hollerith

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1. 1021.▲
   by hollerith 1y ago

   I knew about the Soviet use, which is why I qualified with "in the US context". Every use I've ever heard from a US speaker -- almost certainly over 100 uses, going back to when Reagan was President or maybe a year or 2 aft
2. 1022.▲
   by hollerith 1y ago

   "Politically correct" in the US context means essentially the same thing as "woke". In both cases, the word or phrase was adopted first by progressives, then by critics of progressives to refer to progressive beliefs and
3. 1023.▲
   by hollerith 1y ago

   Part of the US Federal Court. The Supreme Court, which is another part of the US Federal Court, might eventually overrule today's decision.
4. 1024.▲
   by hollerith 1y ago

   >the USA's supreme court OK, but right now we are talking about a decision by a US federal appeals court.
5. 1025.▲
   by hollerith 1y ago

   >Open tabs are kinda halfway between history and bookmarks, for me. How do you feel about the fact that the author (of the web page) gets to decide whether a link opens in a new tab? Point is that I ignore tabs unless I'm alternatin
6. 1026.▲
   by hollerith 1y ago

   Chinese citizens are prohibited from investing abroad and keeping money abroad. It might be that the signs you describe are more about getting around that prohibition than about hedonism.
7. 1027.▲
   by hollerith 1y ago

   That doesn't mean it was used for speech and language: evolution frequently finds a new purpose for a gene, and the previous purpose does not have to be human-comprehensible.
8. 1028.▲
   by hollerith 1y ago

   Which arms race? The nuclear arms race of the Cold War? That one got stopped.
9. 1029.▲
   by hollerith 1y ago

   >(The entry-level Chery retails in Qatar for about $15,000 USD—try finding a new car of any kind in the United States for $15,000.) The competition for a $15,000 new car is the US is used cars, which are available in great abundance for
10. 1030.▲
    by hollerith 1y ago

    Too much cynicism is destructive, but so is not being able to resist the temptation to see one's political opponents as aliens with inscrutable motives or truly failed or defective human beings with despicable motives.
11. 1031.▲
    by hollerith 1y ago

    Also, everything is a joke with that guy.
12. 1032.▲
    by hollerith 1y ago

    No, I'm not related to the Mr Hollerith who invented the punched card.
13. 1033.▲
    by hollerith 1y ago

    And feeding stacks of punched cards into the card reader.
14. 1034.▲
    by hollerith 1y ago

    >I am aligned with ESR basically, as expressed in "The Clue Train Manifesto." You mean "The Cathedral and the Bazaar". Both were published about the same time, long ago, but Eric had nothing to do with "Clue Trai
15. 1035.▲
    by hollerith 1y ago

    Granulated ginger frequently has heavy metals in it, which complicates things, but I've found Frontier Herbs's dried granulated ginger root to be safe, and I seem to be unusually sensitive to heavy metals in my food.
16. 1036.▲
    by hollerith 1y ago

    Spices like oregano, ginger and many others disrupt the biofilm in the gut. Too much disruption would be deleterious for most people, but spices are mild in their disruptive effect, which is generally beneficial and preferable for most peop
17. 1037.▲
    by hollerith 1y ago

    I am writing these words on an N100. I wanted a cheap PC small enough to store easily at my girlfriend's house without a fan, i.e., without the noises that non-Apple non-Noctua fans tend to make as they get old. (I looked for a Core
18. 1038.▲
    by hollerith 1y ago

    I found that perfectly clear and unambiguous...
19. 1039.▲
    by hollerith 1y ago

    So it is immaterial to you that Foxconn gets about $5 per iPhone sold and Apple get about $500?
20. 1040.▲
    by hollerith 1y ago

    OK, consider the browser market: are there any browsers that cost money? If so, I've not heard of it. From the beginning, Netscape Corporation, Microsoft, Opera and Apple gave away their browsers for free. That is because by the early
21. 1041.▲
    by hollerith 1y ago

    Most OSes no longer have any users or squeak by with less than 1000 users on their best day ever: Plan 9, OS/2, Beos, AmigaOS, Symbian, PalmOS, the OS for the Apple II, CP/M, VMS, TOPS-10, Multics, Compatible Time-Sharing System,
22. 1042.▲
    by hollerith 1y ago

    "Exports" is hiding a lot of complexity here. Some export statistics might add the entire price of an iPhone to the export figure for China because that is where the final assembly is done even though (like my previous comment sho
23. 1043.▲
    by hollerith 1y ago

    Mind share of the basic design. Unix's design decisions are important parts of MacOS and Linux. Multics would be an example of a more innovative OS than Unix, but its influence on the OSes we use today has been a lot less.
24. 1044.▲
    by hollerith 1y ago

    Me, too. Also, Unix as a whole is overrated. One reason it won was an agreement mediated by a Federal judge presiding over an anti-trust trial that AT&T would not enter the computer market while IBM would not enter the telecommunicati
25. 1045.▲
    by hollerith 1y ago

    Here's my estimate, taken mostly from figures from Apple's 2024 annual report (as reported by Gemini Flash). Apple's total worldwide revenue for fiscal year 2024 was $391.035 billion. The Americas Segment (which includes the
26. 1046.▲
    by hollerith 1y ago

    Sure, but how are you and I supposed to know which country will win the export market for the next big thing? We could guess, but there's been a lot of guesses (confidently made out to be facts and inevitabilities) made in this thread
27. 1047.▲
    by hollerith 1y ago

    >There’s actually a lot of open source software made by Chinese people. If that is true and the software is any good, you should be able to name an open-source project that we've heard of started by people living in China. DeepSeek
28. 1048.▲
    by hollerith 1y ago

    The last big round of global innovation was internet services, of which I'm pretty sure (not having looked it up) that US exports represent the majority of world exports. Apple keeps half the sales price of every iPhone whereas the las
29. 1049.▲
    by hollerith 1y ago

    The US is exporting over $3 trillion worth of stuff per year: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/exports China exports more, but China also must import more, including more of the things needed for the survival
30. 1050.▲
    by hollerith 1y ago

    In Florida and maybe other states, if anyone requests body cam video on a case, the police usually have to provide it, so, of course there is going to be at least one video on Youtube of cops behaving badly, but that does not say anything i