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I both agree and disagree with you at the same time.

Yes, social scoring would be easy to implement. However for it to work you would need critical mass of people believing in it.

If you live in Minnesota and somebody in DC says that your score is low you can kinda just ignore it.

When you local milkman stops selling you milk because of it, then things get dark.

However your local milkman can already have "a score" for you which is even worse than that one from DC. E.g. not selling you milk because you are gay or have a green mohawk.

HN attracts specific technical audience who tends to see things from very technical (hard, logical) point of view. However what I want to stress here are "softer" things - how society works, how people interact, how they sell out, what they want to achieve with this etc. It is much harder to define and is much scarier TBH.

It might be a good idea to be nice to your neighbors, demonstrate only mild opinions, basically just "hide in a gray mass of people" before you start setting up your own email servers, degoogle yourself and etc if you are thinking about fascist government taking over.

For technology or corporations to betray you, you most probably be betrayed by society before that.
I bring this up every time solar panels are talked about as some god's gift to energy production. Nobody wants to talk about the insane amounts of e-waste it brings. Not to mention they're constantly improving so people throw out perfectly panels for new ones.

I'm pro solar but it does have a few downsides that we shouldn't ignore.
The thresholds for antibody tests were established using known true negative samples (e.g., blood banked before the pandemic) and known true positive samples (e.g., patients who tested positive by PCR). But patients with worse symptoms are over-represented among people who tested positive by PCR (since they're more likely to seek a test), and patients with worse symptoms will generally have higher levels of antibodies in the blood. So if anything, the sensitivity of the test is probably an overestimate, which would make the number infected an underestimate.

I've seen a few papers testing asymptomatic patients (identified by contact tracing or other mass testing), with mixed results. NYC uses an in-house test for which I don't believe any paper exists, so I don't think we can say anything there. The IFR from NYC's serology is higher than most other estimates, which could imply under-ascertainment but could also be real (e.g., because they forced nursing homes to accept positive patients, because they were doing early intubation that we now know is harmful, etc.).
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While this issue is worth exploring and talking about from a policy and science perspective it’s disappointing that the article doesn’t mention that solar e-waste is still considerably less harmful, and much smaller in scale than fossil fuel waste.

I sent this to a friend of mine who is an energy expert who reminded me about how terrible coal ash is: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Dan_River_coal_ash_spil...
I am curious about this claim.

Someone else in another post a few weeks ago that large pharmaceutical companies take in a ton of funding from investors and governments around the world during research.
If it doesn't ends up being successful, they're fine.

However if you're a small time actor or startup, it's pretty much win or die that you have as options as the same lucrative funding isn't available.
oh yeaahh I forgot about the travesty of expiring emails on free services.
>You seem to be doing real contortions to try to make this fit your argument, but it doesn't.

It does.

>Here's another easy disproof: YouTube Premium costs £11.99 on the YouTube website, and £15.99 IAP on the iOS app store right now.

If you are Google, you get a free pass. It's simple. Look at the recent Wordpress desaster or Hey. Apple doesn't allow showing that you can subscribe somewhere else, in no app, unless you are maybe Google.

>The section you quote is entirely related to communication within the app. It is Apple saying that there is no option to either directly or indirectly push users towards your own payment methods with text or calls to action in your app.

This includes links or any other hint that there might be such a thing.

>Your argument seems to be that Apple would consider Spotify pricing at $12.99 within the app as somehow "indirectly" pushing users towards other payment options elsewhere when they have $9.99 on their website. Is that right?

This entirely depends on the insanity of the reviewer. If that person thinks that it's pushing, then it gets denied.

>But in any case: Spotify for years did charge $12.99 in its app and $9.99 on the web. There are multiple[1] instances[2] of[3] users[4] being confused by this and complaining on Spotify's community support pages.

And they get the blame for it, since they can't label that as "Apple tax" or similar. That's why users are confused. Because Apple plays the dictator there. "must not discourage". Also your links show no official response from Spotify on this matter. These are forum posts, from users ("community legend") with no affiliation to Spotify.

>There are many, many good reasons to dislike Apple regarding the app store. You are doing gymnastics to invent a totally new one.

Not really. Apple doesn't want other payment options, they prove it time and time again. They don't like you showing your users that those exist, time and time again. So yes, you need to charge similar prices, or else you get in trouble.
We just have to keep increasing the visibility of this issue. Don't give up, I'm not giving up. I don't expect Biden to change this unless there is a very very large groundswell of people complaining. AOC and Sanders seem like people that could understand the reason why this is bad behavior.
You can sign the code on your own computer (which might even be offline) before deploying on some other company's server.

So, it's harder for an attacker to get their code signed using your certificate. Hacking into the website would be useless; they'd have to get the code into the development environment.

Or to put it another way, an HTTPS server automatically signs any file that it serves. That's too easy.
All this while in the battle I thought Apple said they were playing fair, being impartial with their deal, that they don't give anyone special pricing. But according to this, they clearly do.
What I've learned in life is that when all the arguments against are ad hominem, there's usually something political going on.

He may not be right, but that doesn't mean he's not on to something.
You already have games that work on both iPhone and iPad, and the iPad screen resolution is about the same as a MacBook retina, so I don’t see that being an issue. The different input methods wouldn’t be a huge deal either - fruit ninja with a mouse probably would not be quite the same, but couldn’t think of any other examples that wouldn’t work just fine with mouse or keyboard instead of touch events.
I don't know; I understand the cynicism here.. But can we assume an optimistic scenario where vendors are able to properly address the security implications and this enables web developers to build all kinds of new applications? I for one would love to be able to write web applications that could, say, control the lights in my house or smart devices. I hate interfacing with my phone to control these types of actions; I don't have the same bandwidth with my phone as I do with a full-blown computer, and therefore use my phone as little as possible. Therefore, I am closed off from really having fine-grained control over the devices on my LAN. Using the browser for this type of behavior would be awesome, IMO.
> and Epic becomes the single payment processing provider for unreal games.

This seems like an unjustified assumption that Epic would attempt to leverage any monopoly they had on game engines to create a monopoly on payment processing. They haven't done this on desktop where they (up to legal issues) could, so I don't see why you think they would on IOS.

Moreover, there is competition between game engines and gamedevs are not a captive audience to quite the same extent as consumers are.

Moreover, if epic wins and they attempted this they would have literally established the precedent for Apple to sue them in return.
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I do it all the time, and have for decades. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Personally, I don't have much trust for PayPal or Stripe. PayPal is infamous for randomly banning accounts, for example.
At least now I can be like Jason Bourne, and have lockers in different parts of the world with laptops and phones... ;)
I would much rather live in a world with fewer guns. But, with the proliferation of guns in the US, what is the left suppose to do when confronted by an armed assailant in their own home? We are not going to get rid of guns in America. What other protection do you have?

4 in 10 Americans live in a gun owning household. That number is probably greater in the south.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/10/22/facts-about...

It’s probably even greater for someone willing to break into your house.

Guns in the US is a “gravity problem” no matter how much you complain about them, they aren’t going anywhere.

We live in a country where the far right is arming up and when the left wants to “peacefully protest” and exercise their first amendment (not saying it always ends up being peaceful), the far right is “exercising their 2nd amendment”.

Which side do you think is going to come out ahead?
3. Jury nullification.
Yes. I get that.

And they are about half wrong when it comes to me. I actually have similar values. But I have very different beliefs about how to achieve those values. And as a result, I disagree with most of the agendas being pushed to try to address the problems left by the awful history.

Yes, I want equality. But I want it to be obtained with a hand up, not a handout. We cannot successfully mandate equal outcomes for populations with unequal abilities. We've done that for 60 years and it has not worked.

In California today, black kids score a standard deviation lower than whites, and graduate high school with reading skills matching the average white 8th grader. We can't even talk about that fact. But IQ is a better predictor of your future life trajectory than the color of your skin. And those test scores guarantee that decades from now, those white kids will be enjoying better lives than those black kids. Not because of something that someone in the past did, but because opportunity is available to all, and the benefits accrue to those who are capable of more.

This isn't actually a hopeless fact of nature. Thanks to the Flynn effect, the black-white IQ gap is roughly the same magnitude as the IQ gap between white kids today and their Boomer grandparents. If black parents could learn what white parents have learned in the last 50 years, and receive support to help actually raise their kids well, I believe that in one generation we could erase the IQ gap, and most of the wealth disparity afterwards.

But nobody is chanting, "We need parenting classes!" And suggesting anything like that will get you accused of victim blaming.

So we're going to double down on the same basic ideas that have failed to solve the problem for 60 years now. Is there any reason to believe that it will start working at any point in the next 60 years?
NTFS-3G is a userspace (FUSE) driver, which usually have worse performance than kernel drivers.
> When bridges fail, they don't affect potentially millions of people's health.

If you are saying bad policy decisions are inherently less scaling than nuclear disasters, I would remind you the Great Leap Forward and the tens of millions of people dead as a result of the famine in just a few years. Sure that was an outlier event, and so was the nuclear disasters of past.

The problem is, with nuclear there seems to be an emotional shock and imagery that accompanies it which doesn’t seem to match those of, for example, dying of hunger. Just like airplanes feel less safe than cars but the latter kills much more people in practice, our emotive reasoning biases us heavily in this topic.
> What user data are you talking about here?

The user data from punching searches into Amazon and copying their "Also bought" recommended product lists.
NTFS-3g can create files and directories etc. on NTFS (albeit it doesn't do journaling, that's why it requires you to have a clean journal). Having a proper kernel driver is mostly about performance, not features. The current built-in kernel driver for NTFS is completely read-only though.
Minor correction: the victim's name is Elijah McClain.
Yah I got a lucky answer on GIt before GIT was a popular thing. Been a sweet karma farm.
Reading the article above, it looks like it was from 2013. Android and iOS has both been out for awhile by then and Blackberry was falling being.
Not sure what the point is on the first two - you wouldn't even need that with a non crap ui framework.

Video - I drag and dropped video players onto UI forms 20+ years ago. <video> is a joke - you need something like video.js to make it functional in the real world and at that point, good luck on 'simplicity'. Adult sites have entire teams working on their video players, how messed up is that?

The problem today (old fart mode on) is that when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And it seems that people don't even just only have a hammer, they don't even know what things that are not hammers look like.
How likely is it that a vaccine would have long-term side effects? Have there been past cases of it? Is there a plausible biological mechanism that could cause this?
That will surely be taken into consideration from the start, and they will be designed in easily replaceable sections. If a car hits a section maybe it will be disabled but the rest of the cells will be fine and a crew will be dispatched to repair or replace the damaged cells.
> And obviously you can still rack points by quickly answering the bad questions

and your old very simple answers to common questions continue to rack up the most points

you get points on stackoverflow by answering common problems. not much from contributing more nuanced indepth things

I've pretty much found github issues to have the newer up to date discussions
Very few things have a return that quickly. In an era of 25 year mortgages, a 10 year payback is very reasonable.
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I've found Gmail's automatic categorization and importance filtering to be a killer feature. Is anybody else doing that reasonably well? I don't want to have to set up a bunch of features manually.

I had actually thought of building such things as a startup idea before Gmail was doing it. Perhaps I should have; perhaps Google would have just eaten my lunch.
Google censors it's search to make you read nothing but mainstream media lies. All the mainstream media are lying to protect the Democratic criminals and to keep everyone unaware of all the riots and violence being run by intelligence community, Democrat run cities with Democrat mayor's, governor's and city hall. They keep people in the dark about all the chaos and the truth so they can continue to blame Trump for everything making you all think everything will be happy with rainbows and unicorns again it you just vote the bad orange man out. Google censors everything so much it's ridiculous and unusable if you want truth
Stort tack! Yes exactly, we do our integration + user tracking through a JS widget we inject on their site. Since most e-commerce companies don't have in-house tech people, just copy-pasting our script enables us to integrate many times faster and cheaper than what alternative methods would allow for.
Yes, it says it in the abstract, but isn't really given special attention to in the article itself.

Looking at the graphic it looks like a fairly normal absorption spectrum for a solar panel without it being specifically tailored to this use-case. It seems like there might still be something won by specifically tailoring it to be complementary to the plant absorption spectrum. On the other hand it might also not be economically viable due to lack of scale and varying requirements for wavelengths between plant species and stages of plant development, which makes some optimizations moot.
CAEP provides this to some extent https://openid.net/wg/sse/ - but now you're asking for a whole bunch of systems to be able to talk about you in back channels which other people will find fault with.
What is "very high"? Much of the reason it takes so long to payback is labor, permitting costs, etc. If you reduce or remove those costs payback is in the order of 5 years at 10 cents/kwh.

People will point out that it's silly to factor out labor and permitting but those costs drop radically on grid scale 10MW+ systems where as they make up nearly 50% of the cost on a household scale system.
It is time to redistribute votes from old outdated answers to people creating new updated answers IMO.
From what I understand all panels come with a 25 year warranty because that's the federally mandated minimum warranty, and that there are panels twice as old still operating today.

Unless they do something foolish like coat the panels in a plastic that degrades under direct sunlight, I don't really see why panels shouldn't last for quite a long time. Does the silicon itself take UV damage or something?
I’ll be honest, mostly I just think that this is a very idealistic and naive reaction.

The world is extremely complicated and full of unfortunate realities that humanity just doesn’t have any solutions for.

There are people who can recognize that, and who try to do the best they can.

Then there are people who can’t recognize that, adopt an overly simplistic model of the problem and its environment, become convinced that there’s a simple and obvious solution, and then start attributing malice and blame to anyone who refuses to go along with their terrible idea.

I also think: “If they worked here they would know better.” The people here are by and large very good and thoughtful people genuinely trying to make the world a better place, and whatever negative feelings you have about how Google uses its power, if Google were gone it would create a power vacuum in the market that would be filled by companies that were 100x worse.

That’s how I feel about the mission and the morality of it all.

I also feel genuinely concerned for the future of anyone who would deprive themselves like this, as a vague form of protest that nobody ever notices, in the hopes that it might aggregate to something meaningful someday. That seems like a very ineffective and sad approach to living your life.

My own personal views, not Google’s.
And you will risk spending a fortune and having your life ruined if they decide to test your explanations at the sharp end of a criminal charge.
Good, fast, cheap: pick two.
How could they tell? Doesn't encrypted data all look the same?
Personally I dream of the day that we are a galaxy spanning species consuming the energy equivalent of a lifetime of our sun every couple of days. I think net energy consumption is a decent measuring stick for how advanced a society is.

I'm also all for sustainability. We aren't going to reach the stars if our home planet collapses before we get there.
Any iOS developer at Epic can still use their own developer account, even a free one, to access all of the tools they need. The only thing impossible is _deploying_ their own software like Fortnite. Any 3rd party Unity dev has it’s own certificate and isn’t hurt by this.

Pretending you’re blocked on doing anything for iOS and macOS because the account you use to deploy Fortnite has been locked is bullshit
I hoped, HOPED, this story would end with a link to YouTube where a man in a trenchcoat performs a strange dance while lip-syncing to very concerning lyrics about a man that would never give her up, never let her down...

Yes, I earned the downvotes, have at it.

Anyway this made me want to read Cryptonomicon for the 5th time and gift it to some younguns.
I wonder how that could be prevented. Lock voting on old questions and answers automatically?
Regarding point number three, didn't Facebook pick the fact checkers?

I don't get how you can assemble a team of "third party" fact checkers and also pressure them to change their minds, and feel consistent or moral about that. If the fact checkers suck, that's on Facebook to get new fact checkers, not to put their thumbs on the scale.

I don't think we really need Facebook employees to weigh in here. "Why do you keep your safe, cushy, lucrative job when though your company is doing something immoral?" Isn't exactly a brain teaser, and the answer isn't one, two, or three of what you've presented here.
> I think the rule applies to incoming travellers only, not everyone who happens to be near the border.

No, it applies to where the Border Patrol asserts authority to conduct warrantless stops and searches of any person/vehicle/etc. for potential immigration or violations.

(There's also a similar 25-mile zone where they assert authority to do so on private property other than physically entering houses.)

They also claim similar authority to the 100-mile limit in cities with international airports, if they happen to be outside of the 100 mile zone.

> The Fourteenth Amendment doesn't just lose force for everyone living in one of the coastal cities.

The Fourteenth Amendment limits the power of state governments, it's the Fourth Amendment that is at issue here. But the legal theory is that warrantless searches in these circumstances, are reasonable and thus compliant with the Fourth Amendment.
Or AZ prices in the risk or delays delivery to Belgium by 4 years.
3) Epic wants to establish a precedent against these policies for possible use in all markets. Apple is the clearest case to make, the other cases are more ambiguous, if Epic won't win this it won't win elsewhere.
Never heard of Cython?
><video> being enough to embed a video into the view versus subclassing a C++ Qt class or whatever song and dance it is in other frameworks

What are you going to do with the video? Coz that's where the problems with electron begin to appear. For example, you want some controls for seeking, displaying time, copying link, full screen, etc. And suddenly you get yourself a slow youtube-like monster. I really wish I could continue to use flash-based youtube, because I had no performance problems with it.

>HTML snippets rendered for free (no need for an external HTML renderer)

Slack doesn't need to render html snippets.
And only someone blind to the ecological damage that agriculture does would regard all that land as free to use by humans, without consequences.

Here [0] is a map of the world's remaining wilderness. Notice how it's nearly all desert, with the exception of the Amazon rainforest. And hey, guess what's happening to that?

We are short of space. And time.

[0] https://images.theconversation.com/files/256144/original/fil...
There's a difference between an email address and a social security number in a way that the latter will still be around if you stop paying for it or something happens to you. In some way (at least for this threat model) a gmail address is better than one on your own domain as it's unlikely to go away or get taken over.
Nobody wants to talk about msdos?
Interesting. Unfortunately it appears the obvious choice, to try to keep the R0 value below 1, is the worst option.
The oxygen claim doesn't inspire confidence.

Plants don't produce any useful amount of oxygen, and real scientists know that.
I have bought some little solar panels as a toy and they come without leads, manufactured only with conductive bars spaced few milimeters apart. To connect them to leads, you have to connect all these bars by soldering a strip, and that's nontrivial amount of solder. AFAIK most panels are connected this way.