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SPARC already raised $500 million.

No one claimed ITER is consuming their budget, if ITER is consuming anything, it's people, actual scientists in academia working on it, instead of working on smaller scale projects. It's an opportunity cost.

Look, even if ITER is a success, it still won't even produce electricity, that's require DEMO, a follow on project. We're talking post 2035 just for the first Deuterium-Tritium operation. Now, do you think by 2035+, which is 15 years from now, commercial fusion reactors are going to be run off Niobium-Tin cooled with Liquid Helium?

Or do you think commercially available REBCO, which needs only liquid nitrogen, and whose superconductivity doesn't falloff as field strengthen increases, will be used? By 2035, whatever DEMO uses of the ITER design will be 30 years old.

Meanwhile, hundreds of smaller scale fusion devices could have been built, with equivalent field strengths, but at far far less cost.

Would you rather run one massive international experiment with dozens of bureaucracies, or run hundreds of smaller experiences, and collect a lot of data from many more designs in the mean time?

We don't need the kill ITER to fund more startup fusion research in this country. ARPA-E funded Solyndra and Tesla. Solyndra failed, Tesla succeeded, paid their money back, and created a new industry leading car company with a market capitalization larger than all US car companies combined. I'd call ARPA-E and DOE's investment portfolio HUGELY successful. If they were a Silicon Valley VC, all the other VC's would be envious.
D&D has no history with racism.
Facebook did not "set up the game". Everybody is playing the same game. Facebook did not have special powers to change the rules.

They built an especially attractive service (judging by user numbers). Everybody else is free to build services in whatever way they fancy.
> even investors have trouble getting any financial data at all

SpaceX provides audited financials to its (preferred stock) investors. They also highlight them every funding round.
I think you are missing the point intentionally. You can't run those apps on an Apple iPhone, but I suspect you knew this.

It's ok to take the literal definition of the word monopoly and take it to its logical conclusion, I suppose. The U.S. government will not do that, however.
Funnily enough, I saw this in my inbox today:

Banking headhunters deny discrimination on the basis of regional accents

https://news.efinancialcareers.com/us-en/3004920/headhunters...
https://news.ycombinator.com is one example :)
This. I’d like to see evidence that Tether have an additional $16B USD in guaranteed cash to cover their commitments.
> The license changes basically allow nobody other than MacStadium to exist

This simply isn't true. Any business can follow Apple's licence and do exactly the same thing.
> A functional alcoholics dream, no smell, no bloat, fuck - no calories

The biggest problem with inhaling your alcohol is you lose access to your body's mechanism for getting rid of excess in the case of overconsumption.

In my younger days, puking probably saved me from alcohol poisoning a couple of times. Breathing it in, you lose that safeguard. It's probably fine for having 1 or 2 drinks, but I'd be wary of an inhales alcohol binge.
But WhatsApp backups are stored unencrypted on Google Drive. So either you have backups or you keep your privacy from Google and Facebook.
>and didn’t give them quotas or bonuses I think the model would still work as well from a revenue perspective,

Maybe our intuitions and idealism on what motivates salespeople don't match reality.

E.g. The CEO of Pluralsight tried to remove commissions and quotas for salespeople and he even wrote an article about it[1] -- but he later changed his mind. You can read latest Glassdoor posts from salespeople about being paid commissions and there was also a post on HN.[2]

In other words, if you assigned the role of sales to customer support reps, they may not be persuasive enough to close future sales and you lose revenue. This means there won't be any money to pay a salary to the customer reps to continue acting as "salespeople".

It really depends on the product. If it's a popular consumer product like an Apple iPhone, the Apple store employees can be passive "order takers" instead of commissioned salespeople. But if it's a B2B SaaS, you'll most likely need traditional monetary incentive structures to motivate salespeople.

[1] https://www.inc.com/aaron-skonnard/why-sales-commissions-don...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15234762
Thanks for the feedback! Yes, we're looking into this usecase. We're planning to create private communities, where only people with token have access to. And later on, expand on the concept of threading. How does that sound?
> When I see these complaints I see people talking about how they want other people to use the Internet and computers. That smells like authoritarianism.

That's not authoritarianism, it's a reaction to authoritarianism. Internet is mass market now, and mass market is distributed authoritarianism. Individuals have no meaningful say over how computing looks for them.

General-purpose computers are still available, but it's not a given there will be for much longer. There are many market incentives working against them. Music and movie industries wants to get rid of general-purpose computers to a) eliminate problem of piracy, and b) exploit customers more. Web industry side-stepped general-purpose computing entirely, by providing software as a service, hosted on company-owned infrastructure. Corporations want to control the machines people work on for reasons like espionage prevention and liability (the true meaning of "security"). This creates strong business incentives for things like Trusted Computing. Most end-users don't even understand what "general-purpose computing" means, much less care. Those who do care, are too small a group to form a market-significant niche.

If talk about open web and general-purpose computing seem authoritarian, it's because it's either that or nothing. As a developer, I can spend my time optimizing my little subspace of computing for sanity and ergonomics, but I still have to interface with increasingly closed world to do anything. Despite web technologies technically being somewhat open, I still have to deal with shitty garbage websites of my bank, of stores and restaurants I order from, etc. - because I have only so much spare time to up-fix things myself. The only way we get less shitty computing is if the market is forced to deliver it.
Why create a new app instead of simply running a matrix.org server instance?
Tagfam.org might qualify, though it's a niche subject. Oldest education related forum around, afaik. Though it's a set of email lists, not boards.
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> This argument is silly in the presence of open-source web browsers that can accept extensions.

The only browser like that with any meaningful adoption is slowly dying, as its parent organization is spinning like a headless chicken.
I get that you're happy because Apple has now explicitly permitted what you were doing.

I'm less clear on why you're happy that they didn't allow more stuff, like renting by the minute or for arbitrary purposes. You seem to depict companies that were doing this as "below board", while you as "above board". This is certainly true now, but before the changes both would have been a grey area - I don't see much of a difference.

Would I be correct saying that you're happy because in one stroke Apple has moved you from grey area to explicitly permitted, and part of your competition from grey area to explicitly forbidden?

For the record in no way I think that Apple took this decision to favor you or anyone else except themselves. It just seems that you won a regulatory lottery.
Thanks for the feedback!

You brought up very good points and yes, we are concerned with the same problem you're bringin up. In the future, we want communities to self-police themselves, but for that, people on Everchat need adequate tools, which we haven't even start building yet.

The issue of non-responsivity became apparent when someone (2 hours into launch) tried to crash the site with the unlimited title length :D This should already be hotfixed, so the waiting times shouldn't be that long! :)
Loosing hope of getting quality buetooth audio in Linux
There was nothing secret about it, we were invited to the HQ specifically to record
> You. can. make. own. browsers.

Even Microsoft failed and had to fork chrome
Respectfully this is a difficult claim to believe.

If your claim is that you redeemed billions of dollars in tethers for fiat USD then that’s newsworthy.

Even if that were the case though, it does nothing to prove that Tether is able to cover its commitments. Especially not with the additional $16B USD on the books.
Thanks - some of the reasons for giving up on LP using org-mode are here (mainly external factors):

- https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/9w8i2g/orgmode_liter...
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/9deyxe/thinggeom_a...

The main feedback re: LP style was the additional layer of indirection and unfamiliarity with the idea of code blocks within an .org file. Also obviously the dependency on Emacs for a decent editing experience of these files didn't help either, even though I always thought for Clojure this was less of an issue (at least back then). With more popular IDEs available by now, I'd say it'd be even harder to convince people to contribute in that style...

The only practical advice re: community building I can provide is trying to be there for new users, providing answers/guidance/examples/infrastructure, a space to exchange ideas (i.e. our Discord). That's especially important if other things like extensive documentation/tutorials are still missing. Doing this isn't always easy and there're periods when I'll have to disconnect, but I'm super grateful that we now are starting to have more people helping out on that front, even though the community is still rather small...

Thanks for the notespace link, will it check out asap...
I don't believe that amount takes in consideration that there are many and many days in Germany when the sun doesn't shine almost at all. I live nearby (in Czechia) and the solar arrays here are very widespread - so much that both the biologists and the public already hate them and don't want any more - and yet it all generates only a few percents of our energy. The cost of these projects was enormous too. Czechia will be building new nuclear power sources soon and decommission some of the arrays, thankfully people here are not like Germans.

I also don't think we should aim to generate the same amount of energy. We want more and better manufacturing, and if that should be done cleanly, it needs a lot of electricity, way more than the "renewables" could ever bring.
Your example smells like a failure of the type system. If that were TypeScript, for the simplest example, you'd explicitly have to type `x` as `MyType | null`, and were that the case, the `x.doThing();` outside the try block would not type-check.
I suppose this is confirmed with a 186 patients study on Belgium

https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/139966/belgian-researc...
I for one would not want a 4k fron facing camera on a laptop for video calls even if it was possible. 720p is perfect in my book, people don’t need to see every pore in my face or my nosehairs when on a call.
> I had someone arguing against me that it's not a good indicator since only approx 20% of competitors get a PhD in Math

As lordnacho says, that argument doesn't hold up at all. 20% seems really high, to me. A PhD in math isn't like scoring highly on an IQ test, it's not purely the result of being mathematically capable, it's also the result of undertaking a PhD in math. Plenty of smart people apply their abilities elsewhere. Perhaps in finance, for instance.

Also, I'd guess that the Olympiad winners who started a math PhD were more likely to succeed than the average math PhD student, and more likely than average to eventually get tenure.

> not being food at the competitions

I rather like this typo ;-P
As others have pointed out, there are benefits to Facebook et al, both individually and collectively (though some people may ignore the latter) however there's also great harm being done through these platforms, from the creation of echo chambers to data collection (personally, I'm more worried about the former, I don't really care about privacy wrt getting ads sent to me).

So I don't blame Facebook for building a platform people want to use, but I do blame them for the damage it's causing. People that care strongly about the open web (not really me, honestly, as long as it exists I'm content, imo people don't have to use it) likely feel similarly.
Hello, I am also the author of that post and implementor of bbqueue. I agree, I'd be interested in what you think I have misunderstood.

Feel free to reply here (preferred), or send me an email at james.munns [at] ferrous-systems.com.
Your slightly more reasonable number of transactions also requires slightly more resources to fully validate all bitcoin history, leaving it slightly less decentralized.
By the time it takes many days to sync, few people will bother to run a full node.

Bitcoin will make a fundamental change only when it faces an existential crisis, like facing imminent threats from quantum computers.
A weak memory model. See https://riscv.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/14.25-15.00-RIS... (by Dan Lustig at Nvidia, NV is both very involved in Arm and RISC-V).
Well, back in the day wars did usually start with a declaration of war.
> Sure Intel and AMD may simply begin to sell whole finished SoCs. But what are these to contain? PC makers may have different ideas of what they should contain. You potentially get a conflict between Intel, AMD, Microsoft and PC makers about what sort of specialized chips should be included.

It will be interesting to see what happens to the Wintel business in the years to come - is this the beginning of the end? If Apple can build a strong price/performance advantage in a way that can't be replicated by PC makers and, for example, start bringing out cheaper 'SE' versions of their laptops.
edit3: resolved below.
Hi, thanks for weighing in. I'm sure you picked up that I'm pretty mad, but I'll try to tone it down a little bit. I'm not an Amazon employee or someone who is personally harmed by this or anything, aside from being a developer for Apple's platforms who occasionally looks around for CI services. I'm mostly arguing about the principle of the thing.

Anyways: I read your blog post back when it came out. Whether Apple took your input into account when making the EULA, I don't know; I am sure that you must have some sort of amicable relationship at the very least. Running services "on the border" like this is never easy, but I would think that your business model (which includes buying a huge number of Macs) has probably kept Apple mostly on your side. I know the work you've done to keep it this way and to be honest, I was happy for you when Apple announced their rack-mountable Mac Pros and gave you a mention at the Mac Mini event.

The problem from my side (at least where you and MacStadium are involved) mostly lies with the blog post you wrote. Look, I get it, Apple's changes make the EULA work for you. That's great! But I'm sure you also realize that spelling this out clearly in the way that they did means that the "gray area" becomes a black area for basically everyone else. What I didn't appreciate is you calling it a "gray area" and coming up with rationale for why what they want is not reasonable. Apple came in, almost certainly looked at your business specifically, made its rules to hurt developers and these companies, and now you're writing blog posts about how Apple is your friend and you were right all along. It feels like you've decided to start singing praises for a bully that decided to leave you alone, and it leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

There's still a huge hole for a service that lets you rent a Mac for the a couple minutes so you can build your Xcode project. It's not your fault that doesn't exist, it's Apple's. But could you maybe not publicly celebrate that Apple has created a situation that happens to help you and make it generally worse for others? Can we stop trying to normalize or even argue that sharing a Mac is something wrong, something that Apple would think is ruining the "performance experience" you should get from a Mac?
No it's literally the opposite of servants. A servant is very much an employee, one that lives in your house, so in addition to paying him (albeit a very low salary) you need to feed and house him.

In the gig economy the whole point is that you only pay for a very small piece of work, and put all the risk on the worker. By abolishing job security and a steady pay-check, you lower the cost for consumers, which the gig-workers accept because there are enough desperate people out there.

And of course it has nothing to do with race, people of all races use Uber, and at least here in Denmark, people of all races work in the gig economy.
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If you ran a webserver hosting Great Cat Pictures on some Macs, for instance, your customers might pay a subscription fee to access your site, meaning they are paying for you to do processing and storage on their behalf. So that's an example that's clearly not leasing or subletting the devices.

Likewise, you might read it that Circle is simply providing a service to users, and the users are paying a fee for the service.

But a CI service will set up your dev account, your container image, to run your jobs. It'll even let you shell in, and it tears it all down when you're done.

And it really starts to look like leasing when they also charge for time used on various hosts. (IIRC, Circle charges for this a bit obliquely as max parallelism.)

If it went to court, Circle might argue the hosts can only be used within their larger CI system, that they don't guarantee a particular task will complete on a given host, and that they're not providing other requirements for virtual hosts, e.g. dedicated routing or names. And then Apple's lawyers might counter all that.

So this is where I think lawyers would start digging through case law to figure out where providing a service ends and leasing begins.
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You do need one on Oculus.
It's usually the rich that extol the virtues of being poor.
The Manhattan project actually had a relatively small number of physicists driving the program. Additionally they decided to allow failures. There were dozens of other projects under the project that all ended up as failures that no one really has heard about.
All the examples they gave were proprietary or non-standard features , not just "complex".
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To use MacOS you have to first agree on their Terms, and through this they can legally block you from using it in certain ways. Like the famous "It is only legal to run OS X in a virtual machine if the host computer is a Mac." rule.
List of unsolved problems in computer science

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in...

Or in broader context

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_unsolved_problems
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> You can't plan to use nonexisting technologies when that tech (superconductivity) was so very little understood.

That's exactly the problem. No one is allowed to fail so nothing is discovered.

And exactly how is superconductivity so very little understood? It's used in massive projects the world over from superconducting cables to maglev trains to numerous other things. And none of that has been figured out by ITER. ITER is the worst thing for fusion research in decades.
> "How will you reconcile privacy with the "Basic human right of Internet freedom" and takedown requests from authoritarian governments against dissidents who break local speech laws?"

Hopefully we can decentralize the platform in the way that we will be able to back-track history (once we open-source on GitHub).

> "How will you handle NSFW posts?"

Just like on Reddit, there will be a Settings toggle to show/hide them.
The comparison that I was aiming to make was comparing a "busy wait blocking" implementation, e.g. sending one byte at a time, until the byte has been sent, which is typical for bare metal embedded systems (that don't use some kind of DMA or concurrency like threads or tasks).

In this case, your CPU would be left spinning for an equivalent amount of time to the line rate of the serial port, if you were busy waiting for data.
For now yes, but we want to take a different path later on. :)
I have not trivialized the work. I have disagreed with the naming. This is not a software development methodology, it’s a learning methodology.
I've been pretty happy with my Samsung Galaxy S3 with S-Pen as a cheapo alternative to a Wacom. Many people also swear by the iPad / Apple pencil combo, though that's a step up in price.

I've had a few of the non-screen Wacoms in the past, but could never get on with the 'drawing down there -- appearing up there' disconnect between tablet and computer screen, so I cot rid of them and adopted the Android tablet + stylus approach.

The advantages of using a tablet:

1: Small, portable, self-contained. The Wacom / Huion types need connected through a computer.

2: Some surprisingly good full-featured software available for ridiculously low prices [or free]

3: The Samsung Galaxy S-pen has 1024 pressure levels --just like the Wacom pens. So it's actually a very sensitive drawing instrument.

The disadvantages of using a tablet:

1: Small screen size. It can often feel pretty cramped on there. Good graphics apps will allow you to hide all the interface panels and menus, so you're using all the screen to draw. But a lot of the time, I'm having to zoom in and work on an image in sections.

2: Plenty of good bitmap image manipulation and drawing apps about, but I still can't find an Android vector drawing app I like.

3: Can be bit more of a faff passing files around between apps on Android than it is on desktop. Though, unlike iOS, at least Android does allow filesystem access, so you can manage it, with a bit of juggling [and using Google Drive as your save destination helps a lot].
Buddhism started in India and from the beginning it criticized castes, so yes they were there and they were not fair

http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/dharmadata/fdd53.htm
Bezos can't cede something he never had... Bezos has had a hobby project no bigger than what SpaceshipOne did in 2004 and has poured billions into it for practically no results. Elon was launching rockets into Space before Bezos was doing anything at all.
The M1 is outperforming an x86 CPU when emulating x86 code by translating that code into ARMv8 instructions. So if the x86 code was designed using x86's strong memory model and is then dynamically translated into ARMv8 and run with a weak memory model, there will be problems, no? Maybe Rosetta 2 handles this; that would be impressive.
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>On the other side let me ask you back another question: Does it really matter who is doing the work (your employee or their hired "assistants") if the work done is qualitative and solves your problem? Imagine that instead of employees you will have contractors?

I'm thinking about sensitive data floating around and state agents targetting my organisation to discover flaws in design, or adding backdoors, these kind of things
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The naming has nothing to do with Germany but is a common term describing migratory movements that where in part invasions into the Roman Empire, no all of those migrations into Roman territory where violent though. That invasion connotation seems to have carried over into present time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migration_Period
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