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If you believe you are not watching ads when you watch Netflix, you need to look into the product placement in their shows. Drinks, watches, cars, clothes, all brands and even quite a few locations... it is all paid for, to entice you to buy.
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I feel there are plenty of alternatives for those legit uses, that getting rid of the ability to do that won't hurt.
Like carbon sequestration?
I wonder how many hours of commercials a year are watched in homes where ipads are the main source of entertainment; I’d wager it’s up there with regular television.
Yup. Any delay in Manhattan during rush hour, and the trains just pile up waiting to get into Manhattan in the outer boroughs. And in the outer boroughs, you often don't have the luxury of being able to choose from multiple lines. So all in all this means that your morning commute could last anywhere from X ('scheduled' commute time) to X + 45 minutes, occasionally even worse. And you'll probably be packed like sardines inside the cars as well, hopefully with a working AC if it's not freezing outside.
> At this point, there is no way of having a reduction in tax bills that doesn't overwhelming favor the top 50% of earners

This is completely true.

The reason the top half pay all the taxes is the top half have all the goddamned money. And that, of course, makes sense: the top half have the only realistic chance at accumulating enough labor-derived money to buy into capital and they've been doing exactly that for the last fifty years. Capital is not linear per-hour. Capital is a multiplier. That's why they have all the money. That they have all the money is the core and the source of the mess we're dealing with right now.

Which means there is another question to be asked: should taxes be lowered? As someone very firmly in that top half, I am benefited by having people in the lower half of the income distribution not starving and dying in the streets, not dying of easily preventable injuries and illnesses, and not being so crushed by debt that revolution looks appealing.

So are you. It's not about you, and it's not about me, but it's about us. We need to do better by us, so we can all keep this thing ticking along.

And I gotta say, it's important not to miss that even that Bloomberg article elides a really, really important question: how much of that net $915 from that hypothetical renter now goes to (poorly) covering for the cuts in other services that will be necessitated to avoid budgetary disaster? It's a hard question, because nobody really knows, but it's a question whose answer will impact the people at the bottom of the income distribution the most, by far.
The problem is that the people putting together these scenarios almost exclusively live on the coasts, where $270k/year can be average more often.

But just watch a TV show like House Hunters, and see how many people in America are struggling to buy a house that costs about the same as what people on the coasts spend on a fancy new car. There's your "average" person. There was one episode a few years ago where a guy in Atlanta had a budget of $46,000. Yes, just $46k for a condo. It was small, but it was home.

It should also be of no surprise that the politicians view $270k as an "average" family. They're all completely out of touch. Remember back in the early 90's when Bill Clinton said that anyone making $200k/year was technically a millionaire, because there's no reason they couldn't save a million dollars in five years. Red or blue, they're both clueless.
I mean, I guess that's an improvement, but that's a lot of TV.
What scheme are you talking about? It's an unregulated market, so yes, there are scams and dumps occurring. However BTC has huge volume, so it takes huge volume and risk to manipulate it. Or manipulation from the exchange itself. Those are risks that the informed trader is aware of.

Any and all securities go up and down, whether it is justified or not.
While nothing you said is inaccurate, be careful of falling for the "original affluent society" canard. Hunter gatherers do not work less than we do, and they do not get enough food. (Quillette recently did a good write-up on this.)
And that's what I mean. It's stupid that disallowing redistribution is even a concept. We have data that can immediately be duplicated infinitely for free, why should anyone be barred from re-distributing it?
"If the wind is strong enough, even turkeys can fly."
I don't think TV was actually less stupid in the past, but boy do I get sick of watching the same commercials fifty times watching a football game.
Maybe you should try reading the article?

from the article:

"Many stations like this one are not prepared to accommodate a larger volume of passengers, even if a new traffic control system allowed trains to come more frequently."

"Much of the subway’s signal system uses antiquated parts like the electromechanical relays shown above from the West Fourth Street-Washington Square station in Manhattan.

Train traffic for about two-thirds of the subway system is monitored in rooms like the one shown below at West Fourth Street. Little has changed in a century.

The old signal system uses a network of switches and cables along the track to keep trains a safe distance apart. The technology is outdated and expensive to maintain."
On the contrary, I would say that the popularity of those is a strong argument for the idea that those who pirate nowadays are not interested in paying for anything, and just feel they deserve the content.
I’d be baffled if they didn’t. Time and again studies have shown that the complex overlapping cognitive demands of games such as shooters have a distinct and lasting benefit. IIRC, researchers in one case studied people playing an early iteration of the Splinter Cell franchise. They believed that the combination of having to manage inventory dynamically, memorize and keep track of shifting 3-D map, plus seek out and engage hostoles added up to quite the workload. This would tend to fit with the “use it or lose it” theory of neuroplasticity.
I think TV remains popular with certain people largely out of ease of use. You can just turn it on and you don't have to make a decision about what to watch. It's always there.

Also, changing would require learning something new. People genuinely find learning to have a level of discomfort so they avoid it.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2013/03/learning-hurts-your-...
Interestingly enough, Fight Club managed to put every product placement right next to sad or violent imagery.
Some animated shows, like Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Frisky Dingo, did great jobs of using product placement as a comedic part of the show.
You'd hope. The more likely future is one where the next generation will not be able to distinguish advertising from content anymore.
Would you care to unpack that? The interesting thing about personal anecdotes is when they provide context as to your experience. How many commercials did you watch a year? Do you have a TV? Do you choose not to any media at all? Only movies? How do you compare your experience to others?
As a viewer, I get minimal entertainment and no value from them, and having cut the cord long ago, I find them irritating. I'm hoping my kids grow up to be irritated or intolerant of commercials as well.
Post author here: this post was written in June 2017, and the subject has become increasingly relevant since the MySpace video advertising bot fraud reported by BuzzFeed on October 27, 2017:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/remember-tom
Not being available in exactly the way you want it is not an excuse for you to pirate.
I think I might be the only person I know that doesn't mind regular TV commercials. They're actually 100x less annoying than your average online commercial.

When I'm watching casual TV (not a serious drama or a movie) I don't mind the interruption. Gives me a chance to think about something else, check my phone, talk to someone, or walk away.
Nothing disappoints me more than product placement in music videos of all places. I can understand the use of products in rap music, absolute obedience to brands and slavish desire for status symbols is very much a core of what rap is about, but just in general music it is often insulting to both the audience and the performer. I remember when that kid Greyson Chance had a YouTube video that made him famous because he is an amazing singer. He got a record deal and I was curious to see if he'd end up like the next generations Bob Dylan or a crooner or something with the voice he had. But of course, no, they turned him into a knockoff of Justin Bieber and filled his first music video with blatant product placements. I just hope he got enough money so that when he's older he doesn't regret selling his artistic integrity down the toilet before he was even an adult.
That's because those are the product. Pokemon is the best example of this. I will concede that shows like Game of Thrones are very good at avoiding this, but I'm tempted to propose that shows like that exist to sell HBO subscriptions.
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It didn't even take 10 hours for me to be proven right. BTC has jumped over $14,000 again. We'll see if it will continue, but it most likely will.
It's pretty horrible - I grew up with about that much per day. I grew up pretty successfully however I would have to admit that success is only due to everyone else my age growing up like that. If I had to live by the rules of the people we call fuddy-duddies we'd be totally f'd. The older generation takes more time to do tasks right, spends time to talk to each other on the phone, has a much stronger sense of belonging to the community around them. I know this might get down-voted but it's absolutely true.
What are you talking about? The protocol is standardized, there are 3 implementations in testing, they're sending multi-hop transactions across all 3 different implementations on the Bitcoin mainnest, there's at least one client plus an explorer.

https://news.bitcoin.com/lightning-networks-new-infrastructu...

It's clearly on track for a 2018 release.
Basecamp now pays all employees SF salaries
Apologies, I intended that as a shorthand for "fiat currency" the way the parent post had ("there's no way back to fiat for a lot of them").

I did not mean the bare word "fiat", and will update my post accordingly.
I would guess people like me then. I love math but find looking at math the way that math is normally presented is exhausting. When it's pictures and expressed in a real tangible way I can get the concepts very easily. Higher level math is too abstract for me to understand by looking at equations.
well, thats because the rules are for both encrypting and decrypting.

%.enc:%

%:%.enc

In one file. So enc -> file -> enc. You can split them out, so encrypt in one makefile and decrypt in another.

make -f Encrypt foo.enc
make -f Decrypt foo

but thats been bugging me as well, so here is an all in one

$E:
openssl aes-256-cbc -a -salt -in $(patsubst %.enc,%,$@) -out $@

$D:
openssl aes-256-cbc -d -a -in $@.enc -out $@

make E=foo.enc
make D=foo

use make at your own peril :)
> how much of that net $915 from that hypothetical renter now goes to (poorly) covering for the cuts in other services that will be necessitated to avoid budgetary disaster? It's a hard question, because nobody really knows, but it's a question whose answer will impact the people at the bottom of the income distribution the most, by far.

Yes, I think that is the main point, and what we should be talking about. I feel like as a country we have lost the ability to have a discussion at that level of depth. So instead we dumb down our arguments to the point where we mislead people just so they will accept our point of view.
I suspect regular programming isn't getting dumber, the alternatives are just getting smarter.

When I look at the crap I watched as a kid in the 80s (which included a good amount of 70s reruns), basically all broadcast TV today is far superior. But the competition for broadcast TV isn't "no competition" now, it's the Internet, and computer games, and Netflix. The entertainment industry has been blown wide open by the Internet and computers, and so now they have to compete with thousands of alternatives instead of just having 3 channels to choose from. Naturally, quality goes up.

When I was a kid, the "rots your brain" videogame that my parents would only let me play at friends' houses was Super Mario Brothers. Now, my "rots your brain" pastime is Factorio, which is a game where people are literally designing chips in:

https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/2vqzlx/8_bit_alu_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/4aijlw/here_is_my...
real money is in merchandising. george lucas understood that. even elon musk understood that recently ;)
> needlessly putting your coins at risk

You keep claiming I'm misreading you, but this is the precise bit I'm focused on. For most people, and non-technical folks in particular, storing their own Bitcoin is "needlessly putting your coins at risk". They'd be better off having it on Coinbase and letting their security folks handle the risk.

I couldn't care less about the decentralization aspect of the argument, as none of that matters as a user if my coins all got stolen off my phone. It's already quite clear that Bitcoin is moving towards more centralization with stuff like the Lightning network, as the fully decentralized approach is already creaking under the current load.
That makes no sense. Kids who watch Netflix get zero ads. Kids who watch commercial television are bombarded with ads.
Sure, and it makes me squirm a bit, but I can’t stop PP. even better reduces how much time I spend thinking critically about how I’m being manipulated, which is just a relief.

Except for product placement, and I suppose billboards, I just don’t see ads anymore. I don’t hear them in my music, they only exist as product placement in my television and movies, I don’t see them online. I’ll take that reduction any day, and just accept the total elimination is unlikely.
I agree with that.

I would also note that there is a real and a mendacious reason for why we have lost that ability.
I assure you, that is not a two-color silkscreen. The green NVIDIA 'eye' logo is much more likely a second manufacturing process (confusingly also a silkscreen or pad printing process) that was done after the boards were received from the fab, or drop-shipped to a screenprinting company.

I would be very, very surprised if the green eye logo was done in-house at the fab.
Ask HN: Apache 2.0 and patents and derived works
Apache 2.0 clearly grants you the right to use software covered by patents:

> each Contributor hereby grants to You a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except as stated in this section) patent license to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, and otherwise transfer the Work, where such license applies only to those patent claims licensable by such Contributor that are necessarily infringed by their Contribution(s) alone or by combination of their Contribution(s) with the Work to which such Contribution(s) was submitted

... however, it's not clear to me that it grants right to use a modified version of that software.

For example:

1. Say I get a copy of Apache Ignite, covered by Apache License 2.0. Say there are patents on some of the contributions. Say I modify (in a private fork) the source to add a feature and deploy that code. Am I now infringing on these patents?

2. If the answer to the above is "no", then how far does this extend? Can I take just the source code that implements the patented invention and incorporate it into an entirely new, unrelated product? Am I then infringing?

3. If the answer to (2) is "no", what if I just create a new product that implements the invention in Apache Ignite, without using any of the original software. Am I then infringing?

Thanks!
After spending a little time hardly ever watching or hearing ads, they seem insane. The way they are acted and written, the subject matter, all of it is just so crazy. It seems impossible to understand how they encourage people to buy whatever product is being advertised.
It's hard to take care of the mentally ill who live on the streets, especially in California. They cannot be legally confined for treatment until they are deemed a threat to themselves or others, and that's a pretty high bar. Until then, it's up to them to seek treatment. Many don't want it or can't handle the organization / discipline to stay treated.

As a result, it's not nearly as tractable a problem as it seems.
None. You should track real-world issues like response times and 404s and assure CI build tests are addressing those issues.
It might not have been, but the comparison makes it more evident.
Oh yes!!!
I'm suggesting that a well-rounded team has a mix of skill levels and expertises.
"Harvey is a distributed operating system. It is direct descendant of Plan 9 from Bell Labs which was originally developed by the same group at Bell Labs that invented Unix and C."

https://github.com/Harvey-OS/harvey
Probably not. Children are constitutionally defenseless against advertising so it's doubtful that childhood exposure to advertising is helpful.
any good step by step derivation for this out there?

I read the wikipedia article and still not sure why this works.
I think many New Yorkers realize how bad it is in the rest of the US. HOWEVER! In NYC, the subway is essential, and many people don't realistically have any other option. Especially if you're in the outer boroughs. Even worse, there you also don't have the luxury of walking over to another line if yours is heavily delayed. Walking is too far, and biking is only recently slowly becoming a reasonable alternative.
"As a recent retiree [...] at 62-years-old" -- sigh, oh, Sweden. A dream.
> you would have several map data providers (maybe some with higher data quality for specific regions), several map data viewers, several events, places, traffic, etc. providers - and you end up with one combined view of all them

I think the doc you linked to doesn't support your idea; it sounds much more like the replacement for activities and intents in Android than what you described. The service providers have no incentive to supply data independent of a full experience (why would Bing let you show maps in your app without agreeing to a ToS? what if the map provider has different streets than the traffic provider?), the app developers have no incentive to do this (if one phone might display Bing maps and another Google in my app, how does that make my life easier?), and the user probably doesn't want this (why am I seeing grainy black and white satellite imagery in one area and high fidelity color imagery in another?).

Think of the headache gluing all that data together. Every map viewer would need to support the data format for every map provider. Every traffic service would need to expose a protocol for querying traffic data on a stretch of road, and you pray that they mostly work the same and know which streets are which. You hope that every point-of-interest provider exposes the same set of fields and level of detail you need to make them useful. And that doesn't begin to touch on the intersection of rendering things well and the data needed to make that work (which streets to show at each zoom level, arrangement of points of interest, knowing which streets are important enough to show traffic for, special cases like when freeways are closed...).
Yes. The coverage is quite poor and doesn't service certain high traffic areas at all, like UBC. The solution has been to increase bus coverage which can only take you so far.

The trains are very popular, and during rush hour there might not be enough room on the train for everyone to get on.

The trains come every 3 minutes during peak hours, and less often during non-peak hours, as much as 15 minutes.
Getting rid of adverts on yt for all family is $10/mo, which I'm thinking is not that crazy. It's also a part of Google music family subscription for $15/mo - you get YouTube Red included.
The 'problem' with willpower is not temptation. Temptation is only a problem for those with no willpower who paradoxically want to believe that they do. There are two solutions. Either study philosophy and come to understand why you act the way you do and seek to modify that if desired... or actually evaluate the real consequences of your actions and decide if whatever their label might end up being whether the consequences are actually worth being worried or ashamed about. Most often, people are worried about things that harm no one, making their worry absolutely meaningless.
The OpenGL compatibility profile is something very specific: it is defined by the OpenGL spec as a variation of a 3.x context that is modified to also support all obsolete features of OpenGL 2.1 (as opposed to a core context that drops all the quaint immediate drawing and matrix stack functions among others). It defines a few of the OpenGL 3.x features deliberately differently than a core 3.x context to keep backwards compatibility while providing most new features. This type of context was defined to help migrate applications forward. There's a lot of old OpenGL rendering code in CAD and DCC tools that is barely maintained and these vendors pushed the compatibility profile into the specification.
I think those estimates were based on this result from the JCT, "Distributional Effects Of The Conference Agreement For H.R.1" https://www.jct.gov/publications.html?func=startdown&id=5054 An example article: https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/jct-estimates-amen...
> Apparently half the country is buying into a narrative that their tax bills are going to go up, and I'm not sure where that idea is coming from.

Well, you could try reading some analyses of the bill, which are pretty clear about what they're saying:

>By 2027, more than half of all Americans — 53 percent — would pay more in taxes under the tax bill agreed to by House and Senate Republicans, a new analysis by the Tax Policy Center finds. That year, 82.8 percent of the bill’s benefit would go to the top 1 percent.....In 2018, the bill is an across-the-board cut for all income groups, but the biggest cuts are reserved for the upper middle class

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/12/18/16791174/...

And your last line is a non sequiter, because there are many taxes that are not personal income tax - some of them are even dealt with in this specific bill.

Edit: I didn't downvote you, but I was tempted to because I can't imagine that you don't actually know that the bill contains temporary tax cuts for most people and permanent tax cuts for the very wealthy, so it reads as though you are building a strawman.
Everyone thought Netflix was a useless mail-order DVD company until it dominated streaming video.

Everyone thought Amazon would never make a profit until it revealed the profit monster that is AWS.

No one can predict the future, all you can do is take the information you have available today and come to your own conclusion. If you don't understand the implications of cryptocurrency on society and money, then that's your loss. If you think you do understand it and believe otherwise, then go ahead and short everything and go make some profits against it.
Don't know where to get work that's worth it and my day job keeps me comfortable. It sounds like it'd be great working on some lucrative govt contracts, though, like that one to replace CA's Social Security system?, that was so insanely overpriced people were coming out of the woodwork offering to do it for far lower prices.
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