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But wait. $1.54B at the box office doesn't equal $1.54B in profit. Right?
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> But this is not likely to happen with Amazon.

Agreed. But "unlikely to happen to [specific company]" is a wildly different assertion than "Isn't it obvious that once you have a big selling platform, you can make it grow until you hit a competitor that is bigger than you?"

The implication of the latter statement is that once you're ahead, you're destined to stay ahead unless you hit upon a competitor that's already bigger. Obviously, that hasn't been true in the real world.
> I find whenever I suggest that, people act like if they move there they will be lynched - as if the place is a primitive wasteland inhabited by backwards rednecks carrying pitchforks. In reality, it is a modestly wealthy area filled with dentists, insurance providers, accountants, and other mid-level white collar workers

If you get a better image the first people to move there will be the rich ones who want out of SV and then turn the place into where they came from. Look what happened to Denver.
No thank you. I'm not 19 anymore. I'll take the high paying job, and dump the rest into Vanguard funds. Guarantee I'll make more money off of the majority of nonsense stock options.
> stereotypes are true more often than not

Yes, more often than not. Sometimes they're wrong. For example, the now common stereotype that stereotypes are mostly wrong is wrong.

> Slavery

What does slavery have to do with it, except nothing?

Let's give a more realistic example:

Say there's a woman walking alone at night. She notices a large man walking behind her. She crosses the road. Now she knew nothing of this man, so she just used her stereotypes (large men=possibly dangerous) and the situation (late at night) to inform her decision. Evil stereotype or prudent decision? Has he been "victimized" by the (almost certainly) incorrect assumption of her's that he is a danger?
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>I grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska. I'd suggest that these people move there, for the low cost of living combined with the vibrant-enough economy.

What, the local taxidermist is hiring?
I've been managing all my application daemons with supervisord across systems for this reason - it's agnostic as to the underlying init system, can restart crashed daemons, and provides the same kind of "service up/down" functionality as sysv or systemd. Systemd can do quite a lot, but if you have to do any kind of orchestration across nonhomogenous machines, you can't necessarily count on it being in play.
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The smartphone/gadget addiction is definitely not an outlier issue. It is an ENTIRE GENERATION issue.
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They still taught double space after period in typing class in the late 90s.

It has been a difficult habit for me to break.
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Yep, I was aware it was going to be around 11k legislators. Makes it a hell of a lot harder to buy them out, and use the money->influence pipeline.

And with newer tech, like the Internet (which was an academic curiosity when the 535 rule was enacted) can now easily network 11k representatives. There's now very little reason to meet physically in a room. Especially if we value transparency.
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Market freedom leads to consolidation which leads to the exact opposite of competition.

This is why the United States, contrary to popular opinion, is not a purely capitalist nation; it is instead a hybrid between socialism and capitalism. Reasonable regulation protects the free market.
I managed to merge my Skype and Xbox Live accounts, and couldn't get them separated again.

The steps I found to unlink within the XBox UI didn't work, futher research now leads me to the following discussion which I am about to try: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/oemail...

Edit: it looks like this was possible in the past (basically deleting the Skype account?), but not anymore.
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And it turns out it wasn't really an issue, just unintuitive. Documentation has been updated.
Absolutely. Reviews get purged all the time, you simply don't see them because you're not actively monitoring them.

Amazon tends to remove reviews in waves. I suspect this is so that they can use known fraudulent reviewers to catch unknown fraudulent reviewers.

As a seller, it was a great day to see my number one and two competitor have their product reviews dropped to almost 0 overnight. I didn't lose a single review. I hope Amazon keeps up what they're doing because it will only make things better.

P.S. Other things to look at are:

1. Many reviews in a short time frame (Only 1-3% of people leave a product review, so if you see 20 reviews in 3 days, they would have needed to sell almost 700 units! Not impossible for a very well established product, but a new one? Almost impossible, report it.)

2. The very first reviews. These are almost always fake and unverified. No one ever looks for this but it is the most common indicator in my experience of faked reviews given how low the bar is.

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The problem with this argument is that there is no particular "they" that lied here. George Bush (senior) negotiated these assurances and then, almost a decade later, Clinton reneged on them.

I think it is generally known that foreign relation promises not enshrined in formal treaties should not be expected to last across different administrations.
>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.

Does that mean that those dying of famine could just go eat some wild clover, but they didn't?

Doesn't sound right.
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you're not addressing the people in article at all. It literally references a single mother that works in kitchens and you're complaining about upper middle class people that sneer at Nebraska? what's wrong with you?

People live where jobs are, and a lot of them have reasons to stay in the Bay. She has children and a life. She's not a fucking software engineer that can just pick and move.
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Your math is impeccable. But I do wonder if someone is considering the possibility that people will get tired of superhero movies in the relatively near future and the whole concept will seem dated.
> But how does this happen?

IMO both the patent and the copyright laws, at least in the US, are broken. The original goal was good: encourage individual inventors to make technology that the whole society will benefit from at a price of some limitation on use by society for a short period of time. In the current system, "the whole society will benefit" part does not work because time limits are too high -- at the modern technology pace, in 20 years most inventions are obsolete.

I think the best way to fix it is to drastically shorten the time the invention is protected, which would require major compromises. Unfortunately, the discussion now seems very polarized: it seems to be "all information should be free" against "copyright everything and it needs to last longer, longer, longer" as major camps with little in the middle.
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Exactly - I'm thrilled to donate $30-50/mo to the YouTuber FlightChops because he does some amazing, high production value work and I want him to be able to keep doing it. Even still, I only watch 1/3-1/2 of his videos simply because it's rare that I have 25-30 minutes to sit down and watch one. I'm happy to donate the money to him because he's doing good work and I spend a lot more money on much more pointless things. I don't view myself as buying anything from him. I wouldn't be upset if he went 2 months without putting anything out just like I wouldn't be upset if he put out 10 videos in a month (I have a cap on my donation to him as I think most Patrons do).
It’s indicative of how big a hit the movie is. They get a chunk of every toy, birthday hat, blanket, clothing item, etc that has Star Wars stamped on it.
Sure but go read the original pitch for it on wikipedia. It sounds word for word like Star Citizen. If we get another Freelancer, the project will have failed once again... it'll be years overdue and missing 90% of its promised feature set.

I dunno if you've played it recently btw, but it hasn't aged that well either.

Ambition and wild ideas are fine, but you shouldn't make promises you can't deliver on.
>I think EU should make it easier for US citizens who get any job here to move over. Americans in general are super hard working. Europe needs hard working people

Assuming the words EU, Germany etc mean anything more than plots of land (e.g. a culture, a people, shared history etc), then merely replacing a population with another from abroad is not a solution to EU's or Germany's problem of aging population.

It might be a solution to "working hands" needed, but not to the general problem of "how we ensure there remains something like Germany in 2500 and is not just some geographical boundaries".

>Americans in general are super hard working.

Whereas Asians and Africans etc (common immigration origins into EU today) are lazy? In fact, as employers typically abuse them (based on their semi-legal status), they work hard even without all the benefits you suggest Americans workers would have (so from the perspective of the employers they're even better).
Right, but a large majority of it is. The film cost $445 million to make, including actors' salaries and marketing. That's over a billion in profit.
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Just found it interesting (I don't know the author of this post).

A point to note here is that I have been working in C/C++ for both desktop and embedded development for 20+ years and was actually shocked that as a novice in Erlang I was able to implement it better there than in C++ where I am much more experienced.

http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2017-December/094419.html
Abstinence is not an alternative?

I've never understood why so many people feel that they have to see every superhero movie or every Blockbuster.
After some initial successes in computer chess, the defeat of grand masters was declared to be imminent, but human players struck back with strategies that considerably delayed that outcome. I wonder if there is any possibility that a good player could find a weakness in AlphaZero's game, but the way you describe it makes that seem highly unlikely.
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Disney makes an awful lot of money based on government restraint of competitors.

Copyright.
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Sadly Hulu is only available in the U.S., although I find that I can rent/buy from google a lot of content that isn't available on Netflix.
There are probably reviewers in good conscience and those who take advantage of the system.

The main problem compared to other environments is that reviewers on Amazon have no real accountability: try to sing praises of a bad videogame or movie as a journalist or youtuber and you'll be instantly known as a shill and a sellout.

On Amazon, more than taking a mental note of particularly suspect reviewers, there is really little you can do.
Maybe, maybe not. For companies that are making lots of profits, they wouldn't necessarily need to raise prices just because they raise wages. It's just that more of their revenue would be going back to the workers than where it's currently going (e.g. cash, shareholders, CEOs).
People aren't stupid they know it's wrong to download a movie or music they didn't buy. But everyone agrees the response by the US law enforcement is overreaching and out of proportion.

Convenience is the real reason people went to websites such as the Pirate bay not stealing, people don't buy fast food for their health.

The rise of cheap and reliable streaming video websites such as Netflix changed that. That's all anyone wanted a convenient reliable way to legally watch and pay a reasonable amount.
So what you're saying is that Disney will own The Simpsons?
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How is it that this is so much less anti-competitive than bundling an OS with a web browser?
Stepwise regression is not to be recommended because it's very easy to fool oneself.

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Shrinkage methods like lasso/elasticnet are less susceptible to these problems.
Maybe there will be a consolidation and some crappy repetitive movies will go away? I think these businesses are overvalued.
What happens when consumers get sick of the super hero genre?

EDIT: for whoever down-voted - that wasn't a sarcastic question. Honest question of what happens when the main products lose popularity? If there is a downturn in interest in that, will they get their $50B back?
Yes, 'Fast Casual' in the Chipotle and Panera style has seen a huge growth boom as well as experiential retail like the Apple Store, Sephora Makeup, Alamo Drafthouse and etc..

Personally I try to buy everything online that I can't walk to and I bought a lot at Best Buy this year. They gave me free wall mount installation from their local location on my television that I bought from their web site and it's nice to have a physical location nearby for bigger purchases in case you need to return something.

In addition, the Walmarts and Targets see an obvious future where you buy things from their web stores online but just have it shipped to their physical locations where you can pick it up during your weekly grocery run. This is already a reality.

There are clear secular trends towards online shopping and against malls but a lot of the shakeout has taken place already and a lot of the weak hands have already left the game. Those that remain along with new entrants are adapting quickly which is why I think the 'retail apocalypse' has already hit the peak of the hype cycle.
I've been 100% on board with this kind of thing. Help people who lack a sense of purpose to contribute towards maintaining the things that make their lives better. Infrastructure is exactly the kind of area that needs bodies thrown at it (under skilled supervision, of course)
I'm suspicious when I hear that more than one person to committed suicide. When there's a child involved in the parents' "suicide"...
As a former Redbox employee told me: this is a premium service from card issuers.
It's also possible that the Engine is, and was, offered under multiple terms simultaneously to hit different parts of the market.

I'm speculating (yay internet!), but for Enterprise components developers profit from there's often a "buy the cow up front" option along with a "free cow today for a sip of the milk tomorrow" model.

Star Citizen, particularly before the crowd funding, wouldn't have wanted to give them a lot of cash up front, and got some really nice concessions in the deal (free promos and development).
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So, will the Fox fanfare return to all Star Wars films, past and present, from now on?
Also, Star Citizen's most recent patch (3.0) includes volumetric fog tech developed by Amazon.
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Like Libya. Qaddafi dismantled his nuclear weapons programme and chemical weapons programme, cooperated with efforts to end nuclear proliferation down to exposing everyone who sold or otherwise helped and shared intelligence on terrorist threats and organisations. And in the end he died of being sodomised by bayonet after the US supported an uprising he would have easily crushed otherwise.

Kim was watching and so was every other dictator. You need nuclear weapons if you want security. The US can’t credibly commit to leave any power alone that’s not a client.
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Yes they do.

Ubuntu considers AWS/GCP to be certified platforms so the server is fully tested on AWS as a hardware platform and there are specific kernel/toolchain/user-space optimisations done to make it run well [0].

The advantage of one of the existing distributions over Amazon Linux is that they are available and tested across multiple clouds, hardware platforms and range of software.

[0] https://www.ubuntu.com/cloud/public-cloud this page leads to various documentation on images, optimisations etc.
I'm generally on top of my idiom game, but I didn't know about this one. Thanks for pointing it out, if nothing else for satisfying a curiosity I didn't know I had.
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This is the reason why we need countries that will stand up against USA. China's rise in that sense is good.
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>Of those who do move, do you think they will be smart or stupid for doing so?

Parent didn't mention smart or stupid, he mentioned culture. Regardless of smarts, Americans wont be sharing the same culture with this or that European people.

>Isn't Europe full of Middle Eastern refugees and globalists?

Even if so, how would adding American immigration to that help?

>Is your view a minority or is it a common opinion of Europeans?*

We usually like our culture, thank you very much.
> and for some bizarre historical reason, now own the rights to Star Wars IV, A New Hope

These were distribution rights, some of which were going to expire in 2020 anyway.[1] So now we may finally get some official unspecialized Star Wars.

[1]: http://www.slashfilm.com/20th-century-fox-still-owns-rights-...
That would be a fascinating way to do a scam. Send snail mail to people directing them to a site that looks like a major company, ask them to enter in their PII and boom, there you go. Of course now you've committed untold amounts of federal crime by using the postal system and you'd definitely get sent to federal PMITA prison if you got caught. But I could definitely see this working on older people who, bless their little hearts, just don't know any better.
I am charged with the task of returning a university that used to be a research school before the Khmer Rouge to be a national research university. Professors are paid a little over US$500 a month by the government. Staff often have to buy their own office supplies, computers and even light bulbs. We're finally getting some foreign grants from China to rebuild some of the laboratories, but there is no budget for paying subscriptions to journals. JSTOR provides reasonable discounts for developing countries, as does APNIC (for IP blocks) but it's difficult to try to build something when US45,000 a year is considered to be a low paying job and used as a baseline for access to information.

Thankfully there is lib-gen and sci-hub. Sadly, the United States is trying to force developing countries to support copyright measures that will lock us out if we adopt them.
Your first point is not true compared to Ubuntu at least [0]. AWS is basically are repackaged version of KVM (the last time I checked), so there's no particular advantage. Ubuntu (and I'm sure Centos/RHEL) provide custom images which have the same optimised code.

[0] I'm pretty sure it's true for CentOS / RHEL, I just don't know for a fact.
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> Why pay $2000 a month when you have the whole country you could live in for much less?

Because people who are food insecure don't have savings to relocate, or the ability to take the income they have with them, generally.

> I grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska. I'd suggest that these people move there

Lincoln has a population of 250,000; there are, per the article, 720,000 food-insecure people in Silicon Valley (and with California’s CoL-based poverty rate of 15%, ~4.5 million poor in California.) Aside from the previously mentioned considerations, that suggestion wouldn't be viable for making even a noticeable dent in the problem.

> However, I find whenever I suggest that, people act like if they move there they will be lynched - as if the place is a primitive wasteland inhabited by backwards rednecks carrying pitchforks.

While not necessarily addressing Lincoln specifically, that's (while perhaps exaggerated) pretty consistent, at least for the non-whites overrepresented in Silicon Valley’s needy, consistent with what non-white (and white, the though it usually bugs them less) travellers have consistently told me: their worst experiences of in-your-face, constant racial/ethnic discrimination and tension in the US are almost always in the Midwest, both white v. non-white and between non-white groups.

> isn't boredom good if you want to raise a family?

Not really. There might be some things that are good that very loosely correlate with boredom, but boredom itself is bad.
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Amazon stock actually doesn't generate income on purpose for tax reasons. They reinvest almost 100% back into the company and by appreciating the stock price the shareholders and employees get to sell stock and only get hit for capital gains tax. This is almost exactly how Bitcoin works.
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Because Microsoft, for all their bad acting, didn't have a hand up the backside of enough senators to use as sockpuppets.

Disney does. They write our IP laws.
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You would need 100% test coverage to be certain you're not going to break something, though. And that's generally unheard of.
You could read it in a probabilistic sense. The bigger you are, the less likely that some other company will swoop you away. But it can happen, yes.
Yes, clearly Nebraska has nothing to offer, move along

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Working backwards: The Game [Star Citizen], that embeds the engine [CryEngine], does so to the exclusion of others.

Ie: the couldn't start on CryEngine, get free demos, then actually use Unreal Engine for the rest of the game.

The second interpretation is the only that makes sense, as the sentence is qualified for just Star Citizen. It's pretty clear in legal terms, and very clear in context that the exclusivity refers the there being a single, exclusive, engine.