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The issue with Lana Del Ray's "Get Free", Radiohead's "Creep", and Hollies "Air That I Breathe" is that we (and/or the courts) don't put the chord progression of "I–III–IV–iv" in the same everybody-and-their-dog-has-been-doing-it bucket as "I-IV-V" or the "I–V–vi–IV"[1] (axis of Awesome parodied in the youtube video[2]).

If musicologists for Lana Del Ray can find an out-of-copyright work such as a very old classical piece or folk song that uses that progression, the potential lawsuit would have no merit. Until then, that chord progression's very identifiable "chromatic movement and eerie tension" is easy to notice so it will always attract new lawsuits.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%E2%80%93V%E2%80%93vi%E2%80%9...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I
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"Volksverhetzung" is a compound word with two roots: "Volks" (the people) + "Verhetzung" (manipulation) and the official translation of the criminal code is "Incitement to hatred" [1], rather than the "instigation of the people/masses" that a naive translation would imply.

[1] http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_stgb/englisch_stg...
In what ways? Bearing in mind it's still in development and doesn't claim to be production ready by any means.
Small tip from an ex-QAer: Don't worry, once the easy cases are automated, they'll have plenty of work to still do. At least the good ones will. They'll start doing more extreme exploratory testing, setting up combinatorial testing, fuzz testing...

A good QA analyst is like any other good employee - they always have something else they'd like to test.
> How can a skillful JS developer make the site better for me when I want to avoid ANY extra features and distractions?

I don't know if I qualify as a skillful JS developer, but I run a website displaying pictures that works correctly without Javascript.

However, Javascript makes this website way faster, smoother and easier on the connection by downloading only the moving parts when clicking on a link, carefully preserving history so back/next works as if this script did nothing. When Javascript is disabled, an ugly white flash appears when navigating between some pages and rendering is just slower, even though it remains decent (my code is minimalist anyway…)

When leaving the page of a picture to come back to the album it is in, scroll position is restored. This is impossible without Javascript. History Back button is not sufficient: you might have looked at 10 pictures before coming back to the album. Sure, you can still ask your browser to come back 10 pages ago, but this is less convenient than just clicking on a cross.

It also help dimension images correctly, which I could not manage to do using pure CSS, unfortunately.

No Javascript tracker is present. You want Javascript enabled on this website because it helps using less resources and makes things easier to use. This is a 9 KB Javascript file that gets compressed to 3 KB and served using HTTP2 only once, so this is basically a null cost when considering how much a picture weighs (~ 100KB). And this is free software, for the sake of it.

But you cannot know this on random websites. Problem is, Javascript is not used like this in general. Unfortunately for websites like this one, disabling Javascript by default is still a reasonable thing to do.

Worse, visitors of this website that disable Javascript won't be aware of that, because things pretty much work as expected and I don't display a warning message.
Which as the article states is astonishingly similar to the Hollies song.

Pick up a guitar and strum that progression in the rather obvious way that it appears on either record (like someone who is rather less than a virtuoso). Now add some words so the syllables fit with the strumming pattern...If you are not now singing that dreary melody you are a true musical genius.
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I don't struggle with those interviews at all, they are outrageous and shameful.

There's an argument to be made about conveying the scope of a tragedy to the public but it's also pretty clear that cameras are being shoved in people's faces.
I simply disagree that the speaking is a good place to insert the pre-emptive legal monkey-wrench. It's paranoid. The idea that you can keep ideological genies in their bottles by zipping people's lips is superstitious, like something a schoolchild would believe. It's obvious Germany is overcompensating here out of national shame.

The whole idea seems to be: murder and genocide are so bad, that any legislation that either statistically reduces them, or even just seems like it might do, is worth it. I'll grant that I can see how a reasonable person might think this. Then it's a question of values. Remember that one of our great American heroes literally said, "Give me liberty, or give me death," immediately after doubting that life is dear enough, or peace sweet enough, in themselves.

As far as that goes, I'm old and it saddens me that we keep going from one oppressive cultural regime to another. When I was young, there were also things you couldn't say, they were just different things. But I will say that this is the first time in my life that freedom of speech itself has been explicitly challenged by a significant bloc in the US.
The market can decide whether or not it wants all those stale remakes, whether with or without legal protection.
No particular preference - I'm fairly comfortable in South East Asia already, so that would be slightly easier - but anywhere would be fine - Africa or Central America seem like good options as well. I just can't seem to find any established programs that let me donate my skill set anywhere. It's really surprising. I'd be happy to pay airfare and, assuming it's affordable, my own room and board.
Yeah, but the parent point is that "possible" is a very low bar.
> Both of these are much easier to tweak than systemd.

Disagree. The documentation for systemd is very detailed, and while it is in fact different from sysvinit (which I believe is 90% of the criticism), it is remarkably consistent with itself (compared to a feature-equivalent set of 100 separate tools).

The big achievement of systemd is that it steamrolls over a ton of idiosyncrasies that distributions built over the decades. These days, I can just SSH into a random distribution (Arch, Debian, Ubuntu, Redhat, Suse) and everything works as I expect (querying the status of services, finding logs, issuing administrative commands, etc.).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16139404
You can do whatever you want, but the estate of John Cage owns the copyright on not making music, so if you plan to not make music at all, lawyer up.
That is more properly a value, than a belief. You can say that literally anything is a belief, but then you've got a useless Godelian argument.
An open and shut case for the Hollies. How do Radiohead feature?

If I copy a song, then lose an infringement suit to the original composer, can I really claim a subsequent infringement?
The split came about through formalised education. The British you hear today is upper middle class, noble English.

Similar happened in France and French Quebec. Modern French is formalised Parisian french. While Canadian French is country French, according to a very posh friend, the most educated quebecois still sounds like a country hick the first time he hears them.
I come from somewhere where the opposite of that is the dominant culture, so I was explaining Crocker's rules as a method of us pointing out to each other when we are not capable of operating by them, rather than when we are. I had a bad head cold and was trying to work out a diplomatic method to get them to chill out a little. It half worked, some of the time.
https://open.spotify.com/track/61MoKejsY2k0hVb50zZ4Yn

To be honest, probably anyone can tell that the intro and first verse is a quite clear case of plagiarism. First 10-20 seconds is enough. It's the same melody, same chords and even a similar way of playing those chords with a guitar.
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> I always struggle with news interviews that go along the lines of “So you’re entire family’s been killed. How do you feel?”.

I'm the same. It's a shameful effort to manipulate the reader's emotions. The same trick is also used by insurance salesmen and the like.
A lot of server software is actually open source and runs on most commonly available hardware architectures, including ARM and PPC. You are right that everybody develops assuming x86, though, and there is some friction in that transition regardless of software portability.
No, it was invented to write a generic (web) rendering engine.

So, even if we consider a web app as a GUI, Rust wasn't invented for writing that (you still use CSS, HTML, JS etc for that part). It was invented for writing the backend for that UI.

In other words, Rust is not GTK (a UI library), it's C (the language the UI library itself is written in).
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Soon coming to France, although there it's about fighting "fake news".
Nowhere did I suggest the reporters were the core of any conspiracy. That you should so claim raises the distinct possibility that your analysis of the issue is just as flawed.

If you had read my previous post with more care, you would have noticed that I am tending towards agreeing with you, though with reservations.
Music is about expression first and foremost.

That may be, but the music industry is much more about industry than music. Artists like Radiohead only want to "protect their art" when there's a chance of getting a worthwhile check in to the bargain.
The term 'Food desert' was used primarily to refer to total healthy food availability within a certain radius, including (especially) healthy food availability in supermarkets.

Yodsanklai appears to have been referring to the availability of healthy prepared foods, particularly restaurant foods. It is entirely possible to live in an area well-served with supermarkets and bodegas and only have 'unhealthy' restaurants to choose from due to the peculiar demands of that area. You can drive through parts of the US and see nothing but greasy spoons or pub food, while the local at-home cooks have access to a wider variety of healthy foods from the markets.
I had the same reservation, so I bought the reusable stickers.

In hindsight, I’ve found those to be completely unnecessary. The game is so vast that I’m sure I’ll be tired of it before I run out of content.
It's tied to an IP address, you have a limited number of visits per day. At least in my experience has been like that, really annoying...

https://webapps.stackexchange.com/a/106476
https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/69654
If the project has only one main author, I would be. Even more so if they are on and off and not paid for it. Heck, TextMate and somewhat Sublime Text had such issues with 1 single dev, and those are projects that actually make them money...
I'd say “any form of creativity/expression” means you take something and don't copy it 1:1.
Copying 100% of a (lyric|composition|: not okay, taking a subset of it: fine.
Admittedly, it has to be a bit more sophisticated than that. For instance, getting away with just omitting the very last word would be ridiculous.

> If you know anything about writing music you should know why chord progressions can’t be copyrighted. There’s only 12 notes, there’s not that many unique chord progressions to be found in the Standard I/IV/V pop music format.

yes and no. A chord can be played in many ways. For instance, when you play C major you could play the root an octave below the third and the fifth or one octave up. This alone is no worth copyright. But when the way every single chord of a progression is played is copied it gets questionable, imo.
Even more so when you look at "jazzy" chords where you can sprinkle some "non necessary" notes in here and there for color.

> The problem with limiting protection to only a few years is that would ensure an even more brutal cycle of song “remakes” for all pop music which would be even more stale than what we have now.

You could be right, but personally I am not convinced.
They began to evolve separately as soon as the Mayflower arrived. And American accents have been influenced not only by a broad variety of English immigrants over time by also by immigrants from other parts of the world.

For instance, the "standard" (TV broadcaster) accent originated in areas settled largely by German and Scandinavian immigrants. The "New York" and "New Jersey" accents have elements of Irish and Italian and Yiddish accents, and New York accents were influential due to being common among entertainers through the middle of the 20th century.

And accents can evolve quickly. The New York accent you'll hear in films from the 1950s is very different from the one you'll hear today if you go deep enough into Queens to find strong accents.

That said, IMO moderate Scottish accents sound extremely similar to the "standard" American accent. I think it's actually that the cadences are very similar, which for me at least is what makes other strong British accents (other than RP) often difficult to understand.
I'd either simply been oblivious to the phenomenon, or had blocked it out, but Ricky Gervais' comment back in 2013-05 highlighted it:

"@MTVNews: Beyoncé, Rihanna & Katy Perry send prayers to #Oklahoma #PrayForOklahoma

"I feel like an idiot now...I only sent money."

Since then I've assumed everyone using the phrase was being ironic, or at least tacitly acknowledged the absurdity and insincerity of it.
Thanks for the reply!

Mostly wondering how people ship stuff if there are different variants of std libs? Say you write your code entirely using one std lib and then try to share it (the code that is) with somebody who uses a different std lib, then the onus of learning the new std lib is entirely on him, right? How does that work for teams then? I know that Jane Street is a big user and so they have considerable influence. That being said, does the std lib (the one bundled with the distro) have enough features (like all the necessary data structures, for instance) to make using it viable in a non-trivial project (off the top of my head, say writing a very simple web server)? If so then, I suppose that's good enough.

Any recommendations for learning material? I have a copy of "Practical OCaml", don't really like it. INRIA's materials seem quite substantial, but more like reference.
I would think not getting arrested for breaking the law is the best thing one can do. I have never been arrested. I don't know anyone in my family or group of friends who have ever been arrested.

I do notice that, among younger people, getting arrested for something is almost a matter of course. A fact of life. That is the real problem in my opinion.
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I'm assuming you're trying to find problems to solve so as to start a business. This seems like a fine thing to do. Your approach could be a bit better, though.

1. You're asking about "unsexy industries." The people who work in those industries might care quite a lot about their job, so your description isn't going to be appealing.

2. You're implicitly insulting any developer who works there, based on how you define such industries: you're saying they're probably not talented.

3. You're asking in the wrong place.

4. The term "sexy" is going to turn a bunch of people off regardless of where they work.

5. Your phrasing makes this sound like an exam or a test.
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There's not really any such thing as an "American accent" or a "British accent," particularly when you're looking at the evolution of accents. Accents tend to evolve based on regional tendencies; what people refer to as "General American" (effectively the Midwestern US, but not including the Northern Cities Vowel Shift) and "Received Pronunciation" are accents that lack any recognized regionalism markers, such as the Southern drawl or the New England non-rhoticism.

Accents tend to shift based on contact with other linguistic groups and mixing from different accents that levels out pronunciation. You'll note, for example, that Canadian has more in common with the US accents than it does with British accents. I don't know the historical development of accents very well, but some US accents (I believe the southern one in particular) are closer to 16th and 17th century English than modern British accents. This isn't necessarily atypical--modern Icelandic is the closest in pronunciation to Old Norse, while modern Norwegian is closer in pronunciation to older varieties of Danish. Small, isolated communities are going to be able to better preserve pronunciation in a dialect.
The problem is that the questioning them is often equally mindless (oh, it's old, should be of no use).

E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence
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> [1] I'd really like to see F# Computation Expressions instead of async/await. I know the language experts have said Haskell-like do notation doesn't work in Rust but I'm not sure if the F# tweaks would make it work or not.

I'd prefer a systems-y, zero-cost take on algebraic effects, similar to what OCaml is going to get. Could be much more extensible, and open things up to annotating whether functions panic or not, access global state, etc. Alas it's still a tricky research problem, even after all these years. There were some nice discussions from ICFP here - the comments strayed into talking about how effects might be implemented without a GC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNp3ifNpgPM
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This isn't a system of loss (systemic loss?), it's an abdication of responsibility - it's giving up on the payment system having any sort of fraud protection.
ROX Desktop attempted to do app bundles a long time ago on linux as well.

Anyway you are missing one of the core problems of linux distros- they are not split between "base" or "core" OS and extra packages; they are a single monolithic thing! That is why debs and rpms install right into /usr/bin along with the core OS. There is no difference.
But economists define shortage as a situation where an external mechanism (like government intervention) prevents price from rising. The fact that we are seeing wage growth says that there is not a shortage.
This really opens the conversation, for me, at least, to Lorde.
I did consider it seriously (especially after watching Scott Wlaschin's Parser Combinators video), but it seems a bit too MS-centric for my liking. Who knows, maybe if learning OCaml doesn't pan out that well, it might be F# for me! :D ... the community seems to be focused, so that's one big advantage.
Preventing stale remakes probably shouldn’t be a function of copyright law.
> Neither I think Rust is fit for that purpose, any GC language is a better fit in terms of productivity

There is nothing in Rust that makes it inherently unfit for APIs or the web. To dismiss the entire language is simply lazy. Having GC also doesn't necessarily make one language superior to another.

While http ecosystem is still in active development, if there was really a choice between Rust and JS for e.g. writing an API I would go with Rust in a heartbeat.
I disagree, because it's the user's system and they should have permission to change anything they want in the system, that security boundary serves only to annoy the user for no gain whatsoever.

What our real goal is, is to prevent misbehaving applications from compromising the user's work. Obvious conclusion: permissions boundaries should be on the applications. On this we agree.
I do not pick on my kids without reason and they are able to express they are angry about wallpaper too. There are plenty on naturally occurring points of difference and topics, there is no need for me to go out of way to stress them out to the point of breaking.

I teach them that if some kids do that to them, it is their right to defend themselves or retaliate (otherwise they would end up submissive victims of bullying, have seen that when I was child multiple times). I also teach then that if someone do it to others, it is their right to defend that other person too from bullying.
They save people money on their groceries. They save people time looking up their balance (previously it was a phone call).

How are either of those things exploitative?
> We killed millions of people, not even a hundred years ago, but now we're the paragons of virtue?

I don't see how this was relevant in any way to the discussion. What happened 100 years ago should of course be considered in discussions and in the law-making process today and it should not be forgotten, so that it will not repeat. But it isn't fair to still judge people born in a country where some of their grand(grand)parents did bad things.
I see your point (two unusual things being similar looks more suspicious than two common things being similar) but I think two "I–V–vi–IV" songs that were as melodically similar as Creep and Get Free would still be pretty suspicious.

Edit: Btw I'm not sure I-III-IV-iv is that uncommon. It's in eg. David Bowie's Space Oddity and Pink Floyd's Nobody Home. It sounds to me like an old jazz / ragtime type progression although I'm struggling to come up with examples.
I for one am convinced this is all part of a fear-mongering tactic of the US army aimed at psychologically pushing US citizen into supporting another war (crime). Unfortunately, Americans are all to easy to scare and the probability that they will in panic commit the most unspeakable of all war crimes (which they have already committed twice in the past) is much too high. The truth is NK couldn't shoot a missile at the US even if they wanted to.
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I have "written" guitar riffs that I later found out were from a song I hadn't heard in 5+ years. I had honestly thought that I wrote it.
Of course. Code is hard.

Using a safer language makes it easier and less prone to out-of-bounds memory accesses.

By using C/C++ you're choosing to make a hard problem harder.
> They went from the second smallest economy in 1890 to the biggest in 1913 (imperials).

What does it matter, if 90% of the population lived in near complete destitution?
I find that far fetched. It's much more likely that accents in the two countries evolved from what came before, without either staying the same.

Furthermore, there isn't such a thing as a single "British" accent, there are a huge range of accents in Britain, just like there are a huge range of accents in the US.
I know, I was there when ROX Desktop and ROX Filer hit the scene. Sadly, yet predictably, a concept as simple and flexible as AppDirs was completely ignored by the rest of the desktop linux community. I guess it didn't make them feel leet enough or something.

I may be wrong, but WindowMaker, being based on GNUStep, which was derived from NextSTEP, might have also supported application bundles (as in the actual NextSTEP Application Bundle specification).

“These days, the problem isn't how to innovate; it's how to get society to adopt the good ideas that already exist.” - Douglas Engelbart

> Anyway you are missing one of the core problems of linux distros- they are not split between "base" or "core" OS and extra packages

I didn't miss it, I mention right in there that having a defined base system is a requirement. Something I didn't mention is that I will not call the end product a "Linux Distribution", because it is not intended to play nice with existing Linux Desktop paradigms. It'll be like Android, a completely different OS underpinned by the linux kernel.