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Anyone care to emphasize why this opinion should be down voted so heavily ?

It's ok to now breed animals for parts; However if someone questions the ethics of that, it's bad? Ridiculous...
If you assume no growth, then you have a point. But plenty of them are growing like weeds.
this is a goldmine of nuggets from several immensely talented operators at hyper scaling startups
> The only thing comparable for the combo of carrying capacity, people seating, and towing of your average SUV is a full size van.

Not really? The most popular non-pickup in the US (The Rav4) only seats 4 and has a 1500 lb towing capacity. Most station wagons can do that (for example the V90 can tow between 1650 and 3700 lb). The Sienna, which is a minivan, can tow 3500 lbs and carry 8 people
I'm getting ready to leave my current gig, and have had Chesterton's fence in mind, but kind of in a reverse way -- I'm trying to do some cleanup of confusing code so that it doesn't become a Chesteron's fence after I'm gone. There's some complicated code that absolutely doesn't have to be that complex, and I know that if I don't take the time to refactor that before I head out, some poor developer's going to be stuck debugging an issue that would be much clearer (or may not even happen at all) if that code were gone.
> I can picture someone running an IPv6-only service on their phone to impress their friends. I know what their smile would look like because that was once my smile, too.

Wow. Do you know if there's any enthusiasts out there doing this? A phone would actually be a great hosting device for tinkerers. It's always on, always connected, and supports IPv6.
When I was in high school we video chatted with a heart surgeon while he was doing heart surgery. It was an insane, incredible thing to see.
With the market the way it's been going these days, I think I prefer getting fooled!
How about they all distribute their wealth directly? Or even better, don’t amass that much wealth but pay their workers better. They can still keep more than enough to live better than medieval kings.
What does the cheapness of power generation have anything to do with web3? If power was 1/10 the price, Proof of work blockchains would use 10X as much.

But there is web3 and blockchains without proof of work
congrats :) I've always suspected you could use iCloud Sharing as a great one-click vector but I never quite cracked it. I wonder if apple will ever kill the webarchive UXSS—it's been public for almost five or six years at this point and it violates so many assumptions LOL.
It is very interesting that you describe a system which points people to web content they would like and yet you do not intend to collect data on these visitors. Or did I misunderstand? Wouldn't you need to "get to know" your visitors / customers / users before you are able to show them sites they will like?

Also- I applaud you on the way you plan on serving ads. I do know that there are mechanism by which one can serve relevant ads with high likelihood of these being useful hence clicked and yet without the need to build user profiles.
I'm not a fan of it, because that basically means that Google asks the community to take up the bill for a service they sell at extraordinarily high price.

I know that's the case for lots of open-source software, but since we're coming to that topic, Google's open-source policy that produces software that is either tightly aligned with their own interest (Chrome) or barely usable without their proprietary ecosystem (Android) is shameful. Quite frankly, I would much rather see open-source communities work on linux phones, no matter how useless that may be.

Another reason I'm not a fan of it is that if Google is allowed to transfer their responsibility to a community, I'm willing to bet that their initial support duration will drop even more, and that any issue will be blamed on open-source maintainers, log4j-style.

> But if the environment is the reason, why not share the load?

Does Google share the profits? Is their Android business barely profitable to justify getting free labour?
I'll just reiterate what I said above, because I feel there's more to the problem at hand than "number of customer interactions":

> Not every problem is well suited to being broken up into single day chunks of work. Not every developer can maintain a healthy relationship to their work with that level of micromanagement. There is a huge amount of anecdotal evidence about this if you read any thread about developer burnout, or modern day scrum and agile. You mention the Agile Manifesto, but seem to forget that one of the primary points is "individuals and interactions over processes and tools".

I don't plan to continue the conversation at this point, because it's not productive.
Spam control isn't precisely an email problem, but a "system where arbitrary people not in my contact list can reach me" problem, same as telemarketers and SMS. Federated, open, lots of ways to describe it.

I agree that positively approving contacts is a great way to avoid the threat of spam, but that concept does have occasional downsides.
Tesla Full Self Driving Beta Cannot See Barricade in Road
Samsung seems to put a positive uptick at the end of their chart decreasing emoji.

Also noticed Google and Samsung's ice cube emojis are melting. And Samsung seems to generally be on the generous side of their containers. For example, their salt shaker emoji is mostly full as well as the beer emojis. One of the exceptions is their wine glass emoji.

I don't know why I looked into this at all.

Also neat is what date the calendar emojis show for each platform: https://emojipedia.org/calendar/

> The date shown is July 17. This date was first used by Apple as a reference to when iCal for Mac premiered at MacWorld Expo in 2002.
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I disagree. This brings us back to tribal times; kill the animal or starve, or in this case, kill the animal or die of a heart attack.
I like Joel Spolsky's take on software rewrites. He never mentions Chesterton but he's thinking along the same lines - old code is a collection of fixes to problems that real people had. You throw it out at your peril.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
> Our country's extremes are often as bad as a war-torn country.

I infer you've never spent time in a war-torn country.

My father told me that in Germany after the war, if you were smoking a cigarette, people would follow you until you threw the butt away. They'd fight over the butt, and the winner would combine the bits of tobacco left with other bits and sell the result.

Accurate figures are not known, but likely millions starved to death in Germany after the war.
Three-wheeled ‘dymaxion’ demonstrates on the Square (1934)
This is poetry.
Sounds like you should be a vegan! If this is unethical to you, why eat animals?
I used to work for a company in which employees in some departments would do 2 or 3 year "shifts" as managers. When your shift was up, you went back to a regular employee in the same department, and someone you had been managing took over. It was not uncommon to have a young manager, but not everyone was eligible, obviously.

I think it prevented the "us vs. them" mentality from creeping in, and I got the impression that most managers were eager to return to production work. There were dedicated managers higher up the ladder, of course.
> you are very much an outlier

Am I? That is interesting as I know others managing their T2 this way. Actually I know more people managing their diabetes this way than any other dietary strategy (short of the tried and true eat whatever in moderation and push insulin to counteract it approach which is basically just resigning yourself to the inevitability of the disease). It could just be that it’s a new enough strategy that it hasn’t received the widespread medical adoption yet in your area. My own doctor advised against me doing it until he saw what it did for me. Then, coincidentally that is right around when the ADA added the low carb dietary strategy to their approval list and now the medical office advises the approach as one they know can create some success. I’d say anyone using diet only to control T2 is an outlier, but using keto or low carb for those folks using diet alone…it’s likely moving to becoming the majority.

As to your second point, yes extreme to extreme, gotcha and thanks for the punctuation on the point too—but that has little to do with the fact that if your body cannot effectively process excess glucose you either need more insulin to handle it, some way to make your insulin more effective, or you need a strategy that creates less glucose that your body needs to handle. Whether you are 170lbs overweight or 1lb overweight and T2 if you limit carb intake (and protein to a degree) you can solve the excess glucose problem.

I’d also argue that considering just about every foodstuff in my local supermarket has some form of keto alternative marketed alongside it and for at least the last 4 years, we have moved away from extreme and into the realm of yet another mainstream eating strategy that has been adopted by the public.
I’ve owned a CNC machine shop for 40 years. As we’ve added automation, so have our competitors. All gains from automation have been competed away - there are no gains going to the owners of the capital, as we are all competing. Meanwhile, the real wages for the employees have been falling for those 40 years.

Instead, I’d argue that returns are going to IP holders.
Is cars per (any sized) factory meaningful metric for productivity?
Code without use case tests that are solid, fast, and cover all use cases. I am happy to work with any code written in any style as long as the tests are solid. Tests done well are basically a machine checkable specification of what the software is supposed to do. It allows you to jump in and make large changes without breaking anything. I am maintaining a very large system written in C++ and I routinely refactor and make system wide changes without fear. I haven’t had a bug in production for 5+ years. Imagine how productive you will be when you never have to spend time fixing urgent production bugs.
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McDonalds has had an app for years now. There are lots of discounts if you use it, and it's extremely convenient to get your order when you arrive. No lines.
It's still too high level. You can't make any meaningful decisions based on it.

For example, and we hear similar all the time, "...X jobs were created in the quarter and the unemployment rate fell to Y..."

But

1) What were those X jobs? Min wage (or less)? Or high paying?

2) Where were these jobs? Min wage in CA or NJ, or min wage where costs are less.

The quantity (i.e., direction) doesn't tell enough, we need quality - at least - as well.

Politicians love it as a metric because no one asks "what type of jobs? How well do they pay?" And that alone makes it suspect.
Just watched a great video on this topic.

https://youtu.be/0iz9PJbs5rE
Funny you mention the outlets. They're actually safer "upside down" because if they get loose and something falls on top, it'll just hit the ground pin instead of possibly creating a circuit across the hot and neutral.
I'm sure that, was such a law allowed to pass, lawmakers and prosecutors would magically find a way to express their dissatisfaction if Google was trying to skirt the law in such a crude way.

My bet would be on Google successfully lobbying to kill the bill in the first place, or to cripple it and make it irrelevant (for instance with a long grace period that always gets extended).
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Because they aren't questioning the ethics of this, they're stating their opinion on it without giving any reasoning why they feel that way.
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If you want to run a phone effectively forever, I am afraid that you need to turn to the free software community, and give up a lot in terms of app compatibility and the many other benefits of living within a mainstream ecosystem. Going the Free Software route is not easy in my experience.

The good news is, one of the great benefits of Pixel phones has always been that the boot loader is unlocked. So, realistically, you can run your phone as long as you want. There are many Free options to keep that going, if that is truly what you value.
I don't know about web3, but somehow github is quite similar to what we had in the olden days; just search for 'awesome any-topic' in github search, and you will get a curated list of interesting links on nearly any-topic. Also github pages lets you do your own homepage in a git repository, so it's a bit like geocities ;-) I mean our benevolent owners at microsoft give us a free space for self expression, which isn't a facebook/google style walled garden and targeted add pusher, or medium like subscription extractor. It's even better than geocities, they don't put up any adds at all!

You even have the 'The definitive list of lists (of lists)' https://github.com/jnv/lists - looks like the same old culture that moved over to a new home in the sun. (now this spaceship is very fragile, and might disappear upon any minor change of the EULA on github, matters as usual ;-)
This is why I am building a fun mobile browser: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/wapps-fun-private-browsing/id1...

Would love anyones feedback!
I think you're mixing up Chesterton's fence with cargo culting.
> "virtue" signalling

Having opinions != virtue signalling. Some people do in fact believe the views they present in their art. And it's not like Neil Young has recently jumped on the bandwagon, he's been at it for 50+ years!
that chart shows the price of TVs as basically approaching free over time, but that doesn't include cable or internet, which in earlier times were not necessary to have a functioning TV
Gun violence statistics are a western scam to push gun confiscation. You think tourism countries like Nicaragua and Costa Rica are incentivized to report every gun crime?
> Similar to Google, I'd speculate that the majority of customers pay such small amounts, that it's more cost effective for Google and Facebook to not support them, than it is to support them.

That's probably how they reason about it but I think it's a cultural thing too (pure tech Co's have a bias towards automation for everything, and a reluctance to staff operations at all). Amazon for instance has many low value customers, yet has much better support across the board.

> I would also speculate, that if you were instead, say Pepsi-Co, you would have white-glove service from both tech giants.

Oh absolutely, that's no secret. I know account managers that had a single big customer at one of these companies. It's part of the sales org basically.
I stopped reading this about four paragraphs in and did a bunch of web searches to try to find the phenomenon it reminded me of.

Once I had successfully found it with my second search ([economics name for effect raises orchestra]) I came back and found Baumol in the very next subhead. Whoops. All a great read though!

In retrospect every year at the student newspaper when we ran the "here is how much tuition is going up and here is how much financial aid is going up" article we probably should have invited an administrator or professor to comment on Baumol's cost disease.
These days, I don’t know if it makes sense at all to get sold out to anyone. Why not IPO? It’s a free never ending river of money that you can dip again and again. With proper voting structure, you retain full control and never fear dilution. Additionally, no dividends ever which means no worries about returning investor money or any real ROI. Over time, get included in one of the ETF index and you are set to unimaginable market caps. Selling out is for the losers, IMO.
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> infix operator is a bad idea outside of math operations, in my opinion

What about string + string?
There is js-heavy pages in the independent web space as well. There are certainly some that wouldn't touch it with a 60 ft pole, but it's a very heterogenous group, and I wouldn't put it past someone to do it ironically, as an art project (like that random startup generator[1]). Which is really my point. The common denominator is independence, authenticity, community, not some particular aesthetic.

[1] http://tiffzhang.com/startup/
Depends. Some judges can be threaten. This had happened many times and quite obvious during 2020 riots in America and elections. Also, the keys to judicial "edicts" lie at the prosecutors. If you have low quality prosecutors or death-targeted prosecutors' family members, then judicial can't funxtion properly. Look up how Scott Peterson got convicted purely on circumstancial proof including "he doesn't act the way we expected him to". I do expect assassinations of judges will be more common in decades to come. It is important congress to ensure judges have good statistic of being punished if misconduct.
The article is good, but the comparison to cars might not be exactly apt.

You might ask why can J.K.Rowling afford a maid and a nanny but not a Falcon X rocket today. Perhaps her great grand children will.
You're mixing up personal jurisdiction with legislative jurisdiction. There is a body of customary international law that concerns the appropriate scope for extraterritorial legislative jurisdiction. This is separate from personal jurisdiction, which is in some ways easier to establish. In the US, for example, you can get personal jurisdiction over any natural person, and sue them for any way they wronged you anywhere in the world, merely by serving them with process while they are physically present in the US. But if you sue someone in Alabama for something they did in France, the Alabama court is going to apply French law in most cases. (in most countries, there is also something like the common law doctrine of forum non conveniens that allows courts to dismiss cases that are better heard by a court elsewhere)

And it's simply not the case that foreign judgments are generally unenforceable. See the discussion here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enforcement_of_foreign_judgmen... . No treaty is necessary, though it certainly helps the person seeking enforcement if there is one.
I really think this list is too low level. What matters a lot more is how the data structures and architecture is designed. I can easily imagine a nightmare of a system that follows all the rules in the list. And I have worked on great solid maintainable code that didn’t follow that list at all. Also, semantic versioning doesn’t work. Developers typically have no clue whether a small change might make an update incompatible. Fixing a bug might make your code incompatible without you knowing it for example (since software using your code has fixes to fix your bug).
The Nixon bit isn't well known, but thanks for the reference. I've never heard the rest. Is there a source?

It's easy to attribute political reasons to whatever Congress does, because Congress is filled with politicians. But members have other motives too, and private businesses, despite the hype, have plenty of corrupt and political motives - throwing contracts to allies and friends, undermining enemies, etc. - though they are far less transparent and are unchecked by the public or other institutions.
> Anyone care to emphasize why this opinion should be down voted so heavily

Because they don’t say anything. They announced their belief and wandered off. Post could do with a “because” and another sentence or two

Can’t speak for everyone ofc but that was my reasoning. Nothing to do with the opinion my side, standard downvote behaviour for contentless comments
> wouldn't Microsoft ask customs enforcement to block them until the manufacturer stopped pirating

Well, they would if they knew. I have purchased a variety of random computing hardware from Chinese suppliers and despite the product pages claiming they had no on-board OS installed, they came with cracked versions of Windows. They do it because customers want an OS but don't want to shell out for a license. It costs them nothing to pirate software (especially when they lie about it) and getting caught and actually blocked is very hard. This isn't like them intercepting a shipment of counterfeit purses where you can clearly tell by looking at the item. You'd have to boot the computers and then verify that they have an OS installed and then that it's properly licensed, which is well out of reach for a random customs officer.

> why would Windows Ultimate indicate piracy?

It's a very expensive license and, if you have any experience pirating Windows (I cough don't) that's usually what you find since if you're going to steal something, why steal the shittier, less featurefull version?
Good free-market solution is to price-in the cost of manufacturing emissions and eventual disposal of the hardware into the sticker price of the device by e.g. a pollution tax assessed by a regulatory agency on a per-item basis.

Manufacturers will then be incentivized to make and support lasting hardware as consumers get averse to paying the pollution tax repeatedly. (And, they will try to make more sustainable hardware that gets assessed less tax in the first place).
I used an X60 for years and loved it. I've since tried to use it again and I've evidently been spoiled by other machines:

- it--and its slight upgrade the X61--run hot, and nothing you do (shielding, thermal paste) really helps enough.

- they guzzle power, perf per watt is very bad, and Atoms are faster.

- no AES accel :(

Strongly recommend going for the full-fat X220. The only dealbreaker there IMO is no 4k@60fps external monitor support.
Just because you attempted, doesn't mean you succeeded.
The chapters describing the simplification performed by Maxima requires some basic calculus understanding, such as differentiation and integration. But the focus is on the programming techniques, not on math, so it doesn't get too deep. It's more important to think logically, rather than having a deep or broad mathematical background.
> Before we annoy any islanders, Jersey is not actually part of the UK.

Jersey isn't part of the UK, but it's not exactly an independent country either.

If international diplomacy and constitutional law interests you, it's quite interesting.

Jersey is an autonomous, self governing Bailiwick and a Dependency of the Crown. It has an ISO country code and TLD, however the UK is responsible for representing the territory internationally in most cases, including at the UN. This is because the Crown delegates that responsibility to Her Majesty's Government. Jersey has no representation within the UK democracy itself and cannot sign international agreements independently, however it informally has relationships with lots of international bodies and other countries including the UK. Jersey has never been part of the EU and remains its own customs area. There are millions of other little warts and curious edge cases.

As someone from Jersey, I never quite know what to answer when someone asks what country I'm from.
Well, I'd say the existence of phh's ability to do this despite being in an environment that's unsupportive (or even hostile) is proof the model works. It would flourish with a regulatory bump keeping the manufacturers in check and unable to continue this poor support lifecycle.

This is about their profits. It's not about security, environmental responsibility, or the users. Regulatory authority exists to promote the interests of the people when the interests of the corporation's profits conflict with them.
Love ESBuild! Convert a relatively large project from webpack to it today, really easy to do & much faster build times now!
You can always find examples of code using good ideas badly. Following the SOLID principles are more likely to improve your code than not. Assuming you understand how to use it of course.
I did the same once right before switching teams. It feels good when you make a dent but you'll never feel done. Don't let great be the enemy of good