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> If you use Fi, messages mimics imessages (in that you can use it online) and your service, device, and OS all come from the same company and you get the most out of the box google-intended Android experience.

That only has appeal to purists. Why would Joe Schmoe care that their phone is made by the same people who make the OS? And why would someone buy Android for the iPhone experience?

To be clear that appeals to me, but I'm not the average consumer. And despite that appeal I have a S20+ because when it came time to upgrade Pixel was still stepping all over itself with poor battery life and weird features that I didn't need. The 5's now offers no "flagship" option, which are the phones that appeal to me. I hope that they can get things sorted for the next time I want to upgrade.

Samsung has marketed well and makes high quality phones. It hit the ground running with Android and hasn't been afraid to reinvent itself (OneUI was a greatly improved experience).
I hate to be that guy and I know this is not the point of the article but...

> Pat is a programmer at a large software company. At best, he’s a middling performer; his code is a mess (initializing variables that are never used, using variable names no one else understands, etc.), he takes longer than he should, and he doesn’t even remember his own code months later.

Sounds like this large software company doesn't:

1. Know about/use linters that catch unused variables.

2. Have a code review process that would catch bad variable names that "no one else understands".

3. How many people actually remember their own code months later? That's the whole point of consistent design and good readability?

Sounds like this large software company has some systemic problems (which may be caused by promoting people like Pat... which actually ties back to the point of the article I guess).
Could this problem be largely resolved for Pornhub (at least) by using GAN generation to replace faces in submissions? Sort of "This porn star does not exist"? If done well, it could increase the average fap-worthiness of content, while preserving privacy. It could also be applied to other identifying characteristics, like tattoos and moles.
In theory you could create your own data source. I mean, good luck, but you could. I think keeping the data closed is totally fine in this case.
I thought the press was supposed to hold the powers that be to account? Surely you don't want the press to parrot everything the government says with no context or additional information?
Entrapment is an entirely different issue.
Anything you can do in telnet or netcat can also be done in python, perl, ruby. One of those is likely installed, most probably python.
Don’t worry, you can make a server rendered site slow too. It’s not the tech, it’s that “good enough” is measured in seconds for human willingness to wait.
In general, it's more or less impossible to litigate a legal decision based off of 2 quotes in a public statement. It's why we have courts of law, it's why the legal system is predicated on deliberation.

> now disproven legal theories

Disproven? According to whom? The whole point of the press is to show its work to the public. Maybe you're correct that it's disproven! But I would have no way to know how/why it's disproven as a NYT reader. Anyone that wants to demonstrate to voters that Amazon's legal theories are disproven needs to show their work.
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Because if the surgery/hospital operates at a loss (which they often do), they also get to carry forward those losses to deduct in future years. That's just notionally separate from the salary that the surgeon personally receives from the practice.
For Smartphones, LuneOS carries on the legacy of webOS. I made a video about it running on the PinePhone a while back: https://linmob.net/videos/#LuneOS
Why should we tax foreigners for investing the in the U.S?
> You'd expect the NYT's to give both side's at a minimum, or is Amazon a cartoon villain ran by a duck who swims in a silo of gold coins?

This kind of “both sides” journalism has been weaponized by bad actors to the point it does a disservice to readers. They use it as a way to inject talking points into the public discourse. I think the last 10 years have showed us that there are definitely some points of view that are more valuable than others, and that treating all points of view as carrying equal weight is a false equivalency that simply creates openings for bad-faith actors (and Amazon is hardly the first company / politician to act in bad faith).
Range needs to be a few hundred miles regardless. Nobody wants to stop and recharge every 90 minutes.

Range, charging speed, and availability of rapid charging points that is close to the availability of gas stations are all essential.
Taycan is not price competitive with Model S and won’t be performance competitive when the S plaid ships this quarter.
I don't have a stash or anything, so I mean this only helpfully, but https://www.google.com/search?q=eve+online+propaganda looks to have some interesting stuff
Someone should invent a nice name for being tired of hearing about Gell Mann and Dunning Kruger. There’s never any new, clever, or interesting insight, they are only ever used to shit on someone the person invoking them doesn’t like.
I'm hard-pressed to think of any example where a unionized labor force killed a viable industry (or even a single company). Even when I think of the cases where unions hurt the viability of the company, the primary cause of decline was poor strategy and decision-making on the part of the owners. Blaming unions for those cases seems to be a rather sleazy way for the owners to avoid any liability for their faults.
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Then you should lock the cache while the change is being performed?
how would this be an improvement, you just change the set of people who evade taxes.

From people who pay tax experts millions to study really clever ways of doing transfer pricing and income shifting towards people who study the odds of audit and bribe tax officials
So you and your friend John are foreigners investing foreign capital in the U.S. company Apple. Why do we want to use the tax system to discourage this?
> We have progressive taxation for individuals - why not for corporations?

Because corporations are, by nature, arbitrarily divisible, so progressive taxation for corporations just encourages division of corporations into units that pay the minimum tax rate.

There are business forms that allow businesses (often, but not exclusively, small businesses) to avoid corporate taxes entirely (S corps and passthrough LLCs), whule also providing the benefits of incorporation compared to sole prop and partnership forms.
Just the ddl? Just execute it into a temporary database.
I mean, what are the differentiators for gasoline-powered cars?

Off the top of my head: brand reputation, looks, reliability, quality/roominess/aesthetics of the interior, misc. features, fuel efficiency, and obviously price.

For electric vehicles, all those same things still apply, with fuel efficiency being replaced by the range/energy density of the battery and efficiency of the motors to get more range from that battery.
Oh my God. What a relief.
Microsoft can and does the same thing for Windows licensing compliance..
LG won't listen and doesn't care. I still signed the petition because I might as well help everyone try, but let's be honest, corporations don't give a damn about their products and customers after their proeucrs disappear from the shops, let alone the environment.

It takes a lot of time and money to check code for licenses. The open source stuff they have to release is already available online anyway. The rest of the code is most likely the IP of someone else, be it Qualcom for the SoC or Sony for the camera blobs.

It'd be nice if LG would open up their special sauce, if they do then I'll definitely consider their products first next time I need to replace something in my home.
Isn’t identifying Dunning Kruger effect in someone else a paradox? Fancy word for building a narrative. You can set up anyone to fail or succeed. I’d prefer to evaluate the situation as a whole, and usually the truth centers around circumstances.
Meanwhile inequality and poverty are skyrocketing in wealthy countries that have more than enough for everybody.

Also job and food insecurity.

https://apps.urban.org/features/wealth-inequality-charts/

https://www.epi.org/publication/top-charts-of-2018-twelve-ch...
I too have been really shocked at how nasty our community has been regarding this issue.
Google's an LLC?
Diamond alternatives are fine, but another option is just not getting a ring. My wife and I decided not to and nobody really cares. We spent the money on travel instead, and the memories are more valuable to us than a tiny rock.

Don’t get me wrong, diamonds and other gems are beautiful and if you want one, go for it. But if it’s not something that is worth $5-10k to you, just know that it’s a choice, not an obligation.
Chronically overlooked point: “it is wrong to think of the last two centuries as being one where the rich got richer and the poor got poorer. The poor also got richer.”
Was not aware of PixelExperience - thanks.
Agree. I see the concept but the analogy to grammar terminology doesn't quite fit. I'd suggest _corrective_.
After a restructuring, Google is an LLC owned by Alphabet Inc. (the publicly listed organization).
The HN discussion from 2016 (Jury finds for Google): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11781053

From 2018 (Oracle revives matter via appeal): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16688521

Edit: Fixed, had written "Jury finds for Oracle", which was NOT what happened in 2016. Argh.
These sentiments are generally without an understanding of the historical context and from taking sloppily translated texts to skew the meaning. Just search in HN for Islam, Christianity, Quran, Torah or Bible and you will find people copypasting these mistranslated and misunderstood texts in comments feeling like they're the biggest scholars of the century.

Sure, actual academic discussions are fine with substance and evidences to support them where the author has put some effort in and has an actual understanding of the subject matter. But instead there is an attitude of oh I'll Google for something and copy paste it.
You should not be backing up plaintext passwords to offsite storage anywhere. Or do you mean malicious JS capturing your form entry at login?
that seems to be the case:

- two-party government,

- two major desktop OSs (macOS and Windows),

- two main mobile OSs (android and iOS),

- two major phone manufacturers (Apple and Samsung),

- two main internet browsers (Chrome and Firefox),

- two mainstream cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin and Ethereum),

- two major home internet providers (Verizon and Comcast)

- two ...

There are exceptions of course, esp. in the retail market and fast food industry, but I'm afraid the good-ol' times choices in many areas are mostly gone.
Surely, this guy realizes this is highly dependent on where you're working. Release managers, QA teams, and dev->test->prod issues are absolutely not gone. Arguably, dev->test->prod issues are even worse than they used to be if you're utilizing vendor-locked services that are difficult or impossible to effectively mock or simulate, and even worse than that when you're part of a multi-vendor enterprise solution where your service needs to interact with other services you don't develop and that don't actually exist yet because they're all being developed at the same time, in which case you're forced to mock an incomplete spec that may or may not end up actually getting implemented.

These new realities the author talks about are the only case if you're making sole source standalone services utilizing only externals that use stable, open APIs or standard protocols.
> The company needs a profit margin of x. If you place a tax of y on the company, that margin, simplistically, is now x+y.

Not really, this only happens for perfectly inelastic goods. We can use the price elasticity of demand and price elasticity of supply to determine what amount of the tax burden will fall on buyers and sellers [1]. We can even show that for perfectly elastic goods, the tax burden will fall entirely on the sellers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_incidence
I'll add my name to the list of folks who did not get a dianmond, but a Moissanite ring. A couple of things I learned along the way:

- I bought the ring and the Moissenite seperately. I bought the ring at a regular jewelry store (my spouse found one she liked). It is a very HARD sell when you buy the ring to also get the diamond. I ended up buying the ring online to pick it up, and I have wondered since then if they would have refused to sell me the ring if I tried to buy it in store without a diamond.

- I bought the moissanite online. It was nice seeing a linear increase in price on size versus an exponential price difference.

- When I took the moissanite to a jewelry store to get it mounted, the "fake" diamond detector actually said the moissanite was a diamond! I was actually very surprised to see that, and I was candid in the fact that I brought them a moissanite. (which leads to my following point....)

- Many jewelry stores do not want to touch moissanites. As soon as the jewelry store found out I bought them a moissanite, they said they cannot do anything with it. I ended up bringing the ring and moissanite to a store that deals in moissanites.

My spouse likes her ring, and absolutely no one has been able to tell the difference. The closest I have seen is commenting on how "flawless" it looks, and the "diamond" must have cost a lot due to it looking flawless.
As an outsider to America, it looks like there's a moderate center-right party, and a batshitinsane far-right crazy party, and logically very few people between them, because either you believe obviously stupid delusional claims, or you don't.

Three-quarters of one side believe that the last election was stolen, despite the huge amount of evidence to the contrary. Very many of them believe that the climate emergency is a Chinese hoax, that Obama is a Muslim from Kenya, that his wife is trans.

Why would there be any middle ground now, when one side has taken leave of their senses?
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I'm so relieved. This could have forced such dramatic changes in how we develop software. And any other decision would have been a crippling blow to FLOS software.

Now if we only could get the SC to invalidate software patents in general.
In the above paragraph replace "the media" with "doctors", "scientists", "politicians", "elected officials", "the police", "big pharma", "journalists" ...

I'm not saying you are not making a point - it's just a unnecessarily broad point that is difficult to discuss constructively.
Right. But it would interesting to hear how Amazon claims these employees violated internal policies. That seems newsworthy.
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The NLRB is the legal system for deciding such matters.
First of all you can deduct interest but the standard tax deduction already given usually accommodates a lot of that deduction. Companies can’t deduct principal payments either. There is a crazy amount of people including this article that have no concept of what taxes are. Taxes are not on gross income they are on profit. Calculating taxes on gross income, as this article says, would be outrageous. Take this articles reference that a deduction on stock paid to employees should not be given. The employees who receive that stock have to pay taxes on that money so if it was taxed it would then be essentially double taxed. Also this article states that accelerated depreciation does not encourage investment, and that is just bollocks. Anyone who works in finance would know that accelerated depreciation allows better cash flow on your investment and can make a project feasible or not feasible.
I personally found samsung software to be very feature rich and reliable.

I never considered LG because they do not offer software support. You might get 1 year worth of OS updates and MAYBE 2 years of security. Meanwhile samsung offers 3 years of OS updates and 4-5 of security updates.
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Yeah that is why I think Aptera is kind of interesting they are concentrating on maximizing range through maximizing efficiency and when you pass a certain efficiency threshold integrated solar charging becomes viable. If they make it to production I can see them being successful with people who don’t need a larger car and live in places where they can’t install a dedicated charger in their parking spot.
This is worst than what people from HR could come up with. At least HR at companies sometimes interact with normal workers as they are at the intersection between the company and its workers.

This website seems to be done by some corporate team that has never actually interacted with a blue collar worker. Hardly surprising coming from Amazon but considering the amount of money they earn, I would have thought they would have given it a better try than that.
What sort of science could be done flying by Omouamoua at some crazy high speed?
Top court sides with Google in copyright dispute with Oracle
> "Google copied approximately 11,500 lines of declaring code from the API, which amounts to virtually all the declaring code needed to call up hundreds of different tasks. Those 11,500 lines, however, are only 0.4 percent of the entire API at issue, which consists of 2.86 million total lines. In considering “the amount and substantiality of the portion used” in this case, the 11,500 lines of code should be viewed as one small part of the considerably greater whole. As part of an interface, the copied lines of code are inextricably bound to other lines of code that are accessed by programmers. Google copied these lines not because of their creativity or beauty but because they would allow programmers to bring their skills to a new smartphone computing environment."

Sanity prevailed! This judgment could have had devastating consequences and turned software development into a copyright nightmare.
assuming you're using the postgis spatial data types (and not the postgres ones) it'll take care of that automatically.
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Actually behavior rebuts your theory.

Apple has paid hundreds of billions of dividends to shareholders the last few years. It's borrowed money to do it because it would be taxed if it repatriated funds to pay dividends with.

If the corporate tax rate was reduced to zero it would have zero reason to keep foreign profits offshore, it would just repatriate them and pay dividends directly.
I think it will be more of the same.

Cars are already mostly sold on image. Image is the main differentiator already.

Here is what I think most people think about when buying a car: will be affordable (if you are not wealthy), the type of car (SVU, minivan, cross over, sedan, etc.), performance oriented (Mazda Zoom Zoom, or a Shelby, Mustang), whether it is ultra green/granola (Prius), Luxury (Audi, BMW, Lexus), or whether it is a high end status symbol (Porche), it is viewed as highly reliable (Toyota), and what is the resale value (Toyota.)

This will likely continue.
> but enabling acoustics and power saving really helped on the seeking noise level.

Do you know what's the approximate power draw (in Watts) of each drive with these settings enabled? I'd like to move to a lower power system sometime in the next year, but I'll also need to add some more drives. Power is extremely expensive where I live.

I wonder if the power saving features reduce the drive lifetimes (because of quicker spindowns)... might not be a good idea for an always on NAS.
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"The doctrine of “fair use” is flexible and takes account of changes in technology. Computer programs differ to some extent from many other copyrightable works because computer programs always serve a functional purpose. Because of these differences, fair use has an important role to play for computer programs by providing a context-based check that keeps the copyright monopoly afforded to computer programs within its lawful bounds."

This is EXCELLENT news for anyone in software development. Yay for Fair Use.
Now can they please use a modern jdk on Android? It's about time
I've always had Android phones since my first smart phone, and they have always been Motorola. Totally happy with them.
The Apollo program cost about $156 billion in modern money. Starship's approach is very cheap in comparison. Must estimates about $5bn.
Oh, I forgot this little apocalypse was hanging over our heads. It's good to see some sanity.
There are many problems that may arise although they not be too important for your use case.

- On write how do you know which entires need to be invalidated? Imagine data that is computed by multi-way joins. Any input that has changed may require invalidating all affected cache entries.

- Your cache is rarely strongly consistent with your database. So your update and invalidation will happen at slightly different times which can cause issues.
It's funny because this goes both ways. So often people copy and paste the code from an answer without looking closely at it and understanding it. In some cases potentially opening themselves up to some major issues.

But yeah. Just like how many Github repositories have passwords and other secure files. Stackoverflow is shockingly full of people who pasted in secure information trying to find an answer.

I am starting to think OpSec needs to be a first year course for engineers and computer science majors.
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