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> illegally downloaded movies posted money to the studios who created the content directly, then this problem would disappear pretty much overnight

So if you cannot get something legally easily, you should support that practice and suddenly you'll get it more easily in future? This in a post about an article where Disney is making it more difficult to get content legally? Really?
Once its crimethink to entertain a certain position, the cost of defending such position must be balanced with cost of just accepting this position and moving on.
I don't think you can change cultural values and entire political climate with just facts and logic. Its a naive reductionism to assume "right ideas always win".
Most people don't 'believe' in that, they have ideas, beliefs and emotions. Facts and logic come second to rationalize the above.
...a solution that has long been found in the music business.

Perhaps you're fortunate that everything you want to listen to is on your preferred music streaming service, but what they offer is far from everything in the music industry's catalogue. Ask any classical music fan what they think of streaming services and you'll hear a tirade against the woeful offerings that streaming services make available.
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> From a macro perspective the gain for environment is on par, if not better, than from electric cars.

Citation needed. It seems obvious to me that a huge power plant is going to be less polluting per kWh than a tiny little engine in a car. Otherwise, we'd use tiny little car engines to power everything - which only happens at the moment in places where they cannot get electricity by other means (building sites etc).
I meant educate them about running a technical product. By explaining the landscape, you can also tell them how you can provide that service. Without educating them, they don't know it exists.
But since you allude to educating them on how to run it themselves, I agree with the other reply to you that an educated client is a better client. At least they will be happy you took some time to educate them (within a scope of what's reasonable for a nontechnical person), and they will possibly be disinterested/not up to the challenge and hire you.
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The studies which I’ve seen cited as proving that turned out, when I checked the actual citations, not to have proven it. Two examples of research showing cursive's lack of observable benefit for students with dyslexia/dysgraphia:

"Does cursive handwriting have an impact on the reading and spelling performance of children with dyslexic dysgraphia: A quasi-experimental study." Authors: Lorene Ann Nalpon & Noel Kok Hwee Chia — URL: http://www.researchgate.net/publication/234451547_Does_cursi...

and

http://dyslexia.yale.edu/EDU_keyboarding.html
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If a university lowers the bar, it will reduce the value on the job market of a degree from that university - names like Hardvard and Yale and whatnot have a high reputation, whilst they hand out degrees with the same names as other less reputable universities.
Your comment is irrelevant to the point being discussed: it's obviously false that "ALL merchants STOPPED accepting bitcoin".

Also this Morgan Stanley research note, and the reporting on it, is of laughable quality...

1) They don't release data: "Morgan Stanley, which based its usage analysis on the information, didn’t say which companies are using bitcoin."

2) They extrapolate from an insufficient number of data points: 3 companies in the top500 this year, down from 5 last year, accept Bitcoin. It's like saying Ferrari's market share is dropping because only 3 billionaires bought a Ferrari this year, down from 5 last year.

3) They attribute a quote to the analyst ("The disparity between virtually no merchant acceptance and Bitcoin’s rapid appreciation is striking,") when in fact it was a quote from Overstock CEO: https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-merchant-shunning-is-...

4) They claim Bitcoin's skyrocketing price is one of the causes of the decrease in payments. They present of course no facts to justify this theory, because it's false. In the past, anecdotal data reported by merchants has shown precisely the opposite: customers spend their newfound riches.
I'm not sure what about this thread precipitated this comment, but it sounds like you'll be relieved to discover he doesn't think that.
Indeed, it probably doesn't. Thanks for the link, by the way.
And this is why people make backups.
Counterpoint: even if you want to defend a "middle" position, that doesn't mean every argument roughly in that area is worthy defending. I didn't read the memo, so I have no opinion its merits on their own, but considering the immediate response it had, I'd argue it's not worth defending, because it clearly wasn't written in a way that could ever have a hope of convincing anyone not already on the fence.
Civilized people use email or whatever is the asynchronous communication medium du jour
nice work Tarik!
Here an Github issue from VSCode related to this: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/27378 which shows some results for VSCode vs emacs, neovim and sublime.
Steam is not just a storefront, it's also service provider (or a platform). That's why many games are locked to Steam. I don't see any parallel like that with movies/tv.
What he's really doing is letting himself get censored by hecklers.
While Opera might have had some very impressive tricks (I should know, I used it for years), the reason it could do that at the time is because those tabs were not webapps or much fewer were webapps.

The browsers are a lot less bloated than people think they are. Sites on the other hand... we've moved from 800x600 images to 1920x1080 images and animations, tens of assets to hundreds, megabytes of Javascript, etc.
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I did. care to tell me what parts I missed?
X-ref: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/27378
This article [0] discusses and expands upon many of the questions you asked.

0: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagger...
Also: not getting timely raises. Sometimes even after asking. I mean seriously, why wouldn't they quit? And rightfully so. If an employer can't be bothered to keep up with compensation for a few years, the developer is actually now making significantly less than in their first year while undoubtedly having much more responsibility. That's essentially a pay cut. So yeah, if you're an employer out there and you think no raise or a 1-2% raise a year will cut it, you deserve to lose your best developers.
>When parents know that there are some dangerous chemicals, they would not involve their children. Congolese people are not that dumb how story wants to show it

Yeah parents sure stopped their children from smoking 40 years ago!
Whilst more resolution would of course be nice, it's fairly low on my list of important advances I desire in VR. I use VR almost daily and my top 3 list is probably: 1. A wider FOV, 2. a lighter headset and 3. Wireless

In terms of encouraging broader adoption - cost and lower required specs for the GPU is probably top.
Oh, sorry; I've read his manifesto and didn't realize it was about systems biology. My impression was that it was about women in tech. Did he research social structures or even the psychological differences between the sexes?
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debatable.
As a freelancer I'm looking forward to the day my customers will accept that I'm just as effective (actually more so) sitting in my own shared office space located just a short commute from home rather than their own desk and office, alas a grueling journey away.

I guess they don't trust us children doing the work we are assigned and want to smell us sweating away at their stinky enterprise codebases
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>> "we now know"

That's what "they" say as well. There isn't a thing such as universal truth, because so much depends on the point of view.

Also, you can simply move magical people from the sky further into the stars.

And did you know that Einstein was a believer? That helped me to cross the threshold of tolerance.
On fairly flimsy evidence that looks suspiciously like parallel construction.

Nacchio was no saint, but it seems pretty clear that he was targeted after failing to be cooperative.
When I first heard about the news, I was actually so surprised that the original memo took as long as it did for me to find it.
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There is no mind to open to the view point of those who lie to themselves in order to feel good about the misery of others. Yes, your comment is neither sarcastic or ignorant, it's pure cynicism, in the "great" tradition of the slavers.
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This guys mistake was thinking that his organization was interested in learning. Learning requires admitting you didn't know something or that you were wrong about something. People who are in diversity leadership positions are often dogmatic, true believer types. The last thing they will tolerate is someone trying to tell them that the belief system on which their position is based might be faulty in some way.
Yes, but it's clear what he meant:

Those sharing the truth in the most rational way are the ones most viciously attacked. The society rejects even considering the hypothesis because they are afraid of the truth that they all recognize.

Clearly he's calling for us to calmly and rationally re-evaluate the hypothesis that Jews are sub-human parasites that are destroying our societies from within and that the only rational solution is to exterminate them before they destroy our glorious Aryan culture.
Quick question.

“Every mathematician believes that he is ahead of the others. The reason none state this belief in public is because they are intelligent people.”

The others here, does it refer to other mathematicians, or other people in general?
>User interfaces are hard to implement

They weren't that hard in Visual Basic 20 years ago, nor in any modern environment like Cocoa -- and they didn't need all the craziness and frantic over-engineering that goes on in JS frameworks.

The problem is everybody in the web rebuilds the whole UI from low level primitives. Need a wizard? Make one yourself. Need a form? Build it. No upfront structure to anything -- and the frameworks don't add enough either.
Possibly when zerogravitas says "It's hard to summarize, but he made a comment about how being a nerdy straight male was harder than being a woman or gay".
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So what about the Marvel shows? I was pretty sure they're Netflix exclusives but Marvel is owned by Disney and the wording in this statement is ambiguous about whether it would be affected or not.

Considering a new service will likely start out as US-only (as they always do) pulling future Marvel shows off Netflix would effectively mean killing them off internationally.

I'd imagine a Disney service would face fewer hurdles for international distribution (though I'm sure Disney was myopic enough to sign exclusive deals prohibiting them from serving some of their own content in some countries) but considering I'm still waiting for YouTube Red[0] to become available, HBO Go[1] isn't really available outside the US (which didn't stop them from handing out swag at European tech conferences) and Hulu[2] is still practically US-only, I'm not so keen on waiting for yet another player to figure out which countries they'll bother supporting.

[0]: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6307365

[1]: http://hbowatch.com/which-countries-is-hbo-available-in/

[2]: http://www.bestofhulu.com/a-great-map-of-countries-where-hul...
> Now it is your turn to tell me this is a better outcome

I can tell you what I have seen, not anything at all imagined.

I have seen hundreds of people quit their jobs in third world mines and other "western owned slave labor". So I can tell you first hand exactly the outcome that happens.

I have seen those people go back to growing their own food, making and washing their own clothes, building their own houses etc. They go back to being members of their communities. They have massively more food and water than they need, and quickly have a lot of social time. Now they have time to spend with their family and friends. They don't have much money, so often they won't own a car, but they have plenty of food and water and shelter and family time.

Their basic needs are met, and they have a good life.

Actually, it virtually all of the 15 countries I have been to in West Africa I have met hundreds and hundreds (and seen thousands) of people that have massively more leisure time than anyone I know in the Western World, and on the whole I would say people are happier. Certainly they have no stress, no timelines and don't answer to any boss. They have no alarms, and don't care what time it is on any given day (or what day it is).

This is not hollywood. This is not the world CNN tells you it is. Child soldiers and prostitution are not the only option, and in my experience in over 30 undeveloped countries, they are extremely rare.
You need the camera. The software to process is hosted by us on the cloud, I don't if FB can oss it. At least the ORBX file is open and loads in Unity Nuke and AE
Oh I'm a slaver. That's real mature. Never mind then.
A conclusion is "toxic" when it poisons the desired outcome and/or goes counter to the narrative. Evidence does not play a major part in this, other than to be quoted when it supports the narrative or dismissed or smeared when it doesn't (viz. Obscurantism [1] and Moral relativism [2])

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obscurantism

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_relativism
Can you not see how Glenn Beck this sounds? "Now I'm not -saying- that Obama is a Muslim; I'm just asking the difficult questions about why people think he is and letting you draw your own conclusions" [from my leading questions and speculation which is designed to funnel you down one path]
Other mathematicians.
It's a big if, and it's a hard to prove one has done it.

The best C++ pros make mistake all the time. Because it doesn't matter how much skill you got with a can of spray paint, if you do makeup with it, you will mess up from time to time.
free marketing lesson:

you (or the statistical significant you :) started paying for music because you aged. not because Spotify changed the game.

before and after Spotify and such, older demographics are the ones buying vinyls, cds, subscriptions, etc.

the business model is to bombard you with free exposure during your teens, and hopefully sell you concert tickets, to later cash in you buying media.
I'm not there yet, I'm currently transitioning from full time freelance to part-time freelance combined with launching some products of my own.
You may want to look up the dictionary definition of stealing. Besides, it's still harmful to others and therefore wrong.
Nothing happened in Texas, Aaronson just happens to teach there.
I own/run a co-working space which is almost entirely open plan. Many people here elect to work in this sort of environment rather than at home. People use headphones if they need to focus.

Personally, at home I am too easily distracted - I can pick through the fridge or cupboards, or read news sites forever. At the office, my screen is visible and as such I'm more likely to stay focused. I vastly prefer the incidental social interactions in an open plan office too.

Not everyone loves open-plan, but if it was truly a disaster, the space wouldn't be full.
For a long time many third party components were commercial. A lot more than in the Ruby, Python or Java ecosystems, for example.

Things are slowly moving towards Open Source and cross platform, but .NET is far behind Java at this moment. It is moving fast, though.
Whats your tech stack at Dropleaf?
[Apparently he doesn't have a PhD at all and has been misrepresenting this. Tch.]
It should be obvious that anyone arguing against having a rational discussion is wrong about being in that camp.
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The absolute numbers are still pretty small, though. In 2000 273 people renounced their passports. This year, 6800 people have so far. A big increase, but still a drop in the bucket compared to the 700k that were naturalized.
Maybe you don't have a ton of legal recourse, but since they are a semi permanent neighbor you can just talk to them. Add opposed to someone that's just there for the weekend.
Even when your webpage has over 100s of images?

On a page with 100s of images removing the EXIF data from all the images would very likely have less of an impact than removing 1 image. Optimising is good, but you need to concentrate on optimising the right things. Start with the biggest impact and work downwards; chances are you'll never get to the point where stripping EXIF data makes a measurable difference.

Besides, if you're worried about every ms then you wouldn't implement a website that loads hundreds of images on to a single page in the first place.
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Hey HN!

I am a medschool student but I have been doing data analyses for other students in my spare time with R. In fact, I even hosted a one day workshop on stats and I am planning on doing a second one!

So far I haven't participated in Kaggle competitions and I am currently learning multilevel modelling and Bayesian analysis. I would like to continue improving my skills and attract more work, what do you think I should read or do? I would love to work with medicine as well as statistics in the future but I believe I still have a long way to go :)

Thanks!
I think 'considering the immediate response' used to be a valuable heuristic, but isn't any more. Too many people have become too polarized.

There are a bunch of folks from the tech industry on Twitter that I have followed for years, including some HN regulars, that are now, IMHO, in the 'too polarized' group. I no longer trust their opinion on various 'political' subjects to be the result of deliberate consideration, like I did for years.

Scott Alexander wrote another one of his great considerations of this sensitive subject [1], but he wisely disabled comments. To quote Scott:

A lot of people without connections to the tech industry
don’t realize how bad it’s gotten. This [he quotes an
example before this paragraph] is how bad. It would be
pointless trying to do anything about this person in
particular. This is the climate.

[..]

This is the world we’ve built. Where making people live in
fear is a feature, not a bug.

Every suggestion that maybe this Google guy wrote something reasonable was met with derision, including by these people I follow, effectively shouting down anyone who responded in a moderating way. They are implicit in creating this climate, this world.

I bet none of them actually read the memo and know if the things this guy was saying were actually that bad. They were reacting this way because others were reacting this way, assuming someone down the line would be correct that there was a good reason to be angry. Yet I doubt anyone not already polarized knew.

As far as I can see this was a lynching and whether the guy was actually guilty, and how guilty, is irrelevant.

[1] http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagger...
not cheaper. if that was the case they would be showing indie/festival movies left and right.

their own content is about survival.
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The famous "fire in a theatre" example was invented to justify censoring the distribution of flyers opposing the draft.
The biggest problem I see restricting the uptake of e-Bikes for urban transport is the risk of theft.

You really need secure bike parking at both ends of the journey given that these are typically $1000+ machines - locks are no obstacle for a determined bike thief!

A cheap push-bike, on the other hand, you can feel comfortable parking on almost any street - which is really what makes a bike so convenient in the first place.

Better security/anti-theft technology needed. Needs to be effective and convenient!
You've clearly missed the point. The people doing brain dead shouting on each side will never be convinced anyway, so it is ridiculous to criticize the memo for not being able to convince them.
The "Bibliothèque nationale de France" (national library of France) did the same kind of thing with hundreds of thousands vinyl records from their archive, including international ones published in France: http://www.bnfcollectionsonore.fr/
> Essentially what you're saying is that, because he's a white male, his opinion on the matter isn't taken as seriously.

Correct. Just as my opinion, as a privileged white dude, can be largely ignored on the topics of the problems of the less privileged because I do not have the experiences necessary to give them any weight.
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Nice tool! Especially with quick testing on fonts like you state in the documentation. But i'm wondering what is your source for the fonts?
Having send 1 API query initiated from a user action, and you want to:

1) allow the user to cancel it explicitly

2) cancel it if the user selects something else (instead of firing a second query, and then having a race condition on which returns first)
I can't edit my comment, but I was being sarcastic. Obviously it's unrelated to the Google debacle, except in the sense that it corroborates that author's view.
I'm not sure I would describe the sources as 'from here to the moon' On reading many of the sources, it was apparent that they did not provide particularly solid evidence to back up the points he was making. It was also obvious that there was a huge amount of cherry picking going on.

I thought some of his arguments were very weak and, even where he had decent points, he did not make his case in a compelling way. However, I don't think he should have been disciplined and certainly not fired. Those who disagree should refute his arguments.
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It's a shame that they're not more complete. In reality Camden Town looks more like a motorway junction because it has to switch both branches of the Northern line in one place.

http://husk.org/www.geocities.com/athens/acropolis/7069/ltca...
That's not even a readable german language article, more a crude auto-translated or auto-generated text.
> Ideas should (albeit this is an idealistic notion) be judged by their content, not who speaks them.

Funny how it's almost always (like 99% of the time) privileged white dudes bewailing this trope and almost always on topics they want to hold offensive opinions about.
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yeah, I mainly use it for uBlock Origin.
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There is one shining result in mechanism design, a subfield of game theory, called the revelation principle. It says, simply, that if one doesn't like how the game is played, one may design the game that they want folks to play, and offer incentives accordingly, and people will play the game according to the incentives.

While this may sound like academic bullshit, it is the closest thing you'll find to a solid philosophical foundation for why proof-of-work or proof-of-stake systems should be expected to work in practice as well as they do.
>Each ongoing request eats machine resources and counts towards the browser request limit (6 or so).

And in most cases this doesn't matter at all.
It probably wasn't prompted by this thread, but by Scott's previous quotes about how he was, as a nerdy male, among the least privileged in society.