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A powerful statement, but it is not true.

I empathize with you, since I see where you are coming from and I've met people like you, but I do not sympathize with you.

While there are decent, hard working people with solid values, you need to be honest and take a look at the entire picture.

Sometimes it is easy to have a better perspective from the outside, as a foreigner, where you can see more clearly what the US does to other countries, and what are the costs of the American way of life not simply the benefits.

Sometimes it is easy to realize this as an ethnic minority. How many people had to be enslaved, lynched, tortured, assassinated, incarcerated, prejudiced upon, extrajudicially killed, physically removed, ethnically cleansed so you can be where you are today?. Just going to leave this quick reminder here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_racial_violence_in_the_Un...

Going to highlight one relatively recent event, the Massacre of Greenwood, Tulsa in 1921: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO3Fxe4mDP4 . We could also mention the mass sterilization program in Puerto Rico, and countless other horrible events, but let's stop there. I think I've made my point.

Many countries have acted unfairly in their history and that cannot be changed. But what can change is the acceptance of past mistakes and showing an intent to change. Sweeping everything under the historic rug only makes things worse.
Completely agree. Tried using meetup several times, but the experience as a free user is too limited... Can't view all event details, can't create a group, etc.
I have experience of Thailand and Japan so can chime in.

Thailand does not require registration, but authorities prevent travelers from re-entering shortly after their stay (cracking down on "visa runs") which has caught some tourists/nomads off guard. The strictest punishment is banishment for a maximum of 10 (IIRC) years.

Like China, Japan requires registration with the local city office if you are staying with a long-term visa. Although it should be noted that China applies this to all visa types whereas Japan allows tourists to stay without registration. Failing to register with the local Japanese city office can result in banishment.

As with registration in China, you are not told this information upon entry of these countries. If you blindly travel you will be caught out (and usually punished). However, asking around and doing the research before you travel can prevent that from happening.
How was the KDE 4 -> 5 transition? I test-drive KDE every now and then, but every time I get the impression that they're always tweaking this and that at the expense of stability. When they first announced KDE 5, my first reaction was "But KDE 4 has only just become usable!" But it seems it was more of an incremental update than a complete rewrite like KDE 3 -> 4. As a daily user, do you find KDE 5 stable enough nowadays?
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Whether or not one thinks it ought to be protected, there is no contortion of existing law that does so.
SpaceX is wisely recycled NASA and Russia Tech too. Why reinvent all the wheels? SpaceX lured away some of the best industry engineers by promising projects that actually get launched. Accomplishment is as important as money to some of us techies.
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That doesn't mean they don't deserve to be compensated. The work I did today wasn't incredibly difficult and someone else could have done it, but that doesn't mean I'd be fine if my boss decided not to pay me for it.
I think it does, check the Free-Visa Policy section.
We don't have to be arbitrary with our regulations. If we agree that zero rating makes sense for use cases like this one, maybe we create exceptions to net neutrality policy for the sake of zero-rating content offered by non-profit organizations. If that opens up a loophole for things like PACs and the like, then perhaps we create specific requirements there.
Often when you're creating something like this, you don't know if it will be the final selection. Some people can't visualise, so the designer may end up creating something without knowing it will ultimately become the final product. Given that they might make a number of attempts, it's very easy to throw in an image thinking it's temporary and forget about it in hitting deadlines and getting a project over the line.

Then unless there was a meticulous review process, I can see how someone might overlook a very default, straight on view of a generic product.
I shall give it a try then, thanks for feedback.
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The country does dumb shit too, and the government does some good shit as well, none of this is black and white.
Great idea!

- it would be nice to know, prior to clicking, that these are pdf downloads and not web articles.

- it would be useful for the subtitles math | physics | etc be links

- the ~1MB image took about 15 seconds to load on my solid wifi connection.

- more content, please :)
It's not a technology game. It's a customer service game
Well, usually I will ask friends or colleagues who have experience of that country. But if not then yes, I will spend an evening reading up on the country and its rules/customs while planning my trip. I don't know a sensible traveler who doesn't.
Right. Facebooks effective monopoly is an issue in and of itself- but that’s a separate issue.

Humans online polarize themselves and split into sub groups. (Amazingly the sub groups can end up polarizing themselves.)

Facebook has never dodged the issues forums has faced.

The core issue is human behavior and nature.
The company is called Outernet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outernet
I mean, how could you prove that anyway then? If you can show the images on his website are the original images, the only alternative is that he copied the Netflix images and is randomly pretending he was the one ripped off.
21st-century righteousness porn.
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Like I said, that free visa is for 1 month. You can renew for 1 month if you pay $50 on entry. The free visa you're not allowed to work. So this guy is either there illegally, is doing visa runs to Singapore every month or two, or has some other visa that I'm curious about.

Source: lived there for a while and did a LOT of visa runs
I don't know why I would contact the general counsel of a company if they stole my work. I'm not an artist, but I have made some art, and if someone stole that art I would call the company itself.

Additionally, I've tried calling the corporate number for a number of companies in the past, and oftentimes they are just a message that says I should email them if I need to contact corporate. SF companies are particularly bad with this, I guess paying people to answer the phone is a waste of money.

If your customer service can't figure out how to escalate legal issues, that sounds like the fault of the company, not the fault of the person who is trying to bring legal issues to their attention.
Solve problems in particular domains - i.e. you have to understand the domain, learn rules - and it is very boring if the domain is not interesting for you.
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Wikipedia is allowed to and does in fact give itself away for free. Go to wikipedia.org and check it out.

If your question is why shouldn't tellcos be allowed to give wikipedia away for free, then that is a more complex question that requires a more complex answer.

But it is a question that is entirely unrelated to the present net neutrality debate as it is happening in the US. The present debate is about telco services for which people pay a lot of money for. It is not about connecting the previously unconnected poor but about limiting the connections for people that are already connected and expect to stay connected.

Perhaps there should be an exception made to net neutrality for services for the poor that are free of charge. The same way food shelters do not have to comply with the same laws as restaurants. Fine by me, but this is beside the point and not germane to the main net neutrality discussion.
How many people shop at Amazon for the price and not for the convenience? Isn't convenience worth something?

I feel the same way about Uber. My family was out of town on vacation and we could have gotten the bus for $10 between the four of us but we paid over twice as much for an Uber.

I wouldn't notice if Amazon charged a few percentage more. I use it for convenience and selection.
Mass reporting is a common censorship tactic on Facebook. There are Facebook groups of Muslim activists who mass report critics of the religion to trigger autobans.
> Is there proof though?

Just one google search away. Keywords such as Facebook, psychology, experiments, ethics will generate lots of interesting reading, some of it with good sourcing and links for further reading.

It does for me, but there is always some excuse. Usually the mortgage or something to that effect.
That's reTharded
I can't think of anything I spend money on regularly that price is the deciding factor. Quality and convenience mean a lot more to me.
Instead of satellites, why not keep a cache in the 3G base station?

Load times would be much faster, and the infrastructure is all there already.

There might be some copyright issues for Google Maps tiles, but I wonder if the range is small enough to be within fair use.
Yes, that seemed strange to me too. First, there is no particular reason why it would affect the first bit of the comma more that the other ones.

Second, these strings are most likely concatenated on the fly right before sending them over to the server. So it wouldn't be a disk bit flip, it'd be in-memory, and for the life span of that particular string.

Third, if these were that frequent, then it means the _rest_ of the string, ie. the actual hashes, would be wrong, and that would seriously impair the service, wouldn't it?
> On world good, there are many other countries who contribute to world good as much as the US. As a Canadian, my impression is that most of the US genuinely only cares for themselves and has an over inflated ego.

No, very measurably there is not in fact.

According to Bill Gates - who I guarantee knows more on the subject than you do - the US is by far the greatest contributor to: general global aid, global medical aid, global medical research, and public health research, with (again per Gates) the NIH and its connected branches representing over half of the world's public health research.

Americans for over a century have been by far the world's most charitable people. That isn't even something up for dispute, it has been universally recognized in the charity world for half a century at this point.

US tax dollars are currently keeping millions of people in Africa alive.

America's richest routinely give away all of their wealth (frequently to the poor outside of the US); they're the only country in world history that has ever done anything even remotely that. From Rockefeller & Carnegie to Gates & Buffett.

America's era of super power dominance has simultaneously been the most prosperous and safest the world has ever seen, with the fewest major wars. Famines are at record lows. Global poverty is at a record low. The global standard of living is at a record high. Global education levels are at record highs. The global median income has climbed dramatically over 4-5 decades.

Germany, Japan, South Korea - three of the most prosperous, peaceful major nations in modern times, all kept safe and shepherded by the US over decades, including as it pertained to their government systems and defense. Those three are pillars of the global economy and important pillars of global political stability.

Americans have kept South Korea safe for six decades from several communist regimes that desperately wanted to destroy it.

Americans kept Western Europe safe from the Soviets marching further west after WW2. They did that for decades at extreme cost. They could have just gone home, West Germany would have collapsed, who knows where the Soviets would have stopped.

Iraq? Shouldn't have gone in there. The US didn't take their oil, the US didn't annex their territory, and then the US proceeded to vaporize a trillion dollars and thousands of soldiers trying to keep the Iraqis from killing each other in civil war, the context of which dates back hundreds of years; and when they asked, the US left.

What other empire has ever behaved like that? What other empire wouldn't have just tried to annex Japan, South Korea, and parts of Europe? For a century the US has had the world's wealthiest, largest economy, and for a century it has given more charitably than any other nation. What other empire has ever behaved like that? For 70 years the US has had by far the world's most powerful military, and yet it has annexed how much territory through military invasions and conquering in that time? What other empire has ever behaved like that?
It takes some special sort of entitlement to believe that despite stealing most of their money, then asked to work and make up for the remainder of the population, they will continue to work after a while and contribute to your economy.

If you are not aware of what happens in situations like this, I would like to take you to pre-1990s India. Some of the most brightest, brilliant, hard working and industrious people used to leave the country and never to return the moment they attained working age.

The people and money from whom you can take the wealth to fund your socialist schemes shrinks every year. To a point you will have a country full of entitled people, who think they were born with rights to free stuff. And will always be angry at people capable of working who don't spend away their life to make it happen for them.
> one of the companies I recognized was Darn Tough, a sock company. I picked up a 3-pair set of theirs a few years back and they're still my favorite socks.

I have one pair and they are truly unbelievable. Ordinarily socks may last me a year or so before the toes or heels give out. I've had the Darn Toughs for at least three years and they look as good as new despite regular use. From the look of them I might wear out before they do.

"If our socks aren’t the most comfortable, durable and best fitting socks you’ve ever owned, we’ll replace them free of charge, for life, no strings attached."

I'm proud to say that they're made in my home state of Vermont.
I've co-owned a small co-working space for about a year now. It's been a good decision, financially. Nothing extravagant, but I certainly have no regrets and I'd invest in another if the opportunity came up.

One thing that I think helps is that historically, consulting rooms have been a big desk in a 4x4m room with 1-2 client chairs facing the tenant. In a co-working space, you could accommodate 3-4 desks/tenants in the same area, especially if you're open plan. Generally speaking, you can charge 3-4 people for a desk more than you can charge a single user for a room.

More business than ever is online, and shared boardrooms suffice for meetings, private client calls, etc. Most people now get by without loads of filing and other storage space so a fairly standard desk (smaller than what we used 10-20 years ago) does the job.
I had trouble determining if this was satire or not. Its a picture of a VHS cassette and not a particularly interesting one. Im not saying that he shouldn't get attribution for his work, but this is also generic enough as to not be a unique work of art.
"If a lottery ticket's prices goes up, and the purse goes down and/or the odds get longer, you'll be less inclined to buy a ticket"

Has this effect been shown in the real world? That implies more interest in the odds than their target market demonstrates any interest in (hence the term, "for the math-impaired").
Fair enough. I don't know enough about other package managers to know if they can be sequenced like this, but there's nothing wrong with providing another listing like OP with the script link.
The funny thing is that you are obviously right about their problems and despite the fact that an anonymous stranger on a forum can easily answer this, the billion dollar machine won't change to save its life.
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The very same wikipedia articles talks about how pictures of a vodka bottle dont pass, and cant be copyrighted. So I would assume the VHS is the exact same story.
I don't think a citation is necessary. Just the roads in this country represent enormous wealth, and they're all owned by the government. Throw in the national parks, the national forests, all the government owned land (the government owns most of Alaska). Next, all the military bases and hardware, airplanes, ships, support structure. The infrastructure, NASA, buildings, waterways, riparian rights, and, let's not forget, all the money the government collects and spends every year.

Here's even more: http://business.time.com/2013/02/05/the-federal-governments-...

As for how banks work, pretty much any book on how the banking business works will tell you that. Or you could watch that old movie "It's a Wonderful Life" where they give an accurate description at the end how banks work. And frankly, it's just common sense. Why would banks offer free checking? They're not charities. They need the money so they can turn around and loan it out. It's fundamentally how banking works.

I've never heard of a Scrooge McDuck cash vault outside of a comic book. Have you? (There is Fort Knox, but that's the feds, and it's not cash.)

https://money.howstuffworks.com/personal-finance/banking/ban...
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I agree, FB/Twitter etc, filters or blocks content which doesn't suite their agenda. Saying from experience as well.
He does mention his wife is Indonesian, so maybe some kind of spouse visa
Only the newer companies (probably Netflix) have customer service that can actually ask anyone anything. Most big companies seem to have completely clueless or extremely siloed support. Probably because they have outsourced it.
I completely agree, and find this complaint to be very minor in severity.
> You have to remember the whole world operates on systems such as slack.

Um, really?
> On the Dropbox scale, a threading bug/race condition would typically show up as a significant, persistent issue, several orders of magnitude more common than the random oddball errors described in the article.

Threading bugs could have any kind of frequency, though. The ones that are unfrequent are the ones that tend to make it into production...
1. You can't get righted in the eye of the law without money to enforce it... A lot of money.

2. Gough Lui is unemployed, see #1. Lack of money to be made whole/ court fees.

3. Gough Lui is from Australia. You think getting whole was hard in the same country - now try another one.

4. They could have afforded to ignore it. Now it's social media for 5 minutes. So they might, or might not. Not like they're going to sue. See #1, #2, #3.
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> There’s my people and there’s your people

No, there is just people.
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While I agree with what you said, the counter-argument is that we do already pay taxes for the services that we use. You could argue that those taxes are too low because they don't capture the "gestalt" of civilization. But if you pursue that argument, then all humans, not just US citizens, should have equity since all humans contribute to the gestalt of civilization.
Wow, I must admit I somehow did not see the last fragment of that sentence. Reading it again it appears, unfortunately, those were exactly the few words someone would want to miss, to earn a promotion from mistaken to 180 degrees wrong with special recognition for offensive qualities.

I apologize with no reservations. I try to read precisely before responding, but clearly did not take care to do so in this case.

Ironically after reading/thinking more, we may actually have similar perspectives on the subject. I’m curious what you mean by “not well-ordered”? However if you do you feel like replying, no problem, I would understand that.

In any case, take care. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
Because tech recruiting is fundamentally broken. And pretty much every smart geek who thinks "How hard can it be?"and decides to disrupt it, ends up walking away battered and bruised (usually muttering under their breath "People man! You wouldn't _believe_ what people do sometimes!")

Also, because the people paying for and the people doing the recruiting have very different incentives, motives, and KPIs - from the people getting recruited... It doesn't make sense to _you_, because the question you think they're answering is not "How do we get the largest number of vaguely plausible candidates into the sausage-machine with the least amount of effort - while minimising the numb er of obvious no-hires down below some acceptable level - so that one one of them flukes the 'cultural fit' lottery we get 25% of their first year's salary?"
"When are those mythical monopoly price increases coming?"

They are not.

But the "promise" that they are, or could, inflates Amazon's stock price.

This is how they bank profit, not by traditional profit on income. This has the advantage that they don't need to pay tax, since they don't make any accounting profit.
From the referenced Wikimedia blog post[0] Wikimedia states, "The Wikimedia Foundation believes that the principle of net neutrality is critical to the future of the open Internet." Perhaps the concept is an evolution of Net Neutrality with the allowance of free distribution of necessities (knowledge in the case of Wikimedia), emergency services, &c.

[0] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/08/01/wikipedia-zero-and-net...
I gave up on coworking early this month. I've been using a coworking space for nearly 2 years, tested out various spaces and realized that they're just bad for productivity.

Far too many people at coworking spaces seem to be there for networking, or are simply not serious enough about work.

I moved to a 'business center' (like Regus) which has a much quieter and more professional environment. Couldn't be happier.
>He could not have done them if Fuji hadn't manufactured the tapes. Did he get Fuji's permission to use their product's likeness?

This is actually a huge issue here, since the photo is a perfect replica of their tape design with very little additional creativity. Photographers do have to get rights if the stuff they photograph is the creative expression of others.
DMCA takedown?
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It is also a good question of if the images were modified substantially enough to count as a derivative work by Netflix. I think because this is also a common image with absolutely no identifying features or labeling it significantly weakens their claim against Netflix.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_work -- In this case based on a lay reading of the case law it is not clear to me. http://foundrylawgroup.com/copyright-copywrong-what-are-deri... -- another discussion. Based on US law I am guessing this is OK, it is not an exact rip off and has been modified at some. Anyhow it is a complex legal issue and I see a rush to judgment here ethically.

Morally I agree with the author and think Netflix should just throw him a bone since they decided to ask forgiveness (maybe....) rather than permission.
The vodka example is talking about the text rather than it being a plain photo of an inanimate object, right?
I'd like to know how someone drives 3.5mi daily for $2.50 with Uber, even with pool, in SF. My pool rides start out at around $4 one-way, for .5mi and under. UberX is $7+ at minimum, and quickly tops $10 for 1mi+ trips.
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