest set of email lists for the gifted community on the internet and they were trying to make the transition to a formal charity and never completed the process.

So the audience would have been parents of gifted kids in need of support for how to effectively raise their kids and my opinion was somewhat respected for a fairly brief period of time in gifted circles online.

It wasn't an argument. It was an attempt to share my thoughts with people who liked my thoughts on certain subjects well enough that it got me started blogging because there was demand for my point of view on some subjects.
I think this is interpreted backwards.
It was a policy decision to allow a controlled amount of public gatherings. As a measure to return to normality.
Scientists are using the opportunity to investigate the outcome.
Thus they can advise the policy makers.

Doesn't sound very ethically controversial.
I think a big problem here is the lack of liability.

If you are making a hardware device, decide to include a dodgy module from AliExpress and then the device starts catching fire and burning your customer's homes you will at least be subject to a lawsuit, so you won't even consider doing this.

This should be the same when it comes to third-party binaries and SDKs. Even if you respect the law (when it comes to privacy, GDPR, consumer rights, etc), you also need to do your due diligence and make sure any third-party code you embed also does respect it otherwise you should be subject to lawsuits.

The result would be that a lot of dodgy ad networks would go away (because no respectable app developer would do business with them), ad networks themselves would be more selective in what kind of ads they run (ad prices will go up to compensate for the cost of vetting them), and overall I think it'll be a win for everyone; customers are not only safer but also see higher quality ads because the "bottom of the barrel" stuff has been pushed out of the market.
I was thinking it's because Air Force leadership are all pilots.

> Because we need a human up there, flying around, controlling the missiles

Do we? Why is this important. I thought everything could be done remotely these days.
I've been looking but haven't found a good systematic way to review code to find this. In the case of Mintegral, there were a number of obfuscations to make it difficult to recognize. Swizzling, while a bad practice in general, can be done for legitimate reasons. So you need to be able to detect what method they're looking up with _method_getImplementation and changing with _method_setImplementation which is the part that can be difficult. So far, I've found one old project in GitHub from 2016 that was designed to do this. However it's stale and I haven't had a chance to review it yet to see how effective it is.
Presumably you have to go to the dealership and pay them to install it? I couldn't find anything online (other an AIO) for getting it through official channels.
I'm bullish on the economy. Outside of tourism and live entertainment, I don't see any industry taking a massive hit. I'd even say that tourism will bounce back much faster than expectations.

Over the last few weeks, I've realized that people are okay with the risk in exchange for getting back their normal lives. Six months into the pandemic, it's also clear that while it is serious, it isn't the civilization ending pandemic we initially thought it was.
We bought a home gym in March, just when the lockdown here was announced. We made the decision at 8am, picked up the stuff by 12am the same day and by 6pm all online shops were out of stock (within 24h after the lockdown was announced). Best impulsive purchase ever.
> Nobody is forcing you to use a 3rd party app store, but Apple is forcing everyone to go through their store.

Many employers do that very thing. How many people have been compelled by employment circumstances to install Zoom despite its dubious pedigree? What happens when a corporate timecard app exists only in a 3rd party app store?
They're saying ZFS won't get the new SSD wear-leveling work that Ext4 et al are already getting. I'll have to Google to lookup the name of this next level TRIM technique.
It doesn't take very long to get to a point where you can benefit from adding weight to chin-ups/dips. Someone able to do just 1 chin-up at the start of lockdown could have made some very good progress now depending on how well they trained, their physical proportions, and athletic history. Also, some people simply benefit from exercise variety. I personally get sick of certain movements after months of doing them and need to switch them up purely for mental motivation.

Another issue with bodyweight training compared to free weights is training legs and hips effectively. Plenty people will be able to add resistance right away to something like a squat.
Yet, Rogue has been out of all of their plates, barbells, dumbbells (both static and loadable), and most racks since lockdown, all of which are supposedly made in America.
That article is about broken container filesystems, as in, the root filesystem of the container, but that filesystem is not where you would ever store the data of a database. In kubernetes/eks you would use a PersistentVolumeClaim with an ext4 or xfs filesystem. This would not share any of the overlay filesystem problems and StatefulSets are quite good at managing these.

We run over 900 very stateful MySQL database clusters and several hundred zookeeper clusters in kubernetes on ec2 with ebs successfully. Sure, we've hit our share of problems over the years, but storage itself is solid.
5 years seems like such a small penalty.

He was an international arms dealer and from the sounds of it selling weapons to countries that it was illegal to sell weapons to. Who knows what those weapons were used for.
Umm. You choose to live in that walled garden or not, so if I choose to have “that choice” taken away from me, that’s still choice.
Am I the only one who finds The List of Words to Avoid rather depressing? I mean I get what they are trying to do: minimise the number of letters. Yet, language is also about variety and not being really, really dull. Perhaps also about not treating your readers like idiots? Most of those slightly longer words look like perfectly legitimate alternatives in that regard.
The ol "Ominous and severe statement backed by nothing". You gotta love it.
If you have to represent "both sides" (in many cases there'll be more than two sides really), you end up having to give a voice to nutjobs, plus you present both sides as equally valid assessments.

Much as we'd all love an "unbiased" news source, the reality is that bias is a very hard problem to solve well.
The challenge here is with SDKs, just like with other open source libraries and packages, once you introduce someone else's code into your app, it becomes infinitely harder to get visibility into what your app is doing and ensure that third-party code isn't doing something nefarious (or including a sub-dependency that does something nefarious).
I use a company called Snap Kitchen for that (no affiliation). They have a menu, I pick what meals and how many I want. Twice a week they cook the food, package it up, and deliver it to my door. Let's you pick how many calories per day you're aiming for, and if you're on one of a couple dozen diets they support they'll limit the auto-suggested meals for you.

The food tastes pretty good. It's better than frozen food, but still a far cry from a freshly cooked meal. It's not terribly cheap either. If I did all 3 meals from them 5 days week, it cost somewhere around $8 a meal. I ended up quitting because of the price. It's too expensive to use for many meals, and has to short of a shelf life to keep around as a backup if I don't want to cook.
jesus... that is such a negative way of looking at things.

i'm glad that prices and interest rates are finally at a level that people can purchase a home. now hopefully these people have learned from others mistakes in 2007 and only buy a house that they can afford which usually means that your whole MIT payment (mortage + taxes + insursure) never goes above 25% of your monthly net income. things got crazy in 2007 when people were committing 50% or more of the monthly net income to their home payment in hopes that they could flip it in a year or so for a big profit. while this is fine for an investment property that you don't care about getting foreclosed, you never have that mindset with your primary residence.
I have a medical condition and I was extremely frazzled. I can't judge if I'm making sense or not when I'm really frazzled. I've napped a bit, so I'm less frazzled now, but I'm still dealing with a lot of stress, as is often the case.
So, the supply shock is followed by an explosion in demand, and since "inventories are bad!", there is suddenly no goods available for purchase.
Method swizzling has been well known and used for as long as Objective C has been around. It's essentially Objective C's flavor of what other dynamic languages call monkey patching. I'm surprised that the App store review process didn't catch this, especially if the SDK was used by 1200 apps on the app store.

It reminds of something I'd done to get past the App store review a long time ago. This was when the iPad had just come out and UISplitViewController was super buggy. I found that the only way to get the universal app I was building to work satisfactorily on both the iPad and the iPhone was to use one of their undocumented methods. We submitted the app for review and as I'd half expected, it was rejected for using an undocumented API. The work around was to rot-13 the selector for the undocumented method and to decode it at runtime, dynamically call the method with performSelector. That made it pass the review. And that's when I learnt that the reviewers were probably just running strings (the unix program) and grep to find apps using undocumented APIs. That was a long time ago, I hope things have gotten better by now. :)
> The number of deaths due to Chernobyl is grossly underreported.

Maybe, if you only take the 31 number, that one is indeed grossly underreported. But any other estimate (like the common 4000 number) is really a wild guess. The reason is not Soviet Union keeping secrets, but more fundamental, it's really really hard to give any meaningful estimate in a situation like this even with 100% transparency.

> I'd be willing to argue that the Chernobyl accident caused (or at least precipitated) the fall of the Soviet union.

In that case, it was a net win.
You can add rings and then you have a lot more bodyweight options.

But I agree weights tend to be more efficient towards developing strength.
If you kill someone in a car crash they don’t go on to kill 5 more people in another car crash.
> Well, let's verify that… https://i.imgur.com/uHfjoUs.png No, they're not.

Sorry, I don't know what is this supposed to prove, but I can definitely assure you that all the mentioned controls, and many others, are exactly native controls under the 3 first tier platforms (MSW, GTK and macOS).

> Do you have any proof?

Proof of absence of something is hard to make, all I can say is that you can go through MSDN, GTK and Cocoa documentation to convince yourself.
Note: Contrary to what you may have heard, if you catch the virus, there is a high likelihood that you will not die.
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> Which processes will be used to run the team

As a manager of managers, I could not possibly care less. I'd certainly leave that one out of any "interface" I was designing. That's strictly an implementation detail.
If you want to get push notifications from an in-house server, you need to have your own FCM project to host the push notifications. In that case, you need to compile the app yourself.
A champions league game was the source of a major spike in both Italy and Spain and ended up killing thousands.
YSK that Amazon has a serious problem with counterfeit products
I find a lot of the comments here split down “I want app regulation because I feel it provides a layer of safety and safety is good for the consumer” vs “I want more freedom and choice because choice is good and is better for the consumer”. Which brings to mind two things

This sounds similar to the current brouhaha happening in the US over America’s inclination towards personal freedom at all cost even when govt regulation could/should step in the make things better.

A concern that once “freedom of choice of App Store” is provided, where does it stop because ultimately those demanding choice will keep demanding aspects be “open up” “for fairness” until iOS isn’t special anymore. Part of what makes it special _is_ it’s regulation, if you don’t want that then “choose” elsewhere. This aspect feels like the problem in the US of big business battling for deregulation which... isn’t always so great.

I’m not saying “Apple is doing it for the people!”, necessarily but Apple is doing it to be Apple, let’s not make everything the same.
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And when it's concluded that it is, we can reclassify it as assault or psychological abuse.
It still requires a fairly large buffer. It could be improved with some punctuation.

A prime number is a natural number that is greater than 1, and not a product of two smaller numbers.

Commas let you catch your breath and flush the buffer. When there are two many commas, I use a bullet list.
How can you know what goes on in their lives though? Maybe they're bored or bitter or lonely or even suicidal? $500k a year alone does not do much for your well being.
A famously playful version of this is the first sentence of Kafka's Metamophorphosis. The reader has the concept of Gregor Samsa waking in his bed from uneasy dreams and then a monstrous vermin in their heads, and the verb they're definitely not expecting to link this subject and object is 'transformed into'...

It's a pain for the translator to pull off the same effect in most other languages.
People are explicitly asked to wear masks too ...
Hah, indeed. I'd say the passive voice is a common a tool for patronizing people, and too much tolerance for it is bad for an organization.
How do these handle chaff, fog, rain? I know drones don’t handle those too well either but I can’t imagine guided missiles care all that much, while I can see heavy rain severely limiting the effectiveness of that laser.
No monopoly is a monopoly until it's a worldwide monopoly?
I've taken to filling 5 gallon buckets with beach sand. Cheap and it works. Put a broom handle across two and you've got a 100lb bench press/curl.
simply switch to old reddit
These examples of “no human in the loop” are stretched so wide as to lose all meaning. A human designed the mine to destroy anything that meets the programmed requirements (weight on mine or proximity to mine).

You don’t have a case of no human in the loop until that mine is capable of exploding or not exploding and it’s responsible on a case by case basis for deciding which to do.
Or you could spend literally hours on bodyweight exercises, the athletes of yore used to do this... but it is indeed an inferior option.
Your point is addressed earlier in the article:

It's not about banning new words, killing off long words or promoting completely perfect grammar. Nor is it about letting grammar slip.

A good complement to this article is Orwell's "Politics and the English Language," which talks about how people might use long, complex words (like those in the Words to Avoid list) to seem more important. That's the other side of the "variety" coin. The reality is that a skilled writer can walk that fine line, but most people are better off keeping their word choice simple and direct.
This was asked about 8 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21738571

"The site lacks basic optimizations like virtual scrolling to keep the browser from crashing after a few pages of content. There are also entire npm packages being pulled in instead of any tree-shaking, or browser-specific polyfills."
This is a valid point & well made.

I would argue that the race to the bottom is caused more by Apples gratuitous 30% cut than anything else, though.

Totally agree the free by default model causes more harm than good in the grand scheme of things when it comes to these app stores.
He got away easy! Great read, thanks.
> We developed ethics around clinical research.

Looks like we need to develop some ethics around economic experimentation. The harm caused by lockdowns is going to absolutely dwarf any harm which may have been caused by live research of the virus, and perhaps even worse than if we just let the virus infect everyone until a herd immunity develops.
"T-shaped developer" master of one (or two).
The generations of the future should not have to suffer just because some people's feelings might be hurt.
Absolutely. I'm totally on board with what they're trying to do, sounds like a great idea, but

>The mass surveillance and factory farming of human beings on a global scale is the business model of people farmers like Facebook and Google. It is the primary driver of the socioeconomic system we call surveillance capitalism.

This puts me off right away. I probably partially agree, but this kind of simplistic resentment is just a turn-off for the service.
It makes a large region uninhabitable for a long time.
For the uninitiated, you can do by changing the URL you're visiting from reddit.com to old.reddit.com. If you have an account, you can also set this as a preference.
> while this is fine for an investment property that you don't care about getting foreclosed

No, getting into a risky, speculative, highly leveraged position that takes more than half your monthly income just to service the interest is not a good idea, period.

This was not simply a case of people being otherwise shrewd investors, making only the small mistake of making the object of their speculation their residence.
Same question asked 10 years ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/c821s/why_is_red...
I agree. The beauty of reading and writing English is the massive array of words we have that can mean the same thing. It's also one of the reasons I like reading the Economist for my news, they typically write with a diction that is above 6th grade level.
> Continuously pay for products like Netflix, YouTube and Amazon whilst those companies continue to 'recommend' you stuff you don't need.

> Having companies spying on them and implementing dark UX patterns by A/B testing; all for sake of keeping you 'hooked' onto their products.

This applies to all commercial products.
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> For example, readers tend to latch onto the last part of a sentence.

Everything before "but" is often bullshit. "I'm not racist, but". "No offense, but".
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> Sure enough, there were about 3 pages of comments before someone mentioned bananas.

Maybe people just didn't want to play their stupid game and didn't mention bananas even if they'd seen the message?
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That's not entirely unreasonable, pre in this case trying to make explicit "ask me about this well ahead of time".

eg you can make on the day bookings or call up HR to say you've got dave from forklifts incorporated on the phone and you need the company card immediately.
They didn't say they were useless, you're putting words in their mouth. They said it was false that "Even casual gym-goers might be able to justify the spend since weights at home are the only option when gyms aren’t open".
The preference automatically changes back, because they hate their users.
How in the world am I to do this, when no manager nor leader in my org leads by example?
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I was also really surprised at how much slower the new site performed when it dropped 2 years ago or whenever it was. I'm sure using react caused some of the performance hit, but I also suspect the flexibility of advertising on the new platform also caused some of the issues.

Either way, I still access reddit via old.reddit.com and it's snappy as ever.
If you know what you want to adapt for, which I feel we have some good ideas already, then it's more efficient to push evolution straight toward that.
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I wasn't aiming my 'open-for-all' comment at any particular alternative.

It was more if you've got one walled and protected store and that's compromised, a free open alternative would be more likely suffer the same issues on a larger scale.

Certainly agree with your assessment of the Play Store
Probably because new reddit is much more ad revenue-friendly. I've managed to make the preference stick somehow.
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Yeah but every hurricane is already worse than Fukushima. Remember that the only damage to health in Fukushima came from the evacuation itself.
Does being an employee change their liability at all? In CA they seem to be willing to meet some pay and health insurance demands, so I wonder what part of the employee relationship they're opposed to. Is it firing and unemployment?
You can progressively raise your feet off the ground for something harder than a press-up but not as hard as a handstand press.

And one-legged variations are possible for legs which instantly doubles your equivalent weight; I believe they are also good for building up balance and stability from smaller muscles.
By that logic, China killed a million ppl?
I don't feel comparing modern US economy to Venesuela / Roman Empire, which has to import almost everything, is fair.