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No, both our weather forecasting and climate model forecasting are still very very weak and poorly understood. Predicting the future is still hard for us humans.

And this is one of the reasons why I pay a “premium” for my phone, I expect Apple to work harder for me to protect me from actors like these.

Got to give Apple credit for staying consistent.

One thing is to break the rules Apple put down to keep iOS users safe and secure which is what Apple is targeting here, but another thing is just being stupid and unethical.

Regardless of their (FB+G) cries of "they consented to it", who really thinks a 13 year old understand the technical implications of installing a root certificate on their iPhone?

At this point Android is such a privacy hell hole that creating a secure messaging app will be doomed to fail. It matter little if the app and its protocols are secure if the device is rooted or otherwise exploited and typed conversations can be siphoned which would expose both the sender and the receiver. The receiver might be an iOS device, causing the communication security/privacy integrity of an iOS user to be at the mercy of any Android device.

History is the bane for anyone peddling the idea that a socialist society and authoritarianism are two separate things.

It signifies that either a foreigner or recent immigrant, or perhaps a dyslectic or anyone who would like it to appear as if a foreigner or recent immigrant or a dyslectic wrote the note.

From Apple: "over 100 percent of our year-over-year worldwide revenue decline, occurred in Greater China across iPhone, Mac and iPad."

Combine that with:

"In fact, categories outside of iPhone (Services, Mac, iPad, Wearables/Home/Accessories) combined to grow almost 19 percent year-over-year."

In other words, even Mac and iPad fell in China while growing overall for the company. So the problem is not isolated to iPhones in China, consumer spending is way down. And yes, aspiring high-end products like Apple products will take a hit in a market where consumers have less money to spend.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/01/letter-from-tim-cook-...

You can't blame it on the price of the iPhone for what's happening in China right now.

Also from Bloomberg: Chinese consumer tax receipts down 70% in November. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-12-31/china-...

The NYT article also managed, predictably, to align Trump with Hitler.

Will media never learn, or is this also part of the patterns we should expect to see from psychohistory?

World wide product distribution for only 30% is cheap.

I see a lot of Sellers whining, but the Customers love this arrangement. Take a look at iOS satisfaction rate among its users VS the other phone vendors.

“It’s a more boring place now, and they see their friends finding exciting opportunities,” Ms. Pollak said.

So in other words, this is a healthy thing. If people are bored being teachers and they quit, that should be celebrated.

I feel your pain brother!

The US is almost at parity in oil consumption and production. This mean lesser need for oil to be transported from around the world for US consumption. That is a good thing.

"Thing global, buy local".

Well, instead of daily transporting all the oil US is consuming half way around the globe with all the emissions that entails from these tankers, producing locally would seem like a better idea.

What kind of sick content did they train this model on?

The root cause of the problem with Electron is that its performance on the Mac is just like the Chrome browser.

Compared to Safari, Chrome’s performance is like a fat pig hogging your memory and devouring your battery life.

Occupational licensing has gone way too far, and is in-fact a regressive tax on the poor. Both on the part of the worker and the consumer.

In California you need a license to cut hair (Many European countries are actually more free in this aspect compared to the US). However, you are exempt if you only shampoo hair!

To get a license you need to enroll in a program that takes at least 9 months, and you need to complete 1,600 hours of training...

...to cut hair.

Corporate espionage and military intelligence are not clearly separated in China, and this is due to the culture and values of the Chinese Communist Party. This is seen as the same thing, advancing towards the same goal.

This is arguable less of the case in other countries, which is why people in other countries don't understand what is going on right now (i.e. why Huawei is seen as a security threat). The concern is, if you in the future cross the will of the Chinese Communist Party, your national infrastructure may suddenly...behave differently.

Used by Safari for website password it identifies as used on multiple websites.

"I think we're all used to the fiction that we live in a world that's totally governed by fairness and laws."

Why are you so sure that this CFO did not break US trade law with regards to Iran?

Let's bring it to a trial, that would be the fair thing, and that's what is taking place.

Social sciences is an oxymoron. Problem with social sciences is not only this issue that the article points out, but that the vast majority of it is not reproduceable.

They reflect company values and culture.

If this was the first incident, then I would tend to agree with you. But this is just one of a long string of similar incidents that together form a pattern that reflect on the company values.

Why is it that not more people use Safari?

On a MacBook Pro it is not only faster but your battery life lasts noticeable longer.

Not to mention the Safari engineers' stand on privacy as compared to Google Chrome...

You do realize that this is not new behavior of the Chinese Communist Party?

Up to 55 million Chinese individuals died during the Great Leap Forward.

https://www.liberation.fr/planete/2011/06/17/la-chine-creuse...

They lost me at "social justice experts" and "toxic masculinity".

I bike to work. Leaf blowers almost kill me every time. Here in dusty Southern California I can spot a leaf blower half a mile away by the cloud of brown dust being picked up. While biking through it I hold my breath and squint my eyes – hoping for the best. It's a nightmare.

I'm convinced that these leaf blowers cause half of the particle pollution here in LA. One day, the leaf blowers blow the dust into the street towards the other neighbor, only so that the next day the other neighbor blows the same dust back to the other side again. This is a great business for the gardeners, they are paid for pushing the same dust around the block ad infinitum.

The second reason they are a nightmare for the environment is what they cause of water consumption. Yes, you read that right. The same dust pushed around lands onto the cars parked on the street, causing them to need much more frequent trip to the car wash than they otherwise would. It has a a massive impact.

California can not claim to care about the environment before they ban leaf blowers.

I’ve seen many stories in Bloomberg about Marxism through the proxy of Venezuaela’s marxist policies.

So far, it doesn’t seem like marxist ideologies are good for the common workers in that country either.

Just imagine if the National Socialist party in Germany would have had this in the 1930-40s. They could have been even more “efficient” in taking out the various groups of people they found to be of “low social value”.

For everyone but those who believe in powerful centralized governments this is a nightmare scenario.

"fearmongering like this would suggest that Alphabet couldn't ever deal with health care info"

I think that would be a good start.

I'm with you, but we have to remember that most people including most "pros" meaning working professionals do not do coding. For 95% of working professionals, the iPad may actually be more than enough.

This is not an abuse of power. This is looking out for their users' privacy.

I would have thought most people at this time would know that Apple does not take lightly a situation where an app is sending lots of privacy related user behavior to some kind of server somewhere. At a minimum, store this analytics on the phone only. But then again, you may use APIs for reasons other than their intended purpose.