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There's a good graphic novel as well:

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/operation-ajax-mike-de-seve...

which is based on the book:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_Shah%27s_Men

On top of this, v.reddit.com is abysmal. Videos stop streaming, the cursor is impossible to use, I don't know how its allowed to exist in its current state.

Do you honestly think Apple is going to keep this true for Macs in 2 years? 5 years? 10 years? I think there is slim to none chance that they give a shit about the "openness"of Mac.

As far as I'm concerned, Mac openness is just a cat that got out of the bag, before anyone knew they could produce a _mint_ from rent seeking walled garden platforms. I find it highly unlikely Apple is not looking to correct this mistake on Mac, even if it's done so gradually that by the time the pull the trigger, no one even bats an eye.

Help me make the connection here. If we cut taxes to the Walmarts, why would that lead to them increasing wages? Would they see the reduction in safety nets and food stamps, and conclude that they ought to be more generous to employees? Wouldn't they rather turn that into shareholder value instead? I agree that it sucks for society to cover the gaps, but what you're describing sounds like trickle down economics, which I don't have much faith in.

His foundation has been in the health space since it's inception. He's very hands on, and consumes and synthesizes health knowledge, which he's been doing for a long time. He has a broad view of many of the factors that go into vaccines, treatments, societal impact, etc. I've never seen him stumped or give a political non-answer on any of the interviews he's been given. I consider him an authority on the topic.

Upon further thinking, I think the fact that running and integrating non-built-ins is so clunky makes this less a shell and more just a shell-like programming language, and at that point why not python?

Like it or not, the Unix pipe model of command integration is what enables programs to "know" about each other without ever really knowing about each other. Crush looks like its foregoing that.

If you like the sql-like filesystem interaction, check out:

https://github.com/jhspetersson/fselect

I've integrated this into my workflow, it's a polished tool.

The thread seems available to me. The YouTube link is broken, which is on YouTube's side.

There's an excellent retrospective on YouTube about the xband and how it was built. It was a product ahead of its time.

For example, the way they got games that weren't built for laggy multiplayer to work was unbelievable: they recognized the cartridge and patched the code. Yes, that means every game that worked was a result of a custom built patching of that game's code at run time!

https://youtu.be/k_5M-z_RUKA

I wish Barnes and Nobles would find a strategy to combat Amazon competition. When I walk into a BN, it feels just like how Best Buy felt when it really seemed doomed (about a decade ago). BN is the only bookstore in many American cities, especially more rural ones, and I fear for a future in which the physical book buying experience is lost.

Do you have a link about mastadon's moderation problems?

Oh man, that was the best. It was large enough to have basically every interest. All while still having the basic functionality of reading and replying to text. Your "feed" was chronological messages, rather than a psychologist-engineered addiction engine.

I recently found out about Mobile Justice apps that stream your recording directly to your state's ACLU, so that even if your phone is siezed the recording is not destroyed.

California's:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.aclu.mobil...

I'm not convinced of that. Apple is in a position to invent a search engine, make it real pretty (if not as powerful), and slap it as the default on iOS Safari. Throw in some claims that "it's the most private" so the apple fan base eats it up, and I think apple would take a significant chunk of iOS searches overnight.

This is what-aboutism at it's finest. Changing default apps has nothing to do with privacy. How did you connect the two other than "but what about..."?

In fact, forget about Android, every OS pretty much ever has allowed for changing default apps. This is strictly about control, and this current move is strictly about throwing EU regulators a slight curve ball.

Ok, wtf. Clicking around randomly, I came across:

http://textfiles.com/sf/bane_of_

Which I presume is some kind of speculation on "Episode 3" of star wars. I have no clue when this was written, but given the context, I'm assuming it's 80s-90s era, but it's shocking how much it resembles the prequels! Young Anakin being force sensitive, Yoda being apprehensive about teaching him, Kenobi deciding to teach him anyway, lava-side duel, corrupt senator taking advantage.

If this is really a vintage text, it's really amazing how close they got!

> I find it frustrating and damaging to democracy that politics is viewed as something dirty. Politics should be just a domain of problem solving and discussion like programming, home improvement, or cooking - except that everybody should have a say since it affects everybody. Why do we assume everybody in politics has sinister intentions?

Because politics, at least at the top levels, has been perverted by lobbying.

Your ideal of politics seems to be that of people trying to figure out what choices and compromises need to be made. I'm sure most politicians start out like that, but once they get to office, they see that fundraising for reelection is their #1 goal, full stop.

You could say the same for cash.

Why do you need to mitm it if it's all open source?

MacBook keyboard + constant track pad use (like 2 months worth) was really wrecking my arm, shoulder, and wrist. I don't recommend that combo for anything but light, short spans.

I'm curious what kinds of sites people think should be returned for a search term of "mattress", if not mattress shopping sites?

The entire point of the Congress is compromise.

Whenever I see joint legislation like this it gives me hope that despite our hyper partisan climate, there is at least some collaboration still happening.

But this is how Reddit works. And HN actually.

That's the crazy thing about this. There's already obfuscation techniques against hash blacklists, so what is this even for? There's no earthly way apple security engineers didn't know that. So what is actually happening?

My guess is that it's strictly for banning app store apps that they pull from the app store, but would like also to cripple retroactively on installed machines. But that doesn't explain why it had to run against random shell scripts? This is all still confusing. We don't have all the info.

It's funny how the chrome store has skewed so far the opposite direction (kicking out extensions that claim they need http://*), but any Android app can claim they're a http:// handler.

This seems like a pointless comparison. Why should one SpaceX program be compared to all of what NASA does?

It would be like saying "angry birds was developed with 10 days worth of Microsoft's annual budget".

By that rationale, no one should have been forced to stay home. Everyone's got mouths to feed.

How though? It's trivially simple to change the default search engine. Just because a product is dominant doesn't mean it got that way nefariously. I'm sure if you added up all the R&D over the years in search, especially considering the lead time in market, Google's numbers dwarf others (I don't have a citation on that, but it stands to reason).

Parallels could be drawn with Amazon and AWS's dominance.

There's some truth to this. For many years, Google allows users the ability to wholesale export all of their data (perhaps as a defense for this moment in time).

If the consumer market wanted an alternative, wouldn't there be competing companies by now that would ingest all that data and give you matching mail, docs, video, etc, services?

On the advertising front, Google is no longer the only game in town, so by definition not a monopoly.

Wait what? I wish people would make up their minds on this. They have gotten a warrant. That's how law enforcement is supposed to work.

Being against warrantless tapping is not the same thing.