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Microsoft's stock didn't budge. Is this contract going to go directly to Microvision?
You need a graph of Slack channel adoption... lol.

(The Github stars graph made me think of it! Congrats on the funding/product. Looks great!)
I strongly disagree.

If some level of violence is necessary to ensure peace, the people entrusted with the power to inflict said violence should be compassionate and wise humans not, "rough men".

And at the same time we should be putting our resources to work at lowering that necessary level of violence.
Physical media is dying. More people getting into vinyl doesn't change the tectonic shift towards digital and streaming that's killed off record stores and vinyl production facilities.

Based on the Kickstarters I've seen, it's not easy or cheap for bands to produce a run of vinyl records. And even then, the finished product is expensive to purchase and ship. More so than a T-shirt or a concert ticket, which are higher-margin products by far.
Android's development started long before Android became a company officially, and there was more fallout from those BSD lawsuits than what is officially reported in Wikipedia -- especially since the settlement agreement included that those that agreed must keep silent.
> myriad of sensor tech we ended up carrying

At that time, did you feel like that tech was useful?
This comment is gold.
Big news: There’s intelligent life outside frameworks.
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After the 7/7 bombings on the tube, people wearing earbuds or headphones showed much less hearing damage. Given the nature of battlefields anything that protects the ear seems like an easy sell to me.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/earphones-may-have-saved-...
Even if we assume military is not only necessary, but actually good, wouldn't there still be a point where a society spends too much on it's military and everything goes to shables because of it?

Let's assume the US would reach this point — how would it look from the inside? Would the downfall happen fast or would it spawn decades? What if we are already in it?

The US could spend half of what it currently spends on the military and still be twice as powerful in terms of military force as the rest of the world combined. I'd argue investing a chunk of that money in domestic infrastructure, healthcare, poverty and a chunk of it in diplomacy would give you a more powerful US in two decades than if you would raise military spending even more.
"Could be worth up to".

Not quite the same as actually worth.
Me either just interested in other perspectives, thanks.
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Well, it's true to a limited (but often exaggerated) extent that tech used in JSOC or other Tier 1 units eventually filters down to the grunts, but the limiting factor here is that the folks in CAG etc are operating at cognitive abilities way above the standard infantryman (sorry, it's true). So things that are interesting tech (NVGs) that are easy to use, yeah they will filter down. Suppressors being standard for USMC infantry units is another example. "Push button, see at night" and "screw on, shoot gun more quieter" vs "N hours of training and re-learning your field craft to distribute the weight".
If men and women are "naturally" different (yes, nature-nurture is a bit slippery) then not every sign of unequal outcomes necessarily means unequal treatment (i.e. discrimination).
That would be weird. Even if we assumed that human-like intelligence is the smartest possible architecture, there are many ways to improve the performance within essentially the same architecture.

Imagine that we scan a human brain, atom by atom, and create a computer simulation of it. (If you believe that brain alone is not enough, let's simulate the whole body.) We would get, essentially, a human living in a simulated world. Suppose we simulate one of the smartest ones.

What if we increase the speed of simulation? Human brain runs at cca 100 Hz, because the signal is translated from electric to chemical and back to electric at the end of each neuron. So either we simulate this entire process, only faster, or if possible, we make the signals between simulated neurons run much faster by cheating at simulation. Imagine having a human, only 1000× faster.

Now speed is not the same as intelligence. A 1000× faster fool would still be a fool. But a smart 1000× faster simulated human could solve in 3 seconds a problem that a normal human could solve in 1 hour. Or solve in 8 hours a problem that a normal human could solve in 1 year. So we already got something that normal people couldn't compete against, intellectually.

We could optimize the metabolism of the simulated human. Because he only exists in the computer memory, it is not a problem to e.g. regularly scan his entire body and remove all cancer cells. Similarly, remove all physical damage, including aging. So it would be a (1000× faster) immortal human with perfect health. In a month, he could learn as much as a normal human during entire life... but then he could still continue learning, while the normal human would die, and his descendants would have to start learning from scratch.

And instead of one person we could simulate thousand people. Each of them could become an expert on a different area, and they could help each other. The simulation as a whole could study and research many things in parallel.

So, from outside, we would see a huge machine that in one month can understand almost all human knowledge, and then proceed further in all directions. I suppose this qualifies as "smarter than human". (And this still assumes that human-like architecture is optimal, which in my opinion is probably not true.)
I have the complete opposite view: it’s such a naive thing to say we don’t want wars - ofcourse no one wants wars. Spending on defense and being prepared isn’t going to war, it’s preventing it in the first place.
HL2 is the best device I've ever used, the future is definitely AR. Once you try it you will never want to have a smartphone again. Smart glasses all the way. MSFT just needs to miniaturize at this point, the UX is already there
Tech or tech-adjacent firms tend to be defined that way, at least in part, because they do the things these major software consultancies and outsourcing firms do on their own.

If you're not a tech or tech-adjacent firm, and have a nontrivial technology need, you're likely to pick up the phone and call someone who specializes in delivering those solutions.

Think of it like the difference between Instacart having their own software teams and infrastructure to manage shoppers and orders, vs the national grocery chain Instacart operates within calling IBM for an integrated inventory management and point-of-sale system.

There are debates to be had about whether this approach yields good results over the long term (specifically for the inventory management example, you could point to Amazon and to a lesser extent Walmart having such success in part because of their internal software efforts). But if you aren't prepared to reinvent your grocery stores as a friendly frontend for your logistics technology, plenty of firms have solutions to sell you.
> When we say "military spending", much of it is not actually spent on wasted resources - it is sort of welfare for the military industrial complex and its dependent people.

And what if instead of paying those people to develop weapons, we paid them to develop tech and infrastructure that would provide utility to every day people?
> Fighter jets and nukes primarily protect physical property and institutions, not cash.

This is basically it. I don't know how bitcoin advocates expect property rights (in fact, any right) to be upheld in the absence of a coercive state. They have become so removed from reality that they don't see the most obvious things.
WW2 (at least in europe) was pretty much a result of the harsh on the loosers of WW1 treaty of Versailles. So germany did not feel much love from the world - the world was demanding lots of pay as reparations every year(I think it was originally planned till 1990!). They felt they have to get strong to reclaim what was theirs. (Very simply put)
> Cavities, on the other hand can be arrested (stopped), and if small can even be remineralised. Yes, most dentists don't tell you that!

What is with this sentiment about evil dentists wrecking peoples' teeth prevalent in this thread? Any dentist will tell you that if you brush and floss daily and consume sugar responsibly, that your teeth will be healthy and happy for the vast majority of your life. A VERY small percentage of the population actually does this.

There is no big dental conspiracy to destroy our teeth. We do that just fine on our own.
Its been years but have you tried clicking on the album art, after selecring it? It should show up inside thst little window but then you gotta click on it then click ok/save/whateves
I, too, learned something new today even though I don't even pretend to be a Python developer!
Irrelevant of the answer, it helps in general if your efforts & hard work towards a better life aren't bombed into oblivion
I think it's wrong to assume that non-empirical methods can be reliably trusted to give better results. Humans are terrible at avoiding bias or evaluating risks, especially for uncommon events.
It’s at 0 points
It’s a filter that says “After a PhD, I still have 24k to toss at this”.
> the society has progressed to the point where it has proclaimed freedom of thought / conscience to be an important value

And then regressed over the course of about 10 years until people started screaming from the rooftops that freedom of speech is a cancer and needs to be outlawed.
> (I don't think there was really hunger in europe pre WW1 for example)

IIRC gaining and ensuring continued access to food production centers in central Europe was one of Germany's primary motivating factors leading into WWI.
> It's sad to see this Critical Theory nonsense trickling into real disciplines.

Are you posting from the ARPAnet? I ask because as a take this is 40 years out of date. Feminist analysis as applied to archaeology has a pretty solid history : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminist_archaeology

The thing about archaeology is the objects of its study are things made by people who happened to be living in a society (ok sometimes they study actual human remains, but I have to point out that those too were made with untrained labor). If you want to use the things to understand the people--and if you don't, why are you doing archaeology in the first place?--it's important to use what we know about people and societies in general to guide your analysis.

What are some important facts about people and societies? Well, people are generally bilateral bipedal, have a mineralized internal skeleton, like to wear clothes and get out of the rain, and so on.

In particular, people tend to be weakly sexually dimorphic (with substantial overlap and exceptions), and societies tend to divide among that line with varying intensities (again with overlap and exceptions). So if we want to study the people of the past, one of the things we need to understand is how that division tends to manifest and be maintained, and one way to do that is to understand how it manifests and is maintained in observable, i.e. modern, societies.

And once you start looking at things from a "how" perspective it's not too hard to start noticing that one mechanism is giving children toys that encourage play in ways that reinforce the ways in which they will be expected to act in the side of that subdivision they were assigned at birth.

(This isn't necessarily a comfortable thought! All of us on this forum were young children at one point in our lives, and with probably some rare exceptions would have been soaking in this boy-side or girl-side split the whole way through. I know I certainly was!)

Anyway, this is getting kind of long. To sum up, understanding how people on both sides of that division lived and how their society maintained that division is necessary to understanding their society as a whole, and if 'acknowledging that women are people and an honest examination of how they are treated by society' isn't feminism, I don't know what is.
The headline is misleading. Most of this code is C++. They included some Rust, but the core isn’t Rust.
Yes, and every chauvinist out there is ready to use every tiniest evidence of natural difference to declare all unequal outcomes 100% just. Makes you wonder...
If I register a “commercial” TLD can my customers on the regular internet access the handshake TLD ? Based on the documentation it looks like the person accessing these need to change the device DNS settings.
No matter how much 'love' you give, someone somewhere will want to take more from you. And if you have nothing to defend yourself with they're going to walk all over you.

What 'love' do you think the US should have given to Japan to stop them attacking?

What do you do when you've given all your 'love' and have nothing left and they ask for more or they'll attack? You need a military and it needs to be good.
I'm genuinely surprised by how bad Amazon is at this. I had assumed a super rich and tech savvy company would be better at manipulating digital conversations than Amazon appears to be.

Maybe this isn't too important to Amazon and they aren't sending their A-team or putting a lot of resources into the effort. Maybe it is important and they are just getting started and will improve over time.

While Amazon's tweets seem lame it is hard for me to imagine what effective pro-Amazon messaging on twitter would look like. They have to overcome the problem that complaining about your job or a company's demanding work practices is natural, defending a company is rather less natural.
The soldiers definitely want them.

This will likely save the army money in the long run, not to mention lives.
Objects are only worth what people would pay for them - rarity is only one factor. Bitcoin forks are even less compelling as anyone can make them at any time - there is an infinite number of them. So the actual supply isn't 21,000 of your bitcoin, it's all the possibly forked version of bitcoins. Some of those may gain popularity, but I have no idea why you think yours would be.
Mine was never as severe as OP's. At a time when I started to feel some numbness, I took to doing wrist exercises with some 10lb(?) dumbells. That eliminated the numbness.
Beware "rough men" who project themselves be "compassionate and wise", lest you end up with a John McCain-type who says all the right things at home, but then wants to kill people overseas for profit.
Completely agree, they were hit by an angry mob of unthankful people.

I think most in the mob are aware that their reaction is overblown. The list of OSS licenses is usually buried deep inside the docs and few ever read it. Luca made themselves vulnerable by opening up their code and the mob is using this weakness to attack them.

It's really about not wanting this app to succeed, because they are making good money and because there are valid privacy concerns. Maybe Luca should not be widely used, but then the politicians who bought it are at fault, not the developers. Also nobody is forced to install it.

Then there's the complaint about Luca's license. They open up their codebase and people complain that the license is not free enough? Mind blown, try that with any large company and see how far you get. Microsoft, give me your Office source code, or... I'll write an angry tweet!
I think you can only really fairly compare the energy use to the physical infrastructure of the $USD (and/or other currencies) because the defense of the Petrodollar also defends general energy usage which all industries and organizations benefit from. Oil is used for plastics in medicine, computers, cars, fuel, fertilizer, you name it. The defense of the Petrodollar would be a defense of all of those things. From an energy standpoint can you fairly proportion out what energy is used to defend the $USD by industry or in a more succinct way?

The fact that Nvidia can create chips for GPUs, and Amazon can package them up and deliver them and all your other computer parts to your front door is also subsidized by the Petrodollar. Everything is!

If the U.S. just stopped defending the Petrodollar, it's not like the $USD just goes away or ceases to be valuable. The fighter jets don't disappear or stop being made.

It's also slowly becoming outdated. The U.S. is a net exporter of energy and the shale revolution has made the Middle East just a bit less important.

Anyway - I don't think it's a great exercise to compare Bitcoin energy usage to the "energy usage" of the $USD exactly because it's so difficult to really measure. You also have to think forward a little bit - as cryptocurrencies proliferate more companies will arise around new technologies, custodianship, etc. so when we talk about some abstract number of people in an office now supporting the $USD, we have no idea what the future number of people supporting the cryptocurrency networks will be in the future - it might actually create more jobs and more energy usage.

I see one real advantage to Cryptocurrency: protection against government misuse of monetary policy.

But aside from that, it's still up in the air for me to see how things go. The $USD is a pretty good currency (mostly holds value in the short term, accepted everywhere, highly liquid), but it isn't a phenomenal store of value. All of these fiat currencies and cryptocurrencies are going to be competing in an arena and it's going to be interesting to watch.
> as Forbes' Erik Kain points out — that state and local governments generally foot the bill when it comes to education spending in America. If you factor those contributions in, the US spent about $880 billion on education in 2011, compared to $966 billion total on defense.

Maybe 2011 was just a really bad year for education, but I think you could stand to add citations on what seems like a pretty eyebrow-raising claim, that each of these things blanket "get more money" than the military -- let alone a whole discussion of the spending per user capita on these things and the value they have to society.

Also, the James Web telescope, at $10BB, has been in development for 20+ years, so that's ~$1B/year or less in total expenditures, on a program that's the poster child for massive cost overruns and bungling. If it had been presented as $10B originally, especially as an instantaneous cost, it likely would never have happened.

1 - https://www.businessinsider.com/education-military-spending-...
This is the point. Why do you all think just in damn frameworks!?
There’s a thing called HTML5+CSS+JS.
You could have built that static page in no time with that, that’s my surprisingly misunderstood point here.
According to South Korea's FTC, as they raided Apple's office in Seoul, Korea, looking for evidence of the company's possible illegal business practices, Apple's staff bravely blocked
the investigators and cut their corporation network so to deter any finding of internal data. classy stay Apple.
One thing that definitely helped was using dumbbells. Basically, any strength training should help.

Same thing with slight shoulder pains. I started using resistance bands and they went away.
I use SongOwl on iOS. The interface is much nicer than the Apple Music app, but it still depends on iTunes/Music for syncing music from your computer.
Good point. I didn't have that kind of money simply laying around, but I would sometimes save up and pay the $17.99. With that level of risk there was that much more reward, almost a form of gambling. It probably made my young brain give each song a lot more attention than I would have otherwise as I had to make sure I got my investment "back".
First infants are hardly paying 73$, more importantly a total is only relevant if this is the only money being spent. Instead this is simply more waste by a bloated system which delivers sub par results at extreme prices.
Or it's being glad that company leadership is, using their best judgment, optimizing for the effectiveness and competitiveness of the company that ensures you have food with your meals.

It can be (and likely is) neutral/ignoring of other people's happiness rather than actively glad that they're not getting their way.
I think the difference though is all those examples require no more understanding of technology than how to operate a TV remote. Push some buttons, laser goes on. Even zeroing a holo sight is trivially easy.

And yes, modern NVGs are a whole different world from PVS-7s.
In addition, I hypothesize that as existing users tend to age[1], that they typically desire less change. However, newer and/or younger users entering an ecosystem may desire other things, such as the appearance of modernity or newer stylings (eg. "Not your parent's OS"). MacOS 10.x has been around for 20 years now. iOS for 13 years. Even if you were to assume that the "core segment" was 20 to 40 year old working professionals (just an example), a huge cohort has moved into, and another out of, that segment over the past 10+ years!

This is seen in many areas outside software, so I would imagine it exists here as well.

[1]: Both age as in their physical age, as well as age as in a "have been users in this ecosystem longer" sense.
Linux Foundation and OpenTreatments Foundation sic open source on rare diseases
I tried icing my hands/wrists and elbows every 3-4 hours for about 2 weeks, but it didn't help, so I stopped.
Stephen Fry on Free Software (2008)
over 10 years, so like one fast food meal a year per person.
Dev Tool Time is the Uses This for dev environments
>This article seems to intentionally ignore the core reason for cryptocurrencies; escaping inflation and control.

Probably the article ignores it but not the governments or corporations who suddenly are worried about the environment.
I'm not a dev. I am a professional learner in other contexts. And man... this is good advice for anybody who does anything creative. When I look at things I wrote in the past (articles, even forum comments ahem) I look back in disgust! This just means you've grown. It's awesome, and it's normal.
It is not a question of spending money on military, it is a question of how much. Last I checked, the US military budget is around 700B, while healthcare, education etc account for a tenth of that amount. Another question is, how much of this eye popping amount is wasted?
Didn't even know there was a patent for it. Cover Flow based UI has been possible via Swiper JS for years.

https://codepen.io/Pysilla/pen/qBdOVGQ
Sadly the world is not the simple. Small, defenseless nations and people are enslaved, one way or another. So, yeah, life is grand in USA and Western nations (relatively speaking) but maybe it's because their military defends it?

Ukraine for example feels different https://i.insider.com/54ff45afeab8ea38458b4568?width=800&for... . War sucks so best to make sure no one dares to start one with you.
That's pretty great! This is like mixpanel for devtools. How do you address security and privacy concerns on behalf of developers?
> But the world population is already going steeply up - with people starving.

The interesting part is that it is only really going up in nations that have not yet the comfort-level of western civilizations. I don't have the exact numbers at hand but in most European countries, and I guess vast parts of the US too, the population is actually stagnant or even shrinking if immigration is not considered.
Shhh the investors don’t know that.
> if can’t beat em join em.