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>The rule was taken out, and we are back to losing 30% of our ad revenue.

That sentence shows a worrying level of entitlement. If you feel your website represents a simple content-for-ads purchase, and you feel that people are stealing from you, if the ad revenue is something you /deserve/, and you feel that 100% of visitors should see ads 100% of the time, then block everyone running an ad blocker from seeing anything[e1]. That's easy to do.

If you're not willing to lock "non payers" out, then you're offering a free service with a donation policy, and complaining that not enough people donate. Well I'm sorry, but they aren't required to. If you don't wanna be a donation based company, then don't be.

I grant you that looking at the before and after on your balance sheet may hurt, but that's not "losing 30% of your ad revenue" because that revenue is not owed to you, due to the nature of the business model that you chose. What it really represents is a potential 30% growth area, made up of people who's requirements have recently changed, and who now need a different strategy to capture. I don't know what to tell you man, markets change all the time. This is business.

[e1] or, as someone else pointed out, just leave the website broken for the "freeloaders" and don't worry about it
DEMs: how high-res do you really need the DEMs, how many petabytes will you sacrifice for sub-meter accuracy? Unless the app is for mountaineers, what's out there for free in lower-res (to be interpolated by varying to-be-experimented-with smart algos/heuristics throughout academia) and affordably handle-able on a global scale [1] should be a perfectly sufficient starting point until users actually complain about minor inaccuracies. Whether we're talking 30m or 90m resolution.. it's not "high" but for all sorts of startups but the most exacting surveying/etc pro-level b2b offerings, a fine starting point.

(Of course I'm only talking DEM here, since you mentioned them, whereas Lidar proper kinda covers details such as houses and other structures as 3d points.)

[1] http://viewfinderpanoramas.org/dem3.html seemed to be the best in the "free" (for prototypes / MVPs and such) space when I last played in this space on-and-off from 2011 through 2014~ish.
I think you have to have a really high standard of evidence for predation, because the cost of intervention to adress false positives (efficient firms undercutting incumbents) is so expensive. Think about the short run consumer harm that would be caused by Uber, YouTube, Southwest, Walmart or Amazon being restricted to charging higher prices. You have to be sure that the prevented predation is sufficiently risky. In all cases incumbents have made predation claims. No price hikes have materialised so far in any of the markets.
A policy won't help against the NSA.

And technologically the language processing "necessarily" takes place in the cloud. For that everything you say needs to be sent through the web. Amazon will store everything they can for the purpose of later using this as a training data set.
The LEAF does have a battery heater I'm pretty sure.
You don't even need the extension, in Chrome just open dev tools, click the Mobile Emulation and choose a mobile device before going to m.youtube.com.
The scroll highjacking is making it hard for me to properly read the article on Google Chrome.
Thucidides (peloponesian wars)

How a democracy can turn into an expansive military dictature (Athenes) to please the wealthy and make a dictature look good (Sparta) and at the end Helen civilization collapse.

May I hazard that USA is looking very much like Athen?

Ho! And the guy who poisoned with his alt-truth democracy with a fascist lies named Republic was Plato.

Sorry. I used to read and write old greek.
I'm certainly not a lawyer, but I would definitely like to know what's the difference between "structure, sequence and organization of a computer program" and the algorithm behind that program? As I understand, algorithm is in the realm of ideas, which are not copyrightable.

It would be sad if courts accepted a technically ambiguous approach effectively deciding arbitrarily which case is what.
offtopic: Great username.
Only the referenced article[0] has images (and a LOUD video - turn down your volume before playing).

http://www.seeker.com/ancient-mayan-superhighways-found-in-t...
If someone is interested in kicking Google out of their life, I can recommend reading about how Bryan Lunduke embarked on that mission. He wrote a series of articles in 2015, here are direct links to them:

http://www.networkworld.com/article/2940176/opensource-subne...

http://www.networkworld.com/article/2940569/opensource-subne...

http://www.networkworld.com/article/2941717/opensource-subne...

http://www.networkworld.com/article/2942161/opensource-subne...

http://www.networkworld.com/article/2946696/opensource-subne...

http://www.networkworld.com/article/2949819/opensource-subne...

http://www.networkworld.com/article/2971168/linux/kicking-go...

http://www.networkworld.com/article/2977884/opensource-subne...
It's been fun, Gmail, but I think it may be time to go.

Not that I have anything to hide, but I don't like my protections being whittled away.

Any suggestions on what provider to seek out now? Lavabit?
Interesting link. You can go even deeper with more data like resolution of your screen etc... And almost be able to track someone. It's kind of crazy.

There is a JS project based on that and that gives you an ID based on the fingerprint. [1]

[1] https://github.com/Valve/fingerprintjs2

Edit: I just saw that the link provide even more data like this. Just my list of font is a > 99.9% of uniqueness. Multiplied by all the other likelihood, it's getting close to having the signature of every person on internet.
> No idea how people in the past did it

With paper maps. They are pretty easy to use and don't run out of batteries, work offline. Problems: no zoom and you must know where you are. The upside is that after all those years of training I tend to know where I am and I can afford not to enable location services on my phone. I open Google Maps and zoom to my position.

Google Search works in a browser without being logged into Google. No app needed.
aka "The Old Boys' Club".

I think your idea that you should be allowed not to hire African-Americans or women even if they're equally or better qualified is quite offensive.

Even worse is that your argument now seems to be that you wouldn't want them as friends, either.

And, worst of all, that you think that this community would share this attitude and could be convinced by it.
I spent a minute staring at this comment in puzzlement wondering what party to the interaction this "Edit" person is and what hard drive they were formatting while telling the world about it.
Please clearly disclose if you have an affiliation with this service.
Some of these services are roughly interchangeable with competitors; others, not so much.

Vimeo, for example, has nowhere near the (truly insane) variety and depth of YT, content-wise (such that it doesn't even try to compete with them, on that level). If you think you can decide to just "never open a YouTube video, ever"... you're just not going to see a lot of stuff that's happening in the world.

Similarly with Google Docs. Its viability has very little to do with the simple feature of it being a cloud-editable word-like doc -- but rather the fact that it's easily sharable (or "easily enough", provided you have a Google Doc). It's incredibly popular for a whole lot of basic collaboration tasks. If you think you can boycott it... you're just not going to be able to collaborate with a whole lot of people.

Network effects (and in particular, lock-in) are very real. Even though you may not like them very much, pretending that you can just make them go away (by using lesser-known alternatives) just isn't going to work.
How about Open Street Map? http://osmand.net

It's not perfect, but it provides a good base of functionality, and gets you to big tour destinations. It will also get you to most restaurants in a big city, but it doesn't have hours of operation or star ratings, so it's less useful in that regard.

I wish there were more alternatives to Google Maps though. You're absolutely right that it feels indispensable to most people these days...
I'm having a hard time finding a video. Was it in Nov Dec Jan? When I search for terms you have been commenting, I get a lot of links to Zerohedge articles, but not that video.

I found an hour long plus Tucker Carlson Tonight video that has Greenwald in there somewhere, but I don't have enough time today to trawl through it.
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No surprise there. Doesn't help where the servers are as long as the company is in the US.
Really i use the latest and nightly gcc toolchain in ubuntu without issue, for python if what your saying is true could you not use conda or docker?
But why was it flagged? I do not understand. There is zero explanation.
Not that i have anything to add, but when did your ability to run your own email server whittle away?

you're all idiots.
> Millions of tonnes of copper are mined every year. Dietary copper is on the scale of micrograms.

Imagine every stainless steel surface in every hospital being replaced with copper or bronze (which seems likely over time). Imagine that this subsequently becomes fashionable in private homes for the same reason.

I have a yacht and its anti-fouling paint has a high percentage of copper, for the same reason that copper seems effective in a hospital operating theater (it's pretty toxic). Imagine that a copper mine operator wants more public acceptance for copper as an everyday material. Both these recent developments produce that outcome, even given the fact that dietary copper is in reality a microscopic volume of the material. For the latter, the effect is more psychological than practical.

I emphasize that I'm not taking this hidden-agenda idea seriously, it's just something to think about.
Lots of people have tried micropayments lots of times and they've consistently failed. A single yet-another-Chromium-based-browser that doesn't even support extensions probably isn't going to fix it.
That's what Walmart Grocery is. It's really neat. You order online and schedule a pickup for a day or two later. You pull up, call, and they bring it out to your car and load it up. It doesn't cost anything extra. I actually don't live in that big of a town, and yet it's available. I was surprised.

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> Indeed, according to the Stipulation entered into by Google and the Government, Google regularly transfers user data from one data center to another without the customer’s knowledge

Seems like this one is completely on Google.

So if you want to be protected against this type of seizure, stop using Google, or any other American service that brings its data from its EU servers over to the U.S.

EDIT: And why is this an "opinion post"? It didn't have to be one. I thought the Washington Post was using its recent surge in profits from covering Trump non-stop to hire more investigative journalists, not pay for more biased opinion pieces?

Orin Kerr is one of the original proponents of a "golden key" for encryption, so I would at least take his suggestions with a pretty big grain of salt.
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Doctors and lawyers are direct executors in a sense. Do they have a similar problem?

And I would differ with your assessment that tech wages scale poorly with productivity. Better than many other areas, engineers can leverage their productivity extremely well - especially in software, but even moreso in the future with information and mechanical automation becoming ever more capable.
That's one approach, but be careful you don't burn out. I'd also say that tech moves fast enough that you'll need to finetune your approach if you want something to run with for 5 years.

If you want something that'll be good for 5 years look at stacks/technologies that have existed for a little while and are known to be fairly stable/mature, eg everything from jQuery (ubiquitous; embarassed I don't yet know it myself) to Go (newish, but very pragmatic, fewer surprises/less conflict than other offerings, by some margin; on my todo list).

Rust and React are wildly popular in their own ways (they're totally unrelated) but much newer, and I understand they're sufficiently chaotic enough that people can't quite tell if they'll die out next week or stick for the next 5 years, even though they're going incredibly strongly right now.

Most of tech fits into categories like this.

Also, about doing personal projects using arbitrary stacks, that's an excellent idea, but note that the general goal here is learning - I read in a thread on here the other day that building stuff purely to advertise competence is almost never a good idea. A commentator noted that the most you'll get in that case is an "oh, okay, nice" unless your project is relevant to the company (hard) or truly generally unique (really hard). Best case scenario is that a headhunter trawling GitHub notices it.

Hm, now I think about it, it might also be worth it to consider the ramifications of the kind of things you build. If they're things that would gather a small userbase but would be difficult to charge for, maybe think about how "yay I got a job from making this but now I have no time to maintain it" would work out. Handoff? Established GitHub organization you can add other users to? etc. Users remember their customer-service experiences :P
> That money would be better off spent in the free market it

What does that mean? Would we all have been better off if Bell Labs hadn't gone off on tangents? Even if Google do it poorly why would you care?
Great post. I agree completely. It's refreshing to read that I'm not alone in this way of thinking!
Whether it is "your problem" or "their problem" depends on what you can do about it.
How about yourself?
"A single dose of one sievert is enough to cause radiation sickness and nausea; 5 sieverts would kill half those exposed to it within a month, and a single dose of 10 sieverts would prove fatal within weeks."

Highest recorded level inside containment vessel, "530 sieverts an hour".
I could entirely see Ender's Game in any Military Reading List (as a veteran myself). It shows the horrors one goes through in war and how the ends might not always justify the means.
This is a cool project, and one that seems very useful! What is the tech stack?
Thanks for sharing this.

Leslie Davis was truly a great diplomat and an incredible human being.

Until Genocides are not widely recognized and stopped. Those who commit them are not punished, they are going to happen again, as they did during 20th century.
Hitler used Armenian Genocide to convince others that atrocities committed by Nazis are going to be forgotten. Hitler's quote: "Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?"

It is a shame that US did not officially recognize Armenian Genocide yet, even though most of the civilized world did and most of the US State legislatures did.

Germany was one of the main allies of Ottoman Empire when Armenian Genocide occurred and they only recognized Armenian Genocide of 1915 in 2016. 101 years after it happened.

Edit: Typos.
I'm not sure where to start. What do you suggest?
AdBlock is trying with their "acceptable ads" option being the default.

Brave browser is also a good idea but I doubt it will gain traction. It should have been a plugin.

After being frustrated with the lack of "decent" blockers for my other devices (android, iphone, tablets, etc) I started blocking network wide now. It will be difficult to go back.
Lies

What an insightful comment. Why would this be a lie? Instead of uttering a single word may I suggest you try it out for yourself first?

The rest of the world disagrees with you.

No, only those who are still stuck in the past. That does not mean that the whole world suddenly will start to use Linux (even though the whole world, or at least those who use anything remotely computer-related actually _do_ use Linux in some way or another but that is besides the point) but what it does mean is that Linux - in some of its many guises - is actually as 'ready for the desktop' (a vague term if anything) as the commercial alternatives. Maybe not for your specific desktop? Could be, but that does not negate the fact that it is ready.
I hate this statement " I don't want Google to sell my data so that they can blow the money on half-baked Google X projects"

Someone please tell me how can I buy your data and who exactly is google selling my personal data to ?

Also google x projects have moved the needle in VR / AR, self driving cars, and in some cities fiber has made a difference. Really I don't get why we'd want to not fund this stuff.
Agreed. I just didn't form the impression that he was actively malicious so much as callously indifferent.
How will it be a major detriment? You can't just say something like that and expect people to understand what you mean.
I haven't read the Google ToS, but I wonder if it would matter to the USG if the Google ToS made stipulations about transparently moving data within a region versus between regions.
Emails aside, this is more about using cloud in services in general. If you use Google Compute or AWS, you are in this boat. This is why U.S. tech can't be trusted.
It does somewhat, Google transferred the data to the US.
hmmmm... Diaspora would fit my (paranoid) requirements if every account was hosted in a unique pod on the local device. But, that's just me.

Diaspora is many steps in the right direction and looks like a great alternative to fb. (Slightly disappointing to see support for non-privacy oriented social networks being baked-in. I guess that's a strategic move.)
The heatmaps and the graphs in general, or more to help you orient yourself, when having to deal with a lot of information. They make it very easy to view activity across multiple files, branches and repos at once.

For me personally, I mainly stick with the "Changes tree", which I prefer to use over log/blame. I'm particular not a fan of using blame, if I need to trace the history for a file, since it can get disorienting. I use what I've dubbed as rapid diffing, which makes it easier to see how a file evolved. Here's an example.

https://gitsense.com/rapid-diffing.mp4
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The sector-by-sector statistics are at https://www.apple.com/diversity/ – scroll down or search for "Data from the last three years"
Are all game replays since inception stored in a database? It would be great if you could release one grand zip file to the public that could then be hosted on S3. Even a subset of say all games of the top 200 FFA players would make an interesting training data set!
Is it possible to use your phone's GPS without sending all data to Google (i.e. enable GPS without also enabling Google Location Services)?
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Entertainment is the biggest use care for these devices IMO; Music and TV. I haven't used an Echo in a while, but it had nothing for TV and wasn't that great at music at the time. Does it have good support for both now?
Maybe it isn't a tech problem or a lack of innovation but an uncomfortable conversation we need to have with "content creators" who think their blog post about last nights episode of "The Bachelor" is deserving of $100.
Obviously travel was possible before Google. I'd go as far as saying that travel was actually more enjoyable back then: the unknown, the exploration, the spontaneity.

Today's travel consists of entering an address, getting your algorithm, following the steps, taking a celebratory photo. Then you simply head home.
The top unicorns are overvalued
Each Walmart store manager sets the prices at their individual store. You can see a noticeable variation even between nearby locations.
Consequently, the online channel is managed separately from brick and mortar and will set its own prices.

Source:
http://corporate.walmart.com/frequently-asked-questions
The meaning of a word comes from context, with a thesaurus you are meant to pick the correct word based on intended or derived meaning. The "synonyms" are not synonymous with all interpretations of a word. You can agree on a list of possible synonyms without fixing the definition.

The definition:

1. annoyingly insensitive or slow to understand.

"he wondered if the doctor was being deliberately obtuse"

> So I have to conclude..

hypothesis three: your argument wrt synonyms is incorrect. People may dislike being called "obtuse" but it is not, by standard, an insult.
We've noticed a reduction in what we all knew was the single most common bug: null reference exception

Well yes, I'm sure you have, but were those replaced by other bugs, leaving the bug count the same?
What about mechanical Turks? Could you count them to?
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Google employs a distributed, caching, incremental build system and a distributed test system across the majority of their code base. I worked in Windows Store and I can assure you that most people there don't use CloudBuild and CloudTest, let along know what they are. I would be confident in saying the majority of people at Microsoft are in that boat.
Sure some of it may be out of context and religious propaganda but sometimes these traditions became traditions for a reason. They must have seen benefits of using copper for such use, they also have lots of gold and silver yet they used copper.
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People knee-jerkingly say they "can't imagine" living without modern conveniences -- their cars, TV, Skype, online takeout or grocery delivery -- all the time. Another interpretation is that they've grown complacent, and are arguably addicted to some of these conveniences. Which is exactly the state of conditioning that the companies offering these services would like them to be in.

Either way -- even though online maps are definitely a boon, something about the idea that one "can't imagine" the world before 2005 (that is, before Google Maps) just doesn't quite add up.
Get your own domain for your email first. That is really the biggest hurdle. Providers can be swapped out without much work that way.