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That's not true.

The fact of the matter is Amazon had a huge lion's share of the market for e-books (measured by $$$). They had such a huge monopoly position that they could dictate terms to all publishers, more than once they refused to carry a publishers e-books (effectively killing them) if a publisher didn't agreed to some terms that Amazon wanted. They would stop selling PHYSICALS books to push the contract. Since no one else old e-books in any reasonable quantity, Amazon was in the monopsony position of being the only real buyer.

So not only did they do that, what they really like doing with selling Kindles. And a great way to sell Kindles is to discount the books below the actual selling price; eating the loss and making the publishers e-books on other platforms (as well as physical books) worth less. To a fair degree it didn't matter to Amazon if the prices were unsustainable, it fueled growth in their devices which fueled growth in their profits.

And then they would do something like push Prime since you could get free books that way (more loss for publishers) and Amazon would make up the money. And the publishers could either choose to go along with it and get a small price for each book or say no and get all their e-books pulled.

Plus Amazon had cable direct, which was a publishing platform that anyone could access. This meant that they had TONS of content by authors who were willing to sell it dirt cheap. This put the publishers in the same position that the media is right now competing with YouTube. And of course some of those books were actually really really good (Silo series by Howey) and became great sellers. Maybe even books that the publishers had passed on. It wasn't all garbage. So Amazon could show the publishers that they weren't nearly as necessary as the publishers thought they were.

Apple NEVER did anything like that. When Apple sold music it was at a flat price. They never undercut the publisher. After a little while to even let the publishers raise prices. And the whole time selling on the iTunes Music Store was an option since you could still sell CDs or sell to other DRM music stores like Amazon.

Amazon was easily the standard oil of the e-book market. They WERE the e-book market. No one ever went after them.

Then Apple came along, is part of the deal with publishers that broke Amazons monopoly, and they got an antitrust suit. None of that makes any sense to me.
You have a degree relevant to every conversation, apparently. You are in love with the 'appeal to authority' fallacy. So, whatever. Arguing about what BTC is or isn't seems like a tremendous waste of time, does it not? No matter what you or I think, the market will decide, will it not? It's been kind to me, so take it as you will. Historically, the market has strongly disagreed with your subjective assessment. Your dumb argument amounts to assessing the value of gold by the value of the container in which it is stored. You clearly have an agenda, I can't be bothered.
It may have been an overreaction in the abstract, but they are trying to run a business. If things like this had been going on for a while, then eventually someone is going to say "this isn't a political campaign, it's a business, and these interns are in the way".

You can't give due process and full consideration to every inane idea. The business will come to a standstill.
Cry me a river. It's hard only because there is too much utterly worthless, indeed counterproductive, secrecy. A more open government could not do some things. Good. It shouldn't.
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The movie is quoting that from a neurosurgeon. I first saw that line in a book about the Massachusetts General Hospital.
The parent's comment uses the word "influence" more in the sense of "Merit Influence" than "Political Influence", I think
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I had no issues reading it in entirety (datapoints: Canadian IP, Linux+Chrome)
don't suspend his accounts yet . . . keep trying to contact him maybe he's unplugged from work over the Holiday week.

Email him Sunday, saying hey are you ready for the meeting on Monday, how was your holiday?
I'm not disputing that newer OS's run slower on older devices.

I'm disputing that this is done intentionally to degrade performance and make it more attractive to upgrade - which is what the original comment stated.

They actually disable most of the new effects on older hardware which indicates that they want the software to perform acceptably.

And more to the point, supporting older hardware at all extends the useful life of that hardware by allowing it to run modern applications and have access to new features.
It looked promising right up until the first code, and then I saw you're writing in AT&T syntax. AT&T syntax is such an abomination against nature and the gods of computing that every time I see it I want to gouge my eyes out.

AT&T syntax is this weird awful syntax only used by GNU as. The syntax is some leftover from an assembler from the early UNIX days which was clearly written by a very lazy person. Whoever came up with it apparently thought to themselves, "If we make source files put a % character in front of registers and a $ character in front of constants, then I don't have to think too hard about how to write a parser. If we make source files specify their width in a suffix, then we don't have to think too hard about how to get this information out of the register name. And let's put our operands in (source, destination) order instead of (destination, source) order just to be evil and confuse people!"

Aaagggghh. If gas wasn't used as the backend of gcc, I guarantee exactly zero people would use it, because AT&T syntax is so awful.

You should consider posting an update using NASM / YASM (or if you feel you must use GAS, use its directive for Intel syntax). Your readers will thank you.
I think the new stick actually lets you use the headphones connected to the andriod or ios app. I don't know why Roku 3 and 4 don't support it.

I use the remote. I like having a simple remote rather than pulling up an app on my phone. I use a harmony universal remote too. But I like the point anywhere rf remote that it comes with.
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I suppose it would be very expensive to produce decent content for ad-free streaming distribution, because they'd have to fill a whole hour.

Take Mythbusters and cut out all the repetition and ads; I bet it ends up around 12 minutes that are expensive to produce. Then you have to make basically 4-5 new shows to fill the rest of that space.
What are you talking about? Android phones are sold everywhere that iPhones are sold.
The indictment does in fact present evidence. Not to a jury, but to us, the readers. It makes claims that things are true. Ridiculous, outlandish claims, like that filing a subpoena was done to try to get checking account information.

You're right, I didn't notice the first count was identity fraud and the second was attempt to commit identity fraud. In a false statement, I'm pretty sure lots of laws, including the first amendment, protect your right to make a statement that might not be true. What you know is definitely relevant.

Finally, your excess of concern for this seemingly trivial case really confuses me. Who are you? Why do you care? What do you know that we don't? On the face of it, that indictment looks ridiculous but you claim there's more to there story. Can you back that up with anything?
Apparently for a 2d convex hull, the perimeter of it is pi times the mead width of it.

Does that count as a circle being involved?

I guess if you showed that the perimeter was proportional to the mean width, then circles would prove that the constant of proportion would be pi, because pi is (often? by definition) the perimeter of the circle divided by the (constant) width.

I don't know if you count that as a circle being involved.
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At this point there are only two mobile phone platforms with apps. iOS is smaller, but has tons of apps. It started the trend and people seem to like to pay more money on iOS for apps than they do on Android (I don't know if that's as true today as it used to be, but I think it still holds). Even if users don't like paying as much on android or paying it all, Android has a larger market share in thus is still worth developing for. Both platforms have hundreds of millions of users.

Windows phone is dead. BlackBerry is dead. Palm OS. The previous versions of Windows Phone. The Sidekick. Amazon Fire Phone. Canonical's phone, the Firefox phone, whatever other Linux phones I can't think of.

It doesn't matter how big the company backing it is, even if they actually do a good job (like supposedly the recent Windows Phones). At this point the first mover advantage for Android and iOS are too big. Even if you spend all the time to make a great platform no one's going to buy it because the top hundred or thousand apps aren't available. Because no one's gonna Byatt know it's gonna make apps for because there's no one to buy the apps. You're stuck in a cycle.

Microsoft tried to buy their way out of it, and blackberry did too to a degree. But it doesn't matter if you pay to get the top 40 apps from iOS, because nobody uses all of them. They use some percentage of the top hundred apps. Or 500 apps. So every users going to have a couple of apps that they really want that are unavailable and will never get ported. The apps that do exist (like Twitter and others) often don't get updates, and if a game or something does come out for the platform it's not until years after the big two.

Until something very different comes along, or some HUGE external force appears, we're only going to have two big phone OSes. The only thing that slightly possible (in my eyes) would be someone as big as Samsung pushing their own OS in other countries and possibly getting a good foothold there. Maybe Xaiomi.
I would love to have some kind of stack overflow type system for commenting on papers. If you find a bug in some paper chances are someone else will benefit from the knowledge. Oh, the authors didn't report some key step in the algorithm and you figure it out? Pay it forward and leave a comment! Crowd sourced errata, if you will.

Hell, integrate with GitHub so you can link to implementations, etc.
Law enforcement in the U.S. is almost exclusively served by public agencies, so I'm not really sure what you mean when you bring up for-profit. They certainly aren't for-profit in any traditional sense (i.e. engaging in voluntary trade of goods/services in an open market). They're only "for-profit" in the same sense as mafia, in the same sense as government, in that they use violence (or the threat of it) in order to sustain themselves.

For an interesting perspective on private prisons, you should see what Gary Johnson has to say on the matter based on his experience as Governor of New Mexico: http://govgaryjohnson.tumblr.com/post/139039414105/private-p...

If you want to see some serious influence (for the worse), take a look at the prison guard and law enforcement unions. At least the private organizations are accountable, liable. They aren't bestowed with any magical priviledges or powers. Deals can be renegotiated, people can be fired, competitors can be pursued.

Who knows what we could achieve under private (wholly volunatary) policing. Organizations could actually compete on budget, effectiveness, community-fit, supplemental charity services. Don't like the service? Hire someone else.
Well, the other difference is that reboot isn't often needed to solve the issue, unless you're messing around with kernel modules.
> Successful candidates should clearly demonstrate that their priorities are company, team, and self — in that order

I would politely ask Facebook to go fuck themselves if they asked me to put the company before myself. I don't exist to serve a company.
It just proves that money can't buy common sense.
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The constitution of the United States + the Bill of Rights were all designed and argued about in secrecy. This was so the politicians in the room could actually be honest and negotiate rather than pander to their states short sighted interests.
It's commonly called "teamwork over ego", though we might be talking past each other.
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Trust but verify. "Autopilot" mode still needs a functional human brain to verify its actions.
Financial networks interpret regulation as damage and route around it.
Seems extraordinarily complicated.
Is the speed of startup entirely based on the dynaloading, or are there other choices that make it faster than Lua?
> You can theoretically use tmp to gain any privilege.

Not when you access it as yourself rather than root. The capability in question only grants access to open low ports; there's no way to combine that with files in a temp directory to get root.
Apple didn't make any stink about it at all. They negotiated privately with the carriers and came to a mutually acceptable deal.

Spotify is doing another thing altogether by impugning Apple publicly.
I wouldn't say the Valley is a good sample set for the United State's business and management practices.
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Apple doesn't get a 30% cut from any user who uses Spotify on iOS, that would be pretty blatant anti-trust. However Apple gets 30% from anyone they handle billing/tracking for.

Spotify, if they allow subscriptions purchased in app, is paying Apple for a service. They're free to think that price is way the hell to high and not sell there.

What if Spotify got their way? What if any app could embed their own payment system minute? Now Apple has hundreds of millions of users who could easily be defrauded and have their credit card stolen from stuff downloaded from their store. They get sued.

As a user, I wouldn't use any of them. The reason I buy so much on iOS is because I trust Apple. I know that if I signed up for a subscription for something it turns out to be a piece of junk, I can easily cancel it with one click. No weird cable company style negotiations. No worrying if some unscrupulous company is going to steal my credit card. Apple has some pretty reasonable reasons for this policy (besides all the obvious selfish/monetary ones).
Not really -- it's a straightforward and obvious application of image correlation. Nothing exotic about the hardware, either.

It certainly shouldn't have been patented. The first claim is as broad as a barn, basically giving MIT ownership of an entire problem space.
> However, I don't think it makes sense to have a complex special case like "if you only have one of this subset of extra privileges, allow TMPDIR but don't allow all the other potentially dangerous environment variables"; that adds a significant amount of complexity and subtlety to already security-sensitive code.

I think it'd make more sense to have a collection of lockdown functions which are run for each capability, with the action functions run being the union of the collections of each effective capability (with full root just being the union of the collections of all capabilities).

Or, y'know, rethink root in general. Plan 9 had good ideas in this area …
It is my understanding that they haven't done much at slashdot as the issues with sourceforge were much more pressing.

As such I haven't seen any changes occur at slashdot since the take over. I've only seen the slow, steady decline of slashdot continue. Which is unfortunate because every once and a while you see the low UID people make some stellar comments and it reminds me why I stick around despite vastly superior alternatives like hackernews.
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By auction at issue, and then in secondary markets. The securities would protect against default over a fixed timeframe, so overall the market would look much like the market for treasuries.

But, no, a central bank wouldn't really have to price its credit derivatives correctly. That's really the whole point: if it (and the market) gets the price wrong, the central bank can print money to fix the mess, which is (a) something that a private institution like AIG cannot do, adding a significant second-order risk that such institutions fail, and (b) when the market does get it wrong and a crisis results, the central bank ends up stepping in anyway, effectively issuing insurance post facto, only nobody has paid any premium for that insurance.

The trickier question is what notional value to issue. The obvious answer is that it would depend on each institution's contribution to systemic counterpart risk, but it might also make sense to leave the amounts to the discretion of central bankers: this would give them another lever of monetary policy to lean on, effectively giving them the ability to say, "No, don't worry about that bank failing. We've got you covered."

(And trickier still is how to ensure that the parties that are apt to suffer losses actually hold the insurance that would protect them. Particularly if it is expensive, they might not want to, and financial institutions have long created separate legal vehicles to obscure and lop off the risks they nevertheless indirectly retain.)
Crud. Sorry for the accidental down vote, you had a good comment.
Martingale systems definitely do not cause casino owners to "lose substantially" - the bettor cannot match the casino's bankroll and any amount of money won back after the first bet increase is actually the bettor's. The casino can afford to let you double because they are only ever putting the original amount bet at risk.
That's not the case at all. You only have to pay the 30% IF APPLE HANDLES THE BILLING. Any subscription Spotify sells directly, outside the app, does not give Apple a penny even if that user only ever listens to Spotify on your iOS devices.
Since the money-market system is fundamentally based on debt structures, circumventing any kind of crash will be tantamount to preventing any kind of overvalued market. In other words, no amount of mathematical juggling will alter the underlying sine qua non of the (global) financial market. Frankly, any newly put forward mechanism suggested should be subjected to serious analysis and scepticism if the true goal is to avoid a crash. Looking over the history of the financial markets, however, given anyone who works within the system, I would doubt that they would care to envision, let alone implement, any kind of method that would not have a necessary relationship to their securing their bottom line.
If you were paying attention, you would see that it's completely acceptable for people to sign up for Spotify and pay directly at the Spotify website, and then use the app with that subscription.

Apple is doing nothing to interfere with the scenario that you outline and will happily distribute millions of Spotify binaries in support of that.

Your anger is misplaced.
I think wordfence is a wordpress plugin that is supposed to block malicious traffic.

So most likely they either blocked the country you're in, your ip is blacklisted somewhere, or you have malware on your computer/network.
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I do think the name is dumb but I would imagine you get a warning when it is activated.

They should rename it after the guy who died. Eg: Bob Smith = Smith mode. "Bob Smith died because he was not paying attention, please use Smith mode responsibly."
That's true it did, but there were perfectly reasonable alternatives such as CDs. That was always the problem with the argument against iTunes Music Store. As time went on other DRM free stores came around like Amazon.

The difference with the App Store (full disclosure: I don't think there's anti-trust issues here) is that it's THE ONLY place to buy apps for iOS. There's no place to get a substitute (HTML isn't competitive).

The case against the app store is far more compelling in the one against the iTunes Music Store.
There's no law or technical consideration that says "LED headlights have to be built 10x brighter". People want them as bright as their electrical system can handle, and they buy them that bright. Blame people. If you like, regulate people; We successfully prevent them from using green lasers as headlights, this should be no different.
There's a thrill in figuring out a system, and there's some satisfaction in optimizing and executing it, but for the most part, if you're doing it right, being a professional gambler is pretty boring.
It is not quite bad as it may seen in SV. Most people work 8am to 5pm as gauged by the traffic peak periods. Some start earlier or later but most work around 40 hours. Rarely do you see much traffic or people at work on the weekends. There are certainly places where people work like long hours but one doesn't have to work in those places. There are plenty of other options.
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This isn't about meat, but rather farming methods.
The apps that use other billing providers are not selling digital goods.
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