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The problem here isn't so much that Amazon is going to hurt Google. Google will survive. But we only hear about this story because Google is who Amazon is attacking (today).

The bigger problem is that Amazon has set themselves up as the global arbiter of commerce, acting as a relatively neutral marketplace matching buyers to sellers worldwide, replacing many or most of the smaller commerce hubs and marketplaces that used to exist.

But once in that position, they exercise control over which products can be sold with the explicit intention of destroying competitors, replacing what would otherwise be a consumer favorite with their own inferior (according to market preference) alternate.

Everyone talks about monopolists and moral hazard and market manipulation, but Amazon seems to be the only modern company with the unique combination of dominance, confidence, and poor executive judgment to actually make it a consistent and overt company policy.
It should also be noted that Amazon's fork of Android, with the exception of the Linux Kernel, is closed source. They're not even a very good open source citizen as I don't think they've contributed anything back to AOSP.
And you could do the security check at the downtown station to offload some of that from the airport (while also handling the need to screen people before they get on the flying taxi.)
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I don't mean to sound demeaning but yes, IMO "AGI practitioner" indeed means nothing (and I am saying that as a guy who aspires to work on AGI). Many of us programmers have interesting ideas in the area of AGI but quite frankly, we can "practice" them our whole lives without achieving squat.

Thank you for responding, much appreciated.
Very few people actually blow themselves up (terrorism is really really low on the list of the most common causes of death) so I doubt that it will be why we don't have flying cars.
> Could. Maybe. But, staying in the metaphor: it's both exceedingly rare for there to be rocks in one lane and not another, and exceedingly obvious if it is the case.

It is obvious if you’re not willfully blind. How many women have to tell stories of, e.g., trying to make professional connections only to have a coworker make a sexual advance on them instead before you’ll believe that there’s rocks in their lane?
The independent variables are the width of the line in characters (shown on the horizontal axis), and the length of the text in words (the "depth" axis). The dependent variable is the time that the algorithm takes to run, and it's shown on the vertical axis.

The orientation of the graphs doesn't change, but the scale does pretty massively, and seems to indicate the rough efficiency of the algorithm (the time is always in the range of 0.0-1.0 seconds, so it's clear that brute force is many times slower than the more-advanced algorithms).
That would be brutal and probably antitrust-y...better to implement some algorithm change for product search that weighs in counterfeit risk.

Search for "lightning cable" shows multiple Amazon listings on the first page, similar for batteries and other items that are routinely counterfeited. Google isn't doing the user a favor by routing them to suspect merchandise.
This legal theory is completely nuts. This means if I write something in, say, Russian on my website, and it's accessible to people from Russia, I am now considered to be obliged to follow every whim of Putin regarding my site's contents, even if I don't ever step my foot in Russia and don't want anything to do with it? Hopefully this is just plain old corruption and not idiotic legal theory that language you use makes you subject to whatever laws any state using the same language invents, even if you reside on the other side of the planet and want nothing to do with that country.
I haven’t yet read the scientific article that it’s based on, but the OP points out that there’s about a 50 year lag between the move to cities and a decrease in cousin marriage, so there was probably some cultural component.
It's about depth of field, i.e. getting that beautiful out of focus effect for backgrounds (bokeh) to isolate your subject. And also about megapixels.

Shooting with a portrait lens on full frame e.g. 85mm at f1/4 at 2m from a subject I have about 4cm depth of field, with everything outside of that increasingly blurred. On a micro 4/3 the closest equivalent zoom would be using a 42mm lens, say at f1.4 which would have 9cm depth of field, equivalent to a full frame 85mm at f2.8.

The advantage of mirrorless camera size then goes away because lenses with wide aperture are bigger and heavier, because of physics.

I don't know what the advantage of medium format is at this point. I have the A7R III which has 42mp and a wide range of Sony and Canon lenses available. The quality is amazing, it's a relatively light, and relatively 'affordable' compared to medium format when you take into account body and high quality lenses.
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The stats here seem to indicate Ireland is immediately behind the US in cancer rates:
https://www.wcrf.org/int/cancer-facts-figures/data-cancer-fr...
Or fleet analyse your driving style and adjust their reactions to you and your car.

At some point they'll flag some other drivers as idiots and avoid them, speed past or fall back a safer distance. Other drivers will be aware of what the Waymo car is doing - oh look, it sped past that OAP driving, why? Are they jabbing the breaks unexpectedly? Drifting out of lane? Hm.

Then this data is going to get fed into other agencies and insurance dudes...

This whole thing is going to get messy and just push everyone to get rid of cars and just use taxi services.
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> List of real life ideas/pain points that can be solved and sold with software, with some decent research into it (not like "my uncle says he will pay $3.50 to automate his antique shop")

Does anyone know if this exists?
According to heise.de, only IPv4 users are affected so far.

If you are using IPv6, you are still able to access it.
.watch? Reminds me of angularjs :)
Nice list! CMake is missing a few dozen entries though!

"Stringly typed" - even lists are just semicolon-separated strings.

Insane quoting rules. I recently tried to work out exactly how the argument parsing works and the source code has undocumented behaviour. It's ridiculous.

Accessing undeclared variables works fine. They're just empty. Good luck tracking down silently ignored typos!

Scratching the surface...
I feel sorry for the authors loss, but I have to admit that I left the article without having learned anything from the Irish.
> OK, try a company other than Facebook.

Not much difference in my mind.

> The core issue is that most ads are bad for users

That's true even if the ad is for "potato", though.

I'm not ready to call the very concept of ads a racket, even if it's generally negative.
I missed that, somewhat recent, development thank you for pointing this out.
Still, as you said, this is legally murky and I wouldn't be too surprised if this turns out to be overturned again by a higher court. Some German courts have a reputation for quickly and easily siding with copyright claimants, just to have it overturned later by a higher instance.

It's still really shitty that stuff like this keeps on happening and even when these claims turn out to be straight up scams (like that whole Redtube mess [0]) it has barely any real consequences in terms of laws being changed.

[0] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13600869.2015.1...
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I believe that loophole was very quickly closed by WSJ. fullwsj.com links paywall me now.
> "International websites have to respect local laws."

German companies operating in the US need to respect US law. As the article noted:

"Q: Why did this all take place in the German Court system, rather than the US - where Plaintiff does business as Macmillan, and PGLAF is based?

A: The legal guidance PGLAF received is that US law requires that such proceedings would have taken place in the US, and in fact any attempts at enforcement of the judgement would need to occur in the US Court system. PGLAF already informed Plaintiff and the German Court that the US Court system is the appropriate venue for Plaintiff's concerns. Plaintiff declined."

Also, German courts need to respect international law and treaties. As the article noted:

"Alternatively, international treaties - notably the Berne Convention and related treaties - provide mediation processes through the World Intellectual Property Organization. PGLAF offered to undergo this mediation process, and Plaintiff declined.

International treaties explicitly and unambiguously support PGLAF's legal guidance as described above: that the copyright status in one country is not impacted or enforceable or otherwise relevant in other countries. Plaintiff managed to find a German Court, and some precedents from Germany (and, after the lawsuit was filed, from the EU), which were willing to flaunt international treaties by developing a theory that PGLAF is under jurisdiction of the German Court system."
The marketing video will likely be the opposite, much like the recent batch of car ads that show crash avoidance.
Can somebody please explain to me what this article is trying to say? Because I'm totally not getting it!
It sort of sounds like the generic argument about how nerds always systematize everything and people should learn to slow down and listen to other people. All fine, if kind of trite and generic.

But...

> Just as we should not dismiss the expert skier who cannot explain how they ski, we should not dismiss the intuition of the shamans who hear nature telling them that things are out of balance.

Has exactly what to do with AI?

> Maybe a big dose of humility and an effort to integrate the nonlinear and intuitive understanding of the minds of people we view as less educated—people who have learned through doing and observing instead of through textbooks—would substantially benefit our understanding of how things work and what we can do about the problems currently unsolvable with our modern tools.

Okay, so if you work on AI you read it here first! The trick to writing smarter AI is to talk to people with intuition.
I am just not getting this, which is probably more a statement about me.
There's data available about that if you're curious:
https://www.wcrf.org/int/cancer-facts-figures/data-cancer-fr...

It doesn't seem Ireland and the US are much different.
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Yes, I absolutely agree with you there. Copyright across international borders is really complex but the only important factor can't be the country of origin. (This would obviously create copyright paradises and is generally unpractical)

If you publish a German book on a site with parts of it written in German either you will get problems with German copyright or the person downloading the content. Both solutions are problematic but only the former can be effective so this is what courts will decide in those cases.
BTW I'm currently studying law in Germany and this is a lower local court and there will be a new trial at the Oberlandesgericht. Because of the importance of the case it would also be quite possible that a federal court will take a look at it in the end, so this is far from over.
That’s just not how it works by any standard. Target users in a country, be subject to laws in that country. Basically all courts will assume jurisdiction by that rule. See for example the Mega case: Kim dotcom was a NZ resident, he was still prosecuted in the US.

The critical question is enforcement: no US law enforcement would carry out a North Korean court order. Things get problematic if the is a viable enforcement route: you make profits in a country, you have a subsidiary in that country, you want to travel to that country or you have employees in that country that might have to take the fall for you. What do you think why Twitter and Facebook and Apple all mostly conform to Chinese Law with Apple even moving the chinese iCloud key to China?

Project Gutenberg seems to have volunteers in Germany that could theoretically be personally targeted with a lawsuit for aiding copyright infringement. Now what? Claim US jurisdiction, lean back and wait? Expose them to that (unlikely) scenario? I, as a rights holder, if I’d really wanted to push this, would at least threaten to go down that route. Even if it’s later struck down, the hassle for the volunteers would be massive.
I'd happily pay $0.50 per article à la carte.
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Good luck getting people to not double-dip.

Also good luck making it so I don't spend 10 cents of electricity or have my phone die early to give a site <1 cent of value.
Valid point. Although tons of people have both GMAil and Youtube accounts and Google forced you to connect them a few years ago when they were pushing Google+, so they should have actual personal information on many people these days.
https://github.com/JohnEarnest/ok/blob/gh-pages/docs/Fromk5T...:

Padding Can Truncate (Done)

In k5, padding was treated as a minimum size for the output string:

2$"abcde"
"ab"
6$"abcde"
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In k6, as in older Ks, padding will produce a string with an exact length, truncating if necessary:

2$"abcde"
"ab"
6$"abcde"
"abcde "

Is this correct?

/ k4
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2$"abcde"
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/ k2
6$"abcde"
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The EUGH decision is fairly recent and it’s about as far up as possible. So I wouldn’t hold my breath unless the EU doubles down on net neutrality.
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Considering how much US patent law has been enforced abroad: most governments.

I do hope that these proceedings are forced to take place in the US, because that would set a precedent, however insignificant, that copyright does not apply in other countries.
Agree. My point is that the "coastal liberals" are, as I know them, a group of people with a heart of gold who want fairness for everyone. The problem is the really don't understand a lot of America. Their kids go to private schools, they likely belong to a very nice social club (golf/yacht), and, most importantly, nobody in their family has every mined coal or build a Chevy.

So while their theoretical ideals are very kind, they don't understand the subtleties of trying to implement them. That's the view from my perch, anyway.
As you're well aware, not only would Fire OS fail the CTS, it would be illegal to attempt to force Amazon Kindles to ship with Play Books in order to get access to other Google Apps. Which the MADA does indeed attempt.
What about amazon's counterfeiting problem?
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Market forces decide what people get paid. The poster I replied to is suggesting that instead people should just do what ever jobs they enjoy, and should be paid some amorphous idea of what they ‘deserve’. That’s exactly what communism is.
> for playing devils advocate I can see the courts point: International websites have to respect local laws

I think this is an untenable position as it would mean that any website, published from any country, hosted on servers in any country, would have to abide by the laws of the world’s 193 countries.

Project Gutenberg’s argument is that they are only a US concern — everyone involved officially is in the US, and the site is hosted in the US.

This is distinct from, say, a company explicitly providing a service to customers in a particular country (cf GDPR).

And, to counter your point with an extreme example, it would mean that no-one is ever able to criticise the Thai monarch on any website in the world lest they be jailed under Thailand’s lèse majesté laws.

It’s one thing to say that an in-country website respect that country’s laws, it’s another entirely to say that any website hosted anywhere in the world must respect that country’s laws.
The legalities behind this are mostly based on civil law and not as straight as some people here seem to think because German ISPs to have a certain level of protection, I can't remember the exact name of said legality (just imagine yet another very long German word, people familiar with Freifunker-Netz probably know this better), but it's pretty much a constant back and forth struggle.
PGLAF thinks that the German court is wrong. However, they would prefer to not have German court decision - even if they believe it is wrong - against them to be in power, since international treaties mean it can have consequences beyond Germany. Thus, they are fighting it in German court. In order to raise chances of winning, they choose not to openly flaunt German court decision - which they can always do later if it turns out resolving it within German justice system is a no go. It is a common thing to do - you can disagree with some decision being legal and still temporary abide by it in order to work within the judicial system and not put yourself outside it.
The word you're looking for is "Kerning". And no, i'm neither a native english speaker nor a designer.
Have you used CMake?? Remind me again how argument parsing works? How do I know if a variable is a list or not? What's that? Lists are strings? Everything is strings???

CMake is firmly in the "filenames don't contain spaces" era, along with make, Autotools etc. Granted it is more or less the standard at the moment but look at Meson to see how totally insane it is.
1. Men seem to like dealing with things compared to dealing with people more than women do (on average).

2. Men know that women value their ability to provide. In other words, money/power/status/ambition makes men sexier (in the eyes of women). This doesn't apply to women (although you can make the reverse argument on why women spend more on makeup/clothing/skin- and hair-care.
There is also the school of thougt where these agencies were created specifically to rule countries with the national government no more than a cover story.

The influence of one over the other and vis versa seems convincing.

I could tell you more but then I would have to kill you.
I think if you count public opinion then it may be more acceptable to have small number of advanced cruise missiles than to have more missiles.

For example what sounds more aggressive, 10 cruise missiles or 1000 missiles?
I guess it just surprises me that having to worry about the state of a stream is a thing I have to do. More, it sounds like I can't really use the typesystem to help here. At least, not from the sound of it.
Well yes, you are being willfully blind

(a) Anecdotes != data

(b) You cannot assume that a man in the same situation would have made a successful professional connection

(c) In fact, the woman, if she isn't entirely daft, will have additional levers to pull

(d) You might have noticed "staying in the metaphor"
And gets worse when you try to use an app to report the clog, only to find that the internet pipes are also clogged.
See, they think they don't.

From the court document:

> The action is admissible. In particular, the District Court of Frankfurt am Main has international and local jurisdiction pursuant to § 32 ZPO (German Rules of Civil Procedure).
According to § 32 ZPO, the court of the district where an unlawful act was committed has jurisdiction for suits brought against such acts. Unlawful acts within the meaning of § 32 ZPO also include copyright infringements. Along with local jurisdiction, this provision also governs the international jurisdiction of German courts. An unlawful act within the meaning of § 32 ZPO is deemed to have been committed both at the place where the offense was committed and at the place where the offense had its effect, so jurisdiction optionally applies to the place where the infringement was committed or where the legally protected interest was affected. A conclusive claim of facts substantiating an unlawful act committed within the judicial district is enough to establish jurisdiction. § 32 ZPO also covers claims for injunctive relief. According to § 32 ZPO, if a copyright or related property right is allegedly infringed by making the protected property publicly accessible via a website, the place where the unlawful act was committed is Germany if the asserted rights are protected in Germany and if the website is (also) publicly accessible in Germany. However, intended availability of the web presence in Germany (among other countries) is not a requirement (...).

This - to me - is quite a funny piece of jurisdiction and probably one of the reasons why international mediation processes do exist.
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This is so true! And now as they have bought Whole Foods, they can do the same thing with grocery products by having options such as WF branded ones over the competitors (stocking 365 branded Sugar and dropping Safway Signature branded Sugar) through their Amazon Fresh or Prime NOW service.
If your website breaks moral decency laws in Saudi Arabia, and a court there orders you to close your website, would you comply?

Look at it from another perspective - if a German court has a problem with German citizens breaking German law in Germany, it should perhaps pursue those citizens and judge them. A US website can't(and shouldn't) be breaking any German laws by existing in US - maybe you could make an argument that German people accessing the website from Germany are breaking German law, but that's not what the court is saying. The court is saying that because project Gutenberg hosts books in German, then Germany has the right to judge them - which is obviously bollocks, you can speak German or write in German without having anything to do with Germany, a country cannot own a language.
The EUGH link does not work, but the Vodafone case was a decision by a Munich court, which could still be overturned if somebody bothered going all the way up to the BVerfG.
I was there when it happened, there was a lot of cringe, especially in Beijing.
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The plaintiff is S. Fischer Verlag, GmbH.

S. Fischer Verlag, GmbH is part of Holtzbrinck Publishing Group since 1963 [0].

Macmillan Publishers Ltd is wholly owned by Holtzbrinck Publishing Group since 1999 [1]

Basically a sister company of Macmillan which may (or may not) be hit with the negative publicity fallout in the more than 70 countries it operates in...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._Fischer_Verlag
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macmillan_Publishers
Note that the price stores generally match is the price 'shipped and sold by Amazon'. So stores shouldn't ever be matching counterfeit prices.
I was referring to companies that are perceived to have ‘cultural issues’, like uber. Not companies that have a few dickheads working for them, which is going to be just about every company over a certain size. The presupposition is that there’s systemic oppression (which there isn’t), not that some people at work aren’t very nice.