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> Yes - because manufacturing in the West is ultimately self-defeating.

It's much more to do with the steadily increasing complexity of products due to humanity having become very much a global species with heavy interdependence.

Look around the room you are sitting in: There will be items in it manufactured all over the world, from components also coming from all over the world.

That's not only how we manage to make these things so affordable, that's how we got them at this scale and complexity in the very first place.

The idea that a single country could emulate that, in complete isolation, is bluntly said childish. Isolationism like that doesn't lead to progress or innovation, it leads to North Korea style impoverished hermit kingdoms.

It's mind-boggling how few people seem to understand this reality in the year 2021, we are so interconnected that we can instantly communicate with somebody on the other side of the planet by just pulling a small device out of our pocket, it's considered the most normal thing in the world.

Instead we get shortsighted and small-minded nationalist blowback in the form of Brexit and "America first!" politics.

Even with the EU showing that economic cooperation and integration is one of the best and most constructive ways to ensure peace, stability and prosperity, particularly vs the alternative of alienation and vilification of whole nation states and their people as "enemies" that need to be fought in every way possible.
There's no such thing as a non-lethal weapon, if intent is sufficient ...
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> As a back of the envelope calculation, if you covered the ~2.44 m2 roof of a VW ID3 with solar panels you'd probably see somewhere in the region of 244 kWh / year (based on typical UK solar panel generation per year - this would be more in a sunny place).

Only 244 kWh/year?!? You'd get the same amount of energy by plugging in to a basic 120V North American household plug every weeknight (you don't even need to charge on weekends!).

Or 30 minutes per weeknight by plugging in to a basic UK household plug.

Or you could just leave it plugged in to a household outlet overnight once per week.
If you look at the demographics of people convicted after being flagged by a flawed algorithm, you'll find a lot of correlelations. Pick a totally spurious indicator. Whether you live in a house with an odd or even number. If the algorithm decides odd numbers are highly indicative of fraud, and those are 90% of cases that get investigated, then you're going to have 90% of convictions happen to have odd house numbers. "See, look, the algorithm works!"
The $0.0038 figure is probably due in part to the way Spotify calculates royalties, dividing a pool of all subscriber revenue among all streaming activity, rather than dividing the revenue from each subscriber among each subscriber's streaming activity.

Some have pointed to logistical challenges in the latter model, but it's clearly not impossible, as SoundCloud just announced it will be the first service to adopt it: https://press.soundcloud.com/197001-soundcloud-introduces-fa...
Bank customers now to pay N6.98 for using USSD code for transactions ~CBN, NCC
My understanding is that neither Git nor Mercurial can do this well out of the box, and FB and Google both have their own extensions to Mercurial to make this possible (because even though Mercurial is often slower than Git, it’s extensible)

e.g. https://facebook.github.io/watchman/ - used as part of Facebook’s Mercurial solution, I think.
https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/explaining-bsd/comparin...
It changed recently, it's quite amazing tbh, I'm back on FF however weird it sounds !
Must-haves to protect users' data of healthcare apps
The ideal vehicle for slippery conditions is actually rear wheel drive, with ABS brakes. RWD means that everything you do reminds you that it is slippery and so you never get going fast. 4wd/awd means that you get going fast enough that you end up well into the ditch instead of just stopped on the side of the road where you can push yourself out without a tow truck.

The above is partially tongue in cheek, but there is a point worth thinking about.
Then don't let it take sub-par cameras. I don't give a rats ass about serialized components as long as I can still buy and install the factory parts.
A lot of Universities teaches Ancient C++ and developers start to hate it. The rant of Linus also caused huge disaster newcomers coming into C++ and that shifted people into Rust.
And sand is becoming a precious resource. I believe it's been discussed on HN before.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191108-why-the-world-is...
It is a bit hidden, but yes, self-hosted is very much still an option.

https://ghost.org/docs/install/
It's perfectly readable even if you don't click on anything? And it doesn't set any cookies until you agree.
You're getting kind of semantic. Theoretically, No company "needs" to be in business at all.

If Chinese consumer market growth continues as it has been, it may the biggest market for Apple. Hard to be the largest luxury goods company in the world without the largest luxury goods market...

OP is right. This gives China influence. Supply chain influence is a minor thing, relative to "I'm your biggest customer" influence.
> Insourcing is obviously out of the question; the wealthy Western establishment is violently intolerant of industrial expansion.

As far as I can tell, it’s simply more expensive to insource, taking into account wages, labor regulations, and environmental regulations. If and when other countries catch up to the production costs in the US, then there won’t be a reason to ship things halfway around the world.
> As a small fleet owner I would gladly deal with increased car accidents if it meant they didn't salt the roads.

> I would gladly incur a greater risk of harm or death if they didn't salt the roads.

Let's hope that people around you are smart enough to keep you as far away as possible from local government.
In US, Spotify Duo is two accounts for $13/mo. Family is 6 accounts for $15/mo.
> a great deal of the benefit of salt comes from friction as cars drive over it

You may have never tossed a handful of rock salt on steps that have a quarter-inch of ice on them and watch holes actually form in the ice within a half hour or so.
Oculus does this too, you can't use the product _at all_ without registering it with your Facebook account. Should be illegal.
Yeah if that's really what they're doing, they've misunderstood the pareto principle pretty much on every level, from what it is to how someone might attempt to apply it.
How much of that 50% would go to the record labels? We'd pay 50% more and the artist would probably get 5% more. That doesn't seem like a good ROI.

While no party is without concern, I don't think either Spotify, the artist or the consumer is the problem here. There's a 800lb gorilla standing over there.
> We have the technology to have proactive medicine. We could be catching cancers in early stages all the time with some standard sets of annual tests.

I often wonder why such an expensive device as an MRI machine isn't utilized 24/7. I'd gladly go in for a scan at 3am if it meant paying even as little as 20% less.
Well, I suppose I mean sad in the way people are wistful when old technology fades into obsolescence, not because the tech was better (it clearly isn't) but because the times it represents fading with it.

e.g. dumb phones, analog TV, CRT monitors, floppy disks...
I certainly paid a bit extra for my Thelio, but it's incredibly cute on my desk (in a NeXTcube kind of way) and I didn't have to worry about finding the right permutation of parts to get everything up and running.

I'm sure I likely could have purchased and assembled the components myself and found a more spartan case and all that, but it felt a bit like Christmas using it for the first while.
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You touch a point that has been discussed ad-nauseam before (I saw it in /. a long time ago): Why should artists be perpetually paid for the 40 hours of work they made?

Any normal people, has a pay rate (minimum $0.77 USD/hr where I live). Someone goes to work, works for 8 hours, and gets their 8hr equivalent salary.

But then you have "artists" who work to produce their product for say 80 hours, and then they want to be perpetually paid... not only that, they want to be paid enough to live a lifestyle similar to the person that get's paid for 40 hours a week job, for 30 years.
That's right. I don't think I said otherwise.
What are your thoughts on this RxJS Pattern?
For a first step these labels are okay but I would like for the developers to have to provide more details on the what/why/whatfor for all these points to settle exactly this dispute.
Very nice article. A bit of a lame start though, talking about a particular TV show and brand of chocolate on the sidewalk. I guess such things are taught, that you should start off with something familiar to the reader.
It is obvious. This is a common pattern:

1. Offer open-source 100% free product that's absolutely ground breaking, unlike anything else.

2. Get a shitload of users and free PR machine gets rolling. Network effects kick in.

3. Go to investors with your active user count in excess of millions.

4. Investors go bonkers and their eyes swell up with all the ways they can exploit these addicted-to-free user base.

5. Company has trouble monetizing the users. Users are pissed.

6. We all wonder why they couldn't make billions.

It just happened to Elastic search a couple of months ago when Amazon swiped the rug from under them. Good. This should be a lesson to all the companies that want to follow this pattern. Without Step 1, Docker would have had a much more difficult time to get traction and would have to compete on a level ground. So, they short circuit this competition by going full 100% free product route.

I have zero empathy for these companies and their investors.
I don't know what laptops you are looking at ?

The XPS 13 competes directly with the mac in terms of (familiar but) industrial design, standout display and inner design (with the white carbon fiber) and USB-C ports for a lifetime. Stating it first, because its the most obvious competitor.

The Razer, Asus, HP and Surface flagships have clear standout designs and similar features.

The only 2 laptops that are purposely boring are the Thinkpad and System76, because they seem to cater to people who need them as work machines, first and foremost. (LG Gram is not a flagship)
LTS stands for long term support. Nobody provides that for java 16
South Africa’s ICE3x Cryptocurrency Exchange Suspends All Trading
My guess: you aren't in the EU and the top commenter is.
What do you use to strip the DRM from kindle books?
Just adding that landline numbers, not just toll-free numbers, are probably vulnerable to this.
As far as I know the Netherlands doesn't actually allow for dual citizenship, with few exceptions - notably Moroccans, who are not allowed to give up their Moroccan citizenship.

In this sense, dual citizenship is basically code for being Moroccan.
The interesting thing is the failure mode if you don't agree to continuous tracking. Google uses the last place it was allowed to track you to instead of allowing the user to specifically enable a location update for "near me" queries to maps or the assistant. It may not be meant as one but it feels like a dark pattern, particularly when you can tap an icon to update your position in maps but any "near me" requests still go back to the last tracked location.
To muggles it can be explained line this: computers send letters to each other. Getting a webpage is sending a letter that says “can I please GET the document you call /mypage?”, where the other part replies “OK (200), by the way, next time you write, please include this token “<cookie>“, here is your document”.

When I send the next letter, I (or my user agent) can chose to send along the cookie, or not. The server does not force me. This is why the EU cookie law regulating HTTP messages makes no sense.
> Pro: SMS 2FA is better than just passwords.

That's from the point of view of somebody trying a denial of service attack target at some user, right?
For SSD upgrade prices, it is actually more than a 100% markup compared to retail prices for the most premium Samsung PCIe SSDs on the market. Apple's markup is multiple hundreds of percent compared to mid-range PCIe SSDs on the market.

Retail prices already include higher profit margins than bulk order prices would include, which makes this markup even more egregious.

I calculated it the other day, and Apple is charging $0.52/GB for SSDs on their M1 MacBook Air.

Samsung's 980 Pro is under $0.20/GB for the 1TB model on Amazon right now. That is arguably one of the best SSDs on the market right now, and I'm fairly sure Samsung' 980 Pro is actually significantly better than the internal SSD that Apple is using on the M1 MacBook Air.

That means Apple is charging a 160% markup above retail price, minimum.

The Western Digital SN550 1TB PCIe SSD is priced at about $0.10/GB at retail on Amazon, which means Apple is charging over a 400% markup relative to the retail prices of that perfectly good SSD. Most users would not be able to tell the difference between the SN550 and the internal SSDs Apple is currently using.

I recognize that other OEMs can sometimes charge steep upgrade markups too... but Apple's prices for storage are personally annoying to me because the M1 MacBook Air seems reasonably priced until you get into the upgrades. I wanted to get more storage, but I'm not going to pay $0.52/GB for additional storage these days... I just don't find it reasonable.
a person can think trump is a self-serving, sociopathic idiot, and still defend his humanness against inflammatory, repressive impulses like this. neoliberal media like npr and nyt have lost this perspective entirely and have thrown in with the pitchforkers, so it's unfortunately not surprising that this simplistic view has infiltrated this discussion.

moreover, it's better for the future if we make the population aware of, and thereby immune to, his type of purely self-serving rhetoric, than try to erase him from the discussion, and thereby violate all kinds of human rights, let alone human decency. it's the same distinction as that of training an immune system for future infection vs. neutralizing one virus particle.
> Location data: you are asked and must approve for Chrome to use (at least on macOS)

Now if only we could take away Apple's ability to create a walled-garden...
It can store a lot of energy, but it's not easy nor convenient to release (very slow release rate).
> think of the innocent immigrant

A model that does not incorporate all the relevant information will have more false positives. The practical consequence of doing what you suggest is, cetaris-paribus, that you will incorrectly penalize more people.

> There might be a correlation in aggregate data but in any individual case we can only look at the relevant facts.

Definitely. Thats where courts and human review come in. The mistake the Dutch made here was not the variables in the model, but that they had limited human review of a model with (I'm assuming) low predictive power.

> Our justice system is supposed to be “innocent until proven guilty”, not “innocent until Bayesian inference suggests high enough probability.”

"Guilty beyond a reasonable doubt" (or whatever the Dutch equivalent is) implies exactly the Bayesian calculation you are rejecting. That said, I agree that a machine learning model with limited inputs is not sufficient to determine guilt.
It's actually annoying, you have to go turn on a setting somewhere. I've had a few folks frustrated with this, I think for most users if they give google access to their location they expect google will remember it.
It’s not fair...

Don't hurt Netflix?

I don't think Disney really cares about "fair" as long as they have more subscribers.
> Well, I mean, I haven't done it not because it's hard, but because it appears pointless to me.

That's just your opinion and you haven't convinced me otherwise. Likewise, I don't think I'm going to convince you either.

> I literally addressed that in my first comment

Yes, but that doesn't mean that it's not an important point. Even if we were just comparing "C, Rust, C++ or Go.", different work distribution implementations have different sets of performance. It's hard, but it's still useful to capture that data because the real world doesn't run on a single thread or even a single core. If you're going to continue glossing over this, there's no point in continuing our discussion. We're just going in circles.
Nice. I’ve been always curious but also worried about alienating myself. Any communities of GA users out there to feel connected?
Saying that employees expecting a livable wage is "parasitizing earnings" is a pretty outrageous claim.

More defective programming in the wetware. Why is pay the only part of the equation? When Japan realized that their housing market was undermining living standards in the late 90’s, they cracked down on NIMBYism and took housing and land zoning authority away from cities. The housing market almost immediately corrected itself and housing prices in suburban Tokyo have been in free-fall ever since. You can get a 2000sqft family home for the equivalent of about 200k just 30 minutes outside downtown Tokyo today. We don’t do that because... why?

The West lost out to Asia because...

Again, more defective wetware. Japan, South Korea, Taiwan - these are democratic states with a high standard of living that have been able to control costs in ways that the West hasn’t. More people are homeless in the US per capita than any of those countries and it has everything to do with defective programming and talk of “liveable wages”. Of course everyone needs to be able to afford to live. But your own mistaken assumptions are emblematic of the political and social dysfunction of the West. Until we address that, no - those supply chains won’t be returning.
> They're out to make money, which is why they're the most profitable business in the world.

Everyone I know is out to make money. Apple is the most profitable because they’re selling something with high demand that people are willing and able to pay for.
I also can silently judge those at a concert (remember concerts..?) that film with their phone the whole set instead of enjoying the music. But in this builder's case, he's there for days and weeks, so I don't think much is lost having to sometimes adjust a camera. And if his goal wasn't to live a year in solitude, being able to share his experiences with others (like us) can also be rewarding.
Librem Tunnel Is Leaving iOS
Yes, I forget to include it.
I would cry tears of joy to get a laptop with mouse buttons. Trackpad gestures are a gimmick and so much harder to user than buttons. Apple did it to be "bold" and everyone copied them.
Noise is a commodity.
"govt" didn't develop the specific cookie banner implementation Docker is using.
The real question is how much data is collected from users who have "Web and App Activity" sharing turned off.
New COVID-19 variant in France appears to evade detection by normal PCR testing
So does AWS. They include revenue from AWS Workmail and other SaaS offerings. Too bad MSFT or GOOG make more money than AWS with their SaaS or "Productive" offerings.
They Never Loved Us
>his ideas are simply a mix of standard conservatism and condemnation of the intellectual establishment as he sees it.

I had this opinion of Sowell based on reading his public commentary/watching interviews. But I will say that, having just finished 'Conflict of Visions' some of his written work is quite excellent. I picked it up based on Steve Pinker's review and was not disappointed.
Depends on how far you take it.

"Your kids are on their way to becoming sociopathic gang members, but far be it from me to lift a finger to help you. My kids are fine." Yeah, that's going too far on the individualistic side. Help your neighbors and your community, not just your own family.

"All children will be taken from their parent(s) at birth, and raised exclusively by the community/state." That's too far in the other direction. Take care of your own family first, don't depend on others to do it.

(And if you think I contradict myself: I'm saying take care of your own family, and help others outside it, and (to the extent you can) don't depend on others to do the same for you. Give more than you get. Yes, it's unfair. Don't look at life in a purely selfing manner.)

I can't tell, from the BLM statement, how far they want to go away from a pure no-community, nuclear-family-only position. (I must say, though, that "We dismantle the patriarchal practice that requires mothers to work 'double shifts' so that they can mother in private even as they participate in public justice work" sounds to me like "We're too busy marching in the streets to take care of our own kids, so someone should do that for us".)
I've been waiting for pfSense+Wireguard for a while. OpenVPN has been very good to me but I'm psyched to trade up.
Chromium is Chrome with a lot of code ripped out. Specifically most things that interact with google, widevyne, etc.
I see, so the collected data is the same, just the way it is used is different. Thanks!
I'm building https://pygma.app, a tool to turn Figma files into real websites. Perhaps not quite a side project as I've been spending half of the week on it. Should be launching this week.
What's even more shady is that they did not acknowledge the criticism directed on this point at all. Instead they quiety scrubbed their "What We Believe" page (https://thepostmillennial.com/exposed-blm-quietly-scrubs-ant...), without actually admitting that this screed was based on Marxist philosophy (likely Friedrich Engels). In various works, such as "The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State", Engels claimed that the modern family unit gave rise to the notion of private property, and therefore capitalism, and that it must be undone for socialism to succeed. The greater ecosystem of fundamental socialist and communist theory includes proposals to ban all home and religion education, banning concepts like property and inheritance, nationalizing various housework, and even separating children from parents at an early age so they could primarily be reared by the state (https://thefederalist.com/2015/06/29/americans-buy-into-marx...).

It's incredible to me that activists who often complain about vague "dog whistles" cannot connect the dots on an ideological relation that is so basic and clear.
People who use Linux to browse the web, or install browsers with Chocolately or Homebrew, are all an extreme minority of browser users.

Also, this post is about iOS...
> Elon Musk spoke about this on Joe Rogan recently, and said it’s just not worth it.

Tesla cars are heavier, twice as powerful and twice as expensive. Solar panels trade trade design freedom for utility. I'm not sure that big flat surfaces and an MPV silhouette would do well for a luxury vehicle.
Imagine if Youtube creators started trying to get $0.01 per play. This is just a little crazy. Spotify and competitors successfully captured a LARGE number of people who were not paying anyone at all. There has already been a large increase in friction on streaming music the past few years, this will just be a nail in the coffin pushing everyone to go back to pirating.
I don't see any examples in your comment.
>It is conceivable in a winner take all business, or a top 2 take all business, you either tap into the world’s largest market or you don’t survive.

The US is the world's largest market, by a lot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_consumer_marke...
> Personally, I don't understand how this sort of ideology is supposed to get us closer to a post-racial world.

It isn't. These organizations exist because they have money, not because they actually want to solve legitimate social issues.
Dresden is amazing - one of my favorite cities in the world.