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It would be great if the general population would switch to another messaging app (or better yet a protocol that multiple clients support). I get the sense that this is how WhatsApp is used in other countries. It feels like a real regression to be using SMS based messaging in 2022. Seems like iMessage succeeds only by sheer numbers and ignorance of the general population.
Where are we going with this line of thought Protecting minorities within a larger group of people is the ideal state according to thought leaders. In your world kicking out a black man of his home because property values are lowering for everyone else is acceptable. Sometimes the needs of the one outweigh the many
Same. Used android for eleven years and switched a year ago the iPhone.

You can feel the dedication and craftsmanship with the iPhone.
Ahhh I see what you did there. No, totally, it is either succumb to apples marketing or support Google ad monopoly.
I did try to give them the HTC windows phones that I had in reserve but there was a limit to their understanding...
Moto G line has models that are $169 new. You can get older used models for $60 and a line of service for $20 a month. I think people vastly overestimate how much money average people actually spend.
The reasons my kids have iPhones can be summed up as

1) I use iPhones so I get a new one every 2.5-3 years or so.

2) The phones last long enough (performance, battery life, OS support) that when I get a new one, my kids are perfectly happy to take over my old one.

Let’s face it, kids don’t choose phones their parents do. When you become a teenager these days you are probably on your second or third smartphone. At least if you got the first one at age 7-10 somewhere, you probably didn’t decide between Android and iPhone, your parents did. It doesn’t matter so much then whether it’s a status symbol or what color the text bubble is. You chose a platform long ago.
> Apple is aware of how their systems ostracize children, in their own peer groups, who can't afford to carry around luxury phones.

Tell me about it. Audi, BMW, Ferrari and Lamborghini have been ostracizing me, and so have all the gas stations around where I live! Not only that, but Microsoft, developers of pro software, movie theaters, restaurants, travel agents, lawyers and hookers! The nerve of them all to exclude me from their products and services simply because I can't afford them. It's very cruel and so arbitrary.
Apple is free to open the iMessage ecosystem if they'd like to allow Android to send encrypted messages to iPhones as well. The truth is that Apple isn't doing this to help customers identify unencrypted messages. They are doing this for the network effect.
I remember when Steve Jobs said it would be an open protocol.
A new unlocked iPhone 13 Mini device is $850 in Canada. I can buy an unlocked Android smartphone for under $80 that'll do what I need. Though I splurged and spent just under $200 on my last phone. Something that costs 4x as much as a decent mid-range model that will meet most people's needs is luxury.

Most people do not purchase phones and service plans the way I do (separately - I buy an unlocked device up-front then use it with my preferred carrier). So they probably don't think about it like that. It's just an extra $30 a month on their bill for the lease. That really starts to add up, though.
On Android:

Settings > Data and storage > Manage storage > Keep messages

then choose from the listed options
That seems unlikely, since Jones own bankruptcy filings show withdrawals from FSS in the high 8 figures.
> how so?

Three words: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
> So I guess you win Apple

You can still push back against the bubble elitism: Settings → Messages → iMessage Off. My bubble’s not turning blue until Android users can participate.
Voyager 1 uses 22 watts and 1970s technology to communicate from 21 light hours away.

Radio encoding has come a long way since then. In particular ft8/js8call uses an encoding that can communicate at over 20 db below the noise floor, allowing communications across the earth with a few watts which involves many 1000s of miles of atmosphere, bouncing (poorly) off the upper atmosphere and the ground many times.

If we launched one an hour at 5% of C (better than today, but much worse than the goals of the project) they would only have to communicate across hops of 3 light minutes, er about half that since 5% of C is the final velocity not the average. Considering voyagers success at 21 light hours and the improvements in encoding that sounds quite feasible.
Only reason its not encrypted is because Apple won't allow it to be.
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Effectivly, Saving 80-95% of the time, by skipping 80-95% of tests.

We started a few months ago, and have managed to get into a few production CI systems.
All our prospects and users are on holiday right now.
So we decided to repackage and open-source for local test running.
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One line change:
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You're hanging on to poor word choice, without making an honest effort to engage with the actual idea. I'd suggest removing the word "equally", and making an honest attempt at having a conversation.
Would you be willing to share your code/process? I am not able to use a regular flashcard software and this would be very helpful.
I'm struggling to believe Google will see this through beyond a tech demo. And who's the target audience? I mean, what would a unit's cost be? Looks like another cool tech Google won't be able to productize successfully.

Edit: I was super excited for Soli way back when, but so far haven't see any smart clothes they were imagining in the early days.
Here in HN it is frowned upon, but I do sometimes like to exagerate a point to show perspective, first.

Now that we can agree that law can not be followed 100% of time let's kill the comparison with genocide.
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I am yet to see a "free speech absolutist" defend anyone on the left (where's the outrage about Republican school districts banning books?). It just seems to be a convenient excuse for being friendly with fascists.
They have the iPhone SE which they explicitly market as a budget option.
The "say words, get X punishment" complaint is one of the purest forms of bad-faith hypocrisy I've seen become popular, across my whole life. The simple reason it is hypocritical is that the complaint is predicated at once on the two mutually exclusive ideas that words are critically important (since "X" is frequently some kind of censorship, or at least a discouragement) and also that words are meaningless and have no real effects.
The full quote is

> This will only send the signal to millions of people, that the establishment wants to shut Alex down for speaking the truth.

I don't think OP is arguing Alex Jones spoke any truths per say, he's arguing that's how it'll be interpreted by his supporters.
Yep, Moonlight Sonata (mov. 3) no less. Talk about over-fitting!
In this particular venue, damages were determined by the jury (which is not the case in all states).

Relevant to that process, Jones took the stand in his own defense, to show remorse and indicate why the jury should find for a lower penalty, and... Did the opposite of that. He lost his temper and managed to strongly indicate he had learned nothing and showed no remorse. Juries tend to take a particularly dim view of such behavior (often even dimmer than a judge, which is one of the reasons so many states don't involve the jury in the process of assigning penalty).

Interestingly enough, the judge also has the authority to assign penalty here (Jones' behavior on the stand and in court was egregious) and has not done so yet. Her say comes soon.
> Prior to 1710 there was no copyright, yet culture, art and civilization flourished. People were entertained, and entertainment products were certainly produced.

People, if they were entertained at all, were mostly self-entertained back then - they played instruments and such. There was hardly if any passive content consumption back then. Before 1710 there were no novels (novels as literary form weren't invented yet), obviously no movies, video games or music recordings. There was practically nothing to protect, apart from musical scores or theatre plays.
I don’t mind the Android OS but other than one of the Google models I had the handsets were crappy, with pocket dialling or freezing on the numeric pad to make a call, sometimes full of telco adware. I could only handle 3 years or so of it before switching back to iphone.
I'm an Android lifer and Apple's refusal to open iMessage is why I will not own an iPhone. That said, I'd willingly pay $5-10/mth for iMessage on Android. Apple has a number of services on Android now (including Apple Music & TV), it irritates me to no end they refuse to support this
Perhaps. Though I'd be a bit slower to react to the market here. Depending how sales are handled, removing staff can remove the relationships that they have developed. It's a pretty bad sign to be doing this.

Might be different for Intel though, everyone has to drink at the same oasis.
Messaging network effects, if you're in an iMessage conversation and an Android user joins, suddenly the conversation becomes SMS only with photo and video sending being crippled.

Its the same as a social network, if all your friends use it, you almost have to in order to communicate with them.
> Insane

It's insane that they didn't.

If you look at the fine, you will see that many families were affected. There is nothing unreasonable about that amount of money awarded from that perspective.
You mean updates that intentionally slow your device so that you will want to buy the new model?
> ...Pixel 3. ... The camera opens when I click the camera button.

I still have a Pixel 5 and one of my favorite features is double pressing the power button to activate the camera. It works so well that my camera is ready to go before I have even focused on the subject. I don’t know if this feature is available on an iPhone.
Cool projects. This guy makes RMS seem like a sell out / conformist.
Adding some numbers: [1] gives ~480k cigarette deaths, [2] gives 107k drug deaths with ~80k of those from opiods which is an approx 6:1 ratio (close enough!)

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/heal...

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2022/...
Yeah like all those other times they forced citizens to give up their firearms. I consistently hear this but outside of maybe 4 senators that push a bill that prevents the sale of a certain model of firearm it's a boogeyman at best.
iPhones aren't luxury in 2022. They cost no more than Samsung and Google models today.
I remember my parents saying that TV was going to rot my brain... then video games... before that it was comic books. Are there any reputable studies that show having a smart phone is detrimental to the health of a teenager? I've seen studies suggesting social media has a negative influence on the mental health of certain teens, but they aren't one and the same.
DMing on Instagram is super popular in USA.
Most of the people don't give a shit about privacy to begin with.
I've always told my business partners when discussing future products that if you aren't afraid to cannibalize your own revenue streams, your competitor (or another internal team) will.
Equal capacity for violence? Yes.
Equal capacity for violence in a specific cultural context? No.

Let say you wrote a AI that detected if a person talks negative about a other person in order to make themselves look (or feel) better. We run this AI over a messenger network with true identities. Will men or women be tagged proportional more often?

An other example, let count the number of bullying victim in schools and number of people who are guilty of committing bullying. Will it be boys or girls that are found guilty more often?

A person who wields a gun is more like male because people who own and wield guns in this culture is male. If the person were a poisoner, statistics will say it is a woman. Why? Culture.

What research on violence say is that violence is defined by culture, and if the violence we highlight is those typical of male culture then that is the kind of violence we see. For a very long time researcher did not even consider that female-female competition existed among animals because the only form of competition researcher know of was defined in term of male-male competition. It was only in recent decades that they realized that, in contrast to previous theories, females do compete with each other that mirror the violence seen in males. It just happens to be very different form of violence, although the consequences were often just as deadly as male-male competition.
I think we all fell for it. The narrative around the vaccine changed several times. First it was supposed to be the golden bullet to dramatically destroy COVID. But new variants, plus the fact that it actually didn't really prevent transmission made it ineffective. But it turns out it did reduce the severity of symptoms. The problem is that most younger people never had bad symptoms to begin with. Then it started to get ridiculous with "booster shots". And throught health professionals continued to repeat the mantra, that the vaccine is the only way to stop COVID, even when it became increasingly clear that it couldn't.

In the end the virus just petered out on its own. The costs of the virus were largely unnecessary and wasteful. It turns out the anti vaxxers were right for the wrong reasons.
My admittedly less charitable take is that they may have been sitting on this 1 operation optimization for a while, noticed it works on the new method, and only decided to go public now they have seen the positive reception and potential of such collaborations.
I can run apps I download from anywhere I want, for one, like I can on laptop.
You act as if they don’t make cheap and relatively accessible phones. They do. iphone se is a perfectly good phone that can be bought new for $400. Sure it’s not at the absolute bottom end of the market, but it is fairly accessible when you compare it to their flagship phones.
It's not what you said. You said successfully suing. Most suits don't go to a win in court, they terminate before that, and terminate in lawyers letters before paperwork hits a court.

I am continuing to assert you're just wrong. I'm not a lawyer btw.
I think people here take issue with the walled garden model of an intra-device comm protocol, not the price point or desirability of iPhones. The comparison to luxury cars is especially crude because it's an industry far more tightly regulated to the benefit of customers than any section of consumer electronics.
Doesn't a circuit breaker imply human intervention? The point of DeFi is that you get some code running on a blockchain then release control. No central point of control. How this is going to work is beyond me. But without it a blockchain is just an expensive database.
Interestingly, I am a heavy Apple user, and I am trying to convince my teenage daughter and wife to use iPhone and have offered them iPhone and Apple Watch, and they have strongly preferred to stay on Android. I think it's unsurprising most people use / want to use an iPhone in the US, because it has a network effect with iMessage and it's clearly a superior experience for the average person. But, globally that network effect doesn't exist, so it makes sense in a more international sense that many people would prefer being in the Android ecosystem.

The claim doesn't surprise me, but I definitely think it shouldn't be taken as universal.
Same with mine!

Sounds unbearable. I hope they survive to adulthood as a green bubble.
It's unfortunate that those who are against unions don't realize that they may, in some cases, be against the current state of a given union, and that they, if they belong to a given union, can change the state of it.

I was once in a union local of several thousand people that was directed by the fewer than 20 who showed up to the meetings. I pushed for a campaign of greater publication of upcoming meetings and in a few short months, the meetings filled a decent portion of a 500-person room. The changes that came about prove that the democracy under which many of these unions operate can lead to changes that cause them to better represent their collective body of workers.

You can change your union, if you want to, and that's a beautiful thing. Your union shouldn't have a predictable political slant (which is what a lot of anti-union normal people dislike). It should represent the collective views of its whole body -- which was the whole point of unions to begin with: to represent its whole body.
No they wouldn't. For most journalists, it's not hard to stick to good faith reporting. If you have evidence, you can present that. If you don't, you can report on a controversy (like when someone is accused of a crime) but be clear you're describing it without the ability to resolve/shed light on it. And when you do make mistakes, you should have a practice of correcting them and documenting the fact that you did so, so that your audience is about equally likely to encounter the correction as they were the mistaken report.

If you do that and have a track record of consistency, then your legal liability is pretty minimal.
Anything that has 87% of the market is by definition mass-market.

Edit: Back in the '90s, PC Magazine had a saying, "the PC you want costs $3,000". This figure was fairly stable despite the improvement in PCs' performance over the decade.

By this standard, and considering that as well as a PC it's a phone, a camera, an atlas and an encyclopedia, a TV and a music player, the iPhone doesn't seem too much like a luxury.
Fining him nearly 1 billion dollars is excessive and sends a wrong moral signal to the moderate public.

It makes the punishment look unusual and petty.

Can anyone justify why the amount should be that high?
Does he have 1 billion dollars?

I would have fined him 200million something he might actually have.

Using the law to make an example out of someone requires moral authority and the population to agree. COVID has shown us, America is split on that.
my buddy once made a '1d roguelike'

it is exactly what it is lol (aka 110 lines of bash)

https://github.com/rupa/YOU_ARE_DEAD
Which is still not a budget option. Not in hardware quality, not in customer/product support, not in price. It's a premium product in every way.
Really? My Android phone gets notifications way way late compared to my iPhone.
These are all valid questions. I worked in both scenarios: working inside an org using NC and offering services to an external one. My take on this: unless you don't value your data, you need to have someone that has formal responsibility for this. It is not that much work, actually. And for someone who takes care of many NC servers, most of the work can be automated. Regular upgrades are necessary, and these require a full backup. Given the nature of the software, I don't believe this can be done without access to the data itself, so it has to be a company or employees you trust. And of course you must not install any additional apps.
Pretty sure his life wasn't just valued at a billion dollars, but rather the amount of damage he has caused.

But I'll be generous and give that lawsuit a 0.01% chance.
You're assuming the relationship is nasty. It isn't a given that people who raise kids differently than you do will fill them with hatred and bitterness.
Yep, it very quickly becomes a question of what exactly you're trying to test. If you take energy and power density out of the equation by allowing unrestricted access to external fixed energy delivery infrastructure, the only thing left to test is traction management (assuming you're not allowing things like adhesive tires, cog rails, active downforce, etc.). If you do start to allow those post-traction things, you are as the stage where you might as well build a railgun.
Don't expect anything beyond a single letter of a collective bargaining agreement. It's pretty simple.
> Alex Jones to pay $965M to Sandy Hook victims

There is absolutely no way this is going to happen. The BBC are delusional.
Of course, and it only works well in certain situations, like you do have a complete view of a Forth system because it is small and you write it yourself, and it doesn't take weeks. I recommend reading it, just as a different point of view.
How America deals with housing policies is a joke and should be embarrassing for the public sector that is managing it.

Most planned communities have a certain ratio of high income/medium income and low income homes and a built in infrastructure. Population should be fit into infrastructure.

In other words, population moves in after the govt builds the infrastructure thereby proving the usefulness of their existence. However, in America, population is stuffed into high density sardine can cities hoping to tax the cream or high income households that thins per person allocation of resources from diminishing taxes.

Then the geniuses that run the pirate ship control center called city councils spend half a decade drawing a budget during what h time the city becomes unbearably unliveable and unaffordable. And when it’s time to implement bare minimum infrastructure, it’s already a decade late and population has doubled and inflation has increased the budge..but after the rich flight out of these once desirable cities, there is not enough revenue. Proposals go back to the drawing table and some weak sauce like ‘green initiatives’ ..as in add solar panels to city offices parking lot or plant trees to make up for the trees they cut to build high density housing ends to saving face before the next election cycle.

The article is silly and entirely unhelpful. It frustrates me because it tries to be clever ..or maybe ‘funny’..but has no useful solutions to a very real problem in America.

America needs to accept America. High density is a made up wannabe solution for an artificial self inflicted problem. There is no need for a resource rich and expansive country like America to plod along into high density solutions of resource poor and crowded countries. It’s like the rich trustafarian kids dumpster diving with their best friends to experience homelessness and hunger. Cringe.
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The jury in the Texas case awarded the family around $50M, and the $965M in this case is a bit over 2x that, at $120M per family. So it's definitely a lot higher and I'm curious to see if there's anything that caused that.

More importantly, though, is that the Texas damages were split into ~$4.5M as compensatory damages (this is the part where you make amends for the harm you've caused), and the remaining ~$45M as punitive damages (the part where you). Texas has a cap on how much you can _actually_ be forced to pay in punitive damages, and it is specifically forbidden to instruct juries on the existence of this cap, so as to avoid tempting the jury to tack their actual punitive damages onto the compensatory damages number.

The amount in this case will almost certainly going to have a similar-ish split, and Connecticut is likely to have similar-ish laws in place. I'm not sure how this all works, but there's also the interesting detail that, if this was just one judgment, the punitive damages cap might apply to the aggregate amount rather than per plaintiff (So: if there is a $1M cap, does that mean he pays no more than $1M, so each family gets $125k, or each family can't get more than $1M, and he pays $8M).
It's so much easier in the UK they literally have a term for it: "libel tourism"

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