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I wonder if something like this exists for other languages? Most rewriting/refactoring tools make too many assumptions about the surrounding project. Something simple which supports pattern matching against a CST subtree and invertible parsing/unparsing would be the ideal polyglot macro-system. Suppose I want to find and rename all variables with a certain type or rewrite an expression of a certain shape in multiple languages at once (e.g. Java/JavaScript/C/C++). Something between a regular expressions (too brittle) and a full parser would be great a great solution to have for this use case.
Japan and the US are close allies based on common interests: Japan is one of the few countries that hates China more than the USA.

The people of Japan and the US have very favorable opinions of each other[1]. Of the two, Japan has more favorable views of the USA than the other way around.

The US would love to station nukes in Japan, but this would cross a red line for China.

https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2015/04/07/americans-japa...

https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2016/09/13/hostile-neighb...
There's a modern Seinfeld twitter account, which has a bunch of zany plot lines that are only possible in the smart phone era.
Same thing. One of our main actors was once a guy I didn't like at all. But he was fantastic for the role and it turned out to be a good decision afterwards (despite him being complicated to handle, which we also factored in).

Maybe the hard part is to get a HR person that cares about the outcome instead of their authority.
Not really, and they don't have to. A simple change would suffice:

> Old Android versions [from 2011 and earlier] will no longer be able to log into Google account
What's with the weird capitalisation; is git suddenly an acronym or something?
I understand many React tools depend on Node but the React side of it has felt very stable to me in the last three or so years.
The problem is, we get less of you and more of them, it damages us all. As long as you keep writing good software though, that's what really matters.

We used to stand in a field where everywhere we looked we could see and hear another of us, now there's 10,000 fools between each of us, and it's rare for us to hear or see another over the crowd.
Still, looking at ancient constructions, 150 years is a huge amount of time. Most roman constructions that have survived to today were built at most in a single life time - at an extreme end, it seems that the Hagia Sophia was built in 5 years. The more than 4500 years old Great Pyramid of Giza was built in a single pharaoh's lifetime.

Which is to say, engineering culture and goals can absolutely degrade over time in terms of productivity, even with great increases in construction technology.
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Yeah, I would expect browsers to do a number of non-standard things. It is possible with most of them to construct & send malformed requests.
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PBS is kind of a hybrid, with partial public funding, but with the majority of its funding coming from other revenue sources. It gets around 15% of its budget through grants from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (which in turn is funded by the federal government), the rest through a mix of fundraising and subscriptions. Some local PBS affiliates also get state/local support, or are hosted by a public entity like a university. That seems to have been Congress's intent, that it would be supported in part by federal funding, but not be a fully publicly run organization like the BBC.
iPhone SE with 64GB is $399 direct from Apple...
true

but they are both paths in the end
This probably isn't a popular opinion, but I think China may be genuinely right here. Innovation requires solving genuinely hard technical problems. Consumer Internet is, in general, not that.

I genuinely hope that America makes a similar shift in it's own VC sector.
Not sure why this was downvoted. Please clarify if there's any issue in the post.
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The author is pretty open to any kind of criticisms and suggestions. It would be great if you open an issue to inform him the missing contents.
> I think it was pretty clear that he was thinking about Saudi / middle east / Norwegian / sovereign wealth type funding on equity side. Then debt for rest if needed.

He was "thinking"? That's not funding secured. Why have all of these institutions specifically denied having discussed it at the time too? Either it wasn't these institutions, or funding was very far from secure at the time he claimed it was.

> It wasn't a $100B deal. Many larger investors would rolled their holdings into the private entity - Elon alone would have. $40 - $50B. If debt is in mix equity portion even smaller. It would have been the deal of the century.

If you are going to get investors for something like this, you're also going to roll over all the debt/options that you have on your books as well. It would have been close to ~100 billion, the largest LBO ever done.

> And yes - discussions like this happen with some frequency - and it's not a scandal if the deal doesn't close - you just don't usually read about them.

You don't read about them because the CEO doesn't announce they secured funding for one in the middle of trading. You know, the responsible thing to do.
Aligning the infrared ports of two phones until max speed was achieved and being extremely careful to not move them for minutes which felt like ages to just send over a polyphonic ringtone..

And if the bell rung, well, you were out of luck
Is the book mentioned in this article worth reading?
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as far as i know it broke October 2020 and has been abandoned since then. nfi if he intended to go quiet, it seems like it would be out of character.
Having trouble thinking of an example of a closed loop system that has sufficient means to prevent its own abuse. Maybe I'm way off, but the qualitative concept of abuse is necessarily an exogenous condition to any thing or system.
The only way to reduce abuse is to reduce the domain of function of a system to where it only works with some kind of external key - and then you've just popped your abuse problem up out of the system to an encompassing logical layer where you have to manage that conceptual key problem.

The basic security problem is not about whether a thing has sufficient internal rules to prevent abuse, but how a thing relates to other things, like arbitrary substrates and abstractions - security itself is a logical layer problem where you are managing a dynamic between essentially arbitrary and incompatible categories and types.

I was about to argue that novel surveillance systems are not discovering anything about nature or advancing scientific knowledge, and that they are just laundering a political surveillance application through the prestige and respect of the discovery process - but that argument ignores all the amazing experimental techniques with general applications derived directly from cracking enemy codes (computers), side channel attacks (signal processing), data visualization (applications of graphs, fractal geometry), codifying and tooling applications of statistical techniques (Bayesean everything), etc.

Engineering simply does not provide general solutions to the problems of abuse and oppression because it begins with the flawed assumption they are concrete problems, and not open dynamics. Instead of engineering anti-abuse rules into a system, the absolute best we can do from a security perspective is engineer costs on inputs to a system, which create incentives for its use and abuse. The rest is just adding internal complications to hide them. In this sense, Security is the study of incentives, a kind of Economics by other means. It's the analysis of systems through the lens of incentives and developing technologies that optimize for them.

If security essentially reduces to a shell game or infinite three-card monte, adding arbitrary complications to systems should be seen for what it is, a qualitative distraction from the encompassing problem of whose interest prevails.

I wanted to agree with Green and add that those academics he criticized for designing yet another surveillance system were not advancing science or knowledge, but I'm not sure that's the right objection. I think it's that they're just assholes.
I disagree that this is the only way to eliminate this problem. Companies could loosen promotion criteria to be more in line with what external candidates bring. Ultimately the cost of lost knowledge and backfilling is quite high, and could easily justify faster promotion cycles on a monetary basis alone.

Even if some of them genuinely get promoted before they’re ready and wash out, you’re not really that much worse off than if you’d lost them before. Besides, there’s always the risk that your new hire is unprepared too, which is a much harder thing to quantify.
Can a person download Google Chrome without Google Play Store / Google Account?

I tried and failed.
> The white collar internet loves to blindly fetishize "quality" tools

I don't know how much this is fetishizing versus simply having different priorities.

White collar tech people using tools are more likely to be doing so for hobby or recreation. They have spare money and their goal is a maximally enjoyable experience. With those priorities, it makes sense to buy better tools than you could justify economically.
Nothing wrong about that :)
Have shopped at McLendon’s many times. Preferred them before I moved, but now they are quite a bit further. That’s terrible that it’s happening to them too, I hope they make it.
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Pushed by whom? The German Marshall Fund? Oh a state think tank.

Why? "way to shift the power dynamics in today's information wars." So PBS, NPR, etc were originally created to participate in information wars. Sort of like government funded propaganda? Is that what she is implying here?

"constraining Big Tech platforms' amplification of harmful or false information." That's strange. Because Big Tech platforms amply authoritative sources - which most likely includes PBS.

https://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/the-four-rs-of-responsib...

I'm all for more competition. More options. It isn't healthy that we have such concentration of power in a few "algorithms". Not sure the "PBS of the Internet" will challenge it no more than C-SPAN challenged cable news.
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> * Inane arguments in pubs about facts that couldn't be instantly googled.

I don't miss those. Before the Internet, if it wasn't on an encyclopedia and you weren't at the library, you had no way of corroborating information.

On the other hand, since facts are so accessible right now, those arguments have shifted to voicing their feelings and wishes because those can't be falsified.
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Having more limbs is less efficient biomechanically - the creature would need a larger heart to pump blood through al organs, that requires more energy, so such creature would need more food.

Now, it is known that creatures can lose limbs through evolution, but never gain them, so it is likely that multi-legged species would gradually lose extra limbs over time.
> Were those the good old days?

I've heard this from several generations that the time when you were still under the protection of parents, but not their attention are the "good old days" of your life - like if your biggest worry if you flipped a car was "My dad will kill me!" and not "phew, not a scratch on me & my friends are all alive".

Must be the youth and opportunity of that phase of life rather than the actual era in the world (just look at a "2007 was the best year in video games" for an equivalent for a late millenial).

The music was better, the cereal crunched better, all your friends lived nearby & were always free to hang out, the TV shows were made for your eyes and talking about your dreams was the thing you did without any irony.

Also there was a lot that affected you that you just didn't know yet. You weren't even aware of your ignorance & all knowledge was just within reach.

> I didn’t think about wage gaps, redlining, gerrymandering, or the intricacies of romantic encounters.

> Things weren’t fluid and there was no spectrum. I assumed the police were telling the truth. I was unaware of how frequently powerful men answered the door wearing nothing but a towel.

Oh, there was definitely a spectrum (Rain Man came out in the 80s). Rodney King was before the iPhone. LBJ was already showing people how everything in Texas was bigger (Doris Kearns Goodwin has a laugh about it, but we'll never know if she cringed).

I'm too young to remember all this, because it was before my time, but I sort of went into the part 2 of "We didn't start the fire" here.
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You can't go back though, not really. Like if you got lost pre-smartphones you would find a gas station and the person there would rattle off a series of turns you had to memorize on the spot or would pull out an atlas and walk you through directions - this was normal. Now, they would look at you like an alien.

There was a culture of nudging people along to the right place. Even as a kid you would be asked for directions from time to time and have to sort out how many blocks to go before the next turn and all that, often without ever having seen an actual map of your own town.
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Interesting discussion re: the ethics of everything. From my perspective, if a company is using this to reach more people and get them to listen, at the end of the day, the onus is on the company for having a valuable product for the customer, and the methodology of getting there is less important. I actually am thinking of it from the perspective of the sales person or recruiter... saving them time, so they can work on their own personal goals.