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Conservative doesn't really mean much anymore on its own. CDU might be considered conservative by Western European standards, but it's liberal by Eastern European standards.
>EU was basically just a free trade zone

Exactly! That's what the EU should be and nothing more.
I mean that's the crux of the issue, is the EU just a liberal (in the non-american sense) free-trade zone or is it more that that. I personally would like it to be more, but I understand that it's a very controversial topic.
I don't like software patents but I have a hard time buying that it will limit investment further. It hasn't significantly done so in the US where software patents have long existed. I imagine it may spur investment because investors see software patents as protecting their investments in startups from both other startups and established companies.

Edited to correct a typo kindly pointed out by a comment below.
I've helped with construction of some houses with gravel+filter bedding. There is usually more than one layer of fabric+gravel. It also helps keep the gravel around. The estimated lifetime of the filters I helped putting in is around 150 years. It's a fairly standard way to bed a house in germany outside the cities.
I just don't understand how you can restrict photography of something that's in the public view. I'd expect that while most public sculptures etc are copyrighted, this restricts reproductions of the sculptures themselves, not images of them. The creative work here is the lighting system, and I don't feel an image of that actually copies that.
I once had a manager that, when asked why we don’t hire a QA team, said, “We don’t need one because we have really good engineers”. :/
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Oh you’re not talking about the FRED data, which examines real median personal income over time (which has been constantly increasing).

You’re talking about why the BEA data doesn’t line up with the US Census Bureau data for 2019. That’s probably because the BEA data is average growth while the US Census data shows the median income growth. For year 2019, we noticed that wage growth was largely driven by the lower quintiles: https://www.hiringlab.org/2019/03/05/february-jobs-report-pr...

This can largely explain the discrepancy. In other words, the assertion that “median would have increased even less” actually turned out to not be true, empirically.
It’s much more reasonable to build/install a storm shelter and - in the unlikely event that you must use it - let insurance bear the cost of repairing/rebuilding the home, putting your family in a hotel, etc.
This is what several lawyers told me, people are making a fuss about the UK breaking the Withdrawal Agreement, but other countries do the same in other fields.
Of all the things the EU does, unified international policy makes the most sense to me - only way to avoid getting picked off one by one.

It's the attempt at unifying countries internal policies that I don't see the point of.
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I use StartPage too and maps and currency conversation are the two things that make me open up Google
I know what you're saying but I still wanted to opine that I find Linux distros amazing stacks! The best stack I know off at least.
Give this person a cookie, for exhibiting sheer resolve, something that's becoming all too rare in the manipulated, instant-gratification culture we're heading deep into.
But, if I'm making a date based search I'd still use ddg, given that runnaroo doesn't seem to support it yet.
The suggestion that we don't currently use medicines for which we don't know the mechanism made me smile. Thanks.
thread with Leslie Groves' book, on making the first bombs and the first strikes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24072478
> the main dynamic driving this is not proprietary-vs-open,

Some would say that's the whole point. Not which company wins, not even which standard wins, but that openness wins.

Of course the fragmentation strategy can be successful against such a push. It's bascially the oldest trick in the book. That doesn't mean it will win in the long run.
> There’s no plan to dig them up and replace them

Yes, but that’s disingenuous. The largest civil engineering project in America right now is the new water tunnel for NYC. It’s been in progress for fifty years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Water_Tunnel_No....
labels definitely matter. Naming is one of the two hardest things [0].

The point in this case is that the names are hard because they're making up for limitations in left-recursive grammars. Personally, I still find "Addable_expr" to be more intuitive than "additive_expr": where it means "an expression that can be added". Both are more intuitive (to me) than "Expr2". But that's personal preference, and part of why naming is hard :).

[0] https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html
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I would say it is the only way it makes sense. The world now belongs to huge nations like USA, China and India. The only way European people can survive with their freedom intact is by banding together.
I think sometimes less confident users see a "No Thanks" as "Not Ever," and are worried they'll disable something. "Maybe Later" communicates the choice isn't permanent and they can come back to it later if they want.
I’m referring to your specific point here: “I'm not sure I'd say the US has consciously made that tradeoff.”

Even if you assume the lack of a safety net causes the symptoms above, my point is that the lack of a safety net is deliberate, because even our left wing party promises not to raise taxes enough to actually fund a more robust safety net.

Apart from that, the life expectancy of white Marylanders is 80 years, just a bit shorter than for Germans (80.9 years). But 30% of our state’s population is from a minority group that was enslaved on Maryland plantations, and then denied civil rights until very recently. If bill gates had been born in the county where I live as a Black kid, he would have gone to a segregated school until middle school. Their life expectancy is several years lower, due to the legacy of those injustices.

Many of the differences between the US and European countries are misdiagnosed as matters of general policy (safety net, healthcare). But when you break it down, much of the difference is actually the result of the country’s history and large Black-white gaps in many indicators. The median white household, for example, has 10 times the wealth of the median Black household—a fact that plays a huge role in people feeling economically insecure. But those gaps can not necessarily be fixed with the same policy choices that European countries apply to their general populations. That wealth gap, for example, has not changed since the 1960s, when Maryland schools were still segregated—despite a large growth in general social welfare spending since that time. It is a unique challenge that requires targeted solutions, and there is no political will to implement those policies. These policy challenges simply have no parallel in Germany.
This is what you're gonna do with the money saved from the firings?
I've had the same experience. I use YT to listen to music pretty regularly and if I don't go and actively select a different song it will play the same 5-10 over and over. Even when I do select a song it will make its way back to those same 5-10 songs. There's a lot to discover on there so I still use it, but it's also pushing me back to my other services or libraries.
That's too bad, but I can't help to think that it's a nice feature.
DuckDuckGo "instant answer" infrastructure used to be open-source and community-contributed until a few years back. (But to be fair, searching for GOOG on DDG still gives you a little blurb about stock prices)

https://github.com/duckduckgo/duckduckgo
The bottom of the page you linked shows ten articles, six of which praise DeepL as better than the competition and four which praise it without comparison. The least positive is probably Wired’s: “WIRED's quick test shows that DeepL's results are indeed in no way inferior to those of the high-ranking competitors and, in many cases, even surpass them. The translated texts often read much more fluently; where Google Translate forms completely meaningless word chains, DeepL can at least guess a connection.” — which is a long-winded way of saying that DeepL’s worst translations are as bad as Google Translate’s, but many of them are better — making DeepL strictly better overall. Of course, any individual review must be made by subjective humans, but you can find as many corroborating comparisons as you like and every review I’ve seen has either described DeepL as better or at worst as bad as Google Translate, and the former is exactly my personal experience after using each for years. We can also compare the results of sending your comment on a round trip through the top language on each:

DeepL German: “The allegedly "objectively" better translator is DeepL.”

Google Translate German: “The alleged "objectively" better translator is DeepL”

DeepL Spanish: “The allegedly "objectively" better translator is DeepL.”

Google Translate Spanish: “The best translator "objectively" that is claimed is DeepL.”

As a native English speaker, the DeepL results seem clearly clearer and cleaner to me. If broad consensus isn’t evidence to you, you could also compare quantity of languages instead of quality of translations, in which case you’d find that Google Translate is missing languages that Microsoft Translate has. Either way, Google certainly doesn’t have “a pretty clearly better product.”
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Failure to optimize is equivalent to directly perpetrating harm, especially when the stakes are high ($8 billion) and optimizing is jaw-droppingly simple and easy (read recommendations from Giving What We Can, 80,000 Hours, GiveWell, etc., and spend some ultra tiny fraction of time comparing the impact on lives between e.g. donating $1 billion to fucking Cornell vs $1 billion to a cause like Against Malaria or SCI).

Tell the children who have died and will die from directly preventable malaria or waterborne parasites that Feeny’s negligence has done no harm.

By not spending the money on them, he literally facilitated their deaths. For what? Cornell has a fancier campus? Obamacare had a nicer grassroots website? It’s sickening.

And it’s no defense to distract by saying nobody can be perfectly ascetic or optimize away every wasteful purchase or discretionary spending. That’s not at all related or up for discussion. We’re talking about one guy with a stated goal of funding efficacious charities with $8 billion of available funds to do it over time. Just about as pure a thought experiment of negligence as there ever was.
Yeah im confused by this article. Why would this push functional programming into a small niche? Is it just because the scanners are only written small range of languages like C# or javascript? Seems like functional programming makes for BETTER security scanning all around. If anything I actually see this potentially giving FP a boost, unless the scanners are just surface level and are adopted as a matter of faith, all good and well until one of them gets cracked, dynamic languages compared to compiled are like swiss cheese
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Oh yeah, Apple is to be faulted for many things, including monopolistic behaviour, poor support for "alternative" ways of using their devices etc. But at least they don't ship an OS with ads, data tracking and other shenanigans like MS does. MS in the past never held their products to a high standard of quality. Apple's success forced them to consider that aspect, but they are still far away from being able to compete on that front.
That is option 1, it will die if unattended.
Citation needed. The people pushing for more integration are politicians and bureaucrats, not normal people. Most of the EU (indeed most of the Western world) is in a democratic crisis - moving decision-making even further away from citizens by centralizing it in Brussels is only going to exacerbate that, leading to more anti-EU sentiment and more brexits.
These may be anti-features, but it is good in a couple of respects. One is the acknowledgement by Microsoft of the role of open source software in the industry, and the other is to facilitate the development of software in mixed environments.

I seriously doubt this poses a serious risk to open source software. Open source developers are not going to be any more likely to adopt closed components, particularly from a company that has bred animosity towards open source in the past.
I am saying that apparently they are not good enough for the Kubernetes generation.

Eventually there will come the post-Kubernetes generation and the cycle does yet another turn.
There are users at all levels; some are really fine with the spreadsheet in Google Drive, and really it leaves them with time to take a stroll in the park and talk to friends and relatives. Some users want to put together their own computers and their own operating systems, and they will do too. No point in complaining for what the "masses" don't want to do.
There is little to no point of buying their hardware without it, you can’t change settings, create profiles, macros or rebind keys.
"Bedtime" is an Apple feature that helps you manage sleep time. Basically you tell when you want to go to bed and wake up and it sets a reminder for bedtime and an alarm for wake up time, then it tracks how much time you sleep. I'm guessing people are saying "Bedtime alarm" to indicate it's the alarm that's set as part of the "Bedtime" feature.
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Are you paying your employee since day #1 on the job? If not, he's probably also a co-founder.
It's not that funny, you must not understand how transformative the Good Friday Agreement was for Ireland and the UK, even if the typical Brit has no idea. It is a far broader reaching concern than software patents in Germany.
Who has the UK assassinated in the last 20 years? The western intelligence services are awful too but no one does it quite like the russians
Really nicely-written project. The documentation is clear and sufficiently comprehensive; the project structure is immediately obvious and navigable; and each source file is both intuitively named and very readable.
I disagree completely.

For some things Google is better, namely for stuff where you have almost no clue ("song with children screaming over tv noises").

However for searches where you do have some clue ("error code 456 when installing xyz"), Google will drown you in AMP, useless "answer boxes" and scammy sites while DDG will generally find you the vendors site and some Stack Exchange discussions.
Java users are doing just fine with application containers.
Three current ways:

1. Server rendered ads. They were there, you must have just missed them (it's on the SERP under the search bar). I don't have the search volume for context based ads (and none of the the available search ad networks are suitable), so the ads are just direct ads that display in rotation for a predetermined amount of time and do zero tracking (i.e. pay X and the ad is displayed for Y amount of time, win win for all).

2. Affiliate links. There is only one today, but I am testing it out to see if they are worth it.

3. Direct user monetization programs (i.e. Web Monetization protocol through Coil and the Brave publisher program). We are actually the first (and maybe still the only) search engine to integrate Web Monetization [0].

[0] https://webmonetization.org/
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What exactly do you need out of your tool ?

Do you want want to track daily expenses ? only big expenses ? check balances across multiple accounts ?

Personally I get along fine with a spreadsheet and a wife who is into finance professionally.
> support of Wall Street that is supposed to trickle down to Main Street

> I interpret the “capitalists are screwing the working class” as a) erroneous

Isn't support of Wall Street fairly interpreted as support of the uber wealthy capitalists who benefit the most from this monetary policy and artificially boosted stock prices?

And what's stopping the capitalists from using some of that vast wealth to actually pay workers more?

> Instead it’s used for stock buybacks

Who benefits from this? Shareholders, right? Aren't the uber wealthy in the US and Europe getting the vast majority of their wealth thanks to capital gains via shares?

> genuinely free market conditions.

There good reason genuinely free markets exist nowhere in the world and nowhere in history. Negative externalities don't magically disappear all on their own. Privatizing profits and socializing costs is the natural strategy every company must adopt to remain competitive lacking regulations to prevent socializing those costs. It's simply far cheaper to pollute when you are allowed to.
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>I can see this hurting traditional Linux graphics systems and development tooling, but I think the main dynamic driving this is not proprietary-vs-open, it's Microsoft's ability to coordinate large numbers of developers, because they have a massively more united org than random hobbyists.

As one of the people using this wonderful free technology, I would like to actively state that I will fight MS and any other Tech provider remotely involved in destroying my most productive way of working, and trying to supplant me back into a machine that sells only advertising.
I didn't pay for a machine to sell me advertising.

"Oh you can disable ads".
Why should I need to?

On that note:
>"If you combined all of the efforts of all of the people working on Linux tools for the past 20 years and got them working on the same thing,"

Why don't all car manufacturers focus on the same thing?

Why is there more than one company for anything then?

Shouldn't the government just run everything then?

Who needs competition and a free market?

But, really, the reason we all know deep down inside is:

Because if we did that we would end up with Microsoft, a company that builds AI to find novel ways of forcing you to interact with advertising, somewhat akin to a Black Mirror episode.
Not just the same categories, but videos I've seen before and videos it's been "recommending" for months that I don't watch.
Google Play Music graduated Google anyway, and is going to be killed soon...
> 2. Mobile GPUs just don't cut it when you're running VR and displaying on 2-3 screens at once

The Oculus Quest has been doing VR acceptably on mobile _phone_ GPUs for 15 months.

A recent Mac laptop's GPU should be able to handle at least as good an experience as the Quest.
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To be fair, the leavers outlets seem to be the ones covering it the most. It's also a big deal because the country just made the agreement, it's not like it's 35 years old and everyone who made it is no longer around. It was made by the guy who is going to break it.
She only became president because Merkel forced the issue.

I think Frans Timmermans (an excellent option!) had a chance to win it before that, as well as Vestager (the antitrust champion in the previous EC). They gave Vestager the VP job to pacify her and her allies.

Also, somehow, Vera Jourova, which has been absolutely terrible in her job in the previous EC, especially with the terrible Privacy Shield she negotiated with the US gov (which has now been invalidated - again - by the CJEU) got the VP role, too, in the new EC.

Germans need to get rid of Merkel already. She's been terrible in the past 2 mandates, even doing stuff like protecting the coal industry as as well the diesel/gasoline car industry against new EU pollution norms. She also continued to push for new mass surveillance laws, even as the previous ones were being declared unconstitutional by the German courts.

I'm almost convinced the only reason she won again last time was because the US/global media kept propping her up as the "world's savior against Trump" - whatever that means. So I'm sure that had an effect at home, too, possibly giving her the edge. I know she was starting to be hated due to the all the local immigration issues prior to that.
Oh, I was intending to reply to the parent of your comment.
Luckily another part of the traditional Apple ecosystem are well engineered community generated extensions to cover for Apple's lack of advanced options for some functionality:

https://sensible-side-buttons.archagon.net/
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I welcome the addition of dark mode, but isn't it time we take a look at why the whole program's UI freezes for tens of seconds when wrangling more than 2 accounts?
Not to be flippant, but.. on your contract?
I switched back to Google this week after a few months of having ddg as the default. It's actually fine most of the time but when it's not you end up wasting time before you figure out that Google has answers.

I had some frustrating errors to figure out with junit5 the other day. Literally any search I did landed me to the wrong pages because it ignored parts of my query. Searching for the error is where Google seems to do a better job somehow. Ddg will just ignore the parts it does not understand, which tend to be the most significant parts of the query. Unfortunately, this something I do a lot and I need that to work reliably.

!g was pretty much the only bang I used with ddg. On mobile, don't really do a lot of searches. Besides, I have an Android phone so you are kind of stuck with Google unless you really customize everyhting.
A few years ago I missed a very important work engagement because it discovered the opposite.

The LG Nexus wouldn’t ring the alarm when the phone was set to silent.

I literally had to show it to my manager which was furious.
I work in a cooperative where everybody has an equal share, so everyone is just owner :)
I'll be the contrarian: Has the author ever heard of Linux?

I'm being glib, and share many of the author's frustrations with the state of things, but really the trends covered in the article have been happening for well over a decade. In that time Raspberry pi's have hit the market and the microcontroller market has never been better for hobbyists and professionals. Likewise with scientific computing frameworks like R and Python. The author even managed to get a personal website up for all of us to read. The options for personal computing are wide, wide open, even if some markets or products remain closed and proprietary and tough to hack.

Also,

> I suppose one can argue that if we all have nothing but dumb terminals running software from a ROM (which cannot be written to), then no malware can get onto our computers. But, do we want to go back to the dumb terminal days of the 1980's? Is this the "modern" operating system that we want?

For certain stuff like online banking, yes.
I take the original comment to be that file syncing will never be a product on it's own. The market for people who need file syncing on its own is small and it only really becomes useful for a large number of paying customers when it is something embedded into a more directly useful product (like GSuite or Office 365). And I think he's been largely right. It's common on HN for people to complain about how Dropbox was great when it did just one thing really well but they weren't a profitable company doing one thing really well. They always needed to create a broader product on top of file syncing in order to survive as a standalone business.