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Economics 101

The real world is dictated by supply and demand. When demand is high and supply is low, prices rise as competition pushes them up. The increase in housing prices is a huge incentive for developers to build new housing. And it also increases the capital necessary to build more housing. Obviously the political situation will need to allows for new housing. Otherwise prices will just continue to increase.
> These days though... there should be nothing wrong with distributing your content via a USB or microSD card.

Or just a file. No need to produce more plastic trash.
Statistics from between 10-16 years ago.

Not sure how it is remotely relevant to life today.
Not really the article's fault. As they state near the end, Microsoft themselves didn't provide this info.

> Thursday’s [Microsoft] post doesn’t explicitly say what, if any, user interaction is required for infections to occur. It’s also not clear what effect defenses like User Account Control have. Microsoft makes no mention of the attack hitting browsers running macOS or Linux, so it's likely this campaign affects only Windows users. Microsoft representatives didn’t respond to an email asking for details.
I have the same inclinations as you. I see there are various kinds of bias from different sources, and that you have to be able to think critically in order to maintain some sort of perspective. I also think that we need a bunch of different perspectives, so in that way it's good there's a lot of people talking.

But we also live in a world that is more educated than ever, and a lot of those people who went to school can't figure out why they should believe in the moon landings, or dinosaurs. How often you do come across a posting from a friend who thinks the virus isn't real? You sat in a room with people like this for over 10 years. Did you think they would someday be able to think for themselves? I had hoped for that.

I'm starting to think that education as the answer might just be a naive point of view, but I'm also not desirous of a world where we tell adults what they're supposed to think.

Rock and a hard place.
I'm generally the person to be very critical of Sweden, but this is somewhat unfair as the definition of "Rape" in Sweden is incredibly broad, and includes people who can't give consent such as those experiencing fear.

Heck in 2018 they passed a law that says "Any sex act which does not have explicit consent is rape"[0] including those where there are no threats, coercion or violence of any kind.

I mockingly considered creating a "consent" app which could be signed with BankID.

Sweden is also unique in that it counts every offence as an occurrence of rape- meaning that if you're "raped by your husband 12 times a year" those are 12 separate cases of rape and not 1 (like it would be in the UK).

There is also speculation that in Sweden they take rape reports very seriously, which leads to more people coming forward with cases of rape.

This line of thinking has been discussed before, sadly by the extreme far right.[1]

[0]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44230786

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-39056786
It might be that they insisted on lenses. Glasses are a lot more expensive if you opt for the lenses.
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I think Apple was wrong here not to have a human reviewing rejected content, as I can't see how the screenshots were objectionable.

However, I think renaming the file and then saying, "No iOS for you!" was bad form. My guess is that they legitimately automatically block re-submission with only file renames, because they are trying to also block other images they might not want to have to see/review again.
Sweden has taken in around 1-1.2 million people in the last 10 years or so, roughly 10% of the population. Mainly from countries that have vastly different values than swedes.

These huge numbers in combination with really poor integration has lead to a very segregated society. You now read about gang shootings, rapes, humiliation robberies (they rob the victims then piss them in the mouth or cut off an ear or so, just for fun). These things are happening daily now, it used to be maybe once a year you read about a shooting or particular nasty rape/robbery.
> Most x86 code looks a lot like it was produced for a RISC chip

Well yes I don't think the x86 BCD instructions are still being used liberally, or AAA, or CONS/SCAS etc
Microsoft selling Windows to DELL, HP, ... they will not start writing their own operating system. And at that point the same effect will start like it did with Microsoft/Intel/computer manufacturer.

If Microsoft however succeed with their Surfaces like Apples does .. than maybe we are screwed. Luckily, they do not.
Exactly. My desk is next to my dryer, which is currently running, and my furnace is in a closet behind me. ANC helps block those noises, which would be inescapable otherwise unless I wanted to play my music way too loud.
A machine looking for inconsistencies cannot enter an infinite loop.
The belief that ZFC is consistent is as good as a guarantee that this machine will never halt. It will endlessly search for a non-existing proof of inconsistency.

Btw, even an attempted computation of BB(10) will outlast the heat death of the universe.
>allowing them to possess and use psilocybin for personal training without fear of prosecution under the country's drug laws.

There are literally hundreds of websites that will mail you magic mushroom spores, live magic mushroom mycelium, magic mushroom growing kits where you just add water and wait, and dried magic mushrooms.

I have never heard of any of them so much as being hassled let alone prosecuted for selling any of those products.

It's pretty safe to say magic mushrooms are quasi decriminalized in Canada right now.
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Land generates no revenue on its own.

Shareholders are not interested in 100 square feet of dirt. They're interested in a slice of the revenue generated by seeking rent on the dirt someone else is using.
> The tech generally 'needs' the internet to work.

Most of the time, that "need" is entirely artificial - or at least not the only way to design the device.
So, the message "Stay the #@$! home" with a shiny virus animation is somehow inappropriate in an app classified as "entertainment".

Idk, maybe they even have a point. Games are usually meant to distract from immediate problems in the physical world, not to remind.
They depend on AMD/Intel to deliver. This is a massive dependency for Microsoft.

The moat that Win32 provides has been eroding for a long time. That's why Microsoft has shifted their focus to the cloud. This technology might slow things a little but the writing is on the wall.

Most enterprises want to deliver software through a browser, the last thing they want to do is install software on the client. My customers have been telling me this for two decades now. They don't even like having Office run locally, they will drop it as soon as the browser version is viable.

Microsoft will be fine, they appear to be a long way along that journey already. I'm not so sure about Intel though. It's in Microsoft's interest for processors to become a commodity product. They would be over the moon if the competition sucked all the profits out of AMD/Intel.

The people who should be most worried though are the HP/Lenovo/Dells of this world. They have been happy to be carried along on the coat tails of WinTel for decades now. They will struggle to adapt to this new world.
Word COBOL triggers in me PTSD.
I did some reading on this before I bought my last headphones and AFAIR , the cause seems to be that not all frequencies can be canceled to the same extent. It’s not actual pressure on your eardrums, but the effect triggers that feeling. Different headphones have different characteristics, so it’s worthwhile trying different models.
I want others to push their opinion pieces on me - this is the only way to get out of my bubble and learn new stuff. But yeah - the problem is whom can I trust with such a power.
I speak enough (a2 level) to Google but not enough to understand and recommend a story with technical details.
it has no relation to Wittgenstein work anymore than an artist creating paintings illustrating words that appear in a dictionary. there is no insight from wittgenstein in the paintings. the work show no appreciation of wittgensteins intent in creating that work, or his oeuvre.

also, if the artist had any appreciation for his work, it would show and thus making the name of the exhibit seem like SEO bait and switch.
Honestly, what is the point of this comment ?

It’s an isolated anecdote of which there are tens of millions of others just like it in the cities you mentioned. Crime stats should be based on up to the minute evidence not anecdotes.
In the 1980s, the IBM PC standardized the entire industry around ISA ("Industry Standard Architecture") which was pushed forward by the manufacturers of IBM-compatible hardware ("clones").

The consortium of like-minded manufacturers later went to help develop develop all the subsequent variants that persist to this day (PCI and ATX form-factor etc). The standardization benefited them greatly.

Now that ARM Holdings is owned by NVidia I hope
Jensen Huang sees that if ARM is to take over the desktop it makes sense to bring that same level of standardization that allowed the PC industry (and NVidia) to dominate.

I think ARM Holdings needs to be the one to spearhead the initiative. It will help industry-wide adoption of ARM (for desktops, laptops and servers) which will benefit them greatly.
It is. All these other kids saying otherwise are just spouting poppycock, and some of it frankly seems like thinly veiled racism. (It's the immigrants, you see!)

Look, if there are people there's gonna be crime. That's just the way it goes. But as far as moderately large cities go, Stockholm is far from dangerous. Like anywhere else some areas will be worse than others, but the parts being discussed in these comments – the inner city – are not the favelas these people seem to claim. Stockholm is a perfectly fine city, but haters gonna hate and all that I guess.

Thugs getting off too easy though, now that's a real thing.
After reading this kind of fascinating stuff, I feel ashamed that I am wasting the opportunity of having a human mind by writing CRUD applications (though I am nowhere near as smart as this stuff requires one to be - I can barely clear whiteboard coding interviews).
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I developed a training (roleplay) while working in a multinational 4 years back. It was very successful and they still use it. Now I want to make it commercial by building it into a game.

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Except everyone recognizes that their suppression of speech was a major contributor to their dominance. I dont understand how this is difficult to follow. Opposition speech is the basic cornerstone of freedom of speech. Those in power cannot retaliate against you if you criticize their actions on whatever grounds whether its scientific, moral or economic. If you're in power and say "we need to kill off all stamp collectors to create a better society" then kill/torture/imprison anyone who in turn disagrees with you. Yes, you dont neccesarily get govs that kill off folks in non-free speech societies. The average person also doesn't murder either, we still make it illegal to kill others. You put in place these kinds of laws to create a deterrent or blockade against a ruling body from easily crushing opposition. How in the hell this is difficult to comprehend only means your history knowledge comes from pop culture articles instead of unbiased books. Democratic and republic forms of government are built on concepts to limit total government power and to place checks and balances on those in power. While we can argue the hows to do so, which are typically productive when the initial common ground is accepted, the general consensus after you know history from at least the Magna Carta days shows that those in power need limits. Freedom of speech is one of those mechanisms to limit those in power in a relatively fair way because it is a two way street. You cant shush the opposition, you cant shush those in power. The idea is the people, after hearing both sides, can make a generally good decision. Thats a whole other bag or worms. Anyways, social media has been a huge problem in becoming more one sided in many, many debates. But social media and Facebook are not freedom of speech. The ideal that the silicon valley crowd are a higher form of "for the people, by the people" has been another problem to this mess. They're rich fucks that alter "freedom of speech" by letting certain folks talk and then shushing the other side by burying their argument or just kicking them off. That's a one way street. Free speech is a two way street. They're saying they're agendaless but allow certain ideals to flourish and choke out the others. This ends up having backfiring effect due to creating a giant echo chamber then having the other groups go into their own echo chambers. They're all amplifying to stupid degrees instead of everyone being on the same forum to have a discussion. The social media companies are just that, companies. Zuckerberg and the other cunts are just in it for the money, not for social good. Since their business model was built on a house of cards chock full of debt and investment, they're tied to take large sums of money from whoever's willing to offer it.
The other way to read the study is that being relatively well off enough to afford a wine-and-cheese lifestyle vs beer and bread is what's neuroprotective. Turns out being rich nearly always helps you live longer!
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A fairly large amount across a whole city, but compared to the amount of water run down the drain after use not a lot. Makeup water is needed for sure. However watering the lawn is one of the few that are significant enough to matter.
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> I don't see what's wrong with showing people content they want.

Showing them what who wants? The users? That’s be great, but today they are trained to show what the company wants, and the company wants to keep you on the site as long as possible to generate ad clicks.

It’s designed for making you spiral into a topic.
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>It's also a mix of CISC and RISC, it's not pure CISC now.

It's not. It's microcoded. Like VAX. Which RISC is a response to.
It is still the articles fault for existing at all. The behaviour of the payload is not very interesting or helpful and you have to read almost the entire article to discover that you have wasted your time.
I think you're exactly correct. I don't know whether the EU always knew but decided to maintain the pretence that progress might happen or if its slowly dawned on them that the UK isn't serious about a deal. But I think they have mostly realised. Something about the lack of interest or initiative on their side, it's like watching a resigned spouse who knows they can't make it work if the other spouse doesn't want to...

From a strategic point of view, I have to give it to the brexiteers. Parliament would never have voted for no deal. So they manoeuvred carefully to a point where it was the default outcome and then just didn't avoid it. It shows how naive the remain side (my side) have been. "surely no one would intentionally ram an iceberg, he must really believe we can turn on a penny at the last moment?" asked the sane 49% of the crew as the captain steadfastly refused to change course...
Unless the emissions from imports are counted, this is meaningless.

If you produce an dohicky in the EU and it casues 1000 tons of emissions, and by doing things like greening your grid, moving transport to electric, etc, you drop that to 450 tons, that's great.

If you produce an dohicky in the EU and it casues 1000 tons of emissions, and you instead stop producing it, but instead import it from China, where it was produced with 1500 tons of emissions and used another 500 tons to transport it, that's terrible.
>Mostly because criminals know that the resale of apple goods is entirely on the parts, which is not worth much.

Isn't that mostly due to activation lock? Is there any kind of similar mechanism for the AirPods Max?
You're right, should've mentioned it. And I for one never gave much credit to the face covering excuse - that ban was meant to attack Islam.
The criteria https://github.com/ossf/criticality_score/blob/main/README.m... are designed to give higher scores to projects that are updated frequently by many contributors from different organizations, so of course the random Nebraskan's critical project is going to get a low "criticality score".
If Apple lowers their prices, maybe.
There are so many lists these days, it should be more suspicious if you're not on any lists.
I think it's more likely that Microsoft will offer a cloud version of Windows for Mac users. A nicely packaged app that connects to an instance on Azure.
Microsoft could manufacture their own hardware providing free Windows updates while charging for services such as Office, Drive, Store, Music, Photos - and their biggest advantage over Mac - Games.
Swedish companies did this just fine for a much smaller market than the American and the margins here are no higher and the competition was also fierce. No, I think it has to do with the American retailers bring too big to be able to quickly adapt.
UK is a tier 1 country, G7 member, many people can only dream of pound level salaries.
As comparison, the UK target is a cut of 68% by 2030.
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for me it's "import pandas as pd"
> compared to 1990s emissions.

That's a sequel to Europe's 20-20-20, which effectively achieved the 20%+ reduction [1], so that's ~30% more in a decade, which is bold.

[1]: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/nov/30/report-eu-g...
Thanks for putting an end to the mistery! Great write up!
>>I don't think it's a reasonable argument to put people oppressed due to their race with people who want their smartphone to work a bit differently at the same level.

Well, perhaps, my broader point is that the ability of businesses to govern themselves and set their own rules does end somewhere, and that line is decided by societies and can change with time. Things that were acceptable few years ago maybe aren't acceptable now, and vice versa.

>>Because the smartphone gets worse. Less locked-down, less simple, more complex, more avenues of attack

I just don't see that at all, sorry. The experience for 99.99% users won't change at all. Apple could have enabled this last week and you wouldn't have seen any difference at all.

>>We can't make it a legally protected right to have products designed for people's random whims.

Well, but it's not just a random whim, that's the crux of the issue. Once the size of a company and the market it controls gets big enough, it's only natural that they are forced to open to others. It happened to every industry before, why should apple be immune to this? It's the whole epic vs apple discussion again - if two sides want to engage in lawful business contract(sell each other software in this case) why should apple be the arbiter of these transactions? Or rather - why should you, the owner of your smartphone, be forced to use apple as the arbiter.

>>How about we let Apple choose who to market to?

They still can, literally nothing changes on that front. They still market to the same people, they still curate the apps like they used to, they still have 100% control of their app store and the device. The only thing that I would like to change is that ability to say "this is my device apple, I paid for it, let me install software that didn't go through your filter". Again, entirely optional. But we looped back to the first point that we are going to disagree on again - you think that will make the experience worse, I don't think it will.

I think we should agree to part ways on that - the discussion is as always enjoyable, but we might have exhausted the potential here :-)
Seconded; I'd also recommend Etymotic Research's line of earbuds, which combine earbuds and earplugs, including replaceable foam inserts.

Passive isolation most noticeably outperforms noise-cancelling for transient noises.
> Never mind the crime rate is literally an order of magnitude below any of the various American metros in which I've lived

A discussion about Sweden and you couldn't help yourself huh.
It also does that for, basically, one device (the three models available so far are almost identical. Fan/no fan, and some binning on the GPU)

That’s one further reason their system is faster: they designed a system, and the design of their CPU, GPU, etc. was driven by what the final system needed.

Other system manufacturers buy individual parts, where the manufacturer of each part extends/optimizes it with only a vague knowledge of what the system it will be used in will look like (and they don’t want to focus on one specific system, as that would mean they can sell it to fewer device manufacturers)
I've been in a situation before where "the boss" demands this configuration, an easy password so everyone can remember it, and it's the keys to the kingdom, and everything you need to get admin access to the whole thing.

I'm not going to talk about how it went for me, but I will say it's hard to stand up and say "no, we can't put it on the internet like this" especially when you are not the boss, and it has already been done, what you need to do to make it better is essentially shouting "stop the presses" running up and down the hallway - and is it even the most important problem on the table?

This whistleblower has a lot of courage to continue to stand up against a corrupt, badly malfunctioning state apparatus, from my perspective anyway.
You can say something is heavier than something else, and feels more premium without contradicting yourself.

He says they are not meant for use as wired headphones primarily, so recommends against them if thats what you want. Seems reasonable.

Regarding the Switch he says: "I’m not saying they should, but it’s very Apple-like that they don’t." To me it seems like he is staying neutral on the need for an off Switch right now - just commenting that he's not surprised.

I don't think they are bad takes. They are tepid takes at worst!
That's exactly why every country should do it.
Being healthy also helps people to be rich, in that health problems distract from wealth creation, and treatments are costly in time and money.
They definitely can on Windows, and this is how many skinned programs were developed in the past. It's called owner draw.
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It looks to be a very cost effective way of securing the future of your dependents, especially if you are young and healthy.
It looks like it has gotten much worse in recent years. There was a 60-minutes block from Australian TV on the topic. I couldn't find the whole video, but here's a fragment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kpRVk9KOmo