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Aparently huge increases in annual insurance costs make it cheaper in the long run to pay the high first cost of burial and amortise over 20 years of the lot lower cost of underground insurance.
Honestly I'd love it even if AWS just joined into the bandwidth alliance. Then I could store backups in glacier but have several options to retrieve it at a reasonable price.
In additional to those comments on banking and 2FA, these banking apps also requires certain version of Android and IOS ( rightly so because of security concern ). Which means you are now, in some way forced to upgrade your phone every x years if your phone no longer gets any software update.
Is anyone here a Biden voter and is surprised by this news? Not a single Trump voter is.
The Macintosh Classic is my favorite compact Mac, even if the SE/30 was technically miles ahead. The Classic looks the best (in my '90s-biased opinion) and is the only one that has a working operating system in ROM, which I think is pretty cool. I traded a Mac SE (FD800) for mine and haven't looked back.

I also really enjoy the LC line, especially the pizza box form factor. They have similar styling to the Classic but have a color monitor, and still don't take up much space. There was also an Apple][-on-a-card that could plug into an LC's expansion port and allow it to run Apple ][ software... I haven't tracked one of those down yet, but I see them come up occasionally.
kind of, if you go through 15 different obscure menus and hope you haven't missed any, and some stuff like push notifications you can't not go through google anyway. Google also forced manufacturers to make the location toggle more obscure.
> If you want to be homophobe, it’s fine, but either keep your ideology away from people under 18, or face prison.

In Ghana, child rearing is first of all the responsibility of the parent, which imo is a great vanguard against the on-marching groupthink. There's a variety of ideas and beliefs in the country, government has little to no effect on daily life choice, etc.

That said, the country is heavily traditional and it will take several generations until popular opinion is favorable towards public display of homosexual relationship. At the moment it isn't and can't be forced in any non-imperialist way.
1/ You do not need to rent commercial space to get a business address, a P.O. Box or similar will suffice.

2/ The ISP only needs a single business address, not multiple registered addresses for all their sites.

3/ This thread isn’t specific to NYC Mesh, but the same principles apply
Either LGBTQ Rights will be more important than Religious rights, or Religious rights will be more important than LGBTQ rights.

You can't have both, it's a fight over which one is more important.
> We are talking about Ghana where all the options you mention are not available to the majority of the population

Fertility isn't presently a problem in Ghana [1]. If it were, neonatal care is the low-hanging fruit.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Ghana#Fertilit...
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>...the US manufacturing industry alone is expected to have 2.1 million unfilled jobs by 2030.

Is the implication here that they're aiming to automate away all of these jobs?
What's the win for the new owner, do they make money from linking to the porn somehow? Sure it could also be just for lulz but there are many equally or more lulzy possibilities whereas porn often seems to be coupled with economic gain.
It's still a MUCH better deal in the Netherlands.
That just moves the problem though, how likely is it that that company will be around in 90 years to perform the last extension?
It takes a long time for the fat man to die. In the meantime it will drag us all along kicking and screaming until its eventual demise.
They have a dualistic world view, and the public school system is part of where the enemy stands. Anything that scores points against the enemy is a good weapon.
Notably, I think eye contact is a killer app for VR and none of the headsets can do it yet.

Facebook is smart to be in there doing experiments and failing though. That's table stakes for having a shot at winning the competition.
Too bad Dante's not around to add a tenth ring of hell to the Inferno.
I originally saw https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/07/pge-likely-spark....

Everybody seems to think that burying power lines is a walk in the park. It unfortunate the the conditions have changed were it is now necessity.
> You can't have both, it's a fight over which one is more important

Of course you can. Most religious people the world over are tolerant and accepting in their beliefs.
> Also, unlike Google, fb mostly marketed them as experiements.

Fair enough. Though I'd argue that with these big internet companies, the line between actual product and perpetually in beta experiment is blurred, more often by Google than others.

> IMO it was good tech no one trusted (understandably).

And as a consequence, the adoption of Portal seems pretty negligible.

> I think it was a huge missed opportunity for fb to enter the data center race against aws/gcs/azure. If fb built a benign cash cow, maybe they'd taper down their scummy social network ambitions. Or at least the value extraction. AWS cash seems to fund cool amzn loss leaders (alexa, etc). I think the same thing applies to wit.ai and other AI products they buy - if they could commercialize them into an "AWS for AI" product suite maybe they'd find a new profit center.

Very intriguing point that provides useful thought for both a what-if (Facebook didn't kill Parse) and potential future opportunities- if only Facebook cared for them.

> Makes sense that a startup business (< 2 yo) would kill a controversial product.

Yeah, I just threw it in to get a full category range and historical range of different products killed by Facebook. I also edited in Facebook Home as well to touch upon smartphone software.

My main point is that it's all well and good for a corporate behemoth like FB to make the claim that they're getting into a new speculative field, but it's natural to be skeptical given how many of their experiments or (attempts at) products don't stick around. So as exciting as this sounds like, I give it as much credence as, say, IBM saying that Watson is going to revolutionize and transform healthcare through artificial intelligence.

It also goes in line with my cousin comment in another subthread about how Facebook's history is littered with retired replications of existing products. I didn't even mention Facebook cloud gaming (Facebook Gaming - admittedly still in progress), video streaming (Facebook Live), Clubhouse (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27580014), even HQ Trivia (Confetti). So that makes one wonder- does Zuckerberg really care about the metaverse idea, or is he just getting into it because Apple supposedly is?
Do you mean the blog? That works for me as well, but scrolling on https://x.company is broken.
Apple has been trying to take control of users ever since the original Macintosh with its attitude of hiding things from them.

DOS came with a debugger that let you modify and create your own software. The Mac didn't.

Planned obsolescence was also not something new --- the infamous Lisa was designed with clock hardware and software that couldn't make it past 1995, for a machine released in 1983. (The PC AT, from 1984, has an RTC that went to at least 2000, and is still a design in use today.)
You initially would for having claimed something interesting is not, however you also started a discussion which is pretty interesting, including your own further comment, which also adds interest to the situation. Paradoxically you two now may be the most interesting here.
Oh wait, so when Trump was using the Podesta Emails for making a point, Podesta was a saint.

Now with Trump gone, Podesta is an un-sainty "lobbyist" when hired by Huawei.

That can only mean one thing: Others want a cut, Huawei needs to pay up.
Took me a bit to get to the web site, since I was lost in Medium land for a while, but there's an unlinked text-only "www.x.company" at the bottom I could copy/paste.

But yeah scroll speed is ludicrous!
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Feynman wouldn't dismiss that question. He'd overthink it.

Someone once asked Feynman which way a top spinning sprinkler would spin if it was underwater and water was sucked through it instead of pushed out of it. He got into back and forth debates with other students. He ended up using the universities cooling pond for the cyclotron to actually run the experiment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feynman_sprinkler

So if you asked Feynman "How many ping pong balls would it take to fill a 747?" you wouldn't receive a "Why do you ask? What problem are you trying to solve?". Instead you'd find him trying to acquire a large 747 and a whole lot of ping pong balls in order to validate his initial guess.
One idea that's been around for awhile is to identify files by their hash. That has pros and cons. The good side of that is that the file is immutable; you can't accidentally link to something else unless someone can manufacture a hash collision somehow. The down side is that if the file is corrected in some way, you don't get the fixes.

In a lot of the peer-to-peer distributed hash table designs, all you need to retrieve a file is its hash.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_addressable_network
I think you're kind of missing the point here that "LGBTQ" rights are just human rights. If the regime you live under doesn't respect individual autonomy then everyone is gonna have a bad time.
Considering its actions over the past several years, Facebook has been the arbiter of a bunch of other positions, too. I'm stunned that Facebook has sided with leaving posts up and unaltered in this case.
Off topic, but looking through the comments, so many people seem to believe that any multi-family housing is noisy. That has literally never been my experience despite living exclusively in multi-family housing for the past 15 years. Sometimes I can hear my neighbor's kid when they're directly outside my front door. That's it.

Have the folks who think that apartments are noisy just never lived in apartment? Or is my experience the skewed one?
Is the implication here that being a Christian requires making homosexuality illegal?
I'd like to understand why these views persist, and are popular in Africa in particular. What power do they serve and how? Are they simply a simple cause to really behind?
His criticisms of Full Throttle were completely unfair, this is a one game that doesn't have any flaws at all. Well, maybe it is too short, if you play it for the second time.

One such criticism is his bashing of the second arcade puzzle (the demolition derby) - he complained about the objective being "unclear". How can it be "unclear" after the player is given a briefing on what to do and is constantly bombarded by voice instructions during the whole event?!
Except that if you check what Catholics, many Christians, and Islamic texts teach about LGBTQ behavior, you'll find that what the Churches/Mosques teach is very different than what the majority of people in those churches follow.

The "tolerant and accepting" ones are the ones the churches would call "apostate" or "heretical."
No, But i'll bet you the plumber who does not absolutely love going under the sink each day has money and is miserable. The one who enjoys telling you the anatomy of your sink when you didn't ask (you know the type) those guys don't even care about the money, they just love what they do
Yes, since the turbine creates different force vectors for different wind directions/speeds and the power generated is greatest when the mast is fully vertical, they actively re-trim when the wind direction and speed changes.
Makes me wonder what actual problems Ghana is facing that are being blamed on minority sexualities as a distraction/scapegoat.
What happens when they force you to bake the cake? No respect for the baker's autonomy there.
Point being, the ability is still there if you want it. There's microG which is an open-source reimplementation of Google services minus the nasty parts. And even if you do use Google services, you can still sideload apps pretty easily without any Google involvement whatsoever — something that iOS lacks entirely.
How well these questions correlate to job performance is an interesting question but the goal I think is not for you to get to the "right" answer (in the sense of figuring the optimal bin-packing approach on the fly). The goal is to see how you are able to take a broad problem and break it down by:

1. Identifying key assumptions or inputs. You may not know the dimensions of a 747 off-hand but ideally you can come up with a way of determining the number of ping-ping balls GIVEN the correct dimensions as input. That is you can come up with a model that you can plug the right numbers into once you look them up.

2. Clarifying the problem by asking questions and drilling in on requirements.

3. Create a model that you can communicate to others and allows you to make decisions just based on order-of-magnitude considerations. I.e. make decisions under uncertainty.

All of those skills I think are relevant to software engineering and system design. For example, you may need to provision hardware long before you know the exact design of a system. Can you come up with a rough estimate of how much storage you will need? Or at least put reasonable upper bounds on it? How many qps would you expect a system to need to support and does that mean you have to use a distributed datastore vs a single RDBMS?
I have a traditional Computer Science background and I'm still intimidated to even apply to Google. I got out of bigCo Software Engineering in part because I wasn't interested in putting myself through the wringer of whiteboarding memorized solutions.

I'm also the guy that found low hanging fruit in a huge codebase to replace things like frequent linear array lookups with hash table lookups for 10x+ speed improvements in the build process. This is IMO precisely the type of capability that "Oh, that's O(n^2), surely we can do better. Is there any way to do this in O(1)?" is designed to tease out in the interview process. I did it! In a build process effecting 1000+ engineers, used to build for millions of shipped units! But talking about this in an interview makes eyes gloss over as we prepare to move on to sort algorithm trivia, how would I design search, or doubly linked list implementations.
Imagine living under that much pressure to do something you feel no inclination to do. :(
Cryptocurrency as an investment is exploitive and plays on ignorance. So groups that may be more susceptible to exploitation may be over-represented as "investors". I would be interested to see a comparison vs. lottery tickets, payday loans, and other financial exploitation. I imagine that is the real story, not the "accessibility" of cryptocurrency
Indeed. Looking at their sample footage of assembling Ikea furniture reminds me of fixturing. Watch manufacturing footage and watch out for jigs and fixtures. They are EVERYWHERE.

Currently, you can either use fixtures and jigs and specialized machines and run fast, use humans and run medium speed, or use AI and generic robotics and run REALLY SLOWLY.

Where's the value prop?
One of the issues with 5G is that you're always handing over your location using "high accuracy location" resolution and you can't disable it. Your cell phone company always had your location but it used to be accurate within a mile or so, but because 5G will have "towers" everywhere you can be located within a few feet of where you're standing.

Also I can't read the article, but hopefully disabling bluetooth is in there. Phones are being tracked via beacons that just collect the ID of every device that passes in range.
Yes, they should.

But then just because there is a similar problem elsewhere doesn't mean we should ignore either of them or only fix them together.
Just block JavaScript on all Medium blogs. Simple click with Ublock Origin. Much better experience.
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You can go to jail for 10 years for homosexuality in Gaza, too, yet many "progressives" don't have a problem with that as you can see from the downvotes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_State_of_Pa...
Well, ask any Christian who considers themselves devout, and they'll happily remind you about Sodom and Gamorrah, Biblical cities which were destroyed by fire falling from heaven for homosexuality.
The implication is that noone wants to work those jobs anymore and the options are to either import illegal workers being paid below minimal wage or replace by robots.
https://www.mujin.co.jp/en/

This is not manual or bespoke and it has sensors. The videos are incredible and they work in real life already.

This one is it moving petri dishes full of liquid without spilling! This is obviously not being pre-programmed to move along some kind of 1980s style fixed paths for welding parts as Alphabet apparently thinks everyone is still doing. The obliviousness of suggesting that using ML models for robotic control is some unique new idea is really off-putting. Mujin has been around since 2012.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vleHnx7uug&t=136s

The more the merrier, of course, but just dismissing the state of the industry and claiming you've made a huge technology leap (compared to the 80s and 90s instead of something harder)... ugh.
If you have just one tab, with a simple webpage with no iframe, yes. But this use-case is handled even by a first-gen Raspberry Pi.

Once you start having several tas open, or web pages with different iframes, modern browsers put those in different processes.
> when the society fails to get religious extremists

I have a difficult time disentangling chicken and egg. Would a society in Ghana's state wind up with similarly-hateful policies absent religion? That is, does the situation create the calling to which religion happened to be proximate this time, but, in its absence, some other organized majority (e.g. nationalists) would rise? (More practically: is targeting the religion the most efficient way to solve the problem.)

The irony of all this being such policies promot the situation. Such laws encourage brain drain. They de facto bar many foreign firms from investing or even letting their employees visit. They also add friction to every foreign aid talk.
Muslims outrank LGBT on the progressive stack of priviledge.
My work-issued iPhone wants me to verify me Apple ID password for whatever reason.

By device management policy I am locked out from entering my Apple ID information again. Great success.
Not sure about mac mini, but some old machines might draw considerably more power than rpi. Rpi has a problem with sd cards, but you can make it use them in the read-only mode, in which case rpi becomes a very reliable computing device.
The improvement of robot control schemes reduces the constraints on designs that are designed for automated assembly. I suspect there’s a kind of slow moving coevoultion there where you have to go incrementally at both.
They have children with heterosexual partners. Old as world.
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In captivity they can live up to 80 years old so if it's possible someone knows the answer to that. I have to imagine they have something similar to humans ears where we have a muscle to dampen the sounds of our jaw area and voice.
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I don't think it's really an apt analogy. It's an extraordinary situation where companies are, first and foremost, fighting to save their own lives and opening up their own economies. It's an emergency, where long-term profit maximization can easily be shunted off to the side.

That makes a kind of limited, temporary utopia. I don't know what the world would look like if you eliminated patents, but it wouldn't look like that.

It would probably be a better world than the one we live in, because technology has changed since the notion of patents was developed. But it wouldn't automatically consist of a whole bunch of happily cooperating companies and plentiful profits because of absolute necessity.
Yep, my friend has the Index which I really like. Leaning that direction for my next VR system.
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Where can I get a cat like that?
He was right, though. A lot of people were buying $1000 computers to do not much more than check their email, shop online and play Farmville. Those people exist in much larger numbers than power users who need a lot more of full functionality of a PC.

So selling a blown-up iPhone for $500 to that market made more sense than what Android OEMs did, which was advertise Flash compatibility.

That being said, I have only ever owned Android tablets. I dip my toe into iOS and iPadOS every now and then but it always feels too locked down compared to what I'm used to.
The goal of a business is not to make Money.

Money to a business is like oxygen to to a person. A business cannot survive without money, the body cannot survive without oxygen. So does that mean the goal of life is to breathe?

Make sure you are breathing and go out there and change the world

Make sure your business is financially healthy and focus on getting it to make a dent in the Universe.
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> if you check what Catholics, many Christians, and Islamic texts teach about LGBTQ behavior, you'll find that what the Churches/Mosques teach is very different than what the majority of people in those churches follow

One, most of those texts have been translated and transliterated many times over. Two, it's no shock that every religion heavily editorialists its scripture. Three, the only people calling out heretics and apostates among their flock are, almost by definition, the extremists.

TL; DR You can be well received in the eyes of your God(s) without having to promote or support the murder and oppression of your fellow human beings.
> Imagine if Google’s software developers went on strike every time they tried to pull another AMP on the open web?

I doubt a non-trivial number of developers (let alone Google Developers) care about things like the "open web".
Yeah, I think in general people lump Fermi estimation problems in with "brain teaser" questions (which I think really are silly) because they are both technical(ish) interview questions that have nothing to do (superficially) with software engineering.
“There’s this whole world of information around the stock market and how to trade [and] what stocks to trade that’s full of terminology that first you need to learn and understand,”

Hahahaha! Wow, what a sanctimonious pandering insult! So much to unravel there.
Apple's privacy and security practices are much more than just "marginally" better.
Sensing and control are certainly part of the problem, but to me it always felt like a major limit to automation was the quality of actuators. It's much more than just a control problem to make robot hands with the sensitivity, acuity, and dexterity required to crack an egg, thread a needle, and play Chopin.
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