stubish
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- stubishBut the natural result is vendor lock in. To stop exports of keys, sites will need a whitelist and secure method to verify the hardware or software implementation has not been tampered with. If an implementation is banned, the obvious solution is to allow it to pretend to be a non-banned implementation. Or admin level processes smuggling keys out of approved implementations. I don't think anyone wants an arms race, thus the vague threats to remove features that users are demanding before they will consider buying into the ecosystem.
- Yes. If the CO2 was just released you would have to pay the energy cost to extract it from the atmosphere again.
- Yes, you only hear about the initial breakthrough. The regular news doesn't report the trials unless things go spectacularly wrong. And you don't hear about the successes using the therapy on patients where traditional treatments didn't work. And you don't hear about the treatments successful enough that they replace the traditional treatments. But they are there, being used and saving lives. A family member's prostate cancer metastasized after 20 years of hormone therapy, they refused chemotherapy, and had their life saved by radioligand therapy, a treatment not available just months earlier. No side effects beyond a dry mouth, and now off the more debilitating hormone treatments.
- It all burned out because the market for 'fake meat' is tiny, the meat loving ethical or ignorant vegetarians. The vast bulk of the vegetarian market would prefer a lentil burger. In the real market for 'fake meat', it needs to compete economically with factory chicken, which is one of the cheapest protein sources on the planet.
- Any 'fad blitz' you see is just mindless flailing, trying to deal with a category of food we know is unhealthy but are still trying to work out the mechanisms and reasons why (which would enable improved categorizations). It doesn't seem particularly targeted at anything, and most industry players profit from ultra processed foods. I think the interesting edge case is soy milk and similar. Most brands including organic ones count as ultra processed by the nutritionists definition, with vitamins and calcium supplementation. And this very supplementation is how many vegans and vegetarians keep their calcium and B vitamin levels up, even if they don't always realize it.
- Despite enjoying Quorn for a few months once or twice a week, after a while it started making a family member throw up (so thanks for the IBS tip). Chickpeas are also out. I can feed them tofu, tempeh and beans and lentils for vegan protein.
- Evolution does not optimize for quality of life. And evolution certainly creates some pretty stupid outcomes, as it favors slapping on quick fixes at random rather than intelligently engineering the problem away. So we have hardware problems like our blind spots that got 'fixed' in software, unlike other species that evolved eyes separately and happened to get the wiring right.
- Conversely, it might be great comfort to someone who has a job because their company didn't go out of business. The point of unions isn't to punish business. The point of unions is to empower workers. One of the things workers can do with that power is ensure their business stays afloat and jobs remain, for example policies promoting long term health and stability rather than short term stock price bumps and volatility or corporate strip mining, even if it means executives get smaller bonuses.
- I think Spotify and other streaming services have a problem very similar to the restaurants. Take an artist with a 40 year career and a dozen acclaimed albums and bags of songs almost everyone loves, and when that artist comes up it is always the same one or two songs. The most played songs, causing feedback and making the problem worse. In my mind, one of the core reasons for asking for recommendations is to discover something different, which means ignoring or maybe even penalizing popularity, because you are likely already familiar with the popular by definition.
- The list would grow short very quickly.
- Fire hazard and native wildlife, mostly. Over here, anything called a weed is invasive. Native birds and insects like their native species, and invasive vegetation brings in invasive species.
- They article does validly point out that deprecation warnings don't work. Turns out in this day and age that the only thing you can reliably inform about changes is the package manager and its dependency solver, and pip requires semver or similar for that.
- I'm more for requiring licensing to anyone and everyone for the same price, including yourself. No more exclusives. Streaming platforms compete on cost, features and availability of niche content. Even further, choosing to not license content to anyone creates an implicit license for everyone. No more lost content. But I don't think any countries are looking at legislation like this, with entertainment way down on everyone's agenda.
- Hahaha.... this is Hacker News. You do realize who run the geolocation systems? Originating from Antarctica, The Whitehouse or the Moon would become a status symbol.
- Asbestos and lead in petrol and CFCs were also progress. But we decided to progress further to reduce the chance of dying of cancer. And we did!
- The publisher could certainly mention it in their product blurb or in the additional notes under system requirements, if they thought to or thought the market would care.
- The bit about FEX is interesting. Taking x86 code and running it on ARM. The most important thing for Valve to do is pick what instruction set to use, one you can run natively or native hardware, or efficiently and reliably through translation on alien hardware. ARM might be a great choice, as hardware exists at scale on mobile devices, and emulated on other devices even if the CPU happens to be Intel or AMD. Valve is then in control, rather than Intel or Apple or Microsoft.
- I think this is the wrong way around. There might be an economic incentive to keeping something closed source, for example having licensed other closed source code. And remaining in control without oversight also might be an incentive. But the incentive to making something open source is that someone might improve your work, making your product better. It is somewhat arrogant to assume that nobody else out there could possibly improve this code or add value. Just like it is arrogant to assume that your competitors don't already know your 'secrets' and haven't reverse engineered anything they found interesting.
- It is also doesn't even have to be about more profits. In Valve's case, I do think they like profit or they would lower their commission. But what Valve most needs to do is maintain market share. If they lose market share, they become as relevant to the market as GOG. Steam's market share is the only thing that allows them to dictate pricing in their favor, and that is the only thing stopping Microsoft from owning PC gaming.
- I don't think Australia is having an identity crisis. There won't be research backing from Australia as the Nuclear agenda one party is pushing is essentially a cover story for replacing antique coal plants with gas plants. A genuine Nuclear plan for Australia would include realistic timelines and budgets, and use of other renewables to replace coal plants that are failing today while meeting climate targets. And meeting climate targets is important, because if we don't care about them then coal and gas will remain cheaper than Nuclear for Australia due to having large reserves.