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Perhaps I've over-credited the iTunes Store's impact on music piracy, so I will concede that point. But for whatever reason, after the revolutions unleashed by the iPod, and the subsequent rise of Spotify and other paid legal music streaming services, music piracy is just not as significant as it was in the decade. So either these technologies were instrumental to stopping it, or consumers just moved on for whatever reason. Perhaps the same will happen to movies and television piracy, once consumers get over services/platforms fatigue.

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This isn't "saying the wrong words". This is a man who profited to the tune of (according to his financial audit) $818k PER DAY over the course of a decade by spreading lies about parents who had the misfortune of having their elementary-school-aged kids shot up by a highly disturbed individual.
>And yes I know you can't really compress a liquid.

Sure you can, it's what the bulk modulus measures.

You may be right. My assumption is that, by definition, a detonation is an uncontrolled pressure wave and controlling the pressure in an ICE cylinder is a big deal that a lot of engineering goes into. As you point out, the major benefit to nitromethane is that is requires less air because it brings it's own oxygen. So the size of the combustion chamber isn't as much as a limiting factor. I don't think it's intent is to change the flame regime, though. It just crams more energy into the cylinder.
The point being competitors are pouring billions into VR meetings, but this project at google is getting little attention.
Apple knows exactly what coloring the bubble differently will do. The bully is just a marketing instrument to the Apple executives. Normally, I would blame only the bully, but this seems willful on Apple's part. They want kids to feel bad and tell their parents they need an iPhone. They don't give a damn that they're just another point of friction in people's days.
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It actually only shows the "so and so has liked your post" on Apple devices unless they've changed it recently. In Google messages you see the reactions from iphone users as they should be shown.
One surprising thing (at least for me) that I don't see anyone talking about in the comments is: I had no idea Alex Jones had that much money.

That's 1 billion dollars in damages.
Google isn't killing the horse with a broken leg. It's killing anything less than the triple crown winner.
$1B defamation? That's a severely broken justice system...
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Although in the States, most people don't use WhatsApp by default unless they regularly text overseas (which most don't). I have it installed but there is like one person who I very seldom use it with. Another person I use Facebook Messenger with. Work folks I often use Google Chat for. Everything else is SMS/iMessage and, as a non-teen, I absolutely don't care what color the bubble is (unless there's some cost implication for international texting).

Text messaging is free for the most part in the US--and most people don't care about encryption details--so it's natural to just use what's built in.
Who tf uses imessage? Its all whatsapp, telegram or fb messenger or discord here. Sweden. SMS is not used. Only for... passwords, spam and reminders for packages.
Yeah, I 100% agree with you about that and the more I've been digesting that explanation, the more I see why this is the correct thing to do.

Hopefully this even frees them to do things we've wanted for a long time... like not being tied to a phone number and offering better features than RCS/iMessage. Maybe even having multiple independent profiles/pseudonyms for compartmentalization.

That's how Signal could be growing the base and interop with SMS/MMS/RCS cruft on one platform will always lack the killer feature and be irrelevant to the other platforms. If Signal were better than SMS/RCS/iMessage people will just use it for those reasons in addition to the security and privacy.

And having just installed the beta and used the SMS export and allowed it to purge all of SMS content from Signal into Google Messages it actually sort of is nice that the app is now ONLY the "Signal" context. I'm... actually pretty okay with SMS belonging to the "Stuff that Creepy Companies Like Google Know" context.

Basically this just does what Signal already does in iOS: it must compete with the native messaging client. Google is already playing RCS as SMS upgrade and Signal is making the correct strategic decision to not make a play for RCS. SMS support is just going to lead to whining about lack of RCS. The bottom line is both Apple and Google are out to kill SMS. With SMS gone, Signal can just move on to feature parity with iMessage and beyond while leapfrogging whatever messaging clusterfuck Google keeps producing. Google can have SMS for all I care. We can't have iMessage on Android, but we can have Signal on both Android and iOS.
I didn't know there's farmland up there...the new yorker article made it sound pretty 'yuppy desert retreat'. What I find really weird is their assumption that Scottsdale will just bail them out.

>>This goes to show how important it is having a sustainable, intentional water management program.

Yeah - it's also really fascinating all the work that goes into it. That GRUSP water storage facility seems really neat..Also, using waste water to cool Palo Verde was pretty ingenious. Largest nuke plant in the country, powered by grey water :-)
sure, but co-pilot is mostly just copying code (see, for example, the issue with it producing quake source code).

If you think of AI as a dial from sample(data) to mean(data), then as the dial is turned towards the mean() you get more "generic" results, but also more garbled ones.

Copilot is more like a search engine, having turned the dial more towards sample().

The real invention of the NN is simply to provide that dial in a trainable way.

The only change to the "state of the art" is the size of the weights, and how long they take to train. This "advancement" is no more impressive than google indexing more webpages.

There has been no step-change advancement in AI in, perhaps, 50 years. All we see today is a product of hardware, in GPU/CPUs able to compress TBs of data into c. 300GB of weights. And likewise, the internet to provide it and SSDs to hold it.

The "magic" of AI is no more the magic of wikipida, here: copilot is good only because million+ programmers made github good.

It's still little more than a fancy search.
Anyone can sue anyone at any time. I can sue you claiming that this comment you made is defamatory towards me.

I’m saying that the suit wouldn’t end with a settlement or an apology or me doing anything; it would be thrown out for not meeting the standard for defamation. Tort is relatively boring, IMO, but the standards for various suits are well defined and publicly documented.
Unfortunately, the option isn’t available on iOS, unless it’s hiding somewhere else.
$430 is getting close to luxury phone. And the features on remotely affordable iPhones are often below or maybe on par with what you used to be able to get from LG for $220 before they sadly stopped.

The chip only matters for gaming really, cheap Android phones have been fast enough for years, and if the price difference is similar to a Switch or something then I'd rather have a dedicated gaming machine if I was really into gaming.

I suppose it also matters for niche stuff like music production, but Android does very well at being a generic multipurpose device for non-enthusiast tasks, and at being cheap enough that you can afford a dedicated device.

The short support period is an issue though.
In the US?? It was VERY rare to find a phone that cheap in 2014. I had a Nexus 5 in 2014 and it went for $350 ($437 in 2022 dollars). And that was considered a really good deal/budget phone.
I didn't skip that. I said "You brought up a good point". I agree it was a good point. But they ruined the argument a bit by being overly dramatic. It would have been better to skip the judgmental snide remark at the end so we could have focussed on the good point.
> Defamation law has always existed and people can always sue you for libel and slander.

But a $965 million dollar judgment for libel or slander would have to be justified by comparable damages. That isn't the case here.
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Will this work with typical browsers? would be great to put a website at a .ether domain
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Hmmm, this probably will change when the Digital Markets Act starts.
You know nothing about Steve Jobs lol
That's scary. That's sucking a huge amount of money out of parents' pockets.
Oh no! The Founders would be displeased! I'm so tired of this kind of argument, as if we should forever substitute our own judgement with games of "what would The Founders want?" They were men, some were even great men, but men nonetheless. Don't worship them like gods. If there's something particularly great about the founders of the USA, it was that, one, they understood human imperfection, including their own, and two, they knew human societies change over time and so must their laws. They therefore built checks and balances into our system of government, and they put in mechanisms for change into the Constitution. So let's argue about the merits of laws or societal standards, but let's stop using the putative preferences of the founders like they mean anything. It's no better than when charlatans say "God wants this, God wants that" in order to legitimize their own opinions and actions.
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I don't think philosophy has caught up with the dizzing media landscape we exit in today. It's such a multifaceted problem.

Like others have mentioned, media is heavily shaping culture today, and is responsible for a large amount of cultural dissemination and public discourse. And today, to be a patron of the arts, you are looking at an increasingly large library of works which you need affordable access to. Knowledge shouldn't be pay-to-play.

With companies like Disney eating the lion's share, we should worry about what kind of legal landscape a continued, coordinated lobbying effort could lead to. Remember the shock around the DMCA? We still have massive and systematic abuse issues because of it. A chilling effect is well-established.

With the way Microsoft, Apple and other vendors are moving, locked down computing platforms are becoming a silent reality. Thanks to corporate astroturfing efforts, cloud fingerprinting is being normalized as the moral choice. What's next, screen fingerprinting to ensure our greedy, multi-headed subscription serpent overlord always gets its piece of the pie?

Eventually, unchecked corporate lobbying in areas like IP will lead to an inscrutable system of governance hiding behind the opt-in curtain, which completely sidesteps the ever-evolving system of rights envisioned by our past democratic visionaries.
It's honestly pretty hard to work out what you're trying to assert here. The parent commenter is trying, reasonably, to establish the distinction between "lying" and "defamation". It seems like you're saying "being sued is so expensive the distinction doesn't matter". Ok, sure? That doesn't have anything to do with what they're saying, and, in the context of the grandparent comment --- about libel laws being tightened up --- isn't responsive there either.

(A distinctive feature of modern libel law is SLAPP, which permits fee recovery for defamation suits that aren't well-founded, but that works against the I argument I think but am not sure you are trying to make.)
They are axiomatic in that Kafka's worlds are frequently built upon a set of conditions, and the development is contingent upon how these conditions interact, whereas other writers often depart from pre-established rules because they become cumbersome, or they introduce new ones as a matter of convenience. Kafka, in a story like The Burrow, seems to be in search of a complete system that becomes fully expressed by virtue of an exhaustive exploration of its potential, in accordance with its own stipulations. It develops like a drop of ink in a glass of water. Due also to a desire not to retread ground, as he criticizes Dickens of doing, this may be why much of his work went unfinished.

By involution, I mean that Kafka's stories, to a greater extent than just about any other writer, forestall the influence of "outside" forces. His worlds do not rely on historical context, and his characters hardly, if ever, propose a new and narrative-changing idea from whole clothe, although the conclusions they draw are often strange, novel, and sudden. Kafka's land surveyor in The Castle is always circling back to the fact that he is a land surveyor as the basis for his behavior, even though he never actually fulfills or comes close to fulfilling his vocational imperative.

I always recommend Reiner Stach's three volume biography of Kafka to people. The author does a great job of looking into the literature as much as he looks into the life.
Or they could just open iMessage to android...
> given an IP of the camera

So this is an internal tool, not something you can gain access to remote cameras behind NAT firewalls? I think a lot of people are assuming this is a WAN attack.

Sounds genuinely useful, especially if it can be worked into PVR software to integrate with more hardware.
LOL, that's pretty hard
I think Apple have a pretty big range these days. There are older models and the se. There’s also a pretty vibrant second hand / refurbished market. Perhaps one issue is that devices can still be somewhat expensive secondhand but that’s because they are still good quality and expected to last (eg being supported and getting updates) for a long time – the alternative would surely be the kind of complaints about planned obsolescence or poor resale value that seem more fitting for the typical androids device (I’m not sure about premium. Maybe typical android devices get more updates these days).
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It's on by default, so everyone you iMessage with has it on, and is sending your plaintext to Apple in the unencrypted iCloud Backup.

Your turning it off has no effect. Most messages are backed up twice.
"No objective test can confirm or rule out the diagnosis of ADHD" [1]

"hyperactive impulsive and/or inattentive symptoms for at least 6 months...five or more for adults...no other disorder better explains the symptoms"

Probably the most well-organized effort in the world to push drugs. If they work for you without side effects, good for you. But all drugs have side effects. Would I would to mess with my dopamine levels to optimize my economic output, no fucking way.

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In theory I agree, but we have something like 10k employees and millions of users per platform per day, so our code is pretty well vetted.
There are a lot of things that succeed due to the ignorance of the population
Yes, it's in fact pretty easy to justify why the amount should be that high. My guess is that the distinction between 200MM and 900MM is not especially material to Jones at this point; either zeroes him out.
Messaging is pretty fascinating. WhatsApp, KakaoTalk, WeChat, Line, Telegram, iMessage all so strongly dominate their respective set of countries/regions and a lot of them have their own distinct set of user mannerisms/memes.
I definitely think part of it was to make those iMessages more visually appealing. I don’t think they knew how well it was going to work, but to some degree I do think this is what they were going for.
what about whatsapp and signal, do kids not use them?
I mean, if you hate Apple and Google, you don't have a whole lot of other options. I'm vaguely aware of some competitors, but they're quite obscure. And I don't think going without a smartphone is all that feasible either these days.
Most developers have signed NDAs at some point. The idea of speech being without potential consequence isn't a new one.
I’d still put it below transit and electricity as far as priority.
Yes I think that’s what a lot of these Web3 domain names need.
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But with Android you get much more features for the money. All Android phones are bezelless for instance, even the cheapest budget phone. The SE still rocks the iPhone 8 design from 2017 with all its drawbacks.

Personally I don't use Apple because I have far too many things I can't do on it (mostly due to their restrictions in the app store, like using open PGP keys over NFC). But if I did I'd never consider the SE.
They don't use FB Messenger, Discord, Telegram, Whatsapp? People are really out here using the default sms app? lmao

Not a thing here, but we do love to ape america so its comming. Its gonna be one shows ppl whatch and then its over.
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> Defamation is inherently inciteful.

That might be your personal opinion, but it's not the law. If nutjob A makes a defamatory statement about you, but doesn't tell anyone to do anything, and then nutjob B harasses you after hearing what nutjob A said, nutjob B is the one who is legally responsible for the harassment. Nutjob A is responsible for the defamation, but not for what other nutjobs might decide to do.

Now if nutjob A explicitly said things along the lines of "you should go after this person", instead of just making defamatory false factual claims about them, that would be different. But I have not seen any claims by the plaintiffs that Jones said anything like that. They're just saying he made defamatory false statements.

> If an outcome is statistically predictable there doesn't have to be a direct nexxus, a proximate one is sufficient.

This legal theory is a recipe for disaster. There's a reason why the law requires direct evidence for things like this.
> It's certainly an issue with a lot of teenagers.

> As an adult of course the green/blue bubbles simply don't matter

I disagree that the green/blue bubbles simply don't matter as an adult. I've had friend groups not include me in group messages because of it. Some have gotten visibly mad at me for having green bubbles and "breaking their chat". There is certain functionality that iPhones don't support in MMS chats that Android phones do (like adding a new member to the group chat).

It does indicate how people think when they buy into the stigma, but also I think it's a general lack of understanding around why Apple keeps iMessage so tightly coupled to its ecosystem and hardware. And many people aren't interested in gaining that understanding.

Social status is very important to many adults, and blue bubbles have become a way to display that social status.
That finally explains why I saw so many articles about how "Google fixed iphone responses on Android", but I never saw any evidence for it on mine.
Law is a heuristic, justice still involves moral reasoning.
The real issue here is that the founders would simply not agree with the parent comment. You don't have to reach the issue of whether the argument is persuasive; it's simply not accurate.

It's worth digging into this stuff, because it's kind of fascinating. It's a reason to go look up what the largest fortunes were at the time of the founders, or what the major defamation cases where at the turn of the 19th century, or how defamation law differs now from the time of the framers (hint: it got a lot more favorable to defendants).

If you use dumb-seeming arguments as an excuse to speed-research weird historical facts, these threads get a lot more fun, and also you tend to end up with more compelling arguments.
The right click menu is only a minor irritation, but it's the taskbar combining that I hate most. It's a massive step backwards.

Of course with the forced updates (that I also hate), they could change it at any time on a whim. Or change something else...
A bit like house arrest then.
The west will go down in history as the dunce who farmed lettuce in a desert while also increasing the numbers in its population centers.

California and Arizona has no business farming and building more homes. We have no water.
> Can anyone justify why the amount should be that high? Does he have 1 billion dollars?

1) InfoWars wasn’t some small blogger or random guy on the street. It’s a business with 10s to 100s of millions in revenue depending on which documents Alex Jones had for the day

2) Alex Jones had the opportunity to defend himself and instead either did not show up to his court dates or chose the opportunity to continue attacking the plaintiffs and doubling down on perjurious statements when given orders not to

If anything the “wrong moral signal” being sent here is that even when your behavior is not functionally different from trying to rack up the highest damage amount possible, it’s still easily payable by our top echelons of society.
Jones's lies were unusual and petty. The punishment perfectly fits the crime.
Ah yeah. So then in the neighborhood of 40-50% collect dust. Not terrible, not great (for VR companies).
This isn't twitter singling out a user for their opinions/posts isn't the discourse nature of HN. Please keep this type of behavior away from here.
Our whole family and extended family only have Android. Our kids all get the free Android phones.

As for me and my house, we shall never own Apple products.

People can get what they like, but I struggle with the cognitive dissonance of "Everyone should just get iPhones, it'd make everything easier" and "Oh no why is <company> acting evil with their monopoly?!". I like choices. I wish Windows Phones could have stuck around longer.

We'll ultimately get what we deserve as consumers. Is it any surprise FB wants to be the Apple of VR? We've shown we like our cozy premium walled gardens and are willing to be abused.
I think we should evaluate that stuff based on the outcomes, not just on assuming our personal culture as a norm. I moved out to live with friends at 15. Wouldn't say it was the greatest idea, although I wouldn't change it. I have also met Indian guys whose parents are all the way up their asses at least until they're into their 20s, and as far as I can tell it results in a good degree, good employment, and early marriage.
That would make it possible to use/modify any of the existing gasifying wood boilers - something like these by Atmos [1] - for this purpose by e.g. replacing the bottom ceramic inset for one which includes either the hot side of a Stirling engine or a heat exchanger for such. Steam under enough pressure to drive a turbine... while it might sound promising it would involve a whole new host of regulations which would increase the price as well as yearly conformity checks, at least where I have lived - the Netherlands and Sweden. This might not be viable for these small-scale applications.

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