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> I was at RIM during this time and it was an absolute shitshow. It took so much in-fighting to get RIM to even address the iphone, so many people thought it was a passing fad and would never get polished enough to be a real competitor, despite the fact it was already destroying marketshare.

Oh that's for sure, even just before the iPhone came out they were all classing it as an iPod that could make calls.

What really turned things was RIM ignored the consumer market but when they started to pick on that, they did at the expense of the business base and the Storm was the end-result - half-baked for both and not fitting either. That whole period from 2007 on was a case of chasing consumer markets at the expense of the business customers. But the whole BIS/BES thang was often two sides of a coin.

But darn, the politics at Blackberry - I recall getting chastised for asking a question at a Townhall meeting when a one of the directors asked if any questions and I was balls enough to ask if we was ever going to do QA for the director to respond that they was looking into it.
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Bundling Chrome with Flash and other software, such that it would install by default unless you uncheck the right checkbox (and make itself the default browser).

Making Google web applications (YouTube) use technologies only available in Chrome with much slower fallback used in other browsers.

Bundling Chrome with Android.

Ads pushing it aggressively on Google/YouTube. Ads IRL.
If you recently bought an $800,000 home you're quite wealthy compared to the median American.
Monero (and others) does make ransom collection much more convenient/safe to do.

Isn't it its main use case, with probably purchasing drugs and arms?

I'm not saying that in theory people wouldn't want to privately purchase their baguette (sorry I'm French), it's just that in practice they generally don't care, unless they are doing something illegal.

I'm curious, for those of you who do, what do you actually purchase with monero that's legal? (And why?)
Now I understand why sacred cow persons "otherised" western cow breeds and okayed foreigners eating their meat. One guy even said (present day) westerners are actually eating aurochs.

Speech (with cancer warning): https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/west-bengal-bjp-chief-dilip-...
Very important question: are pensions counted as "spending" in the breakout of federal/local/state spending? Because if they are then the number will inevitably go up as life expectancy beyond pension age increases.

I'm slightly surprised to see that the War On Terror didn't register as a visible discontinuity on the graph, even as a smaller one compared to WW2. I suppose the money would have been spent on the military anyway.
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Is also very common and I would say it counts, especially if the language support something like extension methods.
Regarding reliability, in China you can pay with just your face with Alipay in many convenience stores, supermarkets, and vending machines. End-to-end transaction fees are usually within 0.1%, which puts a ceiling on the failure rate.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/China-tech/Pay-with-your-fa...
I'm no expert in anything relevant, but this comment and the parent strike me as great examples of Western Individualism and Eastern Collectivism; the idea that da Vinci as an individual creates some view of the world through his being, not just his output, that should be revered. It seems a given that if one had the talent to reproduce the Mona Lisa by hand then the output should be just as remarkable as the original, but as a Westerner I kind of understand that it wouldn't be appreciated in the same way if at all.
Me too! I sometimes do this in lisp, to comment out the following expression:

* '(1 #+nil 2 3)
(1 3)
It has just occurred to me that Excel is an excellent example of a functional language to use to explain to people who don't understand what functional languages are.
Haven't had any issues on MacOS using monero-wallet-gui.app and a Ledger Nano X.
>Monero seems much better suited as a weapon against real totalitarian regimes. If it is illegal in both a free and unfree society, then it will only have a practical purpose in the unfree society, whereas the free society will have plentiful alternatives.
they want to know who you are, what you like, what you'll buy
This was covered on yesterday's Real Vision Daily Briefing[0]. It does feel like it could be China's Lehman moment. We'll have to wait and see.

There seem to be a lot of cracks and fraying in China's economy at the moment, and it feels like the sort of thing that could bring on a global economic crisis, if not handled with care.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w8twoGZR_Q
Lumus has 70 degrees FOV, but due to yield difficulties in manufacturing. They haven't made anything significant for production so far.

But this is basically the future. It is like early stages of the mobile cameras. Specs are not enough to match expectations. But core concept is solid.
The main problem with a Curtis doco is that the people who need to know the content are the least likely people to sit though it.

I love them, but I mostly agree with his world view already.
No, the overall trend is : wind farms will build back (destroyed) and it is harder to build new ones, thanks to new laws.
Yeah, it's a true point that "lock-free" != "fast". If contention is very low, the simple version using mutexes often perform better.
The story of France subsidize get a bit of a wrinkle if we look at the actually numbers (https://ec.europa.eu/energy/sites/ener/files/progress_on_ene...).

French subsidizes on nuclear is about the same size as Germany, but that is not the most strangest fact. The biggest subsidizes french pay on the energy grid is for fossil fuel! The fossil fuel subsidizes is also almost identical in size to Germany subsidizes to fossil fuels.

Germany actually spend twice the amount of total subsidizes than France in the energy sector, with half of it going to renewables. The amount of nuclear subsidizes and fossil fuel subsidizes are similar, but then they have the combined amount added to just renewables.

In raw numbers, the French pay about €25 billions of subsidizes with fossil fuels getting the biggest share. In Germany that is €50 billions, with about €25 billions going exclusively to renewables.
How will these vaccines that don't produce immunity lead to less severe variants? If they mute severity of illness they will lead to more severe variants. This is basic.
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Why does every single conversation about China have to devolve into a contest with America? This is usually a way to distract from problems in China with whataboutisms. The soviets did this obsessively too the minute anyone critiqued them.

It is in fact possible to evaluate a countries economy in isolation as well as comparatively globally … and America (and the rare EU anecdote) is not the only economy to compare to.

America’s issues don’t alleviate other country’s issues. The Chinese economy, population, and political/legal system are often very different so direct comparisons are usually only partially valuable.
Do you use any open source software? Since most of it is made by people unable to sustain themselves from their projects.
I disagree. C++ already has this mechanism - the preprocessor it inherited from C. That one is a textual preprocessor step, and it's very important for the programmer to have this as a mental model - then they'll be able to use it in a smart way[0] and avoid dumb mistakes.

I'm not sure if this is the best model, but a good one for C++ templates is that they are tree-level code generators. Kind of like really dumbed down Lisp macros. They don't do textual substitution, but AST-level one. But they generate code nonetheless.

(I suppose exposure to Lisp and Lisp macros may be helpful here too - just to have a comparison with a system that's a proper compile-time AST-level code generator, and that with minimal syntax, you can actually write your code as AST directly and be as readable as syntaxful languages.)

--

[0] - I know the mainstream opinion in application-level C++ is to avoid using it at beyond includes, include guards, and occasional conditional compilation or third-party package configuration. There are good reasons to avoid it - beyond complexity, quite a lot of support tooling like IDEs get confused by more complex macros. But still, there are many instances where even the newest C++20 features won't help you reduce obvious mechanical boilerplate. I've learned to use the preprocessor in those cases - mostly for readability reasons.
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yea, that sounds about right
It's pensions. On both sides of the Atlantic. https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/pensions_spending

The difference in military spending (which might otherwise be a likely suspect) is more like 3.5%ish (US) to 1-2%ish (Europe)
I think this is a kind of Sympathetic Magic, and more specifically Law of Contagion. Original Mona Lisa is valuable in large part because it was in contact with da Vinci. A perfect replica would not have this quality. That's why mundane items that used to belong to famous people are often cherished.

It's interesting to read suggestion that Western culture might place more value in this "magical quality".
The true AIs here are the simpletons who are looking to get influenced by this.
The other answer to your message offers the gist of my point.

Laowhy does not offer the research that backs his point besides the general doxa around China. I don't see why I should have to prove a negative.

China has many issues, but the feel-good doomsday rhetoric offered by Laowhy does not help OP's argument especially when channels like Polymatter have covered those issues, better, with less bias and more down-to-earth conclusions.
UltraWeather uses the openweather geocoding API[1]:

https://openweathermap.org/api/geocoding-api

Pretty generous free tier, and paid options seem pretty reasonable.

[1]: https://github.com/Leftium/ultra-weather#specify-a-location
But developing countries pay less, so BionTech and Pfizer will have less profits. As cool as having a company like Biontech, run by immigrants, founded in Germany they always rubbed me the wrong way in terms of PR and business conduct since the start of the pandemic. With huge support from German media and politics. The continued dissing of Astrazeneca is just one example, the push for booster shots is another.
I'd agree in the ideal world that's exactly what should happen, however in reality there are a load of unadministered doses in the US (https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1437617018782449668?s=2...) which will go to waste if not used, so it would seem to make sense to use those for boosters where they're available.
There are interactions between the first two. If the climate puts too much pressure on societies, people will become more accepting of waging war - thus maybe triggering the nuke option before the climate problem has had any chance to do all the damage.
"Smart" money has been betting against Evergrande for years, and losing money on it until very recently. I heard of one asset manager who in hindsight was totally correct about the fundamentals give up trading them at all, they so consistently lost so much money on it (the market can stay irrational etc.). It's a dangerous game!

Mike Bird at the WSJ has been going on about this for years as well.
> How do you enforce regional restrictions on immigration?

You could ask for proof of purchase from local stores, check the address of the employer to see if the employer is located in that area. Check train/bus tickets.

> if there are no good jobs sounds like a terrible bandaid.

It depends, maybe you need workforce in some occupations in that area, so you tell immigrants who have expertise in that domain to stay in that area and fi you spend X years you will get the citizenship after that you are free to move in the country.

Its a fair deal, if the immigrant does not like he/she just wont come.
Another perspective - central bank lending rates:

China: 3.875%
ECB and FED: about 0.25%
> most DVDs were encoded 480p and 24 fps

Only in NTSC regions. PAL region DVDs are generally 576p and 25 fps.
As far as I can see Urenco produces nuclear fuel (through uranium enrichment), so they have nothing to do with nuclear waste.

COVRA only does temporary storage (100 years). They are coordinating research into finding a final long-term solution, meaning they don't have a solution currently. Where do you get that 1000 year duration?

I don't know about the Finnish solution. Do you have some links about that?
Lots of functionality has been added that cost significant effort to implement, but people don't even notice it's there.

Eg, take calculating the length of a string. That's just "add 1 to count until reaching \0", right?

Not in the modern day, where you have UTF8, and what qualifies as a character is a lot more complicated than it used to be. A modern program, wanting to accurately calculate the number of characters in a string then brings up a bunch of UTF8 machinery with it. Then there's a good deal more than that to UTF8, so that also brings up a bunch of other code that is needed for other purposes, but for now may not be used.

But these days we mostly use GUIs, so instead of "length of a string in characters", you probably want "length of a string in pixels". In comes the TrueType library you need to parse the font and implement the virtual machine (!), because these days a font file contains code that helps the system produce the best possible result.

And so on, and so forth. Doing the most basic version possible in English on a fixed width text display with fixed width fonts is just a few bytes of code. Doing the modern version that takes into account things like that Japan exists quickly expands the problem to megabytes worth of code.
Never heard of GFF, thanks for the link. For anyone who speaks German, the wikipedia article [0] has a decent summary of them.

[0]: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesellschaft_f%C3%BCr_Freiheit...
> Despite the [gif] extension, the file was actually a 748-byte Adobe PSD file.

I wish programmers would stop "helpfully parsing" files which are named with an "incorrect" extension. If a random unknown person sends me a file with .gif extension that is actually a PSD file, I most definitely do not want my machine parsing whatever that thing is.
HP-UX actually had an executable attribute bit that would control whether dereferencing a pointer to address 0 would accvio or result in the value 0.

I learned this fact when at least one library (OpenSSL? Kerberos?) shipped with the OS relied on the non-crashing behavior, unconditionally dereferencing an optional pointer-to-struct argument.

That was a fun debugging session.
Parent didn't use the word unsustainable, merely "large". And remember "Market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent"? There's no particular reason why it should "correct" on any particular timescale. Kick the can hard enough and the problem is solved for your lifetime.
It's a long read but shows what you allude to: https://www.juliusruechel.com/2021/09/the-snake-oil-salesmen...
I tried doing some math on this, since you got me thinking!

Let's assume the "lock force" is 100N, and the surface of the fridge's door is 1 square meter. This means the pressure differential between inside and outside would be 100 Pa. One atmosphere is roughly 10^5 Pa, so you would need a pressure differential of 10^5 / 100 = 0.1% between inside and outside. Since PV=NRT, we deduce that DeltaP/P = DeltaT/T. Or, in other words, 0.1% pressure means 0.1% temperature. We live at around 300K, so that's 0.3K difference. A fridge is what, 0.5 m^3 ? And air is about 1.3 kg/m^3, specific heat of air is about 1kJ/kg, so we would be looking at removing 1.3 kg/m^3 * 0.5m^3 * 1 kJ/kg = 650 J in 10 seconds, or 65W. A fridge can apparently consume about 200W peak (from a quick Google search), so it seems feasible with an OK-tier efficiency.

In addition, if you add a pump, you could also just add a mechanical lock, couldn't you ?
Talking about plotting, in ĺog-linear plots[0], exponentials appear as straight lines. In log-log plots[1], functions of form f(x) = ax^k (monomials) appear as straight lines.

For me, I think what clicked is that the log of a number in base 10 measures the length of this number in decimal (as in, the number of digits, possibly off by one)

And more generally, log is an exponent that raises the base to a number. For example, ln(5) is the exponent that raises e to 5.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-log_plot

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log%E2%80%93log_plot
Yeah you could load the bcm_nat module at boot to use Broadcom's hardware NAT. Worked on some chipsets. Openwrt is better, so just look for something with a supported chip, Atheros or Qualcomm these days.
Hate to break it to you, but in Brave's case you really can't. Their crypto and ad stuff is so ingrained in their codebase that you have to be pretty meticulous to wipe it all out on that level. https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/14783
Depends on what you want the wind mill to do for you: slow and steady pumping water up a dike exerts somewhat less force on all the materials than trying to maximize electric output you get out of each rotation.

Also, there's no several 100% efficiency increase in upgrading a wind mill, so the parts are probably still compatible...
The load is probably fine, millions of people look at tiny screens for the majority of their waking time, the worst effects are on the neck/spine.

The cognitive changes are more interesting to think about. It's been documented people remember less after adapting to information availability online.
Makes sense. If you're a junior player in the ad-serving space you can currently only observe the browsing habits of surfers accessing pages on which you have ads. Even on those pages, the trend is for the browser vendors to make this harder and harder.

Get 3 million VPN users through your funnel and you get eyes on all of their browsing habits... valuable data you can funnel in to serving better ads.

People using VPNs are also probably the people using adblock and are harder to market to.
This is what I have heard more from other China investing podcasts, that the next China is in rural China. Not ASEAN, not India but rural China will become the next China.
Like you said most of them are probably just getting by. Moving them to the cities and make sure the next generation is educated will give China its next two decades of growth.
From what I also gathered in land rural China grows at like 10% plus a year compared to single digit coastal regions.
Monero is bad because it democratizes offshore accounting. Only us rich people should have this privilege. Is this the gist of anti monero sentiment?
> "The level of debt is jaw-dropping. The private non-financial sector owed the equivalent of 222% of GDP at the end of 2020. Most of that sits with companies. By comparison, private non-financial debt in America is 164% of GDP."

So they have about a third more debt than we do? "Jaw-dropping" seems like an overstatement.
> France has always been a bunch of people living in the same area.

This.

Saying "France is not France anymore" is a typical MAGA (or FFGE) move. You have your own idea of what the country is, based on your narrow experience of it, and you see it moving from this view, so you think that the whole country is not the same anymore.
But every country changes, the World changes. So no matter when you are or where you are, a country is always "not the same anymore". And if you liked what it was sometimes and don't like what it currently is, yeah, maybe it was "better" before. But some other people find it better now. And other even thought it was better at a time before you found it great.

So saying a country is not as good as it was is just being an old man yelling at clouds.
why are you baking in the assumption that boosters are needed?
They do provide immunity in 95% (conservative) of cases, so it massively reduces the population that mutations can happen in.
I really don't understand the vaccines for all push:

A - The benefit for young people seems to be outweighed by the risk, for a given time period. The risk of mortality from vaccine induced clots in under 40s is twice the risk of death from Covid [0] (post relates to AZ but other vaccines has similar clot risks). The risk of hospitalisation from myocarditis is a multiple of the risk of hospitalisation from Corona, especially in young males [1] who have a four to six times risk. That alone would be enough to put serious doubt into the vaccines for all narrative, but there's also rarer and weirder confirmed side effects like Bell's Palsy and Guillain-Barre Syndrome.

B - The continued dramatic overlooking of natural immunity, which seems to be 6 or 7 times more effective than vaccines alone. Misinformation on this subject from vested interests and uncritical / complicit media has been rife [2].

C - Better, safer, more effective and more traditional vaccines are coming, ie, Novavax.

As a young male with no comorbidities and natural immunity, WHY in God's name would I risk taking an mRNA vaccine that has _far_ higher odds of sending me to hospital or killing me than it has of protecting me from the same by lowering Corona reinfection risk?

[0] - https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40328123.html
[1] - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/10/boys-more-at-r...
[2] - https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n2101
Java nowadays is mostly used for business applications, where developer productivity is more important than runtime performance. Java being memory safe is a huge part of that, which is the JVM platform. Java the language had the major feature of being superficially similar to C++, that helped take over the business market but is now no longer relevant. When Java was first marketed as a business application language there were few competitors. Nowadays there are, but nowadays the major reason to choose Java is because it is entrenched and good enough.

However all the Java shops I hear about are also looking into Kotlin at some level of adoption. From all the new JVM languages Kotlin integrates the best with the existing Java environment and for displacing a language in an existing niche an easy upgrade path is the most important. So I think Kotlin will become an important language in the JVM ecosystem, it will just take a long time because these types of businesses are conservative in their tech choices.
With the right API, it would have been great - I don't want a notification from Instagram that friend X liked my story, but if all app notifications were segregated by user, that firehose of notifications would be way more manageable.
There is an opinion that learning things more thoroughly is helped by making said things in some particular ways[0] harder to learn (so we struggle at first, make our discoveries and get that dopamine boost when we grasp a concept).

If we take it as a given, then (controversial opinion) it seems possible that popularity of languages and paradigms that are easy and make intuitive sense (and are not weird, like functional languages) could by itself lead to a lowering of average knowledge level across the industry, even if the difficulty of a language has nothing to do with it being objectively somehow better.

[0] Not the way Brainf*^%k does it, though.
I was opting for heavy subtext, I completely agree :)
> This title is misleading. It isn't about them not being needed.

It also implies a level of consensus that doesn't exist. "Vaccine experts", as a whole, don't hold this opinion. This is about two specific dissenters in the FDA.

It's not a completely cut and dry subject. There are tradeoffs with all such decisions, such as the value of a booster in one individual vs. a first injection to another in a different part of the world, etc... It's not an unreasonable position.

But it's not a consensus position either. The typical recommendation seems to be that boosters are valuable.