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These gig jobs don't promote inequality, they fight inequality.

Without the gig apps, rich people are driving themselves to the store to buy their groceries and poor people are not being paid. With the gig apps, rich people are giving cash to poor people in a mutually beneficial manner.

These apps help find more convenient and mutually beneficial ways that rich people can exchange money for services. If you have an unequal society, you would want to promote as many of these situations as possible. Each one is an opportunity to spread wealth around and reduce inequality.

Getting your own groceries may feel more egalitarian, but it does nothing to help poor people. Hiring them to get your groceries actually puts money in their pocket.
As some other replies pointed out, if that list is distributed in the same place as the software itself, an attacker can modify both of them at the same time.

Maybe the list is digitally signed by the publisher, but then often the signing key is also distributed in the same place as the software itself (and also often used on the same infrastructure that the software was compiled on).

Also, if the list of hash values is distributed only by a software publisher, the software publisher will get the ability to secretly backdoor some users, but not others, by creating two or more different versions of that list. Then it can deny the existence of the backdoored version to the public (or to itself, if the backdooring was done by an unauthorized insider!).
Traditional nature conservation came around years ago and hasn't changed.

Popular conservation, which tends towards absolute preservation, has not come around.
Might be a few days too late… but here’s the strategy I’m using. Start a Dutch BV and hire yourself and move you to the Netherlands. The BV will Sponsor you under the Dutch-American Friendship Treaty. Don’t mention “startup” though, that’s a totally different (and much harder to get) visa.

You can renew a DAFT visa as much as you want, but after 5-7 years, you can get a Dutch passport as long as you stay in the country enough.

Due to tax treaties, you get a 30% tax cut in the NL (30% ruling) for five years, and you only pay the difference on US taxes after paying NL taxes (virtually impossible because NL taxes are generally higher than US taxes).
That can't happen as long as interest rates are borderline negative. People are investing in stocks because they're a sure thing. People are investing in property because it's a sure thing. Everything is a sure thing but cash.

I know people who have gotten <2% mortgages, which is like a 0% interest mortgage. These are private individuals. What rates do you think banks the super wealthy are getting?

Nothing can go down until rates go up. Hell BTC went up after the Senate passed a bill that could really curtail adoption of it... because nothing can go down. Money printer go BRRRRRRRRRRR...

https://brrr.money
>I will not write another line of code for their platforms ever again.

Surprised that this is still a thing. Apple has made it very clear in their App Store case, they do not need developers and Apps on their platform. And Apple operating their App Store has been a benefits, or more like a gift to developers for access to their users.
Oh man! Yup, that's exactly it!

This was one of the most impressive and elegant demonstrations I've ever seen and I've been in computing since the 80s.
> According to Apple, the only content being scanned are the images you are storing in iCloud

Thats the whole point of this debate. TODAY (if you trust apple is honest) it's only stuff being stored in icloud. But there is no technical reason for this to be true - just a "policy" reason. The scanner is already deployed to devices, we already let in the trojan horse. Tomorrow, the rules could change (and we might not know)
ok i thought we were talking about "scanning for CSAM images". I dont understand why we derailed to different image identification techniques. The point is, whatever apple is doing on the phone could be done exactly in their icloud servers
It is an interesting premise, but I am not interested in a landing page with just a sign up link that tells me nothing about how it works, what information it would give, or to be honest, whether this is even a product or just a vaporware page to gauge interest.
Do you regard the ceding of state sovereignty to the U.S. federal government to also have been a fatal error?
I didn’t see this kind nuanced discussion last year - which is my point.

Trump has said some of the most egregious things about climate change. I just see those orthogonal to this particular incident. I don’t think Trump was blaming California for it, he was blaming forest mismanagement whether federal or state.

Anyhow, I’ve become extremely suspicious of any traditional media or social media driven story these days - the more people are aboard, the less I am inclined to believe because the machinery for argument no longer exists. Media has a conflict of interest with engagement metrics.

Allow space for counter arguments and discussion.
This is breaking my "rule" because the detection is being moved device-side as part of a complicated scheme I don't believe it's realistically possible for an outsider to have a complete and persistently correct understanding of. Thus, I do not trust myself to fully understand the attack surface I'm exposing, and that is
something I'm not personally comfortable with.

I thought this was fairly clear from the later parts of my comment.
Taxing it is still pretty hard to do. It's often hard to know exact emissions or what to test. I agree its probably an easier solution, but the accounting of "who is actually producing the carbon" is incredibly complicated, and will become more incredibly complicated as soon as literally billions of dollars are at stake.
Or use TNT. Running around with TNT and a flint and steel, in a desert, is a very quick way of getting sound.
My father-in-law holds degrees from Stanford and Harvard, and has similarly struggled to find a job as he's grown older. When I referred him to an open position at my company, his un-edited resume matched almost perfectly, but the recruiter called him "too operational" -- and obviously had not dug in to who he was. I didn't push it but it seemed that his gray hair visible in his LinkedIn profile was a put off. I can't understand this. What is their line of thinking? That older people are too set in their ways? They command too much salary? They will not be a cultural fit because of an age gap? Can anyone describe the position of those who slyly or effectively hire a younger crowd only? (I realize this is a different context than VC world, which the author is talking about but I think it's similar enough to contribute to the discussion here.)
lol the nba lottery tax but for carbon
Right, I can understand how this would be important now. Thank you.
I think people don't like to think themselves as a product, but that's what we are. We're a potential source of income, and companies will want to know how's your health, where do you go, what do you buy, how you use your time, etc., in order to realize as much of that income as possible.

It's a mutually-beneficial trade-off, it's just that one party gains individually, and the other gains by quantity. Advertisers wouldn't care a lot what restaurants you like, but they care a lot about what restaurants people in your city like.
I think Vancian Magic can hold up well in a RPG. I am not a fan of the last 30-35 years of treating manic like a mutant power from X-men. The limitations are what crafted interesting tactical situations from my perspective. I do think there is room for other types of magic in a game however. The Vancian memorization or the 3rd Edition preparation seem to Tré force the idea that spells require ritual and effort. I certainly see a use case for small effort easily used cantrips or incantations that function more like video games or 5th Ed, though. I tend to favor that type of mix when doing game design.
I actually completely understand WHY the average "lay-person" thinks encryption must be bad because it allows terrorists and child pornographers to confer in secret to plan their nasty deeds. It's completely defensible to think that way from a standpoint of human nature and it would make all the sense in the world for that to be the case - that indeed, encryption is fundamentally something we cannot have due to xyz. Now, that's not how the situation actually is, but understanding that it isn't is more complex than thinking about it for a brief amount of time only
OK, stop digging up any carbon from below ground, but let's do it slowly. Turn off all the oil extractors and coal mining equipment tomorrow and I'm guessing we'd have at best a month before chaos erupts in the streets. One ransomware attack caused panic buying and chaos on the east coast for a few days. I'd argue that we need some oil production, for plastic if nothing else. But on a much smaller scale than how we use it now.

You'd have to get this done globally, though. It doesn't matter if one country stops if others double down. It would be best to be done in concert with the other oil extracting countries so that prices wouldn't destabilize. This is probably what climate agreements should target rather than reducing consumption.

Oil isn't extracted from the ground because people like it's color or something, it's what runs our industrial civilization presently. And I don't want to start looking for a piece of land in the mountains tomorrow that I can defend and start ammo-ing up because we suddenly decided oil wasn't going to be extracted anymore :)

I do like the idea of looking at the problem at it's source, quite literally. Turn that tap off in a way that doesn't cause massive instability and the carbon in the atmosphere will eventually take care of itself. It's a perspective I never thought to look at the problem from. Not sure why, it seems obvious in retrospect.
Paul Graham has basically admitted to age discrimination in the past, and YC is just not the panacea that its founders perpetrated. More companies in YC are worthless and fail, and the whole thing just smells of ladder-climbing. You're better off building value in your company than asking anyone else what to do.
There are tons of other cases, eg:

find . -name "*.csv" -print | while IFS= read -r file; do
done
Let's make a new HTML element for this. Let's call it... table, because the grid is like a table on which you draw things. This is gonna be legendary!
> What is their line of thinking?

Bias, plain and simple.
It is amazing how none of these bugs can happen with a compiling program in Ocaml
You can do 3d with CSS but to my knowledge there's no way to apply lighting and that, to me, is the real deal breaker. Otherwise people would've done all kinds of unnecessary but cool demos just for the sake of it.
You should note the fact that everything on closed systems is based on trust. Apple has had always the opportunity to look directly on your phone. That does not simply change overnight when they add some feature. And currently they scan only those images on-device, which would end up into the cloud. You can avoid this scanning by not using iCloud.

The feature what everyone is afraid of (scan all in my device), is super trivial to add generally. Company like Apple can push it to public in less like week regardless if this Child Safety came first.

This new feature is actually really hard to develop, because they try to create E2EE system with backdoor. And they want to lock themselves out of this backdoor to prevent misuse.
Congress isn't wholly incompetent, despite the fun we have poking at it. The US has a functioning democracy and leads the world in so many good and important metrics.

Our government isn't one person or one party, and that's a strength.

One of my local reps is leading the big tech breakup movement, and I'm incredibly proud to have her representing me.
I recall a young YC alumni claiming they applied 7 times before being accepted.
Relevant talk by US Forest Service Researcher Paul Hessburg.

https://youtu.be/O6Vayv9FCLM

https://www.fs.fed.us/research/people/profile.php?alias=phes...
Aka “malignant citogenesis” to the xkcd generation.
China only recently has a 3G reactor design that is 100% Chinese IP. The state-owned enterprise that handles nuclear reactor construction is on the U.S. entity list.
I joked with my wife that I was being a parent in Minecraft. Which is sort of true... I kept building shelters, providing food, and other supplies.

Now I try to strike a balance in being helpful as I'd expect a friend to be and letting him do some of the work. Regardless it still did wonders for getting our normally quiet kid to talk. Granted the signal to noise is about 15 minutes of Minecraft talk and 5 minutes of actual what happened in the day.
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Could you please argument your POV?
I see now.
>in that they tend to tax a lesser (absolute and marginal) share of income with increasing income

It is pointless to look at income in this regards. You come to a false conclusion that a tax is regressive because the percentage of income is taxed less for the "wealthy". This only due to the fact that the wealthy are spending a smaller percentage of their income.

You can only look at money SPENT, not at income. If someone makes 500 mil a year but only spends 80k, then you you compare to someone who made 80k and spent 80k then yeah it appears "regressive" because they paid the same in taxes (assuming they bought the same things). However when the person that made 500 mil goes to spend they remaining 420 min, they will be taxed. You can keep all the money you want, stick in your ears, put it a pool and dive in it like you Scrooge McDuck, who cares, once you actually try to do something useful with the money, that is when it would be taxed. More money you spend, more you are taxed, that is progressive.
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Progress is easy - nuclear power.
Any sailboat?
To me this makes so much sense. But when you look at the costs involved it's far cheaper and less risky to deploy 2x in renewables and a bunch of energy storage plus some gas plants and long distance transmission.

New innovations in nuclear maybe have a chance to change this, but renewables are still getting cheaper so even if they succeed they must still beat the moving target.

In another world where we had embraced nuclear long ago and kept innovating it would have made so much sense. It still will be a part of the solution, but the economics really aren't there and the private sector isn't dumb. Markets will allocate capital according to risks and returns and nuclear will continue to be overlooked until it can compete.
Not sure about profitable, but it’s still definitely a Thing. Look at .eth domains for the most egregious case today. I just saw https://indiebrands.io the other day. Basically a domain squatting operation but the guy operating it is convinced it is him that is creating the value rather than… you know… someone actually using the domain for something other than selling it. So, yes it’s still out there and just as obnoxious as ever
>>> I don't know about Europe, but in the US a lot of this relates to the fundamental inefficiency of the suburbs.

Indeed, the analogy that comes to mind is the growing use of air conditioning worldwide to cope with global warming.

But I think it's not just the suburbs. I live in a neighborhood of detached houses, yet I don't need delivered meals or a cleaning service.
We've heard from a few users that they would like to keep some of the money in cash. I think that's a reasonable feature which we should add support for. In a sense, keeping a fixed amount of cash in your portfolio is really just investing in a mix of securities (similar to how people invest in bonds & stocks), which seems like a perfectly reasonable choice for people with a certain risk/reward profile.
I'm unclear how this is distinct from an algorithm. Can you clarify?
Question out of genuine curiosity - would you be willing to wear a mask if you happened to be infected again (ie wear a mask for some time after you were symptomatic and/or had a positive test)?

IMO that's a situation that deserves masking, but perhaps the other rational you mentioned is a stronger factor in your decision.
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> If the FOSS community wants consumer adoption, ratio of pontificating about to building consumer products needs to be much lower.

Actually it's not like FOSS community is fighting for your adoption, you know? It's you who should do something in order to make good things happen.
That's the case if you often get messages or notifications. I often get less than one message a day on my smartphone, so I can keep it on my desk without problems.
While I admire the initiative, I am also a bit worried:

> Other possible side effects

> Ozone depletion: is a potential side effect of sulfur aerosols;[38][39] and these concerns have been supported by modelling.[40]
And what if you are compiling more than a single file? What if the project or library you are compiling uses make/cmake/gn/etc?

The point is that restrictions on compile-time programming only protect you in trivial cases. And I can't think of many reasons to fully compile code without the intent of running the executable.
I think I have an analogy that actually explains how this works.

Imagine one of those people-mover walkways like they have at the airport. Standing next to it on a skateboard, you grab the handrail. Even though the skateboard has energy loss to friction, you go exactly as fast as the handrail.

Now imagine you put a little electric generator in the wheels of the skateboard. Now, not only are you moving at the speed of the handrail, you're also generating some electric power, sourced from the handrail.

Now, instead of grabbing the handrail with your hand, yo hold another electric skateboard, and use the power from your feet's skateboard to power that, so you are actually being pulled along the handrail. You'd be inching along the handrail, going faster than it.
> I guess the issue boils down to whether you believe there are things in digital realms that are illegal to possess.

not at all. I'm pretty sure nobody here thinks CSAM should be legal. The topic at hand is whether that means everyone should be subjected to blanket surveillance by default.

Just because there's child abuse out there doesn't mean you can walk into a random persons house and rummage through their drawers, and by the same logic Apple or anyone else should have no business digging through my phone.

It's not idealistic at all, it's simply opposition to surveillance of people who have done nothing to warrant such suspicion. I don't know about the US, but here in Germany we have the so called Briefgeheimnis. (literally: secrecy of letters). Privacy of correspondence is almost sacrosanct and can only ever be violated under extreme circumstances, not casually or systematically, that's what the Stasi used to do.
Different places have different expected rates of fire. Some fire is natural and expected in many ecosystems. This article is basically arguing that the ecosystems in the west would be healthier with more frequent smaller fires, that is dramatically different than the intentional burning to clear agricultural land that's happening in south america. No one's saying the massive hot fires happening in CA now are healthy and good
It isn't motivated politically. It just seems to be true and declaring them toxic seems like an error.

Anyway, give me a better explanation why people don't look like they did only a few decades ago.
That's a fundamental problem with any regulatory measure intended to reduce carbon emissions. Cheap energy is good for the economy. Fossil fuels are cheap. Any attempt to reduce the use of fossil fuels is going to hurt voters in the short term no matter how you package it.

Sure, you can try to be sneaky about it, implementing policies that only indirectly impact fossil fuels and hoping the voters don't notice you're the one to blame for the rising price of energy. Or you can be honest, bite the bullet, and try to convince the public a carbon tax is necessary to avoid something even worse down the line. Either way you're fighting an uphill battle.
Interesting observation. This might be more damaging to Apple than anything else.

Without iMessage/Facetime, a large part of the peer pressure teens get for having an iPhone is gone. Now they might start asking for a Galaxy or something like that.
Mystery Attacks on Diplomats Leave Scores of Victims but Still Little Evidence
This sounds like "Given that modern Javascript engines have JIT capabilities, the eval() function is for all practical purposes a Javascript interpreter"...
Kim Stanley Robinson: Carbon Quantitative Easing (2020)
Yeah, I don't know if it's true (which is a separate problem in itself!), but I was always taught in school _not_ to recycle because the infrastructure around consumer recycling (outside of large cities) did significantly more harm than good.
The one thing that occurred to me is that this is almost seems like this is a cya, Section 230 protection in disguise. There has been more discussions about Big Tech and 230, and this is one way to say "Look, we are compliant on our platform. Don't remove our protections or break us up, we are your friend!" It also shouldn't be too surprising given how Apple has behaved in China. They will only push back against the government up until the point it starts to affect profits.

I'm also curious and I don't mean this in a judging way, but are all the people who are planning to sell their iDevices also going to divest all their retirement holdings from Apple? Stock price is the thing that actually applies pressure. Everyone's comp is based on it. What would happen if enough people divested from these rent-seeking companies? We can't expect the government (though they should) or companies to behave in a way that is pro-consumer, but if we can align incentives we have a chance.
>wouldn't this CSAM scanning system be insufficient to meet those EARN-IT requirements?

Yes. My point is that there's an ongoing dance between the tech companies and the government, and through their negotiations and government connections Apple probably views this CSAM-scanning move as making an EARN-IT-like law less likely to be passed. It's overall the less-invasive option. The US federal government is putting pressure on tech companies not to host CSAM, and if tech giants didn't agree to do stuff like this the government could respond by passing stricter laws to effectively make unbackdoored e2e encryption illegal.

Apple has a lot of influence but at the end of the day they're a US-based company that has to follow US laws. Voluntarily implementing CSAM-scanning is in their own interest as a "pro-privacy" company if it prevents more draconian anti-encryption laws from being passed that could effectively outlaw e2e encryption.

I don't view this as Apple singlehandedly trying to eliminate end-to-end encryption; that seems like a pretty radical view of the situation to me but of course you're free to hold that opinion.
Yes, they do, and that is a very poetic thing to consider.

On one hand, you can marvel at how little they drift during a single power reserve. Could be seconds, which is barely noticeable in everyday life.

On the other hand, some others (Seiko 5...) can drift minutes in a single reserve... And so what? In a day and age when we measure everything with maniac precision even during a random person's day, it's beautiful to lose some control and gain back some leeway with regards to time.

I love that it is "about 22:00" rather than 22:03:37.
Isn't this how Coke won the Cola Wars? Coke Adds Life.
Well, we know Google "salts" ML processing to get the results they want for censorship of all types. That seems likely to screw up objectively valid or honest search results pretty easily.