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Conflicts of interest cannot in general be proved or disproved to have influenced any person's behavior (short of an explicit quid pro quo agreement). For that reason, the safe assumption is generally to assume that if money is flowing from one person or organization to another that a conflict of interest exists and that it is very likely to be influencing behavior. In this case it means that it's reasonable to regard what the Washington Post says with some degree of skepticism. The best way to resolve conflicts of interest is to not have them in the first place. Unfortunately, if the Washington Post's continued existence depends on backing from a rich patron/owner, then their credibility is a little bit less than it would otherwise be on subjects that overlap with Jeff Bezos's interests. That doesn't mean the Washington Post is wrong, just that they deserve extra scrutiny.

At the risk of letting politics intrude into the discussion: the Washington Post also exhibits a conflict-of-interest pattern of behavior elsewhere. Bernie Sanders is a vocal critic of Amazon and their treatment of workers, and the Washington Post is often harshly critical of Senator Sanders. Again, there's no proof that Jeff Bezos is influencing the editorial content of the Washington Post, but there's a pattern of behavior and a financial incentive.
Fragmentation and walled gardens are a false dichotomy. Steam is actually a great example of this, there are many other stores (Humble Bundle, Fanatical, GMG, whatever) that sell you Steam keys so you can keep your game library in one comfortable place.
I did certifications and couldn't believe that it wasn't $5/missed question the first time around :D
The point isn't that Lithium Ion batteries are that great, but that most of the press articles are hyping something which at best is a few years in the future. There is a huge gap between even the best science and a technology which is ready for production and can be rolled out into large-scale manufacturing. Even if there are for-real samples around for people to play with, it could take years until they make it into a car. And then of course, there is some risk that the initial science isn't even good. That happens too.
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In the EU, Tesla already lost this argument and is using CCS.

https://electricrevs.com/2018/11/14/tesla-flips-to-ccs-in-eu...
> Why is it that Apple have to make the solution a small subset of people want. Why is that their problem to solve?

Because otherwise they are a populist company.

Imagine a company making clothes in sizes S..XL, but not XXL. Don't you think a company owes it to society to also offer the XXL size?

Instead of thinking "what is better for us?", a company should think "what is better for our customers?"
> Because Google is responsible for most of the software on said product. Who would be receiving that telemetry data if it wasn't Google?

Depends, on Android maybe. On my Android Device, not really i don't use google software with the exception of the core android system without gplay services. On iOS, the HTML Based Web, or Desktop Systems, I see no need for google to exist. If you need telemetry, run your own damn telemtry server instead of feeding the FAANG Privacy nightmare even more.

> First, this is a false premise because it ignores the potential that telemetry could help improve this software but most Linux distros have decided against it for other reasons. Secondly, it ignores that some distros do in fact include telemetry.

Distros may, Linux itself does not. The fact that the majority of Linux Distros work just fine without telemetry shows that large scale software developement and deployment work just fine without invading peoples privacy needlessly.

> It probably should be when it comes to something that has potential to invade privacy, but we have to be realistic that practically no one will actively turn on telemetry if it is initially set to off.

so, if given the fair and free choice everyone will chose against telemetry? And that doesn't make you ask yourself "are we the baddies?".

> That drastically decreases the value of the collected data and it basically turns into nothing more than something customer service can tell someone to turn on while trying to troubleshoot a specific issue.

So, wheres the problem here? Sounds EXACTLY how a good telemetry system should work. If the bugs don't bother the users there's no need to invade their privacy to fix them, if they do bother them, telemetry can be a tool to help them. There's no need to generate "valuable data" except to invade peoples privacy.

> Telemetry isn't just about bugs. It is also about guiding future development, knowing what features are used, knowing the workflow for users, etc. It can provide value beyond crash reports.

Why is it any of your effing buisness what my workflow is like? If i need a feature i request it. This shit is only accepted because the majority of users lack a meaningful understanding of the depth of invasion by app and web developers into their privacy.
More complex =/= more secure. Tor, Whonix, Tails, et all have sections in their wikis covering potential tunneling setups and their thoughts on efficacy and rationale behind them.

From the Tor wiki:

> You -> X --> Tor --> X

> No research whether this is technically possible. Remember that this is likely a very poor plan because [#You-Tor-X you -> Tor -> X] is already a really poor plan.
These days, even with Los Angeles light pollution nearby, I can just look up at sunset and spot multiple satellites per minute. I remember how exciting it was to see a satellite when I was a kid. Now it is pretty commonplace, and only becoming more so.
what's worse is when the architect says; "that's an antipattern".
For their UniFi line, at least, you don't have to use their cloud controller. You can self-host.
I’m a native speaker from the north and west US and it’s definitely “double-u”. A double-u S. In my experience only Southerners shorten it the way you describe.
This, Ford’s new CEO seems like he’s putting the company full steam ahead on electric. Plus outwardly admires Tesla, he’s a real car geek.
Note that the hero background video stutters a lot for me (on a powerful PC with good wired internet).
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Yep, this might very well enable whole deployments where there is no SSH access anywhere.
Wait.. sudo has a logo? Wow, that logo is ... special.
Nah if anything Ford is more like Microsoft.
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Android had Flash. It stank, and the blame for its stinkiness lies entirely on Adobe.
You can enable the SAC for Windows. Then, you can have a command prompt too over serial.
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The issue seems to be that on a 4K screen it uses all my GPU to play a what looks like low-resolution video. And I have a 1080TI.
AstraZeneca has completely botched this. There’s no way you get into this much trouble without poor management.
Let me fix this.

Microsoft did worse, they did charge more than 30% to everyone that published software for the xbox.

People with skin in the game, game publishers, game developers, mobile app developers for nokia, blackberry, samsung, motorola, etc, considered Apple taking "only" 30% to be an excellent deal at the time. It was so good in fact, almost all other store splits collapsed shortly thereafter to the same 30% to compete with Apple.

Others complained, sure. I too complain Ferrari charges way too much for customizing the color of the thread of the interior lining on their cars, I don't know why they don't seem bothered.
The other stuff people recommend is often 2-3x the Unifi price and 2-3x more complicated to setup and configure.

I don't know about 2-3x the price, at least not here in the UK. We looked into this when fitting out a new office with the networking essentials a couple of years ago, and Ubiquiti wasn't particularly attractive on headline prices compared to the other typical brands that get mentioned in that space (MikroTik, DrayTek, etc.).

However, the ability for non-networking experts to set something up quickly that does the job and doesn't have glaring security problems is definitely a competitive advantage in that prosumer to small business market. None of those other brands has a great UI that I've seen and they all tend to assume that anyone who wants to set up a couple of extra APs for a small office WiFi and a standard firewall for the Internet connection will be a pro-level network expert.

I think it would help a lot of people if better products/companies started to compete seriously on that front, and I have to think that with the SME market to fight for there is room to compete with the established names. After all, that is largely how Ubiquiti themselves broke into the market, or at least that's the perception I had at the time.
And you can load content and view websites on your iPhone as well.

We are talking about apps.
They said a system, not their system.

Car computers report telemetry to mechanics, and given that digitization allows for economies of scale, this isn't that different.
Good to know. I just thought these were the two issues that might be phrased differently. Saying that the software doesn't contain malware even though you might see some warnings ... is not the most effective way to convince people.

It's like saying "Nothing to see here, truly. Trust me. The check is in the mail".

I do think it is a good thing that there are alternatives to Windows Explorer. Can you tell what were the shortcomings of Windows Explorer that affected you personally and thus (presumably) lead you to build this app?
It’s a step in that direction others haven’t made yet.
I also have a TP-Link Omada setup. For layer2 networking with switches and AP's it's fine. Cost effective, reasonably stable, acceptable performance and features that are regularly used are all there.

The layer-3 stuff however is still early days and I can't recommend getting the secure gateway at this time. No IPv6 support. Depends strictly on an internet uplink configuration for default route to which all traffic is then NATted. Can't change that. No real security features, no packet inspection etc. The routing features really feel like an alpha version. They are working on it and have a roadmap to a more workable layer-3 solution. So maybe in the future the will be as nice as the Ubiquity solution.

Cloud is not needed but possible. You can get an OC-200 controller for not much money that fills the role of single pane configuration webinterface. The software for that controller can also be downloaded for Linux on PC or ARM if you want to use your own hardware. Also the network keeps running if the controller is down.
They were created by the same person.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Hejlsberg All the hate C# gets is because of balmer and gates, not for technical reasons
And Zstd was created before the creator joined Facebook
Chrome on mobile absolutely has a text zoom, it's exposed as an OS function, but chrome respects it... my vision is not great, so in accessibility settings I have fonts set to largest. Chrome does a decent job (as most Android UI) of respecting this. The apps that don't, or don't do it well (Facebook) are the ones that are particularly annoying.

It may not be exposed in the browser directly, but the functionality is definitely there.

edit: and I'm frankly okay with using px/pt for the baseline font at the root level and using em/rem elsewhere. In the end, I understand that it should be 72pt/in and 96px/in as far as CSS goes... others may not... Devices that don't have their actual PPI set so browsers can properly calculate the CSS dimensions is slightly annoying though. But that's been a bit craptastic forever and a day.

In the end, nothing will ever be close to perfect. I do find it annoying that different fonts with the same size and line-height will render far differently... a 12pt font should render (roughly) 6 lines per inch.
Yes Steam are still perfectly comfortable staying at 30% as I said it's clearly a market driven level.
When both Alice and Bob represent women, you have achieved 100% diversity. Thus, Bob shall be henceforth shorthand for Roberta.
NATS is not a replacement for any use of kafka that I think is actually a good fit.
Let's be careful, "Weird Twitter" is a CIA project and while Bezos indeed has a cozy relationship with the CIA, Twitter botnets are a different issue.
Maybe you and I have different opinions of "enthusiast" in this context. There is really only so much you're going to do on a home network. You set it up and once it's going, it requires very little maintenance. I would not consider running my own network gear a "hobby" any more than I would consider restaining my deck a "hobby". It's largely a one-time project.

I do have requirements beyond what the typical consumer does of their network, like PoE to run a couple of access points, PPPoE so that I can put my modem in bridge mode, the desire to configure extra DNS records, dynamic DNS since my home IP changes. Oh, and let's not forget some filtering/rewriting capabilities so that I can force modern smart TVs to respect the DNS server I provide them.

My network is much more usable having put the time into it. Yes, you could buy some off the shelf thing and get an OK experience, but that wasn't good enough for me.
On one hand, it is rational if you think of Go functions "on a type" as just having an extra argument, but then one might ask, why bother with the special syntax at all?

Just go the C way and if you want to take a "self", actually take it as a regular parameter. That is: (sorry if the syntax is wrong, I have never used Go)

func (f *Foo) sayHello() { ... }

Would become

func sayHello(f *Foo) { ... }

Heck, if you want to keep the value.sayHello() syntax, you can, which would still allow you to build fluent interfaces or whatnot, with the bonus point of being UFCS!
AWS is super slow to deprecate or remove features and services.

A few people were noting that SimpleDB has been deprecated, it's not listed in the AWS web console, you can't find docs for it anymore, but if you have a running instance, your service API calls still work. And I think there have been many deprecation warnings since, plus migration messages. But they don't want to break existing clients.

I'm guessing this is a similar case where they want to be really, really sure that it's worth offering the service.
And where do you suppose that the money to fund those social welfare programs comes from? Not the free market, that's for sure.

EDIT to be more clear-and-explicit and less snarky - taxes are an interference with the free market. I am making the claim that a high-functioning society that cares for its citizens and ensures a good quality of life must necessarily a) impose taxes, in order to b) provide social welfare programs. In particular, I claim that no purely-free-market motivated company will address social welfare needs as comprehensively as public programs would (though I do concede that, for some subsets of society, some companies will often do so more efficiently than public programs would, at the cost of non-universal coverage).
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And here I thought it was some difference between metric months and imperial months.
Russell's eugenics notes are very well known.

Read my posts again, what you are accusing me of is utterly missing - I'm insulted, however I will not be making any threats to those ignorant of history.
I am probably way out of my depth here. But if Paypal or Square have a large enough market/volume of transactions couldn't they act as their own market maker, settle immediately internally? Kind of like the whole storm over Citadel GME. And then also not have to pay the BTC fees?
What are the 84% that aren't in open prison? Poor people who don't have a corporate apparatus to hide their crimes behind?

Volkswagen emissions killed people with smog. VW are homicidal.
My guess is anything that produces an ordered sequence of numbers that need to be dealt with. For example a network card or any character based IO device. Just a couple of examples of the top of my head.
So SSO is disabled here. You just use a local account. IE, I go to https://192.168.27.1 to get to my UDMP and the account to auth is locally stored.
We use Meraki MR/MX stuff at our office and are generally happy with the value & service. The MS stuff though, thats another story. Do you guys have plans to enter the sub $2K tier with L3 devices?
I read the article and it's wrong.

Apple does not explicitly "send" the user's IP address. It naturally is accessible on their end as a result of the TCP/IP protocol. But Apple has made quite clear that it does not use that information in any way.
Biting people isn't particularly discreet, and a person that gets captured can't dispose of a gland. A similarly deadly poison in the tip of a mundane item that a person might reasonably be carrying seems much more practical, much more likely to succeed, and much more likely to remain undetected
That's an interesting idea. I could see car companies offering discounts for ad- and/or cryptomining-supported models (similar to Amazon's model with Kindle hardware).
Totally agree. I found Clojure to be an amazing, well-designed language. I found the REPL to be secondary to really great immutable data structures and pragmatic escape hatches.
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> That's simply not true, Android outsells iOS, it has multiple App Stores and allows sideloading.

It's very true. Google acts in an anticompetitive manner to prevent competition in the mobile app distribution market, as well.

Google prevents mobile app distribution competitors from competing with the Play Store on feature parity because user installable 3rd party mobile app stores cannot implement automatic upgrades, background installation of apps, or batch installs of apps like the Play Store can.

Also, iOS has 60% of the market in the US[1], which is the highest in the world. Apple's App Store is responsible for 100% more app store revenue than the Play Store[2].

> Maybe these stores converged on 30% because it's a nice round number and a roughly 1:2 split makes intuitive sense

Instead of guessing, we should let real competition in the mobile app distribution market increase efficiency and drive costs down to their true values instead of letting a cartel decide what they are.

[2] https://www.businessofapps.com/data/app-revenues/

[1] https://deviceatlas.com/blog/android-v-ios-market-share
I'd add HN to that list!

I have previously downvoted comments on my opinion on some instances of this on HN lol
The general case would be to have text written in the same paragraph align well. To me that encompasses same baseline, same x height, and in the case of mixing scripts same cap height (in case of CJK). Basically “do what I mean”. I understand that it’s hard, but it should be at least doable. If it would require being able to specify which height to consider, so be it, make it an option.
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>I'm worried if we trust a press that can be so easily and obviously misled.

I'm embracing the fact tat you only came to this conclusion now when it is already too late. Press is dunzo.
Is there an audio recording of "modern" handshakes somewhere?
I fear the other way, that Elon will jump on the next thing before Tesla becomes more than a rounding error.
Except there was a lot of death, hence the line about rejecting uptopia. Also robots used human brains as batteries (or processors, in the original script) which is not quiet the same.
> either by overlapping text, or not increase the width of text zones so you end up with few words per line in the middle of the screen

Those the problems that I mentioned. Those problems are why you don't use pixels instead of `em` units.

If you increased the font size in a PDF then columns, diagrams, and layouts would also break. But you wouldn't be surprised because you don't expect the PDF to be responsive. We expect the browser to be responsive.

The use-case for font-only zooming in general is that as a designer, there are elements that should scale with the font and elements that shouldn't. Full-page scaling works by acting like the browser is just a lower resolution, so everything scales upwards except percentage units and viewport units, including things like border widths, spacing between columns, etc... Sometimes as a user that's what you want. Sometimes it's not.

As a designer, it's useful to be able to have more control in the scenario where a user wants to scale only the font and not the border-width of an element to make something that genuinely feels responsive, rather than to be completely subject to a zoom method that is just pretending you're on a screen half as large and then upscaling before it renders.

It's also useful because we'd like to build the web into an extensible platform that users can interact with in creative ways. So maybe we'd like the ability to scale only part of a webpage. Maybe we have an extension that allows us to quickly zoom in and out of a paragraph.

Note that this is not completely theoretical, Firefox already lets users set minimum font sizes. If I set a minimum font-size of 14px, it doesn't matter if you say that your font-size is 8px, it will render at 14px -- but all of your bigger titles and headers will be unaffected. That's the kind of feature that works if browsers allow font-based zooming, and pages are built to accommodate that, but that is impossible to do if the only way we can resize a page is with full-page zooming.
Toyota actually made a plugin hybrid with a reasonable electric only range (68km or so), which is a great way to gradually switch people to electric. That seems to be a sweet spot range-wise -- to the point that they say to run on gasoline occasionally otherwise it can go bad in a year and corrode fuel system.
Perhaps patents in HP's iLO system?
This is a tradeoff that must be made in every place where technology meets aesthetics, not just the web - I'm an artist who mostly uses Adobe Illustrator, and every new way I think of to use it must be evaluated on the often-orthagonal axes of "how good does it look" and "how much does it slow down AI".
But Bitpay and others provide instant settlement and manage the volatility on their side. Merchants don't have to risk anything.
If paypal only allowed users to pay for things in USD it would also greatly defeat the purpose of Paypal.

Instead, they offer automatic conversion (at a rate favourable to them no doubt) from other currencies. They certainly wouldn't say "If you hold EUR you can take it to a currency exchange and change it for USD, then send it to us". They would have no global hold if they did that.

Likewise, barring access to users of a certain national currency damages the global utility of that country's currency; it's silly of them to do that if there are no regulatory obstacles, and I'd argue they're strongly incentivized to find ways around those obstacles.

Whether it's paypal or not, it's greatly useful to have some way to pay for things with cryptocurrency, and payment companies have an economic incentive to add support for crypto payments as well
> I've had an "off" kindle drain itself dry in a day from these.

> I find that hard to believe.

Assuming good faith on their part, it's a little more interesting to ask why their experience is so different from yours. It might be something mundane (different models, battery degradation, ambient temperature throwing off the voltage sensors on a partially degraded battery), or it could point to something like careless programming. E.g., I've had phones with 2day battery life in normal use which would fully discharge in 1-2hrs in the presence of weak network connections because of aggressive scanning and reconnecting (and I'd imagine the storage location for an "off" kindle wouldn't have great connectivity).