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>I'd be willing to argue that the Chernobyl accident caused (or at least precipitated) the fall of the Soviet union. This case was also made by the Netflix "Chernobyl" series.

You're not helping your argument when you make it sound like a bold new theory and use (good) TV fiction to bolster it up. I propose a quote from a certain Mikhail Gorbachev instead:

> He states flatly that the Chernobyl explosion was “perhaps the real cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union.” According to Gorbachev, the Chernobyl explosion was a “turning point” that “opened the possibility of much greater freedom of expression, to the point that the system as we knew it could no longer continue.”

https://slate.com/technology/2013/01/chernobyl-and-the-fall-...

But note that here it's more about how Chernobyl exposed deep dysfunctions within the Soviet system and how it might have contributed to precipitate its collapse. I don't really know if that counts as "damage".
Good time to share Kane’s MachinePix project, which is made for this crowd: https://twitter.com/machinepix
We've used Mattermost for the past few years with great success. Currently looking at moving into Teams - however stuck with no migration path for data into Teams (can export OK out of MM though).

Will be a shame to see MM go
> The Soviet Union doesn't have statistics on this because they didn't want those numbers to exist.

The Soviet Union doesn't have statistics on this because Soviet Union doesn't exist.
Sounds like that wasn’t all that happened—see this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24270421
Can you share that app that backs up Apple Notes?
Blackberry.
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That is much worse.

I can quit Facebook.

Quitting a country is not practical.
They could be concentrating on isolating muscles.
Doing dumbbells to build up some strength before doing bodyweight is also another possibility.

But yeah if you can't get what you want you'll just have to make do and work around it.
The US air force had drone f-16s and used them to test missiles (they shot the missiles at them).

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a29847417...

https://www.boeing.com/defense/support/qf-16/index.page
In closed areas yes, masks make sense, but outdoor, it's a bit ridiculous (https://youtu.be/OrOPuSlK9yQ?t=103)
Yeah that's right it costs $1249 for each download of iOS (Beta's are 1/2 price), but Apple gives you as many iPhone Max Pro's as you want, mailed along with your free sim! Which doesn't matter if you lose or break out of warranty you can always get a new replacement Free! Family plans are the best, you can install your 1 iOS purchase on 5 free iPhone's - giving free iPhone's away was truly an ingenious revolutionary business model.
The problem is you can't do every exercise with your body weight, specially if you want to build muscle.
I have heard of folks on twitter with huge follower-counts who use the medium as a form of one-way communication: they don't look at replies or mentions and have DMs turned off. That seems to be the best way to use it in my opinion.
I didn't say microtransactions weren't a thing. But clearly the App Store vastly expanded these practices.

Pointing to Facebook just proves the point. Facebook is a walled garden, but does anyone think Facebook is a "healthy software ecosystem" for developers and users?
I think we should seriously consider and study whether advertising is bad for our health, both as individuals and as a society.
correct, the only reason people live near major urban centers is jobs. everything else about those areas is terrible for families, taxes, quality of life, space, traffic, schools, pollution, etc..I could go on forever. Now that WFH culture has taken over, there is no reason to live in a big city. young kids straight out of high school/college may still start out in a big city but once it is time to start a family they'll move out.
The article doesn't mention the way that word placement changes the meaning of sentences. From a video I recently saw but can't recall, consider these sentences:

- Although John is a nice guy, he beats his dog.

- Although John beats his dog, he's a nice guy.

- John is a nice guy, but he beats his dog.

- John beats his dog, but he's a nice guy.

These are all plain English sentences, but will be interpreted quite differently. For the moment, try to set aside the moral judgement on dog beating and consider what the author's opinion of John is in each case.

For example, readers tend to latch onto the last part of a sentence. So putting the nice guy part last tends to support John. Whereas putting the dog beating last tends to undermine John.

Same facts, almost the same words, but different messages.
Developers are cheap. “I could build that” is your competitor

Note could, not will
“this is a relief to read” -> “reading this relieved me”

Perhaps passive voice isn’t as annoying to you as you claim. There is a difference between writing passively and using passive voice.
I, too, have had a pretty successful and rewarding career in software with a liberal arts degree -- but I'm also 50, so when I entered the workforce in the early 1990s, lots of (at least American) university programs were still super behind what was actually in use in the commercial world.

Many of my coworkers over the years had only 2-year degrees, or in a couple of exceptional cases no degree at all. People my age mostly learned to program on our own, as teenagers, starting with BASIC and then going deeper, so by the time we were in a position to take CS 101 or whatever we balked, because spending time listening to a professor tell you about writing a bubble sort in FORTRAN just isn't interesting or applicable when your hobby project is writing your own text editor or whatever.

So yeah, lots of people my age have liberal arts degrees -- political science, English, foreign languages, history, whatever. The secret advantage of that background is that we can usually write and communicate WAY better than the CS grads, which turns out to be immensely useful.

The tl;dr is really "understanding how software gets built AND being able to describe it to both technical and nontechnical people opens up lucrative career paths."
This rings true to me, people complain they pay too much taxes, but then go on to rely widely on what the state provides and of course will cry in horror if anything is to be taken away. For instance (and I don't necessarily approve these policies, just stating recent examples) the 5 euro/month decrease in APL subsidy for students, or the cancellation of the CSG exemption for retirees.
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I grew up in post Soviet Ukraine, watching all the movies that were made in the USSR. I cannot recall a single “us vs them” movie with another country or nationality being the them, except movies about WWII. I don’t know why that is, but when we started getting American movies in the early 1990s it was a huge contrast. In Soviet movies the good guys were often the police trying to combat recidivism after WWII (huge socioeconomic shift led to a huge socioeconomic problem that gave rise to a huge amount of crime). In the American movies the bad guys were often foreigners.

This isn’t to say there wasn’t propaganda, just that the propaganda was pointed in a different direction: for example a young idealistic police officer working with an veteran of the force to tenaciously investigate an elusive criminal gang for the glory of the Soviet Union. The focus was to make Soviet patriotism an attractive quality, regardless of being young or old. It was a lot more focused internally. In the meantime, a movie like Die Hard has none of that: German thieves that pretend to be terrorists are the bad guys, an all American hero is a good guy. American movies rarely have a true patriotic streak, as in “and this, son, is why we must work to better our union.” In fact, the idea of glorifying labor was so prevalent in the Soviet movies and so absent in American ones that this might be the biggest contrast. It shows a different face of patriotism and could easily explain the divide: some think patriotism is exercising your rights while others see it as holding back on exercising your rights. “It’s my right not to wear a mask” is a clear example of that.
"No one signed up for that."

Obviously nobody wants hackwerware.

The question posed by the OP is systematic: people are willing to 'not pay' for things because the 'short term benefit' is 'less cost' while the longer term risk, ie 'hackerware' is more vaugue.

A lot of things in life are like this.

Back in the day, the fire Dept. were private, they didn't come unless you were paying them insurance.

Given the common nature of 'fire' - and especially that it 'spreads to other homes' ... it makes too much sense for everyone to have it, and so we socialised it. We all pay for fire insurance via our homes.

The argument being, is that if people paid for apps, devs wouldn't have to resort to as much trickery, and there would be less use of malware. Though it's not so clear.

Given the excessive cost of iPhones and the significant rake on apps (~30%), Apple should cover this problem. They mostly do, but obviously not entirely.

I wonder if there should be a 3rd party lib repo where the code has to be open sourced, and 'someone' has to pay for a review of some kind. And you have to stick to such repos if you want a certain kind of certification.

It's an interesting problem in 2020, and looking back, it's almost amazing that in 1999 the web was so amazingly relatively safe, and that there wasn't so much existential angst over security. How naive we were!
I wouldn't say it's a fools errand. I normally have a laugh sending my fools to get things that don't even exist like a dozen mouse eggs, or some quartz oil.

This is more like "a hermits dream"
That’s a bold claim
While you are all technically correct for one reading of that one sentence, it can also be read that buying dumbbells is the only option for using dumbbells right now.
Well, they have a good enough track record so far. If you feel the iPhone is unsafe, you're free to buy a different phone or not use one at all.

Why would Apple be less incentivized than another company, like Epic, to protect your data? Apple sells the iPhone and markets it toward pro-privacy and security. Going against that is not in their own best interest. It's in Epic's interest to break through that, because then they can use dark patterns and break privacy restrictions (as other companies will and intend to do).

Again, it's no surprise that as Apple has been more user-focused and privacy-focused in their continued iPhone and iOS development that developers are feeling the squeeze when they want to use dark patterns, so naturally they'll try and break out of that so they can go back to their old bad habits again.
A useful FAQ list must consist of questions that are actually often asked.

They represent discovered problems in the text the author didn't foresee.
Finally, halfway through the article:

> [home weight] sales usually start in the fall, hit their peak with January’s New Year’s resolutions, then taper off as it gets warmer and people are more likely to venture outside or go back to the gym.

> ...

> 95 percent of the world’s dumbbells are made in China, Logan said. To curb the virus spread, China instituted strict lockdowns from January to April;

> ...

> “It takes a month or so to get the products made and get them to the port,” Logan continued. “Then it goes from China to the United States” — landing, she says in Long Beach, California — “and then if they’re going to the East Coast, they have to go through the Panama Canal.”

> Once weights do get to America, ports, too, are subject to lockdowns and social distancing, adding even more delays.
I didn't say that you did. Ditto.
Lumber prices always peak in summer because professional and amateur construction both peak in summer. The fact that people are calling into meetings on mute while building their decks is increasing demand even further.
I absolutely love the Blinkist landing page. I think the best thing about it is that they've got that really neat (and crazy simple) free trial illustration on their homepage.

Seems like their CTAs are really missing a trick though.
Casual gym-goers are likely more familiar with random dumbbell routines than a myriad of bodyweight exercises. If you've been out of the gym for months and are out of shape, you're likely going to go with something that's familiar to you with proven benefits regardless of whether there are superior alternatives out there.
Wow! Why so much, my dude?
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Yea, I definitely think it's in my interest and the interest of the vast majority of iPhone users to have Apple make these decisions. I'd rather every developer leave the App Store than switch away from the current model. I'd just use Apple's built-in apps.
https://bitrix24.com is pretty good as Slack alternative as well. Free in cloud for unlimited users, open source edition for on-premises hosting is available as well, but it's $$$.
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Dumbbells may be harder to find, but Rogue has consistently had kettlebells (made in America, in various sizes) for the last several months. Kettlebells are amazing tools for exercise, and can offer more movements than just bodyweight alone.

Shipping is not cheap, but you can outfit a perfectly good home gym with 3 or 4 kettlebell sizes and a jump rope.
It isn't open for all? F-Droid, surely one of the most popular 3rd party app stores has vastly stronger requirements than the Play store: https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Inclusion_Policy/

The Play store is such an unimaginable cesspit of crap that I've now stopped using it entirely except for official company apps, and then it will still suggest me malware clones every time.

Like I wanted a battery display for my AirPods and the choice was stuffed with ads, battery draining IAP from the Play store or a simple, free OSS one from F-Droid:

https://github.com/adolfintel/OpenPods

Of course, go figure, this app had to itself be modified to prevent scam artists from loading it up with advertisements and malware and putting it onto Play, where license violations are widespread and go entirely undetected.
> It might have to do with there being real identities linked to them now from Google+, which many say was the main purpose of the project; not to mention the improved recommendation engine and upvotes, etc.

But the migration of YouTube channels and comments to G+ linked identities was reversed[0], wasn't it? Not to mention that G+ has since been shut down.

Shouldn't that make the abortive effort irrelevant for the quality of YouTube comments today?

[0] https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/07/everything-in-its-ri...
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“Prosperity preaching” is the root of your cognitive dissonance, there is no relation to moral behavior and economic reality and we have no framework for making that so, primarily due to the 5th amendment of the constitution which that bars expropriation. It is pure theology which tries to intrinsically tie morality and economic reality, and puts many people at a disadvantage amongst those who never subscribed to that theology.

Even the 6th amendment which has been used to circumvent the 5th amendment in civil forfeiture still requires the property being related to the alleged or actual action, and anyone wealthy enough can undo a civil forfeiture. Criminal forfeiture has a much higher bar of review and also wouldn't be able to be part of your version of reality.

It is not a prerequisite that prisons are full of people that own nothing and return to society with little ability to acquire anything, while people that do own things are able to avoid prison because their lawyers understand the law than the prosecutors. That's just what has become commonplace and is familiar. But the prisons or conviction itself does not strip people of their property titles, when the title is unrelated, and when wealthier people do wind up in prison they do not have the same level of inconvenience in prison or when returning to society, as they don't need as much external infrastructure to get by.
Not really. What’s a body weight alternative to shoulder lift? When I travel and stay in hotels without gym, I use chairs and furniture. However, holding on to them can be really hard and certain exercises are just impossible.
As another commenters mentioned, the AZ letter different per account.
In case of redundancy (useful reference) :

http://www.acronympolice.org/

http://www.acronympolice.org/?page_id=90
Ancient GSM services were the starting point for those, from daily horroscope subs to java applet games sales... Apple is still eating the "take that out of GSM menus and sms orders and put it on its own dedicated internet app" cake (with same rate of tax of those ancient provider app stores took from 3rd parties).
Why shut up? Your post was very informative and thanks to you I learned a lot of things!

However, I bet that the scale of the wildfires in our apocalyptic late-Anthropocene is something hardly seen before in healthy forests... all these species would be better off with less of it.
Ah crap I was hoping for some kind of phone-laptop hybrid
Whenever you can make more money by packaging junk, somebody will do that.

Most people always go for the cheapest option no matter how junky it is, and no matter how much an improvement paying a but extra would make (exhibit A: airplane tickets for tourists).

It seems like the only working method to get rid of the junk is to outlaw it.
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Even the linked BBC article will tell you as much, including that every participant was tested for Covid 19. I have seen/used such temporal contact network datasets, they are very important to understand the micro-dynamics of disease spreading.
I do work in IT.

> Because I'm constantly gobsmacked by inefficiencies and companies that have too many people involved in achieving simple goals?

That is also true, by no means I am implying that. There is a lot of inefficiency in many companies, but at the same time what took X people in the past now takes X-Y people for many sectors, ie accounting.
Another good example is website creation and development for Small-Medium Enterprise. In the 90-s/2000s you had to pay someone to create a website for you, where now there are countless website builders, some of which are really great.
Yes, yes, yes. That is definitely an itch I have.
I wonder whether people's opinions about Apple's behavior here are isomorphic to their opinions about collective bargaining writ large?

If you're the sort of person who releases iOS apps, you're far more technically inclined than the median user and perhaps more willing to engage in individual negotiation of terms of service and privacy (as you'll be plausibly good at it). The median user of an iPhone is in a hopeless bargaining position in the face of dark patterns, and for that user, perhaps the collective bargaining Apple engages in is more valuable.
GPU databases are limited primarily by memory constraints on the card (e.g. ~32GB maximum per card for GV100 or whatever) and interconnect latency/bandwidth, not by raw parallel scan speed. If scan speed was all that mattered, we'd have had GPU-like parallel database hardware decades ago. You can crunch rows, but only as long as it fits in memory. Once your working set exceeds the provided RAM and has to page out data to the CPU over PCIe or some other link, the numbers and utilization begin looking much worse. "Every benchmark looks amazing when your working set fits entirely in cache."

But even more than that, for the price of a single high end Tesla (approx. 10k USD), you can build a high-end COTS x86 machine with a shitload of RAM, NVMe, and then install ClickHouse on it. That machine will scale to trillions of rows with ease and millisecond response times, whether or not everything fits in memory. It will cost less money and also cost less energy and it will scale out easier, and have better utilization of the hardware.

I'd wager that unless you have infinite money to dump on Nvidia or exceedingly specific requirements, any GPU database will get soaked by a comparable columnar OLAP store in every dimension.
Just use emacs org-mode lol
> Which is false, as you could always just do bodyweight exercises instead.

lol, why dumbbells have been used for so long if they are useless ?

bodyweights exercises are quite limited, only three of them can are usefull for athletic people, dips (triceps) and pull ups( back + biceps) and handstand press (this one is very hard, shoulders). Push ups are very limited in term weight, about 50kg bench press equivalent (which is nothing). Raw squat is the same , doing 100 reps is not the same as doing 10 reps with 80kg on the back.

If you really want to exercise your legs, chest, biceps you have to use weights.

But of course if you are not into gym but only into fitness, you can do anything bodyweight
That's not an apt comparison. Painting over an artwork doesn't usually cause wide-ranging consequences apart from some human drama, destroying ecosystems frequently does.

Ecosystems influence everything from erosion and flooding, micro/macroclimate, occurrence of disease vectors and pests or lack thereof, wildfire occurrence and severity, avalanche risk, and food production on a large scale. We're putting on totally artificial pressure in a very short timeframe. Will we keep things like this for millennia? Probably not. We need stable environments to thrive, this is a recipe for severe instability. Plus, whatever comes after a collapse may be really bad for us – maybe you get a desert, maybe you get a really bad avalanche situation, maybe you get new pests and disease vectors. This isn't a question of aesthetics, it's about the functioning of the environment we are deeply dependent on to exist.
Aren't there simple variations that specifically target those who haven't got the muscle power to do the proper exercise?

Like negative pull-ups for those who can't do a pullup yet, or knee pushups, or many others you can find on any good bodyweight routine?
Weber's Law. Human perception is logarithmic.
> This allows us to string together quite a lot of subclauses without getting lost.

Correct, a sentence like this is quite easy to read:

De man, die gewoonlijk zijn handen afveegt aan zijn broek, besloot dit keer zijn handen af te vegen aan de handdoek die zijn vrouw, die gister nog bloemen aan het plukken was, specifiek hiervoor had neergelegd.
Based on personal experience. I need to set my exercises not too easy and not too difficult. Too easy will get me bored. Too difficult i will totally give up. For that dumbbells is easier to manage.
> It’s unethical to -certainly- cause harm.

A much better standard is to claim that "it's unethical to cause harm in order to study the harm done".

We don't expose people to radiation in order to study radiation poisoning, not even in order to research treatment.

We do however accept that some people might be exposed to radiation as part of their jobs or for medical treatments, and the harm caused by this exposure can be studied.
If the only cheap phones that steal are from China, then "Chines-made" qualifier is relevant.