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> The market decides these things

Right, and I think the market is unfairly inflated at the moment, and has been for a long time. Movie ticket prices have more than doubled in the last ~ 10 years. The presence of streaming new blockbuster movies is likely to disrupt the traditional cinema if it is allowed to get off the ground.

And that's basically the point I'm trying to make. If movies were to transition into the Steam model where the cost is brought down but has higher reach, the gross is going to go down, and so should the marketing and actor budgets of such films.

> If I'm not being forced to pay it, I don't care what someone else makes.

Yes, going to the cinema is optional, no one is forcing you to go. But if you want to see a movie within 3-6 months of release you have to pay the cinema ticket price. There is no other option. I don't care how much the actors make, I care how much I pay at the ticket box, which appears to be viciously increasing cycle of actor demands more -> prices go up -> more gross is made -> actor demands more. To account for this, studios are spending more and more on advertising to get people to actually go to the cinema, further driving ticket prices up.

And it's the non blockbuster movies that are going to fail. Ticket price is $x regardless of the quality of the movie. The blockbuster budgets are going to price the smaller movies out. No one is going to pay $25 to see something they might enjoy but doesn't have the kind of budget to warrant a cinema viewing. Streaming services that offer these kinds of movies at release date I think will bring the whole scam crashing down.
Assuming that box would add 300$ more to the package price, you would be close to sinking four digits when it turns out that VR is more immersion than you like. In that case, a regular GPU upgrade will happily drive your conventional screens, whereas an Oculus box would likely be dead weight causing or at least cause all kinds of compatibility headaches when repurposed for conventional display use.
>What are all these advantages of cinema, pray tell?

A 10+ meter screen plus great sound.

A chance to get out of the fucking couch/house.

Getting to see a movie along with lots of other people (the mere fact of sharing the experience with a whole audience is important to a lot of people and a frequently written about part of the cinema experience, even though some people --introverts, touchy etc-- can't stand others next to them).
I'm sure you're right, but I'm curious -- in what ways?
If I'm by myself in Chicago the CTA is the way to go. But once you get to two people, not taking an uber is just silly.
This shouldn't be confused with SmartFlix.com, which is like Netflix DVD, but for instructional and educational videos:

https://smartflix.com/
it's available globally (with only a few exceptions such as north Korea, Iran, Syria, and, apparently, Crimea)

It works for me in Romania
It doesn't have a lot of contents in here (Czech Republic).

But! It has complete history of Power Rangers franchise. I think every Power Rangers episode in history is there. So there is that.
not the person you were asking, but that would really depend. It costs $18 to take the caltrain both ways from San Jose, and I could see uber being cheaper if he both lives and works in Santa Clara, for example.
The tourist industry and mentality is precisely what makes travel to another country less of a real experience. That's actually exactly the sort of thing I'm talking about, but that is lost on people like you who base all their thinking on metrics, which are always collected to justify an agenda, and this particular metric is about the global, totalizing economy, which brings me to my second point:

More kids are in school? For what? To be a white collar slave? To be a white collar slavemaster (entrepreneur)? Death in menial labor, while undesirable, at least prevents one from fattening the elites' wallets with their brains.

Where are the African and Asian artists? Scientists that arent just the tools of whoever is in charge? Philosophers with real, valuable ideas? I'll tell you, theyre the same as the ones in the rest of the world: few and far between, virtually unheard of.

Similarly, low child mortality just currently means the commodification of children and childhood.

I'd also say literacy could have resulted in more healthy attitudes and less regurgitation of what doesn't work, but few read for the sake of reading, and what they do read is trivial crap designed to keep them down.

Your reply is exactly another example of what I'm talking about where all the improvements in technology and education yield only people who think everything is great and there cannot possibly be any systemic problems with the way we live, after all these numbers say everything is fine and if it cannot be quantified or if the numbers arent big enough, it is not worth pursuing or it doesnt exist!
So? Is that forbidden?

Who said those who use Angular will just use Angular only as it comes upstream and won't pick and/or substitute a few libs for third party ones either?
Of course it will, because of really high ticket prices and they're providing a product that many people want. If ticket prices were lower though, Ford wouldn't be able to ask for that kind of money. Not many films can generate this kind of demand though, yet we're all stuck with high ticket prices for lower quality films.
You need one of the original creators of Unicode to translate an app?
How is not necessarily a bad thing? In what way could it possibly be a good thing for anybody outside of Facebook?
Yes, its more money per hour of work but its not more money per week in this system.
> The problem there is that the driver had to manually input the address. With Uber/Lyft, that problem doesn't exist, because you input the address into your phone's app, and that's relayed to the driver's phone and automatically used to route them.

That doesn't work if you use the mobile site, m.uber.com, rather than the app. That site doesn't even offer the option to enter a destination.

(I use the mobile site because unlike the app, it doesn't ask for a pile of invasive permissions.)
I hope they do the same for Whatsapp. Telegram has this awesome feature where a bot can send a menu, that feature opens huge possibilities for self-service processes in businesses. Most native apps that business develop do just that (consult balance, fill forms, buy more services, etc). Why the need to make businesses develop custom apps and users install them/use them when chat apps are already installed and users already trained to use them. Furthermore, it is quite simple to avoid abuse (spam) for instance Telegram bots have acces to user IDs and nicks only, a bot cannot send spam to a phone number or email. At some point, if FB does not open its chat apps the opposite will occur: want to get fast, easy, awesome support from a business? Install Telegram and chat with its bot.
All successful companies are part of the class, visible or not.
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I love how LEDs can flicker extremely quickly. Back in the early 90s when I was working on HIPPI[1] network hardware, our crossbar switch had a 7-segment LED display on each port that indicated the current destination. These LEDs were actually updated synchronously. which worked surprisingly well as a debug tool. You could send to multiple ports and see the port numbers blended on top of each other in proportion to each ports data rate.

Years later, it seems blinkenlights[2] went out of fashion and everybody started quantizing blink rates to 1s or 0.5s max. /sigh/ it's throwing out useful information for no good reason.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIPPI

[2] http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/B/blinkenlights.html
When will computer hardware match the human brain? (1997)
Yes agreed, in any social system everyone needs to work (if able) in order for society to thrive.

Wage slavery is a very specific term that I didn't just make up and I believe it accurately describes what you were talking about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery
That actually already exists: https://github.com/insin/msx
tl;dr Don't try to be the best at something, it's too hard. Be good at a couple of things and make a living in the Venn diagram intersection.

It's a nice idea, but I struggle when I get to "software and ..."

Cartoons? Cycling? DIY?
It is. But that will still only prove whether the type system can correctly prevent memory safety problems. As many security people correctly point out, memory safety doesn't guarantee security of the programs you write in Rust. seL4 has a stronger security proof that can guarantee not only that seL4 doesn't have (for example) use-after-frees but that it also actually works right (for a formally-specified notion of "works right").

The reason you'd want to combine seL4 with Rust is to give confidence that (a) the core part of the system (microkernel) works right and that (b) the less core parts of the system (drivers, libc) are least free from nasty memory safety problems. To a first approximation, it's a compromise between a project like the OS in the "Writing an OS in Rust" series, which guarantees memory safety but doesn't guarantee that any part of the system actually does the right thing, and a hypothetical fully formally-verified OS, which is (with current technology) something that would be way too expensive and time-consuming to be practical.
Flypping typical – compare the fonts you have
"How is a poor American citizen supposed to make a judgment on if having a locked down Internet where they can only use AOL is better than this Internet they might not have even heard of with millions of websites? They only see one side of this argument if any at all. From their perspective they do not know alternatives even exist."

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I think this is a move to address that. By making themselves gargantuan, they'll be forcing the studios to come to the negotiating table and grudgingly offer streaming licenses.

Hopefully.
I don't know about "evil", but I've met many people that could be described as sociopaths, especially in the VC realm in SV. They will lie, cheat, and steal from you without batting an eye, and smile and shake your hand the next day. It's not far fetched to believe that Zuckerburg, who is tight with that circle, could also exhibit the same behavior. I found the selfish attitudes of those around me rubbing off on me, especially when it felt like morals and ethics were holding me back as a business founder. But I also felt it was making me ill, both psychologically and physically, and decided to pull back from that degradation.
Another alternative, for what it's worth: https://github.com/rciorba/pidunu

I've created an Ubuntu PPA packaging of it (https://launchpad.net/~danieldent/+archive/ubuntu/pidunu) and you can see an example of it in use at: https://github.com/DanielDent/docker-powerdns

For situations involving multiple processes, there's also https://github.com/just-containers/s6-overlay

Example use: https://github.com/DanielDent/docker-nginx-ssl-proxy (automated Let's Encrypt SSL front-end)
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What you said is true, but Samsung and Apple do have frictions, and I believe both of them do have contingency plans that hedge against the risk of a full out war between them. What amazes me is Netflix's seemingly "un-conditional trust" on Amazon, it seems putting them in a potentially very vulnerable position, even without considering Amazon Video being a potential competitor. Maybe they just don't have any other choice right now.
This article is great. I've applied it successfully.

I'm kind of funny + I am an experienced software developer = viral comic.

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I am improving my writing and art skills so I can create higher quality comic strips.
I can't seem to reply to your last comment. So I'll answer here.

I don't favor coercion, so nobody is going to be forced to say or do anything.

Refusing to answer would be like refusing to help someone who request your help. Considering that answering the question is relatively inexpensive, you really don't have a reason not to do so. Unless you're hiding something, which will make people think of you as selfish.

I wouldn't trust a person that is selective when it comes to answering questions. They'll only say the truth you want to hear, which will contribute to bias and poor understanding of reality.

Moreover, its just plain simpler for a person to systematically tell the truth. Seriously, the mental burden of remembering lies and keeping secrets is probably extremely underrated.
Yes, after seeing my fair share of code in different production systems, vehicles, med tech, etc, I'm amazed the world doesn't stop every day..
Ah, yes, my mistake. I read too quickly and assumed SF.
UberX is the only Uber available in NZ, and without surge pricing it's about 25% cheaper than a normal cab, and almost half the price for me to get to the airport, due to outrageous taxi fees at the airport.

Uber in NZ also operates much closer to a Taxi too, drivers must have a P endorsement, which allows you to commercially charge passengers, and requires you to pass a test and have a govt run background check, and have a clearly visible govt issued ID card while carrying passengers.

Most of the drivers for uber are therefore former taxi drivers, who drive for uber because it pays better and gives better flexibility.
For anyone who missed it:
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Others dropped in as well... like the girlfriend who designed some of the card art, as well as a roommate or neighbour.
Various frequencies have been tried:
http://wdmc.org/1997/MilkingFrequency.pdf

but technology has also advanced to the point
where each cow can choose its own frequency:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_milking#Advantages
Nifty idea, but really lacking 2 obvious features

1) Make a dark version. Who codes on white?

2) Remap H J K L to arrow keys
I'm sure Netflix would wholeheartedly agree. It's no surprise they've pushed so hard into self-published content where they no longer have to deal with this.
I just wouldn't ask in the first place.
I think there's a moral argument that people are entitled to engage in their own culture as they see fit.

We accept some limits on this right so that creative people can earn a living, but fundamentally, people have a right to the stories and images that shape their lives and the lives of people around them.

If the works of Shakespeare were still under copyright and still controlled by some distant descendants, and those people decided to disallow any new adaptations or printings of his work, it wouldn't just be unfortunate; it would be unjust. The works of Shakespeare now make up a part of our shared human experience, part of our understanding of the human condition, part of our lens for viewing the world. The were created by one person, but now they have been merged into the common culture it is unjust and undesirable for them to be controlled by any one person.
I bike commute 8-9 months of the year, but currently am ubering both ways during this wet El Niño winter we are having as I live without a car.

I estimate my Ubers this year will work out to around

($20/day for uber * ~60 winter work days) = $1200

Most people with modest vehicles will see a total cost of car ownership costing them somewhere in the $5-10k/year range. So I could double or triple my already heavy reliance on uber and come out ahead.

TLDR: For those with short commutes, a heavily uber-assisted bike commuting plan is a huge financial win. And this is not even considering the downstream value of the productivity and health benefits resulting from regular exercise. Or the value of the time I can now spend reading instead of driving.
You probably had some serious inner battle about this. I applaud you for taking a stand, these kinds of decisions aren't easy. It gives me hope that there are still people out there who care more about doing the right thing than tapping to a source of money. Tangentially, I read somewhere months ago there was an effort by a group of activist people who built a tent near the NSA building and invited the people working there to come and discuss their job and its issues. I'm wondering how successful was this effort? How was it received by the employees?
If it's illegal not to accept cards, it should also be illegal to refuse fares by asking if someone wants to pay with a card.
Why would you compare a Caltrain fare from SJ to SF to an Uber ride within Santa Clara (especially when there's only one Caltrain station within Santa Clara's city limits, so it's unlikely that he'd take Caltrain if he were staying in Santa Clara)

It would cost $60 - $80 for a one-way Uber trip from San Jose to SF, Caltrain would be around $16/day with a discounted 8-ride ticket, around $10.50 per day if you use a Caltrain monthly pass.

Even if you put 4 passengers in the car, it'd still cost you $35/day for Uber.
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Sounds interesting! Must be fun.
I see the point you're trying to make, but there are still "traditional" laws that need to change for the global internet to support all kinds of media. To be fair, Netflix are trying to drive the change that will lead to this idealistic global internet, no?
He is sincere in making FB the internet. Those are never noble intentions. He is all for the money rather than actually giving a service for the greater good. I am sure he realizes that.

If he was sincere, he would have been truthful rather than using every kind of fallacy from https://signposts02.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/logical-fall....
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I think you are misrepresenting what a Ponzi scheme is. People actually get defrauded and are given phony fund statements and they are generally not aware at all that there is a Ponzi scheme occurring, they just think they happen to have a good fund manager. So it's not a good comparison.
It makes API requests to reddit from your browser. All this website is good for is trying not to look obvious to people looking over your shoulder.
Blank screen on iOS with Purify anti-tracker installed

Hmmmm
In London I actually find the opposite. I like Uber and the convenience, but all the drivers are foreign and don't know their way around. More than 3 times I've been taken a hugely longer way round because the driver blindly followed the terrible Uber GPS, literally adding 15-20 minutes to the journey for no reason. Sure, I can get some of the cash back (and it is super easy to do so) but I would like for them just to take the right damn turning the first time.

Also they have to use the Uber GPS and not Google Maps, which several drivers have told me is quite inferior.
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Let's assume Lord of the Rings was out of term and then a bunch of shoddily made movies got made based on the story and didn't reap much. Would New Line Cinema have laid out the budget for Peter Jackson to make the quality LOTR film trilogy if they didn't have exclusive rights to produce the movies? Those films generated huge amounts of revenue - would we have missed out on that if the books were in the public domain, or would the same revenue have been produced by now with it in the public domain?
It's a special case of the narrative fallacy.
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Thank you for expressing this in a coherent way. I think there are a good number of people in positions of power truly trying to do things for the common good but instead individuals on the outside look at it and think these people are doing them for only corporate gain.
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Oh, you are a manager whose existence depends on micromanaging and enslaving people who are more in touch with physical reality (but not in touch with exploiting human psychological bugs like insecurity and status anxiety that let people like you lord over them). No wonder you want to pretend everything is all right; it is for you. but there will be less of you in the future, and you might find yourself enslaved to someone who is better at the game than you are!
The explosive anger at the Linux Code of Conflict betrays that this fight has been less over needing clear rules as it is the need of some people to force their particular set of rules in as many places as possible.
Clearly every police who believes "I'm the law don't fuck with me" fits the bill you describe, but I don't think we're close to establishing that every police believes that.
Sherlock Holmes is interesting - some new characters created by Doyle in the 1920s are not yet in the public domain and thus must be licensed from his estate if you want to use those characters.
Wow, that's pretty cool.
I just pulled up a video that I remember having particularly bad comments, and the comments were gone. I guess that channel does have a code of conduct, even if it's not formalized. I don't know that publishing a CoC document "solves" anything, but at the very least it acknowledges that the sort of conduct I was illustrating does exist and should be discouraged.

Perhaps it's along the same lines as the "don't piss in my pool" sign. Some visitors may see it as a sign that you care about water quality and will feel safer jumping in. Others might wonder if it indicates that a lot of people do piss in your pool.
Ah that makes sense. I did not realize how docker-signal forwarded signals. From its perspective using PID 1 makes sense because that's where the "application" should run as specified in your dockerfile.
I think this was the one I had before, thanks!
You should definitely quit your job if browsing reddit makes you look worse than writing code in PHP.