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I think that reasoning about morality without an irrational, faith-based approach leads to a "slippery slope" if you will of reasoning. Essentially, I believe that the fundamental utility of religion is that it provides a framework for morality which is external to logic : therefore it allows one to establish moral barriers which cannot be cross regardless of any logical rationalization. This is important when considering things like eugenics - there are rational lines of thought that lead you to very very ugly conclusions. If you have an arational "hard stop" at the personal and societal level, we avoid these situations.
I really like the Apple app store a lot. I like it because I trust it more than alternatives (google play). I like it because it feels more secure. I like the unified purchase interface. I don't think you can say with a straight face that the Google experience is better than the Apple experience for your parents. I moved my parents to Apple devices because it's safer.

I especially like it because apple is using their "monopoly" position to create anti-business, but pro consumer policy that can't seem to get implemented otherwise. The government should be legislating privacy, but is incapable or unwilling. Apple is doing better than the government.

Calling it a monopoly is a dubious claim, because it's not clear apple is enacting anti-competitive practices in an unfair anti-consumer way. If anything they seem to be enacting pro-consumer policies via monopolistic power.

That being said, Apple is doing one thing that should be unacceptable. Apple makes apps that compete with things sold in the store it controls. That is the sole problem with the app store in my opinion. The closed-ness of it is vastly more beneficial than it is harmful, and there are clear competitive alternatives to buying an Apple device if you don't like it.

Even that being bad is questionable. Kirkland Signature? Half life on steam? Amazon basics? There is clearly precedent. I doubt you feel the same way about each of those implementations of similar behavior.
> That’s because experts do not yet know how long you are protected from getting sick again after recovering from COVID-19.

Since when has not knowing something been justification for intervention?

Given that people have been getting sick from COVID-19 for at least as long as vaccines have been available for testing, shouldn't experts have a reasonable understanding of whether previously infected people are as protected as recently vaccinated people, or how often (or rare) it is that people can be infected with the virus again?
Apple has a search engine. Apple sells advertising. Apple has a maps app.

So does Yahoo, Naver, Yandex, Baidu etc. It's all very far from a cartel.
I think one point is that there are only so many stores one mall can support, depending on the local population size. If land is expensive, then building on top of the mall to further utilize the land can become economical. As to whether offices or apartments are the better choice, that would depend on the local supply and demand of each.
TBH this is reasonable. I'm not on the side of Apple, but the monopoly claim is ridiculous to me.
My less than $40k Leaf has a 350km range. I charge at home, drive in the city, and use it in the weekends to drive long distances.

The only issue is when going to a city more than 300 km away, then yes, a 30 mins coffee. Charging stations are everywhere here (eastern Canada).
“ Their content is so profitable that the people in charge don't really give a fuck.”

Sorry but that’s completely wrong. Almost every animation or vfx studio is barely scraping by. Margins have been reduced so much for film work it’s extremely difficult to turn a profit, which is why so much work is outsourced overseas these days. The reason software isn’t better is because they barely have the resources to improve it.

Everyone’s aware of newer tools, but things like unreal still arnt as good as traditional non-realtime pipelines in terms of flexibility and scalability.
Apollo was more then just a lander, it was a gigantic new rocket, a capsule, a service module a lander and an accent stage.

SpaceX is by no means a small company, its arguably the most successful space company ever. They are also the most vertically integrated space company. They launch far more then anybody, largest sat operator, largest provider of cargo and crew for human space flight.

Also your comparison completely misses a few things, Apollo had to invent a huge amount of things and build infrastructure that is now standard and well known well understood. Just think about the difference in complexity of computers. NASA still has to knowledge and much more knowledge about the moon and human space flight since then.

SpaceX can reuse a huge amount of things from existing vehicles and capsules. The Raptors have been under serious development since 2014. Apollo was a huge number of different very unique parts, Starship uses Raptor engines for all parts from earth to the moon.

2024 is still a very difficult target but its not because you need to develop a whole new industry. Its because the vehicle is absurdly big and has crazy operations.
Except Tile’s competitor that also works with FindMy is not subject to this constraint...
Both of your objections are true for natural evolution.

> “time tested and weathered the refining pressures of evolution”

Those refining pressures are not kind or gentle.
I’ve switched to Fedora Core on my Linux machines, from someone who started out on Debian and used Ubuntu since it first came out.

I even made a Fedora WSL image for when I’m on Windows.

Reasons: Snap, primarily. Also prefer vanilla GNOME.
I don't like this workflow, I see it as needlessly complicated. If you really can't cherry pick your big PR into simple branches to merge directly into master (which I rarely have seen over the years), create a longer lived branch and make small PRs to that. Then merge longer lived branch into master. You should never be going off and work on huge changes without keeping in sync with the base branch. Stacked PRs make all this more difficult.
Good project idea; the demand is clearly there. I could see myself buying a few.

The same can also be accomplished for $4 with an old iPhone and the AirBeam app by Appologics. Just point an AI capable device to the video feed or auto sync snapshots with the dropbox feature.

The app has some quirks though. Vizy seems like it might be more reliable.
OR maybe that's just how markets work
Sounds like a leftpad disaster.
Makes sense. Yellow cards are a tool to prevent escalation. With fans the home team has more encouragement toward "street justice."

The football referee has only one job. To keep the peace. It's a Hobbesian reflection of football's British roots. Good referees only call the fouls that matter and the great referees make fewer fouls matter because that's what the fans deserve.

Imagine if Howard Webb had sent off Nigel de Jong in the 28th minute of the 2010 World Cup Final. Although he's on record as saying it was clearly a red card offense, he didn't see it that way in the moment and a world of fans were treated to a memorable match versus an hour and a half of Spanish tic-a-tok-a against ten players.
I am by no means whatsoever an Alex Jones listener or fan. But he's been laughed at for proclaiming that human/animal hybrids are being "developed" for some time now (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa9jXkVpnw0, for example).

It's scary to see this article because it's essentially "proving" Alex Jones right. This is a very bad precedent.

The issue at hand is serious, but it's obscured because of the comedic/crazy veil that Jones's delivery and accompanying distortion/exaggeration of the facts causes.

This reminds me of his erroneous "they're turning the friggin' frogs gay" comment, which has links in a serious issue — atrazine feminizing male frogs: https://news.berkeley.edu/2010/03/01/frogs/.
Apple has a monopoly for apps stores on iOS devices.

> A monopoly exists when a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular commodity.

Commodity: Apps sales on iOS. Only supplier: Apple.

Apple use their monopolistic market position to enforce a 30% levy on third parties. It has nothing at all to do with Google, since Google cannot compete with Apple to provide app stores on iOS.

Even bringing Google up is an attempt to shift the conversation from the app store situation on iOS to something off-topic and irrelevant (handset market share). That's not what we're discussing.

Let's go through the markers of a monopoly:

- Profit maximizer: Maximizes profits.

Yes.

- Price maker: Decides the price of the good or product to be sold, but does so by determining the quantity in order to demand the price desired by the firm.

Yes.

- Single seller: In a monopoly, there is one seller of the good, who produces all the output. Therefore, the whole market is being served by a single company, and for practical purposes, the company is the same as the industry.

Yes, Apple is the exclusive provider.

- Price discrimination: A monopolist can change the price or quantity of the product.

Yes.

So the Appe Store on iOS checks all the markers of a monopoly. But people want to pretend the monopoly designation can only apply to traditional market segments without justification.
Huh, is Java the API or the implementation?

The API is just a tiny amount of code, but it is an extremely valuable and difficult to create portion of the code base. A good implementation is important, but a good implementation can't make up for a bad API.
In that case it's pretty clear who owns what due to the licensing involved.

I was more thinking of situations where a person, say, photographs a building they don't own or didn't design. They couldn't have taken that photo if no one built the building. But they alone own the copyright to the photo. Technically anyone who helped construct the building contributed to the creation of the photo, but have no right to prevent the photo from being circulated, sold, etc..

Let me be clear on saying that that's how I think it should be. I don't think we should stymie productivity for creating art/music, even when you are using other's creations as pieces of your own creation. But it gets murky like the case described in the article where Warhol created his own work depicting Goldsmith's work, and the courts ruled it wasn't a fair use.
I think you can log into one and then click the refresh button on the rest?
In most suburban areas, the land malls sit on are worth far more than the structure. There's also a desperate need for housing in most metros. Particularly high density single family homes near the center of town.

It's cool to imagine alternate uses for existing malls, but I'm guessing the best thing to do would be to demolish them, then convert the land to small, dense housing developments.
Has a similar study been made on the impact on a jury in high profile cases conducted in the immediate surroundings, such as in the recent Floyd - Chauvin case?
It would absolutely be immoral to genetically engineer a human to be born so that their gender identity and their biological form don't match. It would absolutely be immoral to genetically engineer a human so that they need to have organ transplants. It would absolutely be immoral to have scientists in the lab spend years doing research on how to create a human being that will be born needing to use a prosthetic leg.

I don't think anyone is saying that if a fucking Frankenstein's monster human/monkey hybrid were engineered, that people would say that the chimera itself had committed an immoral act. They would say that it was wrong to make that thing. You don't even understand what point you're trying to make.
I stand corrected. Though, it sounds like the new supercomputing centre is in Bologna.
the hardest leadership challenge has also been the hardest professional challenge...

i cofounded a venture-backed startup with my brother. a few years in, i had to fire him.

too many details to unpack here, but, gratefully he's found footing and is happy building something else. i'm still running the venture although we are running out of time / money.

(i'm not sharing that last point for sympathy; i understood the risks and i'm prepared to face the end, just like the beginning.)

overcoming it? honestly, i just pressed on; what else can you really do? i got therapy, counseling, to work through the difficult patches and i invested in myself a bit more so i could find peace with it all. i realized that i had a pretty serious co-dependency issue and now i'm clear-headed in a way i've never been.

so, the result has been net-positive.
Can you cite a source of Greg saying this? I read this article which is the closest I could find that reports this, https://www.zdnet.com/article/greg-kroah-hartman-bans-univer... which says,

"""Romanovsky reported that he had looked at four accepted patches from Pakki "and 3 of them added various severity security 'holes.'" Sudip Mukherjee, Linux kernel driver and Debian developer, followed up and said "a lot of these have already reached the stable trees." These patches are now being removed."""

However, if you click the links, you'll see that "have already reached stable trees" is about non-buggy patches, and "3 of them added various [holes]" are not one of those. So the articles seem to be intentionally deceiving the reader to think those are connected, when they're separate events. I actually feel like the media has been doing this (putting together non-related facts together in a way that readers reasonably infer a connection between the two).
I live in the northern Midwest. Our mall closed this past year and is being made into some sort of mixed-use outdoor space.

The reality is the cold weather doesn't really bother people who are use to it. I'm happy to spend time outside jumping store to store because I'll be dressed appropriately.
> I don't know what land you're in if it's a place where calling someone a "fa--ot [n-word]" doesn't get categorized into some sort of hate speech.

This is the main point of contention. No one denies that such words are a common occurrence on 4chan, but you believe these words are automatically indicative of racism.

Are you open to the idea that someone who refers to himself as “an Archfag” is simply communicating on his being an Arch Linux user, and not otherwise intending to communicate his sexual orientation, and certainly not to proffer a negative view of his own sexual orientation?
PowerPC was also IBM and Motorola.

It's difficult to compare the Apple Silicon versus PowerPC, because the new Apple hardware is far more ambitious, the whole platform. I would expect that the memory SSD controllers are to some degree licensed from other industry players. The CPU architecture is something else again. Issues eight instructions per clock -- per core. The M1 core design has more in common with IBM mainframe POWER9 than with a typical x86 core. It's remarkable to see this design ina low end consumer device. A mobile.
Nice to see the community around Laravel adding more tooling. Still a little confused by the license and 'backing' to get a dark theme.
I’ve attended a few variance hearings (always in support of my neighbors who wanted to get a variance for their property). Variances are granted here for the flimsiest of reasons, to regular people who don’t have a clue how to ask for what they want and what they saw two other people get variances for in the same hearing.
Hong Kong also builds this way，and includes schools in the complexes for good measure.
Your comment history is replete with making unpolitical threads political.
No, EBS is reliable.
You can look at department stores that are typical anchor tenants like Macy's, Sears, Carson's, Nordstrom, and JCPenney. Thousands of locations have been closed and the trend is expected to continue; new ones aren't being opened.

We know that when a mall loses its anchor tenants its demise accelerates as its smaller retailers depend on the anchor tenants to pull in foot traffic. It's a doom feedback cycle.
But those are exactly the stuff in question here.
Thank you for pointing this out!

I also think it's a dangerous point to try and make. We
should put human life first.
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We who? I've lived in mixed use buildings with bars, restaurants, and other small businesses on the first floor and apartments above. It was quite nice, I really enjoyed it.
On almost every topic, Stallman is embarrassing. Yet somehow, when it comes to free software, he is 100% correct and can't be questioned. I'll stick with license types which predated, and remain more popular than, GPL: BSD and MIT.
Department stores will die, but existing malls will be repurposed into community centers, homeless shelters, Amusement facilities.

As my doctor ordered I walk 4 miles a day, I go to different malls in the DC area at least twice a week. I don't even buy anything, I just look around.

I see lots of gen Z shoppers. They still have that intoxicated look, running around with shopping bags. Like you would of seen in a 1970s mall promotional video.

Again, I'm sure eventually Amazon, Walmart and online shopping will wipe retail stores off the face of the earth. But I don't think we'll see a replacement for the indoor foreground experience you get at a mall.
> It's what (little) the Senate will pay for right now. Their one choice.

This is no correct. The typical NASA move in this situation would have been to extend the analysis phase and pull the competitors along.

Also, the selection statement quite clearly showed that Starship was by far the best solution in every single segment evaluated, technical, price and management.

Had Starship not won the evaluation. NASA would have been required to first engaged the winner in price negotiation and try to square the budget. If this would not have been possible they might have looked to the cheaper competitor or do something else.

However, all of that doesn't matter because Starship simply won outright and they could fit it in the budget.

> No actual manned flight is included

As the other comment stated, this is just flat wrong.
If you'd rather have Nerd Cred just say you got the idea from the secret mission in StarCraft Brood War https://starcraft.fandom.com/wiki/Dark_Origin

Life imitates art, after all.
How about thinking through how bias in algorithms should be tested, discovered, and fixed and building that in? Some types of testing might be statistical for example, and involve trying software on a large group of people with a variety of backgrounds. The bugtracker could be designed to be integrated with those testing and discovery methods. How to fix such bugs may not be clear, and normal methods of who to assign them to might not work (perhaps some have to be assigned to teams or outside parties?) In general a bugtracker that integrates with all the tools used in development, testing, and fixing would be more efficient and useful. Automatic import of statistics and graphs, maybe built in running of test code to reproduce the bug for the developer who has to fix it, some indication of the impact of each bug in terms of audience (which customers does it affect? What is the public relations impact if it is not fixed and causes problems later? How might it affect sales?) Seems like an integrated system could explore a lot of new possibilities.
> trivial changes there’s often no alternate implementation (e.g. correcting a typo)

IANAL, but simple changes like these likely don't meet the threshold of copyrightablity.
You mean rank and yank? I heard that one was a disaster for Enron and Microsoft.
Unfourtuantly, this correlation is not always the case.

HIV is extremely deadly without treatment, but has an asymptomatic stage that can last over a decade despite still being infectious during that time.

The silver lining with HIV is that its modality of transmission is primarily sex and blood, which greatly limits the number of contacts an infected individual will have.

An airborne disease with the lethality, incubation length of infectivity, and vaccine resistance of HIV would be a slow moving disaster of an unimaginable magnitude.

I am not aware of any theoretical reason such a disease cannot exist.
+1 to this.

"just practice" seems trite and over-simplistic, but, it's fundamentally true.

if you can find a partner to work with is always a better way to do it.
That’s funny, because I haven’t heard many people say that Herman Miller chairs are actually that comfortable. More that you spend $1000+ and sit on it and think, “Oh, it’s a chair.” They’re comfortable enough, to me at least, and they’re well made. Having one at work and one at home, I don’t have to shift around all day, but I’m definitely not left sitting in a single position or slumped all day either. It’s no wood stool nor a recliner, in other words.
Autodesk and Adobe have become a problem, the lack of competition and incumbency mean they are basically milking the same cow ad nauseam.

To be a little bit fair - those systems are in fact very complex, and it is quite a big deal to do anything in them. But literally as I speak Photoshop will not go 'fullscreen' on my Mac, and Adobe blames this utterly ridiculous bug on Apple. Which may very well be the case but whoever is 'at fault' - things are retrograding a little bit.

I sense there is opportunity for a new angle on things.
It seems contradictory to suggest at the same time that a) these hybrids might teach us that the line between humans and animals isn't as stark as a lot of people think, and b) these hybrids will not be human and therefore will be suitable for medical research that could not be ethically performed on "real" humans.

If you buy the former, it seems to suggest we should be going in the opposite direction with the latter.
I meant changing the opinion of the /pol/ users. Sorry for the confusion.
> IVF is not creating a completely new, engineered organism

IVF seems pretty un-natural...

It's not too clear what "completely new, engineered organism" line you're taking here.
I agree. I will regularly have a patch that lives for more than a month and I am rarely more than a couple days out of date. If the area you're working on is rarely touched, it isn't an issue. If you're constantly having merge conflicts, you might need to sync up with the team a bit more.
Yes, but that's pretty uncommon in practice. Why would anyone ask you to send money to a valid address that they don't own? It can't be a transcription error because the checksum would catch that

It's like sending gold over snailmail to a random address
I see they offer a premium membership on iOS (for some reason they have 3 listed IAP for different prices). Is this a subscription? And does it remove ads too?
Can Apple be considered a monopoly with 23% [0] of the mobile market share?

0: https://www.idc.com/promo/smartphone-market-share/vendor
Malls could be the best co-working offices. Ample daytime parking, baller food courts, medical facilities, hair dressers, dentists, cafes, movie theaters, entertainment, etc all under one roof.
As someone with an electric car, it's really not a big deal for me. I can do all my (admittedly short) commutes and go to the gym and barely use 5-10 percent of the battery, so can charge once a week or at night.

I think it heavily depends on your job.
Autodesk does an equally poor job maintaining their Architecture and Engineering softwares, despite them being a larger market. GP’s comments about the state of Maya hold true for AutoCAD and Revit as well.
Hmmmmm that’s an interesting question! I think the GitHub search has a better semantic understanding of what I’m looking for, but I’m going to have to try it out!
iOS App Stores is not an industry though any more than Tesla car operating systems or Ikea screws are.

They are intrinsic parts of the objects and have never existed independently of them.
If I remember something I read years ago correctly, the home rink advantage in hockey is too reliant on bench location to isolate other factors. The team with the long change is penalized more, and away teams have two periods of long change.