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They fully comply with Chinese requirements if you subscribe to iCloud in China, and they do this quite transparently. They do not, notably, say they don't share anything with China and then go ahead and do it anyway.

Unless Apple is straight up lying about their technology and encryption methods used to secure iCloud and their hardware, the issue of a public standoff is moot, because Apple couldn't help them if they wanted to. And while perhaps it's possible that Apple would lie to consumers to please US law enforcement, it's a bit of a stretch to say that because there haven't been any high-profile cases where law enforcement tries to force Apple to give up what they don't have, that this must be evidence that they're in cahoots.

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Accumulation post dispersion is also a thing. If the combined effects of individually harmless activities was not an issue, this comment thread wouldn't exist.

I've always liked the lens reviews on https://www.opticallimits.com/reviews

How much does a PS5 or 3080 go for in your neck of the globe?

I guess the difference between an overthinker and having foresight is the rate of false positives?

Cross-breed Boston Dynamics' Spot?

Exactly. At least gambling is regulated.

Yeah that video is all kinds of amazing. I also got lost down a several hour rabbit hole watching the guy and his buddies bring up an AGC and perform a simulated lunar landing with it. Thank you for sharing!

Holy cow, yes. I switched to FF a while back, and your description of the behavior alone raised my blood pressure. They way return automatically opens whatever the first suggestion is immensely frustrating. The way hitting `return` is literally a race condition against how quickly the autocomplete returns its results.

There are some things I miss about Safari, but the search bar behavior is not one of them.

I'm genuinely, in a completely non-judgmental way, interested to understand what systemic forces lead to such a staggeringly high percentage of this brand of fraud.

I have always been enamored by hive insects like ants and bees. Each individual's understanding, effect, even its optical view of the world is minuscule. The scope and of the individual's existence is so tiny, that the mark it makes on the world is a floating point rounding error.

In spite of that, the collective is enough to dominate a kitchen or farm or jungle many orders of magnitude larger. It knows to attack an intruder. It can give a hairless ape with years of training and three layers of protective equipment a really hard time. Hell, it can make a stir in that apex predator's society by reputation alone.

Maybe I find the magnificent result of their cooperation inspiring in its implications for humanity and the greater galaxy. Maybe I'm just a weird nerd that knows what supervillain theme I would pick if this computer stuff doesn't work out.

I wouldn't only because I've already seen enough examples of them impugning their credibility that I've been able to form my own conclusions.

I wasn't aware that the NYT was considered equivalently and oppositely biased. The articles I have read have not put up any red flags for me, but I'm not closed off to the possibility that I've missed the signs or haven't read the right articles. Hence my question.

I take it you think virtually all their reporting is sufficiently biased so as not to be considered trustworthy?

Do you have any links to articles you find particularly egregious?

The same video where he gains ~13% performance by turning the bottom of the laptop into into a heatsink, rendering it a surface too hot to be placed on a lap. Also where chilled-water cooling had no performance gains over the un-lappable laptop.

If anything, he debunked his own theory with that experiment.

So a reelection cliffhanger. Does actually seem plausible for this administration.

Sounds like a win-win for them. They get to market themselves as staying up to date with tech (although the HSBC personal banking app I use indicates otherwise). And when they "lose track of" the money they move for the cartel and terrorists, they can blame MongoDB and spare some execs the jail time.

Beta 7.1 was where it where I got hooked. The Steyr Scout was a 1 shot kill with the same move speed and cs_mansion was the epitome of map balance. At least at the 12-PC internet cafe I could play at.

An insane mistake to make, but perhaps more surprising than the fact that it could be allowed to happen is that someone who benefited from the mistake is willing to simply hand the ETH back.

> And we could make companies do that. But that will just drive organisations and land owners to hide these sites exist in the first place.

That really hit home. Sometimes there really are no-win scenarios. Absolutely tragic that these sites are lost, but there's no practical solution to preserve them.

I thought it was an interesting anecdote. I didn't read it as a rebuttal but simply as extra data to consider. Both the article and this comment provide much food for thought.

> if a company makes a profit of $100, they'd have to pay $21 in tax, and the company's equity gain is then $79. If you then charge a 35% tax on top of the $79, then that means you've taxed the $100 profit at 56%, which is a lot higher than the normal amount. So by reducing capital gains tax to 15%, you'd end up charging only 36% in total.

35% of $79 is $27.65. Total tax according to your example would be $21 + $27.65 = $48.65.

They were being a bit pedantic, but their math is correct.

I’m worried by how much I like this idea

Wouldn’t that make it almost impossible to meet emission regulations? I’m not a fan of how opaque cars have gotten, but I’ll accept some loss of control for cleaner air.

I'll second this. They fixed everything that was wrong with the previous generation, and it's hardware I'd actually recommend now.

Catalina, on the other hand...

I have about 20 Z-Wave switches in my home, spread across 4 models and 2 brands. There were noticeable differences in response time, both from the physical button and over Z-Wave, when comparing brands. And even the most reliable brand for me (Aeotec) has had issues with the network being a little laggy. That's still a success in my books, though; I have bought Z-Wave devices that do not play nicely at all.

On the other hand, my Philips Hue lights have all been absolutely flawless. They fire on time, every time.

I think implementation of the standards matters a lot more than the standard itself, in practice.

It’s a survival instinct when there’s two mouths to feed, and one meal to do it.

When there’s enough for everyone and more, and we take enough resources for 50 because then we get it faster, cheaper, and shinier... well, I wouldn’t personally describe that as survival instinct.

There are some days I definitely don’t disagree with you. For all our intelligence, we spend an awful lot of it being senselessly destructive. Hard to argue that’s worth keeping around.

I hear you, and FWIW, I didn’t construe your meaning negatively.

I am Malaysian. I wish I could say that despite our best conservation efforts, we just couldn’t save the Sumatran rhino. Instead, both within Malaysia and without, we hardly give even a moment’s thought to the damage we do as we do it.

If only our quandary was, “which species won’t we be able to save?” instead of “what species are we going to sacrifice so we don’t have to change our lifestyle?”

I guess if you try to quantify a species’ value by looking at its utility, either to the ecosystem or for our amusement, you may arrive at the conclusion that some species are not worth saving. Reasonable even if a little cold.

I tend to take the view that life — all life — is extremely rare in the universe, and that alone is enough to warrant as much action as realistically possible to preserve it. A species might never be useful for anything, but it is the unique product of countless generations before it; a story of complexity and beauty that, it could be argued, dwarfs any of humanity’s greatest achievements.