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I really don't understand how a company as big as Microsoft allows something like answers.microsoft.com to exist.

Despite for some reason having very good SEO, searches that land you there nearly always involve the same pattern. An MVP restates the question. Then they suggest running an irrelevant command, such as "sfc /scannow". Then when it doesn't help they suggest taking the issue somewhere else. It's not hyperbolic to suggest you could replace hundreds of MVPs with a bot and noone would notice.

The lack of moderation means common searches land you on threads - on a Microsoft subdomain - full of nothing but bagging out Microsoft and swearing at the state of things.

I mean I get that for a resources constrained company it can be hard to do better, and I wouldn't fault small businesses. But given this shows up for just about every Google search relating to Microsoft, you'd think there'd be marketing value in fixing it.
I kinda laughed at the "Capitalism hasn't delivered" line. Yes it has, the companies are selling food with the lowest cost to produce that they can legally sell and using collusion and marketing to avoid a quality arms race with competitors. I think they were just confused about what was promised.
I didn't say they should leave the EU but they also can't really win in a fight against the purchasing power of wealthier countries in a single market when they can't import out of it other than via the existing EU channels.

Denmark imports tomatoes from Italy at the same duty rates as Bulgaria which are zero.
Denmark has more money, normally countries would enforce both import and export duties since there are no duties effectively Bulgaria and Denmark and Bulgaria can only compete on price per unit and neither country can use any other tool to control the price.

If Bulgaria wants to import Tomatoes from say Turkey or Israel they also have to go through the EU red tape and effectively pay a "fixed" price which is more or less set to protect EU tomatoes growers.

Bulgria also cannot subsidize Tomatoes for the most part without violating EU regulations.

Now Bulgria gains a lot form being an EU nation, having lesser tomatoes is the price they pay.
Command line goals.
It's the MP3 model (digital music file with no DRM), sure it would work for movies too.

I buy physical DVD & Blueray discs, as then I own the disc and can play it when I want.

BUT I avoid 4K Bluerays with their online-dongle.

I personally prefer buying over subscription based models (got burned several times).
Thanks for this very detailed and well written comment. I'm a physics student, so this is tremendously interesting and useful. Thanks.
I'll have to try to remember that when I am back in the UK. I was in the other guy's car and the trip was their idea. They wanted to see the computer museum as it had just opened recently, at least that is how my memory indicates the order of events.

Either way, it's well worth visiting. Given that it had just opened, and now been more than a decade, I suspect they have all sorts of additional displays these days. So, when I'm next in the general area, I will make it a point to visit again.

Tangentially related: I also highly recommend the Natural History Museum. I really enjoyed that. Though, I'd recommend setting aside a couple of days for that one.
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Laughed as well. Maybe Capitalism will fix it if they boycott inferior goods. I’m assuming they probably don’t have a choice.
It makes sense if the web is going to be divided up between "documents" and "applications" (which it is, whether anyone likes it or not) not to run the applications in an environment designed to display documents.

Bonus points if the default is to download, cache and update the source code and "installation" is just local compilation to an appdata folder or something, similar to what browsers do with HTML, CSS and JS, rather than just download a blob of bytecode. That would make the FOSS people happy.
I agree that journalism (particularly mass media which followed the invention of rail transportation) has been compromised by advertising. However, I'm not quite certain that subscriptions freed newspapers from advertising since subscriptions alone cannot cover the costs of running a newspaper. Furthermore, the problem with advertising isn't just how tighly linked to newspaper sales it is, but how it can constrain what's written in newspapers for fear of having clients pull advertising from the newspaper. So subscriptions may reduce the dependence on advertising and offer more freedom to journalists, but not entirely. Also, the danger of subscriptions is that we can only pay for so many and this limitation can constrain the number of sources we can draw from. The challenges facing newspapers are complex.

A general comment: while it is important to draw attention to the perverse incentives journalism is subject to, it is also important not to fall prey to the fallacy that people must act according to perverse incentives. Nothing justifies publishing unsubstantiated nonsense. Journalists are morally bound not to do so.
Just generate a pronounceable word, for example using KeePass*.
Thank you. I see this argument pop up on HN all the time and can't understand why it's so common. You'd think if a 51% attack were such a threat to Bitcoin it would have at least been attempted by now, after so many years.
Someone has the idea behind challenge/response.

You don't have to answer the challenge with a 100% truthful, legitimate, accurate response, because the point is to NOT provide an answer that could be guessed by framing the response in truth, or even reality. So long as you've picked one that matches with what you've preseeded, use a random word/phrase as your response.

q: What is the name of your favorite teacher?
a: bumble bees in the desert
A checking account and paper checks are almost mandatory in the US. If you need to make a large payment to an individual or small business, say a landlord or someone doing work on your home, it's still usually the preferred payment method. It's not that there aren't electronic alternatives, it's that most of the alternatives involve someone paying (often significant) fees.

For example, my rental company accepts online payments via credit/debit card, but if I do that they charge a $30 "convenience fee" for my $900 rent payment. I could set up automatic payments by giving them permission to draft from my checking account, but I refuse to do that since it removes the only leverage I have should a dispute occur. The only remaining options to pay without fees are cash or check, so every month I put a paper check in the mail.
I don't really like HN for the links. I can find those anywhere.

What I do like about HN is the comments. Someone here usually knows what they are talking about and can explain it well.

Thanks!
Also, with modern enough xz-utils you can just use `xz -T` for parallel compression.
I find this online tool very quick & produces fairly good quality BibTeX. I think it mainly uses the Crossref API.
http://www.doi2bib.org/#/doi
Uber is 8 years old and still losing money on the US market.

I have no problem saying they could eventually break even by adding ~2$ a ride in the US. But, that's only enough to be a multi million dollar company to be a multi billion dollar company they need to raise the price 5+$ in the US and the rest of the world without losing ridership.

Now, increasing prices reduces demand... So, to be a 50 billion dollar company they would need to keep a huge ridership while charging ~twice as much on average. Or charge ~5+$ more per ride while becoming a monopoly.

QED: They have zero paths to maintain their current valuation let alone growth to offset the risk of failure.
Nobody knows what they are talking about- including us!

Nobody knows what they are talking about- including the people who like the things we make! (Not just the people who don't like the things we make!)

Nobody knows what they are talking about- including all our idols, leaders, geniuses, experts, and John Cleese.
Some wealthy people cross the border.
The net annual disposable household income in Hungary is $15,000 in Italy it's 25,000, in France it's 30,000.

This isn't an argument against the EU, it's the reality of a highly regulatory market with a plethora of constraints but with the general premise of a free market economy in which the highest bidder wins.
I'm 43 years old Pole who has seen commie land times and witnessed progress we made after joining EU. Without EU we would still be 30yrs behind (see Ukraine - no offence but they are way behind).

Not saying EU is perfect, just the net effect of EU is progress.
Thanks! As mentioned above, I am so glad I'm not one of the folks who has to implement this stuff.

I'd ask why they didn't just improve QR codes, instead of making yet another format, but I'm not sure I want to know the answer(s).
> I think they were just confused about what was promised.

What, exactly, was promised to population when Romania (for example) switched to capitalism and opened its borders?
European here.
Nope. You are talking about Eurocheques.
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It's interesting how so many people want government to be run like a business while hating it most when it runs like a business. Business is opaque, secretive, with no oversight and loyalty only to the bottom line. Well run government institutions are none of these things.
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Perhaps also the fact that food is costing 1/5th over there in Romania has something to do with it, for the multinationals.

There just isn't the same base profit to make there compared to, say France.

And I hate to say it, but it's perhaps it's safe to assume, that the French have a higher culinary tradition then any of the ex Soviet countries, where people's cuisine was very rudimentary.

Sure there are people shopping abroad, but it's a minority.

The average income in Romania is <$500 (1), so if you want to cater to people that have little money who want to buy branded products, something's gotta give.

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1- https://www.romaniaexperience.com/what-is-the-minimum-and-av...
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At which point the authorities will demand access to even more invasive techniques. All part of the plan...
One choice is to make use of the plentiful local produce markets.
Maybe you forgot the part where they can export to other EU countries without any fees and barriers, and this has increased the GDP much faster than their neighbors outside of the EU (like eg Ukraine, even before the Crimea affair).
> Will the police help you when you call them to report it? I highly, HIGHLY doubt it

With honest-services and securities fraud, the police are generally there to document, not enforce. If someone stole your WoW gold and you sued, you'd almost certainly have a case. If I were your lawyer (I'm not a lawyer), I'd send a letter to the relevant tax authorities and attorneys general, as a point of leverage during settlement talks. (This is not uncommon in lawsuits--

TL; DR No, one does not always get caught. I won't say I've always been faithful to every city's open-carry alcohol laws. But when you break such laws (a) it's still breaking the law which (b) exposes you to more than just the government.

> So like forgive me if I think it's a waste of tax money for Bharara and the courts and the police to go after Big Vern, while the Equifax guys are not pre-emptively detained while a fine is calculated

You're forgiven for having an opinion? I still disagree. We know there was criminal conduct on behalf of Big Vern. Not yet Equifax. Though on a higher level I agree, since ordinary people were harmed by Equifax. My sympathies for people who lose money in Bitcoin fraud is less, though I think that's a function of familiarity with the system.
And make -j will execute the rules & build targets in parallel. Once I built a general batch parallel system using make that could pause & resume parallel jobs by using each job's log file as the make target. Then I discovered gnu parallel and scrapped my project.
> I’ve been thinking for a while what would happen and how much money Hollywood could make if they charged $1 for a 1080p film and $2 for 4k, no DRM, just a file download.

Pretty much that model works well for Netflix.

I pay $10 or so a month. I don't watch 10 movies a month.
This article is based on a naked capitalism article [1] from 2016. That article adresses the China criticism under the section:

"Uber Losses Not explained by Uber China and No One Can Explain How Profitability Can Be Achieved"

The losses covered in that article don't include anything from China.

[1] https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/11/can-uber-ever-delive...
Nope. That's not the case. In fact we live in different countries and booked from our countries (different countries/credit cards). I don't think of any possible thing that could make us related.
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The original claim (GP of the comment you quoted) was:

> I think we're getting to the point where the incremental gains we're seeing with each new phone cycle are almost unnoticeable to the average user

That's why the comparison between phones of successive years was made. That being said, I'm not disagreeing with your claim that most people will upgrade from older devices.
I tried my hand at RiotJS to build https://apiblocks.com which is a way to see lots of API endpoints in one view. Specifically one point of data from each endpoint. It never got much traction and I had a couple of threads on here about it.

I still believe in the idea and have been working on it periodically, but I have started other projects since.
> Few people pay taxes on [their Bitcoin holdings]

>>This is tax fraud.

It is not; you only have a tax liability when you cash out, not when you hold, you could cash out and have a gain or have a loss and you need to reflect that on your income tax for that year.
Apologies asking a dumb question, but I am curious why you would say this...?
For GNU Parallel, if you pass it -k it will buffer all of its subcommands' output and print it as if it had all been run serially, removing the need for those subcommands to output anything atomically -- a requirement that usually can't be guaranteed.

It's a capable tool, if somewhat... complicated.
Yeah, but often (usually?) the woman's maiden name replaces her middle name. E.g. Jane Elizabeth Doe -> Jane Doe Smith. I'm pretty sure my mom's maiden name is printed on her driver's license, paper checks, etc.
Equifax gets a lot of bad press because they made a ton of money while mismanaging people's personal information. Abagnale's point is that people go throwing around most of that same personal information around with no regard to their privacy.
I think you're drinking a little too much from the kool-aid faucet. You're still going to need an accountant and lawyer, because you do live in the real, physical world.
As someone from Romania, I see this as a distribution problem and a consequence of consumer apathy. If you live in a few major urban centers, you can buy high-quality food, often the same products as in Western Europe, and the prices are within reach of the average city-dweller. The problem is that in smaller towns, the sole supermarket or two might source only lower-quality products, so you cannot buy better things no matter how much you want to or how much money you are willing to spend.

Wanting a quieter working environment, I recently moved from a big city to a village. The biggest shock for me is how bad the food that is sold here is. Village shops typically buy all their products from a wholesale store like Macro, sometimes the inferior versions of Western European brands, or often the generic brand. The tomato sauce is mostly sugar and food colouring, the chocolate has no actual chocolate in it, and these products are sold at the same prices as the high-quality food in the cities, so it is not a simple matter of rural people not being able to afford better. The people just accept what they get, and none of my new neighbours understands why I would complain.

So, while it may seem unfair to blame the bad food on the people who are the victims of it, if there were more concern from the rural/small-town Romanian public about their food, there might be room for competition and distributors would change to serve them.
I didn't forget in fact I've specifically mentioned that EU members do not have full control over their trade policies or tariffs.

This isn't an argument against the EU as a whole it's the reality of the circumstances.

When both rich and poor countries are forced to import from the same sources at the same rates which are designed to protect the producers rather then the consumers the prices rise and they are forced to compete at the price per unit which also directly translates to the final consumer price.

Bulgaria, Romania or Denmark can't reduce their import tarrifs on tomatoes from a specific EU country, they can't even control the import tariffs from non EU countries.
So like all the other "3d printed" metals this appears to be laser-sintered.

This is the big bait and switches of the 3d printing world: You take a consumer process (heating up ABS and mushing it together) and conflate it with an industrial process (laser-sintering) so that the public thinks that 3d printed aluminum will soon be available in their maker bot.

The story here is that some researches have developed some aluminum alloys with good mechanical properties that can be laser-sintered.

This means they can be used in an industrial additive manufacturing process that has as much in common with your 3d printer as a drop forge has with a panini press.
Uber sort of already experimented a reward system, but limited to customers who own Captial One credit card, at least in my experience. See [1]. They stopped this but it was not a bad reward system when I was consistently using Uber for a while.

1: https://newsroom.uber.com/payment-rewards/
This issue is known for years - similar article from 2016 - http://www.politico.eu/article/a-snack-by-any-other-name-var...

This is article in Czech - https://www.dtest.cz/clanek-5156/rozdilna-kvalita-potravin-v... - but if you scroll down there is table showing products and you can see that the worst quality products are sometimes more expensive.
There appear to be more robust alternatives for both of these, so I’m curious what your “elevator pitch” would be for them?
I think you missed my point, everything rsync does is via the very same system calls any other app could use to originally get or set that metadata. As such, the kernel file system layer abstracts the block storage away from you. This is very different than say Shirt Pocket’s approach (linked to in the article) where they are directly accessing/modifying/creating low level block devices. I’d expect what they are doing to be SIGNIFICANTLY harder. The reason why OP is generally positive is because essentially the only thing they had to do to support APFS is a bunch of testing, unless there’s a part to this story they didn’t tell.
But we already know @sersi just mashes the keyboard for those questions :)
The problem there is that the best produce gets exported. I've seen garlic from China in supermarkets for example.
But where are the profits? Uber is already subsidizing rides, while cabs and cab companies have to turn profits. Trying to build loyalty with points just increases Uber's costs, as they can't push that off onto drivers. Retaining customers and increasing ridership by increasing loss per trip is not a sustainable model.

Ride services are completely different from airlines, if only because the capital outlay is incomparable. You could run a ride sharing business and get two hundred drivers driving around New York by December for 250k. That won't even pay for a single flight crew for a year, much less a plane to put them in.
William Dalrymple's India is mostly limited to Mughals.
In this oldie of mine [1][2][3], I used protobuf (with no dictionary), and basically only used real-time information to show other player make moves, in otherwise turn-based/async profile game. It's currently solely on single $20 DO droplet, so I hope no HN effect kicks-in. :)

[1] https://bit.ly/ShowdownFacebook (FB+Flash)

[2] https://bit.ly/ShowdownApple (iOS)

[3] https://bit.ly/ShowdownGoogle (Android)
In my opinion, the regulators should focus on exchanges applying KYC and make the exchanges function the same a stock exchanges. If I buy a stock in the US through a brokerage house, they have my info and every year they send me a 1099 with my profit/loss for the year that I give my accountant to add to my income tax report.

Once the exchanges are regulated like that it would be very difficult to launder money or avoid paying taxes on profits.
I'm astounded how everyone things MIT == Apache2. MIT doesn't protect you from patent litigation.

This is a backwards move. Facebook is very good at PR painting this as a win for users.

See http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Patent_clauses_in_software_licences...

an explanation https://opensource.stackexchange.com/a/1890
That’s a neat idea. I’d love to know more details about what you’re monitoring? It feels like you’d need a Krebs on Security type level (and a lot of money to blow on purchasing data) to be really effective at scanning for leaks.
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What you think are technical skills is just currency. Your in depth knowledge of this stack or that toolchain will doom you to maintenance when that currency is discarded for the new new.

Your interpersonal skills are tied to your cohort.
Are you saying that the local supermarkets are oblivious to the quality of the goods on their shelves, or that the local supermarket is also colluding (presumably in an anti-competitive conspiracy) to force lower quality products on local consumers?
My bank's terms of service bans recording passwords - ie managers.
AI? Bitcoin has nothing even remotely to do with AI - on the contrary, most support for Bitcoin is based on the idea that a totally pre-determined algorithmic management of currencies would be beneficial to the economy. So, what AI are you talking about?
> It is not; you only have a tax liability when you cash out, not when you hold

It depends [1]. If you receive the Bitcoins for goods or services, they are taxed as income. If you hold them as capital assets, the IRS won't tax you for holding, though your state or local jurisdiction may. Either way, not reporting those holdings is tax fraud.

[1] https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tools/tax-tips/Taxes-101/Tax...

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer nor a CPA. This is not legal nor tax advice.
January 1st 1970 is sometimes known as "The Internet's birthday" for this reason..
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It obviously wouldn't work for all kinds of intersections or traffic types, but it is great to hear that good natured human cooperation was the key to this success.

Given a shared obstacle, people seem much more willing to coopetate and make concessions for others and help others achieve their goals. I notice it when the power goes out here and signals disappear. Even though it's 100% car traffic and two lanes in either direction, people were still able to negotiate with eachother to make it work, if only briefly.

I imagine years of conditioning for bicycle heavy and bicycle friendly infrastructure was also a huge factor for the success in the article.
Having worked on a commercial networked first person shooter, I can verify that making it smooth and coordinated is a massive pain in the ass. Having a game like World Of Tanks where the server makes all the decisions only works if the game entities are big and don't change much (i.e. tanks). There is a reason why none of the World games have people. Nothing is harder than trying to make a knife fight work over the internet without it looking spastic.
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