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The Nintendo Switch continues to impress me. Maybe its game selection is a bit thin on the ground, but what's there is great, and it feels good to use. I love the solid click the Joy-Cons make as they slide and snap into place. I love to grasp and hold the unit with the Joy-Cons attached. I love to use the provided controller handle, or the Joy-Cons on their own, one in each hand. Nintendo has got the ergonomics for this thing on point, and it really feels built to be a gaming device in a way that, say, an iPad or smartphone doesn't.

The use of flashcarts instead of discs was also asavvy decision,and really fits with the mobile story of the device. Plus, I miss the instantaneity of cartridge-based games. Finding out it's region free on top of all this, it's like they're firing on all cylinders this go around.

No, I'm not a Nintendo shill. I'm just uniquely impressed by the very deep thought that went into the design, manufacture, and deployment of this particular console.
In the court order.
That is not correct, it just runs in compatibility mode by default, see https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/patricka/2015/01/12/control...
It sounds like you are confusing View Source and the live developer tools DOM view.
Mileage itself is not an issue, but the requirements are increasing (especially for emissions) and new cars are nowhere as durable as old cars used to be.
A nuanced view? Are you sexist?! /s

I highly suspect it is closely tied with each sexes favored topic. Most women are less interested in Right-to-Repair, where men seem much less interested in identity politics until either get the pointy end. I, like you, would favor data over conversation and pontificating.

Already, studies of this type can be hard to fund. Introducing a component that could promote bias (real or percieved), is enough to often warrant its disconsideration, and it is unfortunate.
Yea Bill Maher was saying something similar recently.
Pretty eye opening.
I hear echoes of WhatsApp’s “first year is free, then $1/year, but we’ll keep extending free as long as we can”
> The problem with allowing plaintiffs or prosecutors to play this game is that they can take the list of everything you've ever done, ignore everything that makes what they're trying to prove less likely and present only the list of things that make it more likely. If you look only at that evidence then each piece of it increases the probability that you believe what they want you to believe, regardless of whether it's actually true.

Isn't there a defence? I also don't believe the court would like to find out that the prosecutor lied.
I wonder if it works the other way around, in general:

- country A has different copyright laws than country B.

- A copyright holder from country A asks an organization in country B to take off some content based on country A's copyright laws.

- The organization in country B decides not to take off the content, as it is perfectly fine under country B copyright laws, and block whole country A access.

So here are some questions:

- Might this case set a precedent?

- Some of those weird, small and autonomous one-island countries can come up with some very relaxed copyright laws and start distribute content "legally" ?
Wow, all 10 first comments are negative about it. I wonder would these people would bet against it?

I would love to bet in favor of the article.
COBOL does I seem to recall
The Pocket seems dubious to me - the article got my attention, but the price tag I'm seeing on Amazon ($600+) makes me shy away. Refurb 11" MacBook Airs are in that range, plus any other number of low-end Windows laptops, or even hacking away at a Pi-Top.
A third option is to increase Earth’s carrying capacity. I don’t know how, but the capacity depends on technology and resource use, so it should be possible.
I was surprised the study was from MIT as there were pretty serious flaws. The bigger question is how it passed peer review when they ran the analysis and checked the methods.

The response from the lead author was pretty reasonable and I will camp on his response. I was expecting something defensive rather than “yeah, maybe, let me double check my work.”
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I have no idea what you're talking about. Do you want to imply that the prosecutor lied about this?
I agree but then I hear old people talk about political bombings and student groups with guns in the 60s and I think its still better then that.
Except many people are rightly outraged. A natural reaction that has been sneakaly exploited for many years.
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Like I said before - there is a legal path for foreign companies to sue American companies under the American legal system. If the plaintiff could demonstrate loses due to actions by project Gutenberg, I'm 100% certain that an American court would have ruled in favour of the plaintiff. But this €50k isn't even going to the publisher - it's in fees to the German court system, which - in my opinion - could have been completely and totally ignored. So when I said "no reason at all" I meant that PG will now be paying €50k for something that they shouldn't be a part of.
A garage is a quite expensive proposition - in the dense cities (where much of Europeans live) they simply aren't a thing, they're scarce and expensive. A garage where I live would add something like 30% to my housing price or rent and would cost more than the fuel for my car; a garage "somewhere out of the way" (people who like to tinker with cars/motorcycles sometimes get one, functionally more like a workshop than car storage) is useless for commuting since you'd have to drive or take public transport to get to the garage.
see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24251811
It appears some of those you describe are here downvoting. You are absolutely correct.
That's where power relationships come into play.

If the small Island country tries to play that game, they find that much needed international trade with other bigger countries starts to dry up, and fast.

Hosting public-domain content for free doesn't really produce much revenue, so for a country to sacrifice so much lost trade/needed supplies for no economic benefit doesn't really work in the long term.
It looks like this hasn't been updated in five years, and with a list of open issues it makes me wonder why you'd post it?
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‘“I’m re-running the analysis this weekend using Uber’s more optimistic assumptions and should have new results and a public response acknowledging the discrepancy by Monday,” he wrote.‘

Re-running analysis with more optimistic assumptions is not how science works.
Citation needed. Weak people are weak.
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How are German ones worse? I always think of Disney and Mosanto when I think about litigious companies..
"He hesitates when it comes to sales because he does not see himself as a sales person".

"... is holding back a bit"

"he would work one day a week + weekends (his work situation is flexible) and eventually go full-time"

HUGE red flags right there. Do not give him equity.
No, that's precisely how it works. All of science is based on making assumptions.
Late 30's, female, never wanted children.

When I was very young, that preference was inspired by a conscious rejection of the roles society had set for me ("wife and mother").

As an adult, that stance has weakened (if I'm choosing something because I want it rather than because someone's telling me too, it's still my choice). But I've come to believe that I would be a terrible mother. In part because I can't stand children and the noise they make; in part because I don't want them enough to be willing to make the sacrifices of time, energy, and other resources that are necessary to raise a child; in part because I'm both uninterested in and just plain terrible at nurturing.

If I had found a life partner who wanted kids badly enough, I might have had them. He would probably have to have committed in advance to being the primary caregiver, though. I'm much more comfortable in the role of breadwinner than nurturer.

Regrets? Not at all. Sometimes a vague concern about being lonely and without a financial safety net in old age, but that seems to me to also be a terrible reason to have children.
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> They cannot ban a citizen of another country from hosting said porn if it's legal there.

That's not what's happening though, gutenberg.org was only ordered to make the 18 books not accessible from German IPs. No one talked about a hosting ban.
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The version I've heard was that someone dropped a Porsche engine into a Trabant, which apparently was an easy swap as some technology for the Trabant was stolen from porche and the engine would just fit straight away. Then the Trabant would smoke everyone from traffic lights. I guess it's just an urban legend.
It is true for "normal" ones too. I was checking recently, and the cut-off seemed to be at 110kW (1.5TSI) for VW Group (Skoda, Seat) and 118kW for Mazda. Above that, only automatic.
I find that statement a bit disturbing too, but do we need "science" to determine people's average pay now?
If everybody who cares about overpopulation doesn’t have children, couldn’t that eventually “breed away” that trait and make the problem worse?
Does anyone have a link to the actual study? The closest I can find is a "research brief" PDF that looks like a university press release; I'm not sure it's even been published at all? And why does Reuters think it's acceptable to not include any links in this sort of reporting?
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> [...] that results in city-dwelling populations dominated by women(often single) and rural population dominated by men(also single).

I'd love to live in a place where this were true. Which cities exactly have
such thing going on?

> Also there's a social stigma connected to being a woman over 30 who is still single/childless.

Or is there?

Also, either there is stigma for being single woman or there are vast numbers
of single women. Both at the same time cannot be true in even somewhat
stable system, and it's hard to argue that Polish cities are in total chaos.

> Lastly in post-soviet countries men commit suicide significantly more often than women - often early in life - which further skewes the gender ratio.

Yes, because suicide is a primary or at least a major reason that men die (or
die young).
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> Re-running analysis with more optimistic assumptions is not how science works.

String theory is nothing more than an assumption.
I would venture and say that none can, but it seems like the GPD Win 2 may be able to run on the mainline kernel with pretty much everything working out of the box, except the touchscreen and the gamepad controls.
> A ticket cost $1.

> a 1-in-54 chance to pick three out of the six numbers in a drawing, winning $5, and a 1-in-1,500 chance to pick four numbers, winning $100.

> winning three-number combination would put $50 in the player’s pocket instead of $5, and the four-number winners would pay out $1,000 in prize money instead of $100, and all of a sudden, the odds were in your favor.

1 in 54 wins you $50, 1 in 1500 wins you $1000. I feel really dumb right now, as I must be missing something, but how are those winning odds?
Ah ... so it's "self-folding". Thanks for the clarification!
I wonder if, given their broad reply, that project shouldn't just block everyone BUT the US, since they decided that US law is the only that applies to them.

Now, I don't like these laws one bit, but I also really don't like this (over)reaction. If your legal counsel argues that you should block a country to avoid being sued for different laws, shouldn't the same counsel point out that this is likely for most of the world?

Or is Germany the oddball here and the majority of the world doesn't have CP laws, or doesn't care or .. have laws that are literally one to one compatible with the US ones?
Very interesting, thanks!

I looked into the Dutch case. It indeed appears that there's no progressive effective tax, but rather a flat tax. Each group pays about an equal share of the tax burden as their share of the income.

The study published in EBS is a great start, but it is omitting some important elements. Taxation of cars is left out, despite them being a luxury good whose costs are carried by the more affluent class. Transaction tax on real estate, same thing, omitted and mostly a rich-people thing. Real estate taxes, same thing. Nor are capital gains taxes or company's income taxes included, thereby omitting income effects from entrepreneurship and ownership in companies, these capital effects and its taxes of course scale with affluence.

What it does include on the other hand, are various insurances. e.g. insurance to unemployment (including the 'final unemployment': pensions) and sickness. These aren't really taxes per se, but rather individual insurances earmarked per person.

Finally, it hints at combining tax rates with redistribution. For example, healthcare subsidies get deducted from medical insurance premiums in the study. But it's only one of many different forms of redistribution. They don't make similar deductions for rent subsidies (which are quite substantial). I felt that was lacking, either include it all or nothing at all.

Which brings in perspectives... this study essentially adds sales tax to the traditional income tax as a way of determining collective burdens, which is super interesting. But the authors do not change the denominator from income to something else that's related to sales tax. So it's a claim about income+expense tax, as a percentage of income. Rather than say taking all your taxes, including those related to expenses, as a percentage of total expenses. If you did this, you'd see tax systems become progressive again, as rich people have a higher savings rate (i.e., income that's not spent, and thus not hit with sales tax). The authors do mention in the beginning of the article, but don't discuss the implications after. If you wanted, you could see this as a form of deferred taxes.After all, un-spent after-tax income isn't taxed with sales-tax, until it's spent. When its spent, it's taxed, removing the regressive element. And if it's not spent but saved/invested instead, you don't pay sales tax, but you do have to pay tax on capital in the Netherlands. Which is exactly the tax that this study left out!

So, extremely interesting and it's definitely the case that we can't blatantly call the Netherlands progressive without sales tax context. But to make the opposite claim, to say the Netherlands is regressive or flat, probably can't be made as easily either. It really depends on your perspectives.
The main focus on on devices that have physical controls, not just touch screens. But yeah, it could be worth mentioning anyway. And PostMarketOS at the same time.
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1. The new technology is in its infancy, and we expect it to get better over time.

2. External constraints prevent the better solution from being implemented for now.
If an assumption can give 2x difference, the whole study is flowed. He should extend the study to check the assumption itself.
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"Needs" as in "need for entertainment", not "needs" as in "need for shelter".
More of a "we want this and thus we're willing to pay for it".
> In Java, the java.math.BigDecimal is not a primitive data type. It also has an awkward api due to lack of operator overloading (thanks to BigDecimal not being a primitive data type it seems).

If you're on the JVM, Groovy is nicer in that regard. It uses by default BigDecimal and BigInteger for literal numeric types, and has operator overloading: http://groovy-lang.org/syntax.html
And is untestable.
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> Having a German language version of your website/product is by no means equivalent to being subject to the jurisdiction of Germany the country.

Never said that.
The impression I get is that women are more expected to want children, so not wanting them is seen as more transgressive. Additionally, women have a shorter timeframe in which to have children, so the pressure intensifies after age 30 in a way that it may not for men.

However, parents want grandchildren from their male and female children equally, and pressure from friends is applied to a couple as a couple, not as individuals.
I agree that it’s an awkward label, but “good research practices” felt worse.

It was median, not average, as well, which makes sense as potentially being lower than an average wage.
Even senior engineers don't know all these things, it's just too much.
>There is an entire network of activist organizations researching these issues, so that when tragedy strikes, a campaign can be astroturfed within a day, and

Those "corporate and public targets" do the exact same thing. This is just how politics works (sometimes wirh astroturfing, sometimes without).

>pressure can be exercised on large corporate and public targets.

Who use similar tactics but they do so with more money and resources than their diametrically opposed activist networks, and are typically way more reliant on astroturfing - e.g. when Comcast stuffed fake comments in the FCC comment box in its push to roll back net neutrality.
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Google does it. Wikipedia has local lawsuits.

I'd argue that this is part of the (unfortunate) reality of running a global project and, as commented elsewhere, the only safe option to avoid lawsuits is to pick a set of laws (US here), have lawyers for the same and .. restrict _everyone_ not under these laws to access the resource.

If you block Germany for different copyright laws, why not France? Poland? Canada? (My naive assumption is that these laws are not the same worldwide and differ in gazillion edgecases between countries, even if otherwise somewhat compatible. That assumption might be wrong of course. IANAL)
OK, let's imagine he we will re-run the study with optimistic assumptions and the result would be that Uber drivers are compensated lavishly (and if we take more moderate assumptions, they are making adequate money).

And with another set of assumptions result was that they are serverly underpaid.

So, exactly what we have learned here, other then different assumptions yield different results?
> The Scottish NHS has nothing to do with London.

This is just getting boring as you argue pointlessly over semantics.

UK: Covered collectively by the NHS, which has its own branches.

England: A part of the UK that has 55 million people and its own branch of the NHS. It is racially 85% white and 7% Asian.

London: A big city in England with a population around 9 million.

The number of people in London is much smaller than the number of people in all of England, and all of the UK. Yet, England (as shown above) is quite racially homogenous (typically a good indicator for being culturally homogenous). That a single city exists in a sea that is culturally homogenous (that you feel like is "doing okay") does not mean that if all of England or the UK's population were more diverse, there would be no problems.

Nobody is arguing that the system would collapse the moment it encounters a single diverse area, so your point is irrelevant.
But should those assumptions really be based on angry tweets from someone with a colossal vested interest?
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I can't tell if this is sarcasm. In case not, the scientific process is about gathering data to test the validity of hypotheses. Your phrasing makes it sound like science is mainly about spewing conjecture.
Where do you go, what's on the other side of your ride?

At work; we have a parking lot. When visiting business partners, they have visitor parking. Shops also do have parking. Even the small gym that I visit has a parking lot (small one, but they don't want to lose customers after all). There are not many reasons to go to inner city, just for pubs. And there's no way you can go to pub and then drive anyway. All the small shops disappeared from the city centre years ago, because the patrons had a problem getting there. If you want the cheapest, but still clean and representable office space, you go into the city centre, into the pedestrian zone. Just don't expect many visits there, or even a fast internet connection for your office.

Yes, I do live in Europe. Not in DE, though.
I said "0 dying _prematurely_" because of nitrates. Those 170 would have had it anyway.
I can't speak for car software as our stuff is completely unrelated to cars, but I work at a company whose software BMW is a client of and we do a lot of customization for them. I can very confidently say that of our clients (most of which are banks and some of the largest pharmas in the world) BMW has the strictest software quality and testing requirements by a fairly wide margin.

No idea how that reflects on software they develop internally or for their cars but to me they care a lot about the software they have.
The assumption is with regard to how respondents interpreted a vaguely worded question. Not an assumption of what 2+2 equals.

This study has a huge human component since no single party has all the data needed to calculate the answer.

Uber has a lot of data, but even they don't know total hours spent before or after shifts in prep for work nor expenses with regard to vehicle maintenance.
We have been doing that. But one problem is that it's easy to fool ourselves: you can temporarily raise carrying capcity by eating capital.

So, we catch many more fish now, for example. But we are catching at faster than replacement rate, depleting the natural capital stock.

Carbon energy + space in the atmosphere for CO2 is another variety of capital stock which we have used for temporary carrying capacity gains.

There are also long run carrying capacity improvements in the mix. General efficiency improvements fall in this category.