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Scalpers don't 'partially fix the problem'. They don't create new Switches.

They have two effects.

1. They change the distribution of a good from a lottery, to a 'whomever pays more gets it' auction.

2. Depending on how they acquire the good, they may or may not have a positive impact on the original vendor.

Because of #1, depending on your personal values, you can make a very compelling argument that lottery-based distribution of scarce goods is fair, and that turning it into an auction-based distribution (While pocketing the difference) is immoral.

#2 is applicable for things like concert tickets (Where scalpers take on risk, and provide guaranteed, but bounded revenue for the artists/venue), but is probably less applicable for video games/devices (Where unsold scalper inventory will likely be returned for a refund - at no risk to the scalper.)
And yet they kinda manage to still teach you things carefully. It feels like in the past they were afraid of making things to subtle, but if you look at the game with an eye of game design (just create a second user on the Switch and restart it from scratch) it's surprising how they still manage to steer you. The whole plateau is a tutorial, but it doesn't jump into your face as much.

And then there's that one annoying motion controlled puzzle with a way to bypass it that a bunch of journalists mentioned in their reviews, and it's as if it was designed with that trick in mind. So that journalists discover it and write about how this game is different.

Which is interesting. Almost like they thought of how to communicate that this game is different and how to best let people notice, and then they came up with that.
Can't speak for everyone, but I am definitely more pragmatic than many hardline Libertarians... I'm okay with some government institutions remaining, as long as the direction is towards freedom from where we are instead of away. I'm okay with DoE, but would like to see more economically sound spending even if that means creating open options to compete with the incumbent publishers. That's definitely not a typically libertarian pov, but it's pragmatic in terms of lowering spending reducing complexity and something that might work and gain broad enough support.
People are probably skeptical that the Department of Death would fund anything they don't intend to weaponize.
I think "being myself" possibly means something different to me than to others. Like you, I don't find authenticity or honesty to necessarily "be me". However, I also don't necessarily think that being free, without self-censoring is "me" either.

Instead, "being myself" means that I'm happy with my actions. Understanding the results of my actions is key to that. I spend a great deal of effort considering if my first impulse will achieve what I would like it to. I spend equal amounts of effort considering whether my past efforts were what I wanted and thinking of ways to improve.

Lots of things I do are "manufactured". For example, I make a point of trying to find something nice and true to say to people every day. I go to a great deal of effort to ensure that what I say is different each day. I find that it makes people happy. I find that it makes me happy. It forces me to work really hard to discover nice things. It's not my first impulse by any stretch of the imagination, but rather something I decided to do because I really, really like it.

So "being myself" means simply being the person I like best. It means understanding and following my values. It means striving to be happier and more satisfied with everything I do every day. It's certainly not about making my life easier.
The comparison to the power company is natural because the hardware infrastructure is similar, but the crucial difference is that power lines don't carry communications (for the most part). Energy is more easily made into a commodity because it can be quantified in natural physical units. For communications it's much harder. The definition of "services" like YouTube will be necessarily incomplete because its definition is socially-mediated to begin with. Or, if ISPs were to charge based not on services but instead go deeper, so e.g. ICMP and UDP might be cheaper than TCP, you still need to rely on some judgment made by someone out there. These necessarily incomplete definitions will create huge inefficiencies in the system as a whole, generate useless extra work, and so on.

It hobbles the system as a whole in order to provide the justification for price differentials which would drive profits for ISPs. This is basically a money grab on the part of the ISPs (natural monopolies).
Would you mind starting starting a discussion here? https://github.com/jarun/googler/issues/87
> What's clearly not OK is taking it further--charging different services different rates based on their relationships with ISPs. You wouldn't accept your electric company charging you different rates depending on the manufacturer of each of your appliances.

Some electric companies do charge different rates to different types of customers depending on what type of business those customers are in and w/o regard to actual usage (which can also vary rates).
Not exactly surprising.
Well, Red Hat have demonstrated you can make a lot of money by open sourcing things (including buying proprietary software like ManageIQ and oVirt and open sourcing it). Given that EDB has ex-RHAT folks involved in setting it up, I imagine they're trying to replay the model.
I completely agree. The issue is that these are 'free' 'as is'.

The correct solution should be an exemption for public access/domain materials, which OTHERS can provide additional materials for as they desire, from being compliant.

There is a difference in contributing to the common good, and discriminating against differently-abled CUSTOMERS.

This is a great example of where a different group, such as a charity or some group benefiting from it (maybe students who produce and release to P.D. transcripts for extra credit) could continue the effort of making the content a more vibrant part of the knowledge of our species.
a) The biggest instigator by far is a dog we adopted at the age of 3 who was abandoned in the street and then spent another 9 months in the dog shelter. Each dog's mileage will vary.

b) I've worked with kids for years, and many display the exact same behavior, regardless of the particulars of the "shiny object". Fighting does not necessarily mean a physical altercation.

c) I've studied animal behavioral psychology, and have yet to find anything I learned that fails to apply to humans. We vary by degree, not kind.
"Sure, "some kind of public network", but then it can't be advertised as "Internet access""

No, I should have been more clear - I mean an Internet connected network that is open to the (paying, presumably) public.

Again, we know lots of ways you can't do that because of common carrier laws and public rights of way ... and even human decency ... but if I conjure the thing up out of thin air and there's nobody twisting your arm, I should be able to run that thing.

And then throttle your speeds to xyz.com in favor of abc.com.

Or whatever.
What SV magnates are saying by "labor shortage" or "skills shortage" is that they want higher profits. What SV workers are saying by "no skills shortage" is that they want the same or higher wages.

If Netflix magically halved their wage bill they would likely keep their price the same since how much a Netflix devops engineer gets paid doesn't change how much a family in Peoria is prepared to pay for a Netflix subscription.
A counter-point to this is that OOP languages lack support for ad-hoc polymorphism. i.e. the ability for third-party code to define an implementation of an interface for a pre-existing type. The two approaches used to work around this are the adapter pattern, and explicitly taking an object implementing the desired behaviour as a second argument (e.g. Comparators in Java).

In contrast, most (typed) FP languages support typeclasses / traits, which makes a lot of code considerably simpler.
>If the two alternatives are a world where no new Switches are available for anyone to buy, and a world where some new Switches are available for a high price

And if that high price is too high for you to afford, then you are strictly worse off in a world with scalpers.

>if you try to make a problem slightly better, then by not fixing it entirely you are now to blame.

Explain how scalpers are trying to make the problem slightly better. I understand that you may think that they are making the problem slightly better for certain subset of people, but that most certainly isn't their goal.

Scalpers are trying to make money, that is their only motive. The end result is to allow people with a surplus of money to acquire items, at the expense of people who have a surplus of time.

Since people who have a surplus of money tend towards the poorer end of the spectrum, overall scalpers benefit the comparatively wealthy at the expense of the poor.
Because it gives them a piece of paper that some people care about. That is, compared to learning more but not having the paper, it improves the odds on them being hired.

How do we fix that? We need somebody to become credentialed (or some institution that already is credentialed) as an institution of higher learning, that will curate a list of online classes (not necessarily their own), provide some way of grading those classes (online testing), and issue a diploma that is recognized by the offline world.
Right, but that's not what GFM does. GFM turns any single newline into a <br>.
Minimalist web publishing platforms
I guess what surprises me is that we haven't written down mechanics or principles that will make a game fun instead of just addictive. (There seem to be many well established dark patterns for getting people to spend money on freemium games, but I haven't seen much about what makes a video game more fun.)
Unlike concert tickets, if the Switch bombed, scalpers would probably return their devices for a full refund. So, in that sense, they aren't taking on any risk.

I understand why a concert venue would be happy to get guaranteed income from scalpers, but this does not hold for consumer devices.
I got confused by the exact same language 5 years ago when one of the Apache Groovy project managers (before it joined the ASF) started repeatedly saying "Google have now chosen Groovy and Gradle for building Android." I didn't know if they meant building Android at Google, or as the default build system shipping with their (then) new Android Studio tool.
Related, a freshly-former US Attorney from Chicago: gun violence spreads over social media.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3516525-03132017-Unt...
> The problem comes to a head when you get the tech equivalent of "Does this make me look fat?". The vast majority of the time, people asking things like that don't want to hear the truth.

If a majority of society would answer such questions with brutal honesty, the stupid idea of asking questions where they don't want to hear the truth would disappear. This sounds like a better world. So I have to conclude the "politeness" is what prevents improvement in this section.
I commented on this recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13822441

It seems the only "visual programming" environments are either domain-specific, esoteric, intended for children, or some combination of the above. And I think that's a damn shame. I'm a data scientist, not a computer scientist: give me a suitable abstraction layer on top of code, and I will use it. I think flowchart-based programming is one way, maybe the only way, to make this possible.
I would say that they are like Apple in that opinions on them are often highly polarized.
AWS outage again?? nm, Cox DNS
Cannot reach AWS console and machines and databases cannot be reached.
https://console.aws.amazon.com/
Oh, it's what is also called Sun RPC? I didn't know they renamed it.

I guess it's one of the things that fly under one's radar if one isn't actively using a protocol.

On Windows a similar niche is (mostly "was") filled by Microsoft RPC, an implementation of DCE RPC, which forms the underlying protocol for DCOM.
I'm pretty much a level headed pragmatic libertarian... depending on the quiz, I've come up as centrist libertarian, communist or conservative libertarian.

I tend to not have many hard views, but lean towards options that lean towards freedom, while having a chance of enough populism to move in that direction successfully. Hardline actions rarely succeed in terms of getting into policy or law.
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This is a great name. I'll probably stick with Son because it's already released, but honestly this would have been better.
Here's a direct link to the timestamp where they talk about this, and show off an internal 2D prototype of their "chemistry engine":

https://youtu.be/QyMsF31NdNc?t=1067
I think this is a non-tech application of Postel's Law (which I actually vehemently disagree with in tech circles, but whatever): as a sender, try to adapt your language to that of the receiver; as a receiver try to accept what the sender is saying and convert it to your language.

Really, then end goal from your personal perspective should be to understand and be understood. If the person on the other side of the argument isn't very good at adapting, you may want to choose to adapt, regardless of whether you are the speaker or listener.
Well this is a useful discussion, because I'm realizing how much I want to give the maker/user community itself the power to hold itself accountable. To take your point to the logical conclusion is to assert that all successful OSS projects should have a foundation, or even a for-profit org. I'd like to see something looser, a dynamic, democratic assignment of value by those who benefit the most.
Being the kind of person that "the other side" would like to have a beer with will definitely help with running the country - perhaps as much as being an intellectual will, and maybe more.
>Laws are often written with good intentions but enforced rigidly and with little common sense. A balance is needed between individualism and utilitarianism. At what point do my civil rights, when enforced by the state, infringe on yours? Who gets to determine which rights are worth protecting? Who draws the cost/benefit line in the sand? Not all men are created equal, but in a liberal democracy we mold society into one that provides equality in spite of our innate disparities.

Yes, as I said: The old individualism vs utilitarianism debate.

My point in highlighting that this is a centuries old debate is that:

1. There will be no clear obvious answer.

2. Hence a topic like this will usually garner a very lively discussion, with (mostly) no outcome.
> I ended up allowing both "1" and "1.0" so I could distinguish integer and floating point literals

Definitely the toughest call when making a JSON subset like this.
People are still paying because the sheep-skin still opens doors that Kahn doesn't. Until that reality (or perception) changes its still the way to go. Note that the author had a degree (and a fairly prestigious one at that), it just happened not to be a CS degree.
Metabolism may be older than life itself and start spontaneously
It is truly incredible how a singular person can have such an influence on the world. What would gaming have been like had he never been?
The costs of taking decisions like these (e.g: using old or proprietary technologies) are:

- Career growth: your team will be accruing experience in a technology the market does not need. That is not in their best interest, and they will not feel happy about it.

- Hiring: It becomes difficult to hire people when you decide to move away from what everyone else is doing.

- Sunk cost: As more code using old libraries is added, migration becomes more expensive.
> Deleting your FB account actually is a lot easier than most people imagine.

What about deleting the always listening FB spyware craplet that comes pre-installed on your non-rootable phone? How easy is that?
Note that an image containing vulnerable binaries is not the same thing as an exploitable cointainer. A container derived from a full OS like Ubuntu will have many binaries to provide a standard environment, but most of them will never be touched by the running program. That year-old image might have a vulnerable Perl version, but nothing in the container even runs Perl, so it's a non-issue.

This is why many people can get away with a minimal base image like Alphine-- a tiny busybox shell provides enough features to run the application while still supporting some manual debugging with docker exec. It also avoids false positives like these, letting you more quickly find precisely what you need to upgrade when a new OpenSSL vulnerability is announced.

(Disclaimer: I work on Google Container Engine / Kubernetes).
> I have been playing 2-3 years per day, every day

That's losing track of time on an impressive scale!
Creative and unusual things that can be done with the Windows API
We ought to get rid of the changing back and forth, but remain in DST. So effectively, it would be summer hours all year round. That gives us the most hours of sunlight after work hours year round.
I go on Facebook a few times per month. I think that's a healthy amount.
Yes, I measured the kibibytes - it really does. :-) And if you really want to go by looks (as you worded your question): I tested it with a proxy that slows down the connection - one can see the time the website builds itself up and how it looks as long as not all the data of your fatty JS framework arrived. :-)
> I think people should collaborate but in a clandestine fashion.

The fact that people can't even meet to have a discussion is just simply wrong.

Without communication between parties almost nothing will happen.
I love Nintendo and I also agree with everything you say :P
The problem is that the law as written, while it sounds like it should not allow body shops to hire phalanxes of seat warmers, has been lawyered-around (and by that I mean there are lawyers specializing in fitting your favored candidate to an H1-B visa): Post a job description that's impossible to fill, and then arbitrarily accept that the H1-B applicant meets the job criteria. Short of litigating every case, how do you stop that?
“We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered, you're giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion, and what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then you're a player, you don't want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.”

― Terence McKenna

it's stereotypical counterculture talk, but the dichotomy of creating vs consuming really sticks with me
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Dang, `protobuf` doesn't support proto2? I'm kind of a Haskell die-hard, this is a big hole in our ecosystem=(
Exactly this! If you think Apple and their profit margins there's a big parallel. And both Apple as well as Nintendo have gone for gimmicks that weren't obvious big hits (the Wii U, 3D touch).

(On the subject of the Wii U, in a lot of ways it seems like the Switch might be the second iteration for being hip and also making a tablet, where the Wii U was the first one.)

Not sure if it's still true that all other console makers are subsidizing theirs.
It didn't fail. CommonMark is the standard implemented in Pandoc, and the projects share an author.
Then I don't understand what the problem is.

Comparing ships (which most people aren't familiar with) to cars (which most people are) serves merely to give people a sense of what's possible. And that sense is reasonable; making engines as small as those in a car, and that need to run under such varied conditions is a much trickier task. A ship should be able to do at least as well.

Now, there are other factors clearly too; such as carbon-dioxide emissions and costs. So some discrepencies are perhaps to be forgiven.

But then, the article never implied nor suggested that exact parirty between ships and cars was necessary. Nor does it state or imply that ships are the primary source for sulfur and nitrogen oxide pollution. It implies that pollution isn't irrelevant and states that reduction thereof is an aim to set the stage for what it's actually about: how improvements to ships can be financed.

Your complaints are unreasonable.
Sonic is my preferred ISP. No data caps, no snooping, solid customer support. They're just happy being a great ISP. However, outside of their fiber offering, they are hobbled by AT&T copper.

I've used Sonic many different times throughout SF and while their support guys have been great, any and all problems I've had were usually a result of the copper. And AT&T couldn't care less.

Currently I have 50Mbps FTTN service from Sonic and it's rock solid. It's never been down in the few years I've had it. It does, however, still use AT&T infrastructure. But this is the only time I've used Sonic over AT&T and been pretty happy with it.
Years ago I wrote: How My Hatred Of Comcast Drove Me To Buy Their Stock [1].

TLDR: I hedged the possibility of oligopolistic/monopolistic pricing practices of a company that I cannot avoid by assuming that such predatory pricing practices will benefit their stockholders.

Their standard rates in my area have doubled since I bought the stock. The stock price has tripled. I wish this experiment had ended differently, with me realizing that Comcast wasn't so bad after all, and selling the stock at cost.

1: https://medium.com/@nicklum/how-my-hatred-of-comcast-drove-m...
If you are a very honest kind of person, it does.
As others have mentioned, since that statement is less than 3200 characters (and only uses the alphabet supported by the library), it had to be present in some book.

The trick to seeing why it's on page 314 is to note that the spacing on the sentence is really odd. Since spaces are significant to the algorithm, the same words with different whitespace will end up on different pages of different books.

From the information on https://libraryofbabel.info/referencehex.html, we can see that each book has exactly 410 pages. Assuming that for any phrase X, the page that that phrase is on is independent and equally likely, then there is a 1/410 chance that the phrased being searched will be on page 314. So just write a script that hits libraryofbabel.info automatically with randomized spacing. You'll likely end up on a page that is 314 in about 410 or so tries.
> They aren't afraid to take chances but not all of their chances are so great.

Isn't that the nature of taking chances? If there weren't failures, it wouldn't be called 'taking risks'.
>That adds substantial costs, and the end result, without additional funding, is no one gets it.

What do you mean "without additional funding"?

All federal grants to universities are by definition "additional funding".

And they only have to comply because they are getting this "additional funding". The university is deciding not to allocate this "additional funding" for this purpose, which is being construed as a violation.
the vast majority of non techies care very little about internet freedom. if we have a nice liberal in office and they don't have much to complain about, they'll go ahead and fight for net neutrality. but it's a little hard to rile them up as much when there's a million outrageous things happening ebrty week.
Nuclear reactors?