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While I disagree with solitary confinement I also disagree with a murderer reinventing himself as some sort of guru and getting a diversity department job at MIT

This man talks about the stigma of being a felon as being unfair when he took someone's life

I would equate his confinement with torture. However I don't think we should reward him for suffering through a punishment he granted himself.

When a person like this gets ted talks and photoshoots I think we've gone too far. The man has used his crime to turn himself into a brand

This article has some issues. The author states that apple's best ARM chip is comparable to one in a "top of the line" imac. This is utterly false.

They also state that the A13 trounces every other ARM chip by 2x yet uses a chart that doesn't include the Qualcomm 865 which is in current flagship android phones.

It doesn't really hurt the main point of the article but the logical appeal falls flat when you don't seem to really understand what you are discussing at a technical level.

You're missing three part where Kallinske was trying to make a deal with Silicon Graphics for the hardware that Nintendo ended up buying for the n64. This would have been a much better outcome. Sega Japan shut it down simply because Kallinske came up with it and they weren't going to answer to Sega America.

Kallinske was also agaisnt the 32x.

Case 100 Psu 100 Mobo 100 16gb RAM 60 AMD 3600 200 SSD 60 AMD 580 100

Total 720

If you already own a case, psu, storage, gpu, you can upgrade for like $400.

You could even get a 1600AF or 2600X for $80 or $140 respectively

This is true, but tape lasts much much longer. I know people have issues with floppies, but I wonder if that is more to do with dirty floppy drives that need to be cleaned, and the fact that it's harder to use tape for digital storage vs analog as you have to read encoded signals and convert to digital values vs having a few small dropouts on a cassette recording or a vhs.

Floppies are really just tape in a disc format, and use heads to read high and low signals and deduce the 1s and 0s.

It stands to reason they should last quite a long time considering audio/video/data tapes can last over 50 years.

CDs already get disc rot, sometimes just after a few years if they are cheap.

Don't forget, CDs have been out since 82, and they were not the first optical disc format around, either.

Tapes however, can last 50+ years. It's a much better medium than most think it is, for analog or digital storage. Heck, a reel to reel tape unit offers the best analog sound quality you can get.

Agreed, but it's incredibly naive to assume they are not. Google's product is it's users, and it's a known fact they manipulate results based on what they want you to think or what they think you want to see. They are completely shady on privacy.

I don't know why HN seems to be so stubborn about things like this. It's clear as day they fingerprint users, but seems like the majority of users here refuse to believe a corporation or government has done anything wrong unless they literally admit it in a press release.

Man you guys really have Stockholm syndrome.

Those go for some serious money these days.

Mixing the two is very useful. I typically make headers and footers with flex, build home page grids with grid, and then use flex to space out content in the cells.

No more floats, no more percent widths, no more weird nth child tweaks for positioning.

Add rems to the mix and responsive design has never been simpler. For grids you can just change from say a 3 column grid to a single column on mobile for most cases.

And the best part, no bootstrap.

I've stopped caring about people on ie or some super outdated browser version.

None of my projects have an audience that includes 90 years olds using ie6 on windows xp. I assume my users are on some chrome derivative that is fairly up to date.

I'm not going to use this until it's well supported, but I'll have no qualms going so.

I certainly am not worried about anything I've used flex or grid for... they've been out for quite awhile now.

I'm not sure why we are all trained to think that anything we build has to be compatible with old browsers that essentially no one is using.

For most projects, I don't see a point unless you have some really specific requirements.

I mean this is basically police harassing you for wrongthink. This is some 1984 stuff.

Decriminalization means that the lowest misdemeanor is replaced by a civil citation or confiscation.

You might still have to pay a fine like a traffic ticket, but it's not a criminal charge or an arrest.

It's also still illegal to purchase but you won't be charged for doing so.

Because he wasn't? Bismark united Germany by waging wars against Austria, Denmark, and France. Once he gained the territory he wanted, he was careful not to punish these nations. He could have pulled a Napolean and taken over all of Europe.

He made it clear he was just trying to unite his people, not take over the world, and under Wilhelm I, this system was stable.

All of the major western nations were undergoing industrial militarization at this point, particularly with naval technology.

When Wilhelm II came into power, he removed Bismark whose sole goal at this point was managing peace in Europe.

At this point all of the tension was in the Balkans, Wilhelm was eyeing new conquests, the Serbians murdered the Austrian heir to the throne, and every major power thought they were God's chosen people. They also thought any new conflict would be short and sweet just as the recent Prussian wars had been. No one understood how new technology and tactics would change the dynamic of war.

Bismarck was chancellor until 1890 and died about 10 years later. WWI didn't start until about 25 years after he was no longer running the show. People had moved on from his notions of European peace and wanted to play with their new toys.

Additionally, the chancellor was elected by the nobility. It was not as if he could have handed the role down to a successor. He would have had to find someone that appeased the new king, a younger nobility, and the public at large who were quibbling over democracy vs a semi constitutional monarchy.

Bismarck's talent was uniting people and keeping them happy, even when not everyone got what they want. He was respected by his enemies because he illustrated that he was just trying to unify the remains of the Holy Roman Empire, a gelatinous blob of bickering principalities that had been central to European conflicts for hundreds of years. Unification finally stopped the bleeding, and Bismarck made it clear that he was after global stability, not conquest.

If you want to blame someone for WWI, there's not really one person you can point to. However Wilhelm II would fit that mold much better than Bismarck. If he had been alive and in power, he would not have wanted to start a massive war of attrition.

They do. Thinkpads are made out of magnesium and are super durable. Build quality is pretty great. Should be more reliable than a mac.

Mac build quality really isn't all that great. Lots of glue and plastic hinges. Motherboard design is also atrocious. Check out Louis rossman on YouTube. I remember seeing a video where the webcam died because a thermal sensor stopped working and for some reason the webcam was wired into the same bus.

They also solder in ram and ssds now. They removed the data recovery port so if your ssd kicks the bucket there's no way to recover anything. That's what the T2 chip is for- they market it as some magical coprocessor but it's just an ARM chip that acts as a drive and ram controller so they can use soldered parts on the cheap.

I don't know if you've noticed but Intel chips have hardly improved over the years. They've been content with die shrinks for since sandy bridge. And even then, they've had to turn off the speculative hacks because of spectre and meltdown.

Apple also doesn't care about thermal performance. Look at how their i9 models throttle and perform worse than the i7 variants.

If you're buying apple you aren't putting performance first and foremost. It's either because of mac os or the design. You've been able to buy much faster windows laptops for far less money since they switched to intel. That's why a lot of devs have switched to lenovo.

Just because you can do something does not make acceptable to all people.

What you are talking about is essentially moral relativism. Most people see that as dubious.

Just because one entity sees something as right does not make it objectively right.

Can Instagram do this? Yes. Should everyone be okay with it in virtue of that ability? That comes down to personal opinion.

Python is much easier to learn and most devs already know it. It fosters quick and simple code that is super easy to maintain, and python/django is a huge and accessible ecosystem.

I don't need to learn a new language I won't use for anything else, I don't need to learn a framework that is not as simple as its proponents describe. I also don't need to learn a new package manager or go digging for gems that do what I need.

If you aren't already invested in ruby, there is very little to gain as a web app developer. It would be a huge waste of time to drop django or flask and learn not only a new framework but also a language that is often described as cumbersome to use.

Ruby on rails might make sense if you already know it, but it makes little sense for anyone else to learn it these days.

I doubt this is going anywhere. As a PC gamer I have no need for this, don't want to deal with lag, and don't trust Google to operate the platform in a consumer friendly way.

Look at how angry people are at epic right now. Taking a brand that already has a bad rap and trying to start a new market (that has already failed several times over) is not a great angle, especially with an audience as skeptical and anal retentive as gamers.

Additionally, who is the audience for this? Casual gamers use consoles, and those more invested use PCs. This is too out of the box for the former and completely useless to the latter. I could also see Google trying to get exclusives which would be a PR disaster.

Sure, it's a novel idea and looks like a decent execution, but its by no means a new one. Onlive did this 10 years ago and couldn't get market share. PSnow is available right now and its completely unusable even with a great connection because they dont have enough servers. The game selection is also terrible considering they should be able to load up any game in their ecosystem. I cant play MGS4, the PS4 remaster of last of us, nor horizon as they want me to buy a console to play it. So what's the point?

It's not satire nor a real experiment. There is no evidence to take from this. The box the cheese was placed in was a variable as well, so there's no conclusions to take here.

I can't take this person seriously. They are conflating a historical piece with something that endorses its mild at worst content.

Apparently trying to tell a story within the context of it's time is "misogynistic" and "racist." I fail to see how either could be the case here. Did the coens somehow fail because they had an intentionally weak female character who is being attacked by native Americans? Did no similar events ever occur in history?

The native Americans have a clear motive for attacking the wagon train as during the period of the film the American army was committing genocide against them.

Additionally, the travelers have reason to feel negatively about them as they are literally trying to murder them.

Is every movie now supposed to have strong, wooden characters who faces no challenges nor tragedies? Is that realistic? Additionally, is a film set in a time period inherently offensive because we disagree with the values of that period?

Can we not tell stories anymore?

Patent trolling has been around well before trump came into office. Id argue the two have very little to do with each other.

It's not like America just went bad suddenly when trump got elected. We've had issues like this for a very long time. It's just easier to see the corruption now when the guy in charge isn't pretending to be nice like all the other ones.

I think it's coming sooner rather than later. Obviously arm has the upper hand here but windows is still exclusive to qualcomm.

The interesting bit here is that from what I've heard, RISC V could be twice as efficient as ARM. Couple that with the open source model and we could see some real shifts in computing very soon.

You're right. For how nice it is, OLED is really a stopgap tech.

The reason samsung never invested in OLED tvs is due to cost and poor longevity.

MicroLED is the same concept as OLED but without the degradation. OLED was simply easier to engineer given current tech, vs manufacturing tiny LEDs.

OLED will be supplanted by microLED. However if samsung can make these displays cheap enough, they will be nice in the interim. I don't expect to see microLED in mass market devices for quite some time.

And others would say it is unreasonable for businesses to store user data without consent and with no way to remove it. Please explain why any arbitrary site should have the ability to store user data without consent and then refuse to delete sensitive information. Are you going to accept liability if that data is leaked?

If I walk into a store, can they copy my drivers license and phone number without asking me, and then refuse to wipe my personal data from their systems?

I sincerely fail to see the downside with GDPR unless you think you have some assumed right to personal user information. Why does a site need info from me if I do not even have an account? Why do so many sites now insist that simply by visiting I agree to let them store cookies on my device?

The user is saying as an authority the state has nothing to fear in terms of ruining its reputation.

There is no implicit argument that additional forms of authority are necessary.

In other words, never assume someone is implying something else when making an entirely different argument.

You got it. There are degrees here. You can be an "audiophile" and not break the bank.

I disagree. I can often tell the difference between CD audio and 320 or v0 mp3s. I can also notice compression on files with a lower bitrate than 320 or v0.

You can really notice the difference on the high end and the width of the soundstage.

However above 16 44.1 I can't hear a difference.

Tapes can last for 50 years. They are the MOST stable and reliable form of storage we have.

We have also not even reached any kind of limit on density. Sony has tapes that hold hundreds of terabytes.

So, they last forever, are extremely reliable, and extremely data dense.

HDDs exploit the same concept (magnetic storage) but trade speed for reliability. NAND is more reliable but still has a shelf life, and it also relies on support chips to constitute the overall media. It's also expensive as hell.

Tape is tape. You could smash a cassette and respool the tape and read it. Its also cheap as hell per gb.

Tape will be around for decades if not centuries to come. NAND is not a challenger whatsoever.

A key piece of the puzzle here is that not only are tapes used for backup, but to free up space from data center HDDs in order to increase their shelf life.

Stop thinking of tape as archaic. Magnetic storage is the foundation of modern technology and computing, and in past decades we barely scratched the surface of its potential.

We aren't talking about audio cassettes with analog audio recorded to them. We are talking about a storage medium that is more data dense than HDD or NAND could ever be and we have yet to reach any sort of limit.

With tape you can achieve more and more space by manipulating the width and length of the tape, the tape heads, the angle at which tape is read, and the way that the data is read and stored. It's also just a plastic cassette with polyester tape coated with rust particles. It's inherently cheaper, requires no circuitry, power, or motors within the media itself, and will last 50 years.

Tape is the purest implementation of magnetic storage concepts. As such it is going to improve faster than HDDs because there are no other design factors like platters, motors, and heads. If an HDD dies, you might be able to recover the data through expensive and time consuming procedures. If your tape drive stops working, you buy another drive and still have an intact tape with all of your data.

Additionally, while SSDs are wonderful, they are a pretty backwards design when it comes to efficiency. You are essentially trying to model magnetic storage by using integrated circuits. You are storing values with digital logic in a physical state on a chip.

Its fast and more reliable than a spinning metal disk, but it's expensive and not data dense at all.

The only threat to tape is public perception of it being "old" when it's really the most robust and best engineered data format we have.

R&D, maintenance, and upgrading systems that airlines dont have, like combat radar, missiles, cannons, etc.

It's like comparing the cost of a bus vs a tank.