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With the talk of Climate Change aside...

What does the Paris Accord do? Nothing. What lawful enforcement is there to it? None. What forces countries to be accurate and honest? Nadda. How much will it actually affect "Climate Change"? Marginally.

Climate and Healthcare haven't become factionalized and politicized? No offense, but what reality are you in? It sure as shit ain't the one I live in...

The same Healthcare that was changed by a party line vote via the ACA? Pushed through with no bipartisan work or support?

Climate change isn't either? When more than a few studies can be pinged as affected by money from one side or the other? When denying "Climate Change" gets you branded a Heretic at the same level as denying Mother Church?

Name one thing the Democrats have done to work Trump since he got elected?

BOTH sides are engaging in "identity politics". Neither side is willing to work together for the common good. Both sides have victimization - although I would argue that the parts on the Right are much less pronounced and "Central" to their message and platform...
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I've also seen someone use this same SCOTUS decision to say that video game streaming rights got protected. That's like 4 levels of wrong.
I'm not a lawyer, but my understanding is that you can't have something that looks like a sale and call it a rental. If Lexmark wants to rent printer cartridges, they'd have to spell out a term for the rental (can't be indefinite), collect rents, make reasonable attempts to reclaim their property from deadbeats, etc.

They'd also have to carry all those cartridges on their books as inventory, and therefore conduct audits, depreciate the value, etc.

The law does not generally look kindly on "hacking" - if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, you can't call it a swan just because that would be more convenient for you.
If this ad-blocking is baked into Chrome on Android and Chrome on Android doesn't get extensions, then Chrome on Android essentially has a built in ad-blocker and blocks all competing ad-blockers. Chrome on Android currently has no extensions.

If you want to block ads within the browser on Android, Firefox + uBlock is your best bet.
Arguing is all that's been done. Arguing, and demonstrations, and actions, and earth hour, and presumably some puppies were left home with the air conditioning set down one notch.

Oh no ! US withdraws from the climate accords. What impact will it have ? Well here's what happened when the US and the world agreed to "binding" climate accords:

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/monitoring-references/faq/images/g...

Can you see it ? Me neither ... There are no words ...

Binding climate accords were signed in 1992, 2005 (sort of) and 2012. Look at those points on the graph ... Let's face facts here: climate accords make NO difference, no matter how binding.

Can everybody who makes claims that worldwide accords, climate action, earth hour, ... everything that's been done in the last 40 years makes one iota of difference please explain why anybody would put in any amount of effort here ?
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> Street parking should be paid, either by meter or though market-rate annual permit costs.

Totally agree with this. The problems arise when things don't start that way, and developers quickly monetize the opportunity to offload those costs to someone else.

Buyers usually shop on $/sq.ft., not on $/sq.ft + parking availability, so raising awareness among buyers would help balance the market out.
So everything Chinese government does, eventually leads to some malicious grand scheme...
Presumably that won't mean that Firefox will only install extensions from the Chrome Web Store, though. addons.mozilla.org will continue to exist.
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There is a lot here to talk about, but I will start with something trivial: that he made two commits to the repo.

In the second commit, he adds a photo:

https://github.com/yeukhon/suicide/commit/eddf98b9f3f4676b11...

I feel like some day sociologists and historians will write of this era, and I hope details like this are remembered. It says something about how fully we live technological lives now, that a person might make multiple commits to a suicide note.

In fact, he might have made many commits and then used rebase to erase them.

Also, someone responded by opening an issue:

https://github.com/yeukhon/suicide/issues/1

It's a trivial detail, but it says a lot about our era.

I hope things turn out well for him.
This is why I won't use mint.com for anything but my credit cards.
No. He was convicted of failing to file returns.
This case rules on patents because the case before them was about patents. But for me, when I read the decision I got sense that the court felt the pendulum had swung too far away from consumers, and that things need to be balanced out with a stronger view of the first sale doctrine.

Given this change in thinking, I am optimistic future cases dealing with non-patent issues will yield similar results.
> (I understood 8/10 words! And I even know that word 4 is a past tense verb! But not at all the meaning).

That's an important point. Knowing 80% of the words in a text doesn't mean you understand 80% of its meaning, that is, you probably wouldn't get high marks on a basic comprehension test.

I've seen some studies that indicate you need to know at least (around) 95% of the words in a text in order to understand it "enough" of it. (I don't have the links right now but could look it up at home if you're interested).
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Going to check out Alabaster and City of Secrets. Already got through most of Emily Short and Andrew Plotkin's respective oeuvres. Thanks!
That seems redundant when you can vote with your... vote.

(Also: the sixteenth amendment?)
I'm surprised to not see Mattermost[0] mentioned yet.

[0] https://github.com/mattermost/platform
How relevant do you think the front page of reddit is to reality?
So did her own campaign :)
OK. You should note - someone from your company posted this job here in April and I pointed out the PM position wasn't listed. Same job posting in May and still no listing and now again in June, no listing.
Seems like a defense contractor. Given locations, I'm going for Raytheon or SAIC.
Yah but is the math wrong?
Have fun with your just asking questions? posts, but everything you said can be easily looked up and debunked.
"Look at the taste that I have, in choosing this experience for myself", or "Look what I'm doing right now!"
Wow, can I choose not to have my tax dollars go to this?

I think the future of government is voting through selective funding of programs by each individual.
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Likewise; can't understand how they got access to his Gmail account. Yeah, it was a costly learning on the importance of 2FA, but seems OP also needs a basic password manager.
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This. Would you be denied if you genuinely don't use social media?
Through three nested VPNs, about 10 Mbps each way, with 100-150 ms rtt. Plus Tor, about 1-3 Mbps each way, with 500 ms rtt or more.
>but to act like it was all lollipops and gumdrops in 1995 and its terrible today ignores a bunch of the improvements.

Yes, the world was both worse and better than today. I agree. Today is different. Compared to 1995, not worse or better. That's depressing because as a planet, back in 1995, we really needed to improve, as a species.

I don't know how to make an influence in world politics other than to create a business built upon my values. That's what I'm looking for right now. A technical leader. I have given up on politics.

That technical leader is not Google. I personaly share none of the ideas behind ad networks. I like how they solved big data back in the day. And since they have great people they started to solve other problems as well, like mail. And maps. That's not evil.

Sucking the air out of the browser market the same way they did with the web search industry and then standardizing an ad-blocking mechanism is not just evil, it's vicious.
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> Globalization of wealth is a result of treaties between sovereign nations.

I think this is a questionable causal relationship. Globalization of wealth happened due to improved banking/monetary infrastructure; yes, governments giving permission for this to happen was a practical prerequisite, but I wouldn't say it's a "result" of international politics.

In fact, as we can tell from another article currently on the front page (about Chinese bitcoin miners), globalization of wealth eventually happens whether governments want it or not.
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I do think that eventually you will be able to buy the parts for repairing your phone from the manufacturer (how that system will be set up, I'm not sure) but I would imagine that software locks would also be tied to that. As in, the software won't be able to tie your specific display or motherboard to your phone and not let you repair them. I'm actually curious about how the warranty and insurance will work in that case, since currently if you attempt to open your device its warranty is voided. I'm guessing that if you damage it due to your own repair attempt, you can have the manufacturer repair it but you will pay full price (insurance wouldn't cover it).
> Which means, he paid $35K for an immediate 500K new visits(?) to his business today?

And he only needs a little over 3,000 people to sign up to Pinboard to make it back. Assuming new visits of 500k, he only needs a conversion rate of 0.6% to do that.
The person in question seems to be an active user here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=yeukhon
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Maybe, yeah. The point isn't to enforce some magical unicorn principle of advertising purity, it's to limit advertisements to forms that users are known not to hate.

Users have been OK with commercials in their TV shows for like six decades now. So my non-expert eyes would expect an ad embedded with video content to be broadly acceptable.
Wouldn't it be less disruptive to perform a chemical scan on the laptops then rather than banning them from carry-ons entirely?
I'm not sure if you just read the first four words of my post and stopped or what (and I don't necessarily blame you, as it's long), but I address this supposed "value of FB" in the parent comment.

FB is "where your friends are" not due to an inherent physical limitation, as in the connected hardware that network effects originally described, but due to our willful dispensation of those rights to internet companies by legal means.

The only reason your friend's data is stuck in Facebook is because our laws allow Facebook to enforce a monopoly on it by allowing Facebook to block any real access by potential competitors. Unlike Ethernet, fax machines, or telephones, there is no physical constraint that would impede compatibility. It's all in our heads. The developers of the competing service(s) can and have made adapters to make that junction transparent. The law does not really allow them to be used.

There is no more reason that users should be forced to use Facebook to view such data than there is reason that users should be forced to use Internet Explorer to view web pages. There is no reason that Power Ventures should be illegal and Firefox should be legal; they are both browsing programs made to display, present, and interact with data.
Considering for gubernatorial it went 53-45 blue in 2006, to 52-46 red in 2010, to 53-46 red in 2012 during the recall, and back to at 52-47 red in 2014; yes, I do think Wisconsin swung redder as a whole.
The era of the (non-promotion/"lifecycle"-oriented) email newsletter is dead. But, such content is still produced! In order to avoid the devaluation of text (that is, the process where people stopped reading the good newsletters because they blended into the bad newsletters), the creators of worthwhile broadcast-style media have had to move to audio or video production. Those "newsletters" are now podcasts and Youtube channels.
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This was not a treaty ratified by the senate so it's not legally binding in any way.
This is an ok summary, although it gets some facts wrong (e.g. They mention the PPS party as a member of the ruling coalition and bribery recipient, but PPS was in fact an opposition party. They probably meant PP, which was a government ally. Brazil has 35 political parties, most being "socialist this" or "progressive that", I guess it's easy to be confused): https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-05-08/brazil-s-...

This one is more recent and also recent: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-25/brazil-s-...

This link includes parts of an interview with the prosecutors and judge Moro: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/brazil-operation-car-wash-involv...
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That's nice.

Now let's talk about costs. Not idealized costs, but actual, non-hidden costs of building, maintaining, and decommissioning nuclear power plants (oh and storing the waste in effective perpetuity).

What's that you think decommissioning would be too expensive and want to keep running the plant extra long with upgrades? Oooops, that's how you get Fukushima.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/22/world/asia/22nuclear.html
His Twitter tells more about his situation.

https://twitter.com/y3ukhon

He's got excellent work experience for Mozilla, and a good degree. Working for a tech company in New York. What's bad about that?

He's still asking for a second job on weekends just to make ends meet.

May 22: "What part time job would allow me to work on Friday - Sunday with some rest in between? Need one so I can make up some cash."

He can't afford anything more than a tiny room:

Apr 13: "if only @LifeOnPurple can release a full size mattress tonight I'd be able to purchase >_< my bedroom can't take a Queen size. #mattress"

He cares about the world, but it makes him poor (me too - refusing to work for weapons manufacturers or oil companies has seriously limited my scope of potential jobs)

Apr 5: "I'd be interested in working at places where I can exercise social responsibility and making industry standard salary. Too hard."

He's bored at work, probably because managers don't give him enough to do, or don't care enough to simply talk to him. ]

Mar 28: "When I don't seem to do much or making huge progress at work I wonder am I the new fossil at work? At age of 25? Really?"

He can't get insurance (me too):

Mar 5: I write software so I am denied for vision coverage. I am Chinese so I am denied for liver coverage. #preexistingconditions
Do you have a source for that? (no pun intended)
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And China is one of the largest economies in the world, with well over a billion people making a living in it. The profit from shorting it would not even a bug splatter on the windshield of their economy. The evasion of capital controls is a much, much larger concern for them.
Nah, you need them close to some work camps or else the limestone deliveries take months. And then the work camps need to be within 48 squares of a populated residence so the work-overseer can find workers.

Source: I played a lot of Pharaoh as a kid.
Maybe, but this suit rules only on patents and you can't infer beyond that. Take, for example, this line in the case (on page 10, under pp II A):

> The single-use/no-resale restrictions in Lexmark’s contracts with customers may have been clear and enforceable under contract law...

IANAL, but this makes me think that the case would only be applied to patent issues, because it doesn't rule about anything concerning contracts. That kind of suit will have to come later.
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> Mining Bitcoins is a global effort, so even if mining is banned somewhere, the total amount of Bitcoins does not change, and so the global price will not fluctuate, an industry insider said.

This is not true. Bitcoin price swings like crazy.
> Once this country is rid of Dark money, the political system might finally start serving its citizens

Oh boy, is this idiotic red herring from Indian politics going to get ported almost verbatim to US politics? Yes, I'm sure a max ~4% revenue boost will make the government start behaving properly.
Really? The same can be said of the reverse... Picking apart the Paris Accord. Picking apart various Scientific Studies - and the politics behind them. Picking apart both sides of the isle for caring more about Party than about anything else.
This is probably not the good news it seems. Apple and John Deer, as examples, are moving toward leasing/renting phones rather than outright purchasing. So if you don't own it, you don't have such a right to repair.
Is Chromium actually used by many people? I was under the impression that people mostly use Chrome because of Google's advertising & bundling. [1] supports my theory with desktop Chrome amounting to ~25% usage and Chromium amounting to ~0.03% usage.

[1] http://caniuse.com/usage-table
I see those as two orthogonal things: solving problems for the web is the thing Google lives to do. Monopolizing internet advertising is the thing Google does to live.
Money loser for the government, money gain for society. Money spent on bureaucracy is money not spent towards more productive ends.
Thank god. From that post by bjfish:

>I called [redacted] HR a few minutes after this was posted.

>They just called me back and said they were able to get to him in time and he is getting help.
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What economic cost? Rather silly view as much of the production of the beloved solar panel is in China... Have you been to any industrial cities there recently?

Certainly not advocating RPB approach, but we're simply not competitive
I just didn't want to pretend it was my quote.
The ruling in this case simply says you can't sue someone for patent infringement if they are re-selling, refurbishing or re-manufacturing your product without their permission. Further, it says that you can't sue someone for US patent infringement if they import your goods originally sold overseas. That's because patent rights are "exhausted" with the first sale, like copyright.

This ruling does not:

- prevent a seller from forcing you to sign a contract saying you won't re-manufacture or refill their product, and sue you if you violate that contract

- require a seller to do anything else to help you repair your product

- prevent Lexmark from suing cartridge refillers for patent infringement if the materials that they are using for the refill (inks, toners) violate a Lexmark patent

Why did Lexmark use patent in the first place? Well, the problem with using shrink-wrap agreements is that then you have to sue your customers - yuck. Lexmark's customers are the ones violating the agreement, the resellers don't have any kind of contract with Lexmark so they aren't in breach. Also, you'd have to sue thousands upon thousands of customers to chill the market - reminds me of the Napster days when record labels were trying to sue individual downloaders. Suing on patent law was a creative way to go after the resellers - but it didn't work.
I've seen plenty of reporting pipelines that are that slow over the years. If this was built on the cheap, so it just uses existing pipelines, and instead of working through streaming, it regenerates the world every night, a 48 max failure with some is not out of the question once you add some CYA magic. That would make this pretty cheap to make: Some website work, boxes for queries, and some security work to make sure data from other customers doesn't leak.

Given how Stripe seems to build products in a lean way, it'd not surprise me if they are just launching like this and measure customer reaction. If the main reason it doesn't get the traction they want is the 48 lag, they'll just rewrite their reporting pipeline to use streaming, and the product gets faster for free.
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