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Devil's Advocate argument here, but have you read books on our space race in the 60s? Should NASA have been bankrupted by penalties and lawsuits when Apollo 1 had its accident?

People are surprisingly heavy per square foot - multiple times the weight of a car PSF.

It’s not uncommon, from my understanding, for founders/families to have almost all of the voting control in a public company. I think it’s a misplaced assumption that the public has a proportional interest in voting equal to their amount of shares, or % ownership.

This is the worst and I see it often enough to want to respond to your gripe with support!

I have always wondered - is there someone you can chat with or call for GSuite?

Can we get a before/after with a new battery vs a battery with 1k, then 10k, cycles on it?

Really great company from what I know, glad to see them get acquired in a positive fashion. I'm also based out of Pittsburgh and have met some of their team members over the years, seems like a solid business with a strong product/service.

Steep incentives for corporate takeovers is a bad idea IMO - that lack of option in a liquidity event would make less companies receive funding. It would be even more risky to our venture capital behind a new idea.

Also from pittsburgh - can’t wait for the 3 rivers to be a real delta to the Atlantic!

@JulienHamilton (author at bottom of page), why would you share this with others? If arbitrage exists, there is not benefit to you allowing others to profit, as it eats into your profit. So what’s the reasoning behind releasing this?

Wait they had UBER eats/post mates way back then?

Is this not similar to the diminishing release of bitcoins?

Man the 17" pro was like a table lol. It was a beast though, the screen at the time was top notch

That may be true, but what about the millions of laptops Apple sells to other professionals? Limiting the scope of Apple's pro laptops to developers is really excluding a big part of the pie.

Google, Tesla, Facebook, and tens of thousands of other businesses purchased the 2012-2015 rMBP form factor for a reason - its a great laptop. The number of people who use the laptop that do not code in Swift far outnumber the number who do code Swift.

Still, a greater number use Macbooks casually, and I'm sure the standard Macbooks are great for home and recreational use. To clarify, my focus is on a professional use found in a standard business setting.

Perhaps, I grew up on them though and have only ever owned an Apple computer (starting with iBook clamshell in like 2001?)

Edit:

And in reality how do you like the USB C ports? What headphones do you use? Did you have to buy $500 of new cables?

Don't take this with an off-putting tone, I genuinely don't know if its worth buying thousands in new accessories and adaptors to replace things like HDMI, USB-A form factors, etc.

Edit #2 - The Trashcan Mac Pro was built on the theory of daisy chaining Thunderbolt, and not 3 years later we see a new standard port in USB-C. I know its a niche audience, but my point is, what if USB-D is out in 24 months, and your $3,000+ of cables/monitors/harddrives/adaptors to use an SD card with your camera.... are all obsolete?

Edit #3 after reading the rest of the thread: Seems you are in the minority and others echo my complains of post-2015 Macbook hardware being extremely underwhelming and not worth the frustration.

and good I/O ports. I can't hook these new things up to a TV or projector without a fleet of adaptors.

I assume you aren't kidding and I'm curious to hear why you like it, as I personally do not like it and its very unpopular.

I happened to write an email to Tim & Phil today (or whomever reads those public addresses) saying:

  - My maxed out 2012 rMBP is going to be obsolete soon. 
  - The laptops available have unsatisfactory trackpads and keyboards.
  - Those same laptops have poor I/O for professional use cases.
  - There is no reasonable desktop solution either (I don't consider Late 2017 iMac Pro to be as good of an answer as a 2003 Mac Tower design with upgradable components, or just a custom Windows PC).

If they continue to sacrifice sleek design and limited I/O on laptops, and provide what I think is a lackluster long-term desktop solution, I have no clue what I'll buy when this machine bites the dust (someday)

What I find most interesting is that how this entire time, most headlines have reported a $600+ million number as fact.

What is frustrating about that is to the uninformed, it reads like a cash available on hand, in these people's bank accounts. It appears it was far from that.

I'm not a Levandowski sympathizer, but these deals for startup founders in an acquisition are typically complex stock transactions, with strange vesting rules and tons of ways to get diluted or locked out of a liquidity event. Its not typically a grand pay day.

In the future I wish blogs & reporters would focus less on the fact that it was a reported $600+ million, and more on the fact that "it was more than $6 million, and the company had not been around 6 months". That was the real smoke that led everyone to the fire.

Something interesting not discussed thus far:

Most glass that is sent to recycle, if broken and not directly re-usable, is used as ‘daily cover’.

That means they grind it up into bits, then spread a 1” layer on top of the landfill each day to help introduce stability, and start the decomposition process.

Search for CleanRobotics, they are building one in my city

Also the coloring of glass is very important.

Clear glass has value, while green and brown tinted glass has much less value.

“Glass recycling” takes all forms though, so now you have to sort optically, which has mixed results, or settle for “all recycled glass is now going to be brown glass”

That doesn’t even get into the part of how dangerous broken glass can be for workers along the recycling supply chain.

I don’t know if it’s worthwhile to recycle glass or not, but I do know it should be questioned rather than assumed to be an absolute benefit.

Glass is made of sand and oil.

Sand is apparently in shorter (not short) supply. Oil isn’t. I think it’s a different world than the 1994 article you link to

I agree the trend is concerning, but what data are you basing the “need” for monopoly busting and anti trust investigations off of??

the root password hack also required physical access, or some sort of proximity access on a network LAN, to be able to work. It’s really not that much different than snooping on someone sitting a few seats away from you at the bar

But they patched the Mac root login within 48 hours of it becoming “a story”? I don’t buy the conspiracy.

More likely, Apple wants to ease user adoption.

Did you buy an iPhone X? It was awesome to setup. There was this nifty feature to use NFC/the cameras on my new phone to authenticate myself, and it was a breeze. Huge fan of this type of improvement and convenience.

You know what I’m not a fan of? My iPhone being a gateway to hijack the rest of my digital life. It’s a key to my little kingdom that didn’t exist before, and my only protection is (figuratively speaking) locking my phone to me like the Nuclear Football, and continuing to use a 20+ character passphrase with enough entropy I can’t be brute forced.

This argument pops up all the time, and has for years.

I recall seeing it when Eric Schmidt at Google said something like “don’t have anything worth hiding, and then you won’t care if you are hacked”. Excuse my brevity, but you argument and his are dumb arguments. These devices are incredibly powerful, and allow us to interact with one another in ways pen, paper, snail mail, and landlines never could (let alone the security risks those mediums have, which cannot be mitigated).

Devices can be incredibly secure. Manufacturers and service providers should prioritize that over mindless convenience.

I would agree with you, however, that you should not put your entire life into any insecure device. And it seems the iPhone is not an insecure device (I’m frustrated, and I have a 20+ character keyboard passphrase! Let alone 4-6 digit code)

Do you know how many people use 4 digit passcodes, or no passcodes at all?

Do you know how many people share that passcode with others, intentionally or unintentionally? Family members, spouses, etc. repair people who do screen replacements. Their buddy, who can text for them while they drive.

I’m sitting on a plane and saw the person next to me enter her passcode. It’s 258085.

That is not a secure 6 digit passcode, it’s a vertical Tetris shape. Humans are great at pattern recognition, particularly when it’s in a grid format and leaves finger smudges.

I could easily pick pocket this woman’s phone and ruin her weekend without much effort at all, just from reading this article.

But you say her 6 digit passcode is quite secure?

Outwit Hub, specifically the advanced or enterprise levels.

It has a GUI on it that is not designed very well, and documentation that is complete, but hard to search...

But it can do just about any type of scrape, including getting started from a command line script

It may be appropriate, but that is such a rare tool to have used, you could argue that it should be avoided at all costs. Watching the government unravel companies just strikes me as dangerous.

That said, I find these credit agencies to be absurd, and need to either disappear or 100% change their business.