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We have too much hubris regarding ancient peoples and their religions. These stories and their kin across the world comprise humanity's first attempts at formalizing ergodic reasoning. They were technically incorrect, but only insomuch that they didn't have as much to work with as we do. I also think most miss the important bits about genesis, the part where our consciousness became a binary machine of good-for-me / bad-for-me projected over time (whereas before the machine merely had some limited scratch memory), how that relates to scarcity in the story of Cain and Abel, and how that really sort of mucked things up for humans as far as war and horrific things go. Genesis is primarily about the birth of human consciousness. Eve gained knowledge first, not because of some sexist nonsense, but because it's a "good" thing for women to project about the well-being of themselves and their offspring. This "good" thing however, was witnessed by men who then killed each other over achieving that "good" status. It's a story concerning the origin of all material conflict, the bridge between beast and man, and the evolutionary impetus for the development of all intelligence.
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Its his fiduciary duty, the obligation to maximize profits for the shareholders.
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> But you know animals have no awareness/intelligence/sentience/soul/etc

Those people clearly don't know anything about animals then. Animals are incredibly aware and intelligent, anyone who doesn't recognise that is just, IMHO, lazy. I'm not vegetarian, I think we owe it to the animals we eat to recognise that they're not some inanimate object without awareness.
ugh

1) trademark don't cover just exact matches

2) trademarks are in their own classes, you can't litigate across classes

3) common words are perfectly fine as trademarks, as long as commonly associated with a product
There are a zillion dogs and cats in the world too but I'd rather that they didn't die prematurely due to a panicked and prolonged suffocation.

Supporting a charitable interpretation of your criticism, the BBC article is much closer to advocacy journalism [1] than investigative journalism. To be equally fair to the BBC, they are accurately describing the language used in the scientist's open letter The Real and Imminent Extinction Risk to Whales, Dolphins And Porpoises [2].

Like all complex issues, trade-offs exist and we could all benefit from more critical thinking.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advocacy_journalism

[2] (PDF) https://www.mammalresearchinstitute.science/s/Scientists-Sig...
A someone who benefited from the H1-B program I’m 100% behind the idea of adding higher wages requirements.

I went to Carnegie Mellon and met some of the smartest people there and it crushed my heart seeing some super talented people lose on the lottery several times and be forced to go back home when they already had an employer in the US paying them 100k+ and willing to go great lengths to keep them.

I was lucky enough to get a visa in my first lottery draw, but that was the only reason I got to do what others couldn’t. Luck.

They lost against those consulting companies that exploited the program with impunity for years.

So the QZ article author here is wrong. Whoever is the next US president, this is the best thing that could have happened to the H1-B program.
In the UK, litigants usually take out an insurance policy. So at the end of the day, the insurer pays if the plaintiff loses.

I don’t know if that’s good or bad. It gives an insurance company a very large say in matters of justice.

But insurance is one of the wonders of the modern world.
> Allow the poor to sue when they do have a case but no money to fallow through

I think it would do the reverse. Even if you and your lawyers think you have a good case, there is no guarantee that you will win. If you sue and lose, you have to pay for the other guy's legal fees? Poor people would never be able to risk it.
I mean for a programming language to be able to handle the general cases it should also handle the maybe 10% or 20% of programs that might need mutation in their hot paths. Obviously one solution is to call out to a different programing language for only the areas that require it, but I’d consider that a definite deficiency if it’s commonly required.

I think e.g C# and F# handle mutation well, but I think F# does the right thing by not encouraging it like C#.

Being able to control the in-memory representation of data and do things like sort arrays in-place etc to some people seems to be rare and to others happens on day 1 even at toy scale. Depends on what problems you are solving I suppose.
Wikipedia says it's "critically endangered, possibly extinct", there have been no confirmed sightings in nearly 20 years, and a large 6 weeks survey back in 2006 turned out no living individual and declared it functionally extinct even if it wasn't technically extinct yet. Furthermore Yangtze water quality has only gotten worse since then.
I also recommend the book "But How Do It Know? - The Basic Principles of Computers for Everyone." It attempted to explain circuit-based logic gates, how you could use binary trees for all the basic math operations, and then for other characters, building up to more and more complex operations...

I had to stop and sit and think several times while reading that book, but it was a real thrill when I started to understand it, feeling that small flash of near-omniscience...
it seems to make sense. if you're the leader of a ten person group and you push enough of them to their limit, it's not that hard for them to replace you. if you're the leader of a ten person group, but also have the support of a thousand person hierarchy, your followers can't easily get away with replacing you.
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I was hoping this discussion could enlighten me/us about the new security measures implemented in latest phones avb? And how the latest security updates are essential in protecting your data when crossing border. That makes buying a latest device same as updating your security.
Noone was killed. They are safe. We have peaceful protests. Noone even using something like a bat and we don't have weapons in the arms of regular people
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https://www.shellscript.sh/

There is a Facebook group and I have emailed the author as well with questions. Nice guy.
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Belarus is the last European dictatorship considered a pariah state with no international influence and propped up economically by Russia, so I don't think it has much leverage over Apple. The situation would be very different if it was, for example, China.
Do you have an example article? Would be easier to give some concrete advice with that since I'm not 100% sure what you mean by scientific articles (which I personally find fine. I do not find scientific papers so fine though).
You can take all kinds of policy positions on a campaign, but any president cannot really do much to the H1B system without passing laws. Passing a new immigration bill is very hard since there are so many competing interests benefiting from the status quo and there is very little to gain electorally.

The current administration tried using executive action and regulatory approaches to fulfil their agenda and both keep getting struck down in courts. The new upward revision in wage levels are also expected to have the same fate. There is simply very little regulatory leeway on H1B visas since they are encoded in law.

It is highly unlikely for a democratic administration to spend political capital changing H1B when they have bigger priorities (healthcare).

At the end of the day, Indians are the only affected population on H1B due to backlogs and aren't a strategic voting bloc for democrats. Everyone else gets a green card in a couple of years anyways. They are more focused on undocumented and family based immigration.

A broken immigration system and the H1B status quo is expected to last for a while unless there are external factors (collapse in international student numbers, US emigration, US companies moving jobs out of the country) forcing action.
I admire your optimism. My view is that people that have bet their political or journalistic careers on a certain matter or position are very reluctant to embrace opposite facts (consciously or unconsciously).

As another example - there were huge campaigns to get women to get screened for breast cancer. Turns out there is little to no benefit in doing so based on extensive long term scientific studies (very surprising to me but that’s what it is). It is taking forever for that fact to come out and it’s not even that controversial.
So allow the UN to be on the ground to make sure there's a safe and legitimate elections and transition of power, if indeed if the oppressive regime is somehow being genuine that they truly did win the election.

"Taking no action is action too" - not quite accurate here, but ignoring the nuance that this situation is similar to the Nazi resistance trying to organize, how would we respond if Apple was wanting the removing of communications sharing Nazi command and personnel "secrets"?
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Absolutely not. The current system gives both parties a powerful incentive to settle the case, or not go to court at all. Which on a broad scale is definitely what you want.

It also creates specific problems, and a big one is that it can make it hard for normal people to hold large companies accountable for bad behavior when not a ton of money is at stake in each individual case. But that’s probably best addressed by other means.
They are not (except for a very limited number of developers working on very specific things).
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This is actually quite interesting and relevant. Initially Apple could keep the name (after settling) because Computers aren’t involved in music (the Apple // could click the speaker and it took some assembly to make it click and make tones, no sound chip)

Fast forward to iTunes and they’re in the same market.
I’m fine with my 6S+ and don’t need any of the newer features on any of the phones. I don’t do much photography and only use about 10 apps. It’s just big enough to use for Kindle in a pinch.

The biggest reason, though, is the headphone jack. $160 for wireless headphones is ridiculous. They’re easy to lose and constantly having to recharge is just fucking stupid. Modern earbuds are horribly uncomfortable for me by putting pressure in the ear canal to hold them in place, so I have to use the older earbud style.

I like Apple’s stuff, in general, but I curse the day that their asshole product designers went totally wireless.
It does. Homosexual activities like kissing will land you in prison for life. Between late-2013 and mid-2014 people could even be sentenced to death. LGBTQ+ would be censored worldwide because of a single country.
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If you stay outside of your home country but still need to operate, say, bank accounts that require a number from the home country itself, dual SIMs are needed, especially for receiving OTPs etc.
What about hi-res graphics? Apple II hi-res graphics were especially wacky.
Which default is default though? An ordinal comparison? Or system-local one? (E.g one that considers a German ß equal to “ss” or one that doesn’t?).

On that same note, coming from a country that uses decimal comma, I very much would prefer it if code always had to specify a target locale when printing a decimal number.
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Wikipedia says:

> In August 2007, a Chinese man reportedly videotaped a large white animal swimming in the Yangtze. Although the animal was tentatively identified as a baiji, the presence of only one or a few animals, particularly of advanced age, is not enough to save a functionally extinct species from true extinction. The last known living baiji was Qiqi (淇淇), which died in 2002.

I think the problem is that you can never really know for sure if a species is extinct. But this is pretty sad, and I wouldn't know why anyone would want to go in an argument to prove the GP incorrect.
I don't know that there is anything truly digital in the universe, except perhaps quantized components like spin.
Digital computers are an abstraction implemented using error control and a number of other things, but they ultimately fail like analog objects.
Why did the open that article talking about someone who assaulted another person? That just seems random and unrelated, like if if an article about sex toys just randomly opened with a paragraph about rape.
Exactly. I doubt Apple would go so far as removing Telegram from the phones of people who already have it, and people who want it after Telegram has been blocked can just get an Android phone.
Yep, and that completly frees him from a human decency and we can't criticize his actions of putting money in front of ethics.
Forbid mandatory arbitration for b2c and b2smb

Or forbid it entirely.

What exactly is the problem with writing a law to stop an abusive practice?
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When my local public transport (bus+train) did a major-ish route overhaul, routing directions on Maps glitched out for a couple days and showed large "black spots" (maybe 5-15mi in size?) where regions of generally accurate/useful routing were slapstuck together with large straight lines that cut diagonally through backyards, houses, major highways, etc (and sadly didn't account for runway room so weren't even flyable). So in a scenario where you were zoomed out enough to see 2-3 towns, you'd get a complex route shape in one part of the map, another complex route shape in another part of the map, then one single "nope I can't do this" giant line connecting the two regions. The giant line often connected to the complex shapes at awkward angles, eg 60-70°.

Unfortunately IIRC most of the screenshots I took show my actual address/immediate surrounding area etc, so they'd be fairly heavily censored. If anyone [is actually reading this and] is especially interested, I can try braving my scary not-organized screenshot archive and try and find them.
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Are those your compile times with incremental compilation?
I'm a moderate, I didn't say it should be Apple's business, I'm saying maybe it's a good thing if our comms infrastructure affords Apple the flexibility to do this.

If Apple wants to change their TOS and say "publishing personal information is now OK", that is one thing. Maybe publishing personal information should be allowed. The point is that there is an intelligent human being weighing tradeoffs and trying to make a good decision as we muddle our way through the 21st century.

Infrastructural changes, on the other hand, aren't as reversible. Screwups are more likely to be permanent. You're flipping a switch that can't be flipped back. That is the point I was trying to make by mentioning terrorism--there can be unintended consequences which you don't necessarily anticipate, so retaining flexibility is good.
>>Popularity of a choice does not correlate with a choice being correct. It is a fallacy to evaluate a particular tool's usefulness for a particular job by how popular that tool is.

Okay but this is a very engineering-specific mindset. I encourage you to broaden your perspective. "Correctness" of a language choice is more than about the language itself. In most situations, it is better to choose a language that scores 9/10 on how well it fits the problem domain than one that scores 10/10, if the 9/10 language will let you solve the problems faster (pre-existing solutions), with less frustration (good docs) and zero need to reinvent the wheel (good libraries). This is especially true if the 9/10 language will also allow you to recruit more easily due to its popularity.
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That’s true, and I’m all for mandatory identification badges when doing crowd control, but you have to realize the context in which the identity is revealed: in a democratic country it’s meant as a mechanism to correct violent (hopefully) outliers.

But unmasking violent agents of a violent state won’t do anything except provide the excuse to repress even harder... you’ll just end up with riot police firing live ammo (a bit like in the US, where police will always claim the victim appeared to reach for a weapon before they start hailing bullets.)

It’s simple power game: if you challenge a bully that is much stronger than you, you will be crushed. If you really want to make a dent, you collect the evidence and plea for help from a stronger one. (EU, UN, ICJ...)

Unless the objective is to provoke a violent reaction and use the bruises to mobilize help in sympathy (problem is who “gets to suffer the bruise”... you, or a random protestor caught in a retaliatory strike)
Using MLK is particularly Machiavellian since it gives the impression that the leader of one of the largest corporations in the world primarily selling luxury goods, is meekly fighting for the little guy and the underserved.
No it's not. He has a duty (not a fiduciary duty) to protect their investments, not to maximize profits.
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> You're framing this debate as if apple PR statements "we're doing all of this for our user's best interests" were true.

I thought I'd made a pretty strong case to not trust Apple's PR in my first paragraph. To clarify, no, I don't think that is the case, and people should be very miserly with their trust towards orgs like Apple in general.

The thing is, no matter their rationale, their product decisions have far-reaching real-world consequences. This particular decision has obvious real-world consequences to protesters in Belarus, and it is a disgusting decision, and definitely makes for a strong argument against leaving them with that much control.

On the other hand, however, their security stance works really, really well, as far as I can tell, and it keeps their users quite safe from lots of harm, and that's something I keep giving them money for, because I value security highly.

Forcing their walled garden free-as-in-freedom wide open will amend #1, but what about #2? Literally hundreds of millions of iPhone users around the world depend on the ecosystem being safe – my mom has an iPhone mostly because they keep their walled garden clean, so she doesn't have to get a CS degree to do that herself, and also because it's a very nice product that she enjoys a lot, but I'd advise her very strongly to get something else if Apple's security was shoddy. As I've argued, I have very strong doubts that this could be done without breaking much of what makes iPhones so secure.

I'm definitely not arguing that this makes Apple's ability and growing propensity to abuse their power a great thing – I think it's absolutely creepy in a deeply dystopian way – but right now the only way to build such a safe environment that I know of relies on strict centralized control, and having such an environment is one of the prime things that make this technology manageable for everyone and their mother.

If someone comes up with a free-as-in-freedom smartphone that's secure, easy to use, has the necessary polish and all the important apps and isn't laser-focused on people who live inside emacs, I'll be happy to part with a bunch of money for that.
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I was suggesting that the language in the letter was sly, not that the BBC was.
Odd how the markets optimize for colluding with dictators and human-rights violating regimes. Such prosperity they bring the world.
China owns like 10% of Pakistan's international debt, far from small, but far from a "controlling stake"
This is based on my admittedly little experience with TikTok, but it seems like they do a ton of analytics based on how long you stay on a given video. Pretty sure every action you do plays into The Algorithm.

There’s jokes about there being different TikToks based on this. Like “gay TikTok”, “farmer TikTok”, etc. As a point of reference, TikTok for the occasional time I use it will be a mixture of:

- farming / horses / archery

- construction workers and mechanics either doing really sketchy stuff or providing really useful stuff

- two strippers who tell funny/cringey stories from work (I don’t follow them, they just keep showing up and telling ridiculous stories, which I listen to, which reinforces The Algorithm)
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> Do you part it out to various levels of management, based on their involvement with this specific case?

In general with larger corporations this feels like it makes the most sense. With resources like LinkedIn it should be a lot easier to determine the person or person(s) in charge of these decisions along with the CEO.
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If we wipe out the vast majority of the animal and plant life and drinkable water on the planet, how likely do you think we will keep our population at an all-time high?

I think it's certainly possible you're right that population will keep increasing for the next, well, 10 years at least, maybe not 20, but meanwhile we're cratering our biocapacity, and we are not going to have anywhere near enough resources left on the planet to sustain that population if we keep going on our current trajectory.

There's quite a few experts that say it's already too late, we've already depleted our biocapacity too much, the only way to correct for it is to undergo some form of rapid decline at some point in the future (collapse). I found this video incredibly illuminating on that point (I honestly thought we were still under the limit before watching it, not way past it already):

https://youtu.be/qPb_0JZ6-Rc

Extinction may be a bit extreme, humans might be able to survive somehow, but the vast majority will not.

Here's one article that discusses the possibility of human extinction. Key quote: "I don’t want to claim that we can’t survive the loss of many, many species. We’ve already proved that we actually can. We’re very adaptable. But I think the bottom line is, you wouldn’t want to find out."

https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/environment-and-conserv...
The visa is meant to give highly talented people an opportunity to fulfill their potential by participating in the US economy, while also benefiting America.

Sadly it has been aggressively abused by some companies to bring cheap labor into the US, actually undermining the local skilled labor system (eg why bother training Americans).

H1-B does indeed need reform, and that does mean an end to the 'good old days' (good for who, though).

All IMHO - I'm not even American, or Indian.
The gotcha is perhaps failing to recognize that cat will actually fail in this simple pipeline because its output is truncated "unexpectedly" by head exiting after completing its job properly. (Maybe you could argue that head should be a good citizen and read its input to completion)

Where this will work as expected:

bash -eo pipefail -c "head < /etc/services -1|cat ; echo got here"
> ten hundred

You did that on purpose.
This isn’t true but appreciate that it’s what most people think. Just gets written off as a loss. Same goes for cashing bad checks, etc.