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This claim is directly contradicted by this e-mail exchange from October 2007, the very e-mail exchange in which they decided to move forward with a native app SDK. The iPhone was announced in January 2007, a full 9 months earlier, and was in development for a few years before that.

If they "always planned" the App Store, why would Bertrand, one of Steve's direct reports, be writing as if this were a brand new idea?

One of the original iPhone's "killer features" was a full, desktop-equivalent web browser in the days of the "mobile web" and WAP. They invested significant engineering effort into making it performant, adding UI affordances for zooming and panning around pages that couldn't fit on a 3.5" screen, and so on. It's completely believable they thought this solution was enough for third-party apps.
And, modifying 1 pixel from the image, results in a complete different NFT.
Yet batteries have steadily gotten better even since the introduction of lithium.
> deliver 7000 Watts per kilogram in energy density.

Isn't "Watts per kilogram" a unit of power density?

Definitely hurts the credibility of the article.
Don't forget that many known vulnerabilities aren't patched by people running these systems. Just because a vulnerability is known doesn't mean it's patched.
As long as the VPS owner don't leave the Veracrypt image mounted and give a stranger root access to the server, this wouldn't work.

Also, if a hacker has admin/root access as is required for this tool to work, you have all kinds of other problems.
Ahh, so blasé.

The farthest observable galaxy is 1.34 x 10^10 light years.

This FRB is 1.17 x 10^7 light years.

So if you're at zero and end of the line is at 1340, this FRB is at 1.17. That doesn't feel close?
The difference is not in the original but in the copies. A copy of a painting can be a work of art, but it is different. It did not sit at the artists' atelier, it hasn't traveled through different places to finally hang at the buyer's living room.

That is not the case for digital works. If we get strict about it, everything apart from the original file sitting in the artists' computer disks are copies. The file you downloaded after purchasing your "original" is a copy.

But well, whatever makes people happy.
We're not talking about products aimed at a particular demographic. We're talking about products with customers from diverse demographic backgrounds, where the argument is put that we should then have a diverse team so as to ensure we are serving that product competently to the diverse customer base.

My point is that this can't be the real reason for D and I initiatives, since if it was, there would be a similarly strong push to have equal political and age representation in order to reflect the reality of these products' customer demographics.
Let's be real here. When BBC does it, there's a mocking undertone.
Really? If that is the limiting factor, then there is a lot of hope, because lithium is a tiny portion of a battery weight and volume, something like 1%. It means we could theoretically improve the batteries to hold say 30% lithium, for a 30x improvement in density!
There’s a post (“If I Were a Jew”) that accuses Jews in general of responding to the collective trauma of the Holocaust with “an insatiable appetite for war and killing” in pursuit of self defense rather than compassion for the oppressed. It’s naive, muddles Jewish identity with Israel, and assumes the worst about the motivations of Jews in general. Imagine how offensive it would be to make a similar argument about any other minority group that had experienced oppression in America or elsewhere.

From the post:

> If I were a Jew I would be concerned about my insatiable appetite for war and killing in defense of myself. Self defense is undoubtedly an instinct, but I would be afraid of my increasing insensitivity to the suffering others. My greatest torment would be that I’ve misinterpreted the identity offered by my history and transposed spiritual and human compassion with self righteous impunity.

There’s definitely more than criticism of the Israeli government here (some dog-whistle and overt antisemitism, whether the author understood that at the time or not). But I agree with the commenter - people can change and grow up. I don’t know the full story so it’s hard to really say what’s justified and what’s an overreaction.
As a financial buyer there are only 3 ways to make money: 1) higher multiple (buy low, sell high), 2) improve cash flow, or 3) lever-it-up with debt (like when you buy a house with a big mortgage). #2 is the only method that really changes the operations and probably the majority of financial buyers are too busy/lazy to be bothered with it. OTOH, some might hire a new CEO 'with something to prove' give him a lot of options/equity and who know what that person will do. But, basically, if the CEO doesnt change, and the CEOs compensation scheme doesnt dramatically change, and no mergers occur, then the company probably wont change.
You'd probably need to make it work with medium dot com, as that has weird embed requirements for images?

You may also want to provide an option that generates a different meme/image if the api is called from the same page.

Example: https://www.williamangel.net/context.html

Would also fill this niche better if it could do tags like `random_meme?type=ironic` so that it could be used for this purpose, but at that point you'd probably be competing with giphy and a bunch of similar services.
| NFTs have a future as digitally signed proof of ownership

Why do you think handwritten signatures have gotten us so far?

Because the literal act of signing something is the lease important part of contracts and trust relationships.
It’s actually just an icy fractal aggregate ejected from a protoplanetary disk and was heard because swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the sound from Venus.
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Edit: False assumption of atomic radius lead me to make an invalid conclusion

On paper the top-level explanation of the technology makes sense by virtue of an Aluminum ion being able to transfer 3 electrons vs Lithium's single electron thereby achieving a faster discharge rate seems plausible. However when taking into account molecular weight it becomes a different story, at least as far as energy density is concerned. Lithium's molecular weight is 7 while Aluminum's is 27. So we'd be using 28.5% more mass to achieve the same energy density. And there is also the increased number of Aluminum's orbital shells to take into account so more volume would be require vs Lithium.

How much this can be offset by the apparent lack of need for a heating/cooling system for vehicle tier applications remains to be seen. I'm guardedly cautious but hopeful.
Morgan Meis needs an editor to trim the copious fat from their distressingly overwrought sentences. Stream of consciousness prose is fine when you don't waste half the page trying to 100% your conversational side quests, but I haven't disliked reading something so much in a long, long time.
It's the "Arizona Democratic Party" - https://azdem.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_Democratic_Party
Nothing, except for the fact that people hate managing passwords with a passion and take the risk for their accounts willingly (I've had the heated table discussions to prove it). For them it's all about the tradeoff between "how much energy must I invest?" and "how much do I care if I lose this account?".

Most of the people I knew only enabled 2FA on their Gmail because they really couldn't afford to lose it. Everything else they were very meh about. They even had 000000 as their online banking PIN... <facepalm>

Password managers only started gaining prominence after biometric authentication allowed you to access your passwords with your finger or face.

So yeah, celebrities are users like all others -- if not slightly worse even.

I am pretty sure every corp like Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft et. al. would love to enforce maximum security but they also have to be very careful not to alienate their users. One good example is Google who will pester you for 2FA and recovery codes but never truly force you; they prefer to ban your account for suspicious activity instead (happened to one guy I knew some 3-4 years ago because his drunk friends tried to breach his Gmail account from several different phones).

So I get it, you don't like Apple, but as I have snarkily remarked above: it's for the wrong reasons. (I don't like them either but it's for completely other reasons.)
Look at Japan, where this already happened. Japan's population peaked in 2010. It's expected to be a third of peak at the end of this century. Rural areas are emptying out. Only Tokyo and Osaka are growing. There are large numbers of abandoned houses.

Outside of India and sub-Saharan Africa, this is a worldwide trend.
You have more interest in CS:go than Etherium then? But they remain equally real. Unless the rare gun skin is more real because there are many of it?

Lol “Real”
Once you enter tasks, and estimate at least one, you should see a link to view your "Projections".

(Fetching those projections uses websockets, so you may need to refresh if you're behind a particularly restrictive firewall.)

If you're still having trouble, drop me a note at sam@sambleckley.com and I'd be happy to help.
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Exactly.

People have this idea that because NFTs are selling for $10M some moron must think that particular NFT is worth $10M and have spent $10M to buy it - presumably thinking it will be worth even more in the future and s/he can sell for a profit.

What an idiot, most people think...

However, it could just be that people are buying NFTs from themselves (like CryptoKitties) for massive sums, to attract the interest of get-rich-quick retail investors to spend ~$100 dollars on NFTs - just in case they're suddenly worth $10M a piece in a month. FOMO.

It's not like retail investors investing millions of dollars into NFTs. They don't have millions of dollars in the first place!
Kinda, but to make it more explicit: with floating point numbers you don't even need the explicit log distribution because it's kinda baked in already, with the number split between an absolute and an exponential part. So floats capture an exponential scale of precision naturally, allowing you to write 1e-200 and 1 and 1e200 just as easily, with a common relative precision around each. You use the log scale as a mental model and then just keep floating point issues in mind while you work.

The handy functions are more about making sure that cancellations don't happen by providing a few primitive operations that cover lots of the uses. Like the handy log1p which computes log(1+x). If you did this with the log function, you'll compute log(1+1e-200)=log(1)=0. If you use log1p, you get log1p(1e-200)=1e-200. You avoid the loss of info that comes with adding something close to zero to something that isn't close to zero, which is the real trick. And then if you need something close to one, you probable just use the converse: instead of using p=1-eps, you just work with eps itself.
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> He was literally a founding senior director for "equity in computing" at Georgia Tech and was a national strategy advisor to the Obama administration for bringing "equity and justice" to STEM (when he wrote this blog post).

Neither of those is “global head of diversity”.

> Please update your post as you're spreading FUD.

No, I’m not and I see no need to update my post. If the upthread post were updated to refer to his actual position at the time of the post, I might be bothered to simply empty out my response as it would be moot, but given that it seems (like your post defending it) to be from a single-use throwaway account, I don't expect that to happen.
The mid-20th century versions of Protestantism and the late-20th century version of Catholicism are pretty humane, no doubt about that. But they are not the only versions of Christianity alive today, never mind all the Islam variants, and those are, well, somewhat less humane, to put it mildly.
> But I still think NFTs have a future as digitally signed proof of ownership of media assets.

NFTs are not proof of ownership, because anyone can create an NFT of anything. I can create an NFT of my neighbour's car.
Many people would like to be able to record snippets of people approaching their door. Good to know what's going on when you're not there so you can calibrate your fears with reality. Now you need to send the recording somewhere.

You have two choices: maintain your own recording equipment, or upload. The former is a major hassle. Ring smartly found an opportunity to make a simple service people want.

You say the "US is such a bizarre place" but that is simply untrue. Petty theft is a part of many cultures. For example, petty theft in the UK is far more common than the US.
This is my primary objection (and an objection to crypto in general as well).

You have a meme, and someone sells you a little laminated card saying "I own the meme at this URL", and all it costs is $80,000 and you have to burn down an acre of rainforest. It's purely asinine in every respect, and, like a lot of crypto, is basically just a gold rush plus pyramid scheme.
Whether African immigrants qualify as "truly" Black is actually a very contentious point within Black culture itself, and that's despite widespread solidarity with Africa and Pan-African ideals. This makes 100% sense if you regard this U.S. notion of "race" as a pure social construct, something not dependent on any fixed set of physical traits or purported ancestry.
Theoretically, would any number of broken necks of other olympian gymnasts change your mind here?
A major reason why today's politicians are so bland and uninspiring is because they have been groomed to never say anything controversial or contentious. Trawling through adults adolescence photos and shaming/blaming them for some youthful indiscretion is another aspect of this societal disaster.

The anti war candidate Tulsi Gabbard in the recent US election is an example of someone relentlessly ridiculed and destroyed despite the absence of anything controversial in her background and is a dismal example of the way politics works today.

Now we have the pretentious corporate diversity industry insisting no one in their orbit has any opinions that might offend. Hopeless.
> and in absolute numbers, rich consume significantly more than poor

This is obviously not true
Seconded. I see no point in "buying" media from stores where my account can be terminated immediately. If I bought an NFT token that encodes the right to use some copyrighted work, this issue doesn't exist.

Imagine a future where you can engage in completely legal torrenting of copyrighted works, where all sides have NFT proofs of ownership. Owning an NFT would mean you own the notarized right to download a copy as well as to seed it to other torrenters who can cryptographically prove they own the same NFT.
F1 definitely does NOT keep things balanced. Though they do try, but they have to balanced engagement from fans, well-funded teams, and teams with less financial backing.
The NFT could always be self-referential and point to the hash of the image itself which would be accessible on IPFS or another content-addressed network.
And, how exactly will it be proven to be correct?
That's hardly doing him justice..

https://www.salon.com/2012/06/17/when_chomsky_wept/

Call it a fluff piece, sure, there certainly isn't even an attempt of criticism in it, but it still matches all I ever witnessed from him.
It's a bit clickbity.

In the introduction, the paper mostly talks about the ergonomics / maintainability (that resonates the audiencel like me), but the proposed solution, "jash", addresses the performance problem (who cares???).

That's said, the brief survey in the first half of the paper is moderately interesting. It's not a real survey but an advertisement of the authors' work. But they've done something worth a quick glance like formalizing shell's semantics [1], which looks interesting if no useful.

[1] http://shell.cs.pomona.edu/
Absolutely on the nose. I'd go a step further - if he had said "If I were Isreael", then he's imagining being policy maker directly responsible, instead of merely being a citizen.

It's not empathy to put one's self in someone else's shoes, but then dismiss the viewpoint that comes with wearing those shoes. This is simply another version of the "No true Scotsman" fallacy.

Moreover, using collective guilt as an underpinning of any political stance is garbage. It's not enough to say racists and racist policies are bad - white people are collectively guilty, regardless of their own personal behavior and history. It's not enough to say Israel's out of line with their policies - all Jews are collectively guilty. So on and so forth. And it's alienating and insulting to anyone sympathetic policy-wise, but don't want to be lumped in with bad actors.
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Sorry about that. That's the first result both DDG and Google are giving me. The website does look super old so maybe it's been neglected and compromised? No warnings for me.
Does anyone have any thoughts about the prospect of a law that makes it illegal to pay ransomware ransoms in general, across government and private industry? I wonder if such a law could be written without loopholes or ambiguity about data recovery.
I can't even imagine how anyone could think this was true, even in multi-generational upper-middle class urban families.

I don't think you're lying, although I don't think you're correct; I'm just amazed at how different people's baseline contexts are. In your context, that's a reasonable statement, or you wouldn't have said it.
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NFT for generative art where the essence of the art is the input to the algorithm makes sense.

Check out Art Blocks

https://artblocks.io
need a lot more to be public tbh
You have to choose your trade offs.

Aluminium is abundant compared to lithium, and if the charging times are as good as they’re saying it might be worth the loss of capacity.
> Their last earnings report shows significant growth and is the opposite of a struggling business.

It helps when governments have given out huge grants specifically earmarked for social media advertising in an effort to help struggling brick and mortar business through the COVID landscape. It will be interesting to see if those earnings continue when businesses are back to paying for their own ads. In my business, which received one of those grants, I'm not sure the payback justified the spend, to be honest.
Perhaps someone can help me with a question. I read this and look for a elementary explanation of the operation of an aluminum-ion battery. Wikipedia yields this[1]:

"Aluminium-ion batteries are a class of rechargeable battery in which aluminium ions provide energy by flowing from the positive electrode of the battery, the anode, to the negative electrode, the cathode. When recharging, aluminium ions return to the negative electrode, and can exchange three electrons per ion."

This description appears self contradictory. On one hand the battery "provides energy" when ions are "flowing from" the anode to the cathode. When recharging, the opposite of "providing energy," one should then expect to be told that the reverse happens; the ions would return to the anode. Yet the Wikipedia description tells us the opposite when recharging; "aluminium ions return to the negative electrode [cathode]."

Nowhere in this cycle, according to this description, are the ions returned to the anode. What am I missing?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium-ion_battery
the only way to be profitable is to start selling. the only way to avoid debt is to have money. the only way to have money without investments is to sell from day 1.

either you invest with time & money, or lots of time, or lots of money... but sooner or later you need to sell. so if you don't want to invest money, or lose time, better sell & pre-sell before it exists, or before it is automated. grow afterwards
Airplanes have a lifespan. Janky "third world" countries will let you fly a plane that should have been scrapped, but the big airlines in major countries scrap their old planes at the end of life to ensure flying is safe. Getting more fuel efficient planes is a side effect (and with the cost of fuel one they are excited to get)
I'm curious what birth rates are relative to the income spectrum. It seems like rates would be higher at both ends which would factor into increased wealth inequality.
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> If an artist makes a painting, that original painting has collectible value.

This misunderstands the ultimate reason why art becomes valuable.

It has nothing to do with the scarcity itself. There's a billion works of art out there that are 1/1 originals and yet are worthless.

So scarcity alone doesn't bring the value. What does?

Mostly media and public relations originally, and if an artist gets attention for long enough, government, non-profit and educational institutions will legitimize that media coverage and write an artist into the mainstream "lexicon" for history going forward.

You need both the scarcity combined with the mainstream knowledge of an artists name to create that value.

The problem with NFTs is, now that the media channels that create "star" artists are getting more and more decentralized, the chances your friend will know the names of the same artists as you is diminished.

Everybody's instagram feed is different, so there isn't the same shared language that existed in the past to attach value to these scarce objects.

That, combined with the fact that you can't hang it on your wall as a signaling device to show off to your friends or prospective mating partners...is the reason why NFTs will never be as valuable as pre-internet art.
Everyone posting anti-nft comments here:

You do realize that the NFT markets are fuelled by controversy, right? Stop giving the NFT concept more attention if you truly want it to fail. Nobody is forcing you to buy an NFT, you have nothing to complain about.
Every country faces real security concerns when they're trying to settle land somebody already lives on.

Nazi Germany was one of the most militaristic states in the world as well, and they too had real security concerns for the same reasons
NFTs explicitly do NOT grant ownership to the underlying asset though. You are purchasing the NFT itself, and nothing else.
it's time for the global rise of the proletariat, and that doesn't include any of the nazis still funding genocide