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> The fact that nobody benefits much is very much worth pointing out.

> Of course the main driver of this is Disney, which is trying to keep Mickey Mouse under copyright.

I read an analysis that didn't think much of this view. It said we should look at ever-extending copyright protections as a form of economic protectionism against the past, forcing the public to buy potentially-inferior modern IP rather than fall back on older IP.

You suggest this yourself, with

> historically there were stories that only became popular BECAUSE they fell out of copyright

and I think it's worth thinking about. In particular, I'm pretty sure "the fact that nobody benefits much" isn't actually a fact.
Considering phusion/baseimage has been around for more than 2 years and plenty of people have been using an init system inside their containers that contain multiple process, why didn't Yelp just pick something up off the shelf? Why not use runit or one of the plenty of more mature lightweight init systems?
Interesting! I wonder why that is? I don't have a good hypothesis.
Just before Uber in 2009 I was once left stranded at Jerry Garcia Amphitheater because it was "out of the way" for the cab company. I had to walk several miles through the hills to get home. Uber solved a huge problem for us.
If you're into Dramas or Soap Operas, I mostly watch them on Viki.

The majority are Korean, but there's also a good selection of Taiwanese and Chinese dramas too.

(the content varies depending which country you're in. The selection in the UK is very big, but in HK there's very little)

https://www.viki.com/
So I signed up for free trail in South Africa.

All of Netflix's own stuff is there but the rest of the catalogue is rather dire.
I also disagree with him about CoC's, though for a reason that he doesn't really address.

Anybody who has lived for long enough knows at least one person who can be unkind out of obliviousness, not knowing better, or not being aware of social cues.

Also, people in disagreements get mad or passionate, and that tends to incite people to cross the line of professional respect. Passion is good, hostility is not. I've had to remind normally kind people that I manage to "not do ____ again" on multiple occasions, with the implicit threat of firing them.

My conclusion from my own experiences is that "don't be a dick" is not universally understood, and people will make mistakes, often unintentionally. So I think a CoC is useful as one of many different ways any organization has to remind its members to be kind. It's still up to the administrators to enforce things, but a CoC is a useful reminder especially to incoming members to be aware of their conduct.
As much as it is fun to utilize arbitrary examples, a CoC wouldn't solve Youtube comment issues. See what I mean?
Usually those providers don't "buy" it from you.

They do fun things like giving you a loan with the options as a collateral. You would then default on the loan at the point of IPO.

So theoretically you don't sell them anything.
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Your assumption is almost certainly correct - it almost certainly has to do with negotiated license agreements for content.

I'm fairly certain this will get a cease & desist letter before content providers go after Netflix - although their smartflix.io 's whois information points towards a UK registration, so it might have to wait till someone at Netflix UK Legal wakes up.
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You may find the pattern of complaints repeated decade after decade, but as the other commenter mentioned that is just as easily explained if it is in fact getting worse and worse. If you believe that, and believe that pretty much everything people point out as better that even our ancestors before the 20th century would agree with is better (less homicides for instance) is simply due to technological (incl. medical and scientific) improvement, then you're basically a neoreactionary. Give the authors in that field (or just writers from before the 20th century) a serious read sometime if you want a very different perspective on the world you live in.
I think there's another motive at play, he's using 3rd-world countries as a proving ground for tiered Internet access. Facebook has already come out against net neutrality, and has billions of dollars to play with. Wouldn't it make sense for them to want to test their theories that have been shot down in their own country? Zuckerberg might be ostensibly altruistic about his lofty goal of bringing Internet access to everyone, but that's not the Internet we know and love. It's only the content that Facebook approves, and if you want more knowledge, you're gonna have to pay. That's not the Web I grew up with, and if I were Indian I would be trying my hardest to figure out a better solution that gives just the same amount of people access without them having to give up their freedom.
I'm pretty sure I understand your argument fine. Allow me to attempt a summary:

The original graphic shows that driving is less dangerous now than ever before. However, it does not take into account the prevalence of driving, which is also higher. Therefore, the original graphic is "misleading", because "traffic fatalities" is the combination of the danger of driving and its prevalence.

Given this current understanding of your point, my only argument now is that I believe that is an uncharitable view of the original post. I argue this because the view is entirely based on that singular interpretation of "war on traffic fatalities". A charitable approach is entirely based on attempting to view an argument with suspension of your own beliefs and interpretations in order to understand the other party's. Through such, common understanding can be worked towards.

I'm also sorry that you feel that I have been uncharitable to you. I honestly do believe your argument is entirely centered around the semantics of "war on traffic fatalities". The information you provided in your graphic is very good, and the point you are making is not wrong. I didn't have any issues at all until your response to cbr's original post, which is where I feel you began arguing semantics over content. I feel this way because cbr was also not wrong, and if anything was an equally good summary as what I stated above. And yet you still seemed to take an issue with it.
It seems kind of unlikely that facebook would cooperate on an intentional goal to reduce access to WhatsApp, when Facebook owns WhatsApp. But maybe. Or maybe that was the telecom's motivation, if not facebook's.
I respect your choice but I find the arguments behind it somewhat logically inconsistent. How do you define "success" for your children? Presumably if you feel that you have made the right choice their goals should be similar to yours (not money and recognition but success of their children). At which point it gets rather circular. And if you want them to have grand adventure in their lives why not have it yourself first?
Why not mention what the works are?
or they turn into the streaming equivalent of the Piratebay.
Absolutely agree. I can't imagine that someone built this without considering how illegal (immoral?) it is.
I have attempted to ascertain the need of a CoC for this community by reading through the mailing list and issues... The more that I read through it, the less I see the need for one. It simply appears as a power play from this individual user, as such is identified by this lengthy blog post which signals some red flags.

The previous owner says it all himself pretty clearly:

> The current attempts to adopt CoC in various FOSS projects are IMO doomed for similar reasons. It has zero effect on abusers (no abuser thinks of himself as an abuser) and the message it sends to decent folks is: "There's an elite in the community that will decide what's good and what's bad and enforce it by censoring your emails/posts/contributions." Which in turn erodes trust within the community and, consequently, its ability to spontaneously deal with abuse.
And furthermore, the comments can be turned off.
Scott Adams is very entertaining. He predicted Trump's staying power way back in the summer when everyone (including me) thought his candidacy was just a joke. In fact, he has predicted a landslide for Trump in the general election. He says it's based on his training as a hypnotist, which gives him an insight into the art of persuasion.

Over the years I've learned many things from following Adams' blog. He recommended Cialdini's books on persuasion, which are a must read for all sales people and all entrepreneurs (because we are salespeople, like it or not). His financial advice [1] is rock solid, and his latest book on goal-oriented vs. systems-oriented thinking was also an eye-opener.

TLDR: I like the dude.

[1] https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/scott-adams-financial-advice/
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I'll probably maintain for all my days that there is no good or evil, just acts. Yes, cry "moral relativism!", but morals are social constructs, whether you like it or not - there is no universal law of morality, even if your name is Kant.

Hitler thought he was good. Those who followed him thought he was good. In the narrative and perceptive reality of nazi Germany he was good. My grandmother waxes lyrical about the wonderful and charismatic Herr Hitler (she's Austrian, was a hitlerjugendherberge), and listening to her makes oh so clear the dreams and glory that hitler successfully sold to the very disillusioned masses.

He wasn't evil. He just served a moral code so alien and repulsive to us today that we write it off as "evil". In fact, at the time, his politics were aligned with those of the US, UK, and other allied powers - eugenics, fascism, and antisemitism were rife in all - but it was their expansionist policy which ultimately led to the branding as evil and ww2.

Don't get me wrong - I'm no apologist - but I do try to understand events from a contemporaneous and empathic perspective.
> Profit margins for Hollywood aren't that great

Avatar production cost: $237,000,000 USD

Avatar global revenue : $2,787,965,087 USD

91% of Avatar's total revenue was pure profit... practically unheard of in most industries.

Sure, Avatar is a unicorn, and sure studios often produce strike-out movies... but the occasional home-run more than makes up for them.

> How do you justify spending $200 million on Force Awakens and hope to recoup that from Netflix fees?

Perhaps the $200 million production cost is unreasonable. We've all seen how many people and companies are involved in producing a single movie. The actor assistants have assistants that have assistants who have paid interns. One company will do a single character model while another goes a different character.

There's so much waste in the movie industry... it's ripe for the typical "SV" disruption (come in cheaper, and same or similar quality, and make it more easily accessible to the masses).
Several years ago I made a program to create ad variations for Facebook Ads. I had to parse the page and submit the html forms because they wouldn't grant me API access. A huge list of companies had access, and most of them had pretty shitty apps to be honest.

I wrote a nice request for access, talking about the exciting features I'd like to use the Ads API for, and how it could help advertisers make more effective advertisements. They said no, and my business failed after a few months. My users were basically risking losing their Ads account by using the software, and it made marketing it very difficult.

I guess it pays to be connected, but it's difficult when you don't live near San Francisco, etc.
The biggest benefit imo is that derived works can be created freely, imagine if you could use all music up to the 60s or what not freely in any movie or video game you make, or make a game about guessing the movie from scenes from all movies instead of just a tiny subset you had to spend thousands of dollars working with lawyers to negotiate on, etc.
Good luck with that when naturalmotion has explicitly disclaimed granting rights :)
But if you play 1 game with a trillion times the bet, you have a 50% chance of walking away with 1.999x your bet, and a 50% chance of walking away with 0. So about a 50% chance to nearly double your bet, and a 50% chance to lose. Whereas with a trillion smaller games you'll probably end up at about 0.999x your starting money, which is the same on average.
but they wanted to take over the world and vertically integrate

You make this sound like there was a choice. Taxi companies are monopolistic entrenched bureaucracies. "Pay us money, run our software, and totally change the way your business operates" is just not going to happen.
I'm pretty sure that his name appeared in the credits in Solitaire at least through Windows 2000. I say this because my last name is Cherry and I noticed when I was a kid that Solitaire was credited to someone with the same last name as me. Without Wikipedia etc I doubt there's anywhere else I could have come across that info.
I've seen a similar concept before: http://4chancode.org/

I like this one more though, the code looks more realistic.
That is the main message of Judgement at Nuremberg. I was afraid that it was going to be an American exceptionalism-filled movie but it's actually very good and relatively fair to its subject. As fair as you can be to Nazi Germany architects, anyway.
Why do you let them tell you they don't take cards? From a quick googling, it seems like taxis in SF must take cards. If they drive me somewhere and the machine's broken, that's not my problem.
I don't agree with the current state of copyright, but I think pointing out that every one of these people are dead is a nonsensical argument. The question is what incentives should we give people to create creative works, and what should the cost to society be?

If you're a smart guy with Robert Heinlein and copyright is more limited to a few years would you ever have written Starship Troopers? Or would you have gone into something like the real estate business which can last generations and keep your children and grandchildren happy & fed after you're long dead?

Would the 1998 Starship Troopers movie have been released based on the 1959 book if copyright had been at its original 14 years?

How about a lot of the "cult classic" works of today that only became really popular and earned money tens of years after their original release?

I don't know what the right answer is, but it's a fallacy to assume that we'd have the same state of affairs if the incentives we can gave people to create creative works automatically expired after their death.
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You can use http://moreflicks.com to find out in which country a movie is available. Not quite finding out everything that's available but still useful.
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This all reminds me of the Y2K debacle. The world would end. Everything would stop. A common example given in the media (by "IT-professionals") was that all elevators would stop, I was always like: "WTF would an elevator check what date it is?"
Not really, I lyft to work often and its $5 each way door to door.
>Do you believe that because Asian folks have reasonable (maybe even over-) representation in tech, that tech is an inclusive environment for all people of color, as well as women?

IMO tech industry is the most meritocratic sector I've seen, even more the little I've seen from academia. Note - it's far from being some ideal meritocracy, there's plenty of PHB, politics and plain old corporate bullshit, but low barriers to entry, highly competitive environment, high impact work with low iteration time and the scaling model of software really helps steer incentives towards actually hiring the best person for the job.

I believe the reason these other groups are not represented in tech is mostly because of factors outside of tech industry (social) and tech industry shouldn't be reaching backwards to support underrepresented groups simply because they are underrepresented. If the society sees a problem with this imbalance then they are free to fix the issue at the source instead of trying to fix a thing that works relatively well.
He has written a few articles that stray pretty far from modern Political Correctness orthodoxy; I think that's what is being referred to, not this article in particular.
Same here on the availability front. I really wish that production run would finish up.
> thanks to the democratization of resources like powerful hardware

(Em mine.) I have a problem, my rig's not very powerful. Where can I vote to get a better rig? Or does my rig do the voting weighted by its power? (http://lesswrong.com/lw/jb/applause_lights/)
I see what you're saying, I was wrong about using the subheading for the title instead of the title.

Your statement that the OP was "overtly dishonest" is ridiculous, come on.
"In reality, we have the best color scheme there is in the world, we’ve got a lot of loyal customers, we still get a high volume of calls to our color scheme on a daily basis"

Does "color scheme" have a special meaning in the taxi business, or is this guy actually bragging about how their cars are painted?
> The same applies to music. Pretty much every creative industry outside film is paying the performers or creators a percentage of sales. Its just harder for that to scale to endeavors that take thousands of people like modern blockbusters.

For performers, actors in plays, members of an orchestra, backup dancers behind a pop star... most are getting paid per performance or per period of time, not royalties. Royalties are more common for people who can take a majority responsibility for the end product, e.g. a solo artist or an author.
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Due to recent events that have been building over the years. I am sure many here including myself are considering a new server host. What do you recommend?
It doesn't really work for Amazon US either (well, works for DVD/BD only)
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That's besides the point. Most young people today can't afford a house. So they take a mortgage loan to buy one, and surprisingly, houses tend to be priced just at the level of the loan an average person can get.

The situation is different from the TVs and computers and cars because those are not considered as important as your own house. Most people eventually have to move out, so they have to participate in the game. I believe we call it "inelastic demand".
>Heck, I might not even mind some gated internet in the US if I was free to opt-in/out of it and it reduced my internet costs.

The key difference is you would still have choice in the US and people in India would not.
> That being said, Facebook does let you chat via Jabber.

Facebook planned to shut down that service since 2015/04/30, and in my experience they actually did it around 2015/07/12

I'm puzzled as how you haven't realized it... I guess that the xmpp endpoint might still be working for some users?

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/chat

Approaching that event, I warned friends to stop contacting me on Facebook, since I would stop checking its messages. (all of my email/phone/chat contacts are available in my about page, so it wouldn't be difficult for people to adapt)

The problem is that there's no way to disable the chat, so people wouldn't mistakenly use it to contact me. And since I still use the facebook web page somewhat regularly, I wanted to avoid falling into the trap of using actively another walled chat protocol. My kludgy solution was to go and "mute" every single conversation I had in the last year. It basically never happens that new people write me on Facebook, and this way I can still check the messages once in a while, but de-facto I'm not actively using their chat service anymore, thus hopefully not contributing to the network effect.
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It's worth noting the reason why Mozilla made this change: not because they consider these systems acceptable, but because they can't even get telemetry data on the scope of the problem because the telemetry mechanism naturally also uses HTTPS, and because this issue prevents such users from getting updates to Firefox itself.
Oh come on. Some fine thermocouple wire wrapped around a literal hot wire would be enough, no need to use industrial grade scientific equipment.
Relevant discussion, "Are you paid to look busy?": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7725736
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You can already use these with Overleaf if you need to :)

We try to detect which compile engine to use, and you can always specify it manually in the editor settings. Just click the gear icon in the top right.
I'm very interested in working on a "flat memory" OS that doesn't use any RAM or file system but simply registers and a distributed database of key/value stores.

If you're interested in talking about this more (especially if you're in the SF Bay Area), my email is in my profile.
This is brilliant. I just love seeing creativity and outside-box thinking like this. Sure, it's not going to solve world hunger or revolutionize mobile computing. But you know what? I don't care. It's fun, it's whimsical. 10/10, would click again.
If the industry shifts to paying its top stars smaller but still large sums of money then maybe Harrison Ford won't accept that, but the best actors in the next generation who weren't used to getting paid todays rates will.
I'm currently programmer nomad-ing in Uruguay and have been delighted with Easy Taxi. I don't know if all the cabs use it, but tons of them do and it works just as well as Lyft/Uber did for me in Seattle. Real-time updates of location, ratings, instant confirmation of fare acceptance... I say I want a cab and pretty much get one within 5 minutes no matter where or when I am.

It's all the same yellow and black taxies but everyone has a cell phone mounted to their dash and.. it just works. I'll never ever understand why taxies in the US haven't done this. Had they, I probably wouldn't have switched _exclusively_ to using Lyft.
>> No code in the OS needs access to the user code or data cache

This is not true for the data. How do you pass any data structures outside CPU registers then, say the path to a file to open. Normally it's a char*[0] (indeed passed in a register) but then the OS actually reads the data off the process memory (L1 data cache usually)

[0]: http://linux.die.net/man/3/open
>>Why is that it's ok for the poor to give up their liberty because they can get something of value in return?

In this case, choosing how to access the Internet.
And yet gravity is still going strong...

Make an ally out of gravity and you can use its strength for something half-decent instead of all-bad.

I think this land grab by Facebook is half-decent instead of all-bad. Facebook is treating the poor better than the Indian government has, at least. Neither institution really gives a fuck about them.
Interesting, although challenging to see it actually land somewhere. And with a 23 minute hard deadline, if you were backed up at the drone landing pad at work, well you would not want to idly wait for traffic ahead to clear up :-).

Also very curious about those motors. Given a 260 lb passenger limit, the total system is probably 500 - 600 lbs and you then need to move 650 lbs of air through three engines (if you want engine out recoverability). So a single engine generating a nominal 200 lbs of thrust? So 800N over 23 minutes is about a megawatt if I did the math correctly. Not sure if you can store enough energy in that volume at a low enough weight to meet their specs. But I'd love to see it fly.

[1] Great discussion of airplane engine power -- http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/propulsion/q0195.shtml
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