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"Why then should I support proliferation of even more addictive and harmful substances?"

Because keeping them illegal does far, far more harm than you probably realise.

Go to Mexico or Afghanistan to see the most obvious effects of the illegal cultivation of raw materials. But also go to any poor neighbourhood in most Western cities to see what illegality does there. The corruption of law and politics, the denial of human rights and the distorting effect of too much money in the wrong places.

It's been estimated that the world narcotics industry is financially about the same size as the oil industry. If alcohol was invented today its use would immediately be criminalised. But it's not because, as the US found with Prohibition, doing so once the demand is there causes the near breakdown of social democracy. When you land at Kula Lumpur airport, the cabin attendant welcomes you to Malaysia and reminds you politely that trafficking in drugs carries a mandatory sentence of death. And as you walk to reclaim your baggage, there are posters of nooses with the words "dadah" beneath them.

That, if nothing else, should clue you that after 50 years of prohibition the situation is utterly out of control.
Part of the problem here is that the entire JS ecosystem is built around local copies of things, so there might not be a lot of institutional knowledge in that corner of OSS to pull off the "shared env" thing quite well.

That plus scarring from browser differences over N years.

Of course it's still totally possible, but there are probably gotchas that aren't obvious if you're mainly a web developer.
The alternative is real, native software.
Sadly the MacBook touting webdevs will need to go and learn a proper programming language.
Partner: Hey, when is that new api going to be ready?

Me: Ah, it's going to be a bit.

No idea what time period I meant there? That's fine, I probably didn't either. But somewhere between two days and two weeks depending on when the due date was.
I think reality is more serendipitous, ny view is that if you have hardworking creativy people working on side projects sometimes magic happens.

For example:
Android was a completely diferent tech stack from google.
The extent indicates anarchy which indicates poor leadership. The issue must have been with the management culture - flat hierarchies don't mean free for alls!
You guys are offering free phone support? For a FOSS product. That is pretty cool.

Also I would really recommend putting some of the screenshots on the Github readme page.

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After getting that update, I noticed that every news suggestion was something that interested me and that I'd actually read it. It was eerie, but sort of satisfying that it wasn't littered with sports or celebrity news or "feel good" stories like it once was.
In case it was not clear, I was talking from getting VC money, meaning you already have some cash to run for some months.

Why would a VC want to see their money burn to the ground if all they see is hiring 200 people when you really just 100 people?
I tryed...but...I failed :-)
If it was devoted to answering the question, it did a really poor job at it. It basically said "this is a word that doesn't have a direct translation, oh how odd Mexican culture is".

Nothing about whether it's closer to "soon", "any minute now", "in a bit", "at some point", "anon", or any of the other time-indeterminate phrases.
Never do a music industry startup unless you have a billion dollars, can raise a billion dollars, or plan to be acquired by a company with a billion dollars to spare. That's the table stakes for going toe-to-toe with the big three.

They'll bleed you to death with licensing fees, deputise you into their copyright enforcement police, upload their songs to your platform on one hand while suing you with the other, and all the while cry about how extracting monopoly profits is so much harder than in the old days.

Just go disrupt something safer, like organised crime or the international diamond trade. At least with those the law probably won't change out from under you.
> If you can do whatever you want, who is the slave class working more than they need to to service your needs?

Obviously that would be the machines. You need people to maintain those, but less human time is required to produce the same goods. Basic things might get so cheap that they're almost free.

> What we lack is a mechanism to allow people to make that rent.

Sounds like you want something like a job guarantee. Sure, there is never a lack of useful work that you could force people into. But there is simply not enough work that is essential enough that you could argue, from an economic point of view, that everyone has to work 5 days a week just to earn their right to exist.
On AI is probably the best way to approach the problem, nature already as figured it out we jyst have to understand it and replicate it.
This is good news.
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How does this compare to Spotify which has 3000+ employees, debt financing of over a billion dollars, and an insane valuation? What does the future hold for that company whether it IPOs or not?
Keep in mind that multiple wavelengths are already used in parallel in optical signaling -- "Modern systems can handle 160 signals and can thus expand a basic 100 Gbit/s system over a single fiber pair to over 16 Tbit/s." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavelength-division_multiplexi...
I'd love to know the story behind that!
If no-one is willing to pay for their 'content', then it isn't worth anything anyway.

The Internet did just fine without corporate advertisers running the show and tracking everybody for years.
I do it pretty regularly. It's fine with a good content blocker, almost unusable without.
I didn't downvote, but:

- Presumably the people inside the company has tried for years to pressure for a change. When that doesn't work, and especially once a big layoff happens, it's understandable that employees vent their frustration in public. And that might be what it takes for outside people (investors etc) to make necessary changes at the top. It's not about backstabbing.

If these employees didn't care at all about the fate of the company, they would just take the severance package and move to other jobs without saying much. The complaining you hear is most likely from people that _care_ about SoundCloud.

- You're saying that the business model is broken, because you "can't do business with music labels". YouTube is evidence that it _is_ possible, it's just tremendously difficult.

You need advanced algorithms to detect copyright ownership, you need a system to do revenue sharing, you need people to handle complain cases etc etc.

The reason why they failed has to do with poor strategy and execution, and less to do with the business model.

(This reminds be of all the people that said Apple could never get into the cell phone business because dealing with the operators would be impossible. Or that web search was a broken business model back then Yahoo-like portals were all the rage and web search truly sucked.)
Traditionally pump and dump meant taking advantage of unsophisticated retail investors. I don't think this qualifies as pump and dump unless you mean the earlier stage VCs somehow managed to cash out at the expense of some later naive shareholders? In this case sounds like everyone (except maybe Ljung) lost out..
Whatsapp/other messengers, FB and Twitter, maybe - but next to no other app is optimized for low internet speeds. Hell, ordinary games will regularly go into and above 200+MB territory for download... and in contrast to your computer where you can have DVDs with games sent to you by post, no such luck for smartphone apps.
> "New drugs already exists that are more addictive and powerful than old ones. Like Fentanyl, for instance. Who knows what research labs would come up with if they threw lots of money and brain power into it?"

Taking the perspective of a business man, it's possible for drugs to be too addictive, as they have the bad side effect of killing your customers, which is bad for revenue and a PR disaster. So even if a 'designer drug' market emerged, I don't think you'd find many companies that wanted to develop something as addictive as fentanyl.
Sigh: I understand what you are saying, but then, the subject of the OA is communities that are excluded from some aspects of modern life by poor and expensive Internet access.

One inevitably starts to think about why someone needs a connection capable of downloading at scores of megabits per second to access information and take part in (the human style) local networking. I then contrast the loading speed of a page with Javascript on with the loading speed when Javascript is disabled... (I get 350 kbits/sec down here).

Back on the subject: am I right in thinking that a lower bandwidth connection - say 2Mb/s - would be cheaper to provide in some way than a full city scale pipe, or is it simply the cost of providing any kind of connection involving digging trenches just so high?
I feel it is also a culture thing: Some artistic subcommunities seem to revel in the image of the 'starving artist' and making a lot of money is often regarded as 'selling out'. Certainly anything liked by the mainstream immediately loses its appeal for the groups that like to think the have exquisite tastes. (almost by definition)

So, websites like soundcloud find themselves in a bind: on one hand they can't start making lots of money because they would lose their artistic street cred, on the other hand their servers and bandwidth cost money. Blaming this lack of money for artistic on the economy seems a little bit off, this has basically been the case since Roman days.

I feel sites like github have a nice middle ground, charging a little bit to professional users while offering the service for free to open source users. It doesn't lead to billion dollar valuations quite as fast as an advertising model though...
> I also don't want the construction crew down the street drunk or high on heroin working the tower crane... downers impare your motor skills. Stimulants go after your cognitive and social abilities.

Legalisation of drugs doesn't mean you can drive while under the influence of heroin, or operate machinery under the influence of amphetamines.

Interestingly, amphetamines are already commonly used in the construction trade (particularly shop-fitting) to help people work the "crunch" timeframes.
one uses sftp the other uses rsync for file transfer. Rsync is known for transfering multiple files way faster than sftp. Also one transfers the other syncs but I guess one can figure that out by the names.
The infomap "Broadband is still foreign to much of the U.S." shows high speed internet largely confined to urban areas, as the article discusses. But large swathes of North Dakota are deep green. What's the reason for that?
I was considering using cloudflare as a free static asset CDN. On several of the speed test rankings they show cloudflare at or near the top.

I also have my dns with them on the free tier. But I am not running my regular traffic through their Network. I just plan to create a subdomain and run js, css, and images through it.

Would this not be recommended? Free CDN does seem too good to be true.
Look at all of the really successful tech companies out there, they startrd with tools already available. I see this too often. Everyone has nice ideas and wanted to write something better because they don't like the interface or they had to hack around (look at you Jenkins). We are all guilty of that. But if you hire people and they begin to create new fancy architecture that doesn't pay off, trust me, that money went to waste. This is not even a math problem.

Again, find a company out there did not create their infratructure with common solutions and only begin to develop custom solution when they afford and they really needed it. Several years later.
> it's understandable that employees vent their frustration in public

They still break an agreement.

> YouTube is evidence that it _is_ possible,

Music isn't their core. And btw the agreement between Youtube and the German GEMA took a decade.
> 99% of the mixes on SoundCloud are crap.

Spoken like a person who didn't understand all that was on the platform. You do realize that SoundCloud had basically spawned a different genre of hip hop and rap, right? It's not just dance mixes, there's a lot of stuff that's super unique on there and it's not just hip hop, rap, or edm.
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Any chance of ADSL over that line they laid? At least a few Mbits/sec?
I don't think PHP's main problem is speed. It's generally used for websites, and a few milliseconds aren't going to make a difference when pages are so bloated by JavaScript libraries to often be 5-10MB.

PHP's problem IMHO is that I wouldn't be able to use it if it wasn't for autocomplete: inconsistent function names, inconsistent parameter order.

The ecosystem is fine, there's Composer, PSR, Laravel. The problem is PHP's legacy.

I wish someone created a PHP class one could use to namespace sane function names and parameter order:

\PHP\html_entities()
\PHP\url_encode()

EDIT:

...and here it is: https://github.com/nkkollaw/php, discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14885226.

Pull requests welcome :-)
Maybe he already cashed out? We increasingly hear of founders taking money off the table by selling a part of their share when it comes time to raise a series-B or later round. SoundCloud was likely well past the series-B stage, and i wouldn't be surprised if the founder already has a few million in the bank.
The article clearly stated that it meant all of those things, and whichever meaning is intended for any particular utterance is denoted by both context and tone.

I had no problem understanding the article and came away more informed than confused. Maybe slow down more when you read?
They explicitly forbid that use case in their ToS, so no, it is not recommended.
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I have to say I was pretty disappointed at Google for pushing their "use the iPhone Gmail app" popup to me : They have plenty of data about my usages, and it was easy enough to figure out I never owned an iPhone, or accessed any of their services using an iPhone.
Hmm, I'm not sure it's that simple! This is how I think it goes:

(en-gb) "Next Friday" is not "the next" (which is called "this Friday" if its the same week). If the next Friday occurs in the next week then people will say "this Friday coming" to specify that they don't mean the Friday that's just gone.

"Next Friday" seems to mean "Friday of the next week", so it can either be the next chronological Friday or the next-but-one.

A sentence like "This Friday Jules and me were going to go to the cinema but something came up." could be said of a past situation - if said on Saturday or Sunday.

Similarly "Next Friday Jules and me were going to go to the cinema but something came up." could be said of the following week - so it's the next Friday on Saturday/Sunday but the next-but-one any other day.

There are seemingly geographic differences in the UK as to which "next" is intended IME.

"Friday coming" is always the next Friday chronologically.

There are similar problems with, for example, "last Friday", especially if it was yesterday most people will think you mean "the Friday of last week".
What a fascinating collection!

Many very odd ones.

pppppppp (8 p's) in Ligeti's Etudes for Piano, 1st Book (1988-94)?

As against ppppppp (7 p's)? I.e., Meaningless unless a definition is supplied. The point about abbreviations is that they refer to a common understanding. None such exists for this.
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Some sites can eat 15MB+ and/or be unusable on tablets and mobiles.
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Unless you are using ReactPHP it's not really for real time apps.
Assuming the page is from America, it seems quite close to the worst considering I had to scroll through ~3 pages equivalent of weirdly horizontally scrolling images while all but the sky of the images was obscured by a cookie warning spanning 1/3 of the page (uncovering an equally large subscription request after being dismissed).
> If I were Chinese I'd be feeling pretty damn patronized if someone told me they were taking my iPhone away and I should be happy about it.

No. You just have to reform your government or leave your country, then you can have it back. I know that this isn't likely, but putting more pressure on the CCP is exactly what Apple could be doing here.

(Edit: The sibling comment thread already goes into detail on this idea.)
The x5 return takes partial responsibility for the 80% failure. These foolish business pivots trashes the brand. If there's only one high-return idea in the room and it's clearly hazardous and unlikely to work - there should be no obligation to take it; an investor didn't drop millions to be squandered foolishly.
I was hopeful that it will be fixed in v60 chrome, but it is still there hurting my eyes.

Do you know any other bug that is known and live for this long in sw used by millions of people?
Android was bought in though.
Interestingly this is also somehow the case with Polish.

The word for "moment" is "chwila".

When someone will come in a "chwila", it means that this will happen in some time between, say, 15 min and an hour.

"chwilka" is a diminutive which shortens the distance with the speaker and usually means "chwila" if not longer. It also implies that you ce some kind of esteem to the speaker (not much, it is above the "fuck off" esteem).

Then comes "chwileczka", diminutive of "chwilka". It is usually a shorter "chwilka" , with its mark of esteem.

This may heavily vary between regions, though.
I'm guessing internet service needs continual upgrades (for higher speeds) in a way that electricity and phone service do not.

It's also possible that Americans have less stomach for subsidizing rural lifestyles now since America is more urbanized now. As it stands, rural counties are already almost invariably subsidized by urban counties at the state level. Here's an example for Washington state: http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/welfare-state/Content?oid...
Technically you are right.

Still it's a long-term pump and dump game. VCs praise their investments to the utmost (which is their job and because their believe in their investments) but mainly to attract more investors (pump) and at some point to find potential buyers (dump) where you can exchange retail investors with dumb corporations.
I can't answer your question, but I'll tell you why I didn't choose PHP many years ago for a web app:

1. PHP is very welcoming to beginners. That's of course a good thing, but the downside is that it's actually quite difficult to get quality answers on StackOverflow, which is rife with clueless trial-and-error answers and "Just use <completely unrelated heavy framework>, dude" kind of responses

2. PHP started out as a simplistic server-side templating/expression language; which is fine by itself, but without any kind of injection prevention is incredibly naive, and the reason for so many DDOS botnets. Of course, using embedded PHP (eg. in a processing instruction in your otherwise static HTML) hasn't been considered best practice for years. But then why use PHP at all, when this distinguished feature isn't usable, and neither is PHP a standardized language, nor is its stdlib any good. In fact, this retargetting of PHP with little or no architectural oversight (from an expression language into a full-blown app language with OOP and whatnot) seems endemic in the PHP world, and is also the case with eg. WordPress.

That said, I quite like the PHP community for their practical-mindedness and their get-stuff-done mentality.
In England there are a large amount of people that live a better lifestyle than the mega rich lived say 100 years ago.

They can raise a family, get given a house, free health care, free education including university, TV, internet, computer games and even holidays.

They dont have to worry about dying from polio, TB, malaria etc. Very little hunger etc

On paper they live a lifestyle better than kings of the past did.

Yet depression and unhappiness is common. Drug use rampant. Suicides high.
> But that's exactly what you're getting when they're run as Electron apps.

Well, no it isn't. If you can't even make that distinction, then having any further conversation with you is going to be pointless.

I suppose you would welcome the use of progressive web apps, but those haven't yet "arrived". If they did, I might argue for using them over things like Electron.

> The problem is that the complaints of CPU, RAM and battery degradation are valid complaints.

Many complaints about web technology are valid, that doesn't mean they invalidate its use. The reality is that even a company like Spotify would rather drain its users batteries than develop native apps. It's a tradeoff.

If Spotify followed through with your advice, those users should not be offered a desktop app at all, they should be forced to only use the website and have their browser drain the battery instead. You're effectively arguing for less choice when a native app is not an option. That doesn't make sense to me.
America, since its founding, has been an experiment in extreme individualism over collectivism. We worship capitalism over all else. Even a whisper of government programs that help the poor are vilified as communist. Selfishness and immorality is a natural consequence of that. Things won't change until our culture completely changes.
Actually, I could see an argument that SoundCloud has to have a presence at burning man... It's the ground-zero meat space for their content corpus.
The class system in the UK is rather different. Our 'captains of industry' are commonly upper-middle class. Suprised if the the US is actually that different.
The difference between "in the vicinity of" and "on the same row as the home keys" proved immense for me. YMMV I guess, depending on your typing habits.
I would think this would be a better link. Its pilot's own words too https://jpcvanheijst.com/blogs/2017/07/596970-rocket-launch-...
I live in Melbourne, AU.. 4km from city centre, in a brand new high-rise building. I pay AUD$80/mth for 8mbps down and 0.5mbps up over shitty copper that dies every time it rains.

Pings are so bad lots of services like Netflix, YouTube, etc think I can't connect and just give me "Check your internet" errors when I load, until I refresh multiple times and get it to load.

Funnily enough, our rural areas have better net than us here. I own a farm in the absolute middle of nowhere (region population of around 500) and it gets solid 24/4 and some farms nearby who face a better direction for fixed wireless get 50/8 (or something like that).
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You should have put the quote into its context, I wrote if it's a matter of taste then I implied that (in my opinion) 99% is crap. You might have a different opinion because you have a different taste.
Or Instagram - they had 13 employees when they were acquired.
If this is really what Google is trying to do, it's pointless. Google can't stop Facebook when it already has 2bln users, plus WhatsApp and Instagram.

There's just no way Google can beat them at their own game.
True for an individual.

For life seen as a part of system/society reproduction is the key motivation (for lack of a better word). Non-reproducing activities are irrelevant temporary aberrations because societies that don't reproduce get extinct and are replaced by societies that focus on reproduction.
You need access to capital to do that, and if you have access to capital you probably aren't in a place that considers 2 cows as wealthy.