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Anyone remember this Apple ad from 12+ years ago? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuqZ8AqmLPY

That didn't age well...

Good to know! I stand corrected.

Well... He updated the link 12 years later (last year) because the original one was broken. So it's pretty much clear he still holds these beliefs.

If he made a statement that he changed his mind, I'd be happy to see it.

100% agreed. This is one of the worst examples: https://www.stallman.org/archives/2006-may-aug.html#05%20Jun...

I'm all for freedom of speech, but I don't see how people can defend these kind of opinions he's advocating.

The Netherlands also has the tax AND it's illegal to download. The tax is even charged on all kinds of storage media, even phones bought in stores.

A link with much more technical details: https://www.xda-developers.com/harmony-os-huawei-announce/

TLDR: the study referenced is inherently flawed. Among others:

* It used outdated NEDC tests instead of WLTP numbers. (Diesel) car makers are known to have cheated NEDC tests for decades, using corrected WLTP numbers changes the whole story.

* It exaggerated the CO2 emissions for production of batteries, Tesla's Gigafactory emits 2.6x less CO2 per kWh than assumed.

* It assumed a battery lifespan of just 150k km. Tesla's rated battery lifespan is over 2M km, so taking 300k as very conservative number changes the calculation significantly.

* It assumed an energy mix of today, instead of an increasing share of renewable energy in the future.

Using corrected data, the Tesla emits actually 63% less CO2 instead of 11-28% more.

Paddle is quite nice, you get many payment options like PayPal, credit card, wire, etc in one. All unified in one API, which works great. It also offers invoicing + VAT handling for customers, which is great as well. The big disadvantage is the steep pricing, you easily pay double of what Stripe+PayPal would cost.

That doesn't seem to be entirely true: https://developer.android.com/preview/privacy/scoped-storage...

Sliver, not silver. I.e. you see/complain about the small mistakes of others but you fail to see the big ones of yourself.

Very true, this is the case among many of their products. For example Google Home is not fully working on G Suite accounts, ridiculous.

They recently added "PlatformView" which allows you to embed any native (Android/iOS) component in the app. Sample: https://medium.com/flutter-community/flutter-platformview-ho...

I bought one of those stainless steel ear cleaning tools from AliExpress a few years ago (<$1), and I have to admit that it works amazing. It requires some practice but it's so much more hygienic and effective than our Western tradition of stuffing everything back in with q-tips.

Note that medicines count towards your deductible, as well as any more serious investigation by the GP (x-rays, blood tests, etc).

Incorrect. For example in The Netherlands it is mandatory to be insured. If you refuse to pay insurance, not only will you have to pay 100% of healthcare costs, you'll also be fined.

That's exactly what all major drones do. DJI has a market share of about 75% [1] and you cannot take off any of their success in a restricted flight zone. Flight zone updates are also mandatory and forced to the users. Same for Yuneec, which has another 5% market share.

1. http://thedronegirl.com/2018/09/18/dji-market-share/

I'm in ad tech, and believe me: FB advertising works. The vast majority of their ad revenue is coming from experienced ad buyers that are spending immense amounts on direct response campaigns, not branding.

If you want to see how things work, start a small ad campaign yourself of FB. It's all about ROI, attribution, cost per action, super detailed targeting, etc. It's the opposite of "throwing money at it hoping that it'll work", unlike offline advertising or even traditional display ads.

Are you hinting that FB advertisers are throwing 50 billion (expected 2018 revenue) at ads that are poorly performing? Obviously that is not correct, the result of all this detailed targeting is campaigns that are performing very well for experienced marketeers.

No, they are using the phone number for "custom audience" targeting, where advertisers upload lists of phone numbers of users to target.

Same for Netherlands. The month-box of 210 huggies costs 34 euro, so you get a number around 300 euro/year. If you buy from stores with discount, you'll get a price of around 11 cents per nappy: https://www.luierinfo.nl/aanbiedingen/pampers/premium-protec...

It's actually the other way around, they prepay Grab some package and make it back + the driver commission over time.

That's the reason they are working on the next-gen mobile client now, code-named Telegram X [1] [2]. In my tests it appears to be faster and lighter, I can't speak for the code though as it hasn't been released yet.

1. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/telegram-x/id898228810?mt=8 2. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.thunderdog...

There is a big difference between a Kickstarter and an ICO, namely that ICOs allow you to resell the tokens in open marketplaces. If you decide you're not interested after all the next day you can resell the token.

If this example proves anything, it's that the GPU result is the same in both browsers.

We were definitely prepared to recover from a backup, but the support team told us: "the issue with the file system will likely persevere over a backup/restore". So this, in combination with the data loss you have when recovering from a backup, means we basically had no choice other than to wait till the issue was resolved.

Apologies if this is too much off-topic, but I want to share an anecdote of some some serious problems we had with GCS and why I'd be careful to trust them with critical services:

Our production Cloud SQL started throwing errors that we could not write anything to the database. We have Gold support, so quickly created a ticket. While there was a quick reply, it took a total of 21+ hours of downtime to get the issue fixed. During the downtime, there is nothing you can do to speed this up - you're waiting helplessly. Because Cloud SQL is a hosted service, you can not connect to a shell or access any filesystem data directly - there is nothing you can do, other than wait for the Google engineers to resolve the problem.

When the Cloud SQL instance was up&running again, support confirmed that there is nothing you can do to prevent a filesystem crash, it "just happens". The workaround they offered is to have a failover set up, so it can take over in case of downtime. The worst part is that GCS refused to offer credit, as according to their SLA this is not considered downtime. The SLA [1] states: "with respect to Google Cloud SQL Second Generation: all connection requests to a Multi-zone Instance fail" - so as long as the SQL instance accepts incoming connections, there is no downtime. Your data can get lost, your database can be unusable, your whole system might be down: according to Google, this is no downtime.

TL;DR: make sure to check the SLA before moving critical stuff to GCS.

[1]: https://cloud.google.com/sql/sla

Actually Xiaomi (a Chinese vendor) has one of the best update models I have seen. They update MIUI weekly, every Thursday a new update with small changes/security fixes. If only more companies would adopt such a model we'd have a different situation.

Does anyone know of any alternatives? SimilarWeb should jump in a publish a similar top-1MM CSV daily.

This happened multiple times to me in the past as well. Most likely the other person searched for my name on FB causing FB to recommend the searcher as friend to me (LinkedIn uses the same technique). Location data sounds strange, that'd mean FB would constantly recommend other people sitting in the same restaurant etc.

This is just a wrapper for web clients of the "protocols" they support. So WhatsApp is web.whatsapp.com in a tab, Skype is web.skype.com, etc.