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I can't believe that people are downvoting this without making any arguments to refute it; they're thinking emotionally, looking at things through rose-colored lenses. Sometimes it seems like everyone is on drugs. People's brains are turning into swiss cheese.

Trying to censor information is just not going to work. Controlling the media is not going to help beyond a certain point. People know what's going on and they'll be taking the real conversations offline. When everyone collectively realizes what's been happening, the backlash is going to be terrifying and unforgiving. The more you suppress the truth, the worse it will be when it all comes out.

The current elites don't have the ability to suppress billions of people who were raised on freedom as the central principle of their existence.
Author here!
I'm a freelancer working for multiple agencies at the moment. And One of the requirements was that I use the agency email for all commits.

So I made this as a sugar for
git config user.email whatever@gmail.com
Agreed, though I think last mile delivery is ignored in the essay. I'd be very happy if post offices evolved and became places where you could get things delivered and you could retrieve them without needing to wait or speak with anyone, but they also allowed you to retrieve other shared items (ok, maybe some requiring a reserve first) that I'm not going to need often. Tools are a good example. Some cooking appliances would also qualify. Some equipment for hiking, board games, bikes and other small vehicles, instruments, etc.

The lack of environmental problems and abundance of clean energy also sounds good, though it just appears magically in the essay, so we can't say much about it.

Lack of privacy is terrible, and we can make it much better. Flying cars are terrible. Not owning everything is terrible. I'm the complete opposite of a materialist person, but I can understand how it's very useful to own some things. I mean, besides your underwear. Some might have sentimental value, and others are used so much that it's more practical to own them and know they are always available at the place you left them.
Does BitTorrent fall under that? Or YouTube? Plex? Google Drive?
You bring up a good point, that the word ‘marriage’ has lost a lot of meaning due to the history of government involvement.

It would have been better in hindsight if the U.S. had done what other governments around the world had done and called every contract it deals with a ‘civil union.’

Then there would be no confusion that ‘civil union’ has nothing to do with religion.
Great work ! I'm not favorable to disposable cartridges because it generates a pollution that seems unnecessary.
Yea but unlike http2 push, server sent events were actually useful! You could use it super easily and by holding open a connection and pushing down little json or XML payloads you could build all sorts of things easily in JavaScript. I even saw super basic chat functionally built using two Iframes a form in one and the chat log pushed back from the server as a stream of valid but open ended HTML abusing how lax the browser was about parsing missing certain closing tags at the time. SSE was and still is super easy to use and a very useful option if you can’t or don’t want to shift to web sockets.
won't emulation catch up in those timeframes ? still, 3+ yrs which is a long time...
Funny you ask this. I started defining a list of processes of doing things. One of them is 'learning'. Right now it's pretty generic.

https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/focusing/processes

Mostly its related to my process of solving problems: https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/research/solving-problems
Taking power consumption into account makes sense when the machine is running on battery power, but all modern processors are power efficient enough for the cost of electricity to be negligible for a tiny desktop computer.
What's wrong with something sitting there and not being used? It's not causing any extra consumption. It's using space, but I don't wish for a future where I don't even have enough space to keep a personal car.

As for sharing everything, it's a good theory but would never work in practice. Have you ever lived with people outside of your family or bubble? Some people are filthy and don't even take care of things they own, let alone things they don't. Are you expecting to be able to select who you are happy to share with?
Hi HN! Asim here. Founder CEO of Micro. We've been working on M3O for some time now and excited to not only share it with the world but help understand our positioning amongst other technology such as Netlify and the frontend. Happy to answer any questions.
So why are they not depicted as freeloaders?

Probably in part because hanging on to wealth involves some degree of stewardship. Inheriting wealth is the best way to get rich, but you can inherit wealth, run through your inheritance and end up a pauper in short order.

Of course, that's abusable because "he who has the gold makes the rules." People from wealthy families tend to be in a better position than poor people to influence the laws that get written and this tends to foster a situation where "them that has, gets."

This is something we need to guard against. In order to have a healthy society, we need to actively work at making sure that being born into the lower classes (or falling into them) isn't a trap because of wealthy people actively sabotaging the efforts of poor people to build something of value and accrue value to themselves legitimately.

I'm not for UBI because it breaks that connection between wealth and the creation of value. It actively encourages people to forget how to be productive in a way that is plugged into the larger system (I'm a former homemaker -- I assure you, knowing how to be productive in a way that is good for your own life doesn't automatically teach you how to be productive in a way that plugs you into the world of paid work).

In order for human society to continue to have wealth, there must be incentives for all humans to find ways to add value to the system. One of the ways to add value to the system is with good stewardship.

It may not seem obviously like a skill, but I spent some time reading every article and watching every TV show I could about what happens to lottery winners and two-thirds are bankrupt within five years. So simply being handed a whole lot of money doesn't, per se, tell you how to keep it.

The concept of UBI is a concept of wealth as a giant pile of gold somewhere that we can just tap into. It's a broken mental model.

Societal wealth is an abundance of goods and services and it takes human wisdom and human effort and human self restraint to make sure societal wealth lives on and doesn't disappear suddenly. Once it's gone, it's a lot harder to recreate than it is to maintain the existence of.

I think UBI is a recipe for killing the goose that's laying the golden eggs. Our challenge currently in the world is to figure out where to go from here without doing that.

Stewardship (without being an abusive classist asshole crapping all over the lower classes and treating them as your de facto slaves) is a valid part of finding those solutions so we can foster a golden age instead of stumbling into a dark age as our next stage.
https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement

Yup.

(Note: I went through an EU country in their region picker, went to sitemap and this is the URL I got).
Covid-19 tracking db in .at failing (“designed for 7.000 salmonella cases/year”)
I am speculating but perhaps parent means TV news and media is a lens (Eye of the Overworld) through which the wearer is shown a world layered over the real world. Media would then change the view to either squalor or majesty (perhaps depending on the elected president).
What is the case when you install LineageOS without google services? In my understanding, this takes care of the location provider problem. Of course you still have lots of google in your phone, which is the whole reason of the /e/ foundation for example.
Regards ceremony and DI: I think the templates are more Ruby on Rails style while the framework can be trimmed down to nodejs + express simplicity. This sample here is node+express like equivalent (thanks to C# 9.0 top level statements, there is not even a Program class and a Main entry point)

WebHost.CreateDefaultBuilder().Configure(app =>
{
app.UseRouting();
app.UseEndpoints(e =>
{
e.MapGet("/", c => c.Response.WriteAsync("Hello world!"));
e.MapGet("hello/{name}", c => c.Response.WriteAsync($"Hello, {c.Request.RouteValues["name"]}"));
});
}).Build().Run();

I also stumble over that once in a while but I have no hard feeling on it.
One of the reasons the U.S. spends the most on ‘education’ per capita and gets average/below average results is that because a bulk of the spending is actually diverted to dealing with these social ills.

I.e. America has decided the education system is what we use as aid to these families that are suffering too much to focus on actually getting an education.
Very nice, hope projects like these become common public services in the future.
Ya, definitely requires more pre-planning, but maybe it’s still a hack that could be used. Just delete the ‘team’ afterwards.

Maybe there is a way to automate this with some VB/Python script?
I read that differntly to I how it think it was intended and it reminded me of this Hitchhicker's Guide classic:

Ford - “It's unpleasantly like being drunk."
Arthur- "What's so unpleasant about being drunk?"
Ford - "You ask a glass of water.”
Doesn't Node.js mainly flow on callbacks?

As far as my experience goes, promises require some extra work too.
There is no yet identified metaphysical difference between speech and other actions, and freedom of expression laws frequently also protect non-speech actions such as burning flags.
I really want to agree, but it's hard to feel secure in certain countries, even I have a complain against an aggressor that have happily evaded the police for the last two years, he keeps on threatening me, my children are also suffering from this man, for the first time, I'm not going to be with EDRI, but I mean I understand that people who aren't under physical security threats would be with EDRI there, but I'm going to side with the victims and the state.
Be sure you soundproof your home/apartment, and don't turn it up too much in the car.

Don't want to accidentally leak any copyrighted joy to your neighbors without payment!
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Your h265 example is due to the iPhone having a dedicated HW encoder while the iMac was rendering using the CPU. A hardware video encoder is almost always going to be faster and more power efficient than a CPU-based one by definition. However, a CPU encoder offers more flexibility and the possibility of being continually improved to offer better compression ratios.

Generally, HW encoders offer worse quality at smaller fie sizes and are used for real-time streaming, while CPU-based ones are used in offline compression in order to achieve the best possible compression ratios.
>Why keep a pasta-maker and a crepe cooker crammed into our cupboards? We can just order them when we need them.

The main point of owning things is that you get to use them when you want to use them.

People keep those things in cupboards because when they decide on a whim to make pasta they do just that. The same goes for all the rest - having cars, houses and so on.

Unless there's some kind of Philip K Dick-style machine that near-instantly delivers good X to your apartment through a vacuum tube or something, that as-a-service bs won't fly. No one wants to wait hours (on the best case given our current logistics network) after deciding to make pasta to actually get the pasta machine.
I think it's a result of MicroSoft shifting to the mindset that performance is a feature.

I have been a .Net developer for about 15 years and remember when it was a violation of terms of service to publish .Net performance measurements. Especially performance comparison against Java was something that would get you on Microsoft's bad side real quick.

So it's really I think the difference between performance being a secret, and it being on the front page and Microsoft throwing significant developer resources into it.
Just minor feedback.

Was looking for the pricing, and the description for the paid tier is kind of vague when mentioning "2x Increased resource limits". 2x increase compared to what?

Otherwise, looks really nice and will give it a spin this weekend.
"Hi, we're Funkwhale. We use cool words like decentralized, self-hosted, music, server, and of course, funk & whale. If we named it more honestly, then our defunding of musicians and creatives that depended on sales wouldn't get any love (not publicly anyway), plus the ethically vacant developers would have to work on it secretly. And to be sure, we ourselves do not create or rely on income from artistic endeavours, we only make software to cut out the middle part."

I love coming here, lots of interesting articles, but the most fun is reading the twisted english as people convince themselves digital theft is somehow not to be equated to physical theft.
I think we've lost that war. So I think what we should be advocating isn't an ideal world that will never come to be but rather a hard push for privacy aware designs.

What I mean is that biometrics are going to be used one way or another, what we should make sure that the data can't be leaked original data can never be access again etc.

A different example would be healthcare data. In Germany spend so long lobbying that data should not be used until the new health minister just sneaked in a law or two to just give that data to insurances.

What we should be doing is design systems in a way that that data is actually accessible by default but also not abusable. I.e. only a subset research necessary PII filtered data should be available. But that way we could potentially have audited systems where we can make sure that the data is shared in a safe fashion and the other side can't do malicious things with it.

Because if we don't, once the data becomes available some government contractor will write the law (and the crappy software) with the Health Ministry acting as a defacto lobbyist for the insurance industry.
> I also didn't like using observables with Angular to fetch/send data to API's. Not everything is an event stream, why can't we use the right tool for the job?

I think the idea is to provide a single async abstraction so everything can be used with rxjs operators. I've taken advantage of this several times with something like "combineLatest" to return the result of a http call and an event stream.

You can also call "toPromise" in rxjs to turn an observable into a then-able promise.
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Real-world fee breakdown of Square / iZettle etc.
Looks like the technology didn't pan out. Not sure what the end reason was, but E Ink won that battle.
And yet not as astounding as peoples' desire to see him succeed.

Actions should have consequences.
Keep in mind that this is a man with a history of making enormous bets and losing, having previously lost $70 billion out of $78 billion of his own assets in the dotcom crash.

This is other peoples' money he's doing this with. There's that old saying about fool me once...
If one were to chart government requests against US population over the years, are we looking at exponential growth? If so, is google going to eventually just mirror it’s data for governments around the world? Will anyone care, even then? Perhaps google will collapse in on itself like a dying star before then, and then at least these processes won’t be so efficient.
Also Twitch.
And I don't think we can safely assume the decline won't continue. And you need to make that assumption if you're going to invest in nuclear, otherwise you've pissed away many billions of dollars.

Renewables and storage right now could handle the grid. So the downside, if we go with them and the decline suddenly stops, is that costs are higher than we wanted them to be. But that's it -- they can still do the job. If the economic risk for nuclear is higher than that, it's still worth going with renewables. At best, it might make sense to do some token nuclear projects to keep the industry from dying completely. You can view SMR efforts, or even Chinese reactor building, in that light.

I think, though, that renewables and storage will continue to get cheaper. For storage, in particular, I think the trends are very clear. There are many different storage technologies vying in the marketplace -- for example, hundreds or thousands of battery chemistries, or more with organics -- and increasing economic incentive to make them work and install them. Zero or even negative grid pricing is becoming common in more and more places. Trillions of dollars are available to those who win at this.
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Yes. Much like the RIAA, you are confusing distribution with ownership.
IMO multi user sync is extremely hard to do right. It's one of the few things I would flatly refuse to work on, I don't need the headaches.
> Democracy works when you have an educated and informed group trying to make rational choices in a limited context.

Madison:

> Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks--no form of government can render us secure. To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. If there be sufficient virtue and intelligence in the community, it will be exercised in the selection of these men. So that we do not depend on their virtue, or put confidence in our rulers, but in the people who are to choose them.

* 20 June 1788, Papers 11:163

> It falls apart as soon as you have huge disparities in privilege, wealth, and education in a nation state

I'm not sure that inequality is any worse now than it was, say, during the Gilded Age. Certainly more people have the vote now than ever in the past (especially because of the Civil Rights Act, which the USSC conveniently neutered a few years back).
And in the evening people can rent it to party. Maybe that is too much. Why not start small and offer your toilet to the public for a dollar per session?
What I would like is for creators to be able to influence the recommendations on their videos. Maybe not "prefer my own videos", but "prefer videos by $other_creator" or "never recommend videos by $nutjob". I usually ignore the algorithmic recommendations outright and only pay attention to when the creators I know call out other channels in their videos.
OK... but let's say I'm a professional. That's a big sell. Having dedicated HW to do something faster than CPU is a bonus, not cheating.
Really interesting and helpful post, thanks for sharing. I'm from the "no-frills"[0] school of thought formed back when IDE refactoring tools were just fancy search-and-replace and syntax highlighting was always just regexp. LSP has changed the game by making intelligent environments interoperable but has it also supported the trend towards general purpose IDEs. I think there's still a lot more room to explore language specific functionality beyond LSP. Still, renewed focus on IDE backends is a step in the right direction. Let's see where that takes us.

[0] - https://www.robertmelton.com/posts/syntax-highlighting-off/
I had no trouble developing Azure Functions with VS Code on my ThinkPad running Ubuntu.

Getting them to run locally [0] or in your Kubernetes Cluster [1] isn't too difficult. With AWS Lambdas that isn't possible at all.

Regarding the storage for Kubernetes, as long as you don't provide details it looks like just another rant. I get that you like AWS more than Azure but your opinion may not reflect the actual experience someone else will have.

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/funct...
[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/funct...
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I have a MacBook Air 2012, and have been waiting to upgrade for... 2 years already. The laptop will probably end up being 10 years old by the time I upgrade...

- crappy webcam,

- no built-in SD card reader (a 1TB SD card is ~200$, and my music does not need to be stored on an expensive SSD)

- magsafe.. if this was the only downgrade, I'd upgrade, but TBH I love magsafe on my mac and I would miss it if I upgrade.
The original Inside Mac was 3 volumes, after their initial printing of the "phone book edition" - all three volumes in one thick soft spine binder.
I really need to take the time to scan my copy and put it online. It's got ballpoint pen corrections from the Apple Engineers telling the beta testers various fixes.
Presidential candidates should undergo background checks
Thanks. It's in the docs but I'll link to it below pricing for clarity. It's 1 core, 1gb mem by default for the whole namespace.
When the Timeline Becomes Our Sidewalk
Could you explain why some devices have limitations related to being in the sun? It seems like more than just the heat.
I think people also forget the dominance of iPhone (and imessage) in the US market. iPhone is simply the most popular and go-to phone in the US market. Not so much in similarly richer areas like Europe.
Go vs. C#, part 2: Garbage Collection (2018)
The article is definitely not the "best" version of this vision of the future I've read...

Not that I'm advocating for this future in any way, but I assume that a more realistic version of this (especially for as near as 2030) is that many people still have jobs that have an actual schedule. Maybe we can be optimistic and dream that people get to work less than 40 hours a week to have a reasonable quality of life.

But the idea of "I own nothing" cannot conceivable extend to personal items like clothing. That doesn't make any sense. In a future of "no ownership", you'd still own your shirt and toothbrush. Probably you'd still own your playstation (but do you actually own your video games today??? Can you play them offline? Does your console have ads?) as well. You wouldn't own a car, or your home (you'd have rights while you occupy your home, but not after you move), maybe you wouldn't own tools that are too expensive/specialized to be almost-free.

So for your example, I imagine that immediate delivery services might still exist, but that would be kind of a "high class" service and might be expensive. More than likely, you'd have Amazon dropping off your weekly grocery list on your designated day (e.g., "Wednesdays are trash day and grocery day in my neighborhood").

I highly doubt that we'll have that much more robot workforce by 2030. The only industry where that's possible is brick-and-mortar shopping having no more cashiers, which I do see as somewhat likely.
Wouldn't the x86 version run under emulation?
No, it's not possible. It will take a round trip for the client to tell the server if an object is cached.

So you have two options:

1. Pessimistically start pushing the response, and stop if the client tells you it is already cached

2. Optimistically don't push the response until the client tells you that it doesn't have it cached.

The first option is what push does.

The second option is basically equivalent to sending a `Link: <..> rel=preload` header.

So I guess one way to look at is that we had both choices available. But it turns out that Push wasn't used much and probably isn't the best option.
I would suggest that the developers reaction is "salaried". It seems unlikely any hardware or software developer designed this. They probably were in the implementation portion only.

Whenever this idea was brought up, I suspect they weren't terribly interested in it. They also mentioned it would be hilariously easy to circumvent for someone who wanted to, but not the average end user. A few weeks later it was all complete and promptly forgotten about.
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