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the hedging might have something to do with the W1 chip[0] improvements in the AirPods that provided for fast and consistent bluetooth pairing that Apple cared about more so than relying upon 3rd party bluetooth experience in a headphone connector-less flagship phone.

[0] https://9to5mac.com/2016/09/12/apple-w1-chip-how-it-works/

I remember dealing with the emergency IT issues that popped up with our NYC offices after hurricane Sandy wrought havoc upon much of lower Manhattan's power grid. We were lights out for at least three days. Had to take lots of taxis to move hardware to places with electricity. Even if we wanted to be creative, the subway was certainly not a transportation option and foot was wight prohibitive. The pickup rules for taxi's were suspended during this emergency period. Taxis could pickup fares mid-ride, turn down any rider going to a undesirable destination, & charge whatever they thought they could get. Lucky for me, despite all other storm-born chaos, I was in a sweet spot for where taxis were more than happy to drive. Even so, seeing the number of people who were turned down for their destinations or who in turn declined a ride because of the driver chosen price hike was fascinating; a sort of real-time, impromptu emergent market in infancy rapidly growing into maturity.

So not to say that these ride share services have moved to remove all these kinds of consumer protections that clearly were quickly dropped and exploited once they were removed due to the state of emergency but to a large extent, I feel like I had the chance to experience the larger forces of gamification that would happen if these protections were removed and circumstances were ripe for profit. Overall I am very happy with the changes ride sharing services have brought to supplement transportation options but there are certainly a lot more of these bumps and kinks to be worked out if these businesses hope to avoid a wave of government regulation.

Serena Williams might have an opinion on that.

> people would be interested in solutions instead of blaming, finger pointing and political games.

Would anyone be interested in bureaucratic machinations over solutions? Varoufakis' ex post facto statement sounds bitter and judgemental and to be expected in the face of his failure.

If you listen to his EconTalk episode, you get a sense of an admirable and optimistic person who, when faced with the defensive positioning of EU stalwarts, represented his ideas in a naive and condescending way that denied himself and the Greek people he represented the chance to establish trust and the proper report to begin alternative negotiations in earnest. His economic ideas might be perfectly salient but his self-introduction at the bailout talks did not represent those ideas very well.

Also of interest is Varoufakis on EconTalk[0] interview in 2013, almost two years before the Greek electoral victory of Syriza and Varoufakis taking the political position of finance minister. You might hear from this interview how Varoufakis looked at Greece's crisis negotiation-position with the EU: that for Greece, similar to the employee-management structure of Valve, there was a lack of hierarchy between peers and only a room full of equals. In that sense and through the Valve-hierarchy of equals lens, much of the tone-deaf rhetoric of Varoufakis towards his peers though the bailout talks can be interpreted with a wider spectrum of sound. Varoufakis, it seems, sincerely thought he would bring "enlightened" new ideas of successful software development management to a negotiation table of frustrated, advantaged, EU financial stalwarts.

[0] http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2013/02/varoufakis_on_v.htm...

They aren't directly linked. I just like the idea of cataloging all of the time bounded limits in CS. Reading the wiki entry and having forgotten the exact date for when Unix time comes to end, although knowing it is close, i figured others might enjoy seeing the 2038 date too. Based upon voting, I was wrong.

it looks like Koomey's law will outlive the year 2038 problem[0].

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

"People who are brutally honest generally enjoy the brutality more than the honesty." --Richard Needham

one of the major issues of malware/spam/botnets is a direct result of the hardware ISPs provide to their customers. They should at minimum be taking on that responsibility of security upgrading their rootable hardware. If abuse@ could just be triggered by honeypots that could quickly identify hacked routers & ISPs would replace/upgrade them accordingly, at least one ugly sliver of the IoT would be addressed.

i think the article attempts to address this question by this hypothetical:

> Can you imagine what would have happened if Uber decided, because men gobble more food than women, that only women should get free catering in the company’s cafe, and men would have to reach into their wallets?

Google in their "Disclosure timeline for vulnerabilities under active attack,"[0] states 60 days for disclosure for discovered security vulnerabilities and seven days for critical, currently known in-the-wild security bugs under active exploit.

[0] https://security.googleblog.com/2013/05/disclosure-timeline-...

You're comment reminds me of that Anomaly comic about the manger and the pie chart[0].

[0] http://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/277232_700b.jpg

> someone mentioned that if you think of our digestive system as a tube connecting two holes in the body then everything inside of our stomach is external.

For what it's worth, I'm pretty sure this was said somewhere in the Chris Kresser, Joe Rogan Experience podcast episode #842.[0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_2vNj8pshY

The contrary perspective is appreciated. My outside take was the MS acquired Skype for the reasons you mention and in addition they also thought they had a VoiP solution that would be the killer app for Windows Phone. Then that ran into the obvious telecom incumbent push back that Apple and the iPhone seemed to navigate with such ease. MS arrogantly disregarded the telecoms positioning in this time period period since the telecoms were going to lose their voice revenue before having worked out mobile IP pricing and caps. The telecoms didn't want a voice service competition. So then Windows Phone was without its killer app and everything started to atrophy (Windows Phone/Skype/Nokia).

When the product began to display connection status at launch, it was a welcome update but it made me wonder why the recent decision to add this to the UI. If things are moving along smoothly, there doesn't tend to be a need to add gauges and indicators to your instrumentation. What is most likely are some backend issues after some migration or update was leading to a lot of inconsistent messaging problems. Adding connection status was a sanity check for troubleshooting these issues. It was one of those improvements that helped explain why things seemed to be a bit flaky recently.

There is a lot of competition in this space and I sort of feel that Skype was a Windows Phone play that didn't pan out for MS after the Windows Phone failed (along side the Nokia deal). Unfortunately for the London office, the product heads are not really sure how to right this ship. Hopefully everyone lands gracefully, whatever happens with the product.

> I truly wonder what everybody at this company is doing all day.

when a business lacks proper product focus there are an infinite amount of issues to work on each day. it is in this kind of environment that everything seems important and all prioritization is treated as urgent. people burn out in this kind of workplace and this is what it looks like is happening over at twitter.

this is, in all likelihood, diplomatic speak saying to China, "stop the blatant government sponsored cyber spying and corporate espionage and we can talk about more about space cooperation."

It's Got What Plants Crave!

> Fourth, beware bad deals.

> I am thinking of one high-profile Internet startup in San Francisco right now

which specific startup is being referred to in this section of the article?

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this is a very nice and better than expected answer to hear.

Here is the video[0] of their St. Louis country road test. You can evaluate the relative dangers to others accordingly.

[0] https://youtu.be/ONDSAMfNGP0

the hipster proclamation paradox.

not the same but congruent but there was the baggage theft ring[0] at JFK that focused on easily resalable electronics (and other goods).

[0] http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/baggage-theft-...

some might say, "huge tracks of land."

soggy peas have their place as well.

that seems like a very general rule for something that might have greater subtlety than, "lower pay for an non-citizen employee." curious about your rational here.

This ruling makes end-to-end encryption illegal where, a service provider at no time holds the keys to decrypt messages between communicating parties. This is a protocol decision and since the Snowden revelations, a point of concern for civil libertarians. The Apple v FBI debate is a child of these exact concerns. The idea that governments want to legislate unfettered access to private communications and devices should be met with skepticism and public scrutiny that this Brazilian case will hopefully provide.

let's just add to the servicewüste[0] of dealing with communication companies in Germany.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servicew%C3%BCste

The laundering could be for a whole sets of reason. Two offhand examples; having money available for barred transactions due to sanctions[0] or having untraceable money available for intelligence or other related illicit activities. Some people rather have a gun and not need it than need a gun and not have it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_sanctions_during...