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I'm sorry, but that's not the right response. YOU chose to incorporate this ad library into your app, so YOU have a responsibility to understand how exactly it will be using permissions it 'requires' on your users' devices, and what it will be doing with them. Anything this library might do that is malicious is ultimately your fault, since you put it in your program without understanding what it is capable of doing.
Anvil is pretty sweet and had a well reviewed Show HN post a few months ago. Price is a little steep unless you plan to get serious, quickly.
Is this a Show HN?

Also, is this a competitor for contentful? Seems like it to me. How is it different?
I don't think pieces are necessarily what web viewers like, but it increases the potential virality of the video by breaking a broad lecture into tweetable, sharable soundbites, thus videos of this format become the de facto web video format.

I personally prefer long lectures, but if social media growth is what you are after, I'd keep it as it is.
You could consider attaching external antennas to a router which is indoors.

This kind of product is good too and reasonably affordable:

https://store.ubnt.com/products/unifi-ac-mesh-ap

Ubnt hardware is head and shoulders better than almost all consumer-oriented stuff. (High end WiFi hardware is better still, but much more expensive.)

In a place like LA I'd be worried about interference. One reason you might be getting bad range is that there is a lot of competition; inside your house you are shielded from outside interference just as the wall shields you.
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You're absolutely right.

We should all over engineer our applications by picking the most complicated stack possible because the long term goal may slightly benefit the short term goal of you know.. actually making money out of our business.

Why pick a simple Rails + Postgres stack when you can setup Oracle + Java because you will require enterprise level scaling for your first 1-100k users

Oh and just for the record, I am sure you are already aware but Rails gets you very..very far.
Github, Gitlab, Shopify, AirBnb, Basecamp, Groupon,.. I could go on.

My vote goes to rails.
Funny enough mobility across state lines is down 50% in the US as well (http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2017/05/tyler_cowen_on_1.ht...)

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The already know...

What are they going to do?

Sue Amazon? All legal precedents indicate Amazon will win

Sue the fly-by-night Chinese company? How?
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Rather than trading away my country's sovereignity? Yes! It's actually quite a great deal compared to getting screwed over by the ECB/creditors and having to pay increased taxes on everything.
That's a classic used car tactic, and it's amazing how folks still become fixated on the price they'll be able to buy something for without realizing the price difference will come from the amount they receive from their 'trade-in.'
It's a good thing your taste in art & entertainment isn't the bar by which the medium is measured then.
> He seemed to forget he was being paid $80k a year for his game ideas regardless of if they got used or not.

Money is one reason people do things, but rarely the only one. Especially smart, creative people. The notion that people lose the right to complain as long as the paychecks keep coming is poisonous.
You are right. The euro currency zone is not the same as the E.U.

I'm not sure that voters know the difference, but they do know there is a "democratic deficit".
+ I do think patents prevent a race to the bottom.

Imagine if everyone had the same process, the only distinction would be the amount of output you can get per employee (as the employee compensation is one of the biggest cost) or marketing/brand (another big expense category) or customer service. Companies might end up exploiting employees or blatantly misleading their customers in order to attract the business.

First two of which are detrimental to society at large and not the optimum uses of the available resources.

Third of which, the improved customer service is a plus. But the user perception of better customer service is not exactly better customer service. But yea incumbents are often not willing to provide better customer service when there is a moat (guaranteed value), I've experienced this first hand with companies like Facebook Ads, Google Cloud etc.... some of them have improved now while some still suck.

I do not think patent stop disruptions from happening.

If you create a new process which is vastly superior to the old process without infringing existing patents, you can do that.

If you improve a patented process, you can sell it to the company owns the patent but they might not pay you the best price as they have the monopoly and they do not need to.

We need some mechanism (law?) to facilitate a fair payment for an improvement over an existing patent to avoid monopolistic exploitative practices. If an organization can truly benefit from an improvement and is in position to make a fair valuation and payment, IMHO it should.
> There's a way of living that felt right to him and he reasoned himself into thinking it was "best"

Yep, and this is at the core of C.S. Lewis' work.

To me the notion of a base morality contrived by man seems wildly arbitrary. Taking the most obvious case of murder; without some entity or force outside/independent of man exercising judgment for the act I don't see why one would naturally be compelled to submit to this morality. Especially if said morality could be justified in one's mind as impeding on their own well being.
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There are similar issues in every large currency area with different economies. However, US and Australia are countries where people are mostly fine with the idea that having a single currency and interest rate also means big transfers have to take place within the country. This isn’t the case in the EU. Although Greece (And others) receive EU support, there just isn’t popular support for the kind of transfers required to keep a single (German) interest rate. Taxing people in one country to transfer to another isn’t possible on that scale in the EU.

What needs to happen for the Euro to survive is that Germans have to accept a pretty substantial and long term inflation in order to keep growth elsewhere. But they had some bad luck with inflation in the past when it led to “economic anxiety” so it’s a bit of a red flag for them...

The other solution is to kill (or split) the Euro to save the EU. It seems more and more sensible.
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Connected - got stranger is typing.

They put "fg", then "ffg", then endless, endless carriage returns.

This needs some filtering - currently useless.

Tried again - we got a total of 4 lines, 2 each, and the 30 seconds was over.

Cute idea, completely unengaging for me, I won't go back.
Is VFX any different? You'd be amazed that a majority of it is government/state funded. Good podcast on it here: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/no-hollywood-ending-visual-e...
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I agree with the second statement. As for the first one, there's some other stuff in there too: Mythologies, religions, Foucault, philosophy of science. Why some wear t-shirts and eschew the automobile, while others drive cars in grass skirts.

Many of my professors loved the idea of the cargo cult, the horror and glory of it. So, don't be fooled: You may discover a bit of cargo cult within modern studies of Plato and Aristotle.
This is a really, really valuable post (and book).

The topic of the euro's effects on Greece, and the influence of Germany, appears to be at a wide consensus amongst academic economists.
Stiglitz, Krugman, and even people like Navarro agree.
https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/02/01/germany-the-eur...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2016/09/11/the-euro...

I remember back 20 years ago that macroeconomists were talking about how the lack of fiscal coordination was going to break the euro. And so it has come to pass, it seems.

Edit: or what PaulHoule says with more detail in another reply.
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I got a different reading of the whole situation in 2015 from the book by Mr. Varoufakis himself, "Adults in the Room". TL;DR: the EU was never going to budge. They knew what he wanted was right, but they couldn't give Greece any political wins. And the Eurocrats were expert in shaping the story in the media, that you (yes you) got the impression the Greeks were stupid clowns.

Look at Brexit, I now get the impression the Brits are clowns, but if someone wrote an inside story book, it's probably deliberate run-around and media manipulation. Not that I'm saying the Brits aren't clowns...
Haven't you found materialistic to have a big problem with comment collapsing and doubled comments?

Many times when I collapse a thread it will do so weirdly and a few comments will still be left visible. Many times I'll also have a single comment duplicated two or three times.
They didn’t test whether Kleenol was sufficient to sterilize. They were showing that without access to any other nutrient/carbon source, the bacteria were able to degrade and metabolize a variety of cleaning agents, Kleenol among those tested.

That is, they weren’t saying “hey, this bullet is ineffective against that tank.” They were saying, “deprived of oil, that tank started eating bullets.”
I don't see it as a tragedy for Germany. You would have to feel the euro has a lower value than the duetchmark would have today? That rather helps Germany in their position as one of the worlds top exporters. Germany ous growing and has a budget surplus.

I think as others have noted the idea of a single currency is always going to be partly political. What kind of state makes all of its decisions based on economic theory?

The euro zone as a whole right now is out-growing the UK, and according to my fx dealer are deliberately playing down their growth to keep the euro weak.

I think criticising the idea of the euro as 'political' is a bit rich from someone whose opposition to it seems too also be ideological.

Personally I like the easy trade it facilitates. FX risk is dreary to manage. Only having to hedge GBPEUR makes it much simpler than the old days. Maybe the mistake, if there was one, was letting Greece et al join before they were ready
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Drop out of the EU, or drop out of the euro? Half of the macro arguments are about the problems of currency union without fiscal policy union. Perhaps the pre-2015 UK position is a good intermediate drop-back step: no currency union, still many ties to EU and Brussels.

(that said, the German wage deflation discussed in the post is an EU issue, not a euro issue.)
Just out of curiosity, what is your country? There are many countries at the moment that this could apply to, but most are already in the Euro which so far is a one-way trip.

> I won't trade sovereignity for convenience, regardless of social engineering coming from Bruxelles or Merkel.

This sounds a lot like Brexit leave campaign rhetoric and I suspect is the reason you're being downvoted. Regardless of how you feel about the EU and Brexit, sovereignty has to be one of the weaker aspects. Disliking the EU is fine, but let's be honest about why.

Consider the origin of most nation states. Smaller autonomous regions were invaded or bribed into some form of union. In many of these unions rules were harmonized to varying extents and sovereignty was ceded. Common currencies were also adopted in some of the unions.

Consider the nation state that you hold the sovereignty of so high. Imagine tomorrow it was split into two. Both of these regions have the same currency and many common rules and regulations. Given that it's highly probable that your country has fully embraced capitalism and derives much of its wealth through trade, it has a choice: change things or not. If you don't change anything you haven't really regained sovereignty. If you change things you're imposing barriers to trade. Given you had a common currency and rules before, there's a good chance that they were your preferred trading partner if the infrastructure was good enough. Interestingly, there are regions where intra-state infrastructure is better than inter-state infrastructure, usually due to geography.

But we can go deeper than that. We can keep subdividing from regions into cities into towns into households into individual people. Every time you go to the ballot box you acknowledge that you have ceded individual sovereignty.

All the evidence I've seen points to the sovereignty argument in Brexit wasn't about sovereignty being ceded, but who it was perceived as being ceded to. Because if the vision of the Brexit-supporting International Trade and Development Secretary is to be taken as the post-brexit plan, then Brexit will be all about ceding more sovereignty for less trade.
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Basically, everyone would like the world to conveniently work well for their needs. On the one hand, you complain that you deserve the same right to quiet so your sleep isn't disturbed. On the other, you tell people "If you are a light sleeper, get ear plugs." You could get ear plugs. Though if that fixed everything, presumably you would not be here complaining.

There is a chronic issue that being part of a group, for example by living in a city, has benefits, but it also comes with friction. Trying to find best practices for reducing the problems without destroying the fundamental value of group association is always a struggle. One best practice is you try to arrange things to align with group norms so as to inconvenience the fewest people and the reality is that most people sleep at night and work or go to school during the day.

I will add that I tend to be a night owl.
The absolutely best synthesis for ordinary voices is to generate a large voicebank from an individual. Hypothetically you could get away with a small number of phonemes but they change sounds when they are next to each other, in terms of cadence and tone, etc. With maybe 20 hours of good recordings and much more labor you could clone anybody's voice. Getting good results would require optimizing the choice of which sound to use where and making small time and pitch bends to get it perfect. (I'd like to clone Lester Holt and Rie Tanaka.)
I love that we're talking about how bad totalitarianism is meanwhile we literally have the upperclass exporting jobs to China for a quick buck and president who campaigned on bringing them back who just betrayed his base (and his country) by helping a Chinese company keep their jobs... Living in the free-ist country in the world apparently means you're free to sell out your fellow man to the totalitarian state overseas.

I think _that_ is the sustainability problem we need to talk about. We're feeding them and starving ourselves.
> Imagine if a "Bank of Italy" maintained independent northern, central, and southern notes.

How would this work? I still remember before Slovenia was in the EU we had our own currency that was okay but not so hot.

All big transactions between people like buying a home were done in deutsche marks. Or at least everyone talked about them using DEM and later EUR as the currency.

Point being people will absolutely use the most stable currency easily available regardless of what their local currency is.
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The point of learning about fallacies, logic and reason is not to stop people doing something they were already committed to doing and have incorporated into their identity. The point is to stop them from picking up new ideas that don't hold logical water, before they've created any emotional commitment to them.
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Who says ads are universally hated? I like ads. I like seeing products I might be interested in and I like buying things.

Edit: Who’s down voting this and why?
>You can't get rid of patents by arguing that they distort markets.

You make a good point here that patents are intended to distort markets. However they are intended to distort markets in particular ways and the question is, do they distort markets in the ways in which they were intended. Specifically do they reward and encourage investments in innovation for the public good? Answering this question in general is very tricky, but within the cryptography space it appears that they do not. There are several reasons for this that I am aware of and probably the few that I am missing:

1. Companies and open source projects avoid using patented cryptography. This means that making money off of patented cryptography is hard and the public does not benefit from these innovations until the patent expires.

2. Researchers generally boycott patented algorithms, for instance submitting algorithms for government crypto contests like SHA-3/AES often require ceding all patent rights. Patented algorithms are less well studied and aren't standardized so don't benefit from the research or operational community.

3. Most cryptographic algorithms require at least two parties. Patents typically require both communicating parties to have a license. Thus network effects favor open standards unencumbered by patents.

4. The US government has a long history of not paying for patented cryptographic inventions due to the vagaries of US law. Thus, patents provide only minimal protection against historically one of the biggest buyers of cryptographic inventions, the US government.

5. The public good of having cryptographic algorithms be unencumbered by patents is so great that people will just figure out how to get around your patent. This is what happened with Schnorr signatures. The US government altered the Schnorr signature algorithm just enough to create an algorithm, DSA (Digital Signature Algorithm), such that the patent didn't apply. DSA isn't quite as good as Schnorr, but DSA is better than Schnorr+patent so nearly everyone used DSA until the patent expired.

Patents in the context of cryptographic algorithms appear to not help much in terms of encouraging and rewarding innovation and they also appear to act counter to the public good.
As I understand it DNA and RNA store their information in the form of certain amino acids. If other life uses amino acids in a similar fashion they may not use the same ones that life on Earth uses. Life here uses I believe 20 different amino acids and there are several hundred known.

So there's potential there I would imagine in regards to testing that hypothesis.
However what mainly bothers me with it is that it doesn't explain the origin of life and why Earth couldn't have original life begin on it.

Unless we can rule out that early Earth conditions would have been too inhospitable for life to start but was sufficient to sustain it I see no reason to think an extraterrestrial origin to Earth life is more likely.
> The difference between the EU and the US is, pensions and social security are federally managed

No, they aren't, as two separate things. “Social Security” per se is federally managed, most pensions (except for federal and railroad employees) are not, neither are the bulk of social safety net programs (other than Social Security and Medicare, most of the rest are either fully state run or state adninistered within federal guidelines with partial federal reimbursement.)

> if Appalachia is bankrupt, the pensioners still get their pensions

“Appalachia” isn't an entity that can be bankrupt. But, no, in the case of a municipal bankruptcy, pensioners of that municipality lose out just like any other creditors (for states or territories, there are no general bankruptcy provisions and those would be handled ad hoc by Congress—as in Puerto Rico—but, again, pensioners would be at risk.)
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I think this is spot on. Another way of considering this feeling is that despite great minds existing for (probably well over) 2000 years, the wins of great minds may not seem as great as one would have hoped. Don’t get me wrong, great minds have done great things to further humanity. But humanity also has a less-than-stellar record of protecting wins & progress, and the forces that wish to drag us back remain ever powerful and vigilant.
Sorry for the amp article but this link has a video and some more information.

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When I was a seller on Amazon I got a whole bunch of scam messages from scam buyers. I reported each one and marked the message "no response needed." The latter is important because you're judged on how quickly you respond to customer inquiries. The only thing that happened was my seller account got dinged for marking too many messages "no response needed."
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Platforms also like their branded, custom UIs. When you build an app that uses the platforms widgets, you reinforce the platform's brand. When you use the same look everywhere, on the web and for apps on each platform, you reinforce your own brand.

If platform developers cared so much about consistency, they wouldn't change their UI design just to freshen up their image or because design trends have changed. Maybe looking and behaving like everyone else really has a major influence on user adoption, but it usually seems to be ignored in favor of branding.
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I wouldn’t say the tensor product is how “and” works. “and” usually refers to the Boolean and operator. The tensor product is how combining two systems works. In classical computing, if you have:

int a;
int b;

The set of possible states is the Cartesian product of the states of a with the states of b. In quantum computing, it’s the tensor product instead. It’s not terribly complicated to work with the matrices — they’re just huge. Fortunately, it’s not usually necessary to write out the matrices at all.

I read the string diagram paper. It’s supposed to be comprehensible to kids, but I couldn’t make heads or tails of it.

(I did my Ph.D. on quantum computing.)
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The problem with this is that the various cryptocurrencies are all very correlated with each other. So having an "index fund" won't achieve much diversification, unlike a real index fund that has stocks in different industries.