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> Facebook has a corporate structure that simply will not prioritize any effort longer than 6 months unless a senior company executive

To be fair, many companies have some degree of this. They don't want to commit significant resources to something the people in charge don't understand.
If rental relief is needed then it should be implemented entirely at the state level. There's no Constitutional basis for a federal role here. States that need additional revenue to support such programs can temporarily raise income and capital gains taxes on the wealthy.
I am super confused as well. Lol.

This website is really strange.
I don't think parent's comment meant men and women competing against each other. Just that the current sport could be split into two - say, strength gymnastics (following the current rules of men's gymnastics) and choreograph gymnastics (following the current rules of women's) - both with men's and women's categories.
In light of the Raven reveals from 2019 [0], I don't see what makes NSO stand apart and get so much bad rep (besides the obvious fact that any spyware is bad). In Raven, ex-NSA contractors not only supplied the spyware but actually helped operate it on-site, at least in the UAE. My guess would be that NSO et al compete with US-based players on price, not effectiveness.
So the angle I find fascinating is the amount of pile-on on NSO/Israel this campaign effectively generates. Anti Israeli sentiment has become the watering hole where wokes and alts of all stripes can get their fuzzies and co-exist (at least for a while :/)
[0] https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-spyi....
The point wasn't just about SpaceX. "A whole industry bootstrapping itself to make semi-conductors doubling every 18 months". That semiconductor manufacturing industry is largely overseas and has been for awhile.
The union probably wants this public so they can say Amazon cheated but the union might not want a 2nd vote to actually happen so they don't lose.

Claim "Moral victory" and move on for a while.
This seems like fighting the last war.

When I hear "PBS for the internet" I think publicly-funded content.

Content on the internet doesn't have pride of place like it does on broadcast media. The internet is about platforms.

"PBS for the internet" should be about creating, first, open standards for content distribution, promotion, and moderation. And then maybe implementing those standards.

Content is basically free on the internet with the right platform. Trying to counter misinformation with good content is boiling the ocean. The better way to spread good content is to create standards and maybe a platform that incentivizes third parties to make good content.
Unknowingly, I've trained my friends and family to assume they aren't going to get an answer immediately. They now text to call when I have time. Or they immediately get to the point: "wanna go riding tomorrow" instead of "hey whats up". Some people are put off by this and others find it endearing, I couldn't care less what they think. My time is my time and I do with it what I please. That means being there for others when they need it, which means being the hell off my phone when I am there.
The really shocking thing is the lack of any delay with email changes. I've known several people whose accounts were hacked and properly flagged by Facebook within hours but the hacker was able to change the email address immediately with no waiting period and remove the other addresses so access was impossible.

I tried this on my own account shortly after and, sure enough, there's no waiting period where previous emails remain allowed to reset passwords.
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Fair enough, it seems we have very different philosophies on this particular issue. Without oft maligned features such as alias this and operator overloading I never would have given D a try as an alternative to C++.

I'd like to suggest that I think you might be missing some perspective here. You say that misuse of macros always happens and that you've seen it over and over. Yet if you explore the Scheme ecosystem you might notice that significant parts of any given implementation often take the form of macros. Racket in particular fully embraces the idea of the programmer mixing customized languages together and while examples of bad code certainly exist it seems to work out quite well on the whole.

To be clear, I do appreciate having easy access to tools that are simple and safe. I just also like having seamless access to and interop with a set of powerful ones that don't try to protect me from my own poor decisions. I shouldn't need to do extra work to make use of an alternative more powerful tool for a small part of a project. At that point it becomes very tempting to drop the safer tool altogether in favor of the more powerful one just to avoid the obviously needless and therefore particularly irritating overhead.

I much prefer the approach of providing limited language subsets that can be opted into and out of in a targeted manner. Having the compiler enforce a simple one by default provides a set of guard rails without getting in the way when it matters.

If I could write the majority of my code in something resembling Go and just a small bit of it in an alternative dialect with expressive power comparable to Common Lisp that would be ideal. To that end, I'm a huge fan of features like @system, @safe, and @nogc in D while very much disliking the need to use string mixins to write a DSL, the various restrictions placed on CTFE behavior, and other similar things.
That's nifty.
If anyone else is on the fence about the Quest 2, I received on as a gift, and it has totally blown me away. I was previously somewhat skeptical of VR, but it's so fun. FWIW, it also feels a bit _different_ than normal video games, because you're on your feet, moving your body, etc.
Honeycomb was even closed source except some GPL
Build software that doesn't aid in the goals of a "totalitarian, militarist, or fascist"
If you truly believe that you can make a car that is significantly better than the current state of the art AND turn it into a viable business at scale, then what are you waiting for? You’ll be a billionaire.
From the gpsd homepage (https://gpsd.gitlab.io/gpsd/index.html): “GPSD is everywhere in mobile embedded systems. It underlies the map service on Android phones. It's ubiquitous in drones, robot submarines, and driverless cars. It's increasingly common in recent generations of manned aircraft, marine navigation systems, and military vehicles.”

FTA: “Will it be cherry-picked back to the 3.20, 3.21, and 3.22 branches?

gpsd does not have enough volunteers to maintain "branches". Some distros try to cherry pick, but usually make things worse.

This bug was announced on gpsd-dev and gpsd-users email lists. So the packagers for several distros already saw it. What they do is what they do.”

So, it seems gpsd is like the tz database, a few volunteers maintaining an essential part of our software infrastructure.
This is a myth. There aren't any (which are open in their figures and policies) that have done consistently well, with significant population.

Everyone had bad spikes and changes in circumstances eventually.

The US did uniquely badly in the first wave relative to Europe, and their fortunes reversed in the second wave.

Japan and Taiwan did great up front and more poorly later on.

It's not over yet, don't count anyone in or out.
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Some time in the 90s I caught what I was told was Alitalia's last smoking flight from Australia to Italy before it was phased out. Christ, it was horrendous. There was a smoking section up the back of the plane, but try telling that to the smoke. It was like being fumigated for 24 hours. Hard to believe that was real now!
Dollar general is arguably worse than many mom and pop shops they’re replacing.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/dollar-genera...
Almost as if he's thought about the thing he's devoted a good chunk of his life and wealth towards, here's Musk:

“The point at which one says the goal is to make life multi-planetary, it means that we need to have a self-sustaining city on Mars,” Musk said. “That city has to survive if the resupply ships stop coming from Earth for any reason whatsoever. Doesn’t matter why. If those resupply ships stop coming, does the city die out or not? In order to make something self-sustaining, you can’t be missing anything. You must have all the ingredients. It can’t be like, well this thing is self-sustaining except for this one little thing that we don’t have. It can’t be. That’d be like saying, ‘Well, we went on this long sea voyage, and we had everything except vitamin C.’ OK, great. Now you’re going to get scurvy and die—and painfully, by the way. It’s going to suck. You’re going to die slowly and painfully for lack of vitamin C. So we’ve got to make sure we’ve got the vitamin C there on Mars. Then it’s like, OK, rough order of magnitude, what kind of tonnage do you need to make it self-sustaining? It’s probably not less than a million tons.”

That’s not a precise number, of course. It’s a rough estimate. But Mars settlers will need vast quantities of stuff. The settlers will need to build an entire industrial base to mine the Red Planet, and there are many steps in mining. To make consumer products requires a huge infrastructure base to refine and shape materials.
“I’ll probably be long dead before Mars becomes self-sustaining, but I’d like to at least be around to see a bunch of ships land on Mars,” Musk said.

[0]: https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/03/inside-elon-musks-pl...
You start by saying the argument is annoying but then you don't refute it in the slightest. Illustrating that the gov also invests heavily in gov agencies does not sever the productive link between gov investment and private industry
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I guess you haven't been reading the room lately. In the modern retelling, the explorers that found the "New World" produced only net negatives and we'd have been all much better off had they stayed in western europe.
There are a lot of issues you get from scaling an engine up, one of the major issues being combustion instability. The larger the "blob" of fuel and oxidizer mixed together that you're trying to burn, the more you will get things like eddy currents and shockwaves flowing through the material. These disrupt the combustion and make it uneven, possibly leading to feedback cycles where these elements self-reinforce eventually causing vibration or otherwise damage to the engine. The smaller the physical size of your combustion chamber the easier these things are. The largest single engine ever built, the F1 engine that pushed the Saturn V, had massive issues with this that were further made worse because the engines were largely designed without the aid of computers.
I avoided mentioning bias for this reason. Discernible spin could be "obvious bias", since I'm referring to tradecraft, not honesty. Appreciate the material—I do enjoy reading older writing.
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For what it’s worth, NASA doesn’t directly build much. Even the Apollo program was a huge web of private vendors (many who still exist today).

SpaceX is/was just another entry on the long list of private contractors commissioned to build things for NASA, DoD, et al. But different here is that SpaceX worked at very very different speed than Aerojet Rocketdyne, ULA, and all the other old-space fossils. Still, those old contractors are valuable for other things — good welders, technicians, and engineers take many years to train and these old legacy corps provide a steady income stream to maintain a certain level of manufacturing readiness.
They do. Support is part of Google One.
I don't understand. Why avoid using a proprietary Nvidia driver in Linux, but go ahead and use one in Windows?

Nvidia don't care much about Linux, and Nouveau is nowhere near as good because they get very little support from Nvidia.
Also, Sweden didn't have mandated lockdowns, for the most part. But they didn't do nothing, and they didn't deny that there was a virus that needed to be taken seriously. They did advocate for some social distancing measures. It was not the do-nothing, head-in-the-sand, resist all public health measures approach some in the US advocate for.
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> In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
Wow, can you theorize why they would build it that way?
I'm probably missing something obvious.

> The world needs CaO for cement. We have a carbon neutral process for making it

vs

> We make synthetic limestone using atmospheric CO2, such that when it is used to make cement, the process is carbon neutral.

Do you make CaO or CaCO3?
I guess soon enough I will not be able to have open more than a few pages of wikipedia at the same time.
Could you expand on the "pushing into pg" bit?

Do you want to specify parameters that have a scope larger than a single statement and send the whole parameterized batch in one go?
I really don't know about that. I struggle to find something interesting online most of the time and when I'm actively hanging out with friend I only use my phone to communicate or check on things occasionally. I'm not gonna sit around and just browser social media while hanging out. Now if there's dead time and nothings going on we may all be looking at our phones for a bit. But even then I'm increasingly less and less enticed by social media where as years ago this was much less true.
> "The only way you can get any customer service is if you prove that you've actually purchased something from them," he said.

Seriously, this sounds super-entitled to me.

Why is this unfair?

Also, the advertising supported-model has so many negative consequences. Pragmatically, FB isn't just going to fade away, so wouldn't it be better if they evolved towards a paid model? (Or at least the option to pay.)
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"Something resembling fair", i.e. unfair? We already have that.

Not that the idea of codifying fairness is new; a certain guy named Hammurabi started the trend a while ago.

The result of humanity's collective attempt to create a Transparent Fairness Flowchart still leaves much to be desired.

Replacing codex with code, will, however, streamline the process by entirely removing (the already meager) accountability for bad decisions, as well making it effectively impossible to correct them:

"Computer says no" [1]

[1] https://youtu.be/0n_Ty_72Qds
Your example would be considerably simpler if you had separation of concerns [1]. You have routing, data fetching, redux, visual components, all in that small snippet. Sadly React devs seem to do this all the time... its like they have never heard of MVC.

[1] https://medium.com/@dan_abramov/smart-and-dumb-components-7c...
Moving local news to Facebook sounds like exactly the wrong thing to do.

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/solution-trump-biden-polarizat...

> Studies show a direct correspondence between the closing of newspapers and the polarization of people formerly served by those newspapers.
i'd sell my dignity for a million tho. So like anything else, it's just about what the price is. The cost for my soul would be much lower.
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I thought scrappers were already required to keep records of who sells to them for just this reason.

I found this: https://iscrapapp.com/scrap-laws/
Could it be profitable to take advantage of the overabundance of renewable energy during certain periods of the day? Or does profitability require running the process 24/7?

I'm thinking, for example, whether this could sink some of the overabundance of solar energy in places like California.
I suspect the "may have" is what set people off.
Enemy at the gates shows the Russians shooting their own retreating soldiers.

See 2:30 of following clip https://youtu.be/L8fWp-i-BGA
A few years back IBM had a test line of liquid cooled modular components. Lovely things had everything connected & sealed and you could stack multiple identical components. Didn't go anywhere at the time but, the idea could be modified and re-implemented these days similar to your suggestions with great benefits.
I can't get a job. Never been able to. But I can build an app and I made a website for a potential congressman. I don't know how to apply to jobs or even have a single clue as to how to get a job.

I don't know how to get past the rejection bot and privileged HR people who never had a struggle in their lives. This isn't projection. This is 10 years of observation.
Every yard near me (Southside Chicago) requires provenance in the form of a title or proof of purchase of a new converter. Further they won’t (ostensibly) buy more than 1 converter at a time. Hasn’t made a dent in thefts.

Like most things, I’m sure globalization has come to this “industry” and you’ll find they are great products to ship back in all those empty containers our trade surplus provides.
Things matter to me, and that's all i need.
A lot of good thoughts in here. The one I personally want everyone to take away is that most plastics are not recycled.

Unless it’s glass, fibre, or aluminum, you are lying to yourself if it’s going into the blue bin.

Glass-contained milk delivery seems great. Someone needs to start a company. Sure it won’t be sexy or use AI but it’s useful.

I have a local co-op that delivers local produce. It’s amazing to see a pile of naked produce show up in a repurposed apple crate.
Or just keep employees on track. Imagine a company the size of FB having a barrage of Slack messages over family and friends with suspended accounts, trying to find who manages which DB.
I suspect that if wrecking yards banned them, thieves will just ship the catalytic converters overseas, just like they do with stolen locked iPhones.
atheists don't say there is no god. At least the general definition of atheism. Only that there is no reason to believe that there is one.
... but in my experiments now I can't find a way to cause a SafeSite=Lax cookie to be sent from a POST request starting on another site: https://simonw.github.io/samesite-lax-demo/
Why is California a hotbed for these crimes?
Very few make or believe that argument. There's absolutely nothing wrong with wishing that things had gone a little better than they did at the time. We can still believe in a more humane world while still greatly appreciating the benefits that modern society has given us.
> Something like this could have been valuable to get you into the upper tier.

Maybe not! Perhaps users would have more positive experiences if they "swam in their lanes."
While I'm not a purist vegetarian, I'm not so addicted to meat that I would want something grown in a lab. Vegetarian meals can be tasty and satisfying. I see no reason to imitate meat in a lab, and plenty of possible downsides.
How do you have a Quest 2 without a FB account?
That point deserves an FP.
> African Americans may have been treated poorly by the algorithm back in the 1700s

Tell me about how your algorithm enslaved people.
Yeah, React is a pain for when you need to interact with the DOM elements themselves. If you want to add some logic based on where the element happens to be placed, instead of where you have told React to place your element, you're in for a headache. Now the DOM is one source of state (positioning) and your store (Redux or otherwise) is no longer the single source of truth.
I'm speaking specifically against the statement that Cloudflare, acting as a central authority, can solve problems that cannot be solved without a central authority.
nice! I wasn't sure exactly how the ordering happens between (kernel loads the device-tree) and (kernel scans /lib/modules for stuff to autoload).
> the only way to protect an apple from that fate, would be to trademark the name, and the rightsholder only licenses the name to apples from cultivars that breed for taste and don't sacrifice taste for looks

You may want to look at the European D.O.C./A.O.C./E.T.C. system. Some specify production methods. Others set testable thresholds for the final product. Either ruleset could be incorporated into a licensing scheme.
The floury or mealy texture can happen regardless of variety, most of the apples you buy for the supermarket are up to a year old. they gas them with a chemical that stops ripening then keep them in a very low oxygen environment (usually on farm). it tends to cause the not nice floury texture.
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For a god to have value to humans, however, that god would have to interact in some way with the natural world. Those things can be detected by science.
While PBS is a player (Spacetime, Eons, Deep Look etc) science/tech content is covered in much greater depth and with more expertise on Youtube than anything that was ever on traditional broadcast tv if you curate your subscriptions.

Other public broadcasters like the BBC and Australian ABC have been into digital, particularly for news and kids content for ages. My kids stream our public broadcaster's kids only channel full of high quality content like Bluey from their devices and have for many years.

Perhap the US needs to open up more to content from elsewhere though there are geo-blocking issues as a lot of public funded content is only free in the local market then sold to foreign markets. So what is on the public broadcaster for me is Disney or Netflix content for others.