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> the iguana is completely docile to all other organisms around it. What's even cooler is that the iguana also only eats seaweed and algae

Seaweed and algae are organisms as well. Plants don't want to be killed and eaten no more than animals do. I think Attenborough or BBC's documentary on plants showed the lengths plants go through to avoid being eaten and communicating danger to other plants.

> I am a firm believer that all of the war and crime you see in the world is driven by some biological wiring that most of us continental organism possess, from ants to humans.

It's not just continental, it happens in the oceans as well. It's not just animals, microbes/bacteria/etc also kill and eat. It's even happening all over your body right now. It's been happening millions of years before the dinosaurs.

> If we had all evolved to be more like iguanas, I wonder if society would have made more (or less!) technological and societal progress, given that a lot of technological advancements come from the demands of war--

Probably less. The only reason galapagos iguanas exist is because they are isolated from competition and are adapted to a specific environment. Humans are more general while the galapagos iguana is specialized. It's like the difference between a computer and a calculator.
Perhaps it reduces interference in the same cable if the USB Vbus is noisy? It might also be just to suppress radiation from the cable which could affect other devices. Though I'm not sure you really need it on USB2. I've built custom totally unshielded USB2 cables that have been put on drones. The important thing is that the differential pair is twisted, otherwise it doesn't work at all. We never had any issue with EMI from the motors, which can be quite bad on quadcopters. This obviously isn't something that might pass CE testing, but my point is differential cabling is fairly noise tolerant. I'm fairly sure you could run USB2 through a coat hanger and it'd be OK.

Most USB application notes also specify a small ferrite bead, so there is normally something on the PCB for filtering as well. Wurth have a nice app note on this (search for ANP024).

USB3 though, is particularly bad for radiating with low quality cables. My logitech mouse dongle will drop if I connect a high bandwidth camera over a poorly shielded cable.
There's definitely some hyperbole in that statement. In the past decade, there's been:

- iPod 30-pin

- Magsafe

- Lightning

Only one of those (Lightning) is still in use, and it was a replacement for the circa 2001 iPod 30-pin. Magsafe was abandoned in favor of the non-proprietary USB Type-C/Thunderbolt 3. Most are predicting that Lightning will go the way of the dodo in favor of Type-C in another generation or two of iPhones.

Thunderbolt 2 and Mini DisplayPort sometimes get mistaken as proprietary because they were mostly a Mac thing, but in reality it was an Intel thing. A handful of PCs had Thunderbolt 2, but it never really caught on, likely due to licensing fees. Hilariously enough I've seen a number of non-Apple devices equipped with Mini DisplayPort now that Apple has abandoned it.

I guess there's the iPad Smart Connector, which has changed a couple of times in recent memory, but practically nobody but Apple made devices for it anyway. Most third part peripherals connect via Bluetooth, or now with the Pro and Air USB-C.
Yeah, I had good results reducing unwanted QRM entering my radio simply by winding a few air coils and zip-tieying them together. As far a I can remember the diameter of that air coil maters but here we are entering dark magic.
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Hey it works! Although I don't want to have to give you my phone number to signup. Why can't it just take a photo locally and apply the filter to it?
Thanks for pointing to these!
> Isn't it possible that actively recycling those devices is far better for the environment than allowing them to be resold to China and/or end up in landfill?

In one scenario, a device keeps being used, it just changes hands. In another, it is recycled, using up energy and materials into making new products out of it, and throwing away what can't be salvaged. And you think it's wild speculation to claim the first scenario is less taxing on the environment than the second?

Oh but it's explained by the completely sensible deduction that, if you sell someone a working device, they might throw it in a landfill. Why is the 2nd owner more likely to landfill it than the 1st? Does Apple vet buyers for environmentalism before it'll sell phones to them?
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iPhone 11 Pro Max is estimated to cost $500 [1], but retails at $1100 for the 64GB model [2]. Based on their public numbers [3], the most you can get is $450, so they're still ahead if they offer a trade-in discount and just dispose of the old phone. More importantly, they either get to accelerate a potential sale (if the phone is still working) or they get to compete more aggressively on price with high-end android phones

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/how-much-does-it-cost-to-m...

[2] https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-iphone/iphone-11-pro

[3] https://www.apple.com/shop/trade-in
Some of this is to make devices lighter, more compact, and maybe even have a better battery life. But yes, it comes at the cost of being user-repairable.
Firstly, it is a natural material - its basically sand. It does as much damage to the envirobment as any random rock.

Secondly it has been recycled for decades and is actually a relatively simple material that can be molten, purigied abd re-cast, much like metals can be.
I've never heard those terms only recursive / resolver and authoritative. Who uses content and proxy?
30 is the new 24; ESPECIALLY with covid economics =D
Thank you for an explanation that makes sense!
The amount of time is not only the problem.

The timeline of events described for each day doesn't add up, and the time scale changes very randomly.

For the biblical creation narrative to be compatible with evidence, most of the creation should have been astronomical events and then life should have only appeared at the end of the week.

However, in the bible the last day is spent resting.
> Why is there a technical need for a cloud service?

oAuth? I suspect a primary need for a cloud service is to just handle authentication with music services.

In theory you could do it entirely locally, but then you would run into super weird and dangerous (from a security perspective) situation where the redirect leg of the oAuth would need to point to a local IP address or similar.

I imagine it is possible to work around these issues, but it would be a huge faff, and would be very hard to make it as slick as a cloud based system.

Ultimately most consumers just don’t mind signing up for things. So why make your engineering 50% more complicated for a tiny minority of your target market.
You are extremely lucky if you get a contemporary online livestream under 10 seconds, this includes AFAIK all of YouTube, and the vast majority of HLS-based streams - which are often 30 seconds latency or worse.

Getting buffers down to 500ms is already pretty insane assuming reliability doesn't suffer. 250ms is well within the envelope of a single drop on a 3G network killing playback
OK, I re-read it. In the last sentence you mention the cost of a suburban house. That's the only reference to "suburban areas only" I can see.

Panels + lithium battery does not yet make "traditional power distribution obsolete". I have a net-zero adobe house with its own grid-tied 6.6kW array. The additional cost at this time of sufficent storage to go off-grid without significant life style changes (none of which would be particularly awful, but still big) is substantial. I have no doubt it will decrease rapidly, but we're not there yet.

Sure, for rural and some kinds of suburban areas, your comments are on point. For rural, they're even more or less the default. For suburban, it can be hard to tell where "community service" would end and "what we do today" would start.
> Isn't agricultural irrigation the largest source of groundwater depletion in places where it's an issue?

> I believe basically all water here in Iowa is pulled from groundwater wells. I've never heard of it being something anyone was worried, but we also don't irrigate fields like they do in the Western states.

Those are good points; I should have qualified my comment with "depending on location and local groundwater conditions". Evidently wells do work for at least some urban areas, but whether it's a viable option for all, I don't know.
> Iguanas are at the mercy of evolution. We aren't.

Given enough time, every species evolves. Now, the twist is that the human species could alter its own.
> No. That's just wrong.

Why would it be wrong to make this practice illegal going forward? There are clear environmental impacts in desctroyiing functional devices.

Of course Apple has all kinds of reasons why this makes sense for them. Doesn't mean those reasons are necessarily in the interest of the public, so the public doesn't have to accept them.
That's just because of USB-C, but USB-C is a standard that other manufacturers use that might have a 10-year lifespan. Why iPhones don't use USB-C is the bigger question.
Electronics, especially with high-capacity batteries need to pass rigorous standards to be sold on the market.

Then the batteries should be replaceable -- who pioneered non replaceable phone batteries?

Or maybe those devices on the market will eat into their market share.

Bingo. Profits before planet.
Yes, using multiple identifiers would work as well.

The use of colour swatches is interesting, though I would add that it should use a standard palette of colours to ensure that there is also differentiation based upon intensity (which would also help in the grey scale printout example).
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Just like just about every line in the Netherlands, there’s a train from Groningen to Leeuwarden and Delfzijl every 30 minutes.
Moving the DNS root to blockchain is one of the best use cases for blockchain [1] given the numerous stakeholders (name owners) and type of information required to be in consensus. This instantly serves to distribute DNS root queries, instantly scaling the root.

[1] https://handshake.org/
How SSD drives use Quantum Mechanics to store information
Like this guy https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/11/14/i-have-toyota-corola/ ?
I haven't gotten into deep work state very often, but I can say I did go into that state 10 times in last 15 years(last year of college & work). After few days when i review my work, I was like, wow that's a lot of code and serious work and not much mistakes or rewrites. My best works for which I got lot appreciated. I had wondered how I got there in first place. It's sort of ritual but it's not the same.

1. As everybody said media is off atleast 3 days before I got into this state. Nothing chatty or noisy in the environment.
2. No too much thoughts in the head, like decision making(not even like should I write this down or keep it in the mind).
3. Slowing down thought process like thinking yes I have time(relaxed mode).
4. Papers, pen and pencils to write down pseudo code, flowchart or algorithm. It can be a mixture of that as well, just going with the flow not trying to be perfect here. Being perfect stresses out the flow. Mainly it doesn't have to be complete.
5. I start to code with the incomplete design or logic and change on the go till part I had designed. Write down the next steps descriptively as next day I might not be in the flow.
6. It's good when i do this alone at home and occasionally walk to all the rooms just thinking about the logics. As I found when people are around when they speak I tend to context switch to eavesdrop what they are talking.
7. During these times I check emails only in the evening, when I am almost done and close off. If it's important they will call.

8. It also really helps when they're are people to take care of you and home. Make Food & Tea. You can ask them not to distrub you for anything. Sometimes felt keeping doors open was lot better than closing stops people from knocking doors and you go to open it.

This sort of worked for me. Deepwork max time 10hrs per day.

I would say people are lucky who can do this much often. 10times in 15years is too less. But that state of work and clarity of thought process, it doesn't stress out as well. For me music during that time doesn't help, TV can be low volume(once in that mood, I won't know if tv is on or not), at home if people don't scream or talk loud that will be fine.

Sometimes motivations to finished that todo triggers the mood of deep work.

There is also some amount of luck also to it. How often do you find answers to what you were looking for in less than 5 search results and enough to test and proceed.

Everything has to play out. To many variables I think.
'...Oxycontin did help people!'

Before OxyContin, there were any number of narcotic painkilling drugs from those that have to be injected to ones that can be swallowed as a tablet or capsule that are made by more reputable drug companies (and have been for decades). OxyContin didn't offer anything over these earlier drugs.

Not only doctors but many of the lay public already know this. Even if the spurious/nebulous argument that OxyContin's action lasted longer or whatever, that the sheer number of alternatives would tailor for almost any patient's requirement. The corollary being that OxyContin offered nothing new of any significance. Even existing narcotics can be compounded for an individual patient's needs.

The fact is that almost everyone knows this, especially doctors and pharmacists yet the medical profession let itself be bought off and FDA didn't even wink an eyelid to stop it. Where was the FDA's corporate memory? How did its 100+year history on this matter fly out the window as if it never existed?

Essentially, in the light of a few dollars on offer from Sackler's/Purdue these damn miserable medicos said fuck the Hippocratic Oath and let their patients rot.

The Sackler's and Purdue are ratbags, but also there's many a medico who should have his/her license to practice revoked.
Covid-19: social dilemmas about protective measures
We had a computer in the house since the 80s, an IBM XT, to be specific. So that certainly planted the seed for me. In the early 90s I worked as a paperboy, delivering newspapers to houses in the neighborhood. I saved up for months and finally was able to buy my first PC. I first ran MS-DOS on it but eventually managed to get hold of Slackware around 1995. The rest is history, I guess.
To clarify. The game looks terrific!

The “what a complete crap” belongs only to the shapez.io (mobile) home page. I just can’t believe that it was designed this way.
Appreciated. Before make edits we had Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal-Duc de Richelieu et de Fronsac:

“If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged.”

More generally known as Cardinal Richelieu.
Old, cheap cars have very bad fuel economy. The same logic you use could justify why we can't prevent rural Indian farmers from burning their fields, or Brazilian loggers from deforesting and slashing/burning the Amazon. Hey, it's their only source of income, who are we to take that away from them?
Or they changed.
I'm interested in this too, and why the "low latency" mode is enabled in everything but the community version.
I'm in support of burning the Amazon too, because it provides those people a livelihood.
Land is more expensive in Europe, that's a fact; EEA[1] has more than 500 million people for a size half of the USA, and as much relief and less plains: Scandinavia is just a big mountain, the Alps severely limit the possibility of cheap transportation in the middle of it, and UK the main economic powerhouse with Germany and France is an island not even connected to the continent where 50% of everything is around London. Also not enough waterways rely the economic regions apart from around Germany. Yeah subway and infrastructure cost less but everything else is costlier.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Economic_Area
iOS and I think Android are randomly changing the MAC address in recent versions and this is enabled by default.
It's weird that you use a completely different annotation style for byte arrays. Why not just use

bytes = u8[10 ff 38 9a dd 00 4f 4f 91]
I always wondered what optimization techniques Zoom applies to provide a smooth experience. It’s one of the best live streaming products I have used
Wow. That new graph of “poor neighborhood vs rich neighborhood” was not at all what I expected it to be.
Only if you consider only therapeutic use good.
> I'm fine with making companies pay for externalities of manufacturing,

Counterpoint: This may not actually cause companies to change their behaviour, it might simply create market barriers, which will be beneficial for companies with the necessary capital - i.e., it will just mean you have to be rich enough to be allowed to pollute the environment.

> but if you own something, it's yours to do with as you wish.

This is not true. We put restrictions on all kinds of actions if they have a high likelihood of causing damage. This is why you're allowed to own fertilizer but are still not allowed to build a bomb with it. This is also why you need a driver's license to operate a vehicle.
This is done or used to be, with paperback books.

Instead of shipping the entire book back, a bookstore would cut or rip off only the cover and ship it to the publisher for a refund. It was then considered illegal to resell the cover-less book.

For magazines the distributor or store would fill out a "certificate of destruction" to receive credit, and then dispose of the unsold magazines.
Could you share your SaaS enterprise plan price?
It's not that it makes normal psychosis feel milder, it's that after trips my mood is more stable and I simply don't have as much bipolar psychosis.

I know other psychedelics (MDMA, Ketamine) can have this impact on depression, where one dose will stabilize a patient for many weeks after and I imagine its similar, though it's not as well studied.
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My dad on more than one occasion has ranted that whoever did the 'additional' cutting of Star Trek TOS for commercial time obviously was not paying attention to the actual plot of the episodes (because they would often cut out things that helped a lot in making sense of WTF was going on).
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Fuzzy matching of color names which has existed since forever in browsers, but I have never seen an implementation’a source code. It’s probably some simple distance algorithm packaged into a unit that compares bgcolor color against a preprogrammed list of colors.
I'm not tremendously concerned about absolving anyone. What I'm concerned about is a world where the many people who legitimately need pain medication won't be able to get it, because we've told doctors that prescribing pain meds to people in pain is unacceptable behavior.
Only in some EU countries. I have never seen such a WiFi captive portal in Slovakia or Czech Republic. But I remember these captive portals when I was in Germany - of course I would just generate a random disposable email (through 4G) and enter fake data. It really has no impact on the real bad guys.
Three points is literally nothing. From and SD of 24 used here in Europe that's 0.125 standard deviations.
Systemic risk are inherently difficult to assess. They're often rare, complex, distributed, in time, space, population, and mechanisms. All of these make both quantification and messaging much more difficult.
I encourage you to investigate your issue. I've heard countless cases of people going to countless doctors until they've found one that could pin down their issue. Look for ones interested in investigating your condition, it could be a journey. I had a number of issues giving me chronic headaches for years, and it took a while slowly removing variables and pinning things down until I got better; then it was like having a second life.
Related: Low-Latency HLS (an extension of HLS, invented by Apple) is now part of the IETF HLS specification.

[1] https://www.wowza.com/blog/ietf-incorporates-low-latency-hls... [2] https://www.wowza.com/blog/apple-low-latency-hls
Society's fundamental value is channeling the unpleasant aspects of our nature to create a net benefit for all. It is folly to fight the natural drive to compete. Instead focus on systems that channel that drive into innovation and production. There will always be haves and have-nots as long as there is evolutionary selection.

My favorite metaphor is to think of humanity as gasoline. Left alone it explodes, but put in an engine it does useful work. Society and its laws are the engine that channels destructive force into useful output.
PVA fibers get weak when heated (read: typical Texas summer) I wonder how this will perform with the wood cellulose.
What are these “incorrect” features?
> The big question isn't how simple molecules (building blocks) come about. [...] but there is nothing in between the primordial chemical soup and the simplest life forms.

There's a view that the early evolution of "life" involved metabolic cycles that were not yet bounded in cells, but perhaps in increasingly constrained geological boundaries. So for example, early precursors to the Krebs Cycle may have started within oceans, or perhaps some arrangement of pools and geysers or other geological features. So in essence, early life was bounded not in membranes, but within the flows of rock and air and heat of the atmosphere itself.

For more citable references to this stuff, this podcast episode from the Santa Fe Institute touches on it: https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/40
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In the end any reasons Apple might have to want them destroyed are just because they don't have to face many of the externalities of dealing with their residues because they ship them to thirld world countries, and they also don't pay many of the externalities of producing new hardware because they produce it in a country with poor regulations.

In any sustainable system Apple should either be the first interested in repairing those devices or forced to do it.
Adaptation is unrealistic in cases where adaptation costs a lot of money or creates other maladaptations. The world's adaptation that needs to be done for colorblindness is simply not making color the only differentiator between states. And if you have to do so, using one of the many free, publicly available sources to choose a palette that is colorblind-friendly.

For example, in a traffic light, both color and position are status differentiators; the top light is stop and the bottom light is go. Many buttons are both colored and have symbols/shapes on them associated with the color. Even using entirely different senses are helpful; crosswalk signals near me use color, position, shape, and audio, the last because blind people can't see color or shape.

Color in general is just not a great sole associator, even for fully sighted people, because perception of color can change depending on environmental conditions, and because meaning of color is not standard across cultures.
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This has been understood since at least the 1950s, when the Interstate system was 90% subsidized by the Federal government, but maintenance was a local responsibility.
You could claim we are living in a simulation and our current reality was created yesterday from a backup but that's purely speculation.

There are alternatives to speculation: science. That is what I prefer.