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> that the power behind the attack — Russia, according to the UK — doesn’t think anyone else is ruthless enough to retaliate effectively.

I thought that applies even more to the USA running assassination programs[0] in over 76 countries now.

[0]: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/08/18/the-drone-preside...

Having worked in the supply chain for companies producing fashion clothing for popular western brands, it is eye opening and terriying the amount of work/energy/inputs which goes into making clothes.

To give a denim example:

Cotton growing wrecks the land, farmers gets peanuts.

I'll give a pass on the actual fabric making and sewing process, but what really got me was the amount of energy and robots used to destroy denim to make "distressed" jeans.

In some processes you have many hours of fabric being distressed, in wheels, in drums filled with different types of pebbles, giant presses, even lasers to slice them up... the jeans spent more energy and way more time getting ready for fashion then they did getting produced. (not considering cotton growing time).

All this work to produce something which lasts a lot less then it could, and probably will get thrown away soon. Clothes need an environmental impact label.

I have a new found respect for man-made fibres like polyester, polypropylene etc as producing those fibres is so much cleaner than natural goods, and instead of having to spend a lot of energy getting the fabric to "feel" right, you just modify the properties of the fibre by changing how its produced.

Edit: Fashion is one of the few remaining industries where obsolutely zero consideration is given to environmental impact when designing and producing clothes. This isn't just a poor country thing where they make clothes in a enviornmentally destructive way, the design of the clothes involves IMHO a lot of un-necessary production steps for an extra minuscle percentage of improvements.

Other industries, like say car parts, think about things like the energy inputs to their production process from the design state onwards, fashion doesn't. Even in sevice industries like making web apps, people think about inputs, and design to use as few of them as possible.

Got a pixel 2, Chromecast and a Google home and now have lots of wifi woes. The timing being exactly after the pixel 2 (turned in cast and home before, didn't have problems).

Edit: turning of guest mode on all cast devices makes things better (less wifi dropouts) but still bad. Turning of wifi on both the android phones in my house has cleared up the wifi problem (which was really annoying as even spotify kept failing to stream with phones on wifi).

I wonder if Google employees need to test their consumer devices outside the googleplex where the internet is super fast and the industrial grade networking gear deals with such issues automagically.

This. I wish Google Drive had a way to give apps permission to access only one folder. i.e I want Kami to be able to only access the "pdfs" folder in my drive.

Right now it seems apps can either access everything or they are restricted to their own private app folder which is hidden somewhere in drive.

As an Apple customer, I get the impression that Ive and his design teams time is better spent designing products rather than this building.

Sure, spend billions in it, they have the money, but this article and others suggest people from Apple spent a LOT of time on the building at every stage instead of mostly leaving it up to building professionals like most other buildings are done.

Keras[1] does a pretty good job of making NN's simple to use. That said, you still have sort of know whats going on. I do think tools like Keras make using NN and ML easier than a lot of basic programming things.

I believe Google is building or has built some services which you can feed an image or text and it will do some NN magic and spit back the answer.[2]

[1]: https://keras.io/#getting-started-30-seconds-to-keras [2]: https://cloud.google.com/products/machine-learning/

Reminded me of SoloLearn, a similar app.

Can't really comment in the Android app as it crashes a couple of minutes into the app.

I'm doing a course at Udacity and they recommend SoloLearn to brush up on basics, including python and HTML etc etc. Partnering with institutions seems to be a good idea.

thanks, its a nice quick ref. bought.

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> Are there any good ones left these days?

Not really. I wish the Mozilla Foundation would rejuvenate their email client once and for all.

I found Nylas N1[0] works well, it's cross platform which is a big plus and has plenty of kb shortcuts.

[0]: https://nylas.com/

I started and found Python easier then R. Python is a lot more 'english readable' while R is more like the code you see on Hollywood screens, somewhat indecipherable with magic incantations.

As a starter, you probably need something like dataquest[0] or udacitys[1] data courses.

[0] https://www.dataquest.io [1] www.udacity.com

> who is also the first female leader democratically elected in Asia

There have been plenty of other female leaders elected in Asia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_elected_or_appointed_f...

I want to use Google Keep but it's a lot slower (on a mac) as compared to using markdown notes saved locally and accessed using nvalt or atom

I'm having the same issue with Duo. it pauses the video frequently. I switched back to FB Messenger, which just works without pausing video.

Google had said something about Google Duo being bandwidth friendly and good for slow connections but FB Messenger is miles ahead, at least in my usage. Which left me quite disappointed with Duo, as I like the idea of using Duo over FB.

Google is treating video calling as it's own seperate thing.

I much prefer Facebook Messenger where its about the contact, and u call/msg/video them and its all there in one stream.

Google's disjointed approach to messaging/calling doesn't make sense to me or my non-techie friends.

Not quite:

- Facebook Messenger combines all the functionality of Allo and Duo. - Whatsapp already has voice calling and is adding video soon (so I read on the internet) - iMessage and Facetime integrate in IOS much better than Google Duo does. In IOS, you go to a contact and press facetime. On Android, you go to a contact... then go back out to Duo and call them.

WeChat, of course, does everything that all these apps will ever do - as of many years ago.

It seems to be that this story has been out there for decades now, and this Bloomberg story just adds a few details.

It would be nice if Google adopted crouton as a official dev environment and offered a way to backup a crouton environment to Google Drive - just settings and installed packages and user files, making it easy to sign into a chromebook and get started on a complete dev environment (after downloading some files).

Of course it defeats the purpose of chromebooks - simple cloud managed machines - but hey, why not?

> Mr. Abdulatif was an officer in Saddam Hussein’s army, but > after the invasion by the United States in 2003, and the > subsequent policy of de-Baathification, he was left without > a pension. Then he was caught up in tragedy, like most > Iraqis: Three brothers were killed during the sectarian > civil war. But he has an aunt and cousin who live in the > United States, and their stories motivated him to think of > life elsewhere.

The article talks about more than one migrant. This poor Iraqi's story sounds a lot like a refugee. How safe would you feel after that happening to you?

As Alphabet moves out projects from Google, does that make Google a less interesting place to work at?

And introduce more bureaucracy as now Google Car has to negotiate with Google for access to AI tech, computers, maps etc instead of just using whatever they can?

One good answer: It totally changed my perception of Facebook. If the guy at the top is trying to save the world, that automatically makes facebook a lot more appealing, not just to me and many other other I know who have historically been quite suspicious of facebook and its overly invasive privacy 'features'.

Good they are still working on Google plus but what's the difference between a community and a collection? And what happened to circles?

Thanks for the detailed reply. I do like 1Pw - it is so very well thought out on mac and ios that I expected something similar on the android side too. Good to see it is being worked on and will hopefully become a first class app alongside your other apps.

Specific Android issues: - The Android keyboard doesn't autofill fields - in ios I could use the share extension and it would attempt to autofill - the search is hidden behind a menu and isn't present at all in the opening screen - have to go into a category - search is broken - doesn't return a list of searched for items as the ios one does, it displays suggestions instead - if I click on a search result and go back to select a search result I have to search again - design is dated. The ios app looks great the Android one looks really old and dated even compared against last years apps

Overall seems to be a low effort app. Not worth the money I paid for it. Considering switching to an alternative which is more Android friendly despite having laid almost a hundred bucks for ios and Mac apps.

I recently switched to Android from ios and literally everything on 1password Android is vastly inferior to the ios version. It's like the ios app is developed by a crack team of experts while the Android app is developed by a part time intern working for free.

What about delivery? Without a delivery mechanism to those who need it this would be a well meaning but not very useful.

I have been to Abbotabad too, and many other places right next to and within military bases in Pakistan, and it is pretty damn easy to live there undetected. No one is driving around checking houses. And even those who do, like meter checkers, are happy enough not to read your meter given say, 10 to 20 dollars worth of incentive.

Also Abbotabad is a real life city, not just some garrison town. And even if it was just a garrison town, it would still befull of un-armed non-military people. How do you think military people live in a garrison city? They aren't faceless storm troopers, many have families living right there. And many, many civilians providing services, from food to dry cleaning to road maintenance to flower delivery etc etc.

thanks, found it. Not sure how i missed this before.

> Google Calendar for iPhone works with all the calendars you've already set up on your phone.

False advertising: It doesn't work with the FaceBook calendar on my phone - other calendar apps like Fantastical and Apple's own Cal show the FB calendar.

Doesn't that potentially raise the salaries of all non-American engineers who might get jobs?