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> Why not view streaming as convenience, and still be interested in backing up what you pay for?

To put this into context in Japan, there is, even now, not even one streaming music service that can satisfy most people's musical needs.

It's not just that Japanese people aren't willing to stream their media, it's that it's not possible. Compare the Oricon charts [1] to the catalog of LINE [2] and you'll notice very popular labels missing in their entirety. It's very different to the west where you can get most western artists minus a few (single digits?) popular artists on your choice of service.

> Not sure why in the the mind of some people streaming started being equal to loss of backup, or in other words to renting.

I'm not entirely sure where this is coming from but that's exactly what it is. When you own the music you listen to, you know it'll always be available. When you stream the music you listen to, there's a chance it'll be removed from the service at some point in the future.

> Why not view streaming as convenience, and still be interested in backing up what you pay for?

For me and most of Japan, the issue is that streaming is a very very minor convenience. Since most of the music we'd like to listen to is missing from streaming catalogs, the convenience is nullified.

If, theoretically, a streaming service existed that actually had all the music I was interested in, this might change.

> In this context I agree, that increase in DRM, causes decrease in availability of lossless audio. But why wouldn't same users want DRM-free as well (in which case, lossless is a logical addition)? Stores like Bandcamp cater to these users.

I suspect that perhaps it's because streaming services have devalued music to the point where owning music appears to be expensive. An average CD costs ~1.5x 1 month of streaming, where you can listen to countless albums.

[1]: http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/

[2]: http://music.line.me
That's a big number, way too large for anyone to take personally in an emotional sense. But it's definitely big enough for a purge. Jailing, disappearances and more.

This is a pretty large economic tide. Almost twice the size of California's economy, all at once. Ranking it The Fifth Largest Economy, worldwide, if it's worth thinking in those terms.

Given that an approximate number of participating Chinese nationals have been enumerated, if they suddenly disappeared (and ~20,000 is certainly within the realm of possibility), what would a sudden halt of two trillion (legal or not) do to the rest of the world?
I think NAND flash is more flexible in terms of design than DRAM is, for example 3D NAND. NAND flash generally communicate through a separate controller that uses for example the SATA or USB buses, while the DRAM controller is built into the CPU or chipset.
We've put together several take-home mini projects as Github repos that have instructions and sample data or a starter template. Candidate clones the repo, commits frequently, and builds something demonstratable that works or doesn't. It's structured to be similar to the kind of early real task they would get. Key is it's open book, they can google and stackoverflow as much as they want. We can see evolution of thought process in the commits and have a good discussion in followup conversation. We do this after they have passed a phone screen or onsite interview and we are interested. So far, we like the results.
"Flow" seems to help a lot.

I recently did some image editing with GIMP. (I usually use Photoshop, and don't really like GIMP, but decided to use it because it is FLOSS and I'm switching to FLOSS where available.)

It was one of my first times using it, and it was difficult to use. I had to check a couple tutorials on YouTube before I could get into the flow.

Once I got into the flow, it was an amazing feeling. And after I was done editing, I was able to learn other, new things unrelated to GIMP.

This is the most difficult thing for me: getting into the flow. I suspect that GIMP won't be able to get me into the flow once I become better at it.

It's such a mystery: flow. There are reams and reams written about it on the internet. On how to hack it. Do this, do that.

What I want is a simple activity, that once I start doing it, I automatically get into flow (so that I can harness the momentum to learn other things). Anyone have personal experience with such "hack flow" activities?
I'm here. It's not that awesome.
Oh yeah, for sure, police are total victims cause they also sit in jail for decades for smoking a plant, and they also get their cash seized without recourse.

Except that's complete shit, none of that happens to cops. Ignorance isn't an excuse, and just following orders isn't an excuse either. Cops support an illegitimate system with violence and are rewarded for it. Fuck cops.
Switzerland. Strong economy, often considered one of the happiest countries in the world [1], considerate culture, and lots of natural geographic beauty.

[1] World Happiness Report http://worldhappiness.report/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016... (pp 13)
Tel Aviv, Israel. Perfect weather and beaches. Beautiful girls. Amazing tech companies and funding. Unbelievable nightlife.
I study at Vancouver UBC and rented a room in a house in the nearby area. I could tell that the Canadian government has started to investigate the corrupted $ because one day a government official came to "my house" and asked the information about the previous landowner. It seemed that he used the corrupted $ to buy the real estate and make more $
This is just an intro to an Terry Gross interview from 28 November 2016

"Carrie Fisher Opens Up About 'Star Wars,' The Gold Bikini And Her On-Set Affair"

http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?story...
I do find it annoying that you can't use voice typing on 3rd party keyboards, but I use gboard for swipe typing and then will switch to the oem keyboard when voice typing. It's not perfect (because the kb switch button doesn't usually go the keyboard I want), but it does work ok.

FWIW, voice typing generally works well for me. Not sure why you're having so much trouble.
I really enjoyed _A Burglar's Guide to the City_ - https://www.amazon.com/Burglars-Guide-City-Geoff-Manaugh-ebo...

The premise of the book is a study of high-profile heists and how the crimes themselves were heavily influenced and determined by the surrounding infrastructure. Where it shines though is driving home the fact that the infrastructure of a place is meant to define how that place is used & criminals are often people who use it in a way other than the way it was designed to be used - such as burglars who choose to enter through a ceiling or maneuver through the HVAC system like hallways.

It's simply the best non-technincal description of hackers and IT security I've ever seen.
I always used to worry more about 'running out of oxygen' than CO2 emissions as I became aware of environmental science and the growing discussion about climate change. I think there are two main reasons scientists do not worry about it as much as originally seemed intuitive (to me):

First, the raw amount of oxygen in the atmosphere is large enough that fluctuations can go unnoticed. To decrease the percentage of oxygen by 5% would result in many orders of magnitude more CO2 (proportionally) being released, such that the oxygen would be negligible.

There's also the geology of it: rocks absorb and release oxygen over millions of years and add hysteresis to atmospheric composition. The amount of atmospheric gases trapped in the Earth's crust is significant and resists long-term changes.
If the main developer doesn't want forks then don't use an free/open source license. It is very simple. "Capitalise on others work"? That's insane, that license is very explicit that this work was donated to the public under well specified terms. It welcomes all of us to capitalise on it, that's the whole damn point.

There is a single sufficient "good reason" to fork a project. You want to. People are free to use your fork or ignore it.
Too late to significantly crush the power of the narcos by regulatorily affecting one particular business line. It might affect them on the margin; OTOH it might very well not, if they're able to maintain control of the trade with the advantage of legitimacy. It is certainly possible to simultaneously, eg, scale up production of "legal" drugs on your regulatorily permitted farms, and threaten to murder the children of your competitors. That looks like pure deadweight loss.
I took over 100 flights in 2016, the majority international long haul in J; could I have done it all for free by coupon cutting?
Looking at Hynix's financials, they're making enough money to reduce the cost of RAM quite a bit. Looks like it's just them maximizing their profit as one would expect. I assume it's similar for the rest. As always with for-profit firms selling hardware or I.P..
Sounds very complicated. IMs for me are generally something I respond to immediately, or not at all. And that seems to be the normal pattern for most people I interact with on that medium.
Don't know their source, but I can confirm that relevant Canadian laws are wide open for abuse due to both being toothless and because of near zero enforcement, at both federal and provincial (BC) levels.

You can google how CRA actively avoided auditing foreign buyers "for fear of racism allegations" (yeah right) or how people bring hundreds of thousands of dollars in paper bills on themselves and their children, paying only $2.5K if caught (cheaper than Western Union!).

Or the latest Vancouver 15% foreign investor tax designed to appease the population, but wholly ineffective because it relies on self reporting which no one ever checks and allows for other obvious loopholes. Much better proposals were ignored in favour of this purposely flawed one.

It's amazingly fucked up, I'm surprised Canadians are taking it so willingly.
Took me many, many years to "learn how to learn".

The key thing to understand is that when learning something new, you will likely be pretty bad at it for a long time until you have practised and researched it ALOT. Then you will find you have gained some expertise.

When you anticipate this, I think you are much less likely to give up on the basis of "I'm no good at this".

Anyone can become competent at pretty much anything, given effort and practice.

AND IMPORTANTLY, by "practice" I mean doing it for real, not doing training exercises.
If your rent is 30-50% of your income you are living in too expensive of an area for your means or need more housemates.
Animats would indeed be a good person to talk to about CV/LIDAR in the DARPA challenge, since he lead a team that entered it.
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> Only if you go back to the 5, in form factor/design it's an upgrade in absolutely every way over the abysmal 6-series apart from the headphone jack.

I'm in agreement with you that the 5 series form factor is way better. I was in fact referring to the headphone jack and the problems with the thunderbolt connector as being a downgrade from the previous generation.

> 7 has a premium black option again finally that provides much needed grippyness, camera thought still warty is an equal distance from the edge not lopsided and actually machined out the case, antenna lines are finally almost invisible again

TBH I think that most users (myself included) slap a case on these devices straight away so all of that stuff is kind of pointless. That attention to detail should be expected at this price point that said.

The 7 doesn't suck by any stretch. IMHO there are some flaws and design stupidity that just shouldn't have been allowed to make it out into the world so I'm considering alternatives. The S7 Edge maybe? Dunno.
It is sad how successfull the US has been in promoting the culture of greed and selfishness throughout the world.
The author of the article doubted his faculties enough to mention his hesitation to act due to impairment. My familiarity with the effects of ingesting the substance is irrelevant.
Mind if I ask why? I've visited a few times recently to see friends there and each time I go, I feel more and more drawn to the area. Love the accessible and amazing hiking, etc, and tech scene seems decent enough. Would love to hear a counterpoint though.
I think it avoids indexing too many pages by not triggering the checkboxes, pulldowns, etc.

Through Google Console/Webmaster Tools, you can tell Google which query params your website uses. But for my modest website, google only uses the page query (?page=3) and I don't notice it using the other queries.
But you don't fear buying a house that depreciates in value, or doesn't appreciate enough to cover mortgage interest, property tax, house insurance, and maintenance costs?
BSOD is now literally a scary real possibility

It gives a new meaning to the word "crash"
The obvious answer: flash can hold multiple bits per cell and ram can't.

MLC is half as expensive as SLC. TLC is 33% less expensive than MLC. QLC is 25% less expensive than TLC and 75% cheaper than SLC. Not to mention transparent compression algos. As the controllers improve you can get more bits of storage from the same amount of flash for free. Longevity and reliability suffers, but hey, cheap SSDs!

Ram only gets cheaper by improvements to semiconductor processes, which also can be applied to make flash cheaper. (Big fat asterisk, those processes are very different.) While improvements to flash that allow more levels per cell can't be applied to ram. The price difference between flash and ram will only continue to grow.

Modern flash is quite "analog". The first company to figure out how to reliably store 32 voltage levels per cell (Five bits. PLC?) will make a quick billion.
From the class.

expect(Klass.new.special_case).to have_this_behavior

Anything more complicated in test code should be considered an anti-pattern.
Variational minimization is one approach. The details of the proof would come down to what sort of space you're working in, though. Euclidian spaces are a lot simpler to prove this in than more complicated spaces with different notions of intrinsic and extrinsic curvature. For example, the shortest path on a sphere is also a line, but it's extrinsically curved and also might not be unique. On the other hand, the proof in a one-dimensional Euclidean space sort of comes from the definition of the metric over the space.
That's weird, I remember talking with a swiss person and he told me that the country is beautiful and usually population is pretty intelligent but they also have a high suicide rate.
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Definitely not my use case. I frequently get instant messages from friends and family when I'm unavailable to reply (at work, at a movie, hanging out with friends and don't want to be impolite, etc). That doesn't mean I don't want to reply, I just can't right away.

I can't imagine I'm unique in that regard.
This stuff is very impressive, but why is there nothing in here about revenue? I would be really worried if I spent five years on something(s) that didn't significantly improve my financial security. I'm sure not everyone shares my priorities, but I'd guess this one is fairly common. Maybe this individual is already set on that front and I'm simply not aware of the context, but his concerns about the stability of the gaming market suggest that this is not the case.
I'll just say if you're using house sales in Vancouver or the Bay Area to launder your money you are really moving a lot of money around.

I bought a house for cash in Las Vegas after the crash and the bank never once asked where I got the funds to do so. I'm pretty sure they were supposed to.
That's the security through obscurity model though. As fail0verflow continually notes in their blogs [1], piracy is the least interesting use case of exploits for them.

Yes, the additional attack surface available when loading a user-controlled OS is helpful in writing exploits. But Sony bungling the PS3's PRNG for code signing would have still been broken even without Other OS.

[1] https://fail0verflow.com/blog/2016/console-hacking-2016-post...
People like to rag on Chinese investors, but I think the main reasons are insane tax breaks and limited supply.
"the project that you took the first 95% of your work from"

The project that explicitly donated its code to the public to use and re-purpose as it saw fit you mean?

I got confused by the use of the word "took". And that you seem upset that other contributors get to choose how they want to contribute, even if the originator disagrees. So they are volunteering wrong? Or Hobbying wrong? Glad you can set them straight.

There are plenty of systems of generating code where the creator retains these rights and things are organized in a top down hierarchical manner. These are what FOSS license are explicitly fighting against.
The issue of calling IP property.

I mean it's not like someone's breaking into GutHub's server room and stealing equipment.

You want to say it's a breech of copyright, patent or trademark? Maybe.

But then FreeBSD "stole" Unix, Windows stole Mac, Mac stole Xerox, Microsoft stole WordPerfect, and so on.
Maybe survivor bias?
An embryo without mitochondrial/nuclear genes matching up may not survive long enough for a pregnancy to be visible
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Culture yes, but depending on the company, the working environment is not that awesome :p Also it's very easy to feel isolated as a foreigner and seeing thousands of people squishing themselves into the trains every morning doesn't make it better.

Though the startup scene here is changing very strongly and bigger companies from all over the world open offices here and consider Japan as the 'gateway into the asian market'.

Give it a try! The dream of moving to Japan is really not that difficult, especially if you're doing IT.
I've found that 30-50% of income being used for rent is fairly normal, regardless of where you might be living.
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I live in Boulder too, and I would rate Boulder 8 out of 10. There is good vibe, nice people, lots of bike paths and lots of places to go during the spring and summer time, but for some reason the ladies here are kind of stuck up, and to work in Boulder you need to be a superhero or close to that.
> A response for each of you points, not really for starting an argument, but for stating my view of the matter.

Thanks for responding.

> [...] while the copula verb and the auxiliary verb for passive forms are the same (to be), in its second role, it is not also acting as a copula. The verb 'to be' is not the copula, but one of its uses is as the copula. So if one wants to give up on copula, however mad that may be, he need not give up on all the uses of the verb to be.

I agree that E-Prime users should try to distinguish between copulative and non-copulative uses of "to be" and that passives are non-copulative. By mentioning E-Prime, I was just trying to draw an analogy with another way of restricting language in the name of "taking responsibility".

> Edit: Oh, also, in a sentence like "Bob seems terrible.", 'to seem' is basically a copula. Copula is basically any verb that links the subject to a predicative.

According to E-Prime users, using "seems" instead of "is" could typically make the scope and basis for disagreements clearer (because then you can talk more readily about to whom something seems a certain way?).
> Didn't the DARPA grand challenge show self driving was a software problem, not a hardware problem?

Yes, the software is the hard part. That's why it makes sense to use hardware that makes the job of the software easier. LIDAR tells you how far away objects are; if you're using cameras you have to do that with software instead. AFAIK no one yet knows how to do computer vision with cameras in the sorts of situations a self-driving car needs (though I'm not a vision researcher). That means that Tesla is betting on solving a research problem to get the cars they've already sold to start driving themselves. I always thought that was an insanely audacious business plan.
They empirically do. How do you think they control the existing MX & much of US drug trade? You must grow at scale to make it worthwhile, and then you need distribution. All of those things are vulnerable when the state can't / won't protect you, perhaps because it's illegal, or perhaps because the state is weak in the area. The later circumstance is true in Mexico.
Unless you're suggesting collusion, that doesn't seem to make sense. Prices should fall in a competitive market, regardless of what profit a manufacturer would ideally like to maximize.
No, but it takes a lot less work to invest in real estate that you also live in than to try to find and monitor a 6% annual return on your own.
No. Those policies are in place because planning makes sense.

Not everywhere should be tear down and build up in all conditions.

How about the French quarter of New Orleans or historic districts of other cities?

This argument always shows up here and is idealistic bs.
Please note, that video supports my point: between 500BC and 1600BC, Russian language was non-existing. It's why video jumps from 500BC (proto-Slavic language) to 1400BC straight, skipping 1K years, 2/3 of history of Slavs.
You know personally of someone making such a salary? Can you back this up or is this just rumor? Sounds like the kind of story that gets passed along by your drunk uncle starting with "a friend of mine said that a friend of his.."
I think the safety standard for autonomous car drivers will be much, much higher than human drivers. So it's not fair to compare with just a stereographic camera pair.

IMO the most successful implementations are ones that can predict accidents that humans couldn't even see taking place (obscured by other cars, etc).
It's also the market rate in the affected cities.

You begin to see the nature of the problem.
This. I did the math when I rented an apartment in downtown Toronto and the rent was less than mortgage interest + condo fees + property tax + maintenance.
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I didn't realise the craft business was so hi risk
Seoul. The city is so damn modern and the energy of Korea is amazing. It's so easy to get dragged into the fast-paced, high-energy lifestyle just by being exposed to other people long enough.

Transportation is cheap, it's very easy to reach other places in Asia and Korean people are very friendly (IMO).

If you like technology and shiny new things, Korea is definitely the place to be.
If the law requires such workaround to buy digital goods - the law itself is ridiculous.
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There are lots of other differences. The default distributed storage engine of TiDB is TiKV, and TiKV is written is Rust. The transaction mode is different, and so on. The are something similar are they are both NewSQL, both use Raft to replicate data.
It's sad how few people worried about this back when it was most extreme. Now people are already in prison, already dead, or already have criminal records for life, and the incarceration rate is falling. It seems like too little too late to start being concerned now.

Didn't people notice Bill Clinton's toughness on crime [1] when voting for Obama, from the same party?

[1] https://www.ncjrs.gov/txtfiles/billfs.txt

"Mandatory life imprisonment without possibility of parole for Federal offenders with three or more convictions for [...] drug trafficking crimes."
I've lived in 2 of the affected cities. When I was making less I had housemates to bring the rental costs down(Sydney) or lived outside the city and commuted(Toronto). Both would work for either city and allow you to not have to spend 30-50% of your income on rent.
You misunderstand my point. Yes, they have a right to and yes, that is a good and explicitly desirable thing, but there is a courtesy and tact to such things that this project lacks. They are disrespectful of their roots.