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Copyright Infringement is not theft, has never been theft, and can not be considered theft, that is why it called Infringement

Further something the "deprives" someone of a sale is also not "theft"

>>> I would say, has committed this crime of theft at the point of copying the software.

and you would be laughed out of a court of law as he was not charged not could be charged with THEFT.

>>> but that is merely due to the fact that their miraculous tree was capable of immediate replenishment, not because a fruit from it was not stolen.

That is a stupid analogy, Software is not a "tree was capable of immediate replenishment",

First, if you had such a tree, the the value of the fruit of that tree would deminish in proportion to the rate of reproduction, that is basic supply and demand. Copyright law grants someone a artificial monopoly which in turns up ends the basic economic realities.

Further if a person was to take fruit from the tree that is still denying you that fruit, even if a new piece of fruit appears immediately.

This is not what happens when you copy a file, you start with 1 file, make a copy now you have 2 files, the original is still present, still works etc.

>>> I am not an expert on law, economics, or business,

Clearly as such you should stop commenting
In fairness, hour long videos tend rarely get much HN attention. One on a non-technical topic by a non-celebrity in relation to the technical community probably will get less. One with the John Free's social perspective, will really be hit or miss. I'm glad you enjoyed it and glad it didn't elicit trolling behavior.
Besides all the other arguments made in the comments about other solutions for user id's...

This code is so easy to write a unit test for. I hope it didnt even get committed, let alone deployed to prod.
This isn't worth going on about anymore. If you can't the cost of running a GPU in your own server versus the TPU in the cloud, then I'm not going to help you.
> I thought it was due to "inertia". That is, if you don't stop rolling, it'll be easier to roll.

This is a very common idea, and also potentially somewhat dangerous. A lot of people chase the inertia with ever increasing workloads and burn out. I have come close to that multiple times.
We're talking about an archeological find dated roughly 3500 years ago. Within the same span of time, human sacrifice was practiced in parts of Europe as well. Few of us use that fact as an opportunity to spread rumors that the modern-day Italians or Welsh continue to do so.
He followed that up with a book on pizza. I was happy to find out that you can make pretty close variations of NY or Neapolitan pizzas at home. Now our Sunday evenings are pizza experiments.
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Basilisk was reforked by the Pale Moon team and a new release is available
http://basilisk-browser.org/download.shtml

Moonchild productions have decided to refork their Basilisk browser code in form of the Firefox 52 Esr Base code, as their first attempt using a code beyond FX 52 was impossible to use for their reasons because of all the new code (Rust and so on) was too hard to remove.

https://github.com/MoonchildProductions/UXP - the new repository of Basilisk new

UXP will be also coming to Pale Moon - The old V24 based UI with a more modern engine behind.

But there is a big issue:

TLS 1.3 can not be implemented because Mozilla did a rewrite of NSS in a newer version of Visual Studio and Pale Moon and Basilisk, being created with an older variant of that program are so far not compatible with the requirements for TLS 1.3 related files and a work-around must be found.. if it is possible at all, which is yet highly unsure.

What is present since the first release of the new fork-point:

http://basilisk-browser.org/releasenotes.shtml
You're not discussing this in good faith. You said "those are statements of different facts" when it's clear to anyone who has read a newspaper (you included) that they are different descriptions of the same facts. You have some trivial objection to any example anyone gives, but you have no examples of your own. Enjoy your weekend. Give peace a chance.
It depends what you mean by coercion. For instance:

class Foo:
def __getitem__(self, x):
return x

i = iter(Foo())
print(next(i))
print(next(i))

That works because any object that provides __getitem__ "implements the iterable protocol."[1] I bring up __getitem__ because people familiar with Java are scratching their heads, "not only did you not declare any interfaces, this is just a convention, but there's also an __iter__ method. Huh?"

But interfaces are just one way to declare a type. The question is, did it convert it to a new type?

Well, what type was it before? If you want to talk about LSP[0], you're a bit stuck here since you can't prove anything about a method in python. (And here, we declared its type, and we said nothing about it being iterable or a sequence.) You have to run it because you don't know that a. Foo has __iter__ or __getitem__, b. that they accept the arguments you're going to pass, c. let alone that they're designed to, d. that the object won't simply delete them halfway through.

All that iter() is going to do is look for those methods and make assumptions that if you wrote __getitem__ that you meant it. At which point maybe LSP works, after all, you'll prove that it has that property by running the code and fixing it if it breaks.

But... python nevertheless will nevertheless construct this proxy to use your class based on inspection, which seems an awful lot like coercion to me.

[0]: Quoth Wikipedia: Let 𝜙(𝑥) be a property provable about objects 𝑥 of type T. Then 𝜙(𝑦) should be true for objects 𝑦 of type S where S is a subtype of T.

[1]: https://docs.python.org/3/glossary.html#term-iterable
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> Your commitment to the masculine is probably merely a habit, but you've inadvertently highlighted one of the problems exacerbated by the teachings of the average business school -- self-interest at any cost is acceptable, because it's an inherent property of capitalism.

I'm not committed to anything, but if you want to just push an ideology into the heads of students without any regard to the actual socio-economic environment, you're doing them a disservice. These people will not survive in the market based on what you teach them.

"Self-interest at any cost" is a naive caricature of capitalism. You're probably indoctrinated too much for me to make an impact here, but just keep in mind that if you only ever fight a straw man, you're never winning an actual battle.

> Self-interest is fine and dandy, but the example you're citing -- dispense with a hundred people in order to obtain a half a million dollars -- is not an overly productive practice for most societies.

You weren't even able to perceive the scenario as the dilemma that it is: In this scenario, either 90 or 100 workers will be fired. The question is, does the manager give up on his bonus to save 10 people for one year, voluntarily. If he does, it may have an impact on morale, boosting productivity, possibly leading to even higher long-term gain. If he doesn't, he immediately gets to be more wealthy. There's no obviously right or wrong answer.

Contrary to what you might like to believe, productivity is not the same as production output. Firing the least productive workers will likely improve productivity, because output relative to cost increases. Production also must be decreased to the point where it meets demand, not well above. These are basic economic principles that exist even outside of capitalist systems.
Taxes are not theft. They're taxes.

All Property, indeed, except the Savage's temporary Cabin, his Bow, his Matchcoat, and other little Acquisitions, absolutely necessary for his Subsistence, seems to me to be the Creature of public Convention. Hence the Public has the Right of Regulating Descents, and all other Conveyances of Property, and even of limiting the Quantity and the Uses of it. All the Property that is necessary to a Man, for the Conservation of the Individual and the Propagation of the Species, is his natural Right, which none can justly deprive him of: But all Property superfluous to such purposes is the Property of the Publick, who, by their Laws, have created it, and who may therefore by other Laws dispose of it, whenever the Welfare of the Publick shall demand such Disposition. He that does not like civil Society on these Terms, let him retire and live among Savages. He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it.

-- Benjamin Franklin

http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch16s12....

(More, on taxes, immediately prior.)
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I'm a terrible writer :P
This is the same logic I've heard when 'selling' malls to the local community.

The ruthless answer is, 'There will always be someone cheaper and better than you. Just give it time.' Do not forget that capitalism attempts to seek the bottom at all times.

Right now, Aliexpress is cheaper than Amazon by a long shot. Ebay is cheaper on certain goods. Other area-specific upstarts are challenging Amazon in their own ways. And Amazon has significant problems with counterfeits everywhere in their supply chain due to gross mismanagement.

I would much rather go to a local business, and pay a bit more, than to deal with some of the online businesses. But the deal city and state governments make is to value the $BigCo, and not the small business.
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You call Tesla give your serial they will tell you the latest version of the bearing that you should upgrade too. They been d9o ing that for 10 years now.
How does having an actually healthy city relate to living in boxes, whatever that means to you?
> banking software means something written in COBOL, RPG400 etc. These languages are pretty old and hence, finding talent for these is like trying to find needle in a haystack.

It's really interesting to see which of the new UK and European 'challenger' banks purchased third-party banking software and which decided to spend the time writing their own modern banking systems [1]. A few examples from the linked article...

Monzo: For banking ops, it decided to build its own platform. Technology used is mainly open source: Linux, Apache Cassandra distributed database (used by the likes of Apple and Twitter), Google’s Go (golang) programming language at the back-end and PostgreSQL relational database. The system is hosted at two data centres in the UK on Mondo’s own hardware. There is a team of 16 people working on this.

Atom Bank: It has created a hefty technology set-up in its run up to the launch: FIS’s Profile core banking system; FIS/Sungard’s Ambit Quantum and Ambit Focus for treasury and risk management; Iress’ Mortgage Sales & Origination (MSO) suite for mortgage business, front-to-back office; Wolters Kluwer’s OneSumX for regulatory reporting; Intelligent Environments (IE) for front office capabilities; CSC’s ConfidentID system for security; Phoebus Software for secured business lending and account servicing for residential lending; and WDS Virtual Agent for customer queries supplied by WDS (a subsidiary of Xerox).

Starling: The bank has an in-house developed core system. It uses GPS and Bottomline Technologies for processing and payments operations, respectively.

At what point does it become cheaper to buy one of these smaller banks and migrate everyone across to their platform?

[1] https://www.bankingtech.com/2018/04/uk-challenger-banks-whos...
He didn’t stop himself, according to the story, God intervened. He was willing To go the whole hog
"But this professor frequently shouted down students or used ridicule to make people regret raising their hands"

Pretty much the definition of a bad professor, IMO.
He doesn’t suggest scoring because the creases in his recipe end up on the top of the dough, which does the same thing as scoring which controls the rise so it doesn’t blow out the side. Tartine and other recipes suggest scoring because the creases from the dough formation are on the bottom.
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NULL or ‘NULL’? There’s a clear and obvious difference there.
Haha metaphors are dumb.

Anarchism is an opposition to arbitrary authority. Anarchism is not a breakdown, but a response to a breakdown. I.e., the lies we are told about authority by authority break down when viewed in the light of our experiences with authority. When we disbelieve those lies, we turn to anarchism.
In that case, you have my sympathies. Far too many organisations, particularly those in sensitive fields like finance, medical care and (surprisingly, perhaps) law are cavalier about sending things via email that really shouldn't be. I think a lot of them genuinely don't understand that it's not a secure or appropriate medium for sending confidential information, and actually what we need to improve that situation is more like a public awareness campaign than theoretical technical solutions that most people aren't going to use anyway or legal/regulatory solutions that just punish a small proportion of the culprits who didn't know they were doing anything wrong anyway.
Yeah, I throw it in cold sometimes without much effort. I have some pales that I use to make a few loaves in bulk.
Vowel sacrifice is still practiced in the open in Wales.
Thats my understanding as well and fake followers can also be exchanged for a perceived social importance not just monetary value.

Example: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/aug/26/how-many-...
What causes frequent nosebleeds in adults?
I think the saying “Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution” is for institutions not for individuals. The idea is that for instance The Society to End Hunger will never end hunger because if it does it will have to end its existence. I think what you are saying is looking for another good aphorism. I'm sure there must be one.
Never had a problem with the rise even if I leave it in the fridge for 6 days. I also use much less yeast than the recipe calls for though.
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I’d say they were a mix but they tend to be upscale in any case. But somewhere like Santana Row is as you describe.
PBS often edit UK-produced shows, or change the voice over, for their US audience. Whenever I've had the opportunity to compare the two versions, the British one has been vastly better -- less pompous, more intellectual, less fear-mongering, more curiosity-enhancing; also, including moments of silence. Further, unfortunately, PBS tend to cut material to fit within a shorter time-frame, e.g. a 60-minutes long drama or documentary will have lost about 5 minutes.
Is this what they are teaching people to do?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.ft.com/content/356ea48c-e6c...
The lazy entitled pseudologic neckbeard hivemind of this site is painful sometimes. Please stop. What if I decide to be a polite burglar who doesn't have any intention of hurting you? Can you leave me out of jail too?

I think it's great that our country has strong deterrents against people clearly and deliberately going out of their way to make a living off copyright infringement. Why is it so hard to avoid jail by going through life and not deliberately stealing IP from another company that they've literally systematically invested in for 30 years? Now we just need to do a better job of it abroad.
> Where's the intelligentsia

As others have pointed out, there aren't any, at least of the non-rental variety.

Cheer up though - you've gotten the better part of a century of subsidization of your lifestyle in a wide variety of ways.
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The problem is that there is good money and bad money that looks identical. The only way to tell the difference is to get arrested, have your business shut down, or lose access to all financial services.

And why is there 'bad' money? I think we have to take a detailed examination of what constitutes 'bad money'. I think they are mostly all underserved markets that are being served by the worst of society.

I think most things can be fixed with more sensible approaches. Decriminalizing drugs is a good place to start. Especially considering our own CIA and pharma industry created a lot of addicts that then get fed into the prisons, bureaucrats profiting at every step. They helped create the drug kingpin monsters.

This seems like just another problem created by government where the citizens have to pay the price. No shortage of those these days.
Well written article really enjoyed it.
In that respective order, too.

You could have caught that had you assigned night and day different types, instead of having it blow up 19 hours later in the field like this.
> The relation between the guy and Microsoft is clearly a parasitic one.

You could say the same about anyone trying to repair or extend the life of products... Does that mean that it should be punishable? Should the law really be protecting Microsoft's bottom line at all cost?

It is clear to anyone not distracted by pedantic legal interpretations and who can actually comprehend the difference between information and material goods, that the accusation of "counterfeiting" is a tenuous and misleading one.

Take a moment to go beyond the premise of "counterfeit == damages" and find out what that really means in this context, it doesn't take much effort: these are recovery discs, any real monetary "damage" done to Microsoft's bottom line would be the same as if every one of Microsoft's customers were ensured their right to restore the software to their computer when it failed, disregarding misplacing or never receiving or it being relegated to a long since corrupted partition (yes people can download it but most people are not technically competent and it's not in Microsoft's interest to spell it out to them)... this was already paid for by the license, they have every right to that disc and the disc alone does not give anyone the ability to install without a license.

These are the only substantial monetary damages, and this flimsy verdict is damning because it could potentially be interpreted as a precedent to attack anyone helping people to repair computers... but ya know... how dare you hurt M$ bottom line.

And before anyone brings up the straw man of "he profited"... on 25c per disc? really? after flying to china and back and putting all the work in to get them mass produced? I doubt he would have ever broke even, at best he might have made a meagre living, it's not exactly counterfeiting Rolex. I don't claim to know the intent of this guy but it can only be one of two: He was trying to help extend the life of countless computers needlessly thrown away every year, OR he was an idiot with delusions of grandeur, because there is no money in this (but don't confuse that with the ability to harm M$ bottom line, a cardinal sin). Don't get me wrong, I think what he did was pretty stupid, but what Microsoft is doing right here is sending a message of "If you hurt our bottom line, we will hurt you personally", regardless of their legal or moral right to do so.
I used to work at ESRI, too. Nevertheless, I hope you realize that recommending ArcGIS in this context is analogous to somebody doing a blog post on PostgreSQL and you recommend people try Oracle, too. And then, somebody mentions that there is an "Oracle Express" version that is free (or really cheap). In fact, the Oracle pricing structure is too similar to ArcGIS to ignore this comparison.
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I live in a healthy and safe small neighborhood in Montreal. We walk to local stores some of which are thriving, while others are dying. Quality of life is very high, and the price of homes keep on rising.

Thriving local commerces are service oriented: restaurants, pharmacies, grocery stores, hardware stores and dollar stores. Dying stores are product oriented mostly because of online shopping and big retail.

I do long for small local retail stores with good prices and products. The only way this could work is for specific verticals. I.e. men’s clothing. I imagine the store would need to be online first with a global recognized brand. The brick and mortor stores in local communities would become presence (a marketing cost, not a profit center). Frank ‘n Oak is an example of that. I would like to see more across more neighborhoods and verticals.
Many smaller cities and towns have suffered the loss of vibrant downtowns, but I can't help but wonder if we are misidentifying the causes.

Over the last half-century (probably more) we've seen a big part of the economic base for these small cities and downs either disappear or move away. Agriculture used to play a much bigger role in the economy as a whole, and a particularly large role in the economy of many small towns. And manufacturing used but much more distributed across the country in smaller cities and towns. But a lot of those factories have closed down.

As a consequence the tax base in may of these towns and cities didn't go away simply because retail businesses moved out of the city limits. They may have gone away because the entire GDP of the surrounding area dropped.

For reference: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sectors_of_US_Econom...
Apparently, a lot of that had to do with Prop 13 and various packaged "company sales" to hold the appreciating property as an investment and avoid increased taxes while minimizing cash flow. In the end after multiple bankruptcies (driven by the city council) the land owners needed to make money on their "new" investment to pay taxes. It's full of shops now with lots of Apple and other tech employment next to the Caltrain corridor.

It's similar to the corner of 85&ElCamino where the dead Emproium mall sat for 20 years because the landowner paid effectively no taxes on the property while borrowing on the appreciated value. I don't know if it's true that they only sold to Sutter Health because of bad investments during the dot-com boom, but that was the rumor in 2003-4 when it traded hands.
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That's a good point. The author argues that the small towns of America have frittered away their wealth. His sub-point is to argue that wealth is, well, what exactly? Obviously a vibrant downtown with nice shops is certainly valuable to some people.

But economic activity has always chased the faster, newer and cheaper. Asking it to go the other way is a tall task, always has been, always will be. The point of the matter is, we need a lot of stuff. Scaling is still very much something America and the world needs, much more so than nicely landscaped downtowns.

I read that article about diapers and just how sophisticated they really are, just how much R&D goes into them and how thin the profit margins are on them. Wanting cheaper diapers won't magically make it so.

Americans choose what they want, and asking people to want different things is ultimately saying you're smarter than them. You might want a JC Penney's, but the struggling housewife next door wants a Dollar General if she can't get a Wal-Mart.
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The same as it's been since the 1890s [1]. You move further and further out, because that's all you can afford. When you're rich enough to upgrade a bigger place, you move again, and everyone else does the same. Then some suburbs realize this is a huge drain on their budget, so they attract some retail or office space or manufacturing, and within a couple years they're like Irvine or Tysons or Bloomington -- the suburbs that have made it. Everywhere else accumulates the same problems that inner cities once did, but without the potential to improve.

It's hardly something you'd call sustainable, but there's many metros that have yet to be built out -- there's always another Boise [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetcar_suburb#History [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16898200
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