> Too many Microsoft shills here.
Can you quote one of the shills? I see people saying that OP should verify that it's a false flag. Are those the shills to whom you're referring?
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Can you quote one of the shills? I see people saying that OP should verify that it's a false flag. Are those the shills to whom you're referring?
> As you surely know, Red Hat has been the main sponsor of Ceylon over the years, and we're all eternally grateful for this support. It would have been simply impossible to kick-start a project of this scope without the backing of Red Hat. (Full disclosure: we ourselves are employed by Red Hat.)
I had a faulty recollection of this post on the ceylon/dev Gitter https://gitter.im/ceylon/dev?at=5d2765cff5dd14574268bcb3. Funding dried up at Red Hat. Gavin King said that he might try to convince IBM to revive it, but only if he had a clear business case.
> Folks I guess I owe you a bit of a response here, but obviously I have my reasons for not wanting to say too much in public
> As of yesterday I'm an IBM employee which hopefully means that in the medium term there will be more money available for R&D around here, for projects which can make a reasonable case for being worthy of investment in the last couple of years of Red Hat's existence as an independent company, there was essentially no funding available for this kind of project, and Ceylon was a victim of that shortage
> However, obviously, if I'm going to try and convince my fund a new development team for this project, I will have to find a convincing reason to do that, and I will have to think very carefully about what precisely a "next" Ceylon would look like (of course I already have some ideas of mistakes we made, and opportunities that now exist that didn't before, but no clear business case)
> It's probably better if I don't say any more on this topic in this place
I don't know about skeptics in general, but I found Mr. West's video to be pretty entertaining. He built some pretty impressive-looking simulations to support his claims.
I think conspiracy theories can be interesting and entertaining, but a lot of their theorists are kinda pathetic.
Is it that hard to tell? "Pro" means "better than the models that don't have 'Pro' in their name, in some ways".
Aside from the `where` keyword, I don't see much similarity with SQL. That said, I'm a big fan of SQL, so I might be blind to the issue.
Several other people have already said it, but I find that definition pretty easy to read, and I've never been paid to write a line of Swift. The most confusing part for me was the fact that the argument names seem to have spaces in them. The type constraints look pretty nice to me, to be honest.
If you have to ignore 2 mechanisms by which authoritarian regimes enforce censorship in order to say that "the mechanics of censorship are exactly the same", then they're not _exactly_ the same.
I would be interested in seeing data to back up these assertions.
Given how frequently some conservative news sources complain about things like cancel culture and how many conservative social networks have sprung up in the past few years, I'd guess that you're wrong. It seems like some conservatives really do care about social networks, whether those networks are anonymous or not.
It's hard to imagine a time when iPhones couldn't download podcasts over the air. I can understand why banning Podcaster would have made OP sour on Apple.
> Apple’s mobile ID implementation supports the ISO 18013-5 mDL (mobile driver’s license) standard which Apple has played an active role in the development of
If you do a little casual googling, you will find references to the Australian government being involved in the development of that standard. You can also find proposals from the US Department of Homeland Security that refer to the standard.
Speaking of Google, Wikipedia says
> For example, Android's JetPack suite comes with specific support for ISO 18013–5 from version API 24.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_driver%27s_license
Does that qualify as device agnostic?
> As the system is initially deployed, we do not assume the 3 in 100M image-level false positive rate we mea- sured in our empirical assessment
The "1 in 1 trillion" part is the probability that the number of false positives could exceed the threshold needed to trigger a human review:
> Apple always chooses the match threshold such that the possibility of any given account being flagged incorrectly is lower than one in one trillion, under a very conservative assumption of the NeuralHash false positive rate in the field.
source: https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Security_Threat_Model..., page 10
Long story short, investing in renewable energy might have some tax benefits for Apple, but I don't think it has much (if anything) to do with repatriating overseas cash.
This was a good decision. Nothing of value was lost. The 2% of productive commenters can go back to writing letters to the editor. The 98% can go back to the chans.
It’s correct. Read the law for yourself. I linked you to it in my last comment.
> I still think its wrong. It is a loophole to me.
I don’t see how it can be a loophole. That word usually refers to a way to use a statute for something other than its intended purpose. Section 230 says that “interactive computer service” providers can remove content they consider to be objectionable. It explicitly protects actions like the one Twitter took.
> They should not have that power to editorialize.
Why not? It’s their platform. You don’t have to participate. There are alternative platforms.
How far do you take this? Should sites like Reddit be allowed to have moderators? Those tend to be users who aren’t employed by Reddit, but they can remove content for just about any reason.
> not looked into it yet.
Please, please make an effort to inform yourself before you start talking in the future. The Internet would be a much better place if everyone did.
You can see the tweet that Twitter removed here: https://www.mediaite.com/news/twitter-deletes-rudy-giuliani-....
Hydroxychloroquine has not been shown to be 100% effective, even in the extremely limited studies that have been done. Telling people otherwise is a lie and a potentially dangerous one.
Claiming that governor Whitmer has threatened doctors is a big stretch. You can read the letter that the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs sent out here: https://www.michigan.gov/documents/lara/Reminder_of_Appropri.... The letter tells medical professionals not to prescribe the drug to themselves, their friends, family, or coworkers if there’s no legitimate medical purpose. It further says that reports of such behavior will be investigated and subject to administrative action. Sounds right to me.
There’s an idea out there that Section 230 only applies to platforms that provide equal access to everyone. That’s not true. In fact, it explicitly allows “interactive computer service” providers to filter any material they deem to be objectionable in section (c)(2):
> (c) Protection for “Good Samaritan” blocking and screening of offensive material
> (1) [omitted for brevity]
> (2) Civil liability No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of—
> (A) any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected;
Twitter is 100% allowed to filter Giuliani’s (and any other whack job’s) nonsense/misinformation if they consider it to be objectionable. Doing so does not make them ineligible for the protections described in Section 230. _It is_ one of the protections described in Section 230.
The iPhone comes with a 1st party email app, but many people prefer 3rd party apps. Same for calculators, weather apps, podcast players, music players, password managers, calendar apps, etc. In another comment in this thread, I linked to several articles that were critical of Apple for not including a menstrual cycle tracker in their Health app. Some 3rd party apps filled the gap for a while, but it seems like it was really a feature that lots of people wanted in the 1st party app. You can call it abusive if you want, but others might say that Apple was answering the needs of its customers. If the 3rd party apps provide better functionality (as they often do... see the examples I listed above), people will continue using them.
> Perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised. After all, Apple’s first diversity report did show that the company is mostly white and male. So it’s likely that menstrual cycles just aren’t a concern for a majority of the company’s employees. But that shouldn't be an excuse.
https://www.theverge.com/2014/9/25/6844021/apple-promised-an...
> But considering that plenty of other, extremely popular apps for menstrual tracking already exist (Clue and Period Tracker are two stand-outs), all we have to say is, thanks for finally including women in your world, Apple. Welcome to ours.
https://www.health.com/pregnancy/apple-finally-adds-period-t...
> That Apple overlooked period tracking as a key function that roughly half the population would expect to see included in a comprehensive health tracking app is not entirely a surprise.
> Apple today is a company where only 30 percent of its employees are female, and only 20 percent of those in engineering positions are female.
https://techcrunch.com/2015/06/09/apple-stops-ignoring-women...
This last one comes from The Washington Post, perhaps demonstrating that sometimes you’re damned if you do and you’re damned if you don’t:
> Apple notoriously ignored women's health issues as it developed previous versions of Health
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/06/17...
It’s true that Apple pins its rewards to specific outcomes, but I think a lot of bug bounty programs do something like this. For instance, Google’s top bounty for Android ($200k) is only awarded if you can provide an exploit compromises that the trusted execution environment (see https://www.google.com/about/appsecurity/android-rewards/).
In fact, some states already have licensing and registration laws for guns and they’ve also managed to not tumble down that slippery slope.
I‘ll grant that some people do want to confiscate guns, but that’s not a popular view. See https://news.gallup.com/poll/1645/guns.aspx.
I’d argue that 3 is an implementation detail. If we’re serious about getting guns off the streets, then we need to make it worthwhile to trade them in.
As to 4 and 5, I’ll just say that not all shooting are “mass shootings” like we saw in El Paso. Chicago alone has something like 1500 shootings each year, many of which go unsolved. The article I linked says that the ATF gets 1000 gun trace requests per day and it takes an average of 4-7 days to compete one of them. That seems a bit slow to me, but I honestly can’t say what effect speeding that up would have on our ability to prosecute perpetrators of gun violence.
I think the quarantine is for information in this case. Instead of breathless, stop-the-world coverage of these events, treat them like traffic accidents: “22 people were murdered by a white supremacist terrorist in an El Paso Wal-Mart this afternoon. Now here’s Bob with the weather.”
Gun buyback programs are 1 kind of medicine. Some people won’t take it, but we should try. Maybe we can institute some kind of guns-for-Medicare program (only sorta joking).
Gun control legislation is the inoculation. I don’t think we can get to full-on prohibition in the US without repealing the 2nd amendment, but we can implement licensing and registration requirements and longer waiting periods.
We also need to improve the existing systems. The ATF has a “gun registry”, but it’s not a searchable database. See https://www.thetrace.org/2016/08/atf-non-searchable-database...
I've never heard this before. What's the explanation? Is it related to battery health? Why does it only apply to Apple products?
Not all of them. The iPad is a computer and it doesn’t support mice. To be less flippant, neither did a lot of computers prior to the original Macintosh, but they were certainly computers that were capable of real, professional work. Even today, many programmers still favor text editors like vi and emacs for which the mouse is an afterthought if it’s supported at all. You don’t need a mouse to make a computer.
> In fact, Even a WinCE box sitting inside a touchscreen ATM will support a mouse if you can hook one up to it.
If WinCE is your example of “advanced technology”, I think we’re done here.
Almost all technology becomes obsolete eventually. I’m not saying that’s happened to the mouse (in fact, rumors suggest that the next version of iOS will support mice), but I also think you’re failing to acknowledge that progress sometimes means removing vestigial features. I don’t see too many people complaining that it’s hard to find floppy disks these days. You don’t have to buy the pencil. It’s a value-add. You can use your fingers. You know, the world’s most natural, intuitive, and (in almost all cases) inexpensive pointing devices. On touch-screen devices, they’re a pretty good substitute for a mouse in the same way that a USB drive is a pretty good substitute for a floppy disk.
I don’t really understand why you’re so concerned with marketing copy. My guess is that you just don’t like Apple and nothing will convince you that you’re wrong. But you are. The iPad is a computer. A pretty powerful one too. That fact that it doesn’t adopt the 40-year-old WIMP-based user interface scheme doesn’t mean much.