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What if my business didn’t produce toxic waste? What if Jo isn’t a heroin addict but instead a poor third world person who lives a subsistence level life?

Should I be prevented from offering Jo a better, higher paying assembly job because a small group of sleazy manufacturers use his country to escape environmental regulations?

Apple isn’t outsourcing assembly to escape environmental regulations. It’s offering better paying jobs that are lifting chinese and Indian workers out of poverty, while also reducing the cost of their products. That makes them more affordable to a wider audience. Apple, workers and consumers win, because free trade benefits all parties.

Environmental controls can only be implemented at the national and international level. If China doesn’t implement them, it’s not the fault of US companies.

If you make leading edge batteries that produce lots of toxic waste as a byproduct, the US will require you institute expensive controls/cleaning processes to prevent it from leaking into the environment.

But if China doesn’t have similar controls, making those batteries will be cheaper in China. If the US maker doesn’t go to China to make their batteries, they will lose marketshare to companies that do, or more likely Chinese companies.

If the US bans Chinese made batteries over environmental reasons, it makes US made electric cars uncompetitive and we lose sales and jobs to Chinese and European car makers.

So it’s never free trade at fault, it’s lack of international cooperation on environmental policies. If Chinese made products had to meet a base set of environmental manufacturing standards to be sold in Europe AND North America, they’d comply or lose 90% of their sales.

But the problem is that your arguments are often used disingenuously by labor unions whose actual agenda is protectionist policies to raise manufacturing costs in the third world to protect their members from competition. They really want to impose US level minimum wages in third world nations, which would be a disaster given they don’t have the capital and skills to support them. A backwards policy that hurts us too by protecting low value jobs we should be advancing out of.
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I'd set up a mastadoon server but I don't want to tell my friends to check out my toots.

Hehe your fucking five, but then it just gets annoying.
They are. Militaries around the world agree. So do doctors who prescribe them for narcolepsy and other disorders. I think it is a good name.

The fact remains that in most places amphetamines are an illegal drug when acquired without a prescription.

I think he should just rebrand. A name change is not a big deal, given the app has low name recognition in the first place. News of the rebrand will be the first Google result for people who are unaware of it.

Apple holds all the cards here. There is little to be gained if he wins, and if he loses he will have to rebrand anyway after much wasted effort.
My personal objection is shared by others, unpalatable as that may be to some. Thankfully, my celebration of this outcome is wholly irrelevant to Apple's decision-making process, as I neither work for Apple, influence Apple, nor participate in any app store review processes on behalf of Apple, or any other either. So you may take comfort that had I exerted any effort to push my view — which I haven't — it would have meant just as much to the outcome as our discussion here in this thread: Absolutely nothing whatsoever.

Demeaning me with the phrase "pushing your puritan views" is is tasteless and inappropriate, and makes incorrect assumptions not only about the root of my objection but also about the belief systems surrounding it. You are wrong about both.
But do most people consider them as such, i.e. painful but necessary/beneficial? My understanding was that they are widely regarded as parasitic organizations full of busybodies who are there to advance their personal agenda and to feel a sense of power over people at the expense of all the reasonable people who just want to live their lives; they are considered the polar opposite of live and let live.

I personally have never dealt with an HOA, so my understanding of their popularity is shaped solely by what I have read online. I must say your comment is the only one I have ever seen that has put them in a positive light.
The HOA stereotype definitely is, but all HOAs are not the same. My HOA is generally hands off but you do need to ask permission for structural or cosmetic changes -- the neighborhood doesn't want to look like an amusement park. But, no one is going around measuring the height of your grass or other overly strict things I've read about.

However, I did just get a nasty gram to take down my political "Giant Meteor for 2020 - just end it already" yard sign.
But do you believe Apple should be the ultimate arbitrator of such silly things like the name of an app you create?
Interesting, we didn't have this issue during the virtual events and interviews I did - I used a separate USB mic, not a mic on the camera. So it did didn't occur to me.

But it seems quite correct that this could be an issue, and I'll add a note in the article.
Dropping the McDLT was what started me on the road to not try 'new' items from fast food places very much. If I like the new offering, it's going to be cut, just like the McDLT. McDLT was my all time favorite fast food burger from the 80s.
I imagine both the US and Chinese government have immense sway as well.
Powerful statement and I read every word.

What it comes down to is our social order is a choice, and we are not choosing wisely or creating the efficiencies necessary in our society to move forward. Maybe this is a facet of human nature, but that's not the end of the conversation. We need to understand how to overcome these ideologies that are obstacles to a more equitable and innovative "Star Trek Future".

After all, "nature" has never stopped us before.
I find this is true for the handful of multi-talented people I know in my personal life. They truly have innate talent/ability in at least one area. Sometimes they have a remarkable ability to learn new things quicker than most people, other times they have to work hard for everything else, but they always have their natural talent to fall back on, in times of duress or limited energy. I'd be interested to see some research in this area.
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The British had their asses handed to them by Yamashita in an off beat offensive "Blitzkrieg by bicycle"

https://www.welovecycling.com/wide/2019/06/28/japanese-style...
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There is a command line tool called caffeinate that ships with Mac OS. Maybe Apple didn’t like somebody using something so similar their system utility name.

Originally I thought it was the same name, so this seems much less likely now that they're merely similar.
Not necessarily. You can store it in metal hydrides. It's also a small amount of energy comparatively, so it's not a big loss. Finally, you can recover a lot of the energy back.
local = Boise Idaho. If you were wondering
To explain blogs you also have to factor in the moves toward more image and video centric content, I think.
My daughter's recently been into MasterChef Junior, where in a recent episode one of the kids appointed to be a team lead in a restaurant setting was attempting to perform the role by berating his team for their mistakes and insufficient productivity.

Halfway through the spot, host Gordon Ramsey (whom he was apparently trying to emulate) intervened and afterwards, the kid started saying things like, "Hey, let me know if you're having trouble with the panisse cakes; I can help you out as soon as I'm done with these string beans."

Good lesson for all of us.
This is probably stating the obvious but I think we’re still in the early stages of creating an effective remote conversation experience. Zoom might be something akin to the IBM PC Convertible [1], a long way from the laptops we have today.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC_Convertible
The "who has the biggest turbine" race between wind turbine OEMs is the Formula 1 of the wind industry. It's mostly about bragging rights and long-range R&D. The vast majority of new turbines being installed today are in the familiar 2-4 MW class. The >10 MW turbines are more important as an R&D platform than as an actual contributor to energy production.

4 MW class onshore turbines first introduced in 2017 are just now starting to hit their stride and be installed at large scale.
Then it's luck o' the draw. Or the parents themselves discover that they're more alike than they realize.
Then there needs to be specificity of the amount of harm thats allowable. The law is a blankslate to make you squirm after 30 years "We told you so in 2021, when the pandemic hit and we moved on". You know the exactly the erosion that happened after 9/11 - patriot act, big brother, surveillance state. Those are all norms now.

It's not some high moral ground of freedom thumping people. This is what our grandfathers fought for.
...some people don't know how or even care to use the command line.
There are plenty of counter examples, and I'd dare say the majority of notable historical "true" monopolies were disrupted due to government intervention rather than disruption. While intel has had a process lead for decades, they've never had a monopoly on fabrication.
> Not the brilliant engineers you imagine are going to run it.

I have no doubts brilliant European engineers are going to work on the hard problems of shipping a next gen chip process and design... In America!

What the EU should do is earmark some of that money to be directly paid as engineering salaries. Of course they won't: that would reduce the piece of the pie of all the non-technical managers and bureaucrats!
I helped to sell System 36s (the big ones that took half a room) back in early 1980s.

I remember one demo when a potential customer asked "If it's this slow with one user how slow is it with six?"

The person doing the demo "improvised" with "It's dynamic load time balancing." Which I'd never heard of before. Turns out neither had anyone else involved with the System 36.

I later came across a whole insurance company that was run on a S/36. It was replaced by a single 386 PC.
Amphetamine is a drug to keep one awake. So the name is appropriate.
> secops people why do I have an executable called "riot"

No doubt your secops are trying to justify their existence like app store reviewers if this is what worries them!
Of course it's the case, stop being so damn ignorant. People like you are the reason that taking ADHD medication is so stigmatized, because you assume the default is to abuse.
Lest we forget that Biden, Sanders, and Trump are all around the same age.
As far as I recall, extensions became a thing with DOS

CP/M had extensions in 1974, five years before DOS. There may be older examples, but that's the first operating system I ever used.
100% faster? Does that mean twice as fast or is string.scan now take 0 time?
You are correct. The discussion about ASML is relevant in that state of the art chips cannot be produced without one of their TwinScan lithography tools. ASML is the only company that can build tools with 7nm and below capability.

In the context of the EU developing the ability to fabricate state-of-the-art chips, ASML would sell them the TwinScan tools they needed, which are just one species of about 40 that are used for chip fabrication.
Inevitable of not, this has real costs, in that that government will eventually turn off the gravy train and the "good" and "bad" research alike will be negatively impacted.

In other words, academia is sowing the seeds of its own demise, and with it, the official institutional pinnacle of our culture [please don't wince too hard when reading that!].

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The solution i think is less research but more library work. See https://blog.khinsen.net/posts/2020/07/08/the-landscapes-of-... and https://hapgood.us/2015/10/17/the-garden-and-the-stream-a-te... which it cites.

The amount of work library work we are not doing is just staggering. Consider these claims:

- There should be an accredited-author-ornly "kernel wikipedia" which the main one can choose to incorporate, almost like release vs staging branches.

- Different subfield way wish to keep their own intentionally biased corpuses, like https://ncatlab.org/nlab/

- After 6 months, virtually no one should have to read the original research article, because the librarian core will have incorporated it's results claims (however controversial) into the appropriate articles

- Textbooks / "knowledge bootstrap plans" should be continuously updated from the encyclopedia, not unlike how bootstrapping is managed in a package repo

- Librarians do the work, but also adjudicate disputes, as researchers will be naturally incentivized to contest how their work is incorporated as that is the primary way it is consumed.
Been using a larger font on my devices for a while. Has mostly been fine except for some apps that really look terrible with that setting. That toggling back and forth really makes me go back to "standard" size but I wish I didn't have to.
Only if you're driving it on a public road.

Again, laws around how property is used are fine. There are all kinds of ways you can misuse your property that will result in it being taken from you; in general all of us are fine with that. It's legal to drink, and it's legal to drive, but if you drink and drive you might lose property or your freedom, probably both.

What's not fine is the government saying "you purchased this legally and in good faith, but it's not legal anymore and we're going to need to take that". This feels like a good idea when it's something with obvious negative externalities, but it is a wildly dangerous power to give the government. Especially since this power will almost certainly be delegated to the executive branch by the legislature, giving random un-elected appointees the ability to expropriate property without even a hint of deliberation.

Oh, and it's probably an ex post facto issue anyways. You generally can't punish people for something that was legal at the time that they did it. This is why various gun regulations almost always exclude all banned items that are currently in private hands, because attempts to take that property away would be unconstitutional.
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Here's the thing you need to know about experienced abusers (note: often narcissists): They know how to "play the game", and what to do.

They know that when it comes to the illegal stuff - you do it off-the-record. Then it just become "he said, she said", which is very difficult to prove.

They are experts at gaslighting, which ties in with the point above. Not only can the invalidate your claims about (difficult to prove) verbal abuse, but they can actually turn it against you, by claiming that you're obviously mentally unstable / hearing things due to workload / not fit for the job / etc.

Especially for narcissists, they tend to be very good at forming networks and friendships which benefit them - and in turn can produce cliques like this.

They know what buttons to push in the organization, to cover their own ass, and make the other party look incompetent. This includes creating extensive paper trails, frequent meetings to establish some opinion on a person, and what not.

Prolific abusers are hard to catch because they are very good at it, and because they create (or join) environments which are chaotic, and tie in multiple people on the abuse (whether want it or not - pretty much in the same way that bullies in school rarely do the bullying themselves, but form groups to do it).

In this case, it's even worse - because there's such an extreme imbalance of power. On one side you have a fresh hire, without any permanent VISA, completely dependent on the job. On the other side, you have established bullies in clique, with decades of employment in the company.

And not only that - it all happened within a company that enforces a strict culture of non-disclosure. It's hard to go public with information which may include explicitly confidential work/data.
Not so easy: https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/24120/caffeine
> These stories keep coming; they should remind us that nothing is more precious than the open web, and all those stores or walled gardens, their "rules" and vague TOS are the ennemy.

Yes. And the solution is:

1. Creating a viable alternative.

2. Promoting it.

Which is the opposite of what TFA is trying to do: They just want Apple to make an exception for them. Not to solve the root problem.
The truth is in between. Was USSR full of internal problems? Yes. Did USA and allies want USSR destroyed and actively work on? Also yes. Saying that Cold War and the arms race had absolutely no role in USSR collapse is either a blatant lie or incompetence.
I've made a mirror of this site.

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Now here's an exercise to the reader:

Find a more collectivist country that has a positive brain drain (meaning it attracts talent) from the US.
Epic's PR team too.
This is still not it. He's not facing a government warrent.

Freedom of speech means the government won't/can't prosecute you for what you say. It doesn't have anything to do with how companies or private citizens respond to your words.

You're (usually) legally allowed to say you'll fuck my mom but I don't have to bring you over for family dinner.

One could contend that apple's refusal to host this app on it's store is in itself free speech.

Either way, the government jasent gotten involved so nothing here treads on free speech issues.
Exactly. If you were to describe objectively to someone the properties of alcohol or tobacco without saying the name, people would be clamoring to crack down on the "epidemic" claiming thousands of lives and costing billions.
The only trick I've found is to try not to have any opinion at all. I'd love to hear if anyone has a better idea, I hate the idea that people younger than me will just have to wait me out and politely tolerate my wrongness...

I HAVE adjusted my options on a few matters (BLM, gun rights, bail requirements). And I'm quite proud of that! I think I have a bit of a fear of empathy which holds me back, but enough of my self diagnosis!
They also publish TV shows with violence, bad language etc. That is OK but dare an app store developer make a joke....
This just detracts us from the actual discussion - do you think Apple should be the ultimate arbitrator to decide what you name your app?
I'm not sure I get what's the problem with schools and prisons looking the same. Prisons should look like the rest of the world after all, they're supposed to be places where you learn to function in society.
Exactly this! And yet again we see arrogant HNers bask in their own ignorance of anything outside of writing shitty web apps.
That's right. In the US's case, if it was protecting a weakened friendly country or trying to rebuild a not-so-friendly one, dollarizing the economy would have undermined the occupied government and interfered with the US's overall goals. Using cancellable paper certificates like MPC or a closed loop electronic system like EagleCash prevented leakage of US dollars into the local economy.
Great. So make the law that people who have had high probability exposure must self-quarantine and make it an arrestable offense to be both subject to and breaking of a mandatory self-quarantine. I don't mind that being an arrestable offense. I do mind "I don't like the how Spooky23 looks today and they were out in public in a high-risk area, so lock them up!" "I don't like Spooky23 so I'm going to force them to stay in their house or a place of their choosing" has less potential for abuse.
This is correct. "one JIRA ticket = one git Pull Request" is not a good system even when the work can be rolled out in one go, since it encourages PRs that are overly large, long-lived branches and late integration with merge issues. Rather encourage having an idea of where you're headed with the chain of commits, and review and merge a sequence of smaller steps, and ideally validate each of them by deploying to production. This is easier to review, easier to merge and less risk to deploy.

If JIRA is not a good fit to this model, too bad, that's JIRAs problem. Don't make you dev process worse to appease JIRA.
What drugs are, according to your reasearch, widely used in Europe? Here in Canada, Amphetamines are widespread, from Vyvanse to Adderall to Evekeo.
> Now suppose that you do that and I do that. You put up your blog, I put up a blog as well. But I also put out a browser extension that rewrites all amazon links to come to my site, record that, and then redirect. How is Amazon supposed to find out that your traffic is real and mine is from a scam?

How about: affiliate links are constructed to incorporate the affiliate tag so that they can't be rewritten. Yes, each link on your blog is different than the links on my blog for the same items, not just slapping a tag in a URL field.

Of course, this would have engineering and hardware overhead on Amazon's side, but without something like this they're just retreading telco history in giving the world untraceable Caller ID, as you aptly illustrate.
No, that part was gross.

I feel embarrassed right now.
Ask HN: Can I get enough UV through a window screen to produce Vitamin D?
I'm basically living my days in one room due to the need to isolate myself. Can I get vitamin D through the screen? Or will this somehow break up the UV rays?
https://res.cloudinary.com/schoolprison/10_wwfagw.jpg

You can read “学校” on this building, making it a bit easier than it should be. :)
Yeah, you use the one that fits your narrative, and it works wonders until you try to pass it off to people who haven't latched onto that narrative, and then you come to a crossroads, do you summarily discount their perspective and go on your merry way unfazed and unchanged, or do you reconcile this new perspective and potentially confront issues with your narrative.

I don't know you but based on that facile response, I'm guessing you're more down for the former - considering the deleterious externalities of bitcoin mining at scale are pretty well known.
Well I'm from the UK so I'm a little delicate on the EU right now. Just want her back.
well,that escalated quickly.
Katalin Karikó, the Hungarian scientist that pioneered the mRNA research, was academically demoted at UPenn because the university considered her research as "impractical" and "waste of time" [0]. That was in 1995.

In 2021, she is a hot candidate for the Nobel Prize for the very same work, which led to mRNA vaccines.

[0] https://www.wired.co.uk/article/mrna-coronavirus-vaccine-pfi...
It'd be really nice if I could find a study on this, but just because bitcoin doesn't power the majority of the transactions doesn't mean it couldn't do so without the energy needs scaling linearly with transactions. If anything I'd imagine it could become more efficient as more transactions were taking place. I see people argue this a lot and I think it's too narrow of a view on the situation.

Of course it'd be much better for us to adopt a crypto currency that uses a different algorithm that has even less energy usage. Even without that though I think it could prove to be more efficient than existing financial systems.
A lot of these images only show a very narrow look at what looks to be the entrance to some front desk style room. I'd be more interested in what the insides look like.
Possibilities aren't viable alternatives, the problem is that of all existing options PWA are the best because you can escape app store and play store while providing app-like experience to users. I think google is the greatest evil of our time, but in this case we have nothing better.
Assassination is more than mere harassment.