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As an aside, I find it fascinating how we apparently randomly changed prepositions. "By accident" somehow became "on accident" and "wait for" someone became "wait on" someone (which used to be what waiters do).

Language is great.

Does that expose a Cast device? That's very interesting.

I agree, but still...

This is a very interesting article, but I was kind of turned off by the ease with which it described killing people. "To get a solid kill, just put the plane in the dot and squeeze the trigger, super simple!"

I've seen detergent bottles that were more apprehensive about their process of use.

This is excellent, finally we'll be able to cast to Raspberry Pis and other Linux-running computers. Well done!

Right, but Greek fits that description. Three languages in Europe have a native word for elephant.

Ah, so they did indeed use the same letter for two distinct sounds. Makes sense, thanks!

Whaaat? That's crazy, thanks for that!

"Fantastical" is probably more used for that nowadays (and that very rarely), but it didn't occur to me that there could be any other explanation, as in Greek we use "fantastic" for both meanings commonly, ie "fantastic job" and "fantastic world" (imaginary world).

Latin used the V for both V and U today, right? How did those two get separated? Why did we get "virus" and not "virvs" or "uirus"? I guess they were pronounced differently back then too?

German speakers can also relate, with "apotheke". Interestingly, apotheke in modern Greek means "storage room", pharmacy is "pharmakeio". Ypotheke does mean mortgage in modern Greek too.

> Finnish and the Slavic languages are the only ones in Europe that have a native word for "elephant". (Everyone else uses variants of the Greek "elephas" or Arabic "fil".)

So the only languages in Europe except the other language in Europe? :)

*hagiazo, btw, a d slipped in there by accident.

> Uh what's the next adjective after "extreme"?

Yeah, seriously. What's my 6 AM to 2 PM schedule? Extremer?

Ooh I like this one, thanks!

> As for the value of 1 BTC, it's value fluctuates if you operate on a base currency which is not BTC, but that is the same for any currency exchange.

Yes but also, even though 1 BTC will always be worth 1 BTC, the amount of work it buys you won't be the same, as with any currency. In theory, you can also store USD for an infinite amount of time (assuming you exchange the paper for new paper when it decays), but it, too, won't hold its value.

Speak for yourself, this is the third sun I've planted this millennium and you guys need to take it easy with it.

I agree with the rest of your comment, but there's some sleight of hand here:

> This turns effectively "wasted" energy in to a solidly efficient energy store for infinite amount of time— for example: 1 BTC will always be equal to 1/21000000 of the total supply.

It's not an efficient energy store if you can't get the energy back, it's just energy usage. Also, yes, 1 BTC will always be the same fraction of the total supply, but the actual value of it varies.

That's excellent advice, thank you!

The problem (with the teams I've worked with, at least), is that you have multiple tools for documentation and you generally get overwhelmed and stop even trying to search.

I'm working on https://www.sherdoc.co/ right now to help fix that issue.

> I had already started internal blog groups and was encouraging people to write.

Can you give some advice around that? Was it one blog in general, one per team, per person? What tool did you use for it? What else do you think is notable about it?

They're replying to a comment arguing for open devices. Saying "I'm fine with a closed device" is at best irrelevant. "I'm fine with a locked-down computer" is no argument against "I want my computer to be more open", as, in the end, if you're fine with your locked-down computer, just keep it locked down.

Then people arguing this should stop being disingenuous that this is somehow about enabling user freedoms, and outright say "your phone should take away your choice because you can't be trusted with it" .

This isn't very relevant to the current discussion, though, as you don't need root or an unlocked bootloader on Android to do that.

I don't know what to tell you if you believe that, while conversions drop off a cliff if the "signup" button isn't prominent, asking users to unlock their bootloader and install a third party app store just to get Facebook working on their phone is a thing that would get a nonzero amount of users.

So the reasoning is "if you allow my phone to be unlocked, so many people will want alternate stores that Facebook and Google will unlist their apps from the App Store and use the alternative stores only, and then they won't be as rigorously reviewed"?

Like how you can't get Facebook on the Play Store because it's only available on F-droid on Android, for example?

That's certainly... interesting.

> Why do you want to take my choice away from me?

You keep repeating this disingenuous argument. If you don't want to root your phone, don't root it. If you don't want your kids to be able to root their phones, don't pretend like you aren't taking away their choice.

If you don't want rival stores with lax standards, don't install them. Just don't keep telling people who want to be given a choice that they're somehow "taking your choice away from you".

If you want to be in prison, go ahead, but don't pretend that having the option to leave is somehow "taking your choice away".

> So there may be a good reason why Apple don’t want this to happen

Yes, this is why the phones are locked by default. This is not at all why the phones aren't unlockable, though. They can be unlockable and still be secure. Apple just doesn't want to give you the choice.

How does being able to get root access to an iPhone (the way you can on a Mac) limit creativity?

This is such a tired argument. Nobody is arguing that iPhones should be rooted by default, only that they should be rootable.