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If they don't want to have to look for qualified local talent every-time the visa renewal comes up, and the employee is being a valuable and productive member of society, that seems like an ideal case for some kind of permanent residency program. Maybe it could involve some kind of colored card?

What an absolute mess this whole system is.

Cash-only and cash-intensive businesses are an incredibly easy and common vehicle for money laundering. The less customer information involved, the more effective. Such businesses are incredibly widespread and vital to organized crime, and their ease of operation in this manner is baked into their DNA.

Despite this, they too serve a useful function.

Do you have a similar problem with cash-only businesses?

And cars are frequently used to smuggle illegal goods.

All sorts of legitimate and useful things get used illegitimately.

This isn't really true. Jailbreaks are not the main concern here, privilege escalation vulnerabilities are. Those are discovered somewhat regularly in both Android and iOS. Jailbreaks on iOS make use of such vulnerabilities when they discover them, but most vulnerabilities are not discovered by jailbreakers. These sorts of vulnerabilities are also inherent to any complex operating system, not unique to Android.

Users "rooting" their Android phones also usually doesn't involve any sort of real exploit either. Android devices don't come with the ability for apps to run as root by default, and can have their firmware flashed to add a means of doing so. Doing this requires that the user unlock their bootloader, which wipes the device and often requires manufacturer authorization. Rooted devices have weakened security by being rooted, but this doesn't affect ordinary non-rooted devices.

And most of the rest of congress aren't just not doing anything about it, they consistently support the American surveillance state and voted on its expansion. It's incredibly rare for privacy to even be on the ticket.

In Canada it is possible to order online directly to any post office via a special address and pick up there for free.

This is IMO a much better solution because post offices are already necessary and present everywhere, and individual retailers don't have to support the option to ship to them.

I think 2x improvement in productivity is a pretty optimistic number unless you don't write much code and mostly just compile it. In heavier workloads there certainly can be decent ROI though.

A lot of it is because eventually production will catch up, and in the meantime companies want to catch consumer attention with the actual intended retail price while still big in the news rather than scaring them away with a higher launch price and then dropping it later and risk not catching the attention of uninvested customers.

There is also some marketing value in having a product sell out quickly.

It also basically doesn't matter for 99% of people. Most people just need their phone to be fast enough to run common applications responsively. Benchmarks are irrelevant to the average user, and are mostly a dick measuring contest. People tend to prefer mobile platforms on the basis of features that they offer, practical hardware traits like battery and connectivity, and familiarity.

I mean technically it was, but only in the sense that computers at that time were generally shared systems and the pitch was that a worker/user would have their own individual (personal) computer at their desk and wouldn't have to share resources with other users, and the IBM salespeople I talked to at the time loved to talk about this. The fact that multitasking personal systems weren't feasible at the time meant that a machine could be either multitasking/multiuser or personal. That distinction died alongside DOS though.

None of that really has much to do with what the above user said about their Linux system however.

When the term PC was coined by IBM they ran PC DOS and were entirely single-user and incapable of multitasking of any kind.

That, and their goal isn't actually to make a better product. A better product can be a means to an end, but the real goal is to increase the rate of growth, and more often than not that flat interface style convinces some manager or consumer that they need the latest one.

Make the number go up. All hail the number.

Those who do not remember the Bell System are doomed to see it repeat in varying permutations.

I'd say 17% of the computer market is sizable but still small and segmented enough to be premium. Macs don't factor into the purchasing decisions of the vast majority of ordinary people.

It's an important distinction that is often obscured by the number of products that aren't professional equipment/software, and don't have this kind of attitude, but affix the word "Pro" to their consumer product line for marketing reasons.

The process is called parfrying and is really common for a lot of stuff. It's more efficient to do it higher up on the chain because the restaurants don't need more prep work and it can all be done at once.

Instant noodles are also parfried, which is how they cook so quickly.

This video goes into something vaguely related with how the coordinate system works in Mario 64: https://youtu.be/kpk2tdsPh0A

There's a lot of interesting problems that arise when making a 3d game vs a 2d one.

And if you didn't need the extra power you could get all the suffering of a Sun box for the cost of a common office PC.

I think that's why I've seen very few workstations using it, but it's pretty common as a shared industrial system. If you need a single user system you'd just use DOS, if you need a powerful workhorse you'd get a fancier system, possibly some newfangled RISC machine, but if you need a multitasking system and don't need much power for any individual task it's ideal.

Even then, it still is about capital, it's just that the power and interests of capital work inside this organism the same way individual cells further their own life in a multicellular organism. The whole coheres as a result of a confluence of interests and interactions, most of which are so minuscule they have no substantial individual impact on the whole and merely serve as reinforcement of the general pattern, growth. Some cells are more powerful than others, nerve cells have some ability to direct the organism as a group, as do billionaires in this economic organism, but in both cases are bound by the system and ultimately have the same interests as the organism itself.

The important note here is that these sub-units of the organism are not people in general. They are capital and its controllers. It is their individual interests which trend towards their own growth that result in the organism itself seeking growth as a whole.

If your product is something the users will genuinely want and find very useful, and you present it as a member of the community who decided to make it for the community's benefit, people will be thrilled generally.

If you show up as an outsider, or with a product that either isn't useful or isn't unique/new you will be seen as the shill that you are.

The idea that individual action even can is so utopian. When I'm emperor there will be no crime because everyone will recognize that crime is bad, even if doing crime benefits them.

Individual action isn't bad or anything, but we can't just wish away our problems by saying that everyone will get along.

NeXT was also mostly ahead of the market on the software side. Their machines were a very tough sell compared to the price and performance of other UNIX workstations of the time (which is why I know SunOS and not NeXTStep).

All the vision and all the software quality in the world won't make you competitive in the 90s UNIX workstation market if your machines are underpowered, and we were used to garbage software anyway. Chasing the "personal workstation"/PC market also would never work. DOS/Windows was far too strong and the Macintosh deep in a niche. It's very unfortunate.

If Qualcomm is implementing it, I'm sure it will on a technical level. Linux is important to AMD and Intel, but Linux-running devices represent nearly all of Qualcomm's non-embedded SOC market.

Whether vendors can use it to restrict such things, I don't think anyone can say right now, but I would guess and hope not. The TPM does not.

Philosophy will cease to be relevant when thinking ceases to be relevant. I would cast suspicion on the intentions of anyone who wants people to stop reasoning and questioning.

I would personally prefer a public works project with fruits that have a little bit more return on them than blowing up Afghani farmers.

Plus acquisitions and operations/maintenance eat up much more than personnel costs anyway, and the surplus of that money goes to defense investors (who I personally don't enjoy subsidizing so much).

And that's no accident. "Defense" is a very lucrative industry with a lot of money and power behind making sure those dollars go towards buying toys to destroy schools on the other side of the planet instead of fixing them back home.

Users don't recognize Swing, but I wouldn't say it didn't succeed. There are an unbelievable number of little utilities, obscure programs, and company-internal tools written in Swing that people use every day and don't really think about. Swing didn't catch on much for big name software, but it still manages to be everywhere, and is much of the reason a lot of intermediate users reflexively install Java on new systems when they get them.

That, and for better or worse, Wordpress. A lot of things that used to have been frontpage sites became Wordpress sites of varying quality and maintenance.

I think this is more a case of only noticing them as housewives when it gets called to your attention. Neutral/warm depictions of housewives are incredibly common but don't grab your attention because of how ordinary they are. It doesn't exactly stand out in most people's minds when they see a caring mother figure or a loving spouse.

If you want a return to the sanitary, saccharine dom coms of the sort the Simpsons was originally a parody of, I have to vehemently disagree that there is any real desire for that.