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I read a great article years ago where a Disney executive argued that they had to view pirating as a competing business model, and provide a better experience instead of just trying to shut it down.

Disney and pirates compete on price, quality, availability, ease of use, and so on. Price is going to be hard to compete with since pirated stuff is free, and I guess they are attacking the availability of pirated material to increase their own by comparison, but what I wish they would focus on is to make it easier for the user to find the stuff they want. If I knew I could go somewhere for all of Disney's catalog of shorts and feature films, I'd be happy to pay a small amount per movie or subscribe for continuous access. Instead it's spread across multiple services, or you have to buy individual DVD boxes and try to assemble your own collection which is a lot of work. They could make it a lot easier for me to watch that specific short (now I go to YouTube and hope it's there) or movie (I check if it's on Netflix or another streaming service, and if not, I skip it).

My (limited) experience of NFL.com is that they've done great when it comes to making it easy to watch current and older games, with options to subscribe to all games or just one team. The English Premier League doesn't have the same centralized streaming service I know of and instead depends on selling the rights to TV channels to show games, which leads to consuming a lot of pirated material if you want to follow a specific team all season or want to watch all concurrent games.

If the content providers just compete in the areas they can affect, most people will pay to use it it's more convenient than the alternative.
“but Tesla has yet to build a machine that can manufacture Model 3s efficiently, reliable, quickly and at quality at the scale of the incumbent car industry.
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People love to call out the Model 3, but Tesla makes almost 2,000 cars a week. They obviously are having a problem with the battery for it. As a general problem, they are past making a few hundred cars a quarter.
There is a novel by a former senior UK general and deputy NATO leader that covers this scenario:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/former-nato-c...

Not a great novel but mildly interesting.
maybe he forgot a /s :-) While I believe that the Lightning Network is awesome and hope that Ethereum manages to get Sharding right. We don't know yet. So there is room for failure and it may turn out as disastrous.
> People can and do improve that way too

When learning Chess or Go, playing whole games with myself would be too tedious. Do people really do this?

But I have played countless opening sequences in chess and many many joseki lines in go, I have practised various piece mating combos in chess and different yose techniques in go, one does chess problems from newspapers or books and of course everyone knows you do go problems (tsumego) to get strong at go – this means I only ever play small subsets of both games against myself. Never whole games. It is this ability that the machines have over us.

The only whole games I've played are both sides of grandmaster level competitive-games in each board-game. But then, that's not really playing against myself where I choose each move. Some expert has chosen the move for me. Interestingly, AlphaZero does not need to learn this way because it can play itself so many times. Because that amount of times would be too tedious (possibly even unfeasible) for a human we will always continue to learn from expert play.

When AI is smart enough to know what expert play _is_ it may go back to using that technique.
Yeah, that's him both on SO and Reddit :)
<marquee> has never been part of any HTML standard, ever. It is listed as an obsolete feature in the HTML5 standard for the point of making it obsolete (a weird reason) but not mentioned anywhere else since time began.

I don't recall the reasons for removing <menu>
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> He was running a website that revolved around violating millions of copyrights. Why shouldn't he go to jail? What gives you the right to take someone else's painstakingly created artistic creation and give it away for free to thousands of people, depriving them of the exclusive right to sell their own work.

Why should an individual be treated so differently to what a company would? When was Youtube's office raided? To this day, Youtube holds immense collections of music for which nobody has bothered to file even an automated takedown notice.

The point that the parent made is that copyright is only criminally enforceable if held by the moneyed few. The power that has been handed to large corporations by the back door is immense and there is very little symmetry; even when the magnitude of the damage is orders of magnitude greater.

In the UK they have effectively been granted the power to block domains for customers of the ISPs that represent a significant majority of the UK market. This is in a court that routinely allows pre-hearing legal costs of hundreds of thousands of pounds. Unless you work for the media companies and have insider knowledge, how can you even be so sure that the media companies are not acting with the complete contempt of due process that they have repeatedly demonstrated.

> Copyright is both a criminal and civil matter.

Only fairly recently, and not without controversy from the people that observed it.
Here's a paper from 2014 that compares historical data from the 40 years since the limits to growth study was released:

http://sustainable.unimelb.edu.au/sites/default/files/docs/M...
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Thanks for the info! The book looks interesting.

Do you have an opinion on the fast.ai and deeplearning.ai courses?
I finally have some time to work through these and since the deeplearning.ai series starts on December 18th, I'm wondering which one to dive into since I can't tell from the outside how they compare.
I see this so often with academics. They’re not developers and only have basic coding ability. So they make all kinds of basic mistakes like trying to load a bunch of images converting them to float (IR images for example) and wondering where their memeory went. I took some spaghetti code that took a couple of days to process thousands of IR images, in batches, and wrote one that ran in under a minute simply because they didn’t manage their memory at all.

Even something as opening CSV files quickly can have a massive effect.

Lots of Universities switched from FORTRAN to Matlab in the last decade but many of the researchers who learned FORTRAN try to write Matlab like FORTRAN with messy nested for loops and no knowledge of vectorisation.
What's "Amazon integration"?

And why is Amazon developing a game engine?
Interesting aside: is the redacting technique vulnerable to an analogue of the "timing attack" on certain crypto?

The name of the employee in the wires has been redacted. I wonder if the physical size of the redacted box, together with the fact that this is a name, together with a database of public employees, could be used to uncover the identity of the person.

By comparing the size of the redacting box with the lines above and below, we can guess that 6-9 characters are masked out (including the space). This is an a rough parallel to a timing attack used against crypto. The DB of public employees could be thought of as a list of candidate inputs.

Weak redacting?

This reminds me of a law in Poland where a person accused of a crime can not be named. Media will blur out photos and state something to the effect of "Mark W. an executive at XYZ Corp., stands accused of ...". If the accused is a well known actor with a unique first name, this becomes a running joke.
For context of GP question was "How do we prevent creating the same inefficient welfare with UBI", to which parent said roughly "Don't care, just give everyone cash".

You can't just give a lump sum of money to a guy with down syndrome and hope he will figure out what he needs without some sort of external assistance, i.e. some sort of welfare program.

So either UBI is just the most cynical attempt at social darwinism and eugenics in a long time, or UBI needs to be complemented by something that looks very much like the current set of welfare program.

It is easy to see that UBI can somewhat easily be funded, however (UBI + welfare) is a completely different matter.
Maybe the the current state of NATO and Brexit will finally kick the EU into creating a military force.
But I don't have to go through coinbase or whatever in order to buy it.
I can hold Bitcoin, and if I feel like I want to buy something I can do so.

If I order something with my CC in the US, prices are also denoted in dollars. But it withdraws from my Euro account with respect to a specific conversion rate.
> The W3C recommendation is no different in that regard, they also describe stuff that's not fully implemented in all browsers yet.

Note for a W3C document to go to Recommendation there must be two interoperable implementations. Of course, that doesn't mean any browser has implemented any of it, just that someone has implemented each part of it.
> Someone will always be "paying the rent".

those people are called the poor. and they get the bad end of the stick.
Thanks for making this, it's wonderful and will make a _huge_ difference to my listening on Spotify. For example, I've got a thing about Ravel's Piano Concerto in G and I've found a whole load of new recordings I knew nothing about. A few comments and suggestions:

Pieces are sorted strictly alphabetically, which means that lists of "String Quartet number X" are sorted like:

String Quartet no. 1
String Quartet no. 10
String Quartet no. 12
String Quartet no. 13
String Quartet no. 2

Not sure how complicated that is to change, but it would make browsing a little easier if they were listed numerically.

I find the horizontal listing of composers a bit unintuitive, and would prefer a vertical list (probably to do with ubiquity of vertical scrolling in apps and browsers), perhaps between favourites and list of works. Really like the fact that it includes images and isn't just a dry list of names though.

Seems like there are a number of not-so-esoteric composers missing, such as John Luther Adams (a different person from John Adams), Gavin Bryars, Jacques Duphly and Gérard Grisey, despite the presence of composers that I'd never heard of like Orlande de Lassus. I guess this is a limitation of the data sources, but would love to see some more of those included too.

Searching for "Jana" doesn't return Janáček - presumably because of the accents. Would be great to ignore accents for easy typing on British English / American English keyboards.

The small application icon on Mac - for example the installer disk image icon, and the icon in Mac notifications, is a frazzled multicoloured square rather than a proper icon.

Sometimes a message comes up saying "This isn't available on Spotify - bummer!" but doesn't explain why. I didn't think to check when it happened, but I guess it might be that it's not available in my territory (the UK), and I have Spotify set to show tracks that aren't available. If there was a way to have a bit more explanation in that error message somehow that would be helpful - for example, if it's to do with my setting to show tracks that aren't available, a sentence to say that toggling that setting would make that not happen.

A tiny, tiny thing - clicking Apple + A when in the search box doesn't select all text although double-clicking does.
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What are the numbers?

Is Havok really mandatory? Wouldn't it be possible to replace Havok with Bullet or some other related system?
Technically true. But when it comes to writing a website, do you plan to add "SAML 2.0 auth" or "Google SSO, Facebook SSO, Amazon SSO"? I think all need to be configured, tested and debugged, even if they are based on the same communication protocol.
Their TOC needs to be collapsible and selectively expandable. UX fail imho.
They stopped really doing snapshots of the WHATWG standard a while ago when they moved their authoring toolchain away from what the WHATWG document uses, and now just occasionally selectively copy over patches (sometimes incompletely) and make their own changes.
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By the early 80s it was clear that NATO outmatched the Warsaw Pact in conventional military strength. The Soviets developed the world’s mort capable anti-tank, anti-ship, and anti-air missiles.
Where are the women game developers creating blockbuster hits for their gender? I am asking in a non-inflammatory way. Same with companies. Break the system and its bonds if it is not serving 50% of the population. Should be tons of opportunity to be had.
> Copyright © 2017 WHATWG (Apple, Google, Mozilla, Microsoft). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

See https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

> You are free to:

> Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format

> Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material
for any purpose, even commercially.
Authenticity indeed is only guaranteed if you trust the CAs. Though it is still nice to know that getting a false cert isn't trivial.

However, message integrity is a real benefit of SSL that doesn't need CAs. Consider the original article. In this case encryption doesn't matter and integrity does.

Without message integrity, considering the login link has a known location and value, using bit-flips one might be able to change the login link (depending on the kind of encryption used).

This message integrity is getting to be a much more important part of https. There are a lot of things that you don't want other parties able to change. Maybe even more things than you don't want them to be able to read.
Would it be the same as this? https://bugs.openmw.org/issues/4175
I thought we are on "all pages should be HTTPS" since 2010 or something?
Overall the whole series of events was pretty offensive, and it paints the picture of the US being a schoolyard bully.
There's many which aren't free content or which have content locked off for higher tier patrons. There's many which are "exclusive for patrons for [X time]" too.
It has, but fortunately since the oil price slump they haven't really been in a position to do this, because they need the revenue to keep their operations going.

Meanwhile Europe is diversifying its sources of fuels, so it seems that they will lose any ability to do that eventually.
Thanks for the update!

But is that actually an improvement over the previous situation? (Serious question.)
WHATWG needs to add a <w3c-please-stop-plagiarising-the-whatwg-html-standard /> tag then gate some useful functionality behind it to see if W3C will dare include it
To understand the hacker culture, you must understand its background and history. Here are some good books:

"The Jargon File", Eric S. Raymond (ed.) http://www.catb.org/jargon/

"The Cuckoo's Egg", Cliff Stoll

"Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution", Steven Levy

"Where Wizards Stay up Late", Katie Hafner
>What do you do with the people left behind? What do you do with the engineers once they've written all the software to automate our daily lives?

But haven't you read what the very empathetic and kind poster before suggested as an answer?: These fucking losers should move to whatever hill cave's still vacant, because they are to blame for not having gotten rich fast enough.

I really like your writing, very precise and to the point. However, you completely leave out the option of taxing and fair redistribution. Because, yes, I do believe everyone should have a right to live in the Bay Area. Maybe not in the richest neighbourhoods and beach houses, but there's got to be a fairer alternative to dividing up the space than pricing out everybody but the richest. Sure, there's the idea of UBI, but that still seems pretty far out and for most people is not a realistic option.
Congrats on your fortune. This is a very honorable thing to do.

But my real question is: How on earth did you manage to resist selling your holdings for such a long time after you crossed the $1MM mark? That's some superhuman level of self control.
Canada has been on the 301 watch list for a long time now. There have been some attempts to get off it (theatre camcording law) but it turned out that that the real reason a country is put on the list is a lack of fawning obedience to the US copyright cartel. A country that is perceived to not be toeing the line is put on the list. If there no actual policy reason to be there the copyright cartel just makes stuff up.

So these days the list is meaningless and is roundly ignored by Canada. Sweden probably should of did the same thing.
Integration with AWS products. And I assume Amazon is developing a game engine that integrates well with AWS products in order to sell more AWS products.
You can say all those things about currency as well.

Someone buys it at a certain price (because it has intrinsic value), which realizes the value of the currency.
I'm not sure, there are a lot of perverse incentives in the welfare system in the UK, I assume they exist in the US as well. If you replace it with a system where the benefits don't disappear when you start work then there is more of an incentive to work.

The main problem I see is most people promoting it want to set it so high that the figures just don't add up.
Great idea. At least they get some cash with a real name attached to the review. I hope they don't allow those pre-paid Visa cards.
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At least Netflix has always German subtitles. For series, English subtitles too most of the time, but practically none of the movies have those in English which I find quite weird.
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At least a few years ago in Sweden, all cases where someone had payed a fine for downloading pirated material due to such letters was because the person admitted guilt. The anti-piracy organizations had no way of forcing someone to pay, because none of the evidence would hold up in court. They tried to submit screenshots of IP addresses, but since it's easy to spoof it wasn't enough to convict someone.

I don't know if this has changed in recent years, as I haven't heard anything about it recently.
No it's not appeal to hypocrisy, Russias actions are pretty much defined by it's geography it's effectively a land locked country without warm water ports surrounded by local and global super powers.
I think the point here is not about the legality but more about the ethics of doing so, in this case.
As history taught us. such a agreements doesn't work for small countries very well. Actually Czechoslovakia had such a agreement with France and in turn with England (France had agreement with England). But both countries left us behind and ignored agreement when Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia.
In the interests of completeness.

“HTML Living Standard — Last Updated 13 December 2017”

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/

I've been telling students that the W3C develops and maintains the HTML spec. Looks like I'm dead wrong. Oops.
Note that https://personal.natwest.com/ has a valid certificate, but it redirects back to HTTP. :-(
> "safe area"

This means "I can leave my teenagers there without worrying". Malls have private security. They can (and do) escort people out who are doing things that are bad for business. That includes all sorts of things that are legal (and should be legal!) but aren't appropriate in that context. Other things are illegal but impossible to eliminate from public life (and public parks). Many of those things are things you'd worry about your teenager being around.

Like public drinking. Drug use (legal and not). Misdemeanor violence. Sexual harassment from random citizens (creepy middle aged people with panel vans). Public sexual conduct (sex in the bushes or in the bathroom stall).

In other words, "safe area" is code for "free low-grade babysitting".
> But is that actually an improvement over the previous situation? (Serious question.)

No, it means we have two increasingly different documents purportedly defining the same things, and when they do copy patches over they've failed to also copy over other dependent patches too on a number of occasions leaving their spec as defined unimplementable.
To be fair we can't be 100% sure of that. It is possible they simply hash all the combinations they are going to show you. Could also be stored in an HSM making it a bit more secure.
Reality is never as black and white as that.
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You're holding BTC, then selling to get dollars and buying in dollars, effectively.

> If I order something with my CC in the US, prices are also denoted in dollars. But it withdraws from my Euro account with respect to a specific conversion rate.

Yes, and here you're holding Euros and selling them to buy dollars to buy items.

Similarly, if you were mostly doing business in the US, picking a different fiat currency to hold your money in would be a risk and that risk would increase the more volatile the exchange rate is.

The key point here is that until the prices you're paying are stable values in BTC, there's significant risk in holding a currency different to what your contracts are in. If I have $10,000 dollars and have a contract that requires me to pay out $5,000 dollars next year I know I have enough. If I have 0.5 BTC and the same contract then I do not know if I have enough.
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> ...a central authority is required to protect the value of currency. that is why central bank prints money and does QE.

So, what you're saying is they protect the value of a currency by devaluing it?

> it is not a conspiracy to enrich some cronies. without central authority, it cannot function as currency.

No, it's a conspiracy to tax the population without actually taxing them through devaluing the currency (aka inflation). Enriching some cronies is merely a side effect that keeps the bankers in line (and, more importantly, in the cartel) since they profit handsomely through fractional reserve banking and debt monetization -- neither of which is possible "without central authority".
People seem eager to forget Chris Roberts pitched this exact game before, as Freelancer, and that was released years too late, with none of the promised "living universe" features, after being bought out and handed off to someone else.

Fool me once...

I've heard people say "the technology didn't exist back then!", which is true. But the technology doesn't exist today either. Games have gotten a lot better at drawing convincing pictures, but in terms of simulating worlds and generating content, we've mostly stood still.

No Man's Sky already showed that, with its demo scene derived trickery. You can't entertain people with random seeds for very long. You need intent, storytelling and reactive, interacting systems.
And before that? Gustaf the II? The 30 year war?
A company may also have debts that outweigh the value of their assets.
Bitcoin Cash fixes that by following the original vision articulated by Satoshi.
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Thank you to the author: another day another. Wat library to tinker with.
Eh need gave the right? There is a whole humanity out there with nothing to spend but time and electronic drugs are basically a implementation of the freeze and hibernate proposed in the eighties to solve overpopulations resource consumption. Sorry if a individuals luxery was trampeled to give the world another peacefuller day.
The difference with malls is they are private businesses (and private property) so there are many restrictions to what the public could otherwise lawfully do on a Main Street (parades, festivals or demonstrations) - that is without express permission from the property owner.
It just amuses me that they're effectively saying that anyone can fork this for any reason... except for the W3C.