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> anti-American warnings of Arab nations after they thought — incorrectly — Israel struck a hospital in Gaza, killing hundreds.

This is utterly rubbish and unprofessional journalism. There are many proofs this was done by an Israeli raid !!

The simplest one is that the Palestinians never had weapons that powerful. Also there is real-time video of the moment the raid happened.

Incorrectly is not a word a journalist says. It's propaganda !! and sadly propaganda to cover up a genocide.
I find this kind of thing maliciously obtuse. It's malicious because it's designed to breed resentment through unintentional or intentional ignorance.

Using Bezos as an example - an interesting proportion would be something like: how many customers (eg, people who find his work valuable) does Bezos have versus an average American? How many people has Bezos employed and made successful (or at the very least, gave them a better job than they would have otherwise?) vs an average American.

To wit, it doesn't make sense to compare "wealth" without also talking about "impact" in a case like Bezos.

The other ignorant thing is this makes it seem like his wealth is some sort of zero sum game where if he has a dollar that means you don't have it. The reality of his wealth is something like this: he owns a chunk of Amazon, AND Amazon has grown to be valuable and valued. The same guy, had Amazon gone nowhere, would have nothing. The mechanism of him becoming rich is primarily the world collectively deciding that the thing he has built is valuable, rather than him taking dollars out of your pockets.

Why does this bother me? Because I find things that breed resentment in the world to be a detrimental evil.
The reason investment are taxed as they are is to encourage them. Society as large gains much more from what Bezos did than Bezos himself.

However, were we to discourage his entrepreneurial act 30 years ago (and others entrepreneurs as well) - we’d all lose.
I never thought Jon Stewart was funny. I stomached the Daily Show because of his correspondents who were funny. He helped the careers of a lot of comedians. I thought Noah was a better interviewer, and more charismatic.

Since the Daily Show, Stewart has developed this man-yells-at-the-clouds persona that's self-righteous, and... not surprisingly still not funny. Glad he's cancelled so hopefully someone more talented can get a shot.
> I think action can be made much more interesting by a good visual director moving the viewpoint

Definitely!

Thanks for sharing that video, I'll go watch it :)

There are also many YouTube analyses of why Michael Bay's action scenes are like disposable junk food: thrilling while watching them, but oddly unsatisfying. The most convincing I've seen is that Michael Bay lacks a sense of space or direction; his action scenes are flashy but there are no visual cues of where everyone is placed within the scene, how the location is positioned, etc.
I'm not sure of Duolingo still qualifies as a little guy. Certainly there are opportunities for using AI to improve language teaching that are perhaps under developed at Duolingo.

Duo has started with AI. There is some limited opportunity for entering text which an AI will correct for you. But a lot more is possible.
I agree. I was engaged while he was on the daily show, but since starting this, he has changed as a host. While all of us needed a break from the edge and toughness in the world, he kept the fire to it and always seemed argumentative and consistently would not see the guests opinion. Exactly the opposite of what we need.
As I understand it, there are roughly three levels. You can license ARM-designed cores and put them, largely unchanged, in your SoC (eg most current Qualcomm chips). You can license ARM-designed cores and make changes, and put them in your SoC (eg the Apple A4/5). Or you can license the _instruction set architecture_ and design your own completely different core which complies to that ISA (eg modern Apple cores, some old Qualcomm cores, this new Qualcomm core).
FWIW.. my mother's childhood friend is a nun who (successfully) ran a hospital in the Buffalo NY area for years up until the late 90s/early 2000s. She was replaced by a series of "civilian" CEOs after that. AFAIK, the quality of care OR the finances of the place didn't improve one iota.
Having generally separate pools mostly worked in the US for decades even if some people took Monday off for a hangover now and then. Having a combined pool--especially but not exclusively a modest one (given that unused vacation does need to get paid out in many cases)--strongly encourages people to come to work sick. Which isn't an optimal outcome in general.
I was able to use the scrollbar at the bottom on Firefox.
No, GDPR forces deletion of all user data upon request
Often times, people with this sort of wealth will extract value by borrowing against the stock as collateral.
In a similar vein, the corecursive podcast[0] covered the Sloot Digital Coding System[1] in which it is hypothesized that he attempted something very similar but for video. Unfortunately, it seemed like overestimated his ability to produce this and resorted to smoke and mirrors for demos. It’s a facinating story that reads like a tale of industrial espionage.

[0]: https://corecursive.com/sloot-digital-coding-system/

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloot_Digital_Coding_System
CBC is the public broadcaster in Canada, and Marketplace specifically has a good record of consumer-oriented investigative journalism like this. You might be familiar with another report a few years ago from them that found that Subway chicken may contain as much as 50% soy filler: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/marketplace-chicken-fast-fo...

I'm personally more likely to trust Marketplace than not.
On top of the "no compelling reason" I've frequently had the configuration database for the Windows Store get corrupted and then be unable to install anything.

When a big feature update rolled out I'd find the configuration database would be rebuilt and it would work again. I had a struggle with Microsoft support over this, I wanted some procedure to rebuild that database and fix it, they wanted me to create a whole new account on my Windows machine and I'm like "no way I'm going to spend hours reconfiguring all the applications that I use every day just so I can download one crapplet"
Just click through one page at a time. I'm pretty sure that's how the designer intended it to work.
Oracle, with all the baggage attached to the namesake company, is a remarkable database.

I was working in a dual MySQL/Oracle environment 20 years ago exactly, and MySQL - still at version 3 o 4 - was a toy DB, compared. I was writing Oracle queries that could make your head spin, with optimizer hints, for example:

https://renenyffenegger.ch/notes/development/databases/Oracl...
Navigator CO2 Cancels US Corn Belt Carbon Pipeline Plan
That's the Overton window for you..
Junior / senior / staff titles are typically used for HR to justify a lower salary (typically called pay band) . It artificially suppresses your salary even though all roles do extremely similar work.
Because they are related and it is interesting. In economics terms, they would be considered compliments. The prices are moving in opposite directions, 4K TVs used to be considered "expensive" and streaming services "cheap", as opposed to now. So I could foresee a bunch of 4K TVs being purchased only to be used to stream 1080.
I smile a little bit every time someone links to Red Blob. This is just a wonderful, fascinating resource, the kind of thing the Internet was supposed to be for.

I also love that this isn't just theory; there's an entire implementation guide[1] to all of the concepts discussed here.

[1] https://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/implementation.h...
I owned a V8 Mustang in my early 20s, and I test drove a Mach E recently and it's a very exciting drive. I haven't driven the Model Y yet, but I have driven the ID.4. Those 3 are really the sweet spot in terms of what I will most likely replace my ICE with when the time comes.

The Mach E is fast enough that I kind of get it now that I've driven one. Mustangs historically are straight line cars that didn't necessarily blow your mind when cornering. Essentially all electric cars fit that mold.

And anyway the Mach E is very heavy compared to most mustangs historically, but it's suspension design is better than what most Mustangs had historically so it might be more competitive down a curvy road than expected. Most Mustangs until fairly recently had a pretty hard time dealing with mid-corner bumps and road imperfections. And the Mach E accelerates harder than the vast majority of V8 Mustangs ever built.
Jeff Bezos had the idea of "what if we put a store online," and because he was the most successful at executing the idea of selling stuff using the computer, he deserves effectively infinity money? That seems like a super radical position, imo.

No one person has ever invented something good enough that they deserve an infinite amount of money. Maybe if somebody cures cancer some day.
Is this going to give me motion sickness?

FPS games are so bad that I have never even considered VR.
Neon does something like this I believe. They allow you to "branch" your databases: https://neon.tech
The only appropriate amount to tax anybody is 0.
scrimba.com is game changer.

you can edit directly what is on the screen.
>If the device is nonfunctional, and has encryption enabled (e.g. Bitlocker or FileVault) you MUST give them your password if you want it repaired and cannot afford to lose data.

That needs to change. We create two user accounts for all of the laptops we give out. Someone working on the device only needs to have access to one of the accounts. Windows is still too stupid to hide user data from other users. But at least it's something.
Behold, the lovechild of a Pebble watch and Apple Vision Pro
This is just a guess from a UE game developer, but:

a) Epic makes Unreal Engine and runs an asset store that includes sounds and music. Why not include bandcamp and their huge catalog in that store?

b) Epic makes Fortnite, which has tons of music industry tie-ins through purchasable emotes, song tracks, and free in-game concerts. Bandcamp sounds like a great avenue to expand existing agreements to sell music through Fortnite.

c) Epic also acquired Harmonix, which is the original developer of Guitar Hero and various music game spinoffs. Who knows wtf they're doing with Harmonix, but Harmonix+Bandcamp seems like an easy business strategy. "Buy this album on bandcamp and get it in the new Harmonix game too", and vice versa.

Epic has their hands in an awful lot of pies these days, and their layoff statement seemed to be a straightforward admission that their eyes were bigger than their stomach.
I work in Europe. I have 26 days of PTO per year (=208 hours) and 11 public holidays. But when I'm sick and I'm on sick leave, I don't lose my PTO, these are two different things. When I'm sick, I can't work. When I take PTO, I go on holidays. These two shouldn't be confused, it's not good for both physical and mental health.

On the other hand, I probably earn less than you (6200 EUR/month after paying all taxes, i.e. ca. 6500 USD). But I very much prefer it stays that way.
Can We Save Every Species from Extinction?
Jeff Bezos is never going to love you, no matter how brown your nose is.
I guess unemployment benefits are better in pretty much every other western country compared to the US, so: Yes.

If you become unemployed, depending on your age, and how long you have worked etc, you get between 12 and 24 months about 60% of your previous salary before dropping into social security.

There are various programs to get people back into jobs depending on what caused their unemployment - help on re-settling in case the loss of job being caused by your profession no longer being asked for in the region you live in, training to move to a different profession, help if your job loss is related to health issues (for example burn-out).

The system is optimized into trying to find out the cause of job losses, and work to counter that.

The 5% unemployed are mostly cases which are impossible to solve due to someone being too old to be re-trained and/or not willing or being able to move to where the jobs are.

Right now the job market in Germany is mostly defined by a shortage of labor in various areas, which is why there is a strong desire to make sure that immigrants are allowed to enter the work-force quicker. For example trains no longer run in any way reliably in Germany due to a massive shortage on workers in that industry.
The anti-right-to-repair crowd lost this argument with me when Samsung decided that I needed a copy of TikTok on my phone without asking me. It turns out those personal devices are not so private, in general.
// Tell me how a person can "earn" enough money by doing work that produces 60,000 lifetimes worth of wealth.

According to a quick Google, Amazon has 310 million customers. Think about that - Bezos built something that a third of a billion of humans find valuable enough to use. Isn't that equally, if not more, impressive than the "60,000" lifetimes measure?
There is no artificial intelligence. Stop listening to marketing department.
Ok, assume the ratings were good for a moment (either Stewart's or another on Apple TV). Could the show have run an investigate segment on China's Uyghur policy on Apple TV?
I started working as a web developer professionally at 31. Prior to that I worked in a welfare office. Switching to software was a great decision both for my paycheck and generally being around happier, less stressed coworkers.
Atlantic lobster are showing signs of trouble too:

https://fortune.com/2023/10/19/new-england-maine-lobster-fis...
I do not think private citizens should have any restrictions placed upon them for doing business with a country that our government has not sanctioned.

I think what you are describing is that PRC offers an enticing deal to many businesses: use Chinese labor to get higher margins on your consumer products. If you criticize the PRC they can hurt your company's bottom line by denying you access to that labor, but your company can still move production to a different country or (gasp) back to the US and figure out how to get higher margins. In that way, China is merely a business partner for private industry. You wouldn't bad-talk a business partner and expect them to continue to do business with you.
While in general this is a valid concern, so don't read from your cell phone too closely...

Also don't confuse focal distance with real distance. We can potentially have a very close lens focused as if we are looking at an infinite distance.
Commercial app stores face a problem where they have to be "fair" like social media moderation does, in fact they could get into horrible antitrust problems if they weren't. The trouble is that "fair" and "correct" are contradictory motivations.

The process by which Ubuntu or Red Hat decide what packages are in there is not one where anybody can walk up and ask to have their package included and to be treated "fairly", which gives them a big advantage.
He was pretty clearly not trying to be the Daily Show and half the time had little intention of being funny.
I can't understand how with the mountain of evidence that it was a misfire, people can still believe this.
I could solve these with my eyes closed but I'm unable to operate the weird javascripty confusing building block thing. Why not just offer an option to use a terminal?
I see, and how is our god-king mr. bezos allocating his wealth? He's using it to electrify and build out american rail, to reduce dependence on cars? Is he pouring money into early education so that future generations will be able to make even greater strides to improve society? Or is he, like, buying big boats and houses?
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We are talking about the App Store here, correct?

Do you think that for an App Store attached to a phone whether the phone cost $100 or $1,000 matters?

Because everyone related to those App Stores does.
Animations and eyecandy don't require arbitrary code execution and should be handled by css, if at all. Almost all websites can be served as data, with the client free to render it how it chooses, which enables far more elegant and unified UIs than anything we have now.

Windows Phone 7 was a brilliant example of this. It was one last attempt by a large player to unite social media sites and messengers into one UI and interaction framework, and it was the most fluid, beautiful and pleasant OS I've used. Now that kind of interoperability would be borderline illegal. When you strip control away from devs about how their data is rendered, the results are generally more beautiful, not less.

I'm guessing that interaction reminders are those modals that appear when you go to close the tab, or prompt you to subscribe when scrolling down further. I would classify both as totally unnecessary and making the experience worse for users. They also do not require arbitrary code execution.

Cookie popups are a result of the ad-centered, panopticon-enabling web.

I know what I'm describing is far and above nojs. What I'm trying to get at is the motivation for disabling js, and what the web would look that if that principle were followed to it's logical conclusion.
> It's pretty simple actually

That's true. You just need to exploit your fellow humans! Make them work for you but never pay them for the full value they bring. Always pay them the least they will still accept. So you get a piece of their pie. Your position of power will allow you to do so, and people will see your position of power as "natural" and will see no problem in the exploitation.
I wish you could have different settings profiles per-container but they are already quite useful just to isolate cookies.
The standard leftist slogan of "billionaires should not exist" implies that somehow eliminating anyone's ability to accumulate wealth is good for society. The reality is that destroying a few thousand people is cathartic to those who have envy and hatred in their blood, but will not solve any problems of society. I would also argue it will dramatically harm society, as many billionaires accumulated that wealth through building new companies in the private market (and therefore earned their wealth by satisfying more needs of consumers more efficiently), and are therefore far more competent stewards of wealth than our spendthrift and indebted governments.
I use ledger, but only for accounts where I'm a trustee on a trust

For my own accounts, I don't have time to deal with reconciliation, so I just do csv -> paste into spreadsheet -> have sql queries that sum things up
Ah so this is the new angle we're taking to prevent remote work or intense surveillance of remote workers?

Remind me to register my office commute with the office us gov confidant to validate I'm working in America next time...
I didn't expect to laugh so much first thing today, thank you for that link!
In a sense ARM is like a big open source project, with component libraries and production-ready example projects. It's less open in the sense that you need NDAs and license payments, but the flexibility is similar.
you want to know of any potential carriers and be able to trace potential vectors. plus if you offer socialized medicine you want to know that in order to adjust things like supplies of drugs and coverage for foreign travelers.

Canadian immigration wanted my full medical history for Permanent Resident status, and there was a medical check, blood work, and a chest xray for TB. I was in the US military with injuries from that, and they asked for all of the paperwork.
I think there is an evolution developers go through. Right around the "design pattern" stage where everything is decoupled, hinges for all parts. Devs seem to focus on the test coverage value. Both these attributes stem from the same failure to understand the underlying business. The model rarely reflects the actual business needs (usually because the dev spends more time reading about, and thinking about tech as opposed to understanding the business) they use flexibility in the codebase as a fallback because gee the business can be anything. Code coverage equally fails because they only think about their code. Sometimes the most useful thing is a business case that was never thought about. It's code that doesn't exist. Perfect code coverage won't tell you anything about code you haven't written.

I'd rather spend time trying to learn the business, and where it's going, and why my product is useful, than mocking out some dumb part I can test a few times manually. Unit tests are super valuable tool, but not everything needs a unit test.
Russia has no interest in "destruction of western power". Putin even wanted to join NATO.

Maybe Iran does. I wonder why though? Maybe the constant meddling, demonization, and crippling sanctions imposed on them by the US have something to do with it?
As you scroll through the chart it blocks out other things that the money could be used for. Treating cancer. Housing veterans. Feeding schoolchildren. Etc... Showing them as the tiny blocks they are against his incomprehensible wealth.
Where does that leave you funding commonly useful services? (Military, Police, Roads, etc.)
You should design it is not necessary to implement from the beginning.
Have you ever played Monopoly until the point where someone has well over the majority of the money? It really isn't fun for the rest of the players. Pretty much everyone either gangs up on that person to redistribute the wealth to keep the game going -- or they win by making it so literally no one else can have anything.

The same thing happens here, except it isn't a game.
Kyoto Statement on End-to-End Encryption
What does "hoarding" mean here?
Amazon's value is reflected in its share price, this isn't decided by one person or entity. When someone or some entity buys or sells Amazon stock they are deciding what they think the stock is worth. He owns a large amount of this stock because he founded the company.

Is he hoarding Amazon stock? Do you mean there is a finite amount of wealth and he has hoarded it somehow in Amazon !?

He worked to make his company as valuable as possible, which is what his job was.
I can't speak to the EV's coming from other ICE manufacturers but, my wife bought a Mach-E a couple of months ago it's an amazing vehicle. It's one of the smoothest rides of any car I've ever driven and doesn't blink on getting up steep hills. I drove a Prius once and I could swear I heard it breathing hard.

The self-driving works very well though in a purposely limited capacity.

After driving that car and researching the economics of owning an EV, I'm squarely convinced that I'll never buy another gas-powered car again.