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Who says we don't want to pay? Some of the most profitable newspapers are completely paywalled and have been for years. Someone wants to pay. I will gladly pay myself.

But I will only pay for ad-free content.

Remember how cable TV used to have that promise? You pay for your TV and you don't have ads. I remember that back in the day my cable provider would broadcast listings of today's programming schedule to cover up ads in the source transmission. Now you pay and you watch ads. If we do pay for websites, I hope we pay for no ads.
The video was taken down, TechCrunch now embeds this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl5vLC3Xlgc
This guy is a professor of economics. Says it all really. He presents his utopian vision absent of any connection to reality.

He completely ignores data protection legislation. Most of the KPIs he describe measure presentation, not productivity.

There are so many instances here of selecting evidence (anecdotal, fanciful) to suit your hypothesis here he would make a first year social studies student blush. What was the hypothesis anyway? That inequality is linked to value production and that will be borne out by measurements gathered at some future time?

Just goes to show, Economics is a field of study (not a science) where learning the "right" answers and courting of research grants trump cold hard empirical analysis.
The world wars had nothing to do with trade.

In fact, this long stability in Europe traces its roots to a free trade agreement the Schuman Declaration, leading to the European Coal and Steel Community, which later becomes the European Union.
You don't. You take it in a fun way, the way it's meant to be :) And if you have any specifics on what looks "so awful", feel free to file an Issue on github: https://github.com/perl6/perl6.org/issues
Do you ask for that with the awareness that gravatar then gets to track your presence around the internet for the cost of a tiny picture?

I would rather have less ad tracking pixels on someone elses websites if possible, but I am genuinely interested in the value that gravatar provides to people who like the service.
> Interdependence and trade have led to a much safer world and a rising global standard of living for all.

Sure, but can't we have global trade in the absence of such a treaty?
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Guy starts out with fakery to make ground-based work better. Transmitting thousands of miles on land is far worse proposition than he makes out - cable losses are great. Can't use anything as efficient as a laser, because air and dirt.
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Then why don't they make laws that you have to live on a property to own it?
LOL stop calling yourself "hackers". It's a dead giveaway that you are in no-way competent.
Just a trade deal as if it was a new tariff.
I'm using React on a few smaller projects where I didn't want to over engineer the whole Flux architecture. I put together the app using Backbone (for the models and collections) and used React for the view layer.

The models and collections worked great as "stores" and I used the simple dispatcher from Flux to handle the actions being sent.

While I really like the Flux pattern, for smaller'ish apps it did seem a bit of overkill.

A couple articles I was referencing for BB and React:

https://blog.engineyard.com/2015/integrating-react-with-back...
http://www.thomasboyt.com/2013/12/17/using-reactjs-as-a-back...
You do realize Perl 6 and Perl 5 are completely different languages, both with different and vibrant communities, right? :) Legacy Perl 6 code doesn't even exist!

Also, we're not bothered with people claiming Perl is dead. We've been hearing it for a decade and we're still around :)
You get a gold star. That's a magical comment. #experttrolling
Dormant accounts can hold good handles forever. Like the name of my website: https://twitter.com/improvely
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World Wars were about ... Darwinism! Really. The German aristocrats thought that they should rule, because they were more fit. They all had a copy of Origin of the Species, read it and discussed its implications to nationalism at length. Their speeches were all about it.

Think of it - a lonely academic invents/discovers something, and 50 million people die over it. No, not talking about nuclear fission.
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Agreed. :)
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I see Stripe, Paypal, Visa/Mastercard

all centralized companies that do restrict access to their systems for all sorts of reasons (often not shared with the person being blocked)

all are "pull" methods where your account can be charged in an unauthorized manner

bitcoin, prepaid cards (such as paysafecard), cash and bank transfers are "push" methods giving the owner more control and cheaper fees for that manner

Not sure how practical paypal would be if you only want to spend a few cents (or more interestingly fractions of a cent!)
Asking because it seems unusual to me, and I think those situations are really similar to what GP was referring to: "I paid to see what you had to say, but I don't like it so I'd like my money back". I can think of a lot of similar situations (movies, digital music, books, ...) where I wouldn't consider asking for a refund after I have consumed the content, whether I liked it or not.
Noted, but I thought there was some posturing on Twitter's side regarding terms and pricing for firehose access as well.
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The "independent" food blog in the linked article could be financially motivated to review certain things at a certain result; think of video game publications as a model.

The more likely result is the cost of providing a service over the internet continues to constantly implode; if the independent food blogger is motivated enough to spend $5/mo for internet "fame" there are numerous providers today who will take money in exchange for hosting. There may be a revolution in web design; a "cool looking complicated" web page might cost 5 megs of javascript and graphics and that might cost a blogger $5/mo if less than 1000 visit per month, but if the blogger gets famous for actual content (as opposed to web design) then once the blogger hits the 1M visits per month big leagues, shrinking the page from 5M to 5K might save the blogger a factor of a thousand in hosting costs. I don't think web designers will be happy about this; then again they won't be paying the bills. This will lead to something like the ancient "adobe flash" effect where the fancier a web page is designed and appears, the less likely it is to contain useful content, so it can be skipped, and the less complicated a page looks, the better the content it serves.

Another way the economics of the model would work is a trivial extension that probes all links at rendering time and if the link comes up as payment required the link is eaten. Currently I have to remember to ignore NYT links; in the future with the new extension I won't even see NYT links.

Another model that may develop is content that sellers want, like glowing "independent" reviews of a restaurant, might go away (relatively speaking) in a consumer oriented internet. This works on all levels from very small to very large, the advertisers pay for Gawker no matter if I look at it or not, given supposed levels of click fraud. Without the advertisers, if we don't look at Gawker it simply goes away. Rephrased and simplified, now you can push something no one likes except the advertisers if the advertisers pay for it, but in a future internet economy if you push something no one likes, you'd better be prepared to pay for it by yourself. That might have interesting socioeconomic class issues WRT widening income inequality; all billionaires will have blogs, no poor people will, and a way to filter college applications to make sure the "right" people are let in would be to require blog submission instead of traditional essay submission or the other socioeconomic filters we use now like extracurriculars or disaster tourism, etc.
EDS have had some massive failures here in the UK, they have a pretty terrible reputation (though they can't take all the blame, government is just crap at IT procurement generally).
>So if one assumes all peoples' living standards are equally valuable, then it's a net win.

But as a citizen of only one of those countries should you not be biased towards the well being of your fellow citizens over others? And don't misunderstand me. I'm not talking about patriotism or whatnot. It is just that you share duties and responsibilities with only one of those groups of people.
But let's say the UI consists of a list of N text elements. That list is encoded as an immutable vector. When one of the elements changes, react will run through the complete list and call shouldComponentUpdate for each item (!)

In contrast, with a fast "diff" operation, we could simply determine which of the elements in the state have changed, and this would be fast.
Could you give me some real world examples of people commonly divesting themselves of their real estate?

You don't mean renting out a property do you? Because that isn't divesting, that's highly profitable.
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This is the major take-away, in my opinion.
You are a piece of work, aren't you?

From the downvote gestapo, the upvote rings, the shills, the middle-aged uptight execs, the eugenicists/transhumanists, the Breitbarters, the PC lefties and now the Muslim fundies, HN is a gift that just keeps on giving.
A completely different issue. Python3 is an upgrade to Python2. Perl 6 became a new language, while Perl 5 still chugging along at full speed (latest stable release was just 4 months ago).
Hajj visas are very restrictive. You aren't allowed to go anywhere except Mecca and Medina, and you're only allowed to stay for the length of hajj plus a few days extra for travel. And many of the people who go to hajj have spent their life's savings just to get there. So not a lot of foreign money is flowing, at least not compared to those other places.
Most of these went off patent years ago though. Why is it so hard to bring a generic drug to market? The drugs already have studies proving their efficacy, so the only issue should be a clean manufacturing process.
So is TPP a treaty or merely a "trade deal"? If a treaty then IIRC only the Senate is required to ratify it, not "Congress".
Your delusion that this community is vibrant is charming. Like that fun stage of senility when you pour yourself a scotch, walk back to your lounge and find a full glass of scotch.
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Basically, if there's nothing stopping you from spinning then the drill will spin you but with the bit stationary. The fixture holding the drill needs to be secured somehow so that the motor in the drill spins the bit against the surface. On Earth, this is commonly achieved using your feet and friction.
Termbox is an "alternative", but it's, while easier to use, even more low-level. It's a shame there's no decent, modern high-level UI toolkit for terminals.
My understanding is that European countries do have regulation which prevents this kind of pricing, so the drugs are reasonably priced in your market. See point 3 in this piece on the price increase from the former hedge-fund guy: http://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/skyro...
If fraud wasn't a problem for hard drugs, I doubt it will be significant for these.
So? If the payment is less than $10 or less than $50, who cares? The best you can do is warn other people and that sends a stronger message than just getting your money back.

Reputation is what counts and you can see this on Amazon and ebay where a poor rep means no future earnings. Good rep means higher potential future earnings.

IF someone rips you off you have multiple forums in which to vent your frustration and lower the seller's potential future earnings. That's a lot of power. That's more power than most corporations and countries have when they over-pay for a costly piece of shit system. Hell this is more power than you have when it comes to taxes! When your tax dollars are misspent there's absolutely no chance for a refund and you have an election every 4 years but you ain't getting a dollar back.
>This myth started about cats because people thought Middle Age people were stupid and that they got the wrong idea about cats and that killed them because then the plague came. If the stupid people just had cats no plague.

Monty Python took this mindset to comedic extreme with the "bring out your dead" scene in "Quest for the Holy Grail"; the medieval peasants are literally depicted as belly-crawling through the muddy streets. It's when speaking with average progressives about the past that this skit truly comes into its own, though; the average "modern" really has internalized such defamation about the past. One can see the comedy in their historical exaggerations even if they cannot.
> "not connected to money..."

Kaaba has always been about trade/commerce/money, since well before Muhammad and Islam.

It is not a coincidence that Muhammad's tribe had the control of Kaaba where pagan pilgrims came before Islam to revere their many gods (whose representations (statues, icons, figures, etc.) were placed around Kaaba). And, very conveniently, it remained to be a holy place in Islam where each and every Muslim who can afford it must visit at least once during their lifetime.
There's a lot of things that can track presence around the web and gravatar's not one of them. Iff you decide to implement gravatar without mirroring their images, avatars are indeed loaded on their first query (and not subsequent ones) and, god knows what they're doing with that information ohgod. They certainly can't "track my presence around the web", though - no js means no fingerprinting, no tracking cookie, nothing. Juuuust a blind IP address.

But the recommended way is to prefetch the avatars directly from your server and offer them on your own cdn.

As for the value it provides, well for one thing I pretty much never have to upload my avatar to websites anymore - it's an avatar attached to my email addresses instead and that's very nice. Of course I'd prefer a proper identity protocol but nobody's working on one. If you want to, be my guest...
Sarcasm? While it's not a bad website, I wouldn't say it inspires me to get into stats with R. It doesn't have a code example, or much color. I think the python homepage is much better designed
Different teams have different cultures that work for them.

It's not impossible that the culture that alienates some people is the very culture that enables the phenomenal engineering of the Linux kernel.

I personally would feel privileged to be a part of a group that puts engineering excellence beyond anything, including my own hurt feelings. There would be beauty for me in that emotional austerity and sheer directness.

That being said, I empathize with the author. If a team culture that delivers doesn't work for someone, the best thing to do is to move on. Keep looking, don't settle.
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On of the examples in the main page is how to create a custom postfix operator using a weird unicode symbol. It doesn't get more perlish than that!
Angelic and super-human? There are quite literally millions of candidates who do not have $problem in most cases.
My cell phone bill is awesome. $35/mo prepaid, unlimited everything.

I don't like the way other cellphone bills work. My previous cell phones were AT&T and Sprint, and they were awful enough for me to permanently swear off of them. Maybe more people should quit trying to bend over backwards to convince their cell carrier to 'allow' them to have an iPhone.
@ck2 they should. Singapore for example, you cannot own land, and you cannot buy a HDB house, if you're not a citizen. But you can buy a Condo, so those are expensive for foreigners. But locals can afford HDBs.

Thailand, foreigners cannot own land, or houses, or villa's, etc. But you can own an apartment, because you own the apartment, but not the building or land.

If you want to own a villa, you have to be a lease hold where you pay a huge tax to a Thai company who owns the actual property and grants you the right to live in it.

So, houses in Thailand are affordable for Thai people.

Yet you take NZ, Aus, UK, America, where you can sit on a computer, press buy on a website, get your lawyer to send some money, and own a house and property without ever stepping foot in the country.

Western and now we can't afford to own a house in our own country without getting a 1.2m loan that costs us our life and prevents us from enjoying the money we work so hard for.
> I don't think job exports are a good thing

Why not? Do you think automating jobs with technology is also a bad thing?
Federal law is still subjected to democratic oversight. You vote in elections, don't you?

Stripping states of sovereignty and giving it to the federal government is still moving it from one democratically accountable government to another.

This is not quite the same thing as stripping the federal government of sovereignty and giving it to a secret court of supposedly (but not really) independent lawyers.

If you think that it was a great thing that Philip Morris was able to sue Australia or Uruguay for lost profits for putting warning labels on cigarette packets then I suppose you'd be in favor of the ISDS provisions in the TPP.

If, on the other hand, you think governments should legislate for the benefit of their citizens' health, then perhaps not so much.
Exactly. There are so many problems with drilling/mining asteroids, its going to be one of the most enormous challenges ever undertaken.
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Pretty sure that's not how diplomacy works. There's a pretty good podcast on Planet Money how things are negotiated in trade deals.
It's tragic that the author's highest desire [is to be able to pay for content].

We already pay for [network connectivity].

Meanwhile, the right answers to the cost of content creation are [a form of social welfare].
If you boil down the entirety of Twitter into just a CRUD app that allows you to post 140 characters at a time, then yes, you can make that in a weekend.

Well, how about recommended posts / people to follow (ML)? Sponsored posts with a buy button (3rd part integration)? Growth and metrics (data analytics)? A software product is never just about pixels on the screen; and trivializing the engineering effort behind it is insulting to Twitter employees, some of whom are brilliant engineers I know.
I agree there's technical issue there, but I don't see it as much of a practical one. People wait a bit or they hit reload. And most of the practical issues I see are bad nearby network connections (overloaded first hop, bad connection to cell tower or wifi, ISP issue), which wouldn't be helped by this approach.

For those working at scale, single points of failure get solved through CDNs, multiple servers with failover, and offering services from multiple data centers. Google's a good example of this; despite Google being an enormously complex service, I've seen effectively no downtime from them.

For me IPFS seems like a solution in search of a problem. It's definitely a cool solution, but cool isn't enough for broad adoption.
There is practically no enforcement of the rule. There are highway signs on the way to Mecca, and that's about it. Unless you do something clearly unislamic in public, like drink alcohol, in which case you will get arrested regardless of whether you are Muslim.
This can't be more ridiculous, whoever wrote this article has no idea what Sesame score is, but I do agree with the author that the totalitarian government in China does have the intentions to associate not political opinions with credit system, they may wants to add morality in to account also.

Sesame score is less than harmless, and to most extent, less than useless. China already has a political rating system it's called 档案(Personal Record File). Actually it has acted a crucial part in Chinese society, individual themselves aren't allowed to access their own file, and records inputs we given by their supervisors. You will have your record with you since elementary school, or even earlier. It was serious in 80s and early 90s where state owns everything, you can imagine how hard for an individual to live back in the old days. Since private firms became the mainstream and acts an important role in the Chinese economic structure, these files are no longer required for private owners. As of today, it's only important if you work for state owned units, but it still works, and alive.

If the totalitarian government wants to make a political evaluation system, they can just make use of 档案, plus minus Internet surveillance data they gathered all the time. There's no need of data from any parts that Alibaba(NASDAQ:BABA) owns, Weibo(NASDAQ:WB) is the most influential social network in China, but a local government/state-owned companies easily take down any information they think inappropriate. They do have have read/write privileges to these information, not to mention other minor ones. As for data mining, not a problem, given the resource they have.

Also they don't need something like a smokescreen, or justification for that, since there's already a similar system working, it's easier to maintain that start a new one.

Sesame is merely a joke in the game of privacy-invasion, or credit scoring. Consumers don't care about their sesame score, since they can't make use of it. The imaginary party they 'are trying to serve' in the article, doesn't need them. Though the Aligroup tried to do some evil, but was too dubious and obvious. Last time they tried really hard to do some evil deeds and do crossed some lines by calling your friends telling them your purchases when you have overdue bills for sometime[1]. Things like such makes people question their capabilities of being evil, also ability to score people's credit correctly.

[1] http://www.zhihu.com/question/35586955 (Chinese)
On top of that you have the licensing which is going on, so if one of these systems get put into place they will most likely dominate the spectrum so that the others, if deployed, wouldn't even be allowed to transmit.

Good answer by the way. I can second that what datenwolf said is pretty darn accurate, but doesn't account for a lot of the inteference that happens to reduce usability of the specturm.

You also get into beam widths so and antenna. So if you have 700 satellites up in the air given full spectrum that means they'd have a fixed limit of 10TBit/s. That can be divided between their users (but it won't be anything close to 10TBit/s).

So this will really be a factor of how big their beams are, how many people are within their beams, and how much frequency they can legally use. While this is really cool and possible, I doubt this will open up a whole new internet in it's first pass.

There is also the issue with, how are they going to get the signal to it's destination? They can't beam it all the way around the world for you, and from what I understand at least OneWeb isn't going to communicate from satellite to satellite. So they'll have to have a ton of ground stations to receive your link and then send it over fiber, or transmit up to GEO, then down again. OR they'll have to hop up and down between nodes to it's destination, in a similar fashion to TOR. I don't know how they plan to solve this or if SpaceX has a better solution.
Not going to compare to disneyland, but compared to many other religious places, for example, there is no way to donate money for the cause of Hajj anywhere in Mecca or Medina. The government does not ask for your money, nor does it encourage you to donate money at the mosques. Say what you want about the Saudis, Hajj is not seen from a pure profitability standpoint as far as I can see.