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> [current medical consensus says] "If you need to gain protection from covid, we recommend getting it via vaccine rather than illness." That doesn't apply in this scenario, since protection has (as it seems to me we see empirically here) already been attained.

Apologies if my edit in quotating you is misrepresenting what you're saying, but it's how I read it.

Okay.

If people have already been infected with COVID, is vaccination going to do them any good?

I think so. I'm not a doctor, nurse, anything. But I expect anyone who hasn't seen COVID for a year, it would help. Probably the same benefit as a booster that follows vaccination for people who [think they] have never been infected.

Vaccination has its own risks. I believe there is very slight risk from the injection itself.

But -- I just got booster dose, my third shot, this week. I had to go to a pharmacy a couple of blocks from my house. I walked. I had to cross a street, with the traffic signal, but there were a couple of cars. They didn't hit me. This time. Then I had to go inside the pharmacy talk to some people, wait about ten minutes. Everyone was wearing masks, but honestly it was the most contact I've had with a random mix of people all week...

If I'd needed to drive miles out of my way to get the vaccination, that's also nonzero risk.

And then... well, it seemed to hit me pretty hard, the vaccine, this time. I felt awful for two days. Then I was fine. But it seemed like a bigger reaction than previous doses. I think that's supposed to happen, actually.

Anyhow, I thought about it, and made my choice. I think it was the right way to go for me.

It's given me some things to think about, thanks.
Ooooh boy. Alright let’s go through these (IANAL, but I’ve studied some IP law, others can chime in if I fuck something up):

- For the first one, you’re going to need to define “modification”. If someone adds a single new function to the script, is that a modification? Can they now host the modified script? If not, what do you consider to be “modification”? If so, what if the new function is a no-op that was added to take advantage of the license? (Bear in mind that in cases like these, proving the infringing person’s intent is very difficult if not impossible)

- Regarding “no forks”: Mayyyybe this would work for some smart home projects? I wouldn’t touch anything with a license like this, too often my side projects become a thing I post on my website or use in a hobby thing that then gets intertwined with a work thing. You may say “fine, then stay away”, but if you want people to use your stuff, then it matters if people are scared of the license

- Regarding “ethics”: This just makes the code radioactive. JSLint is famously never used, even though it was written by the author of “JavaScript: The Good Parts” himself, because its license includes a “do no evil” clause. Does Doug Crockford think US Defense Contractors are evil? Will his opinion on them change in the future?

- big/small/indie developer clauses: Depending on what’s going on and how it’s defined, this could maybe work (someone who is a lawyer would need to say for sure). I know Unity, Unreal and GitKraken do a pretty good job with licensing terms that allow indies to check them about but then pay when their job makes money. But (with the exception of Unreal) they’re licensing you a product, you can’t see its source.

I honestly think if you’re a developer who doesn’t want their work exploited by corporations, do what the Janus team at meetEcho does: AGPL for everyone so no one can build on it without contributing back changes, and if you’re a corporation who wants to use it without the AGPL, prepare to cough up for a commercial license.
But the leakage rate is very very dependent on temperature. Store it somewhere cool and a 5 year lifetime might be extended to 500 years.

With the right tools you can read back the data and see how much degredation had occurred (even though all the data was readable). Using that info, you can have a good chance at extrapolating the time till the data becomes unreadable.
Those weren't "mistakes of the past". They did it on purpose. There is no pathway from educating regular people about ways to circumvent court orders to strengthening the rule of law. Yes, interesting from historical and legal perspectives and thinking about how to design enforcement mechanisms to resist these things, but we weren't talking about that, and Hacker News is not a law reform commission. I am specifically putting up resistance to talking about it in public. It undermines people's confidence in these systems, which are actually very strong, and the resulting reduced participation in the systems that make up the rule of law (e.g. this guy, who is already losing confidence in his local democracy, choosing not to use the courts thinking that his chances of success are slim, and giving up) frees the stage for people who wish to undermine it. I don't propose that this argument is relevant to very many other things besides the kind of abject disobedience you described.
I mostly fly unpowered, so engine weight is something I don't have as much experience with. Terminal velocity with 300 ft^2 of fabric above you, even if it isn't a functional wing, is pretty low; but yes, a collapse near the ground below recovery height and below reserve parachute height is a worst-case scenario. In general, flying below reserve height for any length of time isn't a great idea.
My understanding was that most GA accidents occur in the 50 to 350 flight hours of pilots. By this, perhaps the issue isn't of handpicking the best of the best, but more that they, by definition, survived the early filter.
The original commenter is not painting an accurate picture. For instance:

> Apple never lets you form a business relationship with your customer. You'll have to use sign in with Apple, throwaway emails, Apple payments, subscriptions, etc.

Sign In with Apple offers the user a choice whether to expose their email address to the application or whether to use a forwarding address.

Why? Well if you do what I do and register a different email address per application, you’ll quickly find that some applications either sell your data to spammers or get compromised and give it to the spammers for free. There’s nothing like registering for My Fitness Pal to track your progress and getting spam for Chinese casinos delivered to the email address you gave them and nobody else. And once they have your real email address, there’s no undoing that.

If Apple gives a forwarding address to those applications instead, when that email address starts to receive spam, the alias can be shut off to stop the spam to you, and even to everybody else who had their privacy compromised if it’s a widespread breach.

This is good for consumers, bad for spammers. If your users are given a choice between giving you their real email address and giving you a forwarding one, and they choose to keep their email address out of your hands, that’s not Apple being mean to developers, that’s your user’s privacy preference. Respect it.

Also, you don’t have to offer Sign In with Apple at all unless you also offer other social logins, like Facebook Login. Basically, if you’re going to centralise authentication with one of the giants, you have to offer Apple’s privacy-friendly option as well.

Apple payments? Nope, you don’t have to use them. Anything physical, you can use whatever you like. Many things digital, you can take payment outside the application using any system you like but have to use Apple within the application. Would it be better for developers if you could use whatever you like within the application? Sure! Is it the same thing as an unqualified “You must use Apple payments”? Not at all.

Subscriptions? Nope. Don’t have to use them at all under any circumstances. There’s loads of applications that are entirely free or have a one-time fee. You aren’t forced to use subscriptions at all.
I really appreciate this question and insights below. Keep the coming please!
In my country I made less then 25k a year with two masters degrees in STEM fields when I started. If you're a starting independent developer, you probably make less.

It's also not 'spending 100 dollars on their tools', it's spending $100 yearly to upload your app to the app store. You have to spend money on tools on top of that.

Truck drivers get their gas costs reimbursed. If they wouldn't, I'm sure that would complain about gas prices as well.
just loading external files requires some kind of web server, or access to the disk. That's why people like binary files for programs - they don't want to have to compile your code first just to run your app.
Has anyone tried this in BASIC on a TRS-80 Model 100? That's the machine I learned to code on as a kid and allegedly the last one Gates himself wrote the kernel for...
Because Google gives away their stuff for "free" it's difficult to make a monopoly claim against them.
> Microsoft really should have used this defense back in the 90s.

They did. They were pointing to MacOS and Sun Solaris and all of them as supposed competitors, even though they didn't run on the same hardware as Windows did and apps for Windows didn't run on them.

The court didn't buy it.
I wouldn't say unpopular, but it's hard to judge someone so severely for their behavior on a trade show 30+ years ago where none of us where present.
Yes. Cross account replication is the way to go for better protection.
Intersex people are 0.018% of the population using the precise definition (not the wishy-washy definition that has been debunked from your study). [1]

So a city of 1,000,000 people has merely 180 intersex people in it, the rest conform to their sex assigned at birth.

Seems pretty flimsy to claim a 99.99% match rate is wrong because of extreme outliers. It's like claiming the coronavirus PCR tests are worthless because of their (much higher) rate of false negatives/positives.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12476264/
That sounds like the old days, when game cartridges needed to have code that would cause a Sega or Nintendo trademark to appear. The courts did not provide trademark/copyright protection for access control codes.

From Sega v. Accolade - https://openjurist.org/977/f2d/1510

>We hold that when there is no other method of access to the computer that is known or readily available to rival cartridge manufacturers, the use of the initialization code by a rival does not violate the [Lanham Trademark] Act even though that use triggers a misleading trademark display.

I seem to remember a similar case for the Gameboy ROM that needed to contain an image of the Nintendo trademark to boot, but couldn't find a good online reference. Lexmark tried to pull a similar stunt by claiming the ROM code in their cartridge chips was executable code in a secret language, but courts again said it was an access control code first, and thus functional not creative.
I think I see what you're getting at [1].

I think that in this case the image is effective as a counter to the argument being presented in the campaign.

- It shows that there are other categories of people who have legitimate reasons to want privacy and not to trust the authority of their country.

- It does it in a way that would not require explanation to anyone familiar with Anne Frank (including lots of people from UK).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
> Plenty of people said they already had COVID, and they are still in the 10X more likely to die statistics.

People who have had Covid are at least as well-protected against serious illness as anyone who is vaccinated, and probably more so given the latest variants:

> During October 3–16, compared with hospitalization rates among unvaccinated persons without a previous COVID-19 diagnosis, hospitalization rates were 19.8-fold lower (95% CI = 18.2–21.4) among vaccinated persons without a previous COVID-19 diagnosis, 55.3-fold lower (95% CI = 27.3–83.3) among unvaccinated persons with a previous COVID-19 diagnosis, and 57.5-fold lower (95% CI = 29.2–85.8) among vaccinated persons with a previous COVID-19 diagnosis.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7104e1.htm
I wonder they also scan iris
"Just implement all of what Google tells you to, then you will prove you support the open web"

This is the root of the problem: Google isn't the open web, Google is the one closing it.

Also, Chrome's notification API is, in practice, that thing I have to shut off when people keep asking why porn ads are constantly popping up on their PC in the bottom right corner. Probably not a great model for others to follow.
Wasn't Internet Explorer free?
Yes, except you have to be a JavaScript dev to make apps with them. They are great tools, but not great for all apps and all developers. Hibiki is built as an easy to integrate alternative when you just want to get a tool built quickly, or if you aren't a JS expert.
What about not having any form of programming language, interpreter what not on your phone? Or the heavy censoring of available apps, that one might very well not agree with?
N=1 but this perfectly matches my experience. I stare at a computer all day, and my power is almost exactly enough so that the screen is just on the edge of blurriness. Almost like my eyes have adapted to that focal length. This has also remained pretty stable over 10 years since I never wear the glasses for close work (why bother when I can pretty much see it fine, and increase font size if needed for fine detail).

I wonder if the reason why it takes longer as you approach 0 diopters is because at that point the signal received by the brain is enough such that the brain can learn to "deconvolve" the image (blur adaption), removing any incentive for further axial shrinking.

Edit: actually going further I wonder if the stressor you mentioned is indeed actually ciliary accommodation. This is known to be very taxing (hence why people get eye strain from looking at computers for a long time), so it makes sense that the body would adapt to relieve this stressor by elongating the eyeball itself so that the screen can now sit at optical infinity.

It is also a relatively well-known result from large correlative studies that time spent outdoors decreases the chance for myopia. I read something about how it was total luminous flux of the bright outdoors that helped to prevent progression of myopia – just something to think about, especially given the recent trend of blue light blocking glasses. Who knows if those wavelengths might actually be needed in some subtle manner for optical development.

But note that because convergence and accommodation are linked, without any accommodation there might be a greater tendency for the eye to develop exophorias. I wonder if you look at the data you might see a high correlation between exophoria and myopia?
“It was essential to the maintenance of order and hierarchy that the colonies acknowledge the supreme authority of Parliament.”

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-men-who-lost-america-an...
Would you agree that it makes more sense though? I tend to agree with you, I _want_ to write 'mv src, dst', but the other way around has some strong supporting reasons:

- it's closer to the usual pseudo assembly "eax <- ebx"

- it's closer to the mathematical "A = B"

- on a more practical side, it's what was adopter by C standard library "memcpy(dst, src)"

Thinking about it, there are more reasons to favor 'mov dst, src'. I think the culprit (at least for me) is that I cannot "pronounce" it correctly in my head. I have to use some peripheral sentence such as "move in dst the contents of src" instead of the more natural (but backward from the reading perspective) "move src to dst"
Author here.

> Duplicity does NOT encrypt the names of your files.

I, personally, do not care, but you're right. For the purpose of this article I could even leave encryption off, though. "I don't trust the backup destination" wouldn't be part of my threat model here.
How about this one? https://awk.js.org/
If you buy a company shouldn't you be able to do what you want with it?
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Most SSO solutions don't verify device identity or state, so you're not ensuring that the connection is coming from a computer you trust running software you trust.
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> and Steam

I don't need to use Steam to play games on PC or OS X. I can get them from anywhere else.

Heck, Steam allowed me to activate my Humble Bundle keys on steam for free allowing games to be enabled on their platform when they are bypassed as the sourcing medium.

There is no way Steam can be compared to a monopolist like Apple.
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> whereas iOS is an embedded device.

In your opinion. For lots of people that is their main computing device and that is how they access a lot of services. iOS on iPad Pro is frequently advertised at replacing even laptop like use cases.

Even for people using laptops, it is hardly an "embedded" device as such, the same editing docs, crafting emails, editing photos is done on it as a complementary device.

> The “ask this app develop not to track me” seems to benefit and empower the user.

Yes, it does and it is good for the user to have control. But here is the deal, Apple has their own ad platform, in fact if memory serves me right, they used to have their Ads SDK in form of iAds as well which didn't do well so they scaled it back. The rules will help Apple the most in expanding their ad presence as personalised ads was where they struggled.
So some kind of efficiency principle at work? The universe does seem optimized in certain ways that make it mathematical.
No. The correct course of action is this: dismantle one monopoly, by forcing Apple to allow alternative appstores and whatever apps users want to run, them dismantle another monopoly, by, I don't know, splitting Chrome to a separate company from Google or something.
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Hold on, you can use your iOS apps that you paid for on Android now? And access iCloud? And use iMessage?

Oh wait, you mean give up all that stuff to 'switch to android'. To most people that like suggesting that they learn how to write with their left hand by cutting off their right hand; Not even close to tenable.
I thoroughly enjoy these discussions where someone wants to talk about a bat, a natural occurrence, and people immediately produce a man with a bat costume and start talking specifically about their construction, completely oblivious to the aforementioned bat.
Losing weight was never on the table then?
I strongly feel that the mystery of consciousness is somehow deeply tied into why we have things like QM and not classical physics.

If it was just classical physics, then you get yourself into the thinking that you can rewind time and all the "billiard balls" knock into each other the same way, which is why you order a soup and not a sandwich every single time on that day.

That eliminate free will. There is something about the uncertain nature of the universe at its fundamental levels that allows for consciousness to arise and actually does give us freedom to choose. Plugging in some parameters and letting the simulation run doesn't allow for this.

What is life if we are all truly just experiencing a "movie" and have no say in how it plays out? It's utterly meaningless and may as well not exist at all. And it raises very strange questions when we may not like the "movie" we are currently participating in. We have no ability to switch to another theatre?

What makes life "life" is consciousness and individual experiences.
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Brave does all of that and it it's Chromium underneath so the websites will always work.
i am -4 and lost my glasses; however, i still keep my -2 glasses.

on a sunny day, outdoor, the -2 glasses works just fine. not 99% eagle eye precision, but like 90% precision, overkill to see car plates and directions.

does the intensity of light from sun cut -2 from -4 requirement?
Finding submarines is likely to get easier
It's not satisfying that it would be considered free will if the outcome is based on the result of a probabilistic random number generator but perhaps that's what they mean... As for moral responsibility, essential no, it cannot exist again unless supernatural is involved for the same reasons outlined above, there is no "you" making a decision, just a process. As for whether you should feel guilty... well again I am not able to make that decision... Either I do or I don't and it is predetermined or random :) So there is really not much to debate I don't think.
> For reference, vim

Vim is an incredibly useful tool but I've seen frequent complaints about its codebase. Competitors with significantly higher code quality exist (ex Kakoune).

> > don't believe ... inevitably leads to

> It does. It literally does. Try writing your own operating system, or font parser, or graphics engine.

There are working examples of such and the code appears to be significantly simpler than the status quo. I'm far from an expert here but to the best of my understanding feature creep combined with maintaining backwards compatibility is to blame for a significant amount of current complexity.

Consider that if you rewrite a low level API with the benefit of hindsight, everything that uses that API has to be updated. Often multiple distinct APIs will be involved though, not just one. Look at the difficulty the Linux ecosystem has had gaining full support for Wayland, which necessitated the likes of PipeWire and a number of other new ways of doing things, and has been "nearly ready" for production for how many years now?
There’s No Such Thing as Clean Code
It would be better to call this negligent collection. After all, the data collection feature didn't make its way into the browser by accident. It was added on purpose and against users' will.
If this is such a grave concern it only shows how advanced U.S. technology is. If a plane that first flew 15 years ago is still a novelty to the point even it's wreck needs to be fished out of the sea to prevent copy-pasting, it means whole 20-30 years of lead time.
- Lightning Bolt

- Black Pus

- Arab on Radar

- Raspberry Bulbs
> Again, the AppStore restrictions are no different from any console in the last 40 years.

A sensible argument to shut that down too.

> You’re not paying for transactions, you’re paying a platform commission. Calling it a transaction fee is simply an attempt to make it sound like they’re being overcharged.

They are being overcharged. It's leveraging a monopoly over the users of the platform against the app developers who are customers of software distribution and payment services.
Steam doesn’t control your hardware though, you are entirely free to go to the game maker’s website and do business directly with them. Play store is very much in the same leage, but there is at least side loading.

And come on, iOS is not an embedded device, this joke of a defense has to die. These are very expensive general purpose handheld computers with processors having insane performance, not your smart fridge.

For all practical purposes, one who bought such a device should have control over what gets installed on it. Sideloading should be mandated by law. They could be free to put it behind any warning/setting so that your granny won’t install some scammy program, but it should be a right.
Interesting take, thanks for all the examples.

To make my statement more correct I should have distinguished between crimes that are discovered and those that are prosecuted. For example, I wouldn't have considered the murderous police to have been "caught" if they didn't face prosecution, but that is simply semantics.