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I completely disagree. I see Hollywood and Netflix producing the same product but having different business models. I do make conscious decisions about seeing movies in theaters versus at home - but in that case, it's not Hollywood competing with Netflix, as when I make that decision, I'm still paying the movie studio, as I pay to stream just that movie. All I'm doing there is cutting out the physical theaters.

Watching a movie in the theater is different from streaming it at home. But the two experiences are in direct competition with each other. As I said above, I make conscious decisions about which movies I will watch in theaters and which I will wait to watch at home. Hollywood is fine with that process still keeps the specialness of a theatrical release: if I want to be a part of the hype and see it "at release" I need to go to the theater. What Netflix is showing is that we can just cut out the theatrical release part; it's not necessary. That threatens Hollywood's business model, and, I think, is emotionally hard on some Hollywood creators because it makes their work feel less special.

But I actually think there's a more interesting tension showed by Netflix and HBO: the limitation of the movie as a medium. Both Netlfix and HBO have put movie-studio level investment into what we call "tv shows" but are really more like long-form movies. And people like it. A lot. It's an experience which can't be had in movie theaters, and I actually think that may be the longer-term threat to the current Hollywood, movie-studio to theater business model.
this is one area where blockchain could be useful. When you cant trust a single entity with your data, blockchain would allow a distributed database and give you control over who can see your data.

A distributed repository of data, with multiple vendors providing a variety of user interfaces to access that data.
>However, markets are socially constructed because they depend on property rights that are socially constructed, and there are many different ways that markets and property rights can be constructed, some of which are unexplored and potentially far better than what we have today.

This would be an interesting hypothesis to explore with swarm reinforcement learning. It seems to me that rights have a lot to do with optimal/stable cooperation strategies in certain types of games, and maybe RL can uncover better strategies, or maybe not.

The simplest well-studied problem of this sort is the iterated prisoner's dilemma. The strategies we have today are remarkably similar to the Axelrod's original strategies three decades ago.
Gross negligence with severe dude effects and sexual harassment could easily fall in a criminal category.
I think he lifted the design of a genuine Dell restore disc . It was seized by customs.
The last great Macbook Pro was:

> MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015)

The new models are subpar in build quality imho and the touch bar is completely useless tech.
For anyone else looking to save money on their phone plan, check out Project Fi.

My wife and I pay $20 for the first unlimited talk/text line and $15 for the second (all of them after the first line cost $15), plus 10 dollars for each gigabyte of data used.

It's rare for us to use more than 2 gigs of data in a month so our bill is usually between $45 and $55 dollars.

If you are so inclined, phone protection plans cost $5 dollars a month and have reasonable replacement prices ($79 to replace my Pixel 2 that I paid $650 for). They also offer interest free financing over 24 months on all of their phones.

As long as you don't mind the small selection of phones (at the moment the only phones they sell are the Pixel 2, Pixel 2 XL, and Moto X4 I think), it's a very good deal.
There are plenty of people in China who are happy to discuss the pros and cons of their government, especially as compared to America. You could even read Chinese newspapers and forums (some are in English or you could even learn Mandarin!) where this stuff is hashed out all the time. But it would require courage and integrity and a real willingness to learn. It's much easier to parrot what you hear second-hand from the media, isn't it?

The real issue here isn't Chinese policy. Frankly, I doubt you're actually interested in Chinese policy or even the welfare of the Chinese people. The real issue here is the power of ignorance and fear. Reactions like above are a monument to it.
I am amused at the contrast between different headlines for this story.

Bloomberg: "Patent ‘Death Squad’ System Upheld by U.S. Supreme Court"

EFF: "Supreme Court Upholds Patent Office Power to Invalidate Bad Patents"
Automatically route tickets to the most appropriate person with Machine Learning
> Basic landlines are still a thing

Oh yeah, LOL, I quite honestly forgot about the existence of those haha
Introducing Snappables
What about VR replacing the cinema?
It's a thing in a handful of upscale locations in Brazil as well
Google (who's software is running your phone) and your operator (who is constantly triangulating you to know where to broadcast the radio signal) already know exactly where you are.
I can relate to what the article says, and yet find it hard to break away from the ecosystem given the tools I've come to use every day runs so well on the Mac. Muscle memory with shortcuts and all.

I've found a quick workaround to simply let the machine cool down. Eg. When running Docker previously and when the machine got heated, I found keyboard problems keep cropping up consistently. Letting it cool for about 20 minutes with a laptop cooler seemed to help.
Current parking charges at Bolton are £4 for 24 hours (they were lower in 2012). 4 trips about 15 mile round trip was about £2 each at that time.

There's a lot of complaining about the fact it costs as much as a cup of coffee to go and visit people in hospital. Those with chronic conditions tend to get free parking (at least where I live now in Cheshire).
Heh, very new project, thanks for the heads up. Its public now.
Posting this from my six month old Macbook Pro 15" on which the spacebar has just started doing double spaces. Going to try and clean it with compressed air, but even if that works, it's unacceptable in my opinion that such a key piece of hardware on such an expensive machine should be so fragile.

The fact that at some point I'll have to take it back to Apple and probably be without it for several days due to the complexity of the repair makes this 10x worse - I am freelance so need this machine for work, so being without it (especially for such a seemingly trivial reason) is unacceptable and absolutely not what I expect when I buy Apple (previous Macbooks have worked for years without a single issue).

If they release a redesign, I'd swap it in a flash (I do actually quite like the keyboard to type on otherwise, but seems like the quest for thinness has gone too far this time!), but if this problem is as widespread as it seems who knows what it will do to resale values.

Would be great to get talk of this spreading as far and wide as possible, as judging by anecdata on Twitter and elsewhere, I am far from the only one with these kind of issues, and to me that implies a fairly major design flaw.
It looks pretty much exactly like the Rust match, though.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/second-edition/ch06-02...
userid checks out
If i where a dictator, i would punnish whoever pitched this as a traitor- after all- now you are cut off from all true information, you get the perfect soap opera- no matter how the people feel, until the day the fluffy thunderclouds around you decide its time for a chain reaction.

How this could seem to anyone in power a good idea- i will never know.
I'm really growing fond of the async/await abstraction. How do I get this in more C-like languages like Go, Rust, or C++? (I have a bunch of C++ code that I want to call via C ABIs.)

I'm intrigued by libdill but it's mysterious enough that I'm scared to include it in my project -- I don't want to risk getting sidetracked by having to debug my concurrency primitives.
The Morris West "The Navigator" is a really good read related to this topic (IMO). It's fiction, but I think some of the stuf mentioned is based on facts about the navigation skills the Polynesians had. A National Geographic team had visited many Pacific islands (across many island groups), done a study and made an article (or series) about it. I had read it a while ago.

Just did a quick search:

https://www.google.co.in/search?q=national+geographic+articl...

https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2014/03/03/hokulea-the-a...

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/09/070927-poly...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56966.The_Navigator
Hah, I wrote that whole "Structuring Reducers" docs section! Glad it was beneficial :)

I personally am a fan of Redux-ORM [0] as a tool for handling normalized state in the store (and I show how to use it in my "Practical Redux" tutorial series [1]), but there's quite a few other options as well.

My biggest frustration with the word "boilerplate" is that it not only gets thrown around a lot, it means different things to different people. Which _specific_ aspects concern you? What pain points have you experienced?

[0] https://github.com/tommikaikkonen/redux-orm

[1] http://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/series/practical-redux
> Like list prices are often incredibly far removed from the actual dollars paid, and the actual amount paid is all dependent on insurer contracts

Which means that anyone those insurer contracts don't cover, is getting royally screwed. Thus, healthcare is simply unaffordable to someone who doesn't have those insurers acting as a payment intermediary.

This one of the dirty secrets of the whole US healthcare coverage problem that I never see politicians (or talking heads) on either side actually acknowledging.
"Nigerian 419 scammers (and other fraudsters) employ similar tactics -- their methods are intensive on the scammer's time, so the pitches they make are so obviously bogus that anyone with half a brain (or more) realizes they're bogus. Automatically selecting for those with less than half a brain."

Someone should create an scam responder bot tied to an email address that people can forward their spam emails to. The AI would then attempt to engage with the scammers in a human like manner, the intention being to increase their engagement cost. Anything like this exist already?

EDIT: Yup. Google threw this up: https://www.rescam.org/
Any suggestions for good non-Windows laptops in the $1000 price range? I'm seriously considering just buying a refurbished MacBook Pro from 2013 at this point.
>Not sure what you're getting at with this rhetoric

Yes you do.

> People don't like political correctness because it's a manipulation tool of policy makers

No, some people don't like it because it lays bare their complete lack of human decency, or standards of any sort.

>used to misdirect and to prevent unwanted discussion

"I don't want to discuss topics that might shed light on the injustices of our society or make me feel uncomfortable."
Concur. I liked the new keyboard when it worked. But after two week-long service appointments to deal with dead keys, I've given up on it. Those laptops are defective. I'm using a 2015 15" for now.
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Good idea. Actually this year in the same thougts direction i refused to buy iPhone X. I use iPhone SE with minimal setup of Reeder, Protonmail, Viber, Mullvad Vpn. Made shortkey to homne button for reducing white point and aded black and white color filter. I am definetely your customer base but this is what i want: 1. High res ink display. 2 Open source OS, no ties with Google. 2. Web based apps (like Palm OS). 3. Security by default, hardware encryption etc. 4. Default mail client. 5. Third party GPS / Maps/. 6 Original visual language. If someone made this, i will spend 500+ eur instantly.:)
If his house price increases, then Bezos is the majority. A single person won't have any effect on the price of a certain region.
Does this mean you can submit VLC 3.0 at a later time? Good luck.
At least it's not erlang's string-list of integers duality.
How does Lundgren's restore disk work?

Most restore disks I've used from OEMs have an OEM Key hardcoded on the disk so the user doesn't have to type in the license key on the side of their machine. These Restore Disks are permitted if the OEM is a Licensed Distributor, Lundgren was not a licensed distributor.

The ISO files that Microsoft distributes require the user to input a key.

His whole argument is questionable:

He is trying to reduce e-waste by manufacturing discs, which he says people lose or throw away, and then selling those disks to the very people who lost or threw away their disc originally?

He says the discs are used by people who feel comfortable restoring a restore crashed or wiped machines but who don't or can't create the restore media themselves. Microsoft's media creation tool is dead simple, you run it and tell it where to create the media.
I'm an iOS dev so have no other choice - but even if I did, I like pretty much every other aspect of the Mac (both this specific laptop, and the ecosystem) and am happy to give Apple my money, but expect a certain level of quality in return, which this generation of keyboards seems to lack.
Have you taken the time to investigate KDW's actual views on abortion or capital punishment? Are you aware that he opposes capital punishment? Have you ever read some of his columns? Do you know that he's the walking, talking definition of a Never-Trumper? Have you ever read some of his brilliant theater reviews for The New Criteron? Have you read his excoriating, searing take down of white identity politics and the populist right (The White-Minstrel Show)? Have you read his heartbreaking and nuanced piece of the opioid epidemic (How Prescription-Drug Abuse Unleashed a Heroin Epidemic)?

Edit: removed personal comment.
Here is an article about one of the few US hospitals with a fixed public price list:

http://time.com/4649914/why-the-doctor-takes-only-cash/
Also can be called imax is the RPX/XD/etc style showing which are the theaters own in-house large premium formats.
I think eventually this will lead to the breakup of the Euro... Fixed exchange rates generally don't work long-term without fiscal transfers to balance things out (like the US's federal budget does for the states). I don't think the EU can keep this up for that much longer - at some point they'll either have to consolidate fiscally or break up the monetary union.
It is easy is to send an insecure message via iMessage. When the app will fallback to SMS, there isn't any clear indication that this is less secure. Sure you get the green vs blue bubbles, but security isn't exactly pointed out.
I've only been to an Alamo once, it was amazing. Unfortunately the closest one to me is an hour away and I'm not willing to dedicate the better part of a day to seeing a movie and having some (admittedly very good) popcorn.

I probably only go once every 3 or 4 months so not much more than you. But if there was an Alamo within a short drive I'd probably go more often.
As an owner of a small company who buys a few macs a year and uses one almost solely, I fully agree with this. I’ve had to replace my latest mbp computer two times now based on keyboard issues (the second time was power and keyboard issues). The keyboard is a disaster. If you have kids, forget about it.
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I have my MacBook Pro on a stand then use a bluetooth keyboard and external monitor. Rarely do I use the actual keyboard.

If Apple created something similar to a Mac mini with a laptop battery I would buy it immediately. I know it wouldn't work for everyone, but it would suit my needs.
A copy of the spec can be found here:

https://http2.github.io/http2-spec/#PushResources

There's a few interesting things here that I want to point out:
* "A client can request that server push be disabled" This is part an explicit parameter in the client request to a server for anything, https://http2.github.io/http2-spec/#SETTINGS_ENABLE_PUSH.

* "Pushed responses that are cacheable (see [RFC7234], Section 3) can be stored by the client, if it implements an HTTP cache. Pushed responses are considered successfully validated on the origin server (e.g., if the "no-cache" cache response directive is present ([RFC7234], Section 5.2.2)) while the stream identified by the promised stream ID is still open"

Note that pushed content first starts with a PUSH_PROMISE message to the client, which the client can decide on its own volition to reject. Note the spec for a PUSH_PROMISE frame is here, https://http2.github.io/http2-spec/#PUSH_PROMISE and it's extremely small. Even on 2G or dial-up it's by design negligible.

* "Once a client receives a PUSH_PROMISE frame and chooses to accept the pushed response, the client SHOULD NOT issue any requests for the promised response until after the promised stream has closed.

If the client determines, for any reason, that it does not wish to receive the pushed response from the server or if the server takes too long to begin sending the promised response, the client can send a RST_STREAM frame, using either the CANCEL or REFUSED_STREAM code and referencing the pushed stream's identifier. "

Wittingly or otherwise, your message comes across as "everyone on the standards boards are idiots, don't think about anything beyond the valley, and I'm smarter than they are." That's beyond ridiculous. The standard was designed by subject matter experts from right across the world, with interests in web technologies across all sorts of markets, including the developing nations where every single byte is important. There's a lot that has been designed in to the HTTP 2.0 specification to account for that and to explicitly try to improve end user experience under those conditions.
How about being the lead in a film? How about both watching the movie and then actually figuring out puzzles, or needing to defeat the bad guy. Or what about actually having a movie that branches depending on your own experience?

I think those are called videogames. People have been using the look and voice of live actors for characters for a long time (at least since 1989, in Prince of Persia).
Here you are:

var x = match (response) {
case { status:200 }: true;
case { status: 404 }: new NotFoundError;
case Number: Math.PI;
case SomeClass: 1;
case /^http/: "http error";
default: -1;
};
This happened to my wife's macbook pro spacebar, $600 fix. It happens with mine every so often too, but fingers crossed it has 'fixed' itself each time.
Yep, those are the holy grail machines at my shop. Everybody that has one is skipping their turn when they are due for an upgrade. Unfortunately I got hired too late and have a 2017 15-inch.
Only issue I see with that, is that your payments won’t count towards reducing your deductible. $600 vs. $90 is a no brainer though.

I ended up dropping dental insurance and just pay cash, even for a family of 4, it is cheaper, assuming the kids brush their teeth.
I don't really think it is "better than nothing", though.

If we start 'publicly shaming' hospitals for high prices, then that will encourage hospitals to aim for low prices. That of course sounds great on its face, but my concern is that this is going to encourage hospitals to achieve lower prices through cost cutting, (aka cutting corners, in the industry where corners need to be cut the least: healthcare).

Trying to rein in healthcare costs is great, but I fear that trying to do it by encouraging focus on narrow metrics like these could do more harm than good.

Also, these publicly-available prices will be almost meaningless to the average person, as they are just 'list prices' and won't match what insurance or any individual actually pays.
Finally the first good news from the Trump administration.
I don't have a solution but in the meantime go watch The Expanse
My plan is to wait until there's a new model out, and then take it in for AppleCare warranty repairs once a month until I hit their lemon limit and they give me a new machine.

The durability of this keyboard is a joke. I even bought one of those rubber keyboard condoms that makes the keyboard suck to type on and the H key still got dust under it somehow and started typing hh.
I went to the emergency room with a horrid ear infection because no local urgent cares were open and after I called the phone # on my insurance card thats what they told me to do.

The receptionist literally, and I am using this word correctly, LITERALLY laughed in my face when I asked how much the visit that had just ended would cost.

For me it's not about "shopping around" before I go to a hospital. Its having a transparent and up front bill for what services were rendered before I leave. It's preventing that shock unbelievable bill that shows up in the mail three months later, and giving the patient a chance to dispute fraudulent or excessive costs while they are still in the building.

Hospital billing needs to be open and transparent. It's the most manipulative and predatory industry on the planet. If only the goal was to help people, it seems like the companies that own hospitals only care about shareholders.
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Definitely agree with you. I feel underwhelmed with the 2017 MBPs (typing on one right now). And you're absolutely correct: if you're developing for certain app systems, you have no choice. I'm a Ruby developer and I remember years ago people switched to Mac simply so they could use Textmate. Some tools just work better on the system (for better or for worse).
Censorship resistant, until someone takes down the “publisher tool meant to run autonomously on a trusted system”.
Got it now, thanks. Interesting.
Where as other high income/developed countries, citizens don't have to shop around because everyone is insured by the State and pays the same prices.

The biggest problem with the US health care system is that it's decades behind every one of our counterparts in Europe, Australia/NZ, Japan, Canada, et. al.

People in other developed nation don't have to worry when they're sick. They know they can see a doctor and it either won't cost them anything, or it will always cost the same amount. If they lose their jobs, they don't have to worry about their health as well. People can chose to quit their jobs, or take long unpaid periods to work on their own projects, without having to worry about how they're going to pay for health care. In America, we're required to pay for private insurance, even if you leave the workforce.

There is a huge cognitive load when health is in the background of your mind. In America, we have to work. If you don't work, you don't get services; not until you're old enough to get Medicare. In other words, you don't get medical services until you're too old to be a working member of society; until the country bleeds you dry as a resource.

That is America.
Incentives. If they successfully prosecute him, they look good (at least in some dimensions, since it is their job to prosecute people). I doubt that is the case, or at least not as much, if they merely dissuade him without taking any legal action.
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We will have to see how this will be implemented but I like that they acknowledge that price transparency is a big problem.
You think the other name on the ballot would have been any different?
I still use my 2010 MBP from time to time. I recently bought a new iMac, not because I really wanted an iMac, but because I needed a newer and more capable computer for some things, was unhappy with the current MBP offerings, and did not want to buy an already borderline-obsolete Mac Pro.

So far so good with the iMac! I've been an Apple user since 2002, and while I really don't want to move to something else, some of their recent decisions have had me seriously considering it...