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> Let’s take the example of an African-American independent or Nigerian film (Nollywood) at € 3,000 per year of use.

What about giving away shares for content? I mean, if Afrostream gave away X% of the shares, in return for the rights to content outside the home country, the cost of content reduces to close to zero, and the money spent on operations and marketing starts to approach 100%.

This is a far less than ideal model, to be sure, but then, the company closing is a lot worse! Shares are worth nothing until there is a liquidation event, so maybe the play is to get the content providers to become shareholders?

I could see a play where content providers that have content worth essentially nothing (unless there is a marketplace for streaming Nollywood in the west I am unaware of {which is indeed extremely possible}) but for which they may be able to grow a market that, over time, has value. That seems like a win-win, or at least a no-lose-no-lose, situation.

Is that not worth pursuing?
>The military has better precision, only because they buy better hardware.

That's not true. Military receivers can use the Y Code which is encrypted for military use only. There are some really fancy civilian receivers out there that can leverage Y code to a limited extent without knowing the encryption key but full accuracy is only possible on a military receiver that can decrypt and use the Y code.
> eh.. Why do manufacturers speak mAh instead of watts??

Neither amp-hours nor watts measure energy. Watts measure power, which is irrelevant for a laptop battery, and amp-hours measure nothing unless you know the battery voltage.

The spec for a battery should be in joules or watt-hours.
Soda--maybe. Beer--sadly used as a psychotropic remedy in many communities. Which brings to mind just how modern Psychiary has failed in so many cases.
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One difference between the RH patent promise and the DPL is that the patent promise only extends to open source/free software, released under a license recognized by either OSI or the FSF. Would that be possible with a license?

But maybe it's just a historical reason.
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Do you remember the Palm Treo? I remember the Palm Treo. I had the SDK. Every app had direct memory access, no threads and it was easy to crash the phone.

I mean, they didn't serve us tons of ads either but...things aren't that bad...
>People with bad communication skills often think they are communicating big estimate, while no one else in the room got it from what they said.

I've literally never had this happen once during a planning meeting.

>Nope, showing the code is not enough to explain to other developers

It's always worked for me. I can read code, grasp the structure and spot code smells with a glance. If it's really bad I'll be able to tell.

Usually I will just trust the people I work with if they say "it's bad" though.

>And PM IS interested, good one that is.

Good PMs learn to stay out of technical issues and trust their developers just as good developers learn not to second guess their PMs.

>Have you even consider entry that PM can react to reasons why something take long

Uh, was that English?

>On your last point - given that developers with bad communication skills ask badly phrased questions or don't ask anything at all (just generically complain about bad analysis and insult pm - true story), yep it matters.

As I said before I've worked with several developers who rarely ask questions and just do the work (and do it well). All stellar developers and highly underrated.

>You jumped from "bad social skills" to "average" there.

We were always arguing about whether it was a priority for developers to have especially good (or even above average) soft skills, not whether it was ok to work with developers with cripplingly bad communication problems.
banks just settle business credit. That's their job. so business credit is free banking. Everybody can create money. The trick is getting somebody else to accept it.
Maybe a solution is to stop using insurance for things insurance shouldn't be involved with?

Do you use your car insurance to pay for a new air freshener? Do you use your home owner's insurance to get a new throw rug? Of course not.

Yet, we are using insurance to pay for things like birth control and penis pills. We don't use our car insurance to cover a tune-up or inspection, but we expect our health insurance to cover our check-ups.

Stop mandating that the insurance companies cover everything and pay for regular health care out of pocket.

Or, you know, go with single payer - which is what I'd suggest. But, expecting insurance to cover regular care just means it is one more avenue where an intermediary is profiting without adding real benefit. Insurance is for when things go wrong, not for regular care.

Really, though, I'd strongly suggest single payer.
So if anything, what we faced in the 2008 crisis and what many are experience now is on orders of magnitude worse than Tulipmania...
safety is a spectrum, I think declaring it unsafe entirely might not be conducive to more interesting points
Of course, this could be NSA's test of community trust and an attempt to gain some goodwill. Surely they know they are not the most popular kid on the block... :)
I hope those are interview questions for dbas because it's way outside common knowledge for backend developers.
As people continue to get their money stolen they'll slowly come around to utilizing good security.
The above website shows the most recent patent having been added in 2014. Why the poor uptake?
Because it's more like alms than a salary. Even on a meager salary, you can still be overpaid.
Many years ago yes, but not recently.

If you're a supposed "rock star" senior developer doing this it means you're just a bad developer. If you're a junior doing it just means you have some maturing to do.
Even a lot of positions that don't "need" unions could benefit from having at least some kind of union/guild. Things like uncompensated overtime and being expected to keep up with work/work emails from home shouldn't be acceptable, but software jobs being too comfortable otherwise makes everyone too complacent to care.
Thanks! We're looking into it.
The Open Source Patent promise is about protecting open source projects from claims of patent infringement.
A watt-hour is 3600 Joules, which is not a nice round number, but it's fairly easy to remember. At least they're both proper units of energy.
It's actually a really useful characteristic to keep in mind. If you're writing logs, for example, writing the same block multiple times gives you:

* faster writes

* lower peak power consumption

* lower flash wear

* less chance of data corruption should power fail mid-write
> corporate profits have been increasing (example compared to 90)

Survivorship bias. Amazon, Wal-Mart and Costco profits have been increasing. Profits of Borders, Mervyn's, The Limited, CompUSA, Linens'n'Things, Fresh'n'Easy, Payless Shoe Center, Blockbuster Video, Hastings Entertainment, Tower Records, FAO Schwartz, KB Toys, Circuit City and RadioShack - not so much.

Internet (or wide availability of catalog shopping combined with reasonable delivery options) concentrates things like retail or media distribution in the hands of the very few.
There no real free market. I highly encourage the book Debt: The First 5,000 Years. The author makes the argument that markets do not exist independently of states, or at least when they do, they exist in the vacuum of a previous state post-collapse.

It's an incredibly eye opening book that talks about debt, money, war and slavery. They are all deeply connected.
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Good luck. You're right but implementing a GPS receiver using a SDR is quite a feat. It's sort of been done but not in a way that would make it practical to use for e.g. a hypothetical terrorist cruise missile.
Naa, you'd probably be fine...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPpU5azjCB8
Even sub centimeter accuracy recently became quite affordable, you may have a look at this receiver:

https://emlid.com/reachrs
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Tech startups are typically viewed as "growth" companies. They'll need to maintain ~30% YoY post-IPO to keep a steady market price.
So does mainstream economics. They are both wrong.

At least the Austrian school admits they made the whole thing up in a religious fashion and never submit their ideas to actual science.

Mainstream economics just pretends it's scientific when really the whole belief structure is a house of cards in the same way
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Have you ever had water from anywhere else? The minerals in the bay area water or whatever the chemical difference is makes it awful compared to tap water elsewhere.

>even more curious if you would be able the distinguish it from your preferred water source in a blind taste test.

Of course you would. Tap water isn't purified in any regard to only contain hydrogen and oxygen. It's filled with all kinds of other crap with just certain crap removed.
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But the Great Lakes aren't exactly pristine. Pure(ish) water isn't really that abundant there.
NemId, as it is called in Denmark, is a paper card with many one time keys, or a dongle that creates a new key every so often. Every time you login, or perform a transaction in the online banking, you need a new and different key. If they get access to your keys, which would probably be because you did something stupid like taking a picture of the card, you can revoke access, and there is a paper trail of every single time the adversary impersonated you.

How is that worse?
Wouldn't this be a natural effect of more automation generating wealth rather than direct human labor?
> Designing for the future is a guaranteed project failure.

Yes, I understand this. I would not want to get bogged down on infrastructure when trying to deliver early versions of a product. At the same time, I think database choice is one of the more important tech stack decisions you should make early on.

Cassandra also sounds like a good bet for the type of data I'm interested in storing (ML model inputs, so lots of key -> numerical value data). But my experience is mostly around RDBMS and some NoSQL. Hence the question. Thanks for the answer!
Yup. LBS is useful in detectors and such.
Maybe I misunderstood your problem, but how about a relational DB model with:

- FEATURES table (~400k rows), primary key: Feature_ID

- SAMPLES table (tens of thousands), primary key: Sample_ID

- OCCURRENCE table (what you observed), with the fields Feature_ID, Sample_ID, Occurrence_Count.

This is pretty much a standard solution well proven in data warehousing...
You're right, I wouldn't say your grocery store is an advertising company because they put Crest at eye level - I'd say they're an advertising company because they likely sell your loyalty card data to 3rd parties for $$$. Adtech is eating everyone's data.

IDFA is still going strong on Apple phones and is likely to continue into iOS 11.
It is not a proposal to kill entertainment media, it is a proposal to make it easier to make informative journalism. The theory being that a plurality of information sources leads to a better informed population and that if newspapers have less to worry about satisfying shareholders or advertisers, they will do a better job.

I think that the most important point for the US situation is the non-concentration condition, preventing one person or company from owning several information media posing as different entities, masking the lack of plurality. It would prevent this kind of things:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvtNyOzGogc

Arguably this is more a solution to the situation we have in France. In the US it looks like you have people like the Koch brothers who would not mind running newspapers at a cost to promote propaganda. It would still make it more expensive as it would have to compete against people who would have little costs and privileged access to primary sources.

It does not solve all the problems of society and information though. IMO, the fact that so many Americans confuse information and entertainment is an education problem, not a media one.
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The issue is not that water is bottled somewhere where there's plenty of it and then shipped somewhere else but that water companies, especially Nestlé, are buying local sources in regions poor on drinking water only to save on transportation/logistic costs, conclusively taking away a previously free water source from local people and putting a price tag to a product that was previosly free - without having any benefit as it is still the same water as before.
Good news for robotics! We have really benefitted from the cheap sensors manufactured for the smartphone industry.
Delicious if you like sickly-sweet, salty water.

Seriously, it's an acquired taste. But, what's funny is that they've been doing that forever in places like Brazil and the Caribbean. Then, several years ago, they put it in a box and imported to the U.S. etc., and it was like some brand new invention.

But, of course, for each of those bio-degradable coconut husks, we now have a handful of tiny, plastic-lined boxes.
No, they use C++ even for the C front-end. But you are right, you can still see its C past in the source code.

What's important though is that the GCC devs actively try to avoid the newest C++-features, this allows it to compile current GCC-trunk even with very old GCC-Releases. IIRC even GCC 4.3 (released in March 2008) is able to compile current trunk (GCC 8.0).

This is somewhat different for Rust, where I think the current policy is that master needs to compile with last released version (releases every 6 weeks and just to make it clear: Rust is written in Rust). Before that, the compiler was updated even more frequently. Bootstrapping Rust from 0 therefore is quite hard, since Rust is far from being as ubiquitous as C/C++-compilers. Even if you already have a rustc on your system, it's not unlikely that it is too old for compiling Rust-master. The first Rust-compiler was written in OCaml, so you need to compile that first, then compile Rust commit-for-commit until you reach current master. This could take quite some time. IMHO this is why mrustc is great, since you just compile current master (if it supports all features) with it and then use the generated compiler to compile Rust.
It one of those things we don't want to experiment with to find out. Interestingly, the burning of fossil fuels is arguably an uncontrolled climate change experiment that might lead to thermohaline disturbances, an Ice Age and/or hypercanes.
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> I'm under the impression most of the productivity gains since the early 1990s were due to large capital improvement

Money doesn't magically increase productivity, those gains came from that money going to very smart people who created and/or applied technology to increase productivity. They're called workers, and they are the ones who increased productivity, not the capital holders.

Throwing a billion dollars at a problem to solve it only buys you people capable of solving it, it doesn't mean you solved it.
Gee if you want music and don’t want to pay for it, learn how to play the guitar. But if you think someone else is better than you and you want to listen to their music, what do you have against them being compensated?

Copyright is different than patents because it’s not ever going to prevent you from making something you would have come up with by yourself like patents do.
>Already we've seen that the market doesn't usually care about taste, and there's a recent paper showing a widespread loss in nutritional value over the last decades.

Citation showing this has anything to do with GMOs?
I find it difficult to get full offline-mode + sync working correctly.
Don't know if you have duplicates in the remote db but I think your approach has a problem: the app send the data (from scratchpad table) to server, the server saves it in DB but the connection drops on device (ex bad connection, user turn off WIFI/3G while syncing) so the app will never get a 200 response.
In this case your new data was saved on server but it remains on scratchpad table. On next sync the data will be uploaded as being new: this will cause duplicates.
That's not how basic income is proposed. Basic income means everybody gets the same amount, regardless of what they are earning. At least that is the proposed solution and is the accepted definition. It is universal and unconditional. If you make a million dollars a year, you still get the same basic income check as the guy who is earning zero dollars per year. (Obviously, the guy making a million dollars per year would be heavily taxed.)

Citation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income
IF the goal is bootstrapping another approach would be to use the llvm c backend to generate a version of rustc and cargo that can be built by a c compiler.
I'm starting to believe that there isn't such a thing as reputation when it comes to news. Or rather, that low quality news has such little impact on readership due the strategic nature of news reading (e.g. even if you might not like a certain news organization, you might still want to read it, if only to know what other people are reading) that a news organization can coast indefinitely on a readership built on it's prior reputation.
Yes, that's definitely true, their availability is quite staggering in breadth.
Most baseball writers aren't former players or coaches, and nobody expects them to be. That's the whole point of the analogy.

They're just expected to understand the rules of the game, know what the various acronyms mean, and generally be able to converse intelligently about the game. That's the standard being suggested for reporters covering other topics.
That's moving the goal posts.
Telia is paying billions to US for conducting business in Uzbekistan in the only way it can be done.

please remember this next time EU fines Google.
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More specifically you can use differential GPS for stuff like surveying with a reference receiver at a known location. Depending on how far away you are from the reference station you can get even better than 15 cm accuracy and just have a few inches of error.
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I think there's another very simple, yet often overlooked, reason that wages aren't growing: information.

How do you decide how much to pay an employee? It's easy. You go online and see what the median wage in your area for the role you're seeking to fill. You then aim a bit lower than that either getting a below market rate hire, or giving them a psychological victory as they negotiate their wage up to the median. That's perfectly reasonable, but it's also in effect engaging in horizontal price fixing without so much as saying another word to another employer. This is an even better in cultures where discussing income and compensation is relatively taboo since workers themselves inhibit their own ability to effectively negotiate. Living abroad I was somewhat stupefied that "How much do you make?" and "How much is your rent"? and other such questions are perfectly normal.

Consider this thought experiment. Imagine employers were not allowed any access to historic or current wage data. They simply had to choose prices they felt appropriate for the work at hand. I think it's safe to say that wages would be much higher than they are now since naturally you would price wages relative to the value of the person being hired. Modern information not only allows but inadvertently encourages employers to engage in mass price fixing.

And in a world where employment is, more than ever, something that's very temporary (a quick search shows the average time of employment is about 4 years) - the price set for new hires is arguably the single biggest factor in long term wage levels.
There is another reason for buying bottled water, and that's because tap water in a convenient container is not available...

I have no data on the reasons people purchase bottled water. But every time I've purchased bottled water it's because I was traveling and wanted to drink straight water while traveling.

I'm sure some part of the market buy spring water because it's "healthy". However, without further data I don't think it's possible to support the argument that it's a sign of "America's decline".

In fact, I've also seen bottled water sold in every location around the world I've traveled to, including areas with good tap water, and both urban and rural locations.
No, they won't. They'll stop using tech as much as they can.

That's basic UX. If you make the experience shitty, people will avoid it. No amount of experts waving their hands wildly will help that.

If you can't wrap up your healthy habits and your key rotation in a simple device/card/whatnot that people can carry around and use just like a key, your security measures have already failed.

"Because I said so" doesn't work on kids, it sure as heck doesn't work on adults.
Can you provide specifics? AFAICT that applies only to indexes (where there is another layer of indirection in MySQL).
Could one use this to make an open-source cryptocurrency hardware wallet?

I haven't looked into the requirements or the specs on either side so I'm just asking very naively. The $25 price point just seems better than the $100+ for the typical cryptoasset hardware wallet.
On GOV.UK: take the most used browser from the stats, then add on the next most used and repeat until you get to 95% of the total. At that point start looking at ease of support. Typically browsers will be dropped from the testing list at ~0.4%, unless there’s a security need to remove support.
the Fed has an explicit dual mandate [1]. the two mandates are inflation AND employment.

not all CBs have two mandates, and if they only have one, not all CBs target inflation.

[1] https://www.google.com.sg/search?q=dual+mandate
>If you stick to quality journalism (NYT/WSJ/The New Yorker/The Economist/Bloomberg), the world of journalism is really not worse than it was in whatever golden age of the press people seem to imagine.

Only if you agree with the political stances those sources are biased towards. Perhaps it has always been that way, but something like the NYT is hardly unbiased and it bleeds through on everything from article selection to point of view, etc if you're not an American Liberal.
Fifth sentence of the article:

> About 60 percent of the supply comes from Mecosta’s springs

First google result for "Mecosta springs"

> The Nestle/Perrier/Great Spring Waters of America/Ice Mountain bottling plant in Stanwood, Mecosta County, began production on May 23, 2002, extracting groundwater from the Muskegon aquifer that qualifies as a source of “spring water” under federal law.
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