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Regulation, e.g. of utilities, in the in U.S. is sort of a form of nationalization. Technically they are not nationalized, but since they have all kinds of requirements, including needing to apply for rate changes, they aren't exactly normal, either. And if you don't have control of your prices, do you really have a capitalistic business?

But aside from that, 3 people at Google get to effectively dictate what the world will see on the Internet via the top 10 on the search. 1 guy at Facebook gets to dictate what is on my Facebook page. (I certainly don't get any choice in the matter, beyond banning people) This sounds a lot like a dictatorship, and is this what a free society does? Might a free society decide that it is in the society's best interest to have social media be governed by elected officials, and to not be scientifically designed (via A/B testing) to be addictive?
It's more than who has access to the data, it's also who sets the policies for acceptable content and the direction of the products.
I think you have the wrong end of the stick there. Even if a track is heavily multiband compressed, it's still using the full range of levels, as audio will oscillate between -ve and +ve for each cycle, potentially using most of the 65,536 levels available at 16-bit (and the 16777216 levels at 24 bit). The 0.01 is not relevant.
Actually, I think behind the nationalisation idea, which doesn't seem workable given the circumstances, there's an interesting thought: these companies are sitting on basic infrastructure so instead of treating them like other companies, perhaps we should treat them like utilities.

Note that this piece appears in The Guardian. I don't know how it works in the US, but I'm of the impression that in many European countries, basic infrastructure like energy or transportation or communication links is either very tightly regulated or owned by a non-profit organisation that in turn is owned by either the local consumers, the local authorities, or by the state.

DNS operates in this way, as far as I'm aware.

Can we move in this direction with things like search (Google) and personal publishing (Facebook)?

Perhaps if the tech community delivers the software, and the societies themselves start a serious discussion about it and delivered the users?
Exactly in 2017 it looks like silly but i t has been popular in sometime.
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I think a lot of the "oh my gosh nationalisation is such an awful idea" / "not in my free society" comments are missing the point.

I too believe nationalisation is a bad idea in this case, but given the enormous reaction it would bring, can you imagine how awful the situation appears to be from the authors (any many other non-tech-bubble) peoples perspective to even contemplate such a thing? Let alone write an opinion piece in a national news paper. You can argue it is a bad idea all you like, but ultimately, Facebook Google and Amazon are building something that scares people. Scared people do stupid things.

If the tech bubble does not look at articles like this as symptoms of a growing scepticism, or a check on the implicit (and often abused) trust of their users, then the backlash is only going to grow. The tech bubble inhabitants will have only themselves to blame.

You can argue all you like about whether people are logically correct to fear the big three. What matters is that they are fearful, and how the bubble reacts to that.
Regarding your question about the wall of tone generators:

I imagine a pair of microphones inserted into the ear canals of a dummy head should be able to capture what a real person sitting there would. Once the signals are captured, and assuming perfect frequency response of the microphones and noiseless transfer of the signals to an ADC, 44.1kHz would absolutely be enough to perfectly encode the 20Hz frequencies.

I put emphasis on the frequency response of the microphones. They’d have to match the frequency response of the human ear. Meaning they would not capture ultrasonics, just like our ears don’t.

I am less sure of the math behind bit-depth and how it relates to our own dynamic range. I also agree that if you intend to transform the recording, mix it with others, etc, then go ahead and encode at higher bitrates and even with a higher frequency (both mic and ADC sampling). But the final product, being sold for direct listening, need not be sampled at a rate that’s beyond our hearing. No more than a video recording should be able to encode colors in the ultraviolet spectrum (A better analogy than my previous one)
>This sounds a lot like a dictatorship, and is this what a free society does?

Rediculous, nobody is forcing you to use Google or Facebook.
Agreed 100%.

Does this mean if you ever built a company, and it gets too big, it will get nationalized?

And what will keep the law from evolving to nationalizing slightly smaller businesses as time goes.
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Why don't we just nationalize the compute power? There is a billion dollar barrier to entry to offer services like Youtube for free. Nobody is going to do it because they don't have a giant Ad company to subsidize it.
Did you think about your experiment? What's your own conclusion, and what other conclusions would you expect others to make? "Just think about it" is not a very convincing argument.

The microphones would probably be the bottleneck in reproducing the sound. If your microphone setup doesn't perfectly model the ears of the listener (with respect to how the headphones are worn and their frequency response), you're not going to be able to plausibly reproduce the whole sound field using a stereo recording. That has little to do with sample rate, though.
We are not far off robots that can for instance weed fields.

We will do what we always do and adapt and continue to make the world a better place.

The past is an awful awful place why would you ever want to go back there.
Realistically it would take a very small team to do this orthogonal to the rest of the aws team.
They are american companies first and you should trust them even less because they are open to corruption by the US government.
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Ahh sorry if I came off to be attacking you man, wasn't my intention at all.

And yeah you got it spot on! I know that for my Dad in particular, he always said to me whenever I mentioned scaling the business up and taking on more guys that whilst it would be nice, it would likely mean more of a managerial position, keeping an eye on projects and that. He said he runs his own business to avoid being at the grindstone 24/7, he was always able to come and see school sports and participate in that sort of stuff. I always found it pretty self-controlled tbh, knowing that he could have scaled it up, but knowing the game would change if he did.
Nah.

Just rip them apart and start going after them for anti-trust reasons. Instead of going after Apple for harming consumers with their ebook BS (actually, in addition to) go after Amazons monopoly on the space.
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> First of all, "Nationalizing" corporations is not something that free societies do.

Sure it is.

America does not hold a monopoly on freedom.
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Assume the patients are assigned to the doctors in a way that's not affected by whether they have the condition or not (e.g. at random). If the screening question doesn't lead to over-diagnosis, then you'd expect the same ratio of positives/negatives from both sets.

You need more subjects to attain the same statistical power, but the data is much easier to obtain. 100 subjects already sounded like overkill anyway.
Customer service not doing it in front of a customer is a lot different than Amazon not doing it at all.

Doesn't Reddit have a policy against secretly editing user's posts? Didn't precisely that happen during the election by an admin?
I have my own domain, and I really should be using me@myowndomain but I don't. I use gmail. One reason is that so many people and services already know the gmail one so it's hard to change, but the biggest reason is that I don't trust myself nor the place where I registered for my domain to actually maintain the domain name registry and email delivery for say 10 or 20 years without any maintenance.
The value of these behemoth services is that they are more or less guaranteed to be more stable than anything you can configure yourself. They are too big to fail. Even just pointing my me@myowndomain to gmail doesn't help here. It just adds a new weakest link to the chain.
I'll bite: Try the Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund, created by Houston's mayor: https://ghcf.org/hurricane-relief/

Or the Texas Diaper Bank: https://texasdiaperbank.networkforgood.com/projects/33717-ch...
Given the hands-off approach, the PR concerns, and the fact that they have a healthy community of tech-minded people on here from which to recruit from, I find it unlikely that they would do anything perceived as too alienating to anyone.

There's been tons of suggestions about site improvements (much smaller ones, mind you) that have never gained any attention.
That sounds amazing, I'll check it out!
Why nationalize what we can distribute? There is no reason a future youtube has to be centralized and many good reasons that it shouldn't be.
Look, a temporarily embarrassed unicorn founder.

This is the same logic that people use to argue against the Estate tax.
Maybe. Over the past few years, we gained a few B2B clients who actually insist on using Whatsapp over email. We've resisted it somewhat (the final confirmation must still be sent over email), but if the trend continues, I'm not sure we'll be able to.
How about a monopoly tax for market dominating companys, whos money is rerouted into VC or Darpa projects?
The point is that the decision should not have been unilateral - the author and his colleague had a very good case for their position, based on the fact that they were not asking anything that was not being asked anyway, and not recording anything that was not being recorded anyway. It was mindless dogma on the part of the IRB that made it unilateral. Meanwhile, a practice with a real potential for risk went unstudied.

You might argue that there was risk to the patients in the one part of the procedure that was different than what they would experience anyway - the actual asking for consent - but if so, what would you propose doing about it?

You have made a straw man out of this one case, and are defending it with all the dogma displayed by this IRB.
I have some example code[1] which demonstrates the usage of HugSQL, an alternative to HoneySQL and yesql. After some evaluation, HugSQL seemed to be the best choice but unfortunately this is a toy project and I don't remember the exact reasons for going in that direction.

https://github.com/bschwind/api-starter-kit/tree/master/apps...

EDIT: Actually I think the goal if I was to add more complex queries would be to use HugSQL for static, templated queries, and HoneySQL for highly dynamic queries that need conditions added or altered depending on input from other sources.
Email should not be used for group conversation, period. From one person to many is OK. Between two people is also OK (They can usually keep a conversation consistent in some way). Group discussions with multiple people over email is usless. Discourse and similar is a much better alternative to that.
While a 'static' export of the site does solve the vulnerability issue (assuming it is a static export, and not just exporting to something else which could be vulnerable), I imagine lots of organisations would choose not to use it, specifically because some dynamic functionality won't work then.

For those who aren't able/willing to use a fully static version of the site, Varnish (or Apache Traffic Server, Squid, or Apache or Nginx's Cache mode) can provide a huge improvement in performance, and (definitely with Varnish and a custom VCL, possibly not as easy with others) can even handle stuff like grace mode (i.e. return cached, expired results if the origin is offline) and purging cached objects when they're updated in the WP DB (via a plugin which communicates with Varnish).

Im not sure what you mean about maintenance problems?
This is about separation of layers and defined interface contracts which applies both to SPA and traditional server-side rendered pages. Remember mangling with query params back in the time? `.php?param=...`.
Now regarding "JS business logic" in SPA, I think it should be only presentation logic (formating, handling input, navigation etc.) and at most some data aggregation from various sources.

It needs some real architecting skills to build secure and limited API. Unfortunately often ease is prefered over security for some so I have witnesed Elasticsearch or MongoDB APIs exposed to SPAs without any additional layer.
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It's extremely difficult for a regular user to use the web without bouncing into something provided by one of those two groups.
No. Monsanto reps went to great lengths to tell their seed buyers that their crops would be safe to spray off-label/illegally. On the regulator end they did what they could to look like they were compliant and then encouraged the farmers to do the spraying that caused this.
> plausible that LA would look much the same

This is actually something I liked in contrast to earlier futurism. If I look around me here in Europe I see that buildings rarely get removed once they stand. The last time the face of cities here changed was after the Second World War. If I look at pictures from the 60s rarely anything changed, except maybe the introduction of some pedestrian zones.
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> Why fight nature? It's futile. You can't win in the long run.

What does that even really mean? Are modern childbirth techniques "fighting nature"? What about using soap? I challenge anyone to come up with a meaningful notion of "fighting nature".

Is it futile? Why? What's the justification for that claim?
Everything is forcing you to use Google and Facebook. The market, the public who voted with there feet. You recive invitations to classes via facebook.

There is no freedom of choice in a monopoly where opting out equals social death.
c't magazine did a test all the way back in 2000 (see https://www.heise.de/ct/artikel/Kreuzverhoertest-287592.html) and even the best test listeners were unable to tell 256kbit mp3 and the original apart.
Try to avoid BDO/BPI, they raised the rates. Alternatively, if you have Charles Schwab/TDbank, they refund all ATM fees.
You are proving the point. Treating the audio well, not giving in to the loudness, has only correlation with 24/192 releases (if you say so), there is no causation.
I wonder if the great leap he mentions (1870-1970) is mostly from the discovery of electromagnetism.

It would seem to be magical. Here's this thing that allows you to move huge amounts of power over vast distances, but deposit it in whatever tiny portions you like, in whatever room you want, and it's so easy you run the wires along your existing walls.

The same force allows you to send both signal and power through thin air. And if you don't want it there, you can shield from it.

Or you can make a motor quite elegantly by winding some wires.

And you can manipulate it so finely that you can do calculations with teeny tiny amounts of it. And store the results.

But one thing I was wondering was how much it depends on basic science. Now that we've discovered EM, have we exhausted the basic knowledge about the world? Is every tech going forward just refinements on particular aspects of nature, or is it unlimited how we combine things?
The big three have reached escape velocity when it comes to laws there.
If it was deemed illegal, they could prevent any payments to Google from European banks, effectively barring Google from the most affluent single market in the world and we're ignoring how companies making business with other markets aren't automatically exempt from things like VAT, which they are under the current system. Google shareholders would tear down everyone even marginally involved with that decision.
Nobody's forcing in the sense of directly threatening you if you don't use Google or Facebook, that is true.

But:
(a) particularly with regards to social networking, the social pressure to use walled-garden sites like Facebook can be very, very strong
(b) if you're a Normal Person(tm), it can be hard to know what else to do other than use the same services that everyone else uses and that are being actively marketed to you.

Sure, at the individual level, using Google and Facebook services (as I myself do) is still a voluntary, consensual transaction, but there may well be societal-level effects that look fairly close to those of traditional monopolies.
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I guess the idea is that each country or region has its own Google, Facebook or Amazon - Not that it all belongs to the US government.

I would also argue that they are US companies first and global companies second. Their main focus is always USA and their spirit is also very American for the good and the bad. Strategy for the rest of the world is made in the USA. All important decision are made in the USA. Most investments are made in the USA and also the profits go to the USA.

This is nor good or bad but the point is that those are not global companies.
We'd do better by nationalizing Comcast and Verizon, tbh.
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A further alternative - require that certain businesses that reach this level of monopolistic influence transition into some kind of Public Benefit Corporation.

I don't quite know what this would look like, but I'm thinking of some kind of framework where we develop controls and accountability mechanisms on a company-by-company basis.
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> How entropic are your memorized passwords?

Quite entropic. And I use PBKDF-HMAC-SHA256 to generate other passwords from a master password on any machine I own without having to store or carry a database or keystore.

> How entropic are combination locks?

What is the attack vector here? A lot of key locks are easy to pick. My apartment door's key lock is a lot more insecure than some of the better combination locks out there.

If someone really wants to get in, they can smash the windows. At that point I think having a security camera system or alarm system would be a better investment.
Apart from semantics, what's the difference?
And yet, when those farmers were asked by a judge to provide an example of Monsanto sueing for accidental contamination, they could provide not a single example of this happening[1].
[1]http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/10/18/163034053/top...
Thanks for sharing! Well worth the watch, and gave me a bonus dose of ASMR. Commenting needlessly to show my appreciation and to hopefully inspire a future version of myself to watch this again.
Yeah I think I registered on Ello just to get my preferred username if it did become popular (after missing out on early Twitter) and haven't really thought about it until just now
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Just a reminder to you that we're supposed to be a color-blind society. What you've written here is quite wicked and racist because most Americans are ignorant about their history.

That cluelessness presents us with an fantastic opportunity! If you observe the average American numbskull, you'll see he'll treat his peers objectively in the here-and-now rather than through historic racial filters. Given people are now like blank slates, it's cruel of you to pigeon-hole everyone into racial and ethnic buckets the way you've done.

By repeating these confusing things to our lovable idiots, "there's race, historic oppression", you continue to divide people.
This would also make me a lot happier about sharing info with said companies. Right now I avoid their products (the non-open source ones) because they just have too much market share and power, but if a site like Facebook turned non-profit I'd be much happier to use it.

It just sounds like a great idea all around.
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> Does this mean if you ever built a company, and it gets too big, it will get nationalized?

Why not? I guess it also has to provide some important infrastructure for other companies.

> And what will keep the law from evolving to nationalizing slightly smaller businesses as time goes.

That's a slippery slope argument. Do you want to nationalize nothing?
The only difference is that you are perhaps more likely to install a gem system wide (which would require root rights normally) than run code from a locally installed gem with root rights.
And they don't have that fucking oily taste that hydroponically grown stuff does.

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I use Larry Wall's rename, I just wish I could tell it to use "git mv" instead. Seems like qmv allow that with the --command flag, I'll have to try it, thanks!
Which copy do you have in mind? It seems they still give estimates per project. However they have also increased that esitmate.