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> Without corporate case law, it would be much easier to shirk accountability.

To my eyes, a large part of the purpose of corporations is to shirk individual responsibility. What else would LLC stand for?

>You're conflating a lot of distinct issues - principally, the effects of being a corporation and the effects of being incredibly wealthy and politically influential.

I attempted to make it clear that the act of incorporating, ceasing to become merely an individual and existing as part of a group in and of itself has dehumanizing influences. The corrupting influence of group-think, moral smokescreening, and increased degrees of separation from the repercussions of one's actions is orthogonal to the corrupting influence of power. Nazi guards could sleep at night after a long day of executions because they were part of a corrupt group that absolved them of responsibility, not because they were mega rich.

To take BP's example, the blame for the spill results from countless decisions which add up to supreme negligence. But it's hard to pin on a single person, it is the organization itself (and its goals) which caused the problem. This negative influence needs to be curtailed, so I think it's inappropriate to consider a group of individuals as having the exact same rights as its constituents summed. When it comes to rights, I just don't buy that 2+2=4.

>>No, I don't believe corporations deserve any rights whatsoever.

>This statement is logically equivalent to "I don't believe that people should have any rights to coordinate their actions"

It was a bit inflammatory of me to word it that way, but I still disagree that those two things are "logically equivalent". I just don't think it makes sense to think of rights in aggregate. Aggregating rights in the form of corporations leads to weighting of rights by the amount of money you have. The son of the chairman of Samsung can exert far more influence across his network of conglomerates and paper companies than I ever can. Does his million-fold monetary advantage over me give him a million times more rights across his corporate appendages than me? Should I buy a third of a share in his textiles company which has the president's ear if I want to express my rights? Fuck that. Those aren't rights, it's the pure expression of power and violence, the very thing I want society to curtail.
Minor nitpick, Direct Connect (DC) was the protocol, DC++ was merely a popular client but by no means the only client. It wasn't even the official client.

Direct Connect really excelled at college campuses. All the traffic was internal so it was blazingly fast plus the hub had a chat feature which is incredibly useful (pre-reddit) and sometimes people would share old tests and stuff.
Part of it is that children are highly suggestible. They're also still mentally developing and learning. Therefore, they are at risk of not developing proper social skills and are more likely to get addicted (possibly at the expense of physical activities). But your point is still valid and both of those things are, for sure, problems for adults too. One would hope that adults are, at least, less suggestible (hope, but in reality, it seems lots of adults are pretty gullible and suggestible too, at least in some things).
Chill out. It's a project that is at least partially (if not entirely) comedic in nature. It doesn't need a 100% professional rapidly-loading README.

And if you don't like that, just view it via a "raw" link (there are userscripts that even do this for you whenever you're on github/gitlab), or a text browser, or "wget" for all I care.
I use watsi to send money to fund healthcare abroad in countries with less equitable systems than the one I live in (where taxes pay for universal healthcare, as they should).

For me they’re a trusted partner who vets healthcare professionals in another country and allows them to allocate funds to fund everyday treatments for people who can’t afford them. I also give to msf but like that watsi is not disaster relief but healthcare. I use the universal fund so rarely choose a specific patient.

The stories and photos I’m ambivalent about and do see why one might object, but also how they drive engagement and build trust. I’d still give money without this - what you call voyeurism.

Cheap cynicism is really easy; making a difference is hard. I think Watsi makes a difference.
The only way for the "open" web to evolve is for Google, Apple and Microsoft to agree on a feature, spec it out and roll it out to their different platforms. All anyone else can do is twiddle their thumbs hoping they don't fuck it up.

We sandboxed away innovation, so now all we have is web apps that process text, video and audio all in the same way.
This is Guardians Opinion section. It's not news it's someone's opinion. I don't poorly judge the reputation of NYT or WP based on their opinion sections.
Maybe they just don't know how to run the same version of the compiler any more, Visual C++ 4.2 or whatever they had... I remember it stopped working with some newer version of Windows.
Not really, wider tires for example let you have constant pressure per surface area in contact with the road.

Now there are minor effects that do come into play, so 100x the weight would be meaningful. But, weight within the range of normal cars is not really important.
I should probably have written a lot more than one sentence there. You're absolutely right about the benefits of meeting randoms on the internet, and clearly it still happens and works for some people. But it always did have social scaling issues - as a particular system or chatroom got more popular the success rate fell. I also worry that the culture has changed. "On the internet" really isn't a place apart from everyday life now, and we have a giant all-encompassing social network. And a dating app.

As one of the sibling comments points out, once such a system becomes popular it's also going to be a target for spammers. If there have been any advances in chatbot AI over the past couple of decades that is also likely to make the problem worse.
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Note that due to the way the 32-bit address space was laid out, a process could really use only about 2GB of RAM — the extra 2GB was reserved for the system based on old 386-era CPU limitations. Since that space had various things allocated in it, a normal program generally wouldn't get more than 1.7GB in a single allocation — e.g. according to https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/313275/-not-enough-... Excel 2003 had a heap limit of about 1GB.

The other thing to keep in mind is that Office documents are, in addition to being somewhat bloated internally, far more than just text. Think about all of the people writing things like documentation with hundreds of screenshots (all uncompressed BMPs), audio or video, etc. — and the people with those are far more likely to be at the kind of large corporations which expect value from their support contracts. There were multiple ways to deal with that problem but in general the easiest was switching to a 64-bit address space.
No, we'll continue to nag, but about something else (we'll find something easily).

Still I think UE should keep English, since it's already in place and I don't think it would be useful to switch to French.
Well, the code wasn't compiled by today's compiler, it was compiled in late 2000. Visual Studio 6 maybe?

Even today compilers tend not to optimise the function preamble/postamble away. I'm only half in agreement with the mantra: you probably can beat the compiler, but is it worth it?

There are a few situations where it's genuinely a good idea to write in assembler to be explicit about predictable behaviour. Short security-critical constant-time functions are a good candidate.
One downside to the centre driving position - what about if you want to take a companion with you on the road?
Since there was no dose-effect relationship either, I find your idea pretty compelling.
I found it fine once I'd set it up to do completion only by request, so I'd know that I might have to wait. The default, whereby it tries to pop up as you type, was absolutely maddening...
Thanks for the clarification. However I’m a truck driver, I passed my English requirements for CDl. :)
Because for drivers, it doesn't and never did and never will as long as Linus has anything to say about it. This is in stark contrast to his position on userland ABI, which is so stable you can still run Motif.
I don't know why, but nowadays more often than not I see people ostracised and punished for different beliefs rather than discussed and argued with. I know firing and shutting people down is the easier thing to do in the short term, but discussing and understanding, maybe even convincing or reaching a consensus, is something really good in the long term. It all feels like the balanced, centric attitude has been lost for the exclusive extreme right or left approach. How did we get here?
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I laughed at this - and totally understand where you're coming from.

However. For me, I have known people who weather the cold very well - unlike you and I. They'll go for a swim in a cold lake and enjoy it. Generally, I hate the cold. Even a mild cold is NOPE. My hands especially, get cold very easily.

But this is what I saw when I looked up the method:

> If you are new to cold exposure, just end your warm shower with 15 - 30 seconds with cold water only. Begin with your feet and then follow with your legs, your stomach, shoulders, neck, and back. An initial shock, shivering and hyperventilation is normal. Try to remain calm and breathe easily. Close your eyes and really try to embrace the cold. Don't pour the cold water over the head if you are not known with cold exposure. If you feel any strong physical uncomfortableness, like heavy shivering, numbness or pain, get your body warm again as soon as possible. Cold exposure works like weight lifting, you get stronger over time. There are little muscles around your veins that contract when they get into contact with the cold. After some time (only 1-2 weeks according to Wim) these become stronger, making your veins healthier and reducing the force that your heart has to use to pump blood around your body. You can increase exposure over time. At one point the cold will feel just as comfortable as wearing your favorite pajamas and you can skip the warm shower completely. Notice how you feel amazing after a cold shower and sluggish after a warm one.

When I first heard about this guy years ago, i picked up the yoga side of it and deemed it BS. But this kind of gradual conditioning he proposes, and not going overboard with it, makes me think maybe I could try it. In theory, we should feature some adaptive qualities to better weather the cold. I'd sure love to find mine.
I would guess one response is to suggest that Watsi is moving people from steps 1/2/3 to step 4. The list, when reverse engineered pretty much suggests that it's easier to get people to give if they know who is getting the money, so Watsi is applying that principle to raise more money.
HTTPS also doesn't guard you against someone replacing the binaries on the server (e.g. what happened to transmission). It also doesn't protect you from misconfigured corporate or state level MITM firewalls that don't check certificate validity.

HTTPS is intended for transport security. Using it for package authentication is generally a mistake. That's why most distributions accept the additional complexity of PGP instead of only relying on HTTPS.
>Adwords for Outdoor and Transit Advertising

The Swiss outdoor advertising provider APG actually provides an online tool for that [1] (link in German). As far as I know, you can also upload your ads and let them handle printing.

1. http://www.posterdirect.ch/de/
Oh, undoubtedly it was noticed, but an enterprise software company has a tremendous capacity to procrastinate on fixing things.
It's bizarre that the Semi has way less attention than the Roadster on HN.

The Roadster is a $250k car for people with money to burn. It doesn't seem to drastically change the equation from a Rimac Concept One with six-year newer battery and motor tech and savings from volume and automation. The Roadster is the shiny thing that sells less sexy vehicles.

The Semi has the potential to change an entire industry if executed right. They don't need to be perfect if the cost savings are real and reliability is high. We'll see if they get practical details correct and whether production models arrive within 2-3 years of target-- a common Tesla worry. But I feel this has more margin potential than the Model 3 at this stage in Tesla's development.
I did some research on how to optimize for getting a site into the answer area at the top of results using schema.org's question & answer protocol.

http://robertspeer.com/schema-org-for-busy-professionals/

Turns out it's a LOT easier than it sounds. Unfortunately I never got a client to bite on this so I don't have results to share.
Worth noting that while side and back windows are tempered, windshields are typically laminated.

The difference is in how they break. Laminated glass will generally crack, but otherwise stick together, while tempered glass will shatter, but into less-sharp pieces (to minimize the hazard of broken glass).

I don't know how much of this matters, but it stands to reason that what works on a side window might not be the same as what works on a windshield.
> However you generally you don't want to catch panics except under rare conditions because panics are intended to be used in "the world is ending" kind of scenarios

Strange, I've always heard the opposite: if you write a function that can panic, you always want to handle it in your code that calls the function (which should be the only code that could) because panics should generally not be exposed across a public interface, including the boundary between the top-level Go code to the outside world.
It’s an opinion article, which obviously has an axe to grind. The standards of journalism are, were, and ever will be different for opinion than for reporting. The point of this article was to poke fun at the sometimes silly tech culture.

Also, the comparison to Slimfast isn’t that egregious. I mean, Slimfast was always marketed as a way for busy people to conveniently replace meals with a “nutritious” substitute (according to some hand-waving standard of nutrition). Seems a lot like Soylent to me.

The Guardian’s reporting is often excellent. Judging the paper on the perceived slights of an opinion piece is just misunderstanding how news works.
There's only so many minibuses. It's not an infinite number, so obviously, first offences occurence will be naturally limited by this fact.

Regulation also costs society money, indirectly taken from your wallet.
You spend a lot of money without even solving a problem, because there's no certificate for honest person.

I would say, regulation costs 10x of cleaning up afterwards, which you still have to do. I would wait for the first offence if it was me.
Give children what they want - bright lights and shiny things, sugar & fat in equal measure, autonomy without responsibility, you'll end up with unhealthy sociopathic children.

We're all children and eschew what is good for us, just as adults we're cognisant of that failing.

Companies use our gluttony and greed to develop a desire in us, then fulfill that desire. The most financially profitable companies don't just give us what we want, they tell us first what we want, then sell it us.

Viz: You want to be lusted after by women, seen as powerful, make men jealous; our watch will do that for you; buying our watch will give you all you want.

Yes, agreed, globally is pathological, but it achieves the ends of Capitalism, making the rich richer off the backs of the poor man's labour.
And yet they're still advertising EV certificates on the side banner... https://imgur.com/a/x7wwm
Headphones, yes, otherwise noise. Hoodie? No, but t-shirts and jeans, yeah, otherwise discomfort. I've only worked at a couple of places where t-shirts weren't ok (mostly because I try to avoid places where I have to dress "business casual" or worse).

I'm not really sure what your particular issue is, or why you think it really matters what you wear. Wear whatever you want as long as it fits with the dress code. Want to wear a suit? Go nuts.
Because history repeats itself - especially when the same groups are approaching the same situation with the same motives.

>The “evil” that existed at Microsoft was largely an upper management issue. There has been significant change in upper management.

Recent anti-consumer actions indicate that this may not be the case. Come on, ads on the start menu? Today's MS has done things even Gates' MS didn't.

>They aren’t stupid enough to fail to realize that ship has already sailed.

That doesn't stop them from wanting to go out and turn that ship around.

>They’ll keep developing and selling Windows Server to the people who depend on it and collect that revenue, but the future for them is Azure.

Cloud compute is a commodity, even one of the major things
sold by internet Wal-Mart. Is that really where Microsoft wants to go? It's almost implicit that they're going to want to "differentiate" their service, which means developing lock-in but only once you've got people into the fold.

>TL;DR If Microsoft’s profit motive in Azure aligns with open source, why do so many people continue to need to infer sinister motives?

This isn't the first time Microsoft's profit motives have appeared to allign with an open technology. This wouldn't be the first time they moved to capture it, ruining it for everybody, either.

Microsoft has realized that nobody is going to sign up for an unhealthy, rent-based ecosystem. So, out comes the carrot, with absolutely no contract with you that they won't replace it with a stick. We're entering an era were large businesses can treat small businesses like large businesses treat consumers - that is, no negotiation, no contract garuntees, just take-it-or-leave-it on slowly worsening terms.
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Extremely valid point. It survives, but loses some of the essential character or traits that made it great.

So perhaps the result with Linux might be that the project continues, but the kernel forks, and even the official Linux branded kernel doesn’t hold to certain essential concepts like don’t break userspace. Perhaps quality control goes down. Perhaps corporate interests start driving the direction of the kernel away from user interests.

I would also suggest that the change might not be a bad thing. With Linus, the kernel follows a relatively predictable path forward. Projects like Fushia might make the current kernel design obsolete. We might need to make bold design decisions moving forward that Linus may not approve of if the project is going to continue to lead the industry.
Comcast Said to Be in Talks to Buy 21st Century Fox Assets
>I haven't seen anything but praise for CDPR for the Witcher games

Yeah that was my point! No one complained because everyone saw it as fair.
Coinbase’s Custody service wants to store Bitcoin for institutional investors
This is nothing but socialist communal action. The owners of the upstream internet service should cut them off.

Shame on arstechnica for reporting on anti-captialist socialist nonsense! Go back to Prague, you pinkos!
I'm waiting for your list of startup ideas to address these issues.
If you want to use a 64-bit COM/OLE object, such as from a VBA script, then it's extremely difficult unless the host is 64 bit.
How? Other than non profit / charity, how do you get money to pay expenditures?
Jamendo's been a good source of free music:

https://www.jamendo.com/start
VW to spend over 34B euro on electric and self-driving cars
It happens way more often in java because all references are nullable. In Go, unless you're dealing with a pointer, it's not going to be nil.
I just found out about Carla a few days ago during my regular searching through github for gpl projects. It's very cool that they release the art assets for free, I'm already importing them into my UE4 project.

UE4 has a lot of potential uses other than just gaming many people don't realize. For example, the camera and film tools really get me excited for the future of digital film.

Right now UE4 is one of the main pieces of software I have compromised on when it comes to my normally staunch position on foss, because I just don't have the time or resources myself to get what I really want off the ground, which would be a linux only, vulkan only engine.

Epic hasn't delivered on their promises to the gnu+linux community, for example we still have no marketplace because they have closed the source for the launcher so it's windows only, but in my book it's certainly better than unity for linux native dev.
I was dreaming I’ll have to do something like that until it faded below the weight of modern <script src> programming. It is like dancing twist, rock and hardbass in the era of electronic arse shaking.
Yes rack and pinion is for steering. Parent may have meant "ring and pinion" which would refer to the differential gear ratio.
....Default 'featured' sort?

When I go to Amazon.com and search, I see 'relevance' as my default, with 'featured', some price related ones, 'average', and 'new' as options. ('Featured' only seems to exist on some products, and be related to ads.)

Is it not the same for you?

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As for your main point (because I think that your complaint is still valid even with 'relevance' as the default), it sounds like what you want is a way to choose what factors are applied to your sort.

I'm not sure, but it seems likely that 'relevance' is doing more than just averaging, and so being able to select which parts you apply (eg, only use a statistical notion of best, don't consider availability or shipping times) would cover your usecase, right?

Well, you might want to be able to choose between a few models of 'best', but the real issue, the core need, is that you want control over the model that Amazon is using to sort what you see and to have some input on what that looks like. (And not just have 'lolsux' or 'Amznsort', to be a little glib.)

Gotta say, that actually sounds like a pretty reasonable ask. I'm not sure why it doesn't work that way, either.
> It's hard to believe you care about advancing the conversation when you respond with straw men and ad hominems

You're right. Chalk it up to frustration in a different thread. My apologies.

> As for conspiracy theories, that's literally what "systemic racism" is

I mean, that's clearly hyperbolic, right? Systemic racism is a real thing -- see red lining or Jim Crow. We can at least agree that the concept is useful and refers to a real phenomenon, even if we're going to debate the severity/degree of that phenomenon in the present.

> you'd be trying to get rid of the weasel words

I don't think systemic racism is a weasel word. I think it's a well-chosen, evocative, and just damn accurate noun for the concept it represents.

Again, do you have an alternative word?
It sounds a lot like you're proposing enshrining that sort of corporate serfdom in the law and prohibiting the situation where the customer actually owns their own property.
Debian packages integrate better with the system, are authenticated by gpg, and have at least one more critical pair of eyes on them.

If you're willing to stick with an older version of cargo and rustc, why not?
I recently picked up a 2017 15 inch with Touch Bar and I honestly love it. I feel like it's one of the best MacBook Pro I have ever owned (soldered components and all), except for the first 17 inch Aluminum PowerBook and my Thinkpad 600E/X it's my favorite laptop so far. I like the touch bar too (Nyan Cat [0] makes it worth it alone). It seems like it's ripe for playing around, fun little hacking/side project fun, and who knows, maybe something useful can come of it. It also just seems like the next step up from the finger readers on all the other laptops in the marketplace currently.

[0] https://github.com/avatsaev/touchbar_nyancat