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> have you heard the one about the "ferry company" that thinks it's a takeaway restaurant?

As an American, no, so I Googled it. [1]

> It added: 'Seaborne Freight (UK) Limited reserves the right to seek compensation through legal action for any losses incurred as the result of hoax delivery requests and will prosecute to the full extent of the law.'

> ...

> And Bristol North West MP Darren Jones added: 'Hilarious. Government Hard Brexit start-up champion Seaborne Freight Limited reserves the right to sue you if you order a hoax pizza.'

OMG, I'm dying here. This is gold. A level of corruption and incompetence rivaled only by our own Republican Party.

[1] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6554499/No-deal-Bre...
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> It was a shock on arriving at the New York Times in 2004, as the paper’s movie editor, to realize that its editorial dynamic was essentially the reverse. By and large, talented reporters scrambled to match stories with what internally was often called “the narrative.” We were occasionally asked to map a narrative for our various beats a year in advance, square the plan with editors, then generate stories that fit the pre-designated line.

To repeat: “generate stories that fit the pre-designated line”

Imagine the misery of being forced to lie every day just to fit someone’s twisted maniacal agenda. Imagine that being your only career option to pay off mountains of student loan debt and crippling NYC rental costs. Your job is to write propaganda for your own overlords, like a broken prisoner of war.
Same for NYC, people are leaving Manhattan for larger places in Brooklyn, Long Island and nearby states like NJ/CT. Everybody expects a hybrid wfh model, so everyone within a communitable range of an office in NY.

My bet that FAANG will get more office space in NYC as it cheap and there is plenty of work force to get from the financial services industry.
"Logging forests," "working forests" are not forests. They're tree farms. Calling them forests evokes a bunch of assumptions about conservation that are mostly not true about forestry trees.

We have a great deal of logging going on in temperate rainforests and there are whole swaths of the food chain that require moss growing on old growth trees. Clearcutting kills all of this. So does leaving a few trees intact, which is seen as some sort of improvement to conservation. It is not. Everything dies, it just dies slower. Most of the flora and fauna are adapted to full forest cover and high humidity. A copse of trees does not provide any of this. Summer comes and everything dries out.

We are still in need of a very different process for creating paper products. Fishing exclusion zones are an interesting model, but fish can move a lot farther than ferns, and a hell of a lot farther than moss and the habitat they provide. We may end up having to leaving a considerable amount of land intact (larger blocks, closer to everywhere) to avoid tree farm situations.
Can you elaborate on what you find bizarre about it?
consider the reciprocal, how persuadable are people? how much humility do we temper our views & stances with?

the internet exposes so many of us to torrents of information. the world seems more firm & certain, now that the cold war is over, now that capitalism's steady gobbling up of all local systems has proceeded space for decades unabated & unchanged. my guess is that people feel more resolute in their own views, & that the world seems less in flux/malleable than ever.
What, then, might be a better solution than making nullability explicit in the type system?
how is the app store any different them the play/ps4/xbox store which also take 30% cut?
I've never seen it before (so I'm not 100% this is the same thing), but did find a picture that I think is similar to what they're describing - the red glow in the top window of the picture here: https://commonsensehome.com/masonry-heaters/
I guess recently released Soviet documents don't support the idea that Soviet generals were afraid of the scale of SDI.

[0] http://russianforces.org/podvig/2013/03/did_star_wars_help_e...
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i don't understand. FB claims that this law will hurt australian news outlets more than FB... Why not just let these companies protest themselves?? We saw something similar in facebooks campaign against apples new privacy law. There, too, they pretended to be representing the "small business". I find it pathetic that they are using this same tactic of casting themselves as the protector of smaller, weaker, companies again. It's like a toddler covering his eyes with his hands and hoping that no one can see him.
"Something you have" is generally an improvement over "something you know" for most people's account security.

You have to remember where we are starting from - most people are still using the same password across all their accounts.
OK, but that's very far from the quote you originally made. So you can understand my initial confusion.

While I agree that there should not be a specific job requirement to keep a clean home and healthy living habits independent of job performance, I absolutely disagree that employers shouldn't "talk" about it in general terms. It's perfectly appropriate for companies to encourage and help their employees to lead healthy lives (e.g. providing healthy food, gym access, encouraging taking vacation time, promoting appropriate work-life balance, etc), just as it is appropriate for companies to encourage having passion for the mission even if it isn't strictly a job requirement.
It (Ozempic) has already been approved for treatment of diabetes 2 for a couple of years. Maybe you could qualify.
The trials mentioned is basically just a phase 3 trial of the product specifically for weightloss.
I’m not sure you can achieve the same thing without some sort of external name/trust system, which is entirely the point.
Engineering documentation shouldn't be about making pretty pictures, it should be about functionalism and putting that at the top of the list just below accessibility.

What do you know, people love fancy and decorative things. Just human nature.
Books (especially used ones) are also generally cheaper than digital copies.
You can get around it. A couple weeks ago I had friends over while their place had to be vacated for a few hours, they bought lunch, we played with cats

You can go after "all altruism is selfish" argument but you'll end up having to settle with "some altruism is more selfish than others"
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In this space it's not too unusual, really. It's not altogether unlike modern AIX or IBM i, which effectively only run on virtual machines managed by a hypervisor built into the firmware on PowerVM machines. Maybe less satisfying since it's less integrated with the hardware, but in a sense the paravirtual devices are kind of just another type of firmware/driver layer.

I kind of hope more (new) OSes adopt a similar model. Developing cool new experimental OSes would be easier if real hardware could be "ignored" in favor of just targeting virtio interfaces or something, and IMO that's where the most interesting OS dev is yet to happen. If you're mostly interested in hardware support and raw performance, I think Linux has "done it". But there's a lot left to explore, and maybe it's best to find a way to get Linux to do the heavy lifting.
I did, I'm taking exception with the whole "kill the newsletter" rallying cry. It's a bad call, and any "kill X!" should be questioned even if what it's used to market is a perfectly fine tool.
While I 100% agree with the sentiment, I’m not fully following these examples. On my Apple TV device, when using the TV app, TV consolidates all those except Netflix into an overall Up Next. I can watch next episodes directly, from Disney+, Prime, Hulu, AMC+, Apple TV+, even AT&T, without leaving the “TV” app.

Additionally, not just up next, but based on my subscription patterns, content from CBS, Showtime, Starz, AMC+, Epix, HBO, Cinemax, Sundance, Acorn, BritBox, IFC Films, and MUBI, as well as Apple’s TV+ channel, are all browsable without leaving the consolidated TV UI, and do not need an app installed at all.

From your list, Hulu, Disney+, Netflix, and Prime all do need apps installed. I do have to go into these to discover their own algorithmically proposed (personalized) thumbnails. But for day to day watching, the only app needed for each brand you happened to mention (except Netflix) is the TV app, and when searching for a show, shows from all of these (except Netflix) are in the search results.

Unfortunately, there are apps that work on Apple TV that do not play nice with the consolidated view and watch-roll. Some that were well integrated, backed off, most likely having to do with the waterline on viewer measurement / analytics data.

Netflix is the prime offender here. It wasn’t integrated, then it was, then it wasn’t again. They seem to have landed on a (for them) happy medium, where if you have Netflix in your home (top) row of icons on Apple TV’s home screen, “mousing over” (aka selecting w/ remote) the Netflix icon does show you your Continue Watching and Trending Now options, so you can go directly to those without opening the Netflix app itself. But they no longer show up in even the search interface, which probably keeps me subscribing to and watching other sources more than I need to.

To help give a signal to media owners, and to Apple, I systematically un-subscribed through individual apps and subscribed through the fully integrated “Channels” as those channels appeared. This individual statement is lost in statistical noise, sure. But what you describe is clearly better for the home user, and if enough folks do it, they’ll catch on.
5+ yrs @ Google, Google is my 5th company.

Google has all the building blocks for great backend services and front-end development and, if you know where to look and have some experience with them, you can build a rock-solid product in <6mos, also assuming you have a team that can execute and the political will to ship it.

Politics/consensus building is where the real roadblocks lie in Google, and presumably other large companies. Trying to make high-level product & technical decisions when you have 10 stakeholders with 3 VPs, all in different orgs, is serious exercise in patience; months of emails & meetings await you.
Great, sounds like more material is coming for the movies.
Oh, that was more in relation to still closed cans.
I am using Nexus for GraphQL APIs.
that.

It's a perfectly fine tool, but "kill the newsletter" is an incredibly bad rallying cry and should be questioned.
That's how money works. It's a transactional abstraction. It doesn't matter how many times it changes hands as long as it ends up in the right place.
You need both. And in my experience it’s rare that an engineer will have strong soft and hard skills. I have known exactly one person with that rare combination, and he has since started his own successful company.

Unfortunately the smartest and most component engineers I have known have nearly always come across as being arrogant. They have a very solid grasp of their domain and a strong skillset, but they also expect everyone around them to be at their level and instantly follow everything they’re saying. These people sometimes even have disciples who follow the philosophy of arrogance and engage in gatekeeping. I have concluded that while this is not ideal, it’s often par for the course.

Conversely, the best engineering leaders I have known (architects, tech leads, product owners, requirements analysts, etc.) have had really strong empathy and encouraged healthy debate while also making everyone’s input and analysis feel welcome and valued. Their technical skillset is not necessarily the strongest but they’ve usually been good generalists who could talk intelligently about something at a high level without having to know the technical details. These people have also been able to take those arrogant engineers and have gotten them to successfully collaborate with everyone from the junior devs up to management. A good tech leader really is just a good mediator.
The article asserts a strawman, that we had, in the past, cool, rational, reasoned debates that we all stroked our beards and decided what the right choice of action would be.

I would suggest several counter examples:

* Hearst Newspapers and "Yellow Journalism"

* McCarthyism

* Revolutionary War era op-eds (e.g., https://thefederalistpapers.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/T... )
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Well, everything is a monopoly if you define the market specifically enough.
Anything taken to an extreme becomes absurd, sure. You're right that my argument is not just against paper catalogs, but against consumerism in general.

However, my aim is not to take it to the extreme, nor to suggest that we shouldn't eat. It's merely to introduce a measure of "seventh generation" thinking and consideration into buying habits, beyond the amount of funds it takes to procure something.

If I take it further than sounds comfortable to you in my own life, it is only show what is possible, and to shift the needle of normal a little bit towards the direction of prudence and restraint.

Do we still need food? Of course! Do we need a place to sleep comfortably? Of course we do, and I do not suggest othrwise.

But what about new clothes when we already have quite a few sets which are still good, or a new pair of shoes when we still have a couple which are just a bit scuffed?

My argument is to consider the full systemic impact of buying those items, something no one else will do for us, before going through with it. If you consider this idea next time you are about to buy something, that each {dollar} spent comes back around in so many ways to harm us and our close relatives on the biological tree of live, then I will consider my writing a success.
I think the answer for most people is perceived control of one's destiny.

As long as that holds, I think a lot of people, especially founder types, are happy. The moment that's wrested away, whether by excessive board oversight, or by perceived meddling from investors, or by perceived interference by a manager, passion drops.

That's why autonomy was so important for the article writer.
Interesting experiment. I wonder if this will decrease or increase the amount of misinformation Australian people consume.
gmail presumably doesn't need to use a tracking pixel to determine if someone opened an email in the gmail interface...
> a developer version of those Instagram pictures of meals at restaurants

I guess those pictures are popular because food is easy to relate to, and people build lots of social interactions around eating. Developers also relate to things about code, and like to share those relations among each other.

I feel some puzzlement about the format too, though. These days it's so easy to make text on the web look nice, and it's easily accessible, copyable and searchable.
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What’s stopping this money going to friends of Tory MPs or, worse, to Deloitte?
It's a law that's either written by media lobbyists or people unfamiliar with technology. Potentially both at the same time.

If the news organisations want people to pay for news, they can change to a subscription model and put their content behind a pay wall. Many companies already to this: I myself pay over a hundred pounds a year for the Economist for their excellent reporting. The old establishment needs to understand they're not special, and if they want people to pay for news they need to provide content that's worth paying for, just like everyone else.
Assembly language is not the most general because and particular assembly code can be run on only a few particular architectures. It's the higher-level languages that are more general.
Laws of economics are pretty clear on this. News, especially international news, is a commodity. Government can impose monopoly ruls to try to allow distribution channels to extract more, but technology (and users) will find ways to route around this as damage to the network.

People don't want to pay for news. They don't like ads, but will tolerate them to a point, and most definitely don't want to pay for subscriptions. Laws can change behavior short term but long term the better product and platform will win.
Why persuade when you can simply cancel your opponent?
IKEA has delivery, at least to Toronto. However it is very expensive and most things were out of stock for a long time or restricted for in-store only (although it seems that a lot is back in stock now).
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I've got a chronic illness and I have personal days. I don't plan when I can't work. Deal with it, don't give me personal days, or fire me.
> Truly it has quite a bit of depth and is not predictable from the start.

It... really isn't. There's not much depth or unpredictability. It's the regular Disney hero journey: oh, I'm a misunderstood loner, oh, I've found my own path, oh, I've prevailed. Oh, and comic reliefs.

There are "unexpected" twists as in "wow, these sisters don't need a strong man to save them", and that's as much depth as it gets.

Unlike, say, Coco. Which actually:

- "has harshness". There's an actual murder involved. There's the uncomfortable truth of people losing their memory. People facing death etc. What harshness is there in Frozen that we haven't seen 15000 times before? Most Disney musicals from before 2000 have significantly more harshness than anything Frozen has.

- "complex character relationships". The relationship between Miguel and his relatives, especially grandmother. The ever evolving relationship between Miguel and Hector. In Frozen there's next to zero character development except "suddenly we don't talk, suddenly I'm strong, suddenly we're good, suddenly sister powah".

- "appeals both to adults and children". Coco definitely caters to a more grown up children who understand the concept of getting old, and death. Frozen is for the kindergarteners who will hug an Olaf plushie and sing Letitgo on repeat. The scene where Miguel sings to Mama Coco is such a gut punch to anyone who has relatives with memory loss, Frozen couldn't even approach the depth of it in the wildest dreams.

The same goes for all other movies in my list. Frozen is a flashy loud entertainment for kindergarteners. It's definitely not "the only American animated movie that's worth saving in the last 10 years".

> whereas the best kid movies just tell a great myth.

And Frozen fails to tell that myth. It's flashy, loud, with memorable songs. And the first quality animated musical in a long while. That's why it is memorable. But "the only animated movie in the past 10 years that deserves to be preserved"? Hahaha, no.
This seems very close to the stereotype content model, which asserts that every interpersonal impression is formed along two dimensions: warmth and competence.

Feeling someone cares fits the warmth dimension; commitment to excellence is a hallmark of competence. I would say the word trust can encompass both.

[0] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype_content_model
Some people can rid themselves of type 2 diabetes by losing weight, and obesity is a known risk factor for getting it in the first place.
it's not trivial? its multiple accounts and multiple things to install and juggle - not everyone has the latest and greatest computer. Not to mention are you 100% sure those stores and your purchases will continue to exist longer than steam ect?

regardless, I hate it too but i really don't care, companies like EA and epic can do whatever they want and i just don't install or play games not on steam or the ps4 stores and move on with my life.
I would love to see FB ban any news from their platform, especially politics. Globally.
Hmm... I'm usually a pretty graceful faller myself generally. Maybe it was just the last time I fell that really hurt. I was carrying a 24 pack of beer to a friends and tried to jump over a slick space and fell and slammed my hip into the ground pretty hard. Was sore for a couple weeks.

That was several several years ago, not sure I've slipped on the ice since then. Now I'm a graceful walker ;-).
Most Canadian developers don't get paid enough to live in the tech hub cities.
Facebook can say a lot of things, but I bet the publishers also have their own numbers and they are the ones who pushed for this deal.
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> That's because Apple's app store has better quality apps due to curation.

Is that why I found a dozen Chinese knockoff BonziBuddy[1] clones on Apple's App Store?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BonziBuddy
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Yes, it's clearly a puff piece.

Can I bribe a BBC editor to get them to write about mnm & TMTP? :-)

It also prevents spy-pixels, and phishing, and provides unsubscribe (from threads, or senders, or whole sites).

mnm, an open source project to replace email & SMTP:

https://mnmnotmail.org

https://twitter.com/mnmnotmail
How is that? Everybody living in my house can get my Yubikey yet doesn't know my password. If I get robbed, my bank account is still (relatively) safe.
Displaying so many points is something spatial people have struggled with for a long time. Would you consider writing a leaflet plugin that helps with your approach?
Also, totally unclear about what this has to do with them both having 90% drawdowns.
It's funny how they targeted 32 bit x86 instead of just going straight for 64 bit. I wonder what drove that decision.
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Details: Argument "contact" has invalid value $contact. In field "birthDate": Expected type "Date", found false.

There isn't even a contact or birthdate field (Sweden)
no, because it is unrealisable.
xamarin uses mono, wich is very bad actually

unity IL2CPP produces bad C++ code since .net is managed language with ton of runtime features that doesn't play well with AOT compilation

same with .net native, lot of restrictions because nature of .net

it doesn't matter what people use, i value good code, efficient code, and i don't value waste
All of WHAT is Apple’s fault? Providing a service that consumers want to use and preventing other companies from ruining it?

Telling consumers they should be mad at Apple is absurd. I am not mad at Apple, I am mad at Epic for wasting everyone’s time with this case that they know they will lose, purely to shape public opinion. The judge so far seems to be projecting this is what will happen. I also don’t like relying on regulators to force changes in a market they know little about. Interfering with a successful model that consumers LIKE and WANT into something else does not benefit consumers.

Benefiting other developers is completely irrelevant to the point of antitrust. That’s just corporate welfare.

Apple would be best to lower their rate a bit, clarify certain inconsistent rules, and not abuse the review process, but otherwise I do not want multiple App stores and prefer Apple to regulate their store over the government. I guarantee you there are far more consumers that share this opinion than not. We really could care less what developers are whining about Apple’s policies or retail cut. If you can’t build for iOS at a profit, find something else to do.

The government isn’t going to force a change of the iOS UX, that’s a pipe dream localized to Hacker News and Epic’s board room. Apple isn’t a monopoly by any definition of the term. You could declare them a utility, but that won’t have the effect you expect.

To believe that iOS, a platform with 15% market share, somehow represents the end of platform history that needs government intervention, is the height of lazy thinking. Build a better ecosystem. Apple did it barely 14 years ago when they were a fraction of Microsoft’s size, and everyone said it was impossible.