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I'm not an expert, but my understanding is its not at all clear enough to make such a strong, simplistic statement. For example:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...

Except now we have only one MacBook Pro choice: one with a more expensive part that uses more battery and is another possible failure point. It’s a net negative for anyone who is even neutral to it, never mind someone who uses say the physical escape key on a regular basis.

But it is decidedly legal to publish materials that explain how to do so.

I cannot imagine defending the move to 100% usb-c ports. An iphone out of the box cannot be connected to a new mac laptop. It's complete insanity. The rest of the world isn't there yet. Every single person I know who owns a usb-c mac laptop owns a $100 dongle that they carry everywhere with them.

For me being able to plug in USB type-A is a non-negotiable part of using a laptop still, 4 years after the move. Same with HDMI. I also regularly plug SD cards in.

It doesn't make the laptop thinner, it makes it bulkier because the adapter is a necessity.

This is where the blame really lies: "European nations — including Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Austria — had been cutting taxes on diesel car purchases and diesel fuel to promote sales". The big lesson here is regulators should never ever pick winners from specific technologies.

They almost made the same mistake with XBox, but Allard, Fries & company managed to convince Gates not to brand things as Windows.

Even if it does, we know full well from decades of medical and aerospace disaster research that these problems can only be treated if they are handled as systemic and non-malicious. Punishing these people will make it harder to learn from what happened here, and make it harder to prevent these sorts of disasters in the future.

We know people act irrationally or apathetically in disasters. The only way to fix it is to design systems around peoples' inherent weaknesses. You can't go around punishing these people after the fact, we need to understand why they acted how they did and how we can stop it from happening in the future.

The ad phrasing isn't meant to do much more than give you a reason to go to the website, which answers your question and goes into far more detail. It's effective, and no different than any other advertising.

I am disappointed they blocked the ads, but the Streisand effect is in full force here.

I really hope someone else eats their lunch soon. There are some genuine improvements to the status quo in their cars, but the unbelievably poor quality control and silicon valley user hostility (near impossibility of DIY repairs & parts acquisition) should not be part of the future of cars.

This is to say nothing about their quixotic attitude towards self-driving in the face of competitors using better methods.

I think Linux and Postgres are much more exception than norm programming. They’re both relatively low level, critical infrastructure code worked on by domain experts with low level expertise —- not at all what most software looks like, and exactly the sort of people who would override defaults anyway.

Why not use this money to pay public servants more?

Why would Sony withdraw from the console market? They are far and away the dominant player.

For me the win would be being able to charge my phone, watch, and airpods all at once. This is way, way better than 3 cables (one of which is different).

This jumped out at me too. To a non-American, it seems like everything that is wrong with American politics: being so unable to empathize with your fellow Americans that one would treat them as an enemy and refuse to help them in any way.

I think they were referring to internal research that says 'if we do X we can sell more' which has naturally aligned incentives.

This as opposed to releasing research along the lines of 'cigarettes are fine for you! smoke more!'

Even if you're pro gun control, it doesn't mean gun control reduces suicides. You'd have to look at the numbers -- are suicide rates lower in places with less access to guns? Or do people just commit suicide differently? I strongly suspect the latter.

Removing means doesn't fix the underlying problems, and it smacks of agenda pushing to suggest otherwise (even if it's a good agenda).

For those of us who think that 'get used to it' is not an acceptable answer for Facebook, Gmail or anything else, a little heat on any one of them is a good way to bring the problem to more public light.

This is one of the least wasteful things they do. The cuttings are recycled, and aluminum is one of the few materials that is more energy efficient to recycle than to mine/manufacture from scratch.

This is pretty backwards. If you want fewer people to visit, charge more. Charge extra to non locals if you’re so inclined. Don’t allow advertising, sure. But making parks free doesn’t make the problem better.

You missed it, all answered in the article

This is classic anecdotal thinking. Your statement is equivalent to someone who has smoked a pack a day for 40 years saying they don't think cigarettes cause lung cancer because they don't have lung cancer.

Not that this particular study is necessarily convincing -- but your anecdote has no value in determining if it is or isn't.

Ignorant question: if operational costs trump all, especially fuel (Maersk says in the article 60% of operational cost) why not pure sail power? Is there some other maintenance cost or infeasability there? Or is there another hidden variable that is not satisfied?

Are you sure? Not a production expert, but it sounds to me like this is a confusion of 'complete a car every 1-3 minutes' and 'complete a car in 1-3 minutes' They are two very different things, and I'm quite sure that no one is completing entire cars in 1-3 minutes.

I'm a supporter of extremely strong free speech protection, but this doesn't seem entirely black and white to me.

AWS is a private hosting company, and they may be exposed to legal or authority action based on what their clients host. It seems a lot like the Facebook arguments to me.

If you want to obligate them to support free speech, I think they need to be regulated as carriers otherwise it's not a reasonable standard to hold a private entity to. At least there is more competition in the hosting space than there is for Facebook.

Maybe this is an argument for regulation, but I don't think it's an argument for finger wagging. Either there is some sort of enforcement, or we acknowledge there are alternatives.

The last line of the article is "We'll be keeping an eye on weasyprint." I'm pretty sure that means they don't think it's ready yet, and aren't using it yet. It looks promising but they don't directly test it against any of their complaints!

I, like many people in this thread, have used wkhtmltopdf for years and it works pretty well.

The conclusion is telling: They switched from Prawn to wkhtmltopdf, have all these issues with it, but have found nothing better.

Wkhtmltopdf is far and away the best solution (at least in Ruby land) even if it is often painful to work with.

Recording verbatim conversation is a pretty rare typing use case I would say. Court reporters use steno machines for that, no non-chorded layout is fast enough.

The vast majority of people are typing up some sort of copy or code, both of which are limited by thinking speed if you're anywhere above 80wpm or so.

Even writing a relatively casual e-mail I find myself limited by thought speed rather than typing. I can type a sustained 120-150wpm but frankly it's mostly a party trick, I don't think it makes me any more productive than someone typing 60-80wpm.

In my mind occam's razor applies to the 'culture' of money over everything in China, if there is such a thing. I think theres a pretty simple explanation:

Most Chinese people have parents or grandparents who remember Mao and the great famines, or worked on or still work on rice farms in the sort of abject poverty no westerner--even a homeless one--can understand.

It's difficult to be exposed to this unless you live there for a while, preferably somewhere other than Beijing or Shanghai, and work with and interact with locals regularly.

The reality and nearness of the abject poverty of hundreds of millions of your countrymen is a fear that is utterly foreign in the so-called western world, but is very real in China. It is what everyone works to escape, and then works to prevent for their descendants.

I don't think TFA was particularly accusatory, but there was an undercurrent of judgement there that I think is unfair. If western culture was subject to that environment with such a large population I think we'd see very similar behaviour, understandably.

I also think this partly explains the tolerance to the current communist party--they have made real strides in lifting the living standards of hundreds of millions of people, and compared to still-too-near family memories of what China has been through, a little authoritarianism is a small price to pay for that.

I think China will need a long track record of prosperity before any real social or political change will happen.

The History of Rome is another history podcast among the all time greats of the medium I think, worth checking out.

It's a fair bit easier to switch away from Google, as most of their services have much weaker network effects. For example searching, I can only resort to Google if everything else fails, and easily switch back and forth. (This is not to say that there aren't still tracking issues.)

With Facebook, there is no alternative. If you want the value that the network provides you are trapped.