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> It's not all black and white though. Pirating torrent site realistically don't care if pirated stuff is from copyright hoarder or content creator. It's easy to say "those corporate money grabbers are evil" but in reality nobody cares who to pirate from.

Some do, some don't.

I don't doubt your anecdotes, but I doubt it's true as a pattern.

Something being pirated 1M times never means 1M lost sales. It could mean 2K lost sales or it could mean 200K lost sales.

The book your writer wrote, did it build on a genre, area of expertise, setting that inherently draws inspiration from earlier works? Where do we draw the line on what you can borrow?

If copyright law was as established and enforced 400 years ago as it is today, Shakespeare wouldn't exist (in our knowledge). For two reasons: He wouldn't have read as much as he did, and he couldn't have borrowed as much as he did for his works.

We want some kind of middleground. Creators should be compensated, but complete all-encompassing DRM means only a fraction of people would've watched Game of Thrones to discuss it at the water cooler, Kanye West (regardless of what you think of his music) wouldn't be able to release most of his music, etc.
btdb.io and btdig

btdig seems better as it doesn't have annoying pop ups, which are constantly brought up on btdb, even with ublock origin and noscript. I would not be surprised that btdb is buying ads from an ad provider that sell js injections to a MPAA operated third party.

btdb is nice because you can sort by seeds, you cannot with btdig.

To be honest I stopped using classic torrent indexers entirely since I started using DHT indexes. They have much larger choice. The issue is that you cannot "post" magnets links on the DHT automatically (I think you cannot), so the DHT works as long as people are finding magnets or torrents elsewhere. It's bringing more decentralization, which mean more chaos but much less traceability.
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Who's to say they haven't just hashed each individual character of the password?
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I suspect that’s part of it but you don’t spend billions of dollars just to make a few X-men movies.
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The article is about a Volvo factory in China.
> no one forsaw the retrograde in the relationship

That's plainly not true. George Kennan did.

"I think it is the beginning of a new cold war," said Mr. Kennan from his Princeton home. "I think the Russians will gradually react quite adversely and it will affect their policies. I think it is a tragic mistake. There was no reason for this whatsoever. No one was threatening anybody else. This expansion would make the Founding Fathers of this country turn over in their graves. We have signed up to protect a whole series of countries, even though we have neither the resources nor the intention to do so in any serious way. [NATO expansion] was simply a light-hearted action by a Senate that has no real interest in foreign affairs."

"What bothers me is how superficial and ill informed the whole Senate debate was," added Mr. Kennan, who was present at the creation of NATO and whose anonymous 1947 article in the journal Foreign Affairs, signed "X," defined America’s cold-war containment policy for 40 years. "I was particularly bothered by the references to Russia as a country dying to attack Western Europe. Don’t people understand? Our differences in the cold war were with the Soviet Communist regime. And now we are turning our backs on the very people who mounted the greatest bloodless revolution in history to remove that Soviet regime.
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> So, what you're saying is they protect the value of a currency by devaluing it?

A central banks job is to stabilize the currency and the relevant economy. Controlling liquidity and interest rates are two tools to affect this change. Side effects of which are controlling the rate of inflation.

Stability is the key for a currency at global level.

But don't take my word for it:

"The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Open Market Committee shall maintain long run growth of the monetary and credit aggregates commensurate with the economy's long run potential to increase production, so as to promote effectively the goals of maximum employment, stable prices, and moderate long-term interest rates."

https://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/section2a.htm
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Just because something changes often doesn't mean it is unstable. Do you ever shop at amazon.com? I do, and I find it pretty stable.

Just because it changes often doesn't mean things are sloppily accepted, or that experimental ideas are added and later removed.

Indeed, if you want to build something for the web, reading an outdated document that contains bugs browsers have already fixed is not a good idea.
> I have a hard time to comprehend how this can be considered a reasonable security measure.

OK, let's walk it through.

Task: block access to "attacker.com" and all it's subdomains.
Reason: Maybe it's a malware command and control, maybe it's being used for DNS tunneling, whatever. Blocking a domain that's being used for malicious behavior is a reasonable thing for an enterprise to want to accomplish.

Option 1: Block by IP at the firewall.
Problems: Attackers can simply point the domain to another IP, so you're constantly playing whack-a-mole and constantly behind the attacker. Also, if it's a DNS tunnel the DNS answer is what's interesting, not the traffic to the actual IP.
Result: Fail, doesn't solve the problem.

Option 2: Block by DNS Name at the firewall.
Problems: Requires the firewall to understand the protocols involved, which they have shown themselves to be inconsistent at, at the best of times. Also, doing regex on every DNS query packet(in order to find all subdomains) doesn't scale.
Result: Fail, doesn't scale.

Option 3: Block with local agent.
Problems: Tablets, phones, appliances, printers can't run a local agent.
Result: Fail. Not complete coverage

Option 4: Block outbound DNS except for approved resolvers, give those resolvers an RPZ feed of malicious domains.
Problem: Clients have to be configured to use those resolvers, but otherwise none.
Result: Pass. It's standards compliant, and DNSSec isn't an issue since the resolver never asks for the attackers DNS answer, so they never get the chance to offer DNSSec.

That's why option 4 (or some variant of it) is popular in enterprises. It accomplishes the task in a standards-compliant way, and covers the entire enterprise in a way that scales well.

DOH blows this up. So, the question becomes: in a world with DOH, how is an enterprise supposed to completely and scalably block access to "attacker.com" and all its subdomains? So far, the answer has been "you don't." I think that is a really shitty answer to someone who's trying to accomplish something reasonable.
I know the current manglement isn't explicitly malicious, but this is an atrocious state of affairs.

Practically speaking, the Web is a consortium of corporate foghorns that also happen to collectively be the majority ad-hoc directors of new media (translation: agendas with finance). Cable and daytime TV was the old media, which of course still exists, and social media has become a juggernaut majority of its own beside that.

So, you'd think the actual grassroots on-the-ground parts of a project that is ostensibly defined to be open and free, would actually be made of extremely smart people with straightforward management and as little bureaucracy as possible. Because, you know, the part where everything hits the ground needs to be well-oiled, have no chinks in the armor, and provide a secure foundation of independence.

And yet we have... chaos, infighting, politics and wars over (literally) nothing. And while all that's happening, corporations are progressively nibbling away at the capabilities we have today (to set up websites, to communicate freely) that we take for granted. One day we'll wake up checkmated by some incredibly well-engineered chess move...

Sighs

If the net neutrality thing is repealed, I will be exactly 0% surprised. It'll just be another EME, really.
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No they aren't. Slides are a skeleton. Just bullet points that 99% of the time offer no usable information
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It's worth it to learn Spanish just to read his books.
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He's right about one thing. You will die of boredom in Lincoln. There are plenty of other nearby Midwestern cities with character and interesting stuff to do (and people to see). Omaha and Kansas City are a couple. I'd probably pick Des Moines over Lincoln, too. It really is as described: sprawling new developments on old farmland in a (sort of) Big 10 college town.

A lot of folks in the Valley who are the hardest hit by these economic changes grew up in California. It's ironic to me that somebody from the Midwest move there and then criticize the residents for not moving to where they moved away from.
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https://youtu.be/PXBJIZ1NXFU

(Epic Rap Battles of History, Stan Lee vs Jim Henson)

Whole video is good imo, but skip to around 2:06 onwards for the relevant bit. Sums up the feeling nicely I think.
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> Historically Russia has been behaving aggressively and recklessly since at least 18th century

Two world wars happened since at least 20th century. Napoleonic before that.

Countries go to wars. Since forever. Aggressively and recklessly. Doesn't make agreements less important. A poor agreement is better than a good war, isn't it?
The problem isn't what you learn, it's whether you can show the piece of paper proving you learned it.

I learned most of my undergrad education on my own at home from the books suggested. My education cost me time + the price of the books. However to get the exams, grades and piece of paper in the end, it costs a lot of money.

If we could decouple certification/exams from private institutions, autodidactic people could get their Bachelor's degree almost for free. For Master and PhD degrees I guess the point is more to do research.
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I can't speak for the spec authors, but IMHO, tags should be deprecated and eventually removed when they are deemed to be useless, especially when their functions and/or semantics are covered by another tag, and especially when their use is harmful (or rather, more harmful than beneficial).

In my (very personal) opinion, an HTML tag or attribute, and more generally a feature of any design/development framework, should be considered possibly harmful if it:

- presents possible security problems; for examples, consider some of the points listed here: https://html5sec.org/

- promotes poor usability or accessibility; e.g. interactive tooltips with links or controls in them, for example, are quite difficult to make accessible, and I wouldn't want an HTML <tooltip> tag without a lot of discussion about accessibility

- promotes anti-patterns; e.g., at this point I think <marquee>-style scrolling informational text is an anti-pattern in a web context, since it can the text much harder to read, especially on small screens

Of course, none of these concerns should lead to immediate removal of a thing as soon as they're pointed out, but they should be discussed and considered. It's a cost-benefit analysis: what does this feature actually buy us that isn't easily achievable with other features, what problems is it causing and how severe are they, and are the benefits worth the problems?

As for <menu>, my guess, though I haven't been able to find the actual discussion, is that it was removed because its semantics are somewhat in conflict with <nav>, and probably its most common use was custom context (aka "right-click") menus, which bring a lot of accessibility problems with them. I don't know that I agree with the decision to remove it altogether, since I think its use to semantically identify and group web application controls is very valuable and not covered by any other tags (though I'd love to be corrected), but I do think that context menus, which to me seems like the most common use for the <menu> tag, are a very problematic design element. Again, it's a balance; is it worth the problems it causes? I guess the authors decided it wasn't.

(Just to reiterate, I don't know why <menu> was removed, I'm just guessing. If anyone can find any of the discussions about <menu> and the problems with it, I'd love to read more.)
True that the parent comment was more about aesthetics. I may have jumped too eagerly on the word "inherently".

Back to the topic of risk, I don't think the average girl is so risk-averse that she won't engage in exploratory activities. Curiosity is universal.
The podcast 99% Invisible has an episode about the history of shopping malls. As conceived by Victor Gruen, a European immigrant, malls originally included these everyday places. He imagined them as "third places" for the suburbs beyond home and work. Later he became a critic of what malls became. It's worth a listen/read:

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-gruen-effect/
> There's also the issue where history has basically never been kind to groups of people who felt they could live a stable, boring existence while clinging to old ways and enjoying a high standard of living.

As an interesting counter example, iirc one of the main groups of people who survived the Irish potato famine were the Celts, because they refused to give up the old ways of eating wild Clover and switch to growing potatoes.

Generally I agree though.

EDIT:

source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1UJvl4JeCo
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Yes, but it is also supposed to communicate the point. Which is not always possible in a tl;dr because if it was the author probably would have just written a single paragraph in the first place and saved a whole lot of time for everyone.
Which Bunn coffee maker do you have? I'm looking to get one and they have many different versions.
Wow, Disney didn’t ask them to divest FX, which means they’re knowingly acquiring It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia among other content they’d normally not find palatable. They even call out that they’re bringing in The Americans and Deadpool. That’s kind of strange for Disney, given that historically they’re careful about what they’re associated with. I really hope they leave their new portfolio alone, but that’s not their MO with content that they find controversial.
There is no quick way to get a good grasp on ML. You just need to spent the time needed to get there, reading and working on simple problems, carefully validating that you understand concepts as you go. It's like asking for a way to learn mathematics or computer programming in an hour. Hint: there isn't.
You've mischaracterized their work.

They didn't predict what you said they did. They showed a range of possible outcomes based on assumptions, among many. You seem to have picked one outcome as their only one and called it their prediction.

They created a model based on a systems approach whose output depended on assumptions on physical properties of the planet and future human choices. Given the large uncertainties, they ran the model under many sets of assumptions and presented the outcomes.

The point of the book is to illustrate and promote a systems perspective, not just a linear, event-based approach, which you seem to prefer.
Maybe it's also just that a mall is a place where you shop for fun, and post-gen-X there's been less general fetishizing of consumption all around.
New York City (the city proper, not including the suburbs) has that many people in a fraction of the area.
Disney owns ESPN. Combining Fox Sports and ESPN is big in its own right.
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Because there is a 0.35c flat fee per donation along with the 2.9% (ignored in the sample).

So giving ten euros to 1 creator actually costs 10.35 to the patron.
Giving 1 euros to 10 creators costs 13.50
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Thank you for the kind words! I mean, really -- it feels really cool to be appreciated by someone whom one's work has not brought the slightest benefit to. thanks again!

to be honest, yes, by the time (if ever) this project takes off, transpiling has most probably become an obsolete tradition; so I totally agree with you on that.

Ah, as for the country I come from, I will be more than glad (and very grateful) to talk to you about it through my public npm email, or my github email, whichever you find more convenient.....
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> The computation [...] is multiplying two 64-bit unsigned integers, giving a 128-bit product. Some machines have an instruction for that.

And compilers often let you call these instructions fairly directly, with compiler intrinsics.

With Visual Studio on Windows x64, for example, you can implement the mulul64() function with _umul128:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/intrinsics/umul128
(and expect quite a good speedup)
> The important part of this is that I never be under any illusion that I something that I toss together and make capable of ‘running’ be definitive code that can be put into production or used as-is, and that under no circumstances must the coders have any bright ideas about fudging the underlying mathematics.

But there should be some cross germination between you and your coders? You must have learned ways to make your spaghetti code less cumbersome for them and they probably have learned something about the underlying economics so that they know what it is you’re doing and how to keep everything to your needs. Similarly you’re not reinventing the wheel each time so you must be using tools developed by them more and more as time goes on?
Are they safer now that Russia considers itself unbound of any agreements?

Not being threatened: you're doing it wrong.
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So along with Disney pulling all their titles from Netflix for their own streaming service, I guess the FX content will be next to go from Netflix.
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Yes you do.

According to wired, [0] Disney paid Lucas Arts $4.5B, which half was cash.

In 2016, [1] The Force Awakens made $1.54B globally. Maybe it's more now.

Lets say that the last Jedi manages the same success? Well, they made their money back and the new rumored trilogy. That's profit.

When you can put Spiderman and the X-men in the same universe as the Avengers and do the next 20 or 30 super hero movies where one, two, three, four, etc characters from the universe makes an appearance?

I'm pretty sure fans of whatever franchise will line up to throw money in seeing the movies.

This really sounds like a no brainer to me.

[0]: https://www.wired.com/2015/12/disney-star-wars-return-on-inv...

[1]: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-star-wars-...
You have a point but tragically misrepresent the order of events:

First NATO expanded, 15 years later, little green men.

You can't blame former on latter.
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Organizing a parade or festival on main street would also require a permit from City.
I don't know that the banks "tell" vendors "This purchase was made with a pre-paid credit/bank card" - I've not seen a flag that shows that before.
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> As long as the checkout and account management pages are https, then I don't see the big issue here.

How do you arrive at the checkout and account management pages? By clicking on a link. If the whole site isn't encrypted, the link can be modified to point to false checkout and account management pages. HTTPS is not only for privacy, it's also for integrity.
which means less content for netflix I would assume. not worried to much about the R rated content they got, they are staunch anti gambling not exactly staunch anti R except under the original brand
When I referred to repeated demonstrations of contempt of due process I was largely thinking about the over-zealous takedowns where fair use has applied and that it is just as likely that with being granted direct blocking of an ever-increasing number of domains that some claims are over-exaggerated to the court and the threshold for evidence lowered.

I acknowledge that youtube seems very different from hosting a site specifically for unlawfully distributing copyrighted works. But there was a time when Youtube arguably blurred the line and gave publicity to the "our users just posted it and we didn't know about it" defence.

There's a real societal risk to treating what would formerly be called culture as intellectual capital and granting extreme powers to owners of that capital. Though the costs of distribution have never been lower there comes a point where the cost of distribution exceeds the expected returns. Even if the work is distributed for free, there is still a cost.

If we're going to allow the whole one download equals 0 < x <= 1 lost sales thing that seems to be increasingly accepted now, then you are implicitly allowing that it is the lost sale that is the problem. As such, distribution of out of print material without fee is as damaging because if I listen to n hours per week of material then I am not buying that n hours of material and I have deprived a sale. The same can be said for any intellectual capital, even copyleft, that does not make money. Effectively, it becomes a divine right to have customers which is a bizarre line of thinking that seldom seems to be explicitly stated.

I have listened to works that I could not, even though I strongly desire to, buy on CD or obtain by lawful download. There are some who argue a particular line that has the corollary that the work should be lost forever and I should never have heard them. By the lost sale argument I definitely shouldn't have and should instead have spent money on new culture that personally I find quite grating.

There are books, games, software, songs, albums, movies and TV series for which the copyright persists but there is no lawful distribution channel. This effectively makes it civilly or criminally unlawful to distribute the work for free. In these cases I would certainly think twice before taking on the burden of becoming that distributor.
Yes, but the researcher who can’t really code isn’t likely to go and learn Julia. A nudge is often better than pulling the rug out from under them.
They are likely to be somewhat desperate.

Consider this, though, if the only protection of one's income came from a license - it makes sense to enforce that license against people who didn't pay substantially over $75,000, after contacting them several times.
Market freedom leads to competition, doncha know?