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What a useless comment.

bsdtar seems better ([1]), it's permissively licensed ([2]) and can read most GNU tar archives.

[1] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/101561/what-are-the...

[2] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/libarchive/libarchive/mast...
Google wants everyone using Chromebooks instead of Windows laptops.

Because almost no one uses Chromebooks except Google employees, so far their strategy involves contracting all the developers they can.
> Sort of feel it would really be helpful to replace the narrative of the creation of the modern smartphone ("the iPhone sprung forth from the head of Jobs!") with a picture of the decade+ of efforts made by the computer industry to make consumer electronics.

The thing is that many other companies could've made an iPhone before a Jobs-led Apple, just like other people could've run a 4-minute mile before Roger Bannister. But as a hardware + software + marketplace system, it truly was a discontinuous leap.

If you want to read an article that goes the other way and maybe overstates General Magic's contributions, you might also enjoy this oral history: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/08/general-magic-oral-h...
According to [0][1], car makers are unwilling or unable to switch from older Intel chips to modern (smaller process) Intel ones. Switching architectures doesn't sound more feasible.

[0]: https://jalopnik.com/i-asked-experts-why-carmakers-cant-just...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28728965
See also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nature_of_the_Firm Ronald Coase’s paper from 1937 describing the pressures that lead to the formation of firms and those that constrain its size.
I wonder if it’s actually possible to prevent fingerprinting of a radio transmitter (aside from active measures like intentionally sending out noise broadcasts periodically): it seems to me that a clever enough adversary with two or three receivers could fingerprint all the devices in the area based on transmission patterns and locate/identify individuals. Combined with CCTV or other data, this could even be sufficient to pinpoint irl identities.
I'm not talking about situations where something jumps out of nowhere or a meteor falls out of the sky onto the road. This deer didn't jump out onto the road. It slowly walked out onto the road; it was visible near the edge of the car's vision; and it was easy to anticipate that it might walk in front of the car.

I've encountered many situations like this without hitting the animal. I would slow down and move aside to give the deer room, starting as soon as I saw the deer at 3:53. If the deer had moved faster and taken the whole lane I'd have passed it in the other lane. The oncoming car wasn't that close.

But you must also be able to stop in this distance, because the obstacle might not be a deer you can steer around, it might be a fallen tree that blocks the whole road.

You're certainly right that many human drivers would not do better than the Tesla here, but we should expect the Tesla to be better than a bad human driver.
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That was also the era of Mercedes-Benz using biodegradable insulation on their wiring harnesses and it resulted in all sorts of cars having to be scrapped long before they broke down mechanically.
Exactly, it's often the "either you like our platform or you leave" attitude, which, as the platform covers more and more of one's life, and gains larger network effects, becomes pretty hard. The switching costs can be huge and so people often stay with very little say over how the platform is governed.
The main concern seems to be that a centralised entity (corporate or government) can be flawed in its decision-making and/or execution. This is to the detriment of us all.

What’s the solution here? Decentralisation doesn’t seem to compete well with centralised alternatives. Perhaps this will change with the latest wave of pro-decentralisation?
Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Industrial Age, Tecnhnology Age... what's next
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Families told to freeze Christmas dinner as festive shortages loom
They have just discovered the value of sitting solitaire on a barstool. Random social interactions avoid echo Chambers and free us of algorithmic information influence.
> can easily charge on any CCS charger from any charging network

So can Teslas with a bundled adapter.
Matt Levine had a pretty good column on this the other day: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-09-29/inside...

His point, which is pretty much impossible to argue with, is that insiders always have material nonpublic information about the companies they work for, so treating “insider trading” as a categorical evil that must be totally eliminated is just denying reality. You would have to bar insiders from ever trading their own stock under any circumstances, which seems silly.

The alternative view is basically “who cares”, and that barring insiders from trading freely actually impedes efficient price discovery. A compromise might be to require insiders to at least publicly disclose all trades, so that markets know when insiders are making moves.
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Yeah, that is a nice lifestyle but unattainable for 99.999% of humanity. And not very sustainable in terms of land and resources unless you do it as a community. Even then, you could only sustain a tiny, tiny fraction of earth’s current population like this.
You're still cool and hip. jjcon is the commenter I responded to
All the flaws of centralization here also apply to decentralization tho
Hi there,
Thanks for reading our story. You may find my English broken because it is not my first language. We're an India based gaming company.
First of all, I'm sorry if you found my tont arrogant or malicious but I don't have a very strong hold on english so.

This will arise a new question in you mind:

>>Why do we mention the address of the UK on our twitter handle?
1. According to google policy we have to provide a physical address if we want to use in-app-purchases. This physical address is visible publicly on our games pages.

Reason providing our UK address is we have a representative living there who can reply to any type of physical communications such as letters on behalf of us. He also can reply to various other issues like GDPR and different other policies.

>>All our games are gambling games?

- No. This is not true. In our games you can't bet any type of real money or anything like that. It's just a simulation like other games. Yes you can buy various perks through in app purchases but it is not the gambling. If we've provided any type of gambling related stuff in our games then google wouldn't have let you survive for 3 years either!

>>Email and Social media registered in May 2021
Yes, our domain 6acegames.com is new. The reason behind it is silly. You may find it funny but still let me tell you!At first we bought domain sixacegames.com(you can check reg. details) thinking it will help in seo and all because we didn't want to include a number "6" in our domain. But later after our games got popular users started searching for 6Acegames that's why we bought this domain as well in may just to build the presence on google search.

>>And about social media,
we are not very active in social media. As you can see in our twitter handle we have 0 followers. The reason is simple: we never promoted it to our users. Although we have some followers on our instagram handle, they follow us because we provide free perks occasionally to our audience.

>>Lack of information.
I'm very unfamiliar with stuff like blogging and all, This is the first post I've ever written. If i forget mentioning something please let me know i'll include all the information to the post it self
The problem with all these counterpoints is that they take an initial change eg. automobiles and offer a "more" version e.g. air travel.

At some point, it's just going to come down to a difference of opinion over which transformation(s) were more qualitative and which were more quantitative. Suffice it to say that I regard all of your counterpoints are quantitive changes, and all of my original points as qualitative.

I acknowledge that there are different opinions about this.
Ao isn't ambiguous in modern Japanese. It appears in various set phrases for things that aren't blue, but when used on its own to describe the color of something it just means blue.
Governments can legally employ violence to implement their policies and prerogatives.

Corporations cannot.
Rai Stones worked really well, for a long time. Well, except for the one that fell off the outrigger.
Same, it’s so frustrating not being able to run a cut down dev setup (webpack, backend, vscode and browser with one tab open), no other programs running… and also an external monitor.

Without about 15 mins it grinds to a halt, and nothing I can do about it except research other laptops with better cooling
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So you're saying that they should instead focus on "Why our search is broken and how we can fix it"?

Jokes aside, the search indicates there are only 300 products. You could probably scroll through those.

Besides, most sites' have exceptionally poor search capabilities, Hacker News included.
The "ills" in the corporate sphere just result in reduced profits/efficiency.

The "ills" of the central planning department of the government getting too large result in gulags.
It’s a mildly humorous facebook post. I mean I imagine there’s at least a touch of pride there. I would have some at least.
I've started to experiment with looking at these large social media/communication orgs less as companies and more as countries/nation-states, and when I do, the metaphor illuminates a lot for me. E.g., FB gives its citizens free services as long as it can watch (almost) everything people do and put up advertisements (almost) everywhere. And if someone breaks the laws, the Supreme Court, appointed by the President, interprets those laws. If citizens don't like the laws, they can move to another country. And lastly, if citizens don't like the President, well, there's not much they can do, besides again, maybe move to another country.

> Should some kind of democratic process apply to such organisations?

I've wondered what would be some effective ways to add more user voice in the ownership and governance process of these platforms. Do you have any ideas?
John McWhorter on Lexicon Valley has a great episode about this phenomenon.

https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/09/john-mcwhorter-on-t...
> Imagine the cumulative kilowatt-hours wasted globally by all the CPU cycles spent by slack just to exist as basically a glorified IRC app.

Conversely, imagine the global kWh saved by some micro-optimization to a key system call like malloc. Perhaps the biggest positive impact a single developer can have on our climate is to improve the efficiency of frequently used pieces of code. Even tiny optimizations would add up.
I would be cashing out as fast as humanly possible.

And setting aside a good chunk for taxes and legal fees...
Because Facebook doesn’t build roads or bridges. They can’t tax me or put me in jail. They’re can’t put migrant children in cages or drone strike weddings. They’re not responsible for making sure our water and air are clean. They can’t ban religions or sexuality. Facebook can’t Brexit. If Facebook fails, life goes on. If my government fails, life is going to suck. A lot.
Hold on there. The accurate statement is:

"Roughly half of all the money raised to oppose one specific ballot initiative was from groups associated with police and prisons".

Groups "associated with police and prisons" runs that gamut from thinks tanks that adopt a pro-police stance and obtain money from police unions to former law enforcement officials and anything in between.

The article goes on to say that the Teamsters Union and Hospital Workers also opposed the initiative.
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No. Science is about empiricism - scientific method, experiments, etc. Philosophy is an overarching field encompassing all pursuit/love of knowledge. It's why another term for science is natural philosophy. It's why people who attain the highest level of education get a doctorate of philosophy ( PhD ).
>When would your employer ever have to deal with insurance issues even at a F500?

Large companies will get involved when there are insurance-related issues. How effective they'll be is another question.
Good thing precisely zero people are proposing this for "all financial infrastructure".

It's an opt-in alternative, nothing more. If you don't want to use it, nothing forces you to (unlike existing retail banking).
That doesn't sound crazy.

Anyone paying attention realizes many of the well-intentioned responses to the pandemic had unintended consequences.

This is nothing new. During the great depression livestock prices dropped so the government culled entire herds to drive prices up again. Then people went hungry.

Smoot-Hawley tariff had similar negative impacts.

In Communist China the government declared war on sparrows because they ate the grain, so they destroyed the population, which caused pest insects to proliferate and destroyed the crops. Then people starved.

There's a long history of government intervention which cause massive disruptions that take many years to stabilize.
Unless of course they become so large that they are able to do thing to relieve themselves of competitive pressure.
> It isn't fair (and it isn't good for market efficiency) for insiders to act on their inside information.

How is this not good for market efficiency? Insiders have material information about company performance. Trading on that information means that it is (marginally) reflected in the market price. That sounds like a more efficient market to me.

Also, I’d like to see your full specification of “fairness” in capital markets. Stock markets are not casinos, they are economic tools for directing capital to its highest use. “Fairness” doesn’t seem like a relevant factor here.
I have donated to Firefox and Scratch.
I haven’t used Facebook in over 3 years, yet I’m forced to interact with the government daily. They are nothing like the same thing.
Tesla does not yet provide a CCS Type 1 Combo adapter. And adapters will always charge slower than having CCS on the car.

Tesla switched to CCS in Europe a couple of years ago and the cars are better for it:

https://insideevs.com/news/343728/most-tesla-superchargers-n...

Time for Tesla to switch to CCS in North America as well. Why not take advantage of the additional charging infrastructure?

4 days ago there were 4,683 CCS charging sites in North America. Today there are 4,707 CCS charging sites:

https://afdc.energy.gov/fuels/electricity_locations.html

It's pointless to fight the growth charging standard that the rest of the industry has switched to. The smart move is to embrace it and benefit from it.
Have you tried? You would be surprised at what can be achieved on smaller time frames.
Sodium bicarbonate isn't actually used in farming like this. Copper pesticides[1] are though, and they are not without their own downsides and consequences.

This article touches on pesticide use in organic farming[2].

I like organic farming, but a lot of what passes for "organic" in the US is far from ideal and feels more like regulator-sanctioned scam. I'd feel more confident buying organic produce if there were stricter guidelines and enforcement.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_pesticide

[2] https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/science-sushi/httpblogs...
Most Sailors on ships work in watch rotations. If you’re lucky it’s three shifts, but more often than not it’s “port and starboard” shifts of 12-on/12-off. This is especially hard for those who work nights.

Even if your shift ends at, say, 0800, you still have to eat, then attend muster (like a daily standup), then do an hour or so of “cleaning stations”. Afterward you can’t go to sleep yet because the berthing where you sleep is waiting for the XO to inspect. Once that’s all done, you are still up because they planned a General Quarters (GQ) drill or a man overboard at 1000. Two hours later and you are finally free, but it’s lunch so you might as well eat. You have about 8 hours left, but you are also delinquent on 2 or 3 qualifications that require walk-through a or attending trainings which only happen during the day. Maybe you want to send an email home, so you go to the library to wait for a free computer.

By the time that’s all done, you have about 4 or 5 hours to sleep. You might be able to do that without problem for a day or two, but a week later and you are friend.
Like with most of the posts on OB, this post makes a litany of confusing and incorrect assumptions:

* That the forces present in the US's current agricultural system are not government-driven;

* That the government and corporations are entities of a kind, and centralization in one can be used as a parable against the other without any further contextualization;

* That we don't have ample, concrete evidence of the exact opposite outcomes predicted (i.e., developed, social democratic states that exercise central control over the food chain to the direct benefit of quality, safety, and public health).
the reporting time might be too long for it to matter.

What is needed is instantaneous reporting.
The government is more dangerous than corporations. Mostly because of the size of the military.
I was fortunate to be able to buy an SE/20 in the mid-80’s or so. I have good memories of using it at my dining room table, drinking coffee and coding in C while my wife and children played together.
IP address.

Most people connect to wifi at home and at work. Every app on your phone reports your current IP address. Even if you don't open an app, the app server can send it a silent push notification which wakes up the app and lets it send back your current IP address. Therefore every app knows where you live and work and when you are at those places. If you connect to wifi at friends' places or coffee shops or a hotel, they get that data, too.

This is missing from the article. It is a major omission.

iOS & Android could help reduce IP-address tracking. They could treat Internet Access as a privacy setting: require apps to ask for permission and let the user control when the app communicates (never, when in use, always). One can disable app notifications to reduce app wake-ups, but the OS does not teach users about this. Notifications are not listed under "Privacy". Also, apps can use other ways to wake up frequently and report the current IP address.

Additionally, iOS & Android could support hermetic proxy services. Currently, one can install a VPN app on iOS, but device traffic goes through the VPN only when the app is running and connected. All apps get direct access to the network (and your IP address) whenever the VPN connection is not enabled, which occurs during device restarts, VPN service outages, VPN app updates, and when switching between mobile & wifi. iOS has the ability to disable network access when the VPN is down, but setting it up is a complicated procedure which requires using a macOS device and wiping the iOS device. And there's no emergency-disable option.

Both Apple and Google ignore many easy things they could do to improve user privacy.
That’s why I love traveling in public transport (bus) during undergrade in india. It gave me opportunity to interact with so many strangers and also helped expand my thinking/ability to understand by listening to so many different experiences
For graphical ads, typically the advertiser can include beacons which can indicate membership in the targeted group, the same as a click. No interaction needed.
They are highly optimized for exactly this reason.
Do the people opting in truly appreciate that one software bug could empty their account?
I might start getting into crypto after this.

No, but on a serious note, I don’t think cryptocurrency will ever be a sufficient replacement for the US dollar, but I can imagine the infrastructure going into it will produce new, helpful financial tools.
Hi there,

First of all, You may find my english broken but it is not my first language. We're india based startup.

Thanks reading our story. Let me answer some of your doubts.
the numbers are not right on website. We've team of only 15 devs.

Our games are not on app store because it is developed for android only in java.

You may find identical games with similar logos because of copy cats. Once they know that your games are doing good they'll start copying.

Tonk is a traditional card game popular in united states , we just made it more fun bringing it in mobile phones. So other devs also can make tonk games. It is not our pattern or anything like that.

this will arise a new question in you mind:

>>Why do we mentions address of UK on our tweeter handle?
1. According to google policy we have to provide a physical address if we want to use in-app-purchases. This physical address is visible publicly on our games pages.

Reason providing our uk address is we have a representative living there who can reply to any type of physical communications such as letters on behalf of us. He also can reply to various other stuffs like GDPR and different other policies. For ex. You can send a later to the given address to get in touch with us!

>> Where can i find your games incase i want to see them?
You can find it on apk pure. let me provide you links
- https://m.apkpure.com/developer/6Ace%20Games
> do something productive with an FB stock?

facebook itself is doing something productive (as measured by their profit).

The stock of facebook is a pre-requisite for facebook to exist (in the productive form). The stock is not a commodity (like a sheep), which have intrinsic value.

For facebook to produce value, they needed initial capital injection. This capital cannot exist if the stock, and the subsequent trading, doesn't exist.
Yes, apparently it is not very common but a bunch of Asian countries practice this barbarism.

https://uminchuproject.tumblr.com/post/52861612151/ikizukuri...

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

:-(
Yeah, I’ve driven about 16k miles in a model 3 and have never had an issue.
Is there some other world that would be less joke-like? I mean one that has actually existed, not a utopian fantasy.
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They're also working on creating a New World Order™ so you can't easily move to another country, which, by the way, is a terribly underestimated and underused ability at the moment.
You're the customer. If you don't like the service they provide, you can choose to spend your money/attention elsewhere. There's no more powerful representation than that
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> The "ills" in the corporate sphere just result in reduced profits/efficiency.

I disagree, as corporations can cause plenty of harm to people, whether physically or emotionally.

> The "ills" of the central planning department of the government getting too large result in gulags.

Yes, governments can have much more power over citizens, as moving from one to another can be much more difficult and the legitimacy to use violence to enforce, I agree. Maybe I just felt confused the original article didn't delve more into that, or maybe it did and I just didn't see the connection and it felt disjointed to me.
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It's a dictatorship, but nonetheless, FB is not an actual country so the "move to another country" part isn't that hard to do. It becomes a problem when you don't agree with something of the country but everyone else does, so choosing to leave does alienate you from those who stayed. Basically, FB's killer product is the other users, not the actual features of FB (although they're necessary for the collective to not leave en-mass).