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This is motivated reasoning on his part. If the question at hand is "is the world getting better?", then excluding China makes no sense in the pursuit of answering that question.

It's also ridiculous for him to say that China doesn't use policies that Pinker advocates for. That's absolutist and binary thinking. Pinker would advocate for the open market liberalising policies of Deng Xiaoping relative to Maoist economic authoritarianism, which helped to lift millions out of poverty in China, even though there's still a lot that he doesn't agree with China's system.

If Pinker doesn't like Putin's strongman behavior in the region should he exclude Russia from his statistics on improving world peace? If Pinker doesn't like the US healthcare system should he exclude the US from his statistics on childhood mortality?

This is a dishonest rhetorical strategy that Hinkel is employing. It's clear to me now that Hinkel is a bad faith salesman who has set out to demonstrate his hypothesis at all costs.
You don't recall correctly.

"At an altitude of approximately 45 km (24 nautical miles), the boosters separate from the orbiter/external tank, descend on parachutes, and land in the Atlantic Ocean. ... They are recovered by ships, returned to land, and refurbished for reuse."

https://www.nasa.gov/returntoflight/system/system_SRB.html
It was a fork. Ethereum Classic, the original chain, is still in operation, and in that fork, the DAO fix never happened. But since the DAO affected the core Ethereum developers and early proponents and backers of the system, all the talent stayed with the chain that corrected the issue. To me, that's a fair outcome. Forkability is a necessary feature, not a bug, of immutable blockchains. Just like it is for open source.
They must have gotten the idea from the people whose response to losing was to arbitrarily decide the electoral system needs replacing.
You just like trolling Elon fans, don’t you?
Op said they there is nothing else in common.

They are in the same boat as parler in the sense that another communication platform not owned by a big corp is being targeted and removed.

Matrix likely will come back for some of the reasons you mention . But fact is google and apple arbitrarily without warning or notice remove apps from their store. The stores should be considered utility like electricity google should not able to refuse service randomly.
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> You see, to quote William Shakespeare's "Hamlet":

>"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

Sorry, but a can’t help but think from your wordsalad here that you understand barely more about regulatory aspects of radio bandwidth use than Shakespeare did... I can’t even work out where to start to guide you down a path where your “Understanding of both Law and Radio” might start to intersect with reality in 2021 society. So I’m not even going to try.

One hint I will throw you about SDR - use the keyword “RTL SDR”, you’ll find many simple and amazing projects using USB tv tuner sticks available for ~$10 repurposed as Software Defined Radio receivers. These days they are used for everything from global flight tracking like Flightradar24 up to some amazing things like passive radar tracking planes via reflections from powerful radio station transmitters.
It would be interesting to know what you intend to use this rig for, if that is not some secret :)
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Uhhh so we have already divided the public to groups (by skin color, gender and religion even!), we constantly talk about how Christian White males have been opressing the other groups for centuries and keep them from their rightful status, which made it really comfy for our corporate overlords because identity politics pit the plebes against each other and completely took over class warfare, which was the thing that really threatened them.

One thing that differs is the degree of discrimination being much lower, which really helps longevity for these politics of division. Men can take it, because the current situation for them isn't that bad.
I mean it would have been a totally valid answer to say that you intended to use a $600 laptop as effectively a thin client, and spend $2400 on a powerful workstation PC to drive remotely.
You can find it on many finance websites[0] but yes, the accurate numbers are only released twice a month. There are companies that specialize in estimating the short interest on a daily basis. It’s likely to be accurate enough to draw the same conclusions.

[0] https://www.marketbeat.com/stocks/NYSE/GME/short-interest/
It's not too late to get those people too.
Well I can't think of a better explanation why so many people jump to these corporation's defense when they do something this immoral and damaging.
what is their business model? ,i'm not able to find anything related to it. Firefox runs on donation, google runs on tracking, vivaldi seems not have both based on their about page
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It would already help if the rules of the app stores were decided by a parliament. And kicking a provider out of the store requires a court ruling.
I mean, it was up to the community at large to ultimately support the new fork. As an example, Bitcoin forked into Bitcoin Cash, but the community largely stuck with the main chain. It's really a market-driven decision which chains or forks thrive and which ones don't. At any rate, it's more and more expensive to do forks as a chain grows in maturity and adoption.
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So while it's true that for many years televisions displays lacked colour, they would have still been judged by their absence of colour by a population well aware of coming advancement.

Not even close. Black-and-white TV was the default for decades. Almost nobody judged televisions by their lack of color because hardly anyone beyond those who subscribed to Popular Mechanics even knew that color was a possibility.

The 1948 date is meaningless. Most American households didn't have a color TV until the very late 1960's, or even into the 1970's. TV stations didn't broadcast in color until the late 1960's, and even then most of the programs were in black and white. I remember when color TV broadcasts first became possible and the TV networks crowing before each color show "In color!" the way they did "In stereo (where available)!" in the 1990's.

When color TVs did become well-known and started becoming common, it was usually the parent's bedroom or the living room that had the big color TV, and all the remaining televisions in the house were back-and-white.

Personally, I didn't have a color TV until 1983, and that was only to use as a computer monitor.
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As I remember it from nearly 25 years ago, with was a safe and straightforward construct to use, as long as you kept it within manageable scopes. Great for saving an extra dereference inside some monster loop when the microseconds really counted.
I learned Pascal with Turbo Pascal on CP/M sometime around 1983 or 1984. IMHO it was the best software development environment for that platform. It was full featured, very fast (both compilation and run-time), and very memory efficient.

I also had Microsoft CBASIC, Fortran-80, COBOL-80, BDS-C, and many assemblers. Turbo Pascal put them all to shame. The C compilers for CP/M could not even do floating point math. Turbo Pascal had no such limitations.
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I was so lucky that for a matter of fate I ended up buying a Turbo Pascal 4.0 book, when figuring out where to move after Turbo Basic.

Eventually I got old of Turbo Pascal 3.0, started learning there (yep a version below), then at school Turbo Pascal 5.5 was actually the programming language after Basic, so I got introduced to units, and Object Pascal.

Eventually due to an agreement with the teacher that if had a theme I wanted to learn more, I could study it and present to the class.

I choose OOP, which in the process made the owner of a Turbo Pascal 6.0 copy, with the wonderful Turbo Vision framework to learn from.

On the same year I bought a copy of Turbo Pascal for Windows 1.5 (target Windows 3.x), with the Object Windows Library, a pleasure to work with versus bare bones Win32.

So when I go to learn C a couple of years later, it never impressed me, too little features, too unsafe, the only thing going for it was being available in more platforms than Turbo Pascal was.

Luckily the same class also had a Turbo C++ 1.0 package that was being ignored, and that brought me the Turbo Pascal features I was enjoying, alongside the portability that Turbo Pascal lacked.

From my point of view, only Microsoft and Apple tools seem to keep on the same developer tooling spirit and language capabilities.
Indeed, just like Matt Levine says everything is potentially securities fraud, everything is probably also market manipulation.

Bank analysts are constantly putting out "ratings" on stocks, price targets, etc. Articles all over the internet and tv are saying to buy this stock or that.

What I find strange is that if all the WSB subreddit just put their money into their own wsb-fund that just bought up all the heavy shorted stocks and did exactly the same thing, they'd call the fund manager a genius.

Market manipulation and pump and dump schemes should refer to the spread of dishonest information in order to move a stock price. But things like short-interest is a public number and the hedge funds self-admitted to being short these stocks--it's not like they went around saying "I got a secret tip that a hedge fund is very short this stock, let's buy it".

Shouldn't it be obvious that just taking the opposite trade to a hedge fund can't be market manipulation, unless taking the same side as a hedge fund would also be market manipulation?
> When I send money to India from a US bank account via an intermediary (so that neither the US bank nor the Indian bank are first-party to the transaction) it is removed from my US account (in USD) and reaches my Indian account (in INR) within seconds, and I can see the balance in my Indian account and spend it right away

That's actually a lot more complicated. The Banks take loan with one another to make this happen as well from what I read.
Through non-google message brokers.

The problem is that this requires a long running background connection.

And guess what Google tried to kill for battery saving purpose since a long time (long running mostly sleeping background processes). But then on Google in difference to Apple it's still possible (but less reliable) with the right setup and fully possible with a "proper" de-googled phone.

So depending on your setup you might either:

- not get notifications

- get them unreliable

- only get them if the app is open

- get them just fine

Also this might change from app to app, there clearly will be apps which will not have any 3rd party notification broker fallback, but given how Google doesn't have 100% delivicery guarantees they still should have (potential delayed) message syncing when the app is open.
Perhaps they like the value proposition and would like to continue participating in the mutually beneficial transaction with these corporations as we all should in a free society. Your opinion is not more valid than your opponents’. “Immoral” is highly subjective.
I’m not sure it’s about media. Media may provide a channel to carry a message to many people, but that channel can be used for good or for evil.

I think we are talking about converting influence over masses to personal gain (don’t know if GME guy did it intentionally or not, but it benefitted him), less about media (which itself may not become richer from this) and more about how some use it. Admittedly some media may be prone to facilitating these scenarios.
previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25600338

super cool project.
Sure, I accept I was wrong, and millibits may have some niche usage. That said, the comment I was responding to was describing hardware with "4 mb" of ram. There's no confusion in that case.
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^^ That is all very much correct.

> I don't understand why anyone but a retiree would move there.

Taxes and cost of living.
“Surprisingly easy to wrote your own engine”

Could you explain that part to me because because I’d guess at at least 150 man-years to get a PoC.

Servo was started at 2012 and I think it had full time employees so it’s at least 8 man years to get to that state (I’d guess it was a lot of people in the team, but as a minimum).
Isn't the quest for living space that supposedly hidden ambition? Germany was not seeking pre Versailles borders. They were seeking collonies.

That was pretty significant part of Hitlers ideology.
It appears they've also removed Pattle, but Ditto and FluffyChat are still available at this time.

Odd that they'd only remove half of the Matrix clients available...
Christ can you imagine waking up in the middle of the night and seeing this? Absolutely ridiculous - Jesus told Peter with great power comes great responsibility and its maddening how irresponsible American government at every level is.
Agreed! This is just the free market in action. This is a good thing.
Reminds me of chacha, a bit.
It's funny, somehow when users click "agree" to hundred page document Terms of Service, they are held to the letter of it, yet clearly and simply saying "this is not financial advice" doesn't count.
What a great article! Some super clear explanations and code samples.
Yes, but I mean : I don't care if a lot of people switched from WA to TG but at the same time I think that having E2EE by default is a good thing that Telegram don't have. And that's why I want to have a more clear vision about the new privacy policy update.
I am around 25, and I remember all that and loved it. I miss it terribly. I do not like this trend and direction. Quite scary, to be honest.
Fake news. Please do a quick Google search.
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Three things I definitely dislike about this language:

- Error handling. Uninspectable, untyped errors that still must be declared and caught is just a total waste of an error system. It's not actively harmful, since you can just use primitive unions instead, but it's still a waste. If it's a recoverable error, it should have types and be inspectable so you can recover from it; if it's unrecoverable, it shouldn't have to be caught or declared.

- The file-based package resolution scheme. It is an absolute blight on any language that has it.

- The lack of function overloading. I excuse this in Rust because Rust trait implementations have their own namespace, so nothing conflicts, but if there are two Pony traits with the same function with different types or a different arity, there doesn't appear to be a way to implement both on the same class.
Why is this not an issue in other scripting languages? You either delete at runtime or delete in a separate process. What other options are there?
Can't help you with the article, but the source for the article came from Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors. It's a public post on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/general-motors-intends-lead-a...
I mean, why not NOLA if you want 5 hours away from Houston?
In the communities I participated in, that was just called copying, and generic MP3/MP4 player owners were often quick to point out that they could just simply plug in and copy files like a USB drive, whereas iPods needed iTunes and "syncing". I've never seen sideloading being used to describe anything other than to suggest "impropriety" or something that's not "officially unapproved", and only in the context of applications --- I haven't ever heard of someone "sideloading" music to a player either. I bet for the vast majority of others, this is also the case.
We're in the same boat - fortunately we're a small company so it's not going to be brutal to switch if we have to, but we're huge fans of the privacy and encryption features and it would be a disappointment to have to go back to the old standards of Slack or Teams.
It actually stands a chance, perhaps.
Its kinda is possible (on some android setups) but unreliable.

Most importantly your app (and server) needs to be build to be able to fall back to a 3rd party message broker. But the common fallback is to just sync messages from time to time in background if the app runs as it's "good enough" for the case Google is temporary down or not available or you are one of the (from the App POV) view people which de-googled their phone.
Maybe twenty assholes piling on who politely refuse to take no for an answer is part of the problem
I would say the exact opposite. Do not use your browser, use a native application whenever you can.
Now I do think you are just trying to win an argument and not actually debating in good faith.

Community funding includes accelerators such as Y-combinator, wealthy philanthropists, and charities. Heck I didn’t mention it but you could crowdsource the money for all I care... Point is, alternatives exists that are less predatory then shareholders and investors.

> No bank is going to loan $100M to a complicated startup

(Since we are both just trying to win this argument) Perhaps startups that need $100M to get started, and are unable to crowdsource, loan, or community fund that amount simply should exist. Or at the very least, perhaps it should downscale to a more affordable price, earn some profits and scale up as the profits turn in. I’m not gonna cry for a hypothetical startup that failed because they couldn’t raise $100M before they even began the work.

> You can’t have a bootstrapped Google or Airbnb or Square.

So what? I see people complain about Google and AirBnB all the time on this very forum. These are massive companies that have shown predatory and monopolistic behavior time and time again. Maybe the business world would be better if we didn’t have any tech giants. And instead, smaller tech companies would have to collaborate on big scale projects. Remember that we got the CD by a collaboration.
> parler in the sense that another communication platform not owned by a big corp

Parler is owned by the Mercer family, of Renaissance Technologies fame, one of the most successful hedge funds in existence. They are personally worth tens of billions of dollars.
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Non-sequitur, but true: this is a political hatchet job from delivered by a center-left newspaper to a center-right politician. The key to this crisis and article can be found in the middle of the article:
"...von der Leyen's press department has been energetic in its defense of the Commissions actions. After all, the EU has secured rights to 2.3 billion doses of vaccine, they have pointed out, with 760 million of them from BioNTech/Pfizer and Moderna.

But what use is that when the availability of the vaccine will remain so limited for the foreseeable future? When the producers are unable to deliver what they have agreed to – or can only deliver much later?"
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Reddit kids do not have enough money to keep doing this after this stock goes bust. Eventually they will try 1-2 more stocks and some will make them lose money then they will post their losses and blame the subreddit.

2 years ago everyone was crazy about bitcoin(even close friends, family members, coworkers). Although it is 30k now, I don't hear it from a single person.

This is another social media experiment and won't repeat this successfully in the future.
We are in the post-pandemic era of HCoV-OC43 despite not having a vaccine. It is very similar to SARS-CoV-2 and there is circumstantial evidence that it caused the pandemic of 1889. The only reason it kills few people today is that most of us are infected as youths and build up immunity.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7252012/
By the way, "Foxy Droid" does the same job as F-Droid but is much less annoying. Available on F-Droid.
Cool! I'm glad I could introduce something new to you :)
Or they make F-Droid more known. Publishing apks yourself means you have to implement an update feature. F-Droid takes care of that
The best method is the university's bookstore. For Columbia for example, go to https://columbia.bncollege.com/shop/columbia/home Then, Textbooks > Find Textbooks, Select Department, Course etc.

You'll see that there are weird code names for each course, and these can easily be found on the Courses page e.g. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/bulletin/uwb/

An example would be Department: COMS (Computer Science), Course: W3251, Section: 001

I'd imagine the case is similar for other colleges.
According to my country's history, they indeed did.
Newsflash: there is a chat system so secure, Google doesn't want you to know it exists.
Yeah, so the big problem is every software project has some initial parts you only have to do once and then 99% of the project is just extending and improving the project using the same flow over and over.

I don't see the value of memorizing somethings you just do once.

That said you're right, even the 99% of work still involves a lot of fiddling and sometimes research outside of writing code.
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You are right, somehow my English parser broke on that paragraph and I took it to mean timezones. Maybe I need to take a break…
That post sounds quite skeptical of the way the deplatforming was handled, and the power of sites to arbitrarily deplatform. Can you be more specific about your actual objection?
I wish Google and Apple are going to be hit with fines and regulation in the EU because of this once the comissioners have better things to occupy themselves with other than the pandemic.
While we have found a way to establish and execute rules in the real world (legislature and jurisdiction) we have completely forgotten that we need something like that in the digital world as well.

And now a few VPs of Google and Apple dictate who's allowed to bring in their apps into their holy app store.
Right? I don’t really use all my fingers most of the time. It’s pretty unorthodox. I can easily get 120+ WPM with pretty good correctness. I’m self taught so I just picked up something that worked for me at a young age and ran with it. I can be insecure about it sometimes but since it works well enough for me I haven’t had much motivation to “fix” it.
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Especially for the initial spinning-up part, given how rarely that happens compared to ongoing work.
Could we write software without using one or two reference manuals back in the 80s? I couldn't.

I remember I used the X11 manuals, an encyclopedia sized serie. Plus the manual of every language I used. Plus the Unix man pages, especially section 2 for system calls.

Plus books about basic algorithms.

All those resources moved online and we use far more libraries now. I don't expect to be able to do anything without an internet connection.
I was excluding it because 4 colors is pretty rough looking, so I’d assume that the people making the Mac would go for 1 bit or 4.
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