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> Hopefully, not all Chinese engineers think that...

:) The main point of divergence between "Western Capitalism" and "Socialism with Chinese characteristics" isn't whether it's ok to accumulate capital, but who controls it :) I think both agree that capital is a great idea for building strong nations.

> Not according to much of the history of math. Mathematics was borne of practical needs, and it has been extremely useful in science and engineering. (Sure, you can think of the number 2, say, as an abstract concept, but to most people it is a very concrete thing - as is the definite integral, etc.)

I agree, and... that's kind of my point. I intended to say modern mathematics is a subject that invents abstract concepts... Historically numbers were invented to solve a practical need, and then some hobbyists came and had too much fun with it, ending up with funny things like Peano and ZFC. I've seen too many people trained in mathematics that forgot the social-historical context came first, and jump straight to the newly invented axiomatic systems to explain things as basic as 1+1=2, which to me doesn't fit well with the "ultimate get-to-the-bottom-of-things" description.

I mean, to cite a specific example, while the exercise is probably entertaining to some, anyone seriously believing 2+2=4 requires thousands of lines of "proof" is probably not very good at getting to the bottom of things in a general sense. (ref: http://us.metamath.org/mpegif/mmset.html#trivia )
Well, it was nice while it lasted... Portugal's D7 visa process was already a ~6 month waiting time, this recent influx of people since late '21 is pricing out so many as the Visa process is usually a large hurdle.

It's still possible, of course, but honestly now I'm on the fence given who is coming over. At least most are sticking to Lisbon, and Porto, there are still lots of small cities not ready to turn itself into the typical tourist trap(s) quite yet.
Proprietary connectors are about as far from innovation as you can possibly get, unless you count patent moats and corporate grift as part of innovating.
Doesn't work for washingtonpost.com, "disabled" for the Economist.

WTF, legal problems?
> Credit cards are pretty meh for people that accept them. A % of your money disappears.

> There was this big push in retail a few years ago to get customers to stop using credit cards.

Really, says what retailers? EDIT: saw your note below about MCX. Noted.

- Your revenues go up because people are spending money they may or may not have in the future

- You don't lose out on a sale because someone is a 5c, 12c, 18c, etc. short

- You don't have to deal with physical cash (armored transportation to banks, miscounting, theft, etc.)

I personally think CC fees are egregious, but pretending they add little to no value to the extent that they aren't useful for the merchant is pretty myopic.
> Since I have switched to quality Thunderbolt Docks, I haven't had any issues.

Do you have a list of quality docks? Or how you determine what a quality dock is?
Well multiply that by 3x if there were no interconnectedness.
Yet another example of 'One Rule for Me and another For Thee'...

I (sort of) get the carve out for cargo only flights but an exemption for private business jets??? WTF!
I think it's this one

https://patents.google.com/patent/US8423535B2/en

but they have numerous related patents.
As an American, it's strange to see people applaud such overreaching regulation that will stifle innovation. This really underscores and makes me appreciate the differing regulatory philosophies between the EU and the US.
> pretend that any misuse was entirely separate to you is at best naive.

No, it is naive to pretend facial recognition is worth anything when creating tools to defeat it is a mere academic exercise in reading papers and implementing algorithms described in those.

Don't shoot the messenger.
It is a problem for businesses though. If they were going to go after anyone, it would be a business violating the EULA. Same problem with running macOS on Windows.
That wasn't the parent's argument. But, incredibly enough, there really is a shortage in microchips that has lead, among other problems, to shutdown of whole production lines for cars.

It doesn't necessarily matter to have local fabs: at least in the current situation, the worldwide chip production is still a mostly free market with products being sold to the highest bidder independent of location (as long as it's not Russia). But the confidence of this state continuing is certainly lower than it was a few years ago.
I've wondered how heavy construction equipment would work. Bulldozers trailing thick power cables seems... problematic. Yes, I'm aware of huge draglines connected to power sources with cables, but they aren't very mobile and you don't need to worry about other equipment cutting the line. Don't think batteries would do, either. So, ICE with compressed oxygen?
> Should McDonald's be banned?

Yes. I believe it should.

Regarding the deep fakes being good, I meant societal good. Not just fun tacky things that some people have a good time with. What social value does it bring to the world? We can do everything we need to without deep fakes. It has no value to the world.
Currently Microsoft only licenses Windows for ARM to device makers

Apple is a device maker. I wonder if Apple could buy a license from Microsoft.

I'd like to see either Apple or Microsoft officially support Windows on the M-series machines. Not because I give fig one about Windows. But I'd like to see the chaos that follows.

The operating systems industry could use a bit of a shake up.
Religion claims that certain things are true when they contradict observable reality. There's no fundamental difference between claimed gods and deepfaked ones.
Its the same for Ukrainians since EU big powers want the end of war because of economies even if it means Ukraine giving away their territories. You could argue without globalism and a lot of trade that pressure wouldn't exist.
I hate to say it, but if the product/service name immediately evokes a "how do I pronounce this" feel, and actually has an entry in the FAQ about it, its facing an uphill battle with mass adoption.
I would imagine the market for digital forensics and appraisal services, will be a growth market for a long time to come.
Protecting your password db with a physical key sounds pretty stupid. I was always wary of 2FA for exactly this reason. It's something that you can lose or damage. Actually, it's pretty common to kill your most used 2nd factor, your mobile.

The solution here is pretty simple: learn 2-3 strong passwords. Definitely learn the strong password for your password manager and a primary email account, that you can usually use to reset the password to all the other accounts anyway. And don't use 2FA for those. I only ever use 2FA if it is enforced by a service. The real danger of not using 2FA is in your password being stolen. (Using strong passwords protect against brute forcing them.)

Also, about the hypotheticals: offline IDs (like passport and ID card) should be relatively easy to get hold of and once you have those you can have your bank account back. You obviously don't need to know your bank account numbers (that's not a password) and you can't fake your mother's name when you submit your data to a bank (because that's part of your ID information and it's almost certainly in your ID document anyway). Otherwise yes, use a random string whenever stupid sites ask for 'password reminders' or security questions.

EDIT: fix typo.
How does it compare to Sandstorm, yunohost, and Cloudron?
I've yet to hear a person use that term who couldn't be described in that manner. When considering the full breadth of modern Western thought, please describe for me how the people who use that language don't fall on the extreme end of the political spectrum. I never used the word "militant." I used the word extremist. The term fits.

Yes, people generally have a strong reaction when talking about the sort of low-quality human being that Trump proved to be. That's not a "derangement syndrome." That's called having a sense of humanity and self-awareness.
Can I embed a JPEG XL in a PDF yet? That's what keeps me on jp2k
I think a better way to describe Emacs buffers is: Emacs has a structure called buffer that logically contains a string and various fields useful for use in a text editor (e.g. to mark positions in the string) and many, many functions working on such a struct that keep the additional fields in sync with the string content (e.g. moving marked positions when characters are inserted) and are geared towards using that structure in a text editor.

(the ‘keep in sync’ part is the reason the additional fields are part of the buffer. Also, the actual implementation may use a gap buffer, rope, or whatever for the string, but that is an implementation detail)

In other words: the Emacs buffer, together with those functions, implements the backend of a text editor. Front-ends could be programming languages calling those functions or UIs that call those functions in response to user key presses, and may show buffer contents on the screen. The standard emacs UI is a mix of the two: a lisp that can call those functions and a binding of key presses to functions (either built-in ones or ones defined in that lisp) to call.
Wow, that's just mindblowing to me. Do they also point at the sun and ask if it a god in a chariot of fire? Clearly asked in jest, but that's just how strange hearing about people not having the fortune of seeing lightning on a regular basis. (I'm clearly a fan of lightning, and have a collection of photos I've captured as a hobby)
I'm a big fan of all lower case phrases as passwords now for this reason. Something like "this is my password there are many like it but this one is mine my password is my best friend it is my life I must master it as I must master my life". Very easy to remember. Very easy to type. Very hard to crack. Cheers.
Yes it doesn't revolve around America vs Russia

You have to consider the EU vs Russia.

It's not in EU's or Germany's intrest to keep trading with Russia
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> It's for your protection.

I feel like this kind of reasoning have been used previously to take away freedom.. I'm all for encryption, but I'm not for using force. Give me plaintext HTTP and websafe colors, or give me death!
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> Chats are encrypted.

Not end to end. Let's not sell SSL connections as encryption please.
Why the false dichotomy? Does political freedom automatically contradict with economic prosperity for some reason now? Born and raised in China, I fail to see how the last 10 years of erosion in freedom has yielded any better results economically.

Please don’t buy the government propaganda that legitimizes everything from stupid to evil as a price that has to be paid to raise people out of poverty.
But even maximalists care to be able to use bitcoin to buy goods and services (eg be able to spend it). Since other currencies are also capable of being exchanged for good and services then the exchange rate to other currencies determines how much goods btc can buy (or there will be an arbitrage opportunity).
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> That is a fairly weak argument. Is there any reason why you consider the status quo to be the only way for software engineers to earn money? Is there really "nothing to gain" from software, unless we rent-seek per-user license fee?

You act like I'm trying to convince you. I'm just asking.

Services come to mind. But as I said, even a company you put here as an example of that model provides paid, licensed software. Support is another one. But software isn't equal software. Do you think software running on medical devices should be free and open source? Should the operator of a medical device have a freedom to download a fork from github, compile and run on a device? An airline running a fork of an ECU software?

> Even if that were true, I'd gladly trade software engineering salaries for getting rid of proprietary software. It might just be the case that software engineers are overpaid, and the money comes from mistreatment of users.

Okay, we are all rushing to provide you with the free software you demand because of your "freedom". What about the "freedom" of all the software people to make a living? At the end of the day if they have paid customers who see the value in their software-they voted with their wallet-why does it bother you?

> Maybe my friend. Maybe my friend's friend. Maybe nobody. Maybe we all donated to the HammerSoft inc., it doesn't matter. What matters is we have the software and we have freedom to use it in any way we wish.

But with a hammer, if you and your friend want to use a hammer at the same time, you have to have two hammers.

If both of you have only one hammer, only one of you can use it at a time.

I get that you can borrow the hammer to your fiend without paying a license fee. But when you borrow your hammer, you can't use it.
Great questions --

> First, exactly what is the mechanism by which the user key is rotated? Does that require a transaction to be added to the blockchain whenever the note is transferred from one owner to another? Does the new key need to be kept on a paper wallet or separate device?

Yes, for re-keying you need to carry out an on-chain action. The new key is stored on the note. I could imagine scenarios where people don't re-key a note every time, e.g. they expect to spend it in a short time period.

> Also, when your website says that the decryption key is released when the note is cut—exactly how does that work? Does it require an interaction with your servers? And what is the mechanic by which expiration is enforced?

Exactly, our servers are required here. The expiration is baked into the multisig on Bitcoin.

> And finally, your say that there is no requirement to trust your company. But you somehow have access to the encryption key yourselves. As far as anyone knows, you also kept a record of the encrypted multisig key before you distributed each note.

> Why should anyone trust that you are not keeping copies of all the information needed to access the bitcoin stored on the note? Can you step through how exactly you are blocked from accessing the bitcoin yourselves?

This is good to highlight -- we could be lying and we could keep the encrypted private keys (again, for a clear statement here regarding custodianship: we don't). But in the case of the multisig the encrypted key only ever allows for access to the funds in conjunction with the user key. There is no scenario where it can claim funds alone.
The comment I replied to seemed to think coding was strictly not possible on the platform, so I listed some options for local coding. Honestly I think if someone was serious about using an iPad to develop I would use a remote environment like Github Codespaces or http://vscode.dev/ but others had already covered those options.

I agree that the current solutions aren’t great, thus the second part of my comment wishing for a real on-device dev sandbox which would solve many of those issues.
Would love to be able to find a new car to buy at a reasonable price.
It's even funnier that. Even your charger have 15v. The dock something failed the handshake and require you to unplug and plug again to trigger the 15v. I think the switch is just not spec compliant. That shouldn't happen on a device that implement the spec properly.
> I find it much more likely that we would learn new physics by giving 10-year grants to 1000 young physicist of revolutionary spirit, and let them use the tools they could build themselves, than by handing that money to the old guard which has produced nothing of significance for the last two generations.

What is interesting, is that a lot of the fundamental physics theories were discovered by amateurs. Einstein was a patent clerk, for example.

Maybe we should work on democratizing data collection, and making more raw data available for people to work with. With the advent of cloud computing and on demand computing, maybe your hobby group could code up a an analysis and run it on AWS for a few hundred dollars and discover some new theory.
Possibly. But start of 2000 when AMD and Infineon in Dresden where in vogue is also more than a decade ago.
Also reminds me of this Paul Graham tweet:

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1231699385525903360
Java solves this with map as instance function (transfering the function inside the box). And there are several extraction functions (See Optional for an example).
I agree. I don't think this in particular will land us in "land of no trust." I think it, and innovations like it, move us clearly towards that land though.

The advent of widespread photo/video evidence was a big help for people trying to interpret was real and what wasn't. Then photography was knocked out of service by e.g. Photoshop (generally "easy photo manipulation"). Now video is getting knocked out of service as well. So, yes, it removes a useful tool in interpreting the world's evidence, and it's not clear what will replace that tool (if anything).

To be clear, the "no such thing as trust" was specifically a response to GP's assertion that people will "have to unlearn that seeing is believing." Okay, fine, but then what can you believe if you not even what you see? Again this specific tech doesn't get us all the way there, but it gets us closer.
Most of the US pays at most half of what a handful of (mainly) California and New York companies do.
The owl meme is an exaggeration of the truth which typically looks like these examples. The frustration too is an exaggeration. I think the meme is very relevant, although, I'll grant you, a bit trite.
This reminds me of the time I worked for a disaster recovery company in their backup provider division. You could choose to encrypt all of your data end-to-end, but doing so meant you had to be responsible with the encryption keys; we could not bail you out if you lost them. Unsurprisingly clients were a lot less interested in that option once we had this conversation
I have worked in pharma drug development and manufacturing in the past (and am again as of a month ago) and I would say: "yes... it is moreorless true that the US is subsidizing the cost of pharmaceuticals in other markets."

At one place I worked, our general manager literally said, in a meeting, that if too much Canadian product crossed over into the US market, the company would stop selling to Canada. US prices for our drugs were higher than every other country in world, often times by 3x or more. Almost every other country in the world, besides the US, negotiates price as part of the drug approval process.

It is insane that the US continues with the status quo.
Serverless is from the notion that you are not concerned with the server. I.e., that your product/ infrastructure inventory is... Serverless.
You can move to Portugal on a D7 visa with no more than €10k/year in passive, pension, or remote income for a single person. For a family of four, it’s closer to €20k/year. More income = improved housing quality and location, of course. Private health insurance (a visa requirement) for a year for a family of four was quoted to me at ~$1200. For the entire year. For comparison, I spend ~$18k/year for premiums and deductibles with an employer provided health plan. After five years, you can apply for citizenship and have free movement to all of Europe.

Social Security income recipients, in many cases, meet that bar. Portugal also has a treaty with the US where earned income in Portugal can count towards your US social security earning record.
Those of us who have forgotten how Walmart decimated middle America are doomed to repeat it.

It's a good thing that people will receive drugs at low prices, but most drug companies have programs to deliver them for low prices anyway. When those local pharmacies die, then large companies will step in and jack up the costs anyway. And if you don't believe that Cuban would sell that company, then you haven't paid attention to his history. The man is many things, but altruistic isn't one of them.
Or it's the bullwhip effect in action in this part of the supply chain
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I apparently exist in a parallel universe: never received any. My partner does sometimes, it's really befuddling why anyone would do that. I suppose they can't dictate messages.
I don’t think I’ve ever had a problem with laptop USB-C chargers. It may happen with other laptops but it’s hard to estimate how big of a problem it is.
Beijing's interest in Taiwan is not emotional. It's as realist as it gets.

During the Opium Wars, foreign invaders occupied many of the mainland's ocean ports.

Taiwan, as part of the First Island Chain, represents a critical strategic asset for those wishing to control mainland China.
With so many people working remotely, aren't all meetings basically phone calls now?
Actually there are more millenials than baby boomers. If we see significant wage increases and Real Estate decreases, the millenial generation might start to procreate to a reasonable extent.
I'm not sure they're targeted at California yuppies. There are people way worse off than me who not only have an iPhone, it's less than 3 years old. In some places it seems like you can even get looked down on for not having one. Seems like there's a lot of premium goods in that category.

iPhones kind of have to be, they wouldn't be very useful if they weren't mass market with the ecosystem that comes with that.

They might be very slightly more cost effective in the long run, but many modern Android devices promise multiple years of support, and of course, one can(As I'm currently doing, but should probably stop) use them beyond that period, or install aftermarket firmware on some of them.

Samsung seems to do security updates for about 4 years now, and OnePlus promises 3 major versions.
> A different way to think about compilers vs interpreters is that compilers are programs that read source code as input and generate an executable artifact as output while interpreters are programs that read source code as input and then, as a side effect, perform the instructions within the interpreter process.

I think that's a very fair definition, and one I agree with completely. But I also admitted that I was grossly oversimplifying, which I thought was necessary given the stated background of the person I was responding to. As you pointed out, the step from interpreter to transpiler is almost trivial. My goal was to attempt to describe the much less trivial portions of the work without getting too bogged down in details.

But you make good points about transpilers that I probably should have mentioned. Lots of very good, very valuable work has been done with languages that have not gone all the way to emitting CPU-specific op codes.
Apple will send you the new iPhone and a box for your old one if you're in the iPhone upgrade program. Similar story with other carrier trade-in programs.

Generally you can view your master secret on other installs of your password manager which is enough to get you bootstrapped back in on a new phone if you lose yours.
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The author is spot-on. Most of modern education is built on sheer myth and guesswork with little evidence on outcomes or importance. Why do American doctors need a year of calculus? It makes little sense. Advance Math is pure logic. While it is beautiful, it has limited application in real life.

Most of the pain behind decision making is discovering what the facts are. People hide the facts, twist the facts, or falsify facts. Without facts, advanced math is of little use. This is why we need experts who have seen a problem in their domain a thousand times. They can quickly spot "outliers" or fabrications.
It's interesting, that does seem to be what people are reporting... I wonder if that suggests that an IC redesign came before Mariko but after launch?