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I hear that argument often, but don't crypto traders always cash out to fiat sooner or later and thus, end up in the same loop?
It was naive to think cryptocurrencies will ever have wide spread adoption without getting regulated at least as much as fiat I think.
So you’ve just given up on responding to my points and are just quoting someone else who you agree with now?

I am sure this will appeal to people who already agree with you.
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The problem is that American cities also generally don't have functioning mass transit systems. And even in those that do (New York), they don't always go where you need them to go, so mass transit trips can be 2-3x longer than a car trip.

Want to do a big shopping trip? Have more than 1 child you need to move around the city? Want to do more than 1 specific errand in the same afternoon? Without a car, all of this becomes a huge pain in the ass even in New York or Boston, which have extensive networks of subways and buses, let alone anywhere else.

And now let's say you want to get out of the city for the weekend. Do you rent a car? That's way more expensive in the long run compared to owning.

We would need to fundamentally redesign our cities/towns and transit systems for Americans to be able to give up their cars.
Starting to look like the end. If you were to have a child now they would likely be dead from climate change before their 30th birthday.
Perhaps not as ostentatiously interesting, but it's in an area (Saudi Arabia) where there's not a lot of animal remains at all.

> “The most surprising thing comes down to just how well preserved the material is, and how much material there is, given that in Saudi we have no faunal remains, really,” Stewart tells Gizmodo.

From that perspective it's quite interesting, a data point in the middle of nowhere.
> Houses have gotten 60% larger while households have gotten 15% smaller in the last 50 years. That didn't happen in spite of consumer demand.

Pre-WW2 there were large houses, in walkable and transit/cycle-friendly neighbourhoods, where people also now own cars:

* https://www.google.com/maps/place/150+Westminster+Ave,+Toron...

There were also more modest homes in the same are:

* https://www.google.com/maps/place/50+Geoffrey+St,+Toronto,+O...

These places now cost quite a lot, but in roughly 1960-90s they were relatively cheap because all the WASPs moved to the suburbs because 'downtown was for immigrants'; this particular neighbourhood was >90% Polish during the time period. Just to the east of this neighbourhood is Little Portugal, and to the west a large Ukraine community used to be concentrated (with a smattering of Lithuanians).

Now that urban living has become fashionable again, it has been gentrified (no more Poles) and the prices are crazy high.

But there's nothing unique about how it was built, and nothing is stopping communities from (e.g.) instituting zoning to mandate higher density (but less than Hong Kong levels):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetcar_suburb
If you had ever driven from Shaniko to Maupin in early June when the prairie lupine is blooming, I doubt you’d be so cavalier.
Yes although there where also some free farmers. As I understand it, the serfs had more power in the high middle ages than before and after, because the lords also lacked the resources for strong police forces. There was not a lot of metal around, so most soldiers did not have shields or armor. You and your serf buddies could realistically resist the local lord with some forks and knives. Plus the catholic church was also protecting serf's rights to an extend.
> the most privacy-respecting chat system for laypeople right now.

Sorry, but that has to be either Threema or Signal. WhatsApp is easy to use, but that's the only point it has. Ultimately, it's Facebook.
What a sensational headline.
I actually view this as not a good sign. That many are still in the very very early stage of shock, what Apple is doing does not align with their perceived values. Deducting points from Apple in their own mental model. They write these letter because they think Apple is still mostly good and hope they could have a change of heart.

What would happen as some others have pointed out, people will forget about it. Apple will bump out decent Mac products line, along with very good iPhone hardware in a few months time. Which will add points back to their mental model.

"May be Apple is really doing it in good faith"

"They aren't so bad, let's wait and see."

Apple's marketing and PR have changed in the past 5 - 6 years. My guess is their KPI had changed. And they will ( successfully ) white wash any doubt you have. And 2022 Q1 results ( That is the iPhone 13 launch quarter ) will be record breaking again.

And that is not even including competition. I mean for pete sake is Microsoft or Google even trying to compete? ( I give credit to their Surface Laptop and Pixel team, but still far from enough )
I have many personal grievances against Apple, most of which are very likely to be the result of my personal biases.

Still, this sudden outbreak of negative responses to this new feature seems unjustified to me and I fully agree with what you wrote. Apple has a lot of options to play evil and this is just another one. What matters here, in my opinion, is that they are trying to help authorities solve a complex problem, which the majority of society qualifies as amongst the worst crimes.

The publicly available specification quite clearly indicates that Apple has done its homework to explain how it works, to reduce false positives and to prevent its abuse. It's not perfect, yet, and it can be improved, most certainly.

What matters most to me when I see these technologies is the safeguards. Is the use of the technology monitored by third-parties? Can it be verified independently? What are the ethical boundaries on which we agree there should not be overstepping, and what actions will be taken if this ever happens. In that sense, I am not very satisfied.

Still, unless someone catches Apple or any of its customers abusing this technology, and assuming almost all modern technologies can be used against their user's own interest, I don't see how the slippery slope argument could make any sense at this point. Too many things should be banned if we listen to the slippery slope argument.

Regarding the use of the feature as a backdoor (I understand it as a means for third-parties to reveal users who saw or shared a particular ccontent), that's a risk. Risk is managed and mitigated, not necessarily "cancelled" like (too) many people seem to wish for.
Halliburton tried it - https://patents.google.com/patent/US20080270152
Before I used a password manager, I used three random word phrases, but with the first word lowercase, the second upper case, and the third (chosen to contain at least one of "aeio") with tr/aeio/4310/. This gave phrases that passed requirements like "must contain a mixture of upper and lower case" and "must contain at least one number". It also increased the search space for guessing. In some cases I had to chuck a "!" on the end to meet a "must contain a symbol" requirement.

"crystal lizard rekindle" became "crystal LIZARD r3k1ndl3" etc.
I am sorry to inform you that "crypto" has been completely standard finance jargon for crypto-tokens traded for money for a few years now.

Of course, we know that "crypto" really stands for "cryptosporidium". You can even substitute the full word into most articles about "crypto" tokens and it'll still be accurate.
I'm fine with rational regulation that doesn't effectively outlaw the technology and keeps a level playing field, which is the opposite of what they're attempting right now.
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The west bought the decaying dinosaurs that paid for the shiny city. I wouldn’t consider Saudi’s royal family to be particularly good example of anything but despots.
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So do I! I’m kind of baffled reading this thread - folks are discussing my neighborhood as if it’s a theoretical impossibility.

A “small” SFH lot is 0.15 acres. That’s over 6,500 square feet! You can comfortably build a >2,000 square foot house with a front and back yard, off-street parking, garden, trees, etc in that space. Simultaneously, it will only require about 50 ft of sidewalk length.

My wife and I share one car, which we primarily use to visit friends in the suburbs. I walk to the grocery, dining, bars, coffee shops, parks, greenways.

Our house is nearly 100 years old. We would have loved to buy something newer, but American neighborhoods haven’t been designed in this sensible way for a long time.
Not sure why you're downvoted (too many facts in one post I guess lol), but you're right. I wanted to add that Apple has already been doing CSAM scanning on photos uploaded to iCloud for years. They moved it to the client instead (I think in preparation in make iCloud photos e2e encrypted).

Turn off iCloud photos and it turns off CSAM.
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The simple fix us to simply use points: 1 bronze, 2 silver, 4 gold.
I don't understand it. Any examples how to do that in practice? (used emacs for a couple of years, but just as a editor)
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What is it that you are implying here?
Has anyone done a recent survey of how many people want more free parking spots? More traffic lanes? More bridges and tunnels for cars? Do people want higher or lower speed limits? Cheaper or more expensive gas for cars? More or fewer lanes dedicated to busses/bikes? We should not jump to conculsions about what people want before asking all relevant questions.

Everyone wants more walkable cities. Thats like asking if people want cleaner water or better hospitals. Such questions are meaningless on thier own.
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Oh absolutely, the laws that started all of this are terribly thought through, all a child pornographer has to do to avoid these controls is not use iCloud Photo Library. That's it, just do that and they can have as much child porn on their phones as they like, and share it however they like using iMessage or anything else.
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It's not quite that simple.

Forests, as we're seeing right now, burn. Global trade has made this worse by spreading various pathogens and invasive creatures around the planet.

Even the ones which don't burn reach a steady state (takes centuries, but gets close in decades), where rot releasing carbon and uptake into new growth balance out.

To really fix carbon with plants, we want to grow something fast and woody, char it, and bury the char. Doesn't have to be deep, in fact working it into topsoil is a pretty good solution.

This isn't anywhere close to sufficient, but it's necessary and we should be doing a lot of it.
Article's calculations are meaningless since author didn't specify what each "xx inches" refers to - monitor width or diagonal, and aspect ratio for said diagonal - which vary widely, e.g 16:10 or 32:9
So if we look closer we can see that US energy companies will benefit short-term from the fact that miners are excluded from the bill.

The lobbying is strong.
They aren't going to add an extra zero to the job when they can pay 50% more to existing employees to work a second shift. Of course that feeds into "the job sucks" which makes them less attractive as an employer which supports the "Just because the employer is in the Midwest doesn't make them competent" In fact I would say most of the employers in the midwest are incompetent.
> Miners are already being incentivized because of economics to move to green energy sources up to 50 percent of mining is done with clean energy.

That green energy could easily be used to take coal-fired plants offline, if it wasn’t being arbitrarily consumed for crypto. Also I seriously doubt that anywhere near 50% of mining is done with clean energy.

Miners don’t care where energy comes from as long as it’s cheap. Energy consumed for one thing is energy that can’t be used for something else.

It almost doesn’t matter which power plant they’re closest to because we have a power grid that ties everything together. This idea of miners being isolated from the grid and consuming clean energy that would otherwise go to waste is pure myth.

> I've never understood this narrative. There is no narrative about other industries like gold mining that also consume exorbitant amounts of power that you could deem useless.

Gold is extremely useful in many industrial processes and many products. It’s not even close to “useless”.

Crypto mining is literally designed to burn power. No other industrial process is literally designed to be inefficient with energy consumption. Nothing compares.

Proof of work is an algorithm that burns power as an input to the algorithm. Miners have to burn power just to continue the existence of the currency, which isn’t comparable to one-time extraction costs of resources.

Worse, proof of work is literally designed to be more inefficient with every new miner while also incentivizing new miners to join. Can you name any other industry that incentivized everyone to do things to make the system less efficient while burning more power all of the time?
Agreed but for a slightly different reason. PoW vs PoS is a much more nuanced debate for reasons other than the environmental impact talked about in mainstream circles.

Bitcoin is PoW for many reasons, a fork of bitcoin could switch it to PoS and end the discussion, but its decentralized nature where one hash = one vote is part of the core of its economic policy.

Ethereum and other PoS chains take trade off but advantages from utilizing PoS one that it desires to be a blockchain that can settle contracts on its layer 1.

This Portman-Warner amendment favors PoW chains dissuading competition between the two.
Sure, miners definitely use up to 50% renewables, especially asian ones. Why wouldn't that green energy be used for something actually useful?

The rest:
Cough whataboutism cough
End to end encryption of messages is by comparison easy as the devices can handle all of that internally. However, losing your iPhone is one of the main reasons to have an iCloud backup. Require a user to come up with a private key and any user who lost it also loses all their data.

Most people don’t really want end to end on consumer backup services, because of the associated risks. If however you don’t want unsecured backups you can handle this manually.

Of course nobody wants the company to actually look at your data, but that’s a separate issue.
I bought a curved 34" 1440p last year. Pretty neat to have that much space, needed a bit of Hammerspoon scripting to put windows into predefined slots on hotkey presses, but afterwards, having everything in plain view at all times was pretty neat.

But after a while I noticed I was squinting a bit more than with my 27" 1440p Dell, and also tended to lean towards the display a bit more, which probably was because the display was a somewhat less sharp than the Dell and further away from my eyes on the left and right. I also found keeping all that real estate organized was quite a bit of overhead, and having everything in my field of view was subconsciously stressing me out, so I'm back on the 27" 1440p, with Hammerspoon placing windows in way fewer predefined slots, and the 34" has been relegated to gaming duty, where it absolutely shines despite its 60hz refresh; it's crazy what a bit of additional display left and right can do for immersion.

I guess my ideal display would be a 27" or 28" 16:9 5K display, but there are very few of those that all seem to have their share of issues and are priced above my budget anyway. Some people seem to be quite happy with 4K scaled to 150%, but that's probably not viable without a discrete GPU (which my Intel MBP 13" doesn't have.)
And I got a good laugh out of the blog name: "Clamsplaining"
I'm not talking about defamation. I can understand why you would infer that. The fine I'm talking about is about "feeling insulted". There doesn't even have to be a third person present. Say someone treats you in a racist way, you call him Nazi, judge can order you to pay 400 Euros(or more depending how damaging he thinks you may have been to his feelings) for hurting his feelings. No need to have a witness prove it either. It's a purely subjective judgement.

You calling someone Nazi to shut down someone in public actually seems to work well to shut down public discourse judging from what I'm observing in Germany right now. I don't think those defamation lawsuits go anywhere(even though they should).
That's not even remotely true.

China isn't self-sufficient in calories, be they fuel or food. If they don't get dollars for foreign trade, they starve in the dark.
Use a tiling WM, like i3 or bspwm!
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At 700 euros, I’ll pass.

My current setting is 3 screens, the laptop in front, a 1200x1980 vertical to the left for terminal work and a 1200x1920 to the right for IDE work. I can still use the peripheral vision to see if something happened in the terminal without turning my neck and, with the clever use of colours and wide characters (Apple’s Terminal app passes the VT100 torture test), I can even know what happened.
The people who caused it will continue to thrive in and profit from the chaos. Why would climate change make them less powerful? They're best positioned to prepare for it.
Google for years does server side scanning of all detectable content (photos, videos, urls etc) and no one cares. Now everyone is focused on Apple which still doesn’t have access to not-detected photos on iCloud. Ridiculous.
Not today. I think moving CSAM from the server where it's done today to device is in preparation for announcing e2e for iCloud photos.
I understand your argument, that a court (in a democratic country with a rule of law) would expect that the investigators extract the original image from the accused's phone with the appropriate chain of custody of the evidence.

However, that does not mean that while this investigation is under way, the accused is now go about their business.

For CP, or other crimes of violence, that makes sense.

But if laws are passed against peaceful protest, then that means someone could be held in detention while those photos are investigated. An anonymous photo now is trackable.
If you think a silver at the olys is a "consolation prize" then you have never spent a moment in any type of real athletic competition, let alone been among the best of the best on the planet.
> Unless you want to drive the displays with different computers.

At which point a simple KVM switch is perfect fit.

I'm on a 34" ultra wide IPS and I'm probably getting something a few inches bigger next time with an even more extreme R-value and I think I'm set.
This is totally absurd and unjustifiable fearmongering.
Well what they’re searching for is done privately and the victims often don’t go the police. And good old fashion policing was to ignore these crimes.
Portman-Warner is not just favoring PoW over PoS, it's favoring PoW over ALL alternatives. It completely shuts down all potential for new solutions to gain adoption in the United States.

Even if you don't like PoS, you still shouldn't like the Portman-Warner amendment.
Deserves an upvote. Not everyday you see praise about Visual Basic.

Looked this up and line can also be a label. Great.
Legally the university might have done nothing wrong. They had advised him to unregister to play tricks in order to avoid losing his study rights. A trick that is common if you study at more than one university. And works unless there is any kind of problem.

However, the message is: If you deal with China today, either don't think, be a coward or a liar. China is an authoritarian country that increasingly exercises its power outside of the country.

In Western democracies we are used that you can criticize. Strong democracies tolerate heavy criticism until you get into difficulties, others only weaker kinds. There is no doubt that China is very far from any kind of democracy.
I understand. Apple allows me to have the desk split between two apps, but nothing more.
I've had my bag sniffed at airports at least 50 times, and they've never stopped me. So there must be something else going on as well
Pixel phone running GrapheneOS, you'd have to jump through hoops to get google back on the thing.
They claim “harassment” is a vague, but it’s not - or has a specific legal definition that’s very different from “criticizing.”

Can this law be used to intimidate, threaten, and lock up peaceful dissenters to the police state? Yes absolutely. But police also do that just fine right now by simply falsifying evidence. Most judges, however, will narrowly interpret the word “harassment” and will not apply this to all forms of dissent.
> You said the Covid vaccines contained heavy metals.

Where?

Once again you are making a false claim. You are committed to your bad faith accusation.
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Very. People can't think.
As othere here, I tried a lot of configs. I now use two setups:

- a acer 27" 2k; the lower screen edge is just 3cm above the keyboard. Its the main screen I use for coding.
- directly behind and above it a 43" 4k dell. Its lower edge is less than 1cm above the acer from my chair, but it sits 30 cm further spart. I use it to display debug logs and previews.
- a laptop on left hand side, on a tall stand, close and aligned to the acer, for low level debug stuff
- and an 27" 5k in portrait mode on the right for chat, browser and calendar.

The other setup I use in my other home swaps the acer for a 34" ultrawide alienware and is better overall.

I did once had an injury - i twisted my back to rapidly to use mbp's touchbar and flexed one of the muscles below the collarbone. Otheriwse great setup. I blame the stupid touchbar.
Retrofitting heat pumps is completely tractable.

This has two advantages: it's more energy efficient than any other way of heating buildings, and they can be run in reverse for air conditioning.

A lot of those buildings didn't come with indoor plumbing or electricity, after all.
Currently very happy with an Alienware 38.
I like my curved non-ultrawide 32 inch 4k display. Not too wide, but tons of vertical space. At 125% scaling that's 3072x1728, which is even more vertical pixels than the 1600-height ultrawides give you. And the curve makes it easy to glance at the edges without as much neck movement. This is coming from someone who had chronic neck pain for 2 years and has tried very hard to prevent it in the future.
I meant 'collected' & 'stored', missed edit.
I’m all about desk ergonomics but this article seems off for one big reason:

People using a wide monitor create “zones”: The center is the “work zone” and the sides are for occasional reference.

Just because you have a 40” screen doesn’t mean you use all 40” equally.
As someone who lives in this sort of neighborhood, I see every day that this isn’t true.

Why would you spend 30-40 extra minutes in a car when you could be walking down tree-lined streets to your neighborhood bakery?
It's less obvious now maybe but for a while Amazon was pretty infamous for focusing on long-term investment and ignoring people's expectations for nice-looking numbers in annual reports.