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I'm not in ag but anybody working on a modular elevated track system? Let the sun shine right thru. Automate a ton of physical tasks, like that one gardening startup (forgot name). Some central unit coordinates it all and offers an api, that way third-parties can program specific bots for specific tasks and its all orchestrated without collisions. Allow a whole industry of startups to build on such physical 'Operating Systems'. Seems so obvious I must have seen it in a sci-fi movie or something and I forgot.

It's far too easy for mainland "security" forces or counterparts to go plain-clothes and attak HK police. It's a common tactic used against protestors. It gives an excuse for authoritarian responses, like shooting at crowds or, in this case, shutting down an app.

The only thing this circumstanial evidence justifies is an investigation. The author is stating he's a cheater like a matter of fact.

I think it's hard to make an argument that China has a lot of leverage on Telegram as an organization, but that could change in years to come. A decade ago, no one really thought Google would become this hostile to users and even seek to collaborate with the CPC govt and its totalitarian vision.

Everything you said about open-source applies to Android too. At the very least all kinds of backdoors are in Android phone because of chip firmware. But I guess you might be alluding to the fact that Tim Cook handed over Apple iCloud keys to the Chinese govt.

Google must be stopped from muscling its way into 'real' goods and services. Can you imagine getting locked out of your [insert] with an automated response and without recourse?

It's "Component Object Model" for anyone out there that almost gave up after googling "COM".

How does shared memory between processes on different chips work with something like UPMEM?

Wow that go me thinking. What if specialized AI code recommenders could sniff out solutions. Get away from libraries with objects or structs with methods that mutate. As more people realize composing functions (Forth has concept of composing words, correct?) with fewer side effects is a good thing, I wonder if it's possible. There is some amount of my workflow where I'm looking at StackOverflow, my git project history or others, examples even on blogs (at least when I was new), or my little code snippet journal for stuff already solved. Automate getting idiomatic solutions from a StackOverflow or Github commits of sorts, or something. I know we are no were near, but FB's Aroma and others have the first gen AI recommenders in the pipeline that at a high level do this. That way we are just dealing with code snippets. I've only read Forth code and introductions to it, but it seem all about composition. However this is hard to conceive with today's coding forums and repos because most are gluing mutating library APIs (turtles all the way down) together. So a code recommender paradigm of this sort is chicken vs egg.

Also consider that all we know is a world that has become more global, open, and relatively peaceful post 1970s. If collaboration were to slow or decline, open-source would be harmed. And/or if Google and Facebook lose its dynamism from politics, regulation, and maturity, corporate sponsored open-source could be shaken. Google could become like AT&T and Facebook like Ericsson or something in some way.

Once unstoppable sectors, like aerospace (to mix comparisons) began to reverse and decline in the early 70s. No one really saw it coming. I can't think if one publicly known or credible person called it in 1969 shortly after the moon landing, at least on record. Oversupply of engineers in the US and the West became a thing. And engineering still suffers here because of aerospace's decline. Forth began to lose steam around then, right? Forth, hardware and Cold War (barriers) politics are inextricably linked, perhaps. And then GNU/Linux and BSD saw its high-collaboration paradigm birthed around that time. Nixon/Kissenger talks with closed China began around then too, and now relations are breaking down with a more open China today.

Look how Lua scripting came about not terribly so long ago. Some parallels. Brazilian trade barriers. Now half believe Huawei is evil. Cross-hardware story may be cracking. Many believe Google is evil. Open software may be cracking. And there are rifts between US, EU, and China on how to regulate the internet. A new Cold War may be brewing. It's a nerds nightmare.

If anyone can tie in distributed ledger and specialized AI coder productivity tools, or something to counter this argument or round it out, that would be awesome.

EDIT: I was mistaken. Forth caught on with personal computer hobbyists in the 1980s, per Wikipedia. However, as a career or industry,slow downs with NASA and Cold War spending seemed to take some wind out of Forth's sails. I've noted that lot of that type of work was what paid people to write Forth. And the open-source paradigm with C/C++ and GNU Linux was even more limiting, I believe.

I replied to this in a reply to someone else up above. You may have the the last word. And I do hope a peaceful solution is found. I especially like every Iranian expat I every met. I want to see every sanctioned nation prosperous and with a vibrant democracy. Have a good weekend.

The neocons that blundered in Iraq and the neoliberals (like former Sec State HRC) that overthrew the Libyan dictatorship and targeted the Syrian autocracy, were democratically removed from leading US foreign policy. Democracy here adjusts. The 45th has accelerated the withdrawal from Syria due to anger from voters. The neocons and neoliberal have been pushing for Syrian escalation and the ousting of Assad. And there is now a peace path with North Korea, despite again extreme criticism by the necons and neoliberal.

On the other hand there is no accountability in Iran, Russia, or Syria. Russia just straight up annexed Crimea. And Putin is still in power and popular among Russians. Assad still hasn't held more than a single election in 5 decades. Again, the Bushs are out because of Iraq. And Afghanistan (that sheltered terrorist Al Queda) has a trillions in USD in rare earth deposits, yet we buy from China almost exclusively. China is not our friend anymore. We don't even own Iraqi oil.

Sanctions are just. And Nazis, Imperial Japan, and the Soviets were once embargoed, and they would be running an impoverished world today, if not for the US-led efforts. To the contrary, world GDP has increased many fold and US inventions, like the internet, lift billions out of poverty and into the drivers seats of their futures. Defeated former foes in Japan, Germany, even Russia, et all, and the defended like South Korea are doing fabulously after wisely focusing on building instead of launching an insurgency (after losing) because of "Death to Israel and the Great Satan" or whatever. Shame on the insurgents for plunging Iraq into disarray.

I have no idea what you're talking about with Palestine. The Palestine Authority pays million of dollars (from billions in US aid) a year to the families of terrorists (the longer the prison sentence, the more they pay), like someone that goes into a jewish house and stabs the entire family to death. Iran also supports terrorist Palestinian Hamas. Again, a lot of complaining and little building. Sanctions would come off if they stopped strapping on suicide vests because "Death to Israel".

Is our republic perfect? No. But more people have immigrated here than anywhere in history. We still take in more immigrants than anywhere else. And families that refuse to wait in line, risk their lives to cross desserts to wind up in temporary detention centers for a few a weeks just to get a residency court date. We have a Muslim Somali immigrant woman that's elected into Congress, and routinely disrespects our ally Israel and even the US. She is not in prison because of our freedoms. How many immigrant Jewish Americans are elected in Somalia?

Which country are you from?

Are you claiming Iranian tech elites don't use VPNs or Tor?

Economic sanctions prevent these regimes from entrenching themselves and growing. And if it didn't, the Iranian regime wouldn't be seizing ships and harassing our Navy to protest the sanctions. They work. And bad govts have crumbled using this and supportive efforts. Are you sympathetic to the underclass dissidents getting tortured and killed or the small fraction of Iranian upper-middle class elites complaining about the USA sanctions and not fully condemning the murderous Ayatollah?

You could have made the same argument to not sanction any govt, like the Nationalist Socialists or Soviets.

Shame should be directed at the sanctioned govts like that of Cuba that jail or kill people for political dissent. And shame on companies that help them. These regimes are unelected or sponsor terrorism, like Iran. They must not grow. It's a bad situation all around and there is no other peaceful alternative. Crippling these govts provides them with less resources to setup extreme surveillance grids and control, like China who has Muslims under total surveillance and has 1 million of them in a camp (they aren't trying to sneak into China). They also harvest political prisoner organs and millions of unregistered women are in hiding because of the 1-child policy (not too mention females are aborted at an extreme rate). Iran's people have a shot because it's hard for the govt to control them with limited resources. The Soviets were energized by not so bad relations with the West after WII. That gave them the build up for future proxy wars and destroying pockets of dissent, including entrenching the CPB and North Korea. And if we didn't resist and sanction, hundreds of millions would now be under the thumb of the Soviets and possibly under German Nationalist Socialists if the free world did not fight and sanction them too.

Tulsi is the most prominent Democrat presidential candidate that the media often says has conservative views. She is also broadly considered anti-establishment. Are there any establishment Democrat candidates (e.g. Harvard and Yale Law faculty member and senior senator Warren) to date that have had their Google ad accounts suspended by an 'unbiased' algorithm?

Disabling unsafe and unnecessary sys calls in containers (not Docker) and forcing apps to communicate via API with capabilities management would let you do this now, I think. In fact, sandstorm.io is said to do all this. And it's open-source. I never used it, except the demo. And I'm not sure if its PowerBox (manages capabilities) is fully implemented.

Google is big. What does Google or Alphabet do that others may 'egregariously' not?

How many games did the bot beat the same 5 players? And how many games were played?

My guess is that the whales have been securing parts of their codebases from internal leaks or something related but for security. Workflow disruptions. It may be bad code bitting them weeks or more after they pushed it.

There has been many embarrassing and controversial leaks this year. Allegations of uneven TOS enforcement. Hence the WH Social Media Summit. Could also be security related combo ahead of the elections that also is a bit sensitive for low-trust devs.

Imagine code getting pushed that only a smaller subset of devs are privy to. Possibly pushing obsfucated code or launching services outside of the standard pipeline.

Remember that the spectre and meltdown patches for the Linux kernal was a nightmare because the normal open and free-to-discuss-and-review workflow was broken. That applies too in these situations with large codebases that internally are 'open-source'.

I zeroed on murder rates to bring home the point that higher rates of really serious crime, not just drug related that some think is trivial, is a relatively larger problem in the African American community than average. Some falsely believe that African Americans are incarcerated at a higher rate purely because of marijuana, minor drug possession, or re-arrests in prison. Only a small fraction of the African American community is actually incarcerated. However, it's still at a much higher rate than normal. It's not slavery. So me bringing up my family is to demonstrate that not all African American families struggle w/incarceration. Context.

And I'm not a fan or private prisons. So we agree on that. Profit motive pre-dates capitalism. Arab slave traders in the 18th century weren't capitalist by any stretch. 16th century BC slavery in North Africa Egypt had nothing to do with capitalism. So you're confusing profit seeking, which has always existed, with capitalism.

The fact is that slavery was mainstream for thousands of years before Southern Democrat slavery. It's not a coincidence that within 70 years of the invention of the Eli Whitney cotton gin that slavery ended in the West all together. Cotton production multiplied. Capitalism ended slavery in the West, with the Civil War serving as the nail in the coffin. Furthermore, slavery was only a real big thing because of agrarianism before mechanization. Capitalism mechanized (e.g. cotton gin) the world in the industrial revolution.

And if you care about slavery, you may want to direct your attention to Libya were there are actual African slave auctions. Or if you care about unjust incarceration, I'd direct criticism at China for imprisoning large swaths of their Muslim population for simply being Muslim.

The fact is that African Americans are the wealthiest of African descendants per capita among any nation. And there are more millionaires of African descent in the United States than anywhere else. There are much higher rates of African American incarceration because they commit that much more crime. The reasons are not genetic but because of social policy that has resulted in 70% rates of single-parent homes in the African American community. FYI my African American half of the relatives are mostly married families. And none are in prison. Context.

Capitalism absolutely ended Slavery, and the Civil War. Eli Whitney's cotton gin and interchangeable factory made parts made it economical to produce cotton with far less labor. Capitalism did that. Serfdom and slavery isn't capitalism.

You're wrong about America and the reason for incacerarion. The African American murder rate is 8 times the rate of whites and other violent crime is thereabouts.

https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/htus8008.pdf

It it is obviously because of social policy directed towards African Americans. Their murder rates skyrocketed mostly after the 1960s. And half my American family is black and none are incarcerated; lots of high ranking police, highly-decorated soldiers, and educators.

Consuming software cost producers zero, practically. You do have overhead from 'how does this work with docker', of course. However, don't get offended at the 'useless software eaters'. The greatest consumer beneficiaries are driving their populations out of poverty, like China and India. China is the #1 software 'cost externalizer'. Developing nations are the #1 relative gainers (proportionally) from consuming open-source. All this means lower infant mortality, less unemployed women, and longer life expectancies. Let them eat. The US, the largest and wealthiest, is the #1 open-source contributor. However, in absolute terms, we (USA) are the greatest beneficiaries of open-source software. Just look at how high of a valuation our tech companies still fetch and how we have most of the top corporations. Yet still, the millions of Indian persons getting online every year and other gains has a greater relative impact than a 3% growth in our real GDP.

Also the addition of new programmers from developing nations is going to drive development costs down. And with the intro of ML code recommenders and distributed platforms, dev costs will fall in half every few years in that not so distant future. Software is incredibly expensive to develop at the moment. See tech hubs real estate and housing costs. The global trends that affected middle America is going to enter Silicon Valley like a tornado.

Yet you make a could point that from an accounting standpoint, costs are not clearly accrued by the companies that contribute their workers time to their open-source dependencies. There is some inefficiencies in determining which contributor pull requests get accepted; corporate sponsorshing projects and hiring contributors is a payment, in some cases, to have a higher probability of getting code merged. The largest contributors of the most valuable projects, like the Linux kernal, are large stakeholders that are dependent on the project. And most successful projects I've seen have competition from developers seeking to add stuff that helps their company projects better interoperate with the dependency. So the accounting is not very accurate.

However, all open-source developer contributions will soon be weighed by others so that those not so high up on the project food chain can be directly compensated. This is getting worked on, now. Every one who contributes value will be rewarded.

If Facebook and Google are private companies and they can ban whomever they want, why can't they have a policy to not hire each other's employees? FYI, i don't like any of those stances.

I think you are close or exactly on target.

American black guy here. Capitalism (capital-intensive but scaleable production) and the industrial revoltion ended slavery (inextricably linked). Within 70 years of Eli Whitney's cotton gin, slavery was abolished in the USA. Similar to how digitization at first benefited the Recording Industry because they used it internally and could rake in outsized profits from the reduced cost of music production, the cotton gin overly enriched plantation owners because they could just use slaves to operate the machines. Today, music playable whenever and wherever is prolific and the Recording Industries stranglehold has been broken thanks to digitization. Likewise, the cotton gin with interchangeable parts that could be produced in scale by factories only layed more seeds (metaphorically) to end slavery as it made it possible to produce agricultural goods at scale with a fraction of human (and animal labor). And that boom in cotton and cotton consumption drew the attention of European and American cotton consumers nowhere near plantations to how backwards the slave-system was. Slave labor was no longer in any way justifiable from a labor costs standpoint. The model of sharecropping became viable. All these factors helped end slavery. Also you can thank capitalism for helping end feudalism, where serfs and peasants were resigned to a fate of providing labor in the production of agricultural goods. In fact, the vast majority before the emergence of capitalism were enganged in providing labor for agriculture; it was not fun. Capitalism birthed the Industrial revolution. Communism did not birth the industrial revolution. Communism birthed famines. By 1920s when the first real Communist experiment called the Soviet Union began, global production of goods and services had already multiplied out of capitalist cornucopias. The Communists (Russia and China) got up in running mostly by sourcing parts and copying of manufacturing processes from capitalist countries. And US slavery had ended already. The Communists reintroduced compulsary labor. Automation in a marketplace has now driven down the costs of production so greatly that only a small fraction of capital is needed to startup a company (Silicon Vallye and the digital revolution). Capitalism 2.0 (low capital requirements) is working towards 'freeing' people of semi-coercive hourly-wage work. Are there bumps, like when plantation owners were intitually enriched. Yes, but it will get better.