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The reality is we (web and other developers) tend to waste end-users time way before raw performance is perceieved as an issue. Take for instance medium.com where you are expected accept complicated terms and conditions, and then give away your facebook account or google account, after which you are prompted with some kind of survey and then there a good chance you will be asked for money ;) all of this is the norm for the web.

But with the orchestrated death of men, woman and children. Did anyone actually go to jail?

The current financial system worldwide looks quite suspect right now, negative interest rates could soon become a new norm in the EU even officially in retail. Most importantly political leaders in the US(and EU) have scaled up their massive money-printing schemes designed to keep their banking-financial overlords in business.

With that in mind, the very last thing the EU and US authorities want is for the people who (mostly unwittingly) underpin the actual value to have an Exit from this type of controlled use of inflation into an alternative currency backed by say gold and other hard to inflate commodities, because allowing any significant amount of that.. (remember the true impact is inverse of the real fractional-reserve in play) would lead to a collapse in the power of the existing political-financial hegemony.

I wonder if Mr Khan and Mr Thiam are still living next to each other and if Mr Khans view of the lake is still being blocked by the two trees.

What is more astonishing is amount of money these guys manage is measured in the Trillions of USD.

If you are very relaxed, but persistently unable sleep. But are not alarmed about not being able to sleep anymore, and in a state of almost like not thinking. You may suddenly experience a throbbing sensation in the head/neck, a pulsing in this state.

Normally this enough to trigger alarm in the conscious and fully wake you up. But after this happens many times you can become expectant of it and just let it happen a little longer because you are not immediately alarmed.

There is a period during sleep where the body engages in rapidly flushing the brain of cerebrospinal fluids. This action is intensely physical and disturbing, however with the exception of the most serene true-insomniacs only a tiny fraction of people will directly experience it.

They say this prevents the build up of harmful toxins in the brain, and that the failure to do this over time can be a contributor to the onset of conditions like Alzheimers.

While many may claim to have overcome the need for sleep, and some actually feel productive. And claim to be just as effective. No one should be in doubt that long term effects of sleep deprivation is devastating. Not only to the Brain, and the body as many studies have shown.

I like the idea of dual screen on the phone, its quite natural to browse two related pages at the same time and will improve that kind of experience. Will it have pen support?

However i'm very dubious of what the dual screen experience will be like bolted on top of Windows (NEO) and Android (DUO).

Somehow in my humble opinion Apple have been able to run rings around Google and Microsoft when it come's to pure UX in mobile tech and given the past history i fully expect that true in the future.

This is where i expect DUO will stumble, in the same way that Samsung fails with its extensions and bolt on's.

I've tended to always chose the defaults and Yes to everything :) and have never seen any kind of Ads either. I don't have the people tab either! (although it appears like something i would have instantly flicked off without thinking)

I wonder if Microsoft engages in some kind of personification of OS settings...

But isn't the address is published on their website... ?

"a method that makes the donations nearly impossible for law enforcement to track" -

This is an incredible statement, Bitcoin is a public ledger. It is the very opposite of anonymous. It is extremely easy for sophisticated governments in the USA and Israel to identify who has donated. I can imagine these authorities chuckling at the naivete of the "Terrorist"/"Palestinian authority" "secret" fundraising effort.

Technically you would call thid a divergence in the explosion in population despite the apparent decline in the fertility indicators. Perhaps there is an attempt at rebalance

The modern history of Ethiopia (and Africa) is also extremely interesting, the current prime minister (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiy_Ahmed), has turned into a huge reformer ... unexpectedly pushing through huge political and economic reforms

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/08/abiy-ahmed-upe...

I hope your not including India in your list as an example of ethnic uniformity, are you even aware of the vast number of different cultures and languages spoken in India? India stands as the original melting pot since ancient times. Oh and it also has the one of the largest immigrant population in the modern world.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/03/03/india-is-a-...

What you are saying may be entirely true, but Iran is entirely balanced in the middle east by an equally savage and hostile neighbors. Otherwise Iran would have already overrun the region.

Israel and Saudi Arabia are perpetually lobbying for USA to destroy Iran. Fortunately at this time Trump is not interested in adding another $5 trillion to national debt to fight other peoples wars.

Lopsided politics? What is really interesting are Iranian the people on the ground, probably the most interesting population in the entire middle-east. They are actually far more liberally minded than most people imagine, they are very intelligent and capable and productive vs the region. I suspect that free from the Islamic-fascist dictatorship they would becoming extremely dominant in the economically and politically in very quick succession.

Critical thinking is recognizing when people throw out statements without presenting any evidence. If you fill an your article with accusations and without evidence then your trolling.

The lack of explanation of why the author thinks Rust is better than C# makes me think the author is a troll.

Writing code and especially bug fixing issues with complicated code is not as deterministic, as most people imagine. And any developer knows that they should definitely expect the unexpected! but few seriously wonder whats going on when we agree to estimate for them.

So getting up-tight and blaming engineers for having delays is just as random as having a 90 day deadline.

It seems that the MCAS (Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System) system depended upon the AOA.

I'm guessing this is probably walled garden approach, Stadia without multi-platform functionality, cross play.

I doubt many AAA game Devs are ready to go all-in on Stadia, unless they are getting subsidies from Google so Stadia will compete with the Consoles, and PC elites.

What would be great though is that if a really liked an played a game i played on my Hardware PC/Console, what would be great is that i could simply invite a set friends to play onetime through the cloud anywhere and all the friends would need to do is login to Stadia and get to play instantly through chrome.

Google has one of the best QA in the business.

As one of the Firefox developers said a few weeks ago, Google will keep "accidentally" introducing lots of pointless little changes to create glitches and irritations into the experience when using rival browsers.

It happened savagely to Windows Phone, no one cared. I remember trying to browse Gmail on a Windows Phone it was like going back to the 1993.

It happened to EdgeHTML: youtube videos just simply didn't play on Edge.

And i'm sure this will happen to EdgeChromium. Why? because EdgeChromium is a small threat.

Only a small threat because everyone uses google search and not Bing. And astonishingly in 2019 Google search is still even Microsoft's own sites than Bing... in 2019. So the moment you try EdgeChromium you are confront with that

You have to go beyond this kind of limited view. A new OS which has momentum anywhere is an opportunity to weaken the chains of monopoly everywhere.

As i said i originally: I hope it leads to competition, but i doubt that will happen any time soon.

There is an absolute requirement for Huawei to build new technology and actually any other successful firm which has dependencies on US imports.

The choice is between a very expensive and heavily walled garden Apple iOS or Android where your experience can vary.

While Apples growth rate has fallen, i'm am sure there is a reason why it can charge over 2 x high-end premiums. Hint: It has nothing to do with the hardware.

This has been mandated by a US government decree. The US president has declared a "National Emergency" which gives him this kind of power. They have placed Huawei and 70 linked partners on a trade blacklist saying Huawei is a danger to national security.

So it is now effectively an offense for US companies to trade with Huawei directly or indirectly.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3010403/us-commerce-...

I hope it leads to competition, but i doubt that will happen any time soon.

But remember that Fungibility is relative because digitally the movement of USD is traceable. And all physical USD are marketed with serial numbers. Money laundering is a huge part of the financial system where $100 will be sold for $50 for the purpose of obtaining "clean" money, or where vast amounts of artificial work is expended for the purpose of funnelling cash into the mainstream. Thus $100 is not always worth $100.

I'm guessing one aspect of Art is its special abilities to avoid taxation.

Currency is is reasonable here since its understandable that art can be used as an be a means of exchange for fiat or in barter, if they are regularly accepted and exchanged in this way.

Technically Fiat is a thing declared and enforced by the state. Art is not that, so agreed the title is an abuse of language and actually non-sense.

I'm not sure your theories have a base. Population may not like whats happening, but the peoples will only rise to protest when they feel directly threatened.

People will feel directly threatened if these systems produce too many false positives which result in too many false arrests or "police harassment".

Government and vendors will get away with it by slowly and sporadically deploying these systems until "we" get used to being monitored by these "AI" type systems.

Mildly "sexy" news like this is perfect for letting the people gently feel aware that they are being monitored in this way without being too threatening.

The last thing authorities or vendors want is news that 250 <insert-triggering-ethic-minority> were falsely apprehended because of AI identification with a few citizens getting chased and "accidentally" shot in the process => That would be inescapable-incompetence compounding incompetence after all, reason to take to the streets.

" escaped the effects of a global nuclear war through luck and sensible judgement by a large number of people"

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And sometime by a surprisingly small number of people too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov#Early_life_an...

And before any architects reply smartly about the misuse of the term "blueprint" see here: https://socratic.org/questions/why-is-dna-called-the-bluepri...

I didn't think it was so challenging to use the term "genetics" after all from a reasonable point of view our genes are the blueprint of the body and our emotional responses derive from that...