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This just sounds like the same whining people did when the Mac went to USB back in 1998. "You mean I need an ADAPTER for my SCSI device?!"

A lot of people forget, but iOS shares the same underpinnings as MacOS X. In fact, when Steve Jobs announced the original iPhone, he didn't say it ran iPhone OS, he said it ran MacOS.

I wouldn't be surprised if there's macOS already ready to go for ARM, much like there was an Intel MacOS for years before the transition was announced.

As for whether iOS could replace macOS, if you go back to my first point, think about iOS as a version of macOS that was stripped down and has been built back up over the intervening decade. I don't think they could make the switch tomorrow, but in a couple of years, it's not unreasonable to think there could be a reunification of the iOS and macOS codebases, creating, essentially a fully-featured iOS for desktop hardware with the features we've come to expect from modern desktop OSes.

There's some good points in the article, in particular the draining of color from the Finder sidebar and a few other glaring usability issues that haven't been addressed.

But, man, seriously, the original Time Machine UI was garbage. The Yosemite version is so, so, so, so much better. It's not great, but it's a lot better than what it used to be.

Milo was temporary banned, at least three times, and had his verification revoked. You can't say he wasn't warned.

>I don't support any side, I'm just trying to show that the first comment regarding consistency is indeed accurate, Twitter has none.

No argument here. Twitter's inconsistent, if not outright apathetic about abuse no matter where it comes from. It's been pointed out there's no shortage of harassment and abuse from people on the left on Twitter. Maybe not at the rate and volume of the "alt-right" types, but it doesn't matter. Twitter needs to clean house.

What happened with Milo is less about him attacking Leslie Jones, and more about his _followers_ attacking Leslie Jones. Milo knows full well that if he identifies someone for his heckling, he'll have thousands of trolls and their sockpuppets do the heavy lifting for him.

$7m is pocket change for Citigroup.

No wonder the big banks keep shitting the bed. There's never any real consequences for their fuckups.

You'd think that, but there's been a huge swath of engineering school graduates joining ISIS and similar organizations. It's not that ISIS is recruiting them, something about engineering students [makes them more likely to join ISIS](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2015/11/1...)

There's this attitude that because computer work on pure logic, anything a computer does must therefore be logical and rational. The problem is that the humans who program the computers will often encode their own illogical, irrational, biased, and flawed logic. The computer is not logical and rational, it just follows instructions well. If the instructions are illogical, irrational, biased, and flawed---but executable---the computer will follow them. And when they spit out a illogical, irrational, biased, and flawed result... well, it must be logical, rational, unbiased, and unflawed, because the computer is purely logical, rational, unbiased, and unflawed.

We code our biases into the algorithms we use every day. They inherit our flaws. The sooner we all wake up to this, the better.

These articles on "jawn" always miss the use of "the jawn" which works in a manner similar to saying something is "the shit." In other words, the phrase "That jawn is the jawn" is a valid sentence, meaning "That thing is the best."

Stuff like this is why I think "jawn" is the fuckin' jawn.

LinkedIn had... a vision? Since when?

Because it did, when Zoe Quinn's ex-boyfriend posted on /v/ to get people to start harassing her.

So, if it's not terrible for everyone, then it's not a problem---as long as it's not terrible for you. Maybe, perhaps, this would work if the terrible people kept to themselves, but this is rarely the case. I was a regular poster on /mu/ for several years, but once the /pol/ users started trashing the board up, it's been a shell of its former self. And, again, that's just within 4chan. The worst things are what 4chan's community have done outside of the site. See also: GamerGate.

> What devastation?

Does GamerGate mean anything to you? And that's just one example.

If I'm in a physical community where the loudest, and most controversial members are making it a terrible experience for people inside and outside that community, and the leaders refuse to deal with it, I think a fair assessment is that the community is toxic.

Time and time again, the hands-off moderation of anything on 4chan beyond child pornography has had knock on effects in the real world. GamerGate began life on 4chan, and is still making women's lives miserable. All you have to do is ask Allison Rapp, their latest victim. <http://kotaku.com/the-ugly-new-front-in-the-neverending-vide...

While moot did, eventually, push GamerGate discussion off 4chan, he took forever to do so, and walked away from the site not long after. By not taking a stance on harassment and abuse earlier on, however, he created conditions for such a culture to flourish on 4chan.

Is there interesting and positive stuff on 4chan? Almost certainly. Would it still exist had moot taken a stronger stance on dealing with toxic posters? I'll go out on a limb and say yes.

I'm really not sure how I feel about this. Moot created the biggest, most toxic garbage fire of an internet community, refused to take management of it, and walked away when it became too toxic for anyone to deal with. In a way, he's a perfect new hire for Google, but Google usually doesn't leave quite so much devastation in its wake.

Typically, TANF benefits went to the elderly, disabled, or to new mothers. Do you really want to force them to work the gig economy?

Also, don't forget that the "T" in TANF means _temporary_.

This is ridiculous. The stereotype of welfare recipients as lazy, unemployed people is completely inaccurate. I'm a former Welfare Clerk, and the vast majority of welfare recipients I dealt with---in a district that covered West Philadelphia---were employed.

The work varied: childcare, retail, and hair salon work were the most common, but there were also school staff, church secretaries, and construction workers who needed welfare. Some of these jobs were under the table, but most were legitimate, W-2 jobs. If anything, my district had a higher percentage of people not employed, as we covered the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University campuses---so there were often grad students applying along side single mothers working in hair salons.

I actually do sleep tracking with my Apple Watch using the Sleep++ app. The Apple Watch's battery is good enough, and charges fast enough, that all I have to do is give it, maybe, 30 minutes of charging when I wake up, and another 30 before I go to bed.

I just woke up after eight and a half hours of sleep, and had 88% battery left. Now, this was also with the Watch in Airplane Mode, but I've forgotten some nights, and still woke up with battery percentages in the same ballpark.

(Data point: I wear the 42mm model. The 38mm has a smaller battery.)