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Would you consider $30/month to be a lot?

I pay €23.40/month (about $27.50/month) to be able to watch as many movies as I want in all German UCI cinemas. There are no limitations (I think our record is watching five movies in a day) or surcharges. (I think some select newly renovated or built cinemas do take surcharges for certain special seats or cinemas, but I’m not affected in the city I am in.)

That’s definitely worth it for me, considering that I watch a couple hundred movies per year in the cinema. (You need about 3-4 movies/month to easily get above the €23.40.)

The other big chain chain cinema in the city (cinemaxx) offers a similar flat rate (but at a higher price) and this flat rate hasn’t been in place forever, but for at least a couple of years. I would have assumed that you can get something similar everywhere and if not, why not?
Opening paragraph of The Fine Article's linked Forbes source:

> On July 26, 2016, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) issued a report “Army General Fund Adjustments Not Adequately Documented or Supported”. The report indicates that for fiscal year 2015 the Army failed to provide adequate support for $6.5 trillion in journal voucher adjustments. According to the GAO's Comptroller General, "Journal vouchers are summary-level accounting adjustments made when balances between systems cannot be reconciled. Often these journal vouchers are unsupported, meaning they lack supporting documentation to justify the adjustment or are not tied to specific accounting transactions…. For an auditor, journal vouchers are a red flag for transactions not being captured, reported, or summarized correctly." [1]

This isn't actually necessarily money that's been spent illegitimately or secretly, or something. It sounds more like sloppy bookkeeping.

Note also that the author also writes for RT. It doesn't make him wrong, but it does invite scrutiny into the underlying narratives this piece was penned to support; they probably aren't just on the level of "Army bad at accounting."

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/kotlikoff/2017/12/08/has-our-go...
Except that it does. He mentions that the budget is the official budget, ie the on paper budget. The unaccounted for spending is 54 times that amount. It's just not on the papers
If it makes you happy, sure. Most people I know prefer an interesting job they like, rather than 8 hours of boredom. Remember, the employer can very well deny you any personal internet access. Personal internet usage at work is grounds for dismissal even with strict labour laws.
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> However these loans wouldn't be offered to students who on average couldn't realistically pay them

That's the point.

> giving 150k of loans to an engineer is a sound investment

No it is not. I've pretty good education (one can claim I maybe over-educated a bit even since I've studied tons of things I never use), I earn six figures, and my education did not cost even close to 105k. And I would be terrified to take a loan of 100k+ even with my current income level, stable job and some assets I've accumulated over the years of work. The only thing I would take such a loan on is a house, but definitely not because I want to attend nicely-named social gathering group that by the way also gives degrees. How a person can take such a loan with no income, no specific job prospects, no savings, no clear perspective of how it would be paid off - just boggles the mind. And it's not like community colleges do not exist...

Moreover, it is absolutely clear to me that the most of 100k is paying for services the students do not need and for the fact they got the coveted paper. Education per se does not cost that much, you can clearly see it in price dynamics and administrative vs. teaching staff dynamics. It's not like professors are known for being billionaires either. The costs inflation is happening elsewhere. And these loans enable it and drive it - what's the incentive to cut costs if the students will just get another government loan, never refused, each time you raise tuition?
I'd like to add Sunvox[0]. It has a tracker for sequencing but has a modular synthesizer, not limited to samples (unlike old trackers) nor a full fledged DAW (unlike Renoise). Also, free (as in beer) and runs in Android/iOS.

[0] http://www.warmplace.ru/soft/sunvox/
I’m not sure if you are asserting eminent domain is a mistake.
Why spend more years being single? I'm in my twenties and hate being single.
Well, you could always ask Porsche's CEO:

http://www.thedrive.com/sheetmetal/16548/porsche-ceo-admits-...

Obviously he thinks they can compete, but there's an acknowledgement that Tesla has done something significant.
For a some explanations of what happened:
https://www.metabunk.org/explained-6-5-trillion-unsupported-...
No, I do not. You completely missed my point. My point is that people worry about global things, but not only do not contribute to more local - but no less important - things, but actually mess them up. Maybe if they did care more about local things, it would also be easier to make progress on more global things.
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And people wonder why I don't want to use Google products... The fact that you might be locked of all your accounts for a random bullshit reason (with no support either) is completely insane. People reading this here on HN, please don't use Google products for any important matter or it might bite you back one day (basically only what you can afford to lose).
Haskell actually doesn't care by conscious choice: It's meant as a research language, and has "avoided success at all costs" (to use the tongue-in-cheek quote) to retain the freedom to play around with things. Which in turn lead to quite a few inventions that are now being copied by other modern languages (like Rust), though they rename them to make them less scary (apparently programmers are easily scared by names ... like the one that starts with M.).

That's a bit sad. On the other hand: Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Question for those with a bit more knowledge in this area: How large does the company have to be so that you're excluded from those kind of enforcement actions? With most companies (e.g. Microsoft), large enterprise customers get very different terms and are excluded from all the usual "customer service". Is that the same with Google? Otherwise I couldn't imagine that this would make it into any large companies.
They will be reviewing them for free or, at best, for peanuts.

(Usually, if peanuts are involved, they're literally peanuts)
Did you mean, "It's hard to quit from using vim once you get accustomed to it."? :)
It appears this just comes down to inadequate inter-departmental accounting, not necessarily a net loss of any total amount of money, much less $21 trillion.

The original source appears to be https://www.forbes.com/sites/kotlikoff/2017/12/08/has-our-go..., which explains the situation better. For example:

The report indicates that for fiscal year 2015 the Army failed to provide adequate support for $6.5 trillion in journal voucher adjustments. According to the GAO's Comptroller General, "Journal vouchers are summary-level accounting adjustments made when balances between systems cannot be reconciled."

In other words, far more money goes in and out of the Army, or between its various departments, than its total net cost to the government, as one might expect for any large bureaucracy.
Well at 18 they can legally purchase an AR-15 and vote so not sure your argument holds up in that respect.
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Oh, so all of those politicians and right wingers who are calling for hermetically closing the borders and imposing special laws on immigrants have all been fined and/or put in jail?

That's great news! Why hadn't I heard about this before? Perhaps because it's complete nonsense?

Left wing junta? With a Christian conservative chancellor and completely ineffectual so-called left wing parties? That's hilarious. Germany is drifting strongly to the right, and it must be stopped.
I still love GMail, the interface works better for me than for others. Just use your own domain (with a third party registrar) and you can just swap the front-end if Google decides to ban you.

Same with a small company, as long as you have control of your domains and regular backups of the emails, having a fail-over isn't that hard. In this case the real damage is personal accounts, the business accounts could probably be up within a few hours at another provider (plus some more hours until backups are restored).
FWIW Netbeans also keeps local file history. (Nothing against Jetbrains. They seem like a great company with great products and a really nice pricing model, I just prefer Netbeans.)
That was absolutely uncalled for.
I suspect they get plenty of business from established companies that need extra space or a way to bootstrap offices in new locations. Linkedin, for example, used them to open the Detroit office.
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And this is why I have my own domain, specifically for my email address. It doesn't have a website or anything, just a single email address, for my personal use.

That way I have full control of my domain name, right up until the point where I forget to renew it, and a domain squatter takes it from me.

There really must be something better than either of these systems. Being at the whims of Google isn't good, but having your own domain name has its own set of problems.

This also highlights why companies need to ensure that their systems are platform agnostic. This is why I don't trust things like Slack for business critical applications. Once you're locked in, it's bloody hard to get out.
If this blows up enough I can believe it changes. Not because Google wants to, but because suddenly people getting fired realize that they can cause significant damage that way.. If this suddenly happens a few hundred times within a week, Google will have to act or will lose a lot of clients.
Thanks! Looks pretty useful. Will be checking it out soon.
And most theaters make up the money from the beverages and popcorn.
I met Gary Fung (the founder of isoHunt) while waiting in line to buy my iPhone 4S in Richmond, Vancouver. Very friendly guy.

We had a nice chat on Facebook recently about copyright for song lyrics (I want to share a load of fan-made translations of Christian songs, but there's no CCLI in Taiwan so there's actually no legal way to proceed). Hearing about his experience amplified the chilling effect for me - if I had a limited-liability company, then there's more that I could do (e.g. VoiceTube), but as an individual it's not worth the risk.
To add to what dragonwriter said, weekend evening tickets at my local Cinemark theatre is $14.50 for a 2D movie in its first or second week.
>browser extension that hyperlinks Wikipedia references with articles available over Sci-Hub?

this works:

https://github.com/DorianDepriester/doi2scihub
Nope, bubble sort always performs the same number of ops regardless of whether the array is partially sorted or not. You might be thinking about insertion sort, which has that feature.
Can confirm, many do not know. Even more people never actually think about it and certainly do not think about it in a way that they may be part of the project and take part of the responsibility on themselves too. It is a pity, since there are many communities with awesome self-organizing cultures that achieve great things, and free open knowledge is one of those things that most of people, otherwise of different opinions and persuasions, can agree on.
I'll share our deployment stack with Elixir, which is pretty hands off. We use docker with AWS ECS and have a simple release process:

1. Our jenkins CI builds a docker image which contains an erlang release (using distillery).
2. This image gets pushed to ECR (AWS's image repository), every version is tagged with a $GIT_REF.
3. We have another jenkins job which updates our AWS ECS Tasks to use the new version of Docker images.
4. AWS ECS now spins up a few new containers and drains out the connections from the old ones.
If the ability for Wikipedia to have a neutral article on a topic hinges on the existence of a single irreplaceable person with that level of dedication, then I think the right solution is to not have an article on the topic. In general, for a topic area that someone out there cares enough to brigade in the fashion you describe, there surely must also exist a non-obsessive set of users capable of moderating the page without making hundreds of edits per person to it.
I think people often do approach researchers. It's just nigh-on impossible to expect researchers not to try and get published in Nature, for example. The effect on credentials (and career) is too great. And of course the department they work for will be pushing for it too.

Besides being the main source of academic esteem, there is a serious structural issue where Elsevier et al receive publicly-funded knowledge, yet privately control the supply. The model seriously warps the production of research (and, arguably, the reproduction - p-hacking, fiddling with your regressions/covariants).

Using Sci-hub can be considered a form of protest. Perhaps 'break copyright law' is not a universalisable rule in the spirit of Kant, but the same is true of most forms of activism.
As written in the text, once you "get" a "white-collar" job, you'll see that there is not much difference between the two.

We're in the same hell.
30 days blocks are handed out solely by Facebook's own hand. It has nothing to do with this law.

You're linking to Breitbart and similar sites. Those are not credible sources.

And please, I'm not a fan of Merkel either. So I don't know what you're on about.
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So, this website doesn’t appear to work on iOS.

Was that intentional?
You have an interesting concept of being a "free man". Debt is a tool, not a form of enslavement.

For example, many people who could pay cash for a car take a loan instead, because they know they will have more money at the end of the loan term if they invest their cash, or because taking the loan will cost them less money than cashing out some investments and paying capital gains taxes.

You can get car loans these days with less than 1% APR. At that rate, it almost never makes sense to pay cash, at any price -- the interest rate on the loan is less than the rate of inflation!

I've bought cars for $2k or less several times, and I kept each one for several years. If I hadn't known how to work on them myself, they would have ended up costing a lot more than what I paid initially. I bought my current car new -- it is a lot safer than the cars I used to drive, it gets excellent gas mileage, it has a great warranty, and it will last me a long time.

When I retire several decades from now, I certainly won't regret having purchased a new car back in the 2010s -- the price I paid will be a drop in the bucket compared to the amount I will have earned and saved by then. All I would get if I buy a $3k car is unnecessary suffering and inconvenience, and significantly higher risk of death in an accident, that wouldn't amount to much savings in hindsight.
Wait, they've spend 1.5 billion dollars for 30 miles of train? That's only 50 million per mile!

Most city light-rail projects in the US are 150 to 200 million per above-ground mile. https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/01/why-its-so-ex...
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So what did you do after you received such letters? It seems you haven't paid. How?
It’s easy to forget that Bill Gates was once the Jeff Dean of his time.
This was the reason I kept away from gamifying it. People may not deep read and share better lessons that they learn and instead just keep sharing one liner quotes instead.
Yeah, or he might be a neo-nazi. It's impossible to know.

A better example would be going "hey boy, get back to pickin' cotton!" to a black border guard in the US.
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Thanks, mirimir. I live in a country that's been having a lot of trouble recently with crimes against the freedom of the press and this may actually help me recover some peace of mind when writing anything that might upset powerful people.
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> the salaries of University managers rise significantly.

> classrooms + books + dorm/shared house

I think we can notice what's going on here. I do not know about the UK, but if you look at education costs in the US, it becomes painfully obvious. It's not books, classrooms or dorms the students are paying for. I mean, think about it. Which books can cost 100K over a bachelors degree, where most knowledge has been known for centuries already? Classrooms have been built years ago in the most places, and their marginal costs of maintenance is negligible. Dorms are not that expensive to run either, not to the tune of tens of thousands per year per student, unless you're talking about luxury which most people neither need nor can afford. So subsidizing those necessities should not cost much. Something else is driving the costs up.
Right, and that sort of delay can slow down the academic process. I agree with you that the current situation sucks. I'm not seeing how torrenting publications is a viable solution to this problem. This sends the signal to the publications that they're important and that their product is valuable enough to break the law. Naturally, no person wants to be out of a job, and the first course of action they're going to seek is to stop the torrenting in any way possible.
A 24-mile trip by car would cost at least a gallon of gas each way. Call it a gallon and half since it's slow, grueling traffic. That's ~$10 a day in just fuel costs.

Plus ~12,000 fewer miles driven per year. Even if they can't get rid of their car payment/car insurance entirely the mileage saved is significant.
For what it's worth, Brian Goetz doesn't see type-erasure as a such a failure and defends the design choice[0].

[0]:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TkpcuL1t1lY
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Even basic, sloppy sterilization practices can transmit HIV, Hepatitis C, etc. in a dental office:

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/60-oklahoma-dental-patients-te...

Let alone allegedly deliberate infection, like the early, famous case of Dr. Acer:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_J._Acer
Maybe if you stopped antagonizing and name-calling people with left wing views, you would be met with a lot less hostility.

"There's enough people who pretend to be "the Right" and do support or at least enable [fascists and neo-nazi]. Thus "the Right" is retarded. But some sane parts are OK."
"I guess Apple’s using the compatibility system to patch other things/change behaviour for specific system apps."

Sometimes I do think software is doomed - like when a teammate of mine had to manually edit the bundled and minified javascript files right before release, because the bundler-crawler frankenstein code would've taken another eight hours to finish.
As a former South Floridian who used the heck out of my Disney passes for the ~15 months I had them... US-27 is the way to go. Much less stressful and you're never far from civilization from South Bay on up. Can get a bit trafic-y around Sebring but generally it's an easy smooth drive.

Or go around the east side of Lake Okeechobee at South Bay, 98/441. Less civilization, more tourist traffic and having to deal with passing zones... but still a nicer ride than the Turnpike.

Either way takes a bit longer but the scenery is nicer. For middle Florida values of nice scenery, anyway -- I greatly prefer the mountains.
Bubble sort's number of operations can vary from n, if the list is sorted already, up to O(n*n) if the list is reversed.
I find it's much more effective to think of yourself as a secret agent, superhero or a magician. When you can catch a flying plane a bit of calculus is a small hurdle, when you can cast arcane, mystical spells, struggling with the borrow-checker in Rust is just a temporary setback.
Of course not all of it is, but at the same time there are limits to how much benefit you can get out of it for the downside. In the West eminent domain's necessity is contestable, and thus it is used very sparingly and only when the benefits are undoubtedly much better than the downside; no modern Western country could get away with evicting 1.5 million people for a sporting event, or appropriating massive amounts of land to build speculative real estate when vacancy rates are in the double digits.

Is the benefit of running at full tilt in cities really worth it? You don't spend a lot of mileage traveling within a city, and cities are generally places where trains slow down and stop anyways. Combined with the very high cost of land appropriation in a city assuming fair market compensation, there's a reason why most places just don't bother with full high speed rail in urban areas.
How do you know the OP wasn't using his own domain? It's pretty much standard fare for G Suite.
So while you are intolerant to Nazis (who you will define yourself) will you be making an exception for yourself, or will you not tolerate your own intolerance to wrongthink?
This happens all of the time. Very common for Apple to reach out to the popular apps.

And if you aren't popular you can just goto WWDC where hundreds of engineers will quite happily talk through issues and give guidance on prerelease software.
The question is, how many $3,000 cars can we actually produce. At the moment, we do not actually produce any. Instead, we produce expensive cars, and a non-trivial amount of people then choice to sell their current car at a lower price then it cost to construct the car in the first place.
Wasn't Microsofts STL based on that? I remember using strings on so many binaries and always wondering about who pj Plauger is
It’s not that easy unfortunately. Many of the stronger advocates for open access are younger researchers who can’t self-publish as they need to be able to list their peer reviewed publications. Also the choice of journal is often made by more senior academics who don’t always hold the same views. It can also often have associated costs which aren’t small.

I think pre-print servers like arXiv[1] are a good stepping stone to full open access, though even their use can be complicated in some fields.

EDIT: In the UK there are efforts to stop counting closed access publications in various rankings as a result of the Finch report. It’s a new policy change but I already see it having a positive impact.

[1] https://arxiv.org/
By posting this link, are you trying to indicate a belief that I am exhibiting this fallacy?

Can you explain how?

GP asked, "Why are people breaking copyright law?"

I thought I gave a reasonably solid explanation - some of the people in question aren't breaking copyright law while others (certainly a good number of people here on HN) don't regard copyright law as a legitimate imposition of state power in the information age.

What did I do wrong?
The main point is to sync server side data to a client side database, smoothly, so that the application can continue to function offline and then resync once the connection is re-established.

Couch has always been good at this use case where systems on both ends may have changed in the disconnect time.
I also think am own domain and email is the better option and I cannot understand why a company of 100-150 employees would use google mail. Is it because of searching, sorting options or something else that is much better with gmail?
That's a good advice, always have a backup plan for that (and custom domains + email backups are working great as a backup plan).
Not sure that would work, since pdfs are usually marked or prepended with some metadata about download time and the library upon download. At least that's the case with my uni library.