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Opening the door probably costs more in energy (from AC or Heating losses), than the savings on turning off LEDs.

30K / year * 100 million people = 3 trillion. 1/6th GDP. Lots of money.

Another interesting contrast:

- the media industry's "lost revenue" is actually driving more demand - because those that pirate the media talk about it, and the word of mouth gets around - and legimitate purchases follow. "there's no such thing as bad news".

- the luxury industry's "lost revenue" is actually reducing demand - actual rich people don't want to buy the authentic $10,000 purse anymore, because all the poor people have it already...

basically none. I've read that many electric motors are most efficient at 80%+ load...

and 30 percent young adult unemployment...

Wait what? You're using a palm rest, therefore the laptop is on you desk. And you don't have a real keyboard and mouse plugged into it?

Magplug charging is magical! Easily the best contribution to computer design from Apple, ever.

And then it gets dropped...

I wonder if the poor hardware has to do with increasingly outsourced R&D. I mean, everyone at Apple is rich, why should they bother with all the hard details ...

More of those billions came from Apple... Vote with your wallet, buy HTC instead.

Maybe soon Apple could drop the "Designed in California", and just go 100% "Made in PRC".

True story: I was born in a opressive communist dictatorship, escaped with my family to freedom and democracy. It's very hard to observe the vanguard of democratic capitalism, become 99% communist, with a couple guys in California rounding the corners and painting the boxes...

Their stance on privacy could easily be a false front - who would know if they secretly leaked infos to any three letter agency and PRC?

Their stance on censorship is impossible to hide, and should inform your opinion of them more strongly...

Reddit is now suspect, after the major investment from PRC. I no longer visit there...

I wonder if the 50 cent party https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party is going to be involved in hacker news anytime soon...

Google assistant or similar limited-AIs are a much more likely future. My kids already have (silly) conversations with google-assistant all the time.

An obvious extension would be google-ai-tutor. Inspired by _Diamond Age_.

where will the hookers and blow come from if the hookers and dealers are on basic and doing nothing?

I mean a currency that is primarily based on drugs, gambling, sex and cybercrime can't be all bad, can it?

The Brave New World will take a few generations, I assume.

Yup. Their entire business success, their 1 trillion dolar story, all their "shareholder value" can be summed up by:

"we don't build anything, the Chinese build it for us".

Time to pay the piper.

The paper was actually linked from the original article. Good job scientific american!

Bias confirmed. According to Google Maps "Quick Facts": Poland is a place of Jewish heritage, and not much else...

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Poland/

where'd you get this deal? currently listed on their site is 1GBit for $100 per month (with a 6 month scam discount).

As a long time bash user (and abuser), I will just point you to this document, which distills a lot of wisdom:

https://google.github.io/styleguide/shell.xml "If you are writing a script that is more than 100 lines long, you should probably be writing it in something else"

Also another course: http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~jyard/qic710/

With regards to 1) the two are basically synonymous.

communist country == dictatorship

(with the possible exception of Uruguay and Nepal)

Ukrainian and Russian (and Polish) are spoken within the borders that today are called Ukraine, and are not the same language...

Retina has 100 million photoreceptors per eye. Also, need higher FPS. Maybe 120 is good enough?

Apple could single handedly bring the electronics industry back from the grave in North America. Maybe they should, instead of whining that their easy profits off of communist party handshake deals will vanish.

When the president of the PRC visits America, he visits Apple and Microsoft... https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/reporters-no...

Shocking.

I mean, a monetary system based on gambling, drugs, and smuggling can't be all bad?

I hope at least some of these panels are manufactured in the USA... Otherwise, it's another sector of the economy getting outsourced and impoverishing the north american economy in the long run.

No, "free as in beer" nullified a lot of the value of "free as in liberty". When is the last time you paid moneys for a software product?

You are the product.

youtube-dl already has extract audio feature built in. try youtube-dl -x playlist-url

Students in a typical undergrad environment are replicating Calhoun's rats in a cage experiments. In an explicitly competetive environment no less.

Aberrant behaviour should be expected.