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Very well thought out response and I think you do touch on something I'm aware of and might be able to mention:

There are fan-artist platforms in existence. Patreon is one of the most prominent. BitTorrent now has a "rolling" grant process (disclosure: I plan on applying) to nurture talent by way of financial and promotional backing. These avenues exist, but they are, frankly speaking, outside the RIAA-dominated easy-access to content services like YouTube or Spotify.

The music business claiming artists "used to" make a living off sound recordings is total garbage. It only applied to the top 1%. The tech industry claiming that it's "being persecuted and rights are being trampled" when the root-motivation is to disrupt an industry for profit without the bothersome issue of negotiating licenses for content is also garbage. In the middle, fans & artists both kind of lose out in the grand scheme of things.
plus a pretty high crime rate in the early 70's with talk of "super predators"
A “joke” which consisted of insulting their disability, I take it?

It's hard to have sympathy for such “comedy”.
I wonder what the future of El Paquete Semanal will be once Cuba inevitably gets less ridiculously priced and more available internet access. As it stands, there could be a large percentage of users who don't even have NICs, as all you'd need for El Paquete Semanal is a USB port.

I'm also interested in whether it's more of a loan/library service where this org has hundreds or thousands of hard drives that get loaned out once a week and swapped out for new content or if someone has to physically sit and wait for the subscribers to copy data over. The logistics of this are so fascinating, I just want more!
I was expecting an announcement of a CDN service being launched or acquired by Mark Cuban.
I doubt it works just like that. If you do that you'll have to file for a claim, which will then be investigated by your bank or credit issuer. There's some procedures around what you can and cannot claim for and more things that need to happen according to the Fair Credit Billing Act (in the US). Since you've already taken possession of the good and used it I'm not sure you'll get much out of it though I have no idea how this would even work/apply to digital works.

And I doubt they'll let you go back years.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Was interested until I encountered that.
I only visited Melbourne for several days, after living in Auckland for a year.

The only advantage I found is much more bars and cafes, so it feels more european (Wellington has that too).

Problem with Melbourne is it has grown too big. In comparison, Auckland population is 1 mil (and its struggling to scale).

Another advantage in Auckland is milder climate and lack of fauna that is trying to kill you.

Dichotomy I like to use is Wellington & Melbourne - bars and european culture. Sydney & Auckland - beaches and surf culture.

Tech scene in Auckland is not very impressive though. There is one consultancy (I think its called Movio) that focus on functional programming and Xero that has MS stack, though does well on frontend.
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DSV is the default format for many unix utils, and AWK and cut parse it easily.
>I've lived in 'burbs all my life, and most people are pretty happy with it. I mean it's nice to have a forced exercise program with "walkability" but it's hardly critical

Given the obesity epidemic in America this days, I think you're wrong here about the criticality of walkability. Go to Manhattan sometime and see if you can find any fat people. Now go to suburban Atlanta and see how many people are so fat they need motorized carts just to shop at Walmart.
Yes, there are tons of mommy blogger sites making a lot of money. The niche is important though. It also takes months/years to build up reputation.

Usually these high reputation content sites are used to drive traffic to a paid product that you own rather than selling somebody else's product. A weak example... you spend a year building a content site around React.js which you really love. You can throw ads on the site and push other people's product...but after you build up a large following of trusted users, you can release a a paid ebook/course and start advertising your React.js consulting company which will be much more lucrative.

Then you pivot to teaching people how to make money online like almost everybody does after they have one success.
I count my work day as "time spent commuting, working, or anything else keeping me from spending time at home with my family."
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You don't have to find it funny. That doesn't make it not a joke.
But these prices haven't changed much in decades. Books have always cost that much, as have albums (the exception being textbooks). Discount vinyl record albums were US $5.99 in the 1970s.

I have issues with DRM, but not because I find the prices exorbitant.
I'm a long-time, very happy Beatport customer. DRM free. To my knowledge, a purchase also includes the implied right of public performance (as in, can play in non-ASCAP/BMI venues without violating terms of the purchase).
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
Using DataLoader to batch GraphQL requests (or solving the N+1 problem)
Hard to have sympathy yes-- but freedom of speech/expression is still freedom of speech. Regardless of how tasteless it is, and should be protected..
It is masochism masquerading as righteousness.

It is not news that people can be sadists in groups, but collective masochism is insufferable.
Pretty much every change in law has some ripple effects on some for-profit market. Saying that therefore, an organization pushing for that change is somehow against making a profit in that market is just straw-manning it.
I'm all for it! I want the law clarified, not completely tossed out. The expression "throwing the baby out with the bath water" is what I somewhat believe to be at play here.
Anti-circumvention laws should be repealed of course. But so far such attempts didn't go far. If this lawsuit will succeed, things will be easier, but it's a pretty random thing with courts. It might as well fail. What should be done is much stronger pressure on legislators to fix this mess. Most simply don't care about this issue because they don't understand its deep impact, and in result, politicians get away with keeping the status quo achieved through corrupted undemocratic lawmaking.
It is certainly common practice to not include lunch as work time in the US. But I think that is unfair to the employee.

In the US almost all Low-skill jobs that pay by the hour dont count lunch as work time. At those jobs you usually explicitly "clock out" for lunch.

At salaried jobs it is less common, though I'd guess 50% or more don't count lunch as work time.

If that is the case, then workers should also be allowed to eat at their desk (or otherwise eat while working - reading emails on phone, etc) and leave early if they spend less than an hour at lunch.
Labor and capital are in constant conflict. Labor basically died as a cohesive international movement by the 80's. Labor-hating ideology has dominated economic thought for decades.
> now that it releases everything as Open Source.

Windows?

Office?

SQL Server?

Seems to me, that Microsoft now releases "everything" as open source only by the most ridiculously limited definition of "everything".
I thought you meant http://www.dangrossman.info/ had a course. Instead, I think you mean https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~djg/ The former is active on hn, and the later is a CS professor. Would be interested in a course from either :)
There have been EEE accusations against e.g. systemd, so it's not clear that other OSS couldn't get the same. Actually now that I think about it I don't see why EEE would depend on unreleased source at all.
lol. I'd love to see your reaction to some real dark comedy like The League of Gentlemen.
You should start a consulting business or startup and offer this.
If it were my problem, I'd probably start by normalizing the log files after the log files were produced. Which is to say, I'd start by writing a program to normalize the log files rather than modifying the programs producing the log files.

The reasons I'd approach it that way is it would decouple the process of designing a new log format from the process of refactoring all the code generating the logs. At the point where I knew what was worth doing and could come up with a plan for doing it before touching all the components. Then I could implement changes as it made sense rather than all at once.

Good luck.
Maybe it is a “joke”. So? Absolutely any statement, no matter how provocative or hateful, can be excused on that pretense.

So that begs the question: should “jokes” be protected? Why?
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There's only so much you can do with this. When children are really young, you just can't bring them a lot of places, such as nice restaurants, because they're too disruptive, so that means that for the first 5-7 years, you have to hire a babysitter if you want to do anything "adult".

I like to go hiking and road biking on weekends. You can't do this with kids; they just can't keep up. A 6-year-old isn't going to be able to do a 10-mile hike or a rock scramble with you, nor will she be able to ride 40 miles. You can do really easy hikes or bike rides, but those are pretty boring and do little for physical fitness (which is the other reason I do them, so I don't have to spend hours a week at the gym to avoid health problems). When the kids get to be teenagers they can probably handle that stuff, but that means there's 12+ years where you either don't do that stuff at all and get fat, or you hire a babysitter.

If you have other interests like listening to classical music concerts, or rock concerts, you can't bring kids to that stuff either; at one they'll be a disruption and at the other they'll be miserable. Again, when they become teenagers, they may be interested in those things (maybe, doubtful though because you're interested in them), but again that's a long time to wait, and now they're almost in college!

Honestly, having kids would be fun if it weren't such a huge time-sink, and you actually had help doing it instead of having to do it all by yourself (as with most parents I see these days), or if you're really lucky, with one partner who's also really busy with work.

It's no wonder the birthrate is so low these days in developed nations. I really think society needs to rethink its social norms and customs if it wants to reverse this, unless they can figure out how to greatly increase lifespans so it becomes normal and feasible to have kids at ~50-75 years old after you've established yourself financially and can afford to take off 5 years or more and only work part-time or not at all without ruining your future career. Also, polyamory would be a lot more sensible for raising kids; having adult time is easier when there's, say, 4 adult people in a household so one of them could volunteer to be babysitter for the group's kids, and there's more hands to share chores, and more incomes to share among the family.
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Thanks for posting that! I just had a flashback to my BBS/FidoNet days of childhood.
Yup, even though he used to champion OpenGL for his games for a long time. That's why I mentioned he has changed.
That's my concern. I don't like ISIS, or what they have to say, but my racist ancestors didn't like MLK, or what he had to say. Who gets to decide what is censor-worthy and what is not?

Would Civil Rights ever have worked with censorship? What about LGBQ?
Computing in general started with such an idealistic, academic mindset. It's important to remember that the "hacker mindset" was really a call to return to that original approach where people would literally hack together on a computer, explore its limits and do it simply for the thrill. By the 80s, there was a business/professionalism that was eating away at that early approach and the "manifesto" is almost a straight lament. Same thing happened to startups, the Web, etc.
The article mentions climate change, but I don't think puts enough importance. Really the other stuff does not bother me too much because it has all happened before and we have solutions. Meanwhile climate change marches on and we barely talk about it (relative to how important it is). To me it feels so important that I often find it hard to find meaning and enjoyment in my job because I know it is not going to help the climate change situation in any way, and there are few jobs out there that will. All the other issues and "problems" tech companies try to solve seem like rearranging deck chairs on the titanic.
Realtors Donate Thousands of Hours, Dollars to Local Boys and Girls Clubs
Well, you clearly didn't get the full definition. Go read Lisp: The Good News, The Bad News, And How To Win Big
New Zealand does appear. If the map appears cropped, you can move it by dragging with the mouse.

Awesome game.
Which is an American philosophy. Most countries, including Canada, do not treat free speech quite as highly, but instead find it more important to control hate speech (eg: banning Money for Nothing, by Dire Straits)
> “If I lose that I’ll just move to Syria or Saudi Arabia, or some other country that respects free speech as much as Canada does,” he said.

I would pay to a crow-funding campaign to send him to Syria or Saudi Arabia for a month.
Exactly, which is why they can't just switch it back. But people are on the attack about something so trivial. For anyone who needs "the de-facto curl or wget" then create a custom alias or re-assign the old one. It's a minor inconvenience, whereas if Microsoft were to patch it and break existing systems that would be more worthy of criticism..
>Yes or no question: Is it deemed too difficult for a user to create their own aliases, based on their own needs?

Are you intentionally trying to be difficult? The answer is of course not, considering there is the New-CmdLet alias. These aliases exist purely as convenience factor.

> Why should anyone have to make that "mental shift"? The answer is not because UNIX is incompatible with other systems. The answer is because Microsoft Windows is a proprietary commercial product and its sales and marketing staff have always sought to discredit UNIX.
Having followed Windows from its inception I would argue that it is "different" by design. The "mental shift" is intentional, but not at all necessary.

You followed Window's inception, and this is the best argument you can come up with? A not to subtle attempt to discredit the company? Your answer ignores the fact that Windows was built on top of a DOS derivative and the scripting language for Windows for many years was batch. It was different because it wasn't based on UNIX at the time because Linux was still in development.

>Why were there no plans to make it free and open source and publicly available initially? That's a rhetorical question of sorts.

I'd imagine because it was aimed at people who were managing Windows servers. Considering Linux has a robust set of tools to do that, there would have been no reason to do that.

>As I see it, UNIX as the OS that generally "runs the internet" has become better known and more popular in recent years as a result of several factors. That's why MS has to make the moves they're making. keywords: "has to"

I don't think anyone on this thread would deny that. The question is how is that remotely relevant? Companies have to change strategies in order to respond to the markets they operate in. Companies survive on profits and revenue. It makes sense their actions would be guided by those. Why is this a difficult concept for people to understand?
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> In short, the middle class baby boomer lifestyle seems completely out of reach for most in their twenties and thirties.

Seattle houses (condos on the market are usually pretty fancy and on par with house prices) are roughly 450K on the low end; neighboring cities hew to that, with the usual SES modifiers.

So if you're making, say, 100K/yr salary, your conservative financial buy of a house is about 300K. Welp. There you go. No house for you.

The trick here is that it's leaving out the key aspect: 90K for a bootcamp grad is great pay. It's excellent if you're 22 years old, and want to save for a house over 10 years. In a decade your salary will probably be between 140 and 200, not counting inflation. This is great.

If, however, you've farted around following your dreams or just want a new career, you're 32, maybe you have a kid or want one, you are looking at a different time run way for saving, different personal needs, maybe you have health issues, maybe you have a family, maybe they have health issues.

I would argue that the key issue here is the stupid high cost of housing that has been produced by stupid anti-development laws.
Is it a "racket"? No. Are the fees "just"? Well, I honestly don't know. It probably varies on a state-by-state basis but here in Florida the title fee is likely outdated and unnecessary considering that it is all handled electronically and the cost to transfer and store such information is likely fractions of a percentage of a penny. The original cost of the title fee stems from what I can only assume is the cost of paying people to file and retrieve such paperwork.

I view the registration fee as just another tax. In fact, the state of Florida requires that you pay Florida sales tax for vehicles purchased outside the state (if purchased/registered within a year I think) and it takes that tax as part of the vehicle registration fee.

Is the copyright system "just"? No. Hell no. We're so far removed from that point that some people view copyright violation as a form of justice. A lot of that likely stems from the length of terms for copyright and the fact that everything is copyrighted by default. Go back to mandatory registration (with a registration fee =) and somewhere between 5-25 year terms depending on the work and that'd be a good start towards copyright justice.
The issue is publicly founded research aleviate the burden of the investment from the private sector, while selling the right to the new technology to a sole private entity. The whole thing could, unless the government blocked it, be sold to a private chinese company down the line.
Because startups are inherently risky to work at, and when you have a big mortgage and credit card bills and you're not saving anything (as with many Americans in suburbs), you can't afford the risk of a temporary loss of work.

Also, startups are infamous for demanding very long hours, in exchange for the vague promise of your stock becoming valuable. Parents don't have that much extra time.
Comment on "Kindle breaks easily". I have different experience. About 6 years ago I got Kindle for my birthday. Happily used it for half a year and then misplaced and couldn't find it for another half a year. Then I found it - it fell in a gap in my outside furniture and was lying outside exposed to elements for all this time. To bring it back to life all I needed is to charge it - used it for more than 5 years after that without any issues.
> Yeah, you know, how we humans can adapt and evolve in a few generations to use nitrogen instead of oxygen or replace our mitochondria with microscopic oompa loompas.

I think that a major difference here is that the length of a generation for bacteria is way shorter than for humans, so that it is feasible for them to evolve in unforeseen ways in an observeable amount of time.
You're the ones performing this erasure and making this generalisation.

I don't mean you personally, I mean you.
Both are true. Having kids basically dooms you for 20 years; raising kids as a single parent is a miserable task. And before you say anything about married couples raising kids, remember that 50% of first marriages end in divorce, so the odds are not good. And that number doesn't include people who just stick together in unhappy marriages. If you can find someone really great for you and you can find a situation where you can have kids without it ruining your life, then you're really lucky. Most parents I've seen have a miserable time of it.

Not spending more than you make is a big, big factor too, that many Americans seem to have a big problem with. From what I can tell, they simply do not understand the concept, at all. They basically seem to think they "deserve" a certain lifestyle and level of spending, and just do that, regardless of how much actual money is coming in, and simply refuse to look at ways to economize or maximize the value they get for their spending (such as by not eating out all the time because they're too lazy to cook).
I would actually agree on that.
It was a tasteless joke. And a governments committing disproportionate violence over it is overkill.

(To save us the argument, if it's violence when I do it, it's violence when the government does it too. If I take your money, lock you up in a cage, or kill you, these are all violent.)
It doesn't matter — a country which punishes such speech is not free.

It was in bad taste, but bad taste is not a crime. What is a crime is using violence to take $42,000 from someone merely for saying words.
Same in UK - My work week is considered 37.5 hours with work day of 9-17:30.
Small dev team at a non-tech company on the east coast, so all these nifty Silicon Valley management practices are unheard of here. At our company, you're lucky if you don't have to clock out and in for your lunch break...

And I'm not one of those "most desirable" employees I mentioned earlier, so I'd be very lucky if I could negotiate for better hours or more vacation.
Because it's speech and speech is--or should be--protected.
> Having to rely on others to ensure you can get around causes a lot of anxiety.

I suppose. But as it stands I'm already relying on gas stations.

> Also, it's probably a lot easier to get consumers to add chargers to their homes {snip}

Sorry if I was unclear. I was assuming that as a given. If I've got an EV, it's going to be plugged into the charger at home every night.
No country in the world has absolute freedom of speech, and with good reason: speech can be harmful. Indeed it is precisely because speech can be powerful that it is protected in the first place.

Is this where to draw the line? I'm not sure, but it is not the case that absolutely any “joke” is costitutionally protected free speech.
Free speech must be protected, and it is certainly legal to tell a joke about non-identified disabled child. But he was targeting one specific kid, so I am not sure if he didn't infringe upon his human rights. Maybe he really did.
Couldn't agree more.

I've had decent success using an xml-object based approach, so certain structured parts of the template (navigation, form controls, etc) are built programmatically using dom methods and then serialised into the template.
Things like this make me wonder if paid writers for (in this case) Motherboard ever know what the fuck they're talking about.

As an active DEF CON attendee and seeing the press coverage over the years, I can start to "see the matrix" of how to lazily assemble a news story. He even links to the Hacker Manifesto FFS. I thought VICE was aiming higher than this kind of trash.

It makes me distrust reporters. Do they just turn off the "I'm a noob" angle, assume the standard authoritative tone they always use and cover other topics with just as flimsy of an understanding?