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How much should a note taking app cost? $5 a month? No. Barely $1 a month maybe. I am willing to pay 1 year subscription fee up front.

We have free note apps, asana, microsoft onenote, google keep, evernote, heck I am using the default apps that comes with my phone, or even on windows notepad itself.

How much is a niche note taking app worth to you? To me, one time if super premium and bugfree, I can sacrifice $9 which is way above the apps on the market. Premium camera apps are $4-5 and they are packed with very nice tools. KyPass was $6.99 which is a lifesaver. Strava is free, some sysadmin tools I use are ranging from $2-5 on my phone.

I just can't imagine paying monthly subscription fee for note taking app, even if it comes with task management etc.
What does 'official' mean? Does Japan publish English names for their geographical features?
AWS Status page[1] shows a couple of issues in eu-west-2.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (London)

Instance Connectivity

3:21 AM PDT We are investigating instance connectivity issues in a single Availability Zone (euw2-az2) in the EU-WEST-2 Region.

Amazon Relational Database Service (London)

Small number of instances unavailable in a single Availability Zone

3:36 AM PDT We are investigating connectivity issues affecting some instances in a single Availability Zone (euw2-az2) in the EU-WEST-2 Region.

[1] https://status.aws.amazon.com/
I don't use my phone as a pc, I use it to run a few generic apps, make notes and reminders and, obviously, as a phone.

iPhone does the trick for me in that regard, the app library is huge, the consistent design is great, the way it syncs with my macbook is irreplaceable.

Being blocked from running arbitrary code on a phone is not a big deal to the vast majority of users. If that's a dealbreak, buy an android phone. But lets not pretend that doesn't come with huge tradeoffs if you like what the iPhone provides.
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Isn’t that an issue Epic has brought in themselves? Their “Fortnight division” has put at risk their “Unreal Engine division”.

Or put another way, they have two products at different levels of the stack and they have consciously chosen to risk one (the game) to leverage all their customer’s of their other product (Unreal Engine) onto their side in this war.
How is having control over what you can install on your own PC and being in a position to actually choose from where to install it a nightmare?

Is being in control and having choice a nightmare?
You are not understanding the issue here. Nobody is saying that tech companies ain't doing bad things. Let's stop this argument, as we're are not having the same argument.
Some slightly dystopian vibes in that first image.
I'm in Budapest, one of the places that pioneered escape rooms, and they're still announcing newer and better escape rooms. Personally, I'm not comfortable spending so much time in indoor public spaces this year, but plenty of people are still doing it.
Not sure about California in particular, but I think a pretty solid case can be made for controlled burning of environments that have evolved around regular wildfires. It's how these ecosystems work, and have worked well for a long, long time, and we risk damaging or collapsing those ecosystems if we take fire suppression too far.

Besides, while having lunatics torch forests is not desirable at all, fuel accumulation isn't fictional. Again, no idea about California in particular, but it's definitely a problem in parts of Spain, and controlled burns are already a thing there, I believe that's being done in the US, too, with good success so far.

I get that it's no fun having wildfires, even controlled ones, behind one's backyard, but it's probably not sustainable to not have any at all, forever. Even if fires can be suppressed effectively for a long time, when a fire eventually escapes suppression, and one probably will, it'll find many years of bone-dry plant matter to consume; that'll release all of the CO2 at once, and it would make for a very destructive firestorm. At least that's my layperson's understanding.

The criminal burning of the Amazon, way beyond what any wildfires would do, that absolutely must stop.
I was under the impression that the XBox store was much more difficult to get into. Thanks for the clarification.
I like how they banned "empower" with no added explanation while the Rust team was bending backwards to argue that there is nothing wrong with the word when, in 2018, they controversially changed their motto to "A language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software." (https://rust-lang.org/)

Obviously gov.uk material is of a different nature than that of a corporate motto, but it speaks to the exasperate community complaints at that time.
>>You might consider yourself privileged

This is all subjective and not even really worthy of response as the entire concept of "privilege" is itself political.

Every single person in the US would be considered privileged by people in nations with extreme poverty (living on less than $1 per day).

The "costs" your study talks about has been mitigated in any number of ways I have outlined in at least 4 comments now. you seem to simply want to ignore these things to push your political cause, that is fine but I am not going to keep addressing the same point over and over again

>NYT is fine

NYT is political biased to an extreme degree to authoritarian and collectivist ideologies and has been for decades though the last few years or so it is gotten a lot more bias dropping even the appearance of subjectivity as the bias as spread from its isolated section of the opinion pages to the actual "news" reporting

>So; what is the problem do you want to solve with voter ids?

it is not a matter of solving a problem. The need for ID happens in all facets of life and fail to see a compelling reason that voting should be excluded from this. You need an ID for all manner of other government and private interactions, you need an ID to rent a car, open a bank account, stay in a hotel, collect government / social services, and a whole host of other things

It is implausible to me that a large number functioning adult in modern society does not have any of the forms of ID allowed under Voter ID laws, and to the extent that a person does not have said ID the solution is to make obtaining an ID easier and less costly not to simply prohibit voter ID.

You believe Voter ID laws disenfranchise poor people, I think poor people not having access to an ID is far far far more likely to disenfranchise them, therefore providing easier and greater access to ID's for the poor, disabled and other groups will in the end be a net positive for people not a negative
I think the fact that these phones are Chinese-made is irrelevant, and calling this out in the title is linkbait that plays to our natural xenophobia. I would simply replace "Chinese-made" with "Cheap". I think that would better convey the most important point, that the reason these phones are cheap is that they're subsidized in a way that will ultimately be costly to their users.
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It's not wrong, but I do not see it used only for clickbaits. It is also largely used to push political opinions. And these are editorial decisions.
OK, So you have no examples then. Good.
Chernobyl is already a tiny disaster compared to the covid19 handling.

Hell, Puerto Rico's being devastated by Hurricane Maria already qualifies as an event that has caused more preventable destruction than Chernobyl did. You don't have to use your imagination.
This might be a good spot to point out that there is actually a BCP 47 language tag for this: en-simple. I would love to see more adoption.

More info: https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ietf-languages/yVTGZS-...
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Good article, but I fear that sharing quotes without their context may do more harm than good.

As a random example, quote 163 reads in part:

> (...) Then I went into soda ash. Without it, there wouldn’t be a window pane in the whole United States. But at the time, because of the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act, suddenly I became a polluter. Children learned in school that chemicals killed. And, of course, there was no question in the academic community that I was perceived as an evil person doing evil things.

The full quote presents the author as someone who is unhappy because they performed good-intentioned work and suddenly their good-intentioned work is cast a bad light (it also talks about DDT and CFC). However, quote 25 reads:

> The logical result of alertness to expediency is the elimination of any ethical lines at all.

which may or may not undermine the first quote's point entirely, depending on how these two quotes are related to each other.

Given that the article itself starts with "Reading and actually paying attention to Moral Mazes is hard. (...) I effectively spent several months forcing my way through the book, because it seemed important to do that", the risk of these quotes being misunderstood from small snippets seems quite high.
>I've never met one calling them customers or clients

I didn't wrote that they did. Please read my comment again.
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I think that's more because the standard git client was designed with command line usage in mind and UI usage had been ignored at that step. Had the goal been a hybrid GUI/CLI from the start than the entire git workflow might look different (which wouldn't be a bad thing IMHO, because the git command line UX isn't all that great either).
Google has on top of ext4 his GoogleFS, in theory you could even go 'without' a underlying FS, a bit like BlueStore from Ceph.
It is worrying if you're, say, an avionics SWE in that industry. I could realistically see myself working on military tech with the expectation and understanding that they would be deployed (i.e. will kill people) with goals that I support in some way. I'd be mortified if I learned that weapons I worked on were being used the way I hear Saudi Arabia is using them - it's enough to make me want to preemptively sabotage my own work if I was working in that industry :/
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Jumper is a good idea as it's something that can fit on the fpx board.
Asana's pricing is per user per month - https://asana.com/pricing
Oh man I'm having day nightmare flashbacks about the time I spent days parsing some well-meant European Energy-Saving directive and figuring out whether we could sell a PC with a fixed-frequency CPU, and all power- and energy-saving features disabled (latency concerns). Ouch... There were some official and unofficial logic diagrams and they made things even worse. Lexicon was pretty vague, use-cases too, exceptions too... and you end up writing some kind of justification for you being one of the special cases and praying it's OK. And it wasn't even the worst normative document I've ever read. It was clear about the spirit of the directive...

Imprecise language to allow flexibility and 'let the judges decide'... I'm not sure I'm comfortable with common-law-inspired regulation.

Not sure how to do this better though.
Hear hear. iPhones are made in China too, are they doing the same thing?

(The snarky person would respond "not the exact same thing...").
Quick, let's drop every open source project that had any kind of contribution from Google because every thing done by a trillion-dollar company does is evil and mere relationship with them implies you are compromised.
Okay, to elaborate, a solution like the one proposed in the article, if implemented on ArchLinux, would prevent or minimize pacnew/pacsave. That doesn't make the rest of the comment irrelevant because pacnew/pacsave are specific to arch, hence that very sentence being only specific to arch. I mentioned them mostly because the top comment in this thread also mentioned them briefly.

I hope that ELI5 was sufficient for you.
Prepear /destroyed/ by paperwork!
if you were explicitly asked to, why not?
It scares me how much people on twitter believe that what they see trending on there from the news and other sources is being seen and blown up worldwide when it's not. It's being blown up worldwide ON TWITTER.

The vast majority of the world never sees or hears any of it.

It causes delusions of grandeur across the userbase.
> When will we get easy to use modules like this for power output?

What do you have in mind? Are you thinking of a USB-C to USB-C voltage converter?
No, I mean https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24269124

Automattic made its fortune by developing and hosting Wordpress for people who are not tech savvy and wanted to have its place to write.
I mean they are 2,000 years old. Does NBC think this is the first fire in 2,000 years?
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> I move around a lot

Others don't.

Also, did you into account all the indirect effects of radiation?
no, not in any way.
This. However, it should reduce power being wielded by people with money alone and incentivize wealth being spread more evenly. If some one has to spread their moolah to the their twice or thrice removed cousins, I would still consider an erosion of power and a better distribution of wealth than before.
I was thinking redwoods are like rich people. Their scale gives them unfair advantages compared to other plants.

Also metaphors make weak arguments.
And if my iPhone gets updates in 2025, it doesn't change the fact that I paid 1200 euro for it. How much is the raw manufacturing cost of the 11 Pro (256 GB)?

Also, if the App Store revenue is for iOS development, does that mean that people who buy an iPhone and never pay for an app or an IAP are a net loss to Apple?
I agree with the sentiment of the writer. Unfortunately I don't see much of a solution offered in the statement.

The biggest obstacle is not only eas of use. Companies as FB, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google etc solve also other problems, they also select and filter information for you. They don't do it flawlessly, but still do quit a good job. One so far nobody else offers, because they are first movers in the space and now own the biggest networks.

Unfortunately their big centralized systems also creates the danger that comes with any big centralized source of information. There are always people that want it to put to good use for noble goals. And as it the human condition all power corrupts.

So in my opinion it is never good to concentrate too much power in the hands of too few people. It does not really matter if it is big government or big business. It will always start working for conformity and limit free speech.

We already see this totalitarian nature in the censorship around Covid information. It started as a way to surpress legitimate misinformation. But it is now actually preventing and surpressing new research that challanges current medical dogmas. Big tech, is like big government. It just does not work that well, is risk averse and is favouring stability over inovation.

The question then is, how can we revitalize the old decentralized web ideal, with all it's free information published for all individuals? The old web only solved standardization of content with HTML, CSS and JavaScript. It did not solve relationships and privacy between people.

Now has the time come to work on standards that connect people. To build networks of friends and to build trust networks like all social media now already does.

Technology is also still improving. While all people can't type more stories, they only have each aimited amount of time for doing that, computers keep getting faster and faster, storage is keep getting cheaper and cheaper. So computer power is becoming a commodity with less and less value. Every day, it gets easier and cheaper to host data and search it.

Web space is cheap, so take Twitter, is it really that hard to publish a Twitter feed in a JSON file, use encryption to allow friends access to your feed data and publish that all on your own rented space that you fully control? Is it that hard to rank your own friends tweets in your own feed that runs on your rented computer power?

Advertisment as financing the computer rent is an option as well. Third parties can build services on top of the standardized data sets. Except that they can not lock you in, as it is your data. They just unlock it by providing search and filtering services while also include ads to make some bucks.

This open technology could also benefit existing alternative social networks, because it creates the needed network effect they need. Because by letting smaller parties work together without even knowing or agreeing with each other. Nobody controlls the network as everybody owns his own dataset. But can still connect to all other people who use the same data standard.

What is keeping us from building something like this? What am I missing?
>The kernel+ZFS can be considered a derived work from both

What?? No why?...no one of those project is derived from each other, ZFS is a module (on all platforms i think).

>and they consider the CDDL to be incompatible with the GPL

https://zonena.me/2019/01/the-cddl-is-not-incompatible-with-...

That's the important part:

>You may distribute the Executable form of the Covered Software under the terms of this License or under the terms of a license of Your choice, which may contain terms different from this License, provided that You are in compliance with the terms of this License and that the license for the Executable form does not attempt to limit or alter the recipients rights in the Source Code form from the rights set forth in this License.

>To reiterate, executable forms of CDDL source code can be under ANY license you want.

That means your compiled ZFS module package can even be under GPL2 or 3 or beerware ;)
How about “decisioning”?
The economy is rather aggressively recovering. Unless the US has to do a full lockdown again, it's likely to continue to recover gradually. That makes sense given the recession was induced by a forced shutdown, it wasn't caused by eg the business cycle or the crash of an epic asset bubble (as in the great recession).

There is no great reason to think median and higher income jobs will be hammered while the economy is in recovery mode (and lower income job openings are also soaring).

The US is back up to 5.8 million job openings, up from around 5 million at the bottom. By contrast, at the bottom of the great recession there were only ~2.3 million job openings. This recession has been a far weaker hit to the overall job market, very sharp and short as one would expect from a temporary forced shutdown.

Americans are finally doing what they should have been doing months ago - wearing masks, social distancing better, being more pragmatic regarding the pandemic, which has resulted in the case numbers being cut in half from the peak five weeks ago (along with a correlating large plunge in hospitalizations). If people ingrain that behavior, it'll be very helpful through the Winter, when the Covid mortality rate is likely to spike higher (ie it may help avoid another full lockdown, better bridging the economy from here to a vaccine). There is an old quip (possibly incorrectly attributed to Winston Churchill) about Americans eventually doing the right thing after trying everything else, that appears to again apply with the pandemic.
> It literally has no other meaning outside of the ICMP echo utility

What about in the context of a sonar system on a submarine? My first encounter of the term was probably The Hunt for Red October.
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AWS’s claimed 99.999% ratio is 1/100,000 years. Claimed improvement of 100x in the article.
The really nice thing about proc is that emphasizes that they are in fact procedures, rather than mathematical functions - a distinction that becomes more relevant as FP gains mindshare.
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A bit disappointed. Anything has a one in a million chance of killing us. What we know is that vitamin D yes, has a chance of hurting, and also has an orders of magnitude higher chance of helping. I was hoping for more information about how to make the risk trade-off, and what we got is an anecdote.

The general rule is to also take into consideration both magnitude of the potential harm and its probability, in order to avoid a wipe-out (you can't recover your losses if you're broke or dead). But even if we take this into consideration, and take the anecdote in the article as a reference point for a "bad case", it's still in the "no lasting harm" category. And very obviously an outlier, since she showed symptoms while test results were in the green.

If anything, this confirms that as a population we should supplement more on Vit D, and when unable to test Vit D levels, we should still chose in favor of supplementation. If it were otherwise I'd have expected better arguments against it.

I didn't update much after reading this. The upper limit is still pretty common sense: don't use high dose supplementation daily for years without testing. Very likely ok to use in any other scenarios: high doses like 50.000 per flu episode, or 1000 or so daily. Never mix sun and supplementation.
This is the big paradox of the situation. Of course we want investment in science. But we don't want science to only serve the interests of the rich. We don't want the rich to choose which science happens.

And the same goes for many other aspects of life. Money buys power, so the rich get to decide a lot, and that undermines democracy, objective journalism, and much more.

So maybe we want money not to buy power, but only luxury? But then you get rich people who only spend their money on luxury yachts and give back nothing to society.
I would hope that EU consumer protection laws are strong enough that this couldn't be done so easily in the EU without consequences to the seller. At the same time when it comes to international law, everything gets much harder to enforce.
> which kills very few people.

I really don't understand the exclusive focus on deaths here. Cancer and genetic deformations can make your life hell even if they don't cause death.
I don't believe they were specifically targeting Unreal Engine, it just got caught in the cross fire and Apple didn't really care.

Apple wanted to terminate all the dev accounts belonging to Epic which "just to happens" to include Unreal.
Apologies, I literally can't see that comment - it shows as [Dead].

I agree, there's a market for something that plugs the gap. But if it's not as easy as social media, it won't get the adoption these days.
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If you're meaning 'a convicted criminal guilty of a heinous crime' when you say "corrupt person" then why do we even allow them the ability to continue financially such that they can buy an appearance of legitimacy. Release them from prison with access to basic necessities (a half way house) and confiscate the rest - then the demos can direct the money to research without tainting it?
This. Actions speak louder than words and Epic's anti-Linux actions with their store are extremely telling that their rhetoric about supporting open platforms is purely self-serving.
The thing is when you restrict yourself to only what POSIX specifies you don't even have basic data structures, no array, no hash map not even local variables, and that often leads to code that relies on multiple hacks.

For instance: you can't even slice "$@" which is the only array like construct specified by POSIX (excluding unsafe splitting), so you end up shifting and re-enqueuing with set -- "$@" "$1", which is unreadable.

Want to read a single character? Impossible with the POSIX read, but you can workaround with dd

etc.

All those workarounds to POSIX limitations are fascinating, but it forces a lot of arcane constructs, that's for sure.

And of course this is usually the point where you ask yourself if you've chosen the correct language for the task, but that's another debate.