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You seem to be confusing extradition and extraordinary rendition? The former is a legal process built on treaties. The latter is a euphamism for a kind of government kidnapping to circumvent legal restrictions, hence the "extraordinary."

I didn't say (or at least didn't mean to imply) that any of those were originated at apple, but that they are high volume ongoing contributions to open source from apple and they could do less on them.

I also don't know why you think apple would particularly care if "no one else used clang." Their goal with developing it was clearly also not exactly altruistic but their contribution of it into open source didn't really benefit them much in the short term in any way that isn't true of other major open source work at other FAANG. Never mind swift, which has basically failed to benefit apple much at all from being open sourced. But if clang were closed lots of people would still use it - everyone developing for macs and iOS. That's probably all that matters to the brass.

In the end I agree that apple is much worse than other FAANG. That is, like I said, part of why I left a pretty nice job there after many years of frustration at the pace of change.

But it's hard to pin down a position on all this that applies to all of apple. Some parts are very friendly (compilers), some parts are obligate mildly friendly (core Darwin/xnu and WebKit), some parts are bristling for change, but while change has been slow contributions have been ramping up as processes change (all of services, the growth area of the company). In the 2 years before I left it went from months to approve a minor patch to OSS to more like a week, with certain internal projects having regular unreviewed postback rights to designated high volume OSS projects and official champions of upstream efforts.

Where there seemed to be zero progress at all was personal projects, where apple has a catch-22 process that never progresses while insisting that you can't do it outside that process (regardless of the legality of that assertion).

Apple contributes quite a lot to open source (WebKit, llvm, clang in particular but there are other high volume projects), though not so much in the Linux kernel. There are some patches by Apple in Linux though and they've made quite a lot of strides in expediting postbacks internally over the last few years.

I left Apple partly over their poor oss policies, but even I won't sign off on the idea that they don't do any at all.

Likely a lot of people just never update their employer on linked in after they leave. Especially if they retire. That'd be a different kind of problem than bot accounts.

Then we have to pick some people to choose the person. I guess we could vote on those people. We could call this body a Parliament.

Oh woops we're back where we started.

Historically in Westminster systems that hasn't actually been that unusual when the majority party has lost as much public trust as this one seems to have. At a certain point, presiding over an unpopular rump can be more damaging in the long term than letting go and regrouping.

That doesn't seem to be the way current conservative parties operate though.

I guess this is why "former bank building night club" is kind of a genre.

Put another way: jwst sees both the clouds and (many of) the stars, while Hubble seems to have been able to see one or the other more clearly at a time.

You could infer from that that the thing jwst is doing better is having a much greater range of spectrum available to it at a time (though I don't actually know if that's correct).

> In over 8 years, that space and sat empty in the downtown area.

Empty properties that once had a grocery store in them are often that way because the property is under a restrictive covenant preventing any use as a grocery store for some absurdly long period of time (decades, usually)[1]. It's a weirdly unique thing about grocery stores, and can be really harmful to communities where it's just not practical to build new grocery store buildings (and grocery store buildings don't always translate well to other kinds of retail).

It's a common enough problem that it's banned in some places[2].

[1] an example: https://www.marketplace.org/2018/01/12/when-grocery-stores-c...

[2] eg. DC: https://code.dccouncil.us/us/dc/council/laws/22-138

Excel is probably the world's most popular programming language period.

I mean, I agree! But it is, and this specific thing is only part of that.

a lot of people in this comment section seem kind of confused about the relationship between the US and Saudi Arabia?

This isn't at all surprising, why wouldn't you hire American military to go with your American military hardware?

This is true for power but it's not true for energy in total. A lot of energy is used at night by burning fossil fuels for heat directly in the home.

This is something you have to factor in when reading boldly optimistic claims about how somehow solar and wind can work everywhere without even storage.

Maybe if we never stop pumping natural gas into our homes to burn it, but that's not exactly in line with the goals.

In reality, for anything north enough to get snow on the regular you can't use today's electricity consumption numbers to judge future needs. When everyone switches to heat pumps base load at night is going to skyrocket.

> I would have much preferred if they had maybe 1 or 2 TB4 expansion slots, then take those other 40Gbit/sec TB4 pci-e lanes and have a bunch of standard ports that are easily replaceable on the motherboard

So... You wanted every other laptop? I'm glad I can have 4 fully capable thunderbolt ports on my laptop (and probably don't want or need half the things you think are "standard"), and unlike what you're asking for here, which is the norm in the industry, that's basically not available on any other laptop.

If you just want a relatively fixable standard laptop that's what ThinkPads are for.

I mean if you want a wider thing with multiple ports you can just get a usbc thing that does that and plug it into the usbc module? There's lots of those out there.

The Ethernet one sticks out a little but a multiple usb-a port one would be a lot bigger and put more mechanical stress on the whole thing.

Introducing a whole new structure for modules would be a huge self-defeat for their reason for existing. I didn't get a framework laptop with the expectation they'd obsolete it in a couple years.

I have no interest in a trackpoint at all but I do really want the other things. The keyboard being replaceable is great in theory but until they put some effort into making alternatives, it's not very useful.

In the end signal and imessage (with backups off) provide roughly the same claimed guarantee here (on a technical level at least). They both promise not to secretly inject additional client keys into your account, (to at least obtain a forward-operating 'wire tap'), but the software you're running is all opaque and could certainly do so if they wanted (or were compelled) to.

If we had something like the Paramount Decree for streaming/tv anyone would be able to license those shows and we'd have actual choices.

Democracy exists at all because people did not follow a blind adherence to law.

At any rate, "the law" is a body of rules so large and complex that likely almost no one actually manages to get through a month without breaking it a couple times.

Wow there's a lot of assumptions about the people you're replying to in this post.

In this case it's as if you can only drive on certain roads if you have a Honda Accord, and maybe in the country you're in the Honda Accord isn't even available to buy legally but there are still roads you can only use if you have one.

Productivity here doesn't mean "how much you get done" but "how much money is made off you". There may be some ways in which the two ideas correlate, but it's a complicated relationship and it's not even always in the same direction.

In theory people are supposed to use the most charitable interpretation on HN. Interpreting the post as talking about a timeline of months or a couple of years, as it seems some replies have done,is definitely not that.

That said, network effect declines can happen much faster than people think, and can be hard to see in the numbers social networks usually put out. History is short on this kind of service, so precedent doesn't mean a lot.

I wouldn't put money on Facebook being around and anything like it is now in 10 years. It's barely anything like what it was ten years ago, and it's clearly not meta's priority anymore.

Twitter is tricky because Elon resuming his bid creates a wide range of possibilities, some that include him cannibalizing it out of spite. He's a wildcard here, as evidenced by him putting in the bid in the first place as something that appears to have been little more than corporate trolling. But if he takes it seriously or turns around and sells it to someone who will it could benefit from a coherent vision (even if it's one I would find very unappealing).

Source: I worked for a regionally dominant social network in the early days and watched it evaporate nearly over night.

I mean, I think it suffers the same problem as lisp on that front. If you're coming into a codebase would you rather read boring C or try to figure out the mind of the person who crafted the lisp/macros in it?

Even C codebases can suffer this with obnoxiously clever macros, but it's rarer at least.

I dunno about cp/m binaries in particular, but static translation of machine code from that era can be really difficult because of mingled code and data, self modifying code, and unclear bounds on jump tables.

So it might not be very easy at all, depending on how clever the people who wrote it were.

> Or did that just make advertising more inefficient which then led to just more irrelevant ads.

Why should I care about the "efficiency" of the ads I'm being served? It's not my job to help them exploit me.

> We can tolerate some flaws in people who are doing good work.

Sometimes people's flaws prevent them and the people they work with from doing good work.

A lot of people I'd describe as "principled" don't want to be anywhere near Stallman for various reasons, often related to their principles. Maybe he's just cleared his orbit of anyone else who actually fits your 4 criteria, so only appears to be unique. This seems like a rather common failure mode of personality cults, tbh.

No one thing is going to power the whole world. Even "renewables" isn't one thing, and it can't and won't be deployed the same way in every climate or environment. It, as a blanket set of things, should be deployed everywhere however it can be. But there is no reason to exclude nuclear a priori as a blanket thing. And especially not in favor of waiting for promised improvements in storage or synthetic fuels that have not yet been proven.

Again, this is not a duel to the death. The only thing that should be dismissed out of hand is carbon emitting fuels.

Please point to me saying anything about "powering the world" with nukes. What a ridiculous strawman. This isn't Mortal Kombat: Energy Edition.