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> These licenses attempt to maintain an open-source spirit

No they’re not. Open source licenses are in the open source spirit.

Source available licenses are not.

Free software is free to use for any purpose. If your software comes with nonfree restrictions, it is not only not free software, it is not in the spirit of free software.

This is just more anticompetitive behavior from those that mistakenly believe that IP is property to be guarded with the machinery of the state (and the associated threat of violence for transgressions) to back them up.

Your software either is free to use for all purposes, or it is not. If it’s the latter, why the fake and misleading “in the spirit” posturing? Make a decision and be proud of it instead of pretending you’re something you’re not.
That is great, you can avoid using app stores you don't trust. Why prevent other users from using stores they trust? Apple isn't the only company that can run an online store. There are countless online web stores selling all kinds of things, and people trust them with their money. Apple is artificially preventing competition in iOS stores here because they can abuse their dominant position.
If the proposition is to add UBI on top of the existing welfare programs, it will be a very hard sell to conservatives and libertarians. If you hope to win those two groups over, you need to demolish the welfare state, a proposition which will be opposed by many progressives/liberals.
Just joined FB and I can tell you that the company is a microcosm of what's happening in the larger U.S. right now but amplified by a very vocal majority that is hell bent on having Zuckerberg clamp down on every single item/topic they don't agree with. Other than that the company is awesome :-)
You can monitor what calls an app makes. LittleSnitch on Mac is an example example of this.

There are going to be nefarious actors who still manage to bypass it, and there are going to be risks outside of a walled garden - and that's a meaningful choice we can provide users.

"Hey, you can stay inside the app store and get these promises, or you can install what you want and risk X, Y and Z."

Android does this.. decently well. There are issues with the google framework, but otherwise it's functional - my elderly family doesn't need me to reset their phones every month, yet I can sideload all my games and FOSS apps.
But that's not anti-competitive.

All manner of well-funded corporations would be able to start app stores on mobile, and several (Epic, Valve/Steam, Microsoft) would start app stores the second they were able to.

They'd also be competing for software - as there's a lot of fat that can be trimmed in those 30% margins.

The competition, which would be fierce, is more than enough to solve the issue of price fixing.
Sure, the particle showers that cosmic rays create in the atmosphere contain some muons. Still the sun itself does not emit muons, and even if it did they would decay long before reaching earth (or a satellite).
seems like they’re in a better position than Google Stadia with their ownership of Twitch & having Prime
Yes, it's controversial. Trump says he never met the guy, nevermind the photo of them together. I don't follow QAnon, but if I was Q, I'd spin that picture as proof that Trump was investigating the pedo ring.
I think you are both right.

To jolux's point, Scala, F#, Ocaml/Reason, Clojure, Haskell, Erlang while not as huge as Java and C#, they have billions in value attributable to them.
Would you consider advocating for genocide to be a variable line that could go either way?
We’ve had plenty of time to do nothing and look how much worse the problem has become.

All I’ve seen from the US government in my decade of voting is one party plugging their ears and going “lalalalala” while at the same time limiting the ability of the other party to do pretty much anything.

Younger generations want hope, and the older ones are doing absolutely nothing to provide that.

So excuse me if we want climate change legislation to happen without care for side effects. The planet becoming increasingly uninhabitable is the ultimate side effect.
> The peer-reviewed science we have suggests that higher soy consumption correlates with increased lifespan and positive health outcomes.

Couple of things here:

(1) Correlation is not causation
(2) Garbage in, garbage out -> referring to most observational studies.

> Can I hazard a guess that you think MSG is bad for your health too? These are antiquated views.

I don't know if it is bad for my health long term, even though I guess yes. I don't think there are good studies pointing in either direction. It is definitely not healthy short term for me, since I get bad headaches and flushes when I eat something with MSG.

The problem is that there should be good studies when adding something humans don't consume into their diet. Humans have consumed meat for hundreds of thousands of years, yet now it is the source of all evil. We haven't consumed rapeseed at all yet its oil is labeled "healthy". In my book skepticism is a virtue.
You're doing a poor job of explaining the first worldview. Which is okay, you've acknowledged that you have trouble understanding it.

This worldview has been called the "liberal consensus". What it holds is that the power to determine a discourse is inherently against freedom is corrupting, and by allowing an authority to determine that, it will inevitably be used as a weapon.

Goalposts will shift. We will, hmm, go from suspending accounts which promote the theory that COVID-19 is caused by 5G towers, to suspending the account of a virologist who issued a preprint suggesting that gain-of-function mutations in SARS2 point to a laboratory origin.

Look, both of those things might be false, but surely we can agree that if so they are false in a different way.

There were many experiments with official truth in the 20th century. The general consensus was that they were unpleasant to live under and did a poor job of actually separating truth from falsehood. Many of us don't care to repeat those experiments, the effect size was large.

If we had an oracle of truth, then censorship of falsehood would be easy and practical. We also wouldn't need democracy at all, we could just ask the oracle of truth what to do, and do it. But we don't have any such creature.
Yeah it's perfectly fine that they make a product under this license, as going full closed source would be perfectly fine as well. But it's not open source.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparent_mineralocorticoid_exc...

We actually learned about this in med school last week, but I never thought it actually happened to people... Licorice contains glycyrrhetinic acid which inhibits the conversion of cortisol to cortisone. If you have too much cortisol floating around because of this, that cortisol starts activating receptors in your kidneys that are normally activated by aldosterone. This in turn increases your sodium resorption and potassium excretion, so you get high blood pressure and low potassium which can cause arrhythmias. It's called the Syndrome of Apparent Mineralocorticoid Excess and is a usually genetic problem with the enzyme that breaks down cortisol.
> They're getting people addicted to something wrong, did I understand you?

That is part of it, yes.

Also, the mechanism of addition itself often causes the harm. With chemical addiction, the same components that make the substance addictive also cause miserable withdrawal symptoms.

With social media, this is more nebulous, but I do think part of what makes systems like Facebook "engaging" is the anxiety they create when you aren't on them, and the low self-image that users try to assuage by posting flattering photos of their life.

Part of addiction (and advertising too, for that matter) is creating a need for your product in the mind of the user. They were probably happier before they had that need in the first place.
"where investors lose the difference in stock value"

According to the article, the investors have the right but NOT the obligation to sell their shares at the tender price. They might trust the company's governance less after de-listing, but it doesn't appear they're being forced to sell.
I've been meaning to do beautiful racket but totally forgot about it. Thanks for mentioning it.
I saw this posted on twitter yesterday (https://twitter.com/lorisdanto/status/1308162021268037632), if anyone here works in the area and wanted to make suggestions about papers to include.
Open borders and free trade share a lot of economic characteristics.

Why should the US only get the benefits of foreign labor only while that labor is outside of the country?

Crime is one reason. Immigrants from different backgrounds, countries, etc have different propensities to commit crimes.

Inequality of negative effects is another reason. If we allow in unlimited hair cutters - of course the wage for hair cutters in the US may decline.
Fwiw, high doses of theobromine feel like very high doses of caffeine, but with much more anxiety. So, if you were bouncing off the walls and couldn't sit down or sleep for 24+ hours, that would be theobromine.
Genocide "is a political opinion I disagree with"
I imagine in the future we'll have ML-backed tools to give instructions like "Find the submit button", and that they'll be able to account for A/B testing and other things that get in the way of automation.
I went to the doctor with acute high blood pressure that appeared out of nowhere. Symptoms were an untreatable headache and swelling in the facial region, lasting for a few days.

In the end, I figured out that the cause was eating a big package of the same soft sweet black licorice. I even kept eating it during symptoms, making the condition worse.

My main reaction, after learning that the licorice could cause this, was how the hell is there not a huge warning on the packaging? I can only imagine how bad it could get if I had been already suffering from hypertension when eating it.
> The difference is that it's unquestionable that cigarettes are enormously harmful.

It was certainly questioned for many decades before we got to that point. Meanwhile, millions died. And during that entire time Big Tobacco had no difficulty drumming up doctors and scientists willing to argue against the negative health consequences of smoking.
I don’t think you can easily hand wave the logical inconsistency here.

Rats and rabbits are killed all the time on farms, it’s just how it is.

> That is, while crop deaths may happen, it is not a requirement that it does.

I don’t understand how ignorance that your diet kills sentient beings is an excuse.

> We could in fact engineer machines that don't kill animals while harvesting crops

That’s not the case now though
Support for Epic never took root on HN because techno-entrepreneurs see themselves not as mere fart app developers but as temporarily embarrassed billionaire monopolists.
Anyone "successfully" investing in crypto got in at least 4 years ago or when we the last big run up was and just held in a reputable exchange or in their own wallet that they secured well.

They don't need to understand anything really except how to deposit 5000+ in a reputable exchange. I think this makes up most successful crypto investors.
(people forget how radical `Copyleft` was at the time of its inception!)
The typo does a bit of disservice to a well-meant comment.
First of all I'll admit I was trying to err on the side of generosity when describing Rocket. Maybe that's a mistake.

They definitely seemed to have a culture of well...internal chaos. But that jives with their "copy fast" mentality. It's worked at least a couple times, right?
Even then, they only ever want one side to provide sources and even if you do, they often outright ignore it/say its not valid.
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There is so much wrong with everything you're saying, but I am not going to spend the time to point it all out, especially since you seem to have thoroughly convinced yourself that these assumptions are true.

But I'll just point this out:

> sell on multiple stores and comply with multiple sets of store rules just to access the same set of consumers is a massive disadvantage.

The only way this might be a problem is if all of the 1 billion+ iOS users were your customers, because then maybe some of them might decide to stop using the appstore completely, and maybe that'd happen instantly over night. Then maybe you'd have to publish your app on a second store (which would mean selling your app for a second time to those users who decided to leave the app store and never look back).

But regardless, if you have 1 billion customers, supporting a second or third for 40th store is not going to incur any significant costs. In fact, it might even lower them as most competing stores would likely distribute to both Android and iOS at the same time (Google Play would undoubtedly start selling iOS apps). Plus there will 100% be third party services for managing store pages across all the stores out there for a nominal fee (or even for free).
I should have included the South in my assessment, when you have states like Texas and Florida with 2nd and 3rd most (tie) amount of electoral votes, not forgetting 'swing' states like Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan that have a lot of pull. The middle of the US, and the East Coast South of the Mason-Dixon line is solid red. Gerrymandering has made it so even states like Georgia with a majority African-American population concentrated within congressional districts with enough political power to theoretically do something (Atlanta) will likely never flip blue (assuming said population were to vote blue). Same story where I live in southern Ohio. It's pretty sad. I think the electoral college needs to go away, but I doubt I'll ever see it in my lifetime. Hate to be a bummer on this, just tempering my own expectations.
I don't have the time to get into the nuts and bolts of an argument, but just from a personal emotional opinion, fascism is a dangerous idea because it led to the genocide of my people, anti-semitism in general has led to even more genocide of my people over millenia and continues to be a significant lingering threat to myself and family. Id consider these dangerous ideas, but I'm not sure id they should be outright banned, but maybe not treated equally to less dangerous ideas like excersize and drinking water. I do think that can be handled at the social level without laws, and I think that a company has the right to decide amongst itself, how it wants to place itself in society.

Certain ideas that its morally right to eliminate some people who happened to be born a certain way seems to me to fall into that category of dangerous ideas, primary because it offers no appeal, no rectification, you cant convert/repent your way out of death.
> In the same way, maybe we can posit a North Dakota constant of 33%. This is how many people believe in conspiracy theories when there’s no reason at all to believe them, not even the flimsy reasons conspiracy theories usually provide.

I think that's the wrong conclusion.

What the statistic in question suggests is far narrower. That, when specifically directed not to seek out other information, about 1/3 of people will assume Alex Jones is telling the truth about an issue, while 2/3 will assume he is lying.

I don't think generalizing that to level of belief in conspiracy theories is valid; while I suppose one might assume that the "North Dakota crash" refers to a conspiracy theory, the explicit question refers to whether Alex Jones is lying, so the personal credibility of that source is definitely being tested in the question (and without any actual story for respondents to evaluate, its the only thing that the question can be testing.)
But they can't do it without said people help, correct?

If they aim to remove agency, it's because you have it in the first place, meaning you can stop it from happening with proper information.

I understand that some people might not understand they are being targeted and should be clearly told what could happen to them. But the majority of people must know FB is addictive.

After that, I can't see how people still getting addicted is the company's fault.
> It's worked at least a couple times, right?

Yea, HelloFresh seems to be doing well and Zalando dominates in fashion. There are probably a few others doing well too.
Nuclear fusion is pretty much the exact opposite of a low entropy source. In any case, thermal power plants (gas, coal or nuclear) reach up to 50% efficiency with modern gas or steam turbines.
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Ah yes - a Vancouver BC based person whose twitter name is
"Sam | abolish the police".

A rational & valuable person no doubt.
Insurance is for minimizing losses you can't afford. Term life insurance is good if you have dependents and their life would be negatively impacted by the loss of your income. There is very little profit and commission in term life insurance, so life insurance salesmen will push whole life.

Whole life insurance is rarely necessary, and extremely expensive compared to the alternatives. See links below.

https://www.whitecoatinvestor.com/what-you-need-to-know-abou...

https://www.whitecoatinvestor.com/debunking-the-myths-of-who...

https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=57154
If that were the only argument, then yes, at the time it would have been a pretty weak refutation. But even at the time, it was obvious to anyone who really understands security that relying on the bad actor's own OS to prevent them from launching attacks is a losing strategy. This was an overblown non-issue. The linux comparison is simply another demonstration of it.
So if Apple had entertained the original pre-lawsuit request, would epic have fought until Apple allowed app stores other than Epic and Apple existing?
Actually debugging on Web browser with sourcemaps is very easy and transparent, also with Java see this screenshot: https://miro.medium.com/max/1400/1*zeTE0robP4_HQ2gc6WAVUQ.pn...

Just the same as debugging in TypeScript or JavaScript.

Very comfortable...
This was always Amazon's play with Twitch. Amazon will be able to make a much more compelling attempt at the market than Google with Stadia.

I still worry about these streaming platforms. Ease of use goes up, but it turns the industry into a subscription economy.

Maybe attention fulfillment maps better to subscription than to purchase, as there's less buyer's remorse? I still don't like it.
Facebook (at HQ and some if not all satellite offices) provide multiple meals per day. When evaluating offers, I've priced similar perks at equivalent to an additional ~$10k of pre-tax income.

If I had priced a $10k perk into my salary and no longer got it, I'd be disappointed in Zuckerberg's dismissiveness here.
Great tips! Any ideas how to implement that at scale? I mean, schools, colleges, etc.
the one-eyed man is king
If you read the article, they're complaining about the lack of free snacks because they're WORKING FROM HOME. To be honest, I suspect it's a joke question.
> To me this could not be more clear.

The difference was that Microsoft monopolized the PC OS market.

Apple does not monopolize the cell phone OS market.

Consumers still have total choice between Apple and Android, so it's not an identical situation whatsoever. If Macs had had 50% market share way back when (instead of what, 5%?), Microsoft would never have been in legal trouble for bundling IE.
I’d say these are a bit too obvious. Maybe for the beginner students. You really need to train people not to click on any URL in an email. Unless they really need to, and then show them how to examine the email headers. For URLs, the ones to watch out for are things like mybank.com.-------badguy.com, or tricks with Unicode, etc.
Yes, it's the new fad in US IT. Privileged workers making more than 100K a year demand they have a say in what their employer can or cannot publish. Same thing happened at Kickstarter, and is happening at Spotify regarding Joe Rogan's podcast. Employees demand having a say in the editorial policies of these websites and the power to interfere with contracts. I guess they tried that at Amazon too, but Bezos didn't fold and fired a few of them. I am all for collective bargaining and unions, but this has absolutely nothing to do with working conditions. These employees just want to use these platforms as their own propaganda outlets (and yes, it is a slippery slope).
I'm not actually going to disagree with that. It's a perfectly valid point of view. However, I will also add this thought, which I also expressed internally.

Neutrality doesn't just happen. No matter how neutral a system it is at one point in time, people will continue gaming it and it will cease to be neutral. There must be continuous active response to maintain that neutrality. This is a lesson Google learned with SEO long ago. Passivity is not the same as neutrality, and insisting on one often makes the other impossible.

That's not meant as a refutation of your point, but perhaps it's worth some time to think about how a "no algorithm" version of Facebook would actually play out. Here's your starting point: Twitter but 10x as large.
> The difference there is about institutional power...

Doesn't that effectively mean only groups without the ability to stop immigration, can have legitimate reasons to stop it? As soon as you have institutional power (i.e. power to shape immigration law) your reasons for opposing immigration become illegitimate?
What is the official theory now?
Anyone can share what makes PostgreSQL so successful? Maybe other projects can learn adopt a few of these good practices.

How are the team members funded? I was surprised to write a suggestion a few months ago and got replies from Tom Lane & Bruce Momjian themselves.
Here's the thing, "grass fed" beef is still fed grain. You're looking for "grass finished", which is quite rare.
I think what you're noting is that analogies are powerful tools. They can create a deep visceral association between A nd B that strongly affects how someone feels about B based on their existing feelings about A.

Like any powerful tool, it can be misused. But it can also do great good when used well. We live in a world surrounded by fiendishly complex systems with layers of abstractions and deep chains of emergent phenomena. Our primate brains aren't geared to process the consequences of our actions in a space that far removed from the forests where we evolved.

Analogies are one of the best tools I know to let us do that. But we do have to be careful about which analogies we choose to believe.
... If you are coming from JavaScript is TypeScript surely much "nearer" than Java... but if you are from Java why not stay in Java (with transpiler)?
Hunting and gathering is overrated.
>Literally doesn't mean what you think it means. It's also a figure of speach. From the dictionary:

Wrong, and you're the one confused here:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/misuse-of-lite...

1) in a literal sense or manner : actually
2) in effect : virtually

They were saying "in effect, virtually no one cares". Even then, that's demonstrably wrong as shown above.

>Issues/holes/leaks on public servers almost always get fixed on a few days, whether it's Microsoft or whatever.

Wrong, places like Apple, Facebook, etc. typically fix customer leaking issues like this in hours, not days.

>You maybe compare it to OS/app patches, with is not the same case.

Not comparing, but even those are slow.

>They just got a slap on the wrist for billions in profit.

Many people indicted and jailed and billions upon billions of fines. Absolutely not a slap on the wrist.