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Sorry, I wasn't aware there's triple secret NDA on the fact that Google's main business is advertising...

They can't be louder and prouder about it, because they know at one point they'll have to compromise it so that Google own apps can track the user.

A couple solutions: one man offices, working from home.

I do have two houses. They are in cheap places and the total mortgage payments are what I make in 3 - 4 days.

Simply not true. As en extreme example the human body is assembled by bio machinery, how do you disassemble it without breaking it?

Yeah, those are good.

Many cheaper laptops still have replaceable RAM, WiFi, cell modem, SSD, optical drive, battery.

A few models still come with socketed, upgradable CPUs. These days the 14nm desktop CPUs are efficient enough for laptop use.

Close the libraries down, same as public baths. I don't want my taxes being wasted on those people.

They can make you (or your customers) solve a captcha before each API call.

Don't think so, it's too small.

The schedule thing sounds like a fair deal, if you allow human input the people with "people skills" will benefit at the expense of those that are socially awkward.

Travel can be extremely cheap nowadays, e.g. budget airlines on weekdays, last minute deals from the big tour operators. Working one 10 hour day a week will allow for way more travel than 4x the money on a 4 or 5 days work week.

Last year I had a consulting gig in a Europe based company, with offices next to a big airport. As summer was slow anyway I'd work 30h weeks (invoicing four 7.5 hour work days) Tuesday - Thursday, and spend the other 4 days at a beach in Ibiza, Bulgaria or Cape Verde (with occasional remote login to take care of emergencies).

Assume without thinking that conspiracy theory equals false -> you watch too much TV.

What types of programs are impacted by the lack of low overhead synchronous IPC?

This person switches threads :)

But in practice, I guess this legacy architecture adds a nanosecond or two to a thread switch. Is that a big deal? How many switches does a desktop PC do in a second? How about an AWS/Azure/GCP server?

I've never experienced lag in a game or app or web server due to slow thread switch. Server side async is on the rise anyway, minimizing number of threads and switches.

Or bribe the phone company and get direct access to the mail box.

I was planning to switch to data-only SIM anyway, don't need no phone number or voice mail.

But if CRISPR cuts off a single DNA sequence, surely the repair mechanisms won't damage a random gene far away. My very limited understanding is this paper is reporting widely spread damage on the genome.

The original bacteria CRISPR can only cut off pre-defined sequences, but the artificial gene tech CRISPR can add and edit as well. I'm wondering if the later two modes are the sources of the genome damage.

Don't think so. Originally the CRISPR mechanism was discovered in bacteria, which only have one cell. It doesn't make sense for bacteria's anti-virus system to kill it's only cell.

I'm wondering if we'll ever be able to replace horses with cars.

The thing is I'm often looking at the horses and they are looking at me :)

New tech companies will make media noises in two cases:

1. Need investment

2. Have a product to sell

Currently carbon nanotubes firms/departments fill neither case. They have enough money, because of all the hype and they don't have a product, as there's still no known way to mass produce.

In a few years, once price efficient nanotube fabs come online, IMHO we'll see tons of amazing, ground-braking products out.

Apprentice in system programming? Never seen one.

As most other things it comes to passion. If you literally write C in your dreams and spend every waking hour hacking OS kernels you'll get to be very good.

Who supported Russia after the war?

100k more, not 100k total.

They tried to improve Symbian - I've got their latest and greatest Symbian device, the 808 and it's a joke.

Even if they could do Maemo, there would've been no apps - Microsoft failed to attract enough devs, given that there were already 10M .NET devs out there.

Nokia's cap was 300G at one time, it was bigger than Apple when the iPhone came out and it was the leader on the booming smartphone market. They lost a lot of value, fired a lot of people, lost their biggest market - which is not "doing rather well" for a publicly traded business ...

Choosing Android would not have saved them. Google didn't like Nokia and would've given new OS versions to other companies first. Nokia had to buy most of the components from Android phone manufacturers - Samsung, LG, Sony. They stood no chance.

They were doomed by the Symbian technical debt. When the iPhone came out, a very smart person posted a comment on HN saying Nokia is dead and he was right I guess :)

Nokia couldn't do what Samsung did. They lacked factories for NANDs, CPUs, RAM, screens, camera sensors.

Actually Nokia market cap is 30G, while Apple's 750G, 90% of which is "the handset business".

Complete nonsense. I've worked for the Pentagon since the middle 80's, it was and still is by far the biggest consumer of AI. The brightest minds of the 80's just couldn't deliver a working AI system, despite the government investing billions in LISP and Ada projects.

The same happened in Japan and Europe, their best CS people failed to deliver the promised Prolog AIs.