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This is a hard question, to be completely honest. Let me put it this way: I think that if the goal is maximizing the potential for accruing power and influence for your country, the Chinese system is probably better in the long run - especially in the post-post 9/11 world. The American system offers stronger fundamentals (no nasty fertility cliff in ~15 years, a strong but increasingly fractured understanding of global responsibility, a law system that still does protect political speech) but a less clear approach on how, exactly, the government is going to ensure this prosperity gravy train that we’ve been riding since the Soviet Union fell continues.
So I'm not sure I understand the point of the article. Or if I do, then the argument seems unlikely.

Split the Web? On the server side? Or the client side?

Splitting the server seems unnecessary - since servers already let you serve as simple a site as you like. If you want to make simple sites with no javascript you are welcome to do that.

So split the client? Have one app to read some sites and another to read some other sites? That sounds contrarian to literally every program evolution in history. Because all client software strives to read all relevant formats (think Word loading WordPerfect files.) why would a user choose 2 separate apps when 1 would do?

It seems to me that the author misses the point that sites are javascript heavy not because they have to be, but because their makers want them to be (largely so they can make money)
I hear this often, but honestly even with a low pay people don't leave their job unless they at their core disagree fundamentally with the ethics of the company, and I don't know many people at FB who disagree fundamentally with the company. Sure there are people who are not happy with some of the decisions the company take, and they argue openly or challenge management about that, but a company can't make everyone happy and I'm happy that they at least give us transparency and the opportunity to express ourselves and challenge them when we don't agree. In other companies you would probably get kicked out if you didn't show open support in whatever decision they take, and worse if you start talking politics.
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I disagree, in fact, we have more frequently underestimated the reward. RTFA. As the article points out, tens of thousands of people die every year from lung disease directly related to fossil fuel combustion. Furthermore, he argues that more people have died from stress due to being relocated from Fukushima, than would have died if we left most of them in place. It’s the trolley problem writ large.
> the x86_64 patents should expire this year. Apple could have probably made their own x86 chip without paying royalties. The free/open architecture that we've always dreamed of, might turn out to be the one we're already using.

I've never seen anyone mention this before. Is this really in the cards? Or are all the extensions patented as well, so that a hypothetical Apple (or whoever else takes it on) x86 wouldn't be able to use x86 without licensing it?
Oh God that's like something I'd find on Cthulhu's computer
It is possible to build a crawler and store its data on DynamoDB, but you have to consider multiple issues when dealing with scale such as Google. E.g How much of the data is going to stay in DynamoDB and what is going to be offloaded to say S3 for example? What are you using DynamoDB for? Storing crawled info? Storing meta data of crawled sites? Scheduling your crawling? I would suggest you to look up crawling with Python / Node.js & DynamoDB, it might better answer your questions.
Last I checked, Gemini can't have pictures, only text.
> it’s like Feynman in Brazil

I hadn’t heard that reference before. Here’s the story: http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/46/2/LatinAmerica.htm
No, that's unrelated to PYTHONPATH; it wouldn't break either.
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You could raise the same question about many historic ligatures, like abbreviating "et" to "&" in Latin?
From my understanding you don’t technically own most media (music, movies, software) regardless of the format. It’s a license. Even if you purchase a CD or DVD, etc.
Here's an alternate source that's much better and has better (but not enough) images: https://ny.curbed.com/2018/1/10/16868494/harlem-history-buck...

I don't really understand why this is the case, but a large percentage of stories about architecture, urban design, urban planning, development, etc. are written with thousands of words and no maps, diagrams, or pictures. The fuzzy black and white scribble on this one doesn't count.

Why do writers bother penning these? Architecture and it's assorted offshoots are visual media, and spending a bunch of words to describe it is about as useful as writing an essay to say what the Mona Lisa looks like.
You've always been able to run those without any warnings from the command line.
For some of us X just works right now and the security issue isn't urgent. (For serious impact someone would have to break out of browser sandbox and then spy... on the browser)

In theory I'd like to move to Wayland, but X solves my problem which is "I want to see windows, some of them accelerated".
Regulations usually kick in shortly to mitigate crisis like this happening, just like the 2008 financial crisis regulation. Without regulation no economy in the world can sustain another similar hit within the next decade.
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I remember Salman Khan (of Khan Academy) talking about this a few years ago. He believed that the current accepted method of teaching - students attending lectures and sitting in classrooms getting knowledge from teachers, then later doing homework alone trying to apply it - needs to be inverted. Lectures, presentations, textbooks can all be online and automated. Teaching resources, limited as they are, are much better spent helping students specifically when they are stuck and need more personalized help. Of course this brings us to the more fundamental question - are schools more for learning or daycare?
Safari will absolutely let you do it, though it might not be the default anymore (certainly used to be, and you can configure it in Preferences > Websites > Downloads).

Way more problematically, Safari will also open “safe” files (which includes zips and PDFs) by default after having downloaded them.
Anyone who left isn't coming back. They would now go for better opportunities.
dang: please fix the title. There's no community party in China, the article talks about the right thing.
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Want to bet some people will integrate this into their "prod" Docker containers?
-I is hardly useful, because it also removes the user's site directory packages directory (typically ~/.local/lib/python3.X/site-packages/) from sys.path.

So packages installed with, say, "python3 -m pip install --user" wouldn't be importable.
My 2cents.

1. A markup language taking multi-lingual considerations to heart is a must for me. Markdown doesn't work well for non-alphabetic languages in terms of typesetting etc. The web is global and multi-lingual, a new web (if there is one) should be, too.

2. I prefer a new content web rather than a new document web. When I use the web, I absorb and sometimes create content beyond documents. I don't want art communities, for example, to be excluded from the new web. Although an art sharing community can be modeled after documents technically, 'content' is the more apropos. Your mileage may vary, though.
What does religion cause?

There has been considerable philosophical work on this topic. Contemporary scientific studies (such as the ones in the link) are not particularly useful here, as they are too trapped in the current societal context to understand deeper cultural trends. Religion as a word is so broad as to basically be meaningless. Separating religion from culture or history is a modern legacy of academic and industrial specialization.

In any case, some reading suggestions, if you're interested in this topic.

- Max Weber. Pretty much the founder of modern social science, particularly with regards to religion. He originated the idea of “The Protestant Work Ethic” and argues that specific features of Protestantism lead to market capitalism arising in Northern Europe, rather than in India or China.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protestant_Ethic_and_the_S...

- Charles Taylor, A Secular Age. This book really changed the way I think about the modern world and what I'll call "the preference for scientistic, humanistic atheism". Taylor essentially argues that modern secularity is not merely the subtraction of religious belief, but a new historical situation where religious beliefs are co-existent both with each other and with immanent beliefs (entirely focused in the world.) This book is huge, so I recommend starting with How Not to Be Secular by James K. A. Smith, as it's a condensed summary of Taylor's book.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Secular_Age

https://www.amazon.com/How-Not-Be-Secular-Reading/dp/0802867...

- Friedrich Nietzsche. A philosopher quite interested in this problem. His main goal was to trace the development of moral ideas and subsequently create new, healthier (to him) ones. Too many books to list, but I recommend The Genealogy of Morality and Beyond Good and Evil.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Genealogy_of_Morality

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_Good_and_Evil
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What were those features that no other language has?
iMessage couldn't get share in Japan due to situation. Docomo (largest career) starts selling iPhone in 2013 (so iPhone 5s/5c) and LINE was already de facto standard at the time. LINE also supported feature-phones (that's majority in 2013).

IMO not adopting platform-depended messaging service is good.
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Indeed. What if you are a super responsible person, but there is unrest in a Country you are visiting or live in, through no fault of your own and you are unable to pay a renewal. Or you fall sick and go to the hospital.
Yeah, exactly. I edit or write posts once every few weeks or months so this works for me.
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> a friend was trying to find a place to exchange some USD and got a bit lost, he asked a random person about it, this person walked my friend for 3 blocks to the currency exchange shop.

This exact same thing happened to me. Two anecdotes don't make a pattern, but...Japan does have a magnificent culture of service.
I think that counts as a workaround and no longer works on Apple Silicon. But I haven't verified this myself. Would be interesting to hear from someone who knows.

Edit: Here are the details. Looks like it's true that it simply won't run totally unsigned ARM code. But self-signing is allowed. For now. https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/unsigned.html
It does seem like a fad. Kudos to those who can create a new field and profit from it. On the one hand, "chaos engineering" seem a bit like "we don't understand our architecture well enough to know what its failure modes are, so let's just poke it and see what happens," but on the other hand, it seems at least a little bit analogous to fuzzing, which is certainly a technique that yields useful results that would have otherwise been overlooked until it was too late.
https://www.blopeur.com/2020/04/08/Intel-x86-patent-never-en...
I kinda get the first bit, but I'm not sure what you meant by employed by law enforcement? Does the police have stereotypes about Linux software?
I think most people would agree that the American way is superior, but that doesn’t mean that it will work with parties unwilling to participate.

Luckily it’s only China that refuse to play by the rules, which means that you can easily remove them from the game without changing the game or adopting their policies.
> facebook did not attempt to run its social media business in China

It actually did attempt to do that, pretty hard. Zuck even learned quite a bit of Mandarin Chinese and spoke in it in China to students during a publicity tour. He's not stupid, he knows there's a lot of money in China. But Xi is also not stupid, so he's not going to let a US media company to have unimpeded access to almost all of his subjects, which it could then algorithmically brainwash. So it was not to be. Google didn't "voluntarily quit" either. It quit because it discovered it's being spied on and had its IP stolen - both of those things are a fact of life for any significant Western company operating in China. So yea, forgive me for not shedding a tear for TikTok.
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I've heard an anecdote from a colleague that speaking Japanese moves one from the category of "Gaijin" to "interesting Gaijin", at which point people start volunteering how "we do things." (this is probably true anywhere: it's the fundamental distinction between an expat and an immigrant.)

> Plan a few years of total immersion.

I'd say this is true (although closer to "a couple") even going between european languages and english.

On the other hand, anyone emigrating for cultural reasons might appreciate that learning a language in their host country will be an order of magnitude more rapid than raising and educating a generation or three[1] in their home country.

[1] Has the american character has changed significantly since the publication of The Canterville Ghost in 1887?

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14522/14522-h/14522-h.htm
> there's certainly been more "regulation" in the sense of schools trying to enforce what books are used for what class for their own enrichment.

That has little bearing on the prices of textbooks. Also a school can't function without textbook standardization. That's hardly the same thing as regulation.
Maybe copyright issues? (Same reason you do not see many night pictures of the Eiffel tower)
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> The HW device is not theirs.

The software is theirs. It’s already been legally established that they’re allowed to create HW that only runs their software.

> [Amazon] have no say of what's inside the box.

That is untrue. If amazon doesn’t like a supplier, or what’s in a suppliers box, they can and will cut that supplier off from being able to sell on their store. They have done this before at their own whim.

> Apple wrote that rule inside their agreements... Which is clearly unfair competition

No. It’s simple contract law. Their software, their rules.

There is no competition here to be anticompetitive, there is only a singular retail channel to a singular platform. Anyone is free to walk across the street to Google, or any one of the Non-Play-Store Androids. Taking a cut of retail sales isn’t rent seeking, its normal business practice.

As soon as a government decides it doesn’t like private contracts and wants to create a disintermediated market - which is the most logical way to get close to what you’re asking for, a free market of stores and suppliers where it’s more likely that ISVs will be less restricted , that’s interfering with the market arrangement and the iOS platform’s approach to security and quality control.

It is almost unimaginable that the government would force Apple to lift all admission restrictions on the platform due to security and quality concerns , but even if they did, they couldn’t force Apple or any other retailer to resell software they don’t want to, short of heavy regulatory injection.
So let’s say they they found a way to make this work. It’s either via a market of many app stores, or its by making Apple an agent of the government Itself in curating the App Store.

My overall point is “Be careful what you wish for“. The unintended consequences of this interference are vast. The likely outcome is entrenching Apple and Google as an extension of government, rather than just removing restrictions for ISVs. Apple gets regulated, but now keeps making trillions of dollars/euros by law.
I’m going to focus on one aspect of the article only.

> You might want to start with a lightweight markup language, which will ironically be geared toward generating HTML. Markdown’s strict specified variation, Commonmark, seems like a pretty decent choice.

Markdown of any form would be a catastrophically bad choice for something like this. Remember this: Markdown is all about HTML. Markdown has serious limitations and is very poorly designed in places, but it works well enough despite being so bad specifically because underneath it’s all HTML, so you can fall down to that when necessary. If you go with Markdown, you’re not actually supporting “Markdown” as your language, but HTML. If the user writes HTML in their Markdown, what are you going to do about it? You’re supposed to be able to write the HTML equivalent of any given Markdown construct and have it work, and I find that perfectly normal documents need to write raw HTML regularly, because Markdown is so terribly limited—so your document web is either (a) not actually Markdown and uselessly crippled (seriously, plain Markdown without HTML is extremely limiting for documents), or (a) actually completely back to being a subset of HTML, which is exactly what you said you didn’t want it to be (rule #1).

If you want to get away from HTML, you want something like reStructuredText, where you don’t have access to HTML (unless the platform decides to set up a directive or role for raw HTML), but have a whole lot more semantic functionality, functionality that had to be included because HTML wasn’t there to fall back on. I think AsciiDoc is like this too.

But the whole premise that “HTML must be replaced because it’s a performance or accessibility bottleneck for documents” is just not in the slightest bit true. HTML is fine. Even CSS is well enough (though most pages have terribly done stylesheets that are far heavier than they should be, e.g. because they include four resets and duplicate everything as well as overriding font families five times). The problem lies almost entirely in what JavaScript makes possible—not that JavaScript is inherently a problem, but it makes problems possible. The proposed variety of document web would be unlikely to perform substantially better than the existing web with JavaScript disabled.

All up, Robert O’Callahan’s response is entirely correct. You can’t split the web like this; you will fail. Especially: if your new system is not compatible with the old (which your rule #2 precluded), it will fail, unless it is extremely more compelling for everyone (rule #3), but I don’t believe there’s anywhere near enough scope for improvement to succeed.
This article has a speed-of-light theme, we may as well talk about it.

> How far do you think light travels in one nanosecond given the optimal conditions? In one nanosecond, the light travels only about 30 centimeters. This means that if you want something computed in under 1 nanosecond, the signal starting your computation has to go through all the transistors that do the computation by the path that is only 30 centimeters in length.

In real circuits, light travels in a medium, not in free space or air. The speed-of-light in a medium depends on its relative dielectric constant K of the insulator material. For standard SiO2, it's approximately 4, giving a speed of 0.5c, or only 15 centimeters per nanosecond (coincidentally, a typical circuit board has roughly the same dielectric constant, even coax, CAT-6, or fiber optics cables are not far off from it, 15 cm/s is an useful number to remember).

In the history of process node improvements, various doping techniques have been developed for decreasing (or increasing) the K for better performance. The primary motivation of lowering the K is not increasing the speed-of-light, but to reduce parasitic capacitance, charging and discharging a capacitor creates a much longer delay than the theoretical propagation delay of c / sqrt(K).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-%CE%BA_dielectric

Another area of research is optical interconnects.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_interconnect
We will change that. Seems like a good idea
That misses the point. I have DVDs that I purchased that will work as long as I posses them and they were made before Netflix was even a company.

There may technically be a license attached to them, but there is no practical way for any company to revoke my usage of them and the failure mode if any of those companies cease to exist is for them to continue working.
I don’t even believe that being unbiased is impossible so I do not even believe it is a true statement to begin with. I believe it is said by those that want to justify their sophistry.

I fundamentally don’t think you understand what I am saying from this reply. Therefore I think any discussion past this point on this matter is worthless.
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That's useful for chatbots, where you have a big FAQ and people ask questions. That's exactly what RASA does, using TensorFlow. It's reasonably good at matching user questions with stored questions. But that's all the AI part does.
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> I run xmonad as well, which doesn't work with wayland.

There is Waymonad, but not sure how mature it is:

https://github.com/waymonad/waymonad
Medical care and education have seen a massive torrent of government funding and regulation over the last 60 years, while the things that get cheaper live mostly in free markets.
We had that in the first version but we kind of removed it. We will try to add one option for that.
This mentions it cannot be used against AWS lambda. Not sure why?
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So we use MobileNet V2 model. It is relatively light weight and can run fast on the browser itself
My guess? Someones manager was like "Hey lets publish this wiki as a blog post."

Sure, part of it is trying to seem cool and whatnot, but that's fine with me. The output is the same, more knowledge shared.
Brand-new book distribution system in Japan also heavily depends on manga magazines, especially for magazines. It's getting unsustainable on nationwide due to sales decreasing.
In the off chance that you have one, yes.

But in 99.9999999% of cases it will do what you expect (whereas "pip install x" will be easier to use the wrong one if you have multiple Python versions).
"are societal"

Structural, not societal.

And Google's monopoly is not good, but it's not really the root cause of the issues articulated in the article.
I don't see how Wayland would improve security in my case. There are basically two types of applications on my system: some which can't be used in sandboxes in a reasonable way and those which work well in sandboxes. In the first case I wouldn't gain anything with Wayland because my shellrc, launcher configuration, ssh keys, personal data, ... are accessible to those applications, giving them and a potential attacker basically full access to my system, including the control of all Wayland clients.

In the second case, those applications work well with X security extensions and X11 proxies so I'm pretty fine in that regard, even with X11.

And since X11 also works just so much better in the majority of cases I care about, regarding my productivity and flexibility, I don't see any reason to use Wayland right now.
A drop of only 5-10% in GDP? They won.

They're tiny isolated islands with tourism as a major industry. How's New Zealand doing?
That should not happen! Could you tell us about the issue? https://github.com/nsfw-filter/nsfw-filter/issues