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by abalone 7y ago
> this is exactly the story Apple would want to tell shareholders in the wake of Ive's departure That is so not true. This story paints the picture of a dysfunctional org under Cook’s watch who is dramatically less inspiring than
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by abalone 7y ago
That's for posting an actual citation. The author of that blog post explicitly states in a follow up comment: "I totally agree that it makes no business sense" and that his objective is merely "to explain how a smart con
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by abalone 7y ago
One, don’t mock people on HN. Two, you’re going to need to cite real examples to support your claim, not just spout a bunch of buzzwords. Quick search of “ethereum escrow” returns no real implementations that avoid fees or human intermedi
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by abalone 7y ago
I’m wondering what this could mean for replacing React Native. Obviously SwiftUI is geared for Apple’s platforms but overall it seems pretty high level and perhaps amenable to being adapted to Android by somebody. Swift is open source after
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by abalone 7y ago
They “delivered” only because they sold wheelbarrows to the 49ers. As gold rush history will tell you, most fortunes were made by merchants not miners. Name a non-ICO-infrastructure ICO that isn’t a scam.
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by abalone 7y ago
I don’t get why they call externalities a “lesser” problem or put it in parentheses except out of ideology. Sure you can point to horrific environmental crimes in communism, but what would you say the primary economic engine is that has led
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by abalone 7y ago
> But much of the cited data here appears wrong. I don't think this is a fair assessment. First of all you've ignored the most significant claims, that Chernobyl was very nearly a much worse disaster that "would have lev
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by abalone 7y ago
Yes and it's interesting to quote the rest of that paragraph, which ends up arguing that clean energy transitions "would end up hurting consumers through higher electricity bills."[1] The use of the term "hurting" h
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by abalone 7y ago
It would be.. if I hadn’t said there are a lot of other damning things in the report.
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by abalone 7y ago
Because the story is about assembling iPhones.
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by abalone 7y ago
See: all of American history.
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by abalone 7y ago
There is a lot of pretty horrible stuff that is “normal in a lot of places.” It doesn’t excuse it. Racism is not something Apple stands for and so it has leverage to stop this practice in its suppliers.
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by abalone 7y ago
No, it’s racism. Excluding Puerto Ricans from American job sites would be straight up racist.
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by abalone 7y ago
> A poster in an agency describes job qualification for Foxconn workers: age between 16 and 40, ninth-grade diploma, no Tibetan and Uygur ethnicities. Many damning things in the report but this straight up racism demands a firm respons
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by abalone 7y ago
> Crucially, the researchers showed all respondents information about the number of deaths that had historically occurred in the worst accident associated with the technology. This is important for nuclear power, since accidents are rar
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by abalone 7y ago
yeah fine batteries but what about autonomous vehicles? surely that breakthrough is the genius of Elon Musk and Silicon Valley free market entrepreneurship not military funded.... oh.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by abalone 7y ago
Please do get involved with Green New Deal activism. Personal responsibility is great but it will NOT fix the problem. We need fundamental changes in how our global economy operates. We are having a moment in politics where it seems real ch
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by abalone 7y ago
I doubt cyclical references are the only cause of inconsistent latency in mark and sweep.
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by abalone 7y ago
> Maybe Swift will gain it, one day. Maybe not. “We have discussed in the passed using hybrid approaches like introducing a cycle collector, which runs less frequently than a GC would. The problem with this is that if you introduce a
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by abalone 7y ago
> Throughput reduction is predictable, and it's easy to plan for that — if your program runs 10% slower, bring up ~10% more servers; that's about it. But long GC pauses are rapid and volatile; you can't "autoscale&qu
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by abalone 7y ago
See also: “Why NASA’s newest space shuttle uses a computer chip from 2002” https://qz.com/317406/why-nasas-newest-space-shuttle-uses-a-...
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by abalone 7y ago
I hear you on local sourcing but they mentioned it last and didn’t quantify the impact. The stalled project mentioned in the Chronicle article was approved in under two years, not five. So I don’t think these are strong points vs what the s
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by abalone 7y ago
The essential view of PHIMBYs is that government should invest in housing, which is the mechanism by which the postwar generation achieved housing security (HUD had a huge budget). Thanks for the upvote. Allow me to critique your argument.
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by abalone 7y ago
Huh? Just some of the data it offers: Seattle’s “Central District, which was more than 70% black in 1970, has long since become a majority white neighborhood, with blacks comprising less than 15% of the current population. A long-standing t
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by abalone 7y ago
False dichotomy. There is a substantial debate about how to build housing. In SF we sometimes call it the YIMBY vs PHIMBY debate.[1] [1] https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/04/nimbys-yimbys-and-phi...
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by abalone 7y ago
> Every step of that is a win. Maybe if you focus on the wealthy it is, but it’s more complicated when you consider the less fortunate. Here’s an analysis of Seattle that concludes "by overbuilding housing for the wealthy, Seattle
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by abalone 7y ago
> What you actually have to do is line up every potential purchase of a home (which may be more than one per buyer) in the city by any person in the world in that order. This is an excellent point. People who point to “basic supply and
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by abalone 7y ago
I read your citation and it does not appear to support that claim with respect to approved projects. In fact it leads by referencing the slow rebound from the recession for skilled labor vs all the demand as the primary driver in labor co
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by abalone 7y ago
I started mine by politely thanking for the sourcing and I still got downvoted. I think there are politically motivated downvoters on this topic.
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by abalone 7y ago
The Chronicle article is worth reading but you can trust me that it points to capital markets and labor shortages as holding back approved projects. Here is a deeper analysis of the Seattle market with specific housing construction figures.

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