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Money and power inevitably corrupt the systems we build for guiding collective socioeconomic development. Even in Le Guin's anarchist "utopia" on fictional Anarres, it happens: people with a tendency toward consolidating power do so, creating ad hoc structures that actively erode the society's expression of its founding principles in favor of a mindless, jealous, cynical politics.

Whether it's right to classify these people as "sociopaths" is up for debate, but their role is pretty clear. In particular, the career politicians and others existing at the interface between capital and government are looking out for themselves and their careers first, and the mid- to long-term health of the economy last. I do think it's illuminating to practice some empathy for these people, given that most humans are selfish to some degree (and for very good reason), but I strongly believe that they are the problem in a very real sense. We need a system that bends their ambition to the benefit of the people, but it's not clear what such a system would look like or if it could exist at all.

On a somewhat related tangent, I think commenters here are misunderstanding the linked UKL piece. My interpretation is that it's not calling all expressions of economic growth bad, but rather suggesting that growth (in so many words) as a guiding metaphor is incomplete, deceptive, and ultimately harmful.
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Great job by founders and team but I worry that most of these new CPG companies are not sustainable. Buffett invested billions into Heinz and Kraft, which struggled as a result of the commoditization of brands. I know fashion is different but most of these companies (e.g. AllBirds, Away) are not luxury brands. Are these valuations truly sustainable?
> Any ownership required the Judge to recluse himself.

Where does this requirement come from? Citation please.
A great (2019) video about the sustainability claim of Allbirds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et33AaoZZCQ
What is a good example of a linux distro?
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I don't live in the ad tech world, so I only vague know what is interconnected. Do the tech giants just sell info back and forth to each other?

For example, When I watch youtube on my Roku, if im not signed in, does roku still aggregate what I watched on youtube, could that be sold to Hulu, for ads when I watch that on the same tv?
Plus I see the main value of GCC Rust in helping improve the Rust spec, so all bugs uncovered are definitely worth fixing.
> TV publishers have traditionally charged a fee on top of the ads.

While not wanting to get into a debate about what is and isn't an ad in the context of US public broadcasting, this claim is not true of public broadcasting worldwide.
Irony, a bit like silvery and bronzy?
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Distrusting electronic voting machines only marks you out as a Republican conspiracy theorist when a Democrat is president, like now. It was a perfectly respectable position held by tech-literate Democrat supporters in the 2000s under Bush, became one again the moment Trump took office, and ceased to be one as soon as it seemed like Biden won. It really is that simple and that partisan.
And millions if not billions of users will be perfectly content with that -- especially if it means they won't have to deal with the hassle of keeping their computing devices clean, updated, and malware-free on their own.

Nerds mewling about "general purpose computing" do not understand the market, and do not want to.
For non-rugby types, here's a Garryowen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmdqLiEvYw4
Yeah, I agree that these things probably ought to be legislated out of existence, but I don't hold my breath on it.
It's also a lot less likely that you'll get kicked in the head though. Successfully getting a head kick off on someone is hard, especially when they are allowed to tackle and grapple.

Doubly so since you can't do various strikes against someone's head once they have three points of contact with the ground. No knees or kicks to the head when down like the early UFC days.
As a long time Windows user, this is what is making me seriously think about quitting. To be fair, if Apple let you put MacOS on your own hardware I would probably have quit long ago. I just have to figure out if I am done with game development as well (which has been brewing for me recently).

Anyway, back to the point. This is the most anti-Windows step that this pathologically anti-Windows management has taken. You were never, in the past, forced to upgrade hardware because Windows flat-out refused to run on it. I have run Windows 7,8 and 10 on a laptop shipped with XP and it ran fine. 10 even added in-box support for Sony peripherals that 8 and 7 didn't have.

I fail to see how requiring TPM 2.0 or newer CPU features is going to protect the average user from malware, which is still the biggest risk to Windows users. If anyone knows, please educate me.

Enterprises can impose these hardware requirements on their systems, there was no need to force home users to upgrade. Instead of improving Windows so that it works better for users, it seems like MSFT wants to improve OEM bottom lines and sell more licenses.
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NoScript goes a long way to fixing this. Yes, it's a chore, but it's less of a chore than the modern web.
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Windows is slow af compared to Linux on the same hardware when I’m doing anything with Docker or Node.js/npm/yarn. The cli is incompatible with bash. I also can’t disable telemetry and other things I don’t want. It’s also missing features UI features that I get with XFCE.

That’s why I switched to Manjaro 3 years ago for work and never looked back. I still have Windows systems for games where it mostly works fine except for the occasional interruption to install updates while I’m in the middle of playing or watching something (which never happens on Linux since I have complete control there.)

The types of issues that Windows has can’t be fixed. An “unchangeable” resolution is fixable if it’s not a hardware issue. But I never have that type of issues at all on Linux. It just works for me and I have it on 3 desktops and a laptop. A lot of it comes down to picking the right distro and not being a cowboy. For instance, on Manjaro - just use the gui to install apps, not the command line - and restart when it tells you to. The gui does things that you won’t think to do on every update.
I'm surprised that you've been downvoted - with no counter-argument to any of the very valid points you've made! These are disturbing traits of anyone, let along someone who is in a position of power in a school district. It's a pity people aren't calling out racism when these things happen.
As I understand it, this is not so much about DRM as it is about privacy. The new model tag allows the browser to sandbox the display of a 3d object without reporting information back to the web page/server. This way, the browser can use camera data to track the user eye position relative to the device for parallax or to show what is behind the device to accomplish the effect known as "augmented reality."
In other words, Apple wants developers to be able to deploy augmented reality experiences on the web without giving them access to the user's camera, which is a privacy issue.
I'm curious as to why Reddit users were considered a tech-savvy audience. While there are some tech-centered subreddits, many others are not.
US is also getting kids back to school but that doesn't mean the virus is under control here. At this point I don't think there is much of a reason to believe anything China is reporting to the rest of the world.
> Please provide evidence that this is market pull rather than company push? How many convenience stores provide a glass or aluminium alternative? How much advertising is done with PET bottles versus the alternatives?

Most beer comes in glass bottles. The economics that ostensibly make companies prefer PET over glass are just the same for beer as for soda. The difference is in consumer preferences.

> Plastic is cheaper because companies have externalized the cost of waste disposal. The environmental impact of plastic has a cost that current polluting companies are not paying.

Compare this alternative point of view:

Consumers prefers soda in plastic bottles over the alternatives, because they reap all the benefits, while the cost of waste disposal has been externalized. The environmental impact of plastic has a cost that current polluting customers are not paying.
What is the endgame for not-on-demand renewables? I ask without prejudice.

We know we cannot yet store energy from wind and solar. So they are fine as contributors to the grid, but cannot really take the "power anytime" burden. Yet they are installed in huge numbers. What happens after a "critical mass" is installed?

Is it:

- Power companies are gaming the current environment, where marginal renewables are cheap, and take preference over fuel-driven plants (fossil or nuclear)?

- Is it a long bet on storage becoming cheap enough that renewables+storage (batteries?) are viable?

- Something else?
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I'm not. It just means Microsoft has entrenched me further into the free Unix ecosystem even than I was before.
That’s kind of how the media works. Invent problems, harp on them for weeks, then either move on or offer your own new “commentary” about solutions. All while making big bucks off the advertising eyeballs.
It’s bad management to drop by people’s desk every day to check in with them, then “nudge” them. I’d say that’s a failure of product vision, strategy, communication and leadership.

> my "micromanagement" is their "I am supported and know what's going on".

What you’re really seeing here is people grasping at any life preserver they can grab in an incredibly poorly run organization. In a well run organization management is extremely hands off, because the machine runs smoothly and scales.
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>Then again, why should Apple and Google charge fees for something they have no hand in?

Same reason as now: because they can and are in the money making business.

I'm not saying this is right, just that it is what it is. Google and Apple will not just forgo millions if not billions of "easy" dollars. My guess is that especially the big players, who make Google and Apple the most money, will switch to different payment processors with better terms for them as soon as that option becomes available to them.
I learned that over 20 years ago, and it still works perfectly. And I didn't have to learn that the daemon was running, because it is always running.

Another systemd "change for change's sake" argument.
Wiktionary lists as an interesting possible origin of the German equivalent "ficken" the sound it makes when two things rub against each other ("fffppp, fffppp, fffppp"). [0]

[0] https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/ficken
Would you mind to suggest any alternative to Blokada? Thanks!
>No, but I'm expecting the average user to be able to enjoy an open ecosystem. Such as bookmarklet, addons, client side widgets, electron apps, WASM plugins, and all the wonderful things we can't yet think of now.

But there's still webgl and <canvas>. I'm failing to see what type of use cases we're missing out on here, because javascript access is missing.
Asking for more will start to limit the number of developers who develop for their platform. Probably not the Microsoft's of the world, but tons of smaller ones.

For instance, if you raised the individual's fee to $500, then a bunch of people would opt out, either not developing iOS apps, or just make a web app. Neither of those are good solutions from Apple's point of view.
Symbian was great back then against feature phones ... but absolutely obliterated by todays competition. I have a hard time believe they would have stood a chance (even assuming the software was evens, organisationally they wouldn't have made it work).
I don't think PFAS are for moisture wicking. More water/moisture repelling.

Also, go to Costco and there's a 3 or 4 pack of 100% cotton boxer-briefs on sale.
s = append(s, elem)

I read this immediately as "create a new copy of the original slice with one additional element", so I presumed that was the case. It would actually be shocking the opposite, if I could end up modifying the original one (before the append) with a pointer to the new s, which seems to be the case!

Big gotcha there: treat slices as stateful at all time.

Since it has an assignment operation, it must be creating something new, otherwise it would have been a method of the slice itself

EDIT: I just realized the gotcha is not there at all, Go would consider the first slice to be of N length and the second slice of length N+1.
Comparing the two slices would give an error at some point because one is shorter than the other, so the fact that the address changes or not is irrelevant. However I can see this becoming problematic with pointers, which proves the point of the article.
Let’s also not kid ourselves that belief in the status quo is shared across a majority of people.

70% of people in the US support Medicare For All across all political lines [1], but leadership across both parties essentially ignored the proposal as some kind of radical pipe dream. Why is that? It’s simple, M4A costs money and would decimate the health insurance industry. Donors to both parties don’t want to pay more in taxes or see their investments drop, so it’s off the table. If we had something resembling democracy, we would have single payer healthcare by now.

What we have now is a minority of powerful (moneyed) people who are making decisions for everyone based on their own incentives. What people like myself want is a more democratic distribution of this power.

So it’s not necessarily that activists want to force some communist utopia on everyone, but we want to change the system so that we (the people) can actually decide for ourselves what we want.

[1] https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/494602-pol...
Somewhere between "this is a threat to every participant in the sport and most of them actively deny the threat while recruiting children to play" and "it happens upon occasion".
You will not find an advocate of Scientology in me :-))
But you will find an advocate of equal treatment under the law and the rule of law.

Apparently members have stronger restrictions than those applied to persons who express extreme right views:

"Scientologists in Germany face specific political and economic restrictions. They are barred from membership in some major political parties, and businesses and other employers use so-called "sect filters" to expose a prospective business partner's or employee's association with the organization."

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

I am just trying to check who are the committees who define what is an acceptable religion, how and under what legal framework.
No, it is not conceivable to me as user. Though it could be for product managers creating release notes every month from thousands of GitHub issues or JIRA tickets resolved and listing features.
No prob, cool project :)
> It is unclear how many shares Judge Conley possessed during the case, but ownership of company stock in any capacity would have required his recusal under the Code of Conduct for United States Judges.

The apple insider article.
True. Though I am very curios if there is anyone offering services to 3rd parties over SATA or USB.
I want more apps open. On a wide screen I'll have two apps open in side-by-side half-screen. A side taskbar makes the two apps imbalanced from the center of the screen while a bottom taskbar changes the basic geometry in a symmetrical way.
WSL2 is Linux in a VM.
Now I need to teach my adblocker to block Plausible, even when hosted first-party.
How did he only find out about it 10 years after? And how do you find out about something like that so long after?
Take a moment next time you go to the store and look at the kind of products parents have available for kids.

All super processed sugary colorful crap.
Add some effective advertising, parents that are giving in to the kids request out of exhaustion, the kid gets hooked on the super sugary thing and wants it more, so next time they’ll whine even more, and the ball grows to a cart full of plasticky colorful sugary things.

Some parents are better than others, usually if you see TV dinners you’ll see garbage food.

But even the good ones that get some spinach or stuff to cook with your own hands cave in and buy some kid oriented sweet thing.

And I know it’s hard, my girlfriends 11yo stepbrother stayed with us for two weeks and all he wanted to eat were Takis and ice cream. They also get creative with how they eat to always leave room for the crappy food, so you can’t really fill them up with salad to avoid it. Kids are tough on their own, but the market of food tailored for them is made for making money at the expense of addiction and obesity.
Whether it’s paypal, stripe or whomever else, it’s completely absurd that they can just hold your money hostage for indefinite period of time for no reason.
> To construct a successful meme in the art scene, you need at least a little bit disillusionment, to understand the economics behind it. Similarly, the greatest successes in the NFT space will not come from talent, but from a solid understanding of memes

Ah man, I was expecting NFTs would catch on with porn not memes
> Our average viewer is 65 years old and watches TV while doing the dishes, we must not show things that cannot be understood by them

So like, sticking only to the first and second derivative in soap opera plots about retired civil engineers?

No late-period Beethoven sonatas as background music?

That must be difficult for you as a German.

Meanwhile, here in America we're perhaps a few years away from something like the movie "Ass" from Idiocracy winning an Oscar.
Interestingly enough, this has been done before!

Windows 7 introduced "Windows XP Mode" which was a container running a virtualized Windows XP for applications that didn't work correctly in 7. But since they also had the per-application compatibility settings, it wasn't the first pick for most users.

While it's a good idea on the surface, it still means they have to maintain compatibility code within that virtual system. Perhaps if they separate it well enough, and it has a dedicated team, while the core OS team can focus on a slimmed down, "current stuff only" version... but I suppose it's also hard to know where the line is drawn in the sand.
Any correlation to innovation and doing what you love?
it's not there to protect users against malware

it's there to protect "content producer's" business models against you

and MS are hoping to take a cut of that
Reminds me of John Urschel, MIT mathematician who quit his NFL career because he was afraid of possible brain damage. Looks like he finished his PhD in 2021 [0]. Congrats!

Apparently, Urschel had suffered a concussion a few years before his decision [1, 2]. There was also an interesting, semi-related HN thread about football and brain trauma earlier [3].

0: https://math.mit.edu/~urschel/

1: https://archive.is/RG9tg

2: https://news.mit.edu/2019/student-john-urschel-math-football...

4: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16291827
> the only effect of rationing a good is to change the currency in which that good is priced

This just sounds like an instance of the fact that a sufficiently abstract system of reasoning can be always be forced to described any particular patch of the world. Though typically at the cost of considerable contortions of the terms that makes no sense in other bits of the world.

For example, you may well say that "ability to navigate bureaucracy" is a currency. But it's hard to understand how you put that currency in a bank, in which sense this currency splits into perfectly equivalent units, or how it represents equivalent value at many different physical locations since the specific bureaucrats are tied a specific location.

By the way, picking an instance of cheating as some sort of general argument of why a specific system is not to be trusted is just a straw man, since the problem of cheating is independent on the exchange mechanism. Alternatively, accept this argument: scammers on Amazon prove that free market mechanisms don't reliably give a fair price.
The idea that PTFE doesn't break down except at very high temperatures is not true.

Breakdown begins to occur at either 200 or 260 degrees Celsius (depending on what data you're looking at). These temperatures are well within the realm of temperatures that even a home chef might encounter.
> What if I run ads or have affiliate links on my blog?

FWIW, in Germany that would indeed make it a commercial endeavor.

It gets even weirder with copyright, being part of a torrent swarm as uploading part has regularly been ruled as "commercial distribution".
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The fine line between busyness and industrious-ness. Our laziness is a feature to optimize existence itself.
I consider "being reasonable" equivalent to "being able to be communicated with"... i.e. the essence of unreasonableness is broken communication; i.e. unwillingness to listen.
The Atlantic is actually much better than, say, Mother Jones/Slate/Salon. Back in 2015, they ran "Coddling of the American Mind" which was one of the first big articles detailing this shift in public discourse.
It seems to me that if, e.g., mandatory arbitration clauses can be binding, then so could a precondition clause allowing particular types of torts (or disallowing particular types of defenses). I imagine it wouldn't be too hard to convince a judge that engaging in a defense explicitly disallowed by the contract in dispute isn't fair play.

I guess the question is whether you can have preconditions at all on blanket licenses?

For example, if I say "anyone who sends me, by registered mail, a check for 50 EUR will be granted a license", and someone just uses my code without even attempting to send the check, is that copyright violation or contractual violation? It seems to me that would be a copyright violation, or else all copyright violations are just latent contract violations, in their most absurd extents ("I didn't sign the licensing contract they offered, but because they offered one at all, it's a contractual violation" seems to be a particularly weak defense).
There is an option to disable remote login and allow LAN login only[1]. You can also add local access account with super admin rights[2].

[1]https://unifi/settings/advanced
[2]https://unifi/users/users
To prevent any confusion, this is a different product than Mozilla's Glean [0][1].

[0] https://docs.telemetry.mozilla.org/concepts/glean/glean.html

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/glean/
This is the de facto application in law and economics (most times). But a reminder is good too.
The '68 generation' is pretty much the same generation that's now 65 years old and washing dishes..

> From my standpoint the German television landscape is completely doomed, because the people at the levers are in the illusion they do the good thing for "the small man" while in fact they just think the small man is incomprehensible stupid and must not ever be confronted with content that shows them that there is still stuff to learn and understand in the world.

Well, that would be more bearable, if half the TV market wouldn't be allowed to essentially tax everyone to finance their drivel.
What an awesome idea! :-)