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My very firm belief is that many "official experts" have at least 4 big problems/weaknesses when it comes to making decisions and communicating with the public.

* They're trying to optimize for 2 (sometimes) contradictory problems: getting the right answer AND maintaining their job/power. A random bloke on the Internet just is trying to optimize for 1 problem, getting the right answer: any other considerations like fielding off hungry young political competitors or maintaining corporate stock prices so you stay in their good graces aren't factors in the slightest to a random well-intentioned smart guy on the Internet.

* They are very smart at their field of expertise, but they're specialists and not generalists. They are very bad at considering second-order effects outside of their narrow field of expertise. Something like a lockdown in some city might indeed immediately save 1,000 extra people from a Covid death. Any risk-benefit analysis and deeper consideration of that lockdown on other problems such as drug/alcohol abuse and overdose deaths, suicides and hopelessness and depression, obesity increases leading to many health problems and deaths later on, deaths caused by missed cancer screenings and other medical problems, loss of freedom, or its economic impact and long-term impact on society isn't even a consideration by officialdom. Maybe 1,000 people are saved to kill 2,000 and cause even further societal problems. Yet those 1,000 deaths saved would be characterized as a win and proof that lockdowns work because no other factors can be considered. I'd strongly argue that a smart engineer or CEO (professions who are trained to considering multiple factors and tradeoffs in complex decision-making) would be better suited to make these kinds of complex societal decisions than a scientist focused on a narrow field.

* They're frighteningly bad at normal risk-management calculations. One could make a very reasonable argument that a normal fit 0 to 40 year old shouldn't get a new vaccine which has no long-term test data for an illness that statistically has a very low risk for them: and many people are reasonably making that risk-management calculation. Yet many experts are rushing into advocating vaccines even for children despite no long-term test data. The risk management calculation for a vaccine in this circumstance is completely different for the old and young, yet no consideration of this is allowed.

* Even when they sometimes get things right, most of what what even well-informed members of the public hear from the experts is filtered through the media. Unfortunately, outside of a handful of decent journalists who are reasonably smart and understand nuance (and who are mostly shunned from mainstream outlets) there is no collection of stupider people on the planet to try and analyze complex subjects or ask scientists real questions.
Honestly as a Buddhist, I find perennialism and the western approach to Buddhism to be offensive and degrading to the religion. Many such people even claim that traditional Buddhist lineages are "backwards" and "for stupid people". The pushing of secularists into Buddhist spaces is a huge issue and invalidating traditional Buddhist voices in the west.

The worst part is that the Buddha even specifically spoke out against many of the points secularists rely on, for example he spoke out extensively against the idea that death is the end. People who believed that were called annihilationists. However people approaching Buddhism in a secular way choose to ignore this, because they think their secular worldview is basic, immutable, and "obvious". Not accepting that the whole Buddhist project contradicts that, they try and suppress Asian voices and spaces, and instead support spaces that already agree with their preconceptions. It is just another form of colonialism, and I really don't like it.
How is that the whistleblower’s fault?

“Damn these pedestrians dying to drunk drivers forcing governments to make drunk driving illegal” what?
I prefer to use Intellij now for reviews. How can people review any kind of code in that PR web UI ? I mean I used to do it but not anymore
This seems like a pet project. Reason I say that is if it was built for work, it would likely be from figma. Instead this project is from Evan himself.
The alleged miracles of all the saints are the clearest examples of confirmation bias anyone could come up with.
> How else? So you admit that they are privileged in one sense, in the sense of having tenure, of not having to fear getting fired for speech, and you're asking me how else they are privilged?

You're manipulating what I said. The word 'else' is in reference to what other ways do YOU think they are privileged. And you still haven't answered the questions.
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> and makes people dumber by obscuring what things really are.

"What things really are" is microscopic invisible electrical patterns thrumming through specially-shaped chemically-doped sand to shove some crystals back and forth to change some reflected and emitted light frequencies that hit a human eye to be interpreted by a human brain.

Literally everything about UX is obscuring what things really are, because what things really are is "utterly incompatible with human cognition." There's an entire field of disciplined study to build a compatibility layer regular people can use; without it, all these fancy computers are just dumb matter in weird shapes.
I'm really surprised this ruling happened in the UK. The UK has cameras everywhere and seems to be rather accepting of Big Brother surveillance.
Mars rovers already use tires like these.
The book sounds awesome to get your hands dirty with Rust :)

is there a promo code for Latin-american countries?
Thats somehow funny, as GH is closed source and GL is open source...
MRNA treatments should be able to handle this soonish.
He had already graduated when he wrote his blog post and told them, he was still a student when he performed the hacking.

I realize this is conjecture but I'm giving an example. Speaking from experience receiving "security reports" from users and students, often times they fail to understand the full picture of IT. As a student with no buy-in from the stakeholders, the risk isn't worth it.

For example, let's say this IoT network was managed by a vendor who, while having sloppy configuration practices, also had network monitoring looking for APT/anomalies (such as new connections in off-hours or unusual connection rates or bandwidth usage.)

While the student thinks they're being sneaky and hacking the system at night, opening ssh connections to a hundred devices from his laptop, there are now reports and alarms going off on a monitoring system. Some basic timestamps and VPN access logs would be enough to point to the student. So this student thinks they're creating an anonymous harmless prank, but the IT department is already investigating a malicious actor on their network. How do you think this would end?
Who said they make a very small change? I said they improve a single aspect. The aspects are normally massively changed.

And the point people are making is they can't spot the differnce and for them there is no difference. No there is, but they're not good enough to feel or see the difference. It's like saying there isn't a difference between each version release of a programming language. If you're a newbie programmer you won't notice the difference but if you're an advance user you notice it instantly and it changes how you do things.

One of the reasons I normally upgrade every year is that I found if I missed a year the number of changes that I would experience with basically overload me when I did upgrade.
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No mention of coerced vaccination and the associated passports that are being forced on much of the world?
Not every company. I would never run my company with sociopath-ware and will proudly tell every candidate that we actually trust them, unlike FB, Google, Apple...

This will have the effect of weakening these paranoid, power-tripping companies, as high end employees flee to companies that respect them and their time.
Isn't global population already projected to stabilize in 100 years? The only way you could accelerate this is through aggressive policy measures to allow universal access to contraceptives, and investments to hasten development of manufacturing or other (which, in the interim, will raise emissions - but it would be unethical to disallow it) in the 3rd world. I'm for it but I don't expect it. The alternative is what China opted for which is likely not possible in developing countries.

There's a class conflict in the backdrop and I see this as the reason media is planting the idea that consumers ought to be content with less, not because of the environment. They still want and expect you to consume, but will spin lower quality of life (owing to unaffordability of housing and certain lifestyles) as a virtue. Realistically your carbon footprint +/- on an individual level stays in the same rough ballpark if you live in the West since a lot of it is due to city infrastructure, electricity, gas. It's just compounded by sheer population. In my view everyone ought be able to live and pursue a life of high quality; reducing quality of life is not the solution, it's a problem. The solution will lie in innovation, population stagnation, growing economy for developing nations, etc.
Being that Whistleblower not having legal and PR teams would have been rather stupid.
I thought that at first too but then wondered if the views are simply a cross section, where the final tire will have that part covered as a regular tire would with rubber.
How many people are happily buying those really cheap phones, though? I've known a few, who bought a couple per year(!) because the hardware kept failing, but it seems like most people are buying in the iPhone SE range and the younger kids end up getting a hand-me-down when their parents upgrade (and since an iPhone is 6+ years of service, that's plenty).
Tenure is arguably more relevant than ever to the degree that you believe a tenured professor has some special right as an employee to spout off controversially on Twitter or a blog without professional repercussions. I have some trouble making that argument though.

Certainly it's not true of professionals in general. While I get the idea behind tenure, what is the argument that a tenured CS professor has a particular right to express controversial political opinions that a senior engineer at a large technology company does not?

(Though there are other arguments such as said professor maybe should be able to work on some idea other people think is a dead end while it's probably reasonable that the engineer's manager can just tell them work on it on your own time if you want.)
I've taken all my other vaccines. But because I don't want to take one vaccine with unknown long term side effects for a disease that I've already had, I'm suddenly an antivaxxer? I disagree.
Easy: text log files, text config files, no systemd.
Perhaps you'd like to package your preprocessor into something to make Personal Home Pages...
Do tire manufacturers really have the desire to develop tires with less tear?
Also, Japan has a much larger aging population, so their cultural threshold for what's an "acceptable" suicide rate among the young could be much lower.
Aside from quickly sharing an understanding that people are being dismissive of whatever is being compared to beanies/tulips, it doesn’t convey to me that their opinion is based on knowing what they’re talking about regarding the thing being compared or the ancient bubble.
IIRC they have some interesting attributes. Lateral stiffness is incredibly high, but IIRC rolling resistance is higher and they are quite a bit heavier than standard tires. Seems like there might be some interesting capabilities to pump air one way or the other for aero purposes.
Completely guessing, but I wonder if they designed the "spoke" baffles to pinch in under the load and thus expel any stones that might fit between them, like a pebble squeezed between your two fingers and shooting out.
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I've seen that changing a bit recently with the AngelList Roll-up vehicle[0].

It's almost like crowdfunding for seed rounds, but still with $5k - $20k kinda checks. But it helps out a lot with the legal side of things, so you don't need an investment agreement with a dozen different investors.

[0]-https://www.angellist.com/ruv
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Actually it was Mozilla
Might wanna take a look at the following. I had an z3c that had a better supported android version from xda than a more recent xz2c because of their camera DRM and kernel bugs. Sony dev community has mostly dried up ...

https://forum.xda-developers.com/f/xperia-z5-compact-android...
Which is exactly the same fallacy as not using your seatbelt, instincts are simply less accurate.

While being overly cautious tends to have minimal penalties. Letting superstition reduce the quality of your life is still making an objectively poor choice.
Bridging the gap between our perspectives would take more time and effort than I'm willing to commit, but I do appreciate being able to converse like this without descending into a heated argument, so thanks for that.
Obviously we don't want to go the route China went (even without their bad policy, most people there we having fewer children). But as you say contraceptive availability and education coupled with opportunities.
Yes... Because the Panama, Paradise, and Pandora papers proves that.. give me a break
> Van Rossum says Julia is an interesting take on something Python-like but when you realise the indexing is one-based and ranges are inclusive instead of exclusive “you think nobody should ever try to code in Julia and in Python on the same day”.

That's a disappointingly superficial take, compared to the potential discussions that could be had on this topic, regarding the mindsets for the languages, multiple dispatch vs OO, etc. He's not wrong, off by one errors are very quick to creep in, but we didn't need Guido van Rossum to tell us that.
> this is common practice for any offline retailers

This would apply better if retailers hid competing items on the back of shelves or in locations that can only be unlocked by 3rd parties (eg: using Google search to find product Amazon won't show you).
I was a bully during my teenage years. Honestly, did it for the attention from peers, and especially the girls. It's sad to say, but girls definitely favor that mentality at that age range.
Except that dev has to opt-in which I'm pretty sure none of the major studios will do, supporting another platform for a very vocal population with a few users.
How does one discuss a complex topic with others without some degree of misinformation being present in the conversation?
Not really, unless you look at these devices like someone who thinks all cars are equal because they're all capable of taking you from A to B.

If you're spending that much time with a device, you would probably prefer the experience to be _nice_, not shoddy.
A similar problem I’ve ran into both in tech support and user studies is momentary blindness for the scope of search. For example on your Mac, you have Spotlight, Finder search, Google search, help menu search, and various application-specific or website-specific search fields. In my experience if two of those are on screen at the same time, it’s very easy to get confused about which one to use to get which type of result.

You don’t need to be a naive user to make this mistake. The problem is that your brain is thinking “search”, your eyes are looking for something that looks like a search input, and when you find one you click it and start typing.

I feel like that’s what’s going wrong in this example too; it’s not that people expect Amazon to bring them to any random webpage, it’s just that there are two similar looking text inputs very close together on the screen.
I'm not suggesting they aren't criminals. But there is a spectrum of criminality and I am suggesting they are considerably less so than the leaders of the fraud ring.

These ads are deliberately designed to prey on the desperate, unfortunate or the technically illiterate.

Some of them probably know exactly what they're doing and I have no sympathy, but some of them probably fall into the same category as people falling for Authorised Push Payment fraud.
Personally I believe in full sovereignty and I want that, but it can still exist inside economical dynamics. Also, Mercosul is popular enough, I've never heard about people wanting it to be over for economical reasons or borders (only due to ideological politics fights).
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Your first quote appears after the part about XRP, so you did keep reading after that. Seems like you just tacked on some commentary on XRP for no reason then.

Why are you posting your opinions on something you claim you never read?
In fairness HSBC calls from known numbers (granted, you may not recognise it the first time, but you can look it up then save it) and publishes numbers where you can call them [1]

[1] https://www.hsbc.co.uk/help/security-centre/report-a-problem...
> This is 20% larger than the true value, 3960 mi

Whoa, that is not insignificant error. What contributes to an error of this size?
I think their style is just to ask questions and get the guest to open up about whatever topic they're discussing, and they do push back if the guest says something outlandish. They usually just want the discussion "out there" for other's to make their own minds up.

> strongly conservative views about trans people, wokeness, abortion, etc.

Don't forget that outside of Twitter, Academia and Silicon Valley (i.e. most of the world), these are not "conservative" views but pretty mainstream.

(I'll caveat that with abortion that one is probably too big a topic to discuss here.)
Former automotive engineer chiming in. "Tweels" have been around a long time, but have always failed in terms of "NVH" (noise, vibration, harshness). Michelin is claiming that this generation of tweels are appropriate for passenger cars, which means that they think they've solved the NVH problem.

They seem to be marketing these alongside EVs, I wonder if they're only really intended for lighter, compact-style cars. (Edit: I'm talking about EVs like the BMW i3, which are on average about 1000 lbs lighter than the cars most Americans drive, ie, the CUV/SUV form factor.)
Apple is capturing 75% of profits, and sees the stores as instrumental to that. Every other company seems to see retail as an additional cost.

Apple started with kiosks inside of Best Buy, too, and it took many years before their stores reached the level of ubiquity they have today. Any competitor trying to make the same level of investment would lead to Apple's share of profits inching closer to 100%, as their competitors would be spending a ton on retail buildouts.

Apple makes more per square foot of retail than anyone else[0]. It's not even really close. Each of the other companies you've mentioned has opened stores, albeit not on the same scale. None of them have seen anything like similar results, so why would they keep expanding to match scale?

Apple Stores are valuable because Apple products are valuable. Apple products are valuable in part because Apple Stores are valuable. It's a virtuous circle that doesn't work for any of their competitors, at least not any so far.

0. https://news.retailsphere.com/how-apple-became-the-worlds-hi...
On one hand, I'm always suspicious of businesses closing and citing outside factors, so I wonder if these were less profitable even without the thefts. But let's assume good faith.

Why, oh why, is this such a problem in SF and Oregon? Are police and the city really not pursuing charges against most of these thieves?

This seems like a failed opportunity for Walgreens to pilot some kind of "deposit" like gas pumps do. Walk into the Walgreens and run your card with a $75 deposit, or sign in with an ID, etc.

It shouldn't be politically partisan to say that widespread theft (much less theft for profit) is a bad thing for a community.
For my specific use case, there's probably no device that could be an introducer.

It's all PCs, none of them online 24/7.

Besides, setting all that up requires way more technical knowledge than most people have. Sure, I could do it I guess, but explaining Resilio configuration to complete non-techies is hard enough.
I always hear this about allergies and I vehemently disagree. I grew up on a rural acreage a half mile from my grandfathers farm. Between home and the farm I was constantly exposed to all the allergens someone can be exposed to - horses, cows, cats, dogs, pollen, you name it, I spent a bunch of time with it starting from birth. I was and still am allergic to all of it.
The cards are pretty small so I doubt there's enough space for an m.2. I would guess proprietary
Yes, absolutely true. The idea is that `ksh` is good enough, and the extra features of bash are extraneous or unnecessary, making it an add-on rather than a core feature.

It's an interesting idea, and while I feel bash is absolutely 'good enough' to be part of the base system, I wouldn't want zsh or fish part of my base system - so it's then a matter of opinion whose shell is bloat and whose is essential. So I respect their decision to not include bash in the base image - it's meant to be uncompromisingly lean and simple.
Population will stabilized. But the question is how it will be stabilized. We could do it in a controlled way or through environmental collapse, war, pandemic...
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Apple has lock-in to a much stronger extent. There is very little lock-in between Android phones; you can easily switch brands.

And the point about iMessage and the other iWhatevers is important. Apple intentionally avoided interoperability. This goes beyond lock-in to contagion. I know people who didn't really want to get their young kids iPhones, because they weren't really old enough to be responsible for something so expensive. But they felt they had to do it anyhow because of the lack of interoperability. So they ended up buying multiple kid iPhones as the phones were lost, smashed, etc. I get that's not very expensive for the kind of people who hang out on HN, but it's real money to most.
"Don't mind this everyone, watch five people who paid a ridiculous amount of money blast off into low earth orbit for all of 5 seconds just to come right back down. Publicity stunt? Why never! Hey look here's William Shatner, something something space give me your money" - Bezos
Syncthing is one of the biggest reasons why I use Android today.

That sounds strange, but when you have old spare phones, they're very useful for this. Even for the daily driver phone that I use, it's so good at keeping files in sync between my other PCs.
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This in fact sounds quite exaggerated. I've had nothing like this experience with the Pixel 4a. Battery life has been exceptional, UI works fine, Play Services work with about 90% of the apps I tried. Google Camera worked also with Play Services so you don't have to use Open Camera.
I'm also not sure extreme cases form a good argument anyway. Tenure isn't a blanket "Get out of jail free" card no matter what the behavior or the offense.
If you’ll permit the analogy, the headline makes it sound like that they installed a fireproof safe and the safe immediately caught fire. Stupid Facebook!

Except it’s more like they installed a fireproof safe and hours later the fire alarm went off.

These too things are quite different :)
What technology finally brought this idea to market? I'm impressed and happy that it exists, but it seems like this should have been around years ago.