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I feel like this is a low quality article.

> Why? What in Europe could have been so horrible that rational people would risk their lives and their children's lives to escape it?

> Socialism. It wasn't called socialism in those days, but that is what it was—unlimited government control and taxation of everything and everybody. There were no free markets and no free enterprise. Regardless of how honest or hard working a person was, it did him little good unless he was in bed with the government.

I don't think this author understands what socialism is...from Wikipedia: "Socialism is a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership and democratic control of the means of production."[0]

At that period in time, economies were run for those at the top (similar to the 1%). It was centralized control i.e. not a system characterised by social ownership. I feel like there are some people who think that if a society does not have free markets then it must be socialist (i.e. !free markets == socialism). This is not the case. You wouldn't call the current Russia political system socialist.... it's authoritarian.

I feel like the author is ignorant.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism
Because when tech companies come to places in the us they become gentrified and everything becomes expensive. In most cases tech companies coming to an area has a devastating effect as people who had lived in an area forever are forced out due to the insane spike in cost of living.
This seems cool. You're enabling people who can't (and probably shouldn't learn to) code to automate processes. Do you have anything, or ever intend to explore, automated process discovery as in Process Mining?
It's funny you should mention The World Cup, FIFA are hugely annoying when it comes to copyright.

It's only just making the normal news[0], but their pettiness has plagued the sharing of small clips and highlights.

Do they really want me to wait for an incident to be televised before I can discuss it online? Should I have to track down specific moments in a game using my own recording in order to be able to discuss it? FIFA, the World's Most Corrupt Organisation™, should realise that fans enjoying and discussing their events adds a lot of value and will drive more viewers.

[0] https://inews.co.uk/video/fifa-delete-twitter-video-of-boy-c...
They're probably underestimating how difficult it is. I predict both Amazon and Apple will fail at building content libraries.
The thing is, if I'm poor and you're rich, your papa can take you to posh places in Europe and Asia, can pay for dancing and music lessons and for all sorts of fancy things which make you a lot more well rounded than me, when we're both 18-19.

At least with a test the playing field is way more leveled.

If you want extra info, add another test. You want to major in Math? Cool, you also have to pass a geography/history/biology/whatever test (you choose which one and it only counts 15%).
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You're underestimating how big Netflix is internationally, I think.
$ mpv "&& rm -rf /"
Playing: && rm -rf /
[file] Cannot open file '&& rm -rf /': No such file or directory
Failed to open && rm -rf /.
> pushing what used to be extreme-right standpoints more towards the more acceptable political middle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window

It's a political tactic used since at least Roman days.
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I never got the 'spared no expense' line until today. Thank you for adding another layer to my favourite childhood movie.
For several EU countries including Germany, the World Cup was already over as of this vote. Moreover, this vote happened precisely during a two-day "pause" before the quarterfinals in which there are no games. If the intention was to push this law while people were distracted with the games, whoever did that had rotten timing.
ptmalloc3 would also be better with threads. It should be even the glibc default
Mainland Europe has even lower salaries in a similar timezone.
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While many voting to move away never got the point that EU institutions currently located in UK, require to be in a EU country, so they are now moving away and their employees get to choose to search for job somewhere else or go along.
At least judging from the description on Wikipedia, the other articles seem mostly reasonable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_on_Copyright_in_the_...
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Frederick Douglass is mentioned in Sagan's superb "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark":

"Frederick Douglass taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom. But reading is still the path."

Also, perhaps my favourite part describing the reaction to a speech by Douglass:

"His very appearance and demeanour destroyed the then-
prevalent myth of the 'natural servility' of African-Americans. By all accounts his eloquent analysis of the evils of slavery was one of the most brilliant debuts in American oratorical history.

William Lloyd Garrison, the leading abolitionist of the day, sat in the front row. When Douglass finished his speech. Garrison rose, turned to the stunned audience, and challenged them with a shouted question:

'Have we been listening to a thing, a chattel personal, or a man?'

'A man! A man!' the audience roared back as one voice.

'Shall such a man be held a slave in a Christian land?' called out Garrison.

'No! No!' shouted the audience.

And even louder, Garrison asked: 'Shall such a man ever be
sent back to bondage from the free soil of Old Massachusetts?'
And now the crowd was on its feet, crying out 'No! No! No!'

He never did return to slavery."
Is Facebook a publisher? In public it says no, but in court it says yes
How sms marketing can lead your business?
Netflix is pretty much exploding in popularity in Brazil and Latin America right now.

They are slowly becoming popular in India and Japan as well. So their US growth might be slowing down but definitely not international.
Hardly a homogenous group
You say "to x", but e.g. Amazon is still doing all of the above - Amazon also owns imdb, audible, zappos, goodreads, twitch, Curse, Whole Foods, over 70 own brand products [0], Cloud9, pets.com, and probably a heap more. They didn't pivot, they expanded. Likewise, Netflix still does DVDs too.

[0] https://www.recode.net/2018/4/7/17208804/amazon-private-labe...
I think we can agree to disagree here for the most part.

It was an interesting discussion. I do think there is a market for another type of volitile storage in PCs as long as DDR prices stay sky high as they are now, faster than SSD and slower than DDR4, and much cheaper than DDR4, close to the prices of SSD and with much higher read-write capabilities.

The problem with SSDs is their limited read-write count I guess as their cost are actually sort of excellent these days.

With regards to hard drives I actually follow backblaze's lead, thus it is received knowledge. They tend to buy the largest drives they can that are not premium priced:

https://www.backblaze.com/b2/hard-drive-test-data.html
GKE actively disadvises from using the Kubernetes Dashboard and recommends their dashboard as a replacement.

On their website [1] they list the following:

> Caution: As of September 2017, Kubernetes Dashboard is deprecated in Kubernetes Engine. You can use the dashboards described on this page to monitor your clusters' performance, workloads, and resources.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/das...
Now I have to read more of Weinstein's writings

Start with the one on how currencies and stocks behave like elementary particles in gauge fields. I stopped there, it was not just bad thinking, but torturous and clumsy twisting of physics bordering on crackpottery, just to jump on the bandwagon while the mainstream economics suffered acute physics envy. Now that mainstream narrative has changed he suddenly discovers philosophical issues and himself an inner philosopher.

I find it disgraceful that as per the linked bio "He delivered the Special Simonyi Lectures at Oxford University in 2013 putting forth a theory he termed “Geometric Unity” to unify the twin geometries (Riemannian and Ehresmannian) thought to ground the two most fundamental physical theories". These are outreach lecutres to lay public. To my knowledge "twin geometries" aren't "thought to ground" anything by anyone else than Eric Weinstein so that's misleading at best. Especially that he apparently didn't bother to write up what he means, even clumsily, much less to publish.

In fact he didn't publish anything in a physics venue ever at all. MathSciNet indexing math journals also returns zilch.
Saying ~"We need more laws!" isn't enough. What do you specifically want here?

We could demand that all network protocols are fair game for reverse-engineering to enable interoperability. Or mandate public specs and save everybody a bit of effort.

But if it's my app —not the protocol or the service itself— that's generating revenue to pay for the whole thing (eg adverts), why is it fair to let people and other providers usurp that? What if I rely on a specific client setup for security (eg anti-cheat in multiplayer games)?

I do very much see your point about social colonies forming and creating their own localised monopolies, but I just cannot see a clean way to fix it. Do you?
Because outside of financial services, there aren't that many highly profitable companies, Google or Facebook profitability levels are not common in Europe. Salaries have been rising though, and London salaries are twice or more than much of Europe.
No. You are putting effect before cause.

It's the high salaries that cause gentrification, not gentrification that causes high salaries.
Why does everything have to have a "value proposition". Quite narrow minded.
Glad that the mention athletics. I used to be surprised that Sports matter so much. I recall interviewing a not so bright Princeton grad. I was surprised, given the high esteem I held the school. When he mentioned playing lacrosse, I asked how much that helped in admissions. He said, “About as much as Football at Ohio State.”

At least he was honest!
Also depends on the ToS of each page, and their robots.txt should allow or disallow crawling
It's usual to start a company here in Israel, then have one office (or one person, or a salesperson) in the States. So development will continue in Israel, but product/sales/management will be in the States.

That's by no means the only way, but it's a common one.

There are a few accelerators/etc who specialize in helping Israeli companies approach the US market and get exposed to Silicon Valley.

Other than that, most of the problems are kind of the same as with any startup - trying to build something people want. The biggest issue is if "things people want" is different in Israel and the States, and that's why exposure to the US market right from the start is so important.

As for immigrating to Israel - I don't really know much about the topic. If you're Jewish, it's incredibly easy, but if you're not, then I have no idea how the process looks like. Sorry.
I think there are lots of reasons, both sociological and economical, but my hunch is that demand for the most productive tech employees is lower since it's so easy to lean on American-produced innovations and services rather than build our own in the UK.

Consider that Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, etc. are all huge in the UK, yet most of the work on them is taking place in the US. Ditto for Oracle, Office 365, the Google Suite and even consumer stuff like Craigslist, Reddit or Apple's services (that the UK never home produced something like Reddit continues to boggle my mind). Why pay for the best people in the industry to work in the UK when we can just stand on the shoulders of work being done in the US?

If you look at industries where the UK does take an innovative role like finance or bioinformatics, the salaries seem a lot more competitive, though are still not at US levels due to the UK's lower cost of living I guess.
Or that you can (apparently? I heard?) lose your pension entirely if you get fired before reaching retirement age.

(pension funds should be owned by the person using it, so that you will have access to it at retirement age even when you're fired. An employer should also not be able to take anything from it, and be held liable if they don't pay it.)
What are precedent laws or legal principles that adopted this approach, in any country, for copyright or licensing?

e.g. trade agreement, national constitution, fair use, orphan works, compulsory licensing, RAND licensing, creative commons, public domain, freedom of speech, freedom of information act, right to know, accessibility for blind/deaf, access by libraries and archives, educational use, citation rights, remix models, national incentives for creativity and innovation, ...?
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Everyone gets to crawl. The net should have no restrictions, period
The lack of equaly competitive European offerings is to blame. Tax, regulatory and bureaucratic overhead is to blame for the former. Most of the interesting European tech is done in universities and dies there. Americans also have a much more pragmatic attitude towards business.
Rust has port to SPARC Linux and SPARC Solaris. The author is mistaken about that.
This is great. Anki looks amazing. The reason I don't use Anki, though, is that I feel like the things I wish I could remember are rarely things I would have had enough foresight to make a flashcard for. In other words, I rarely feel like I have a problem remembering things that I would have been wise enough to make a reminder about. The things I wish I could remember are things in books that I didn't even pay much attention to on a first reading. It's things that I wish I could see all the hidden connections to once I realize some new insight.

There are things I know I want to remember and there are things I realize I would have wanted to remember more clearly only after I have learned some fundamentally new way of viewing the world. The former Anki solves but they're rarely things I feel a problem with, and the latter is by definition things I wouldn't have paid enough attention to to write down in Anki.
"US Congress quietly slips cloud-spying powers into page 2,201 of spending mega-bill"[1].

Could the EU copyright law be slipped in the same way?

[1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/23/cloud_act_spending_...
Have you read it? It's pretty reasonable without those articles.
It’s usually gone long before then!
European MEPs vote to reopen copyright debate over ‘censorship’ controversy
Something I don't understand, how can a webpage "block" a request? is there a way from a basic http GET request to tell if it has been issued by a browser or something else?

Sure. In the simplest case you just look at the User-Agent header. Your browser will send one thing, and something like GoogleBot will send something else. Now, if you're a website owner who wants to block bots, you can't just depend on that, because somebody writing a bot can trivially put any string in that header that they want. But there's a lot of other ways you can tell. A simple way to discriminate somebody who's just using curl or wget, for example, is to serve a page with some javascript in it and check if the javascript is executed or not. Usually you'd do something like this from a proxy that sits in front of your actual content, and throw out subsequent requests from a UA that fails the check. Of course identifying the UA consistently is yet another challenge.. if the thing handles cookies properly, you can use a cookie. You could try going by IP, that that's dicey in various ways. Etc., etc., yada, yada.

All in all, there's a constant arms race going on between the companies that want to block bots / crawlers, and the people who want to crawl/scrape content. The techniques on both sides are constantly evolving.
You fail to understand that crawling the web is 0.5% of the picture. Google has the best treatment of that data to serve ads, personalise experience and that's what their value is. You think making a bit crawler would nullify google, but you'd have to do the other 99.95% to be better (which costs money most people don't have).
There are a number of reasons.

Probably the biggest is that the UK doesn't have the number of large tech companies in one place needed to push up wages. ARM is in Cambridge, Rockstar is in Newcastle, Dyson near Bristol. The only exception is in Banking where the salaries are much higher than the UK average (but still lower, as tech is views as second to other roles, not as the primary focus).

Other reasons are that the UK has a better social safety net. That to many people in many places in the uk there is no such thing as an engineer, if you work with computers you work in IT (and can you fix my laptop please?).

There is in many places (especially older companies with non-tech middle managers), also a management problem. You can't pay an engineer more than a (non-technical) middle manager, because the manager is (obviously) more important, as they can tell then engineers what to do. And all the engineers do is what management tells them to, so they're replaceable. This is obviously not a good environment for productive engineering, but explains why some companies see engineers as a cost centre rather than a revenue generating centre.
That's good to know. I guess I was just heading in the wrong direction from the start. I think I did try the built-in dashboard on the GCE web console, but somehow didn't see any of the stuff I was expecting (but maybe I've just assumed the "real" dashboard is the one I was trying to load).
UK companies do not produce as much value, hence they are not able to pay as much as FANG.
> As the tech workers land the big salaries, home prices are skyrocketing, and the locals are being squeezed out.

Joke is on them, I'm a new tech immigrant to Cambridge and I still can't buy a house here.
Here's my config, now that I'm at the computer:

https://www.pastery.net/vurryk/
That's SPARC people and TenFourFox folks. The former just used regular Firefox with Solaris or Linux, the latter a backported Firefox for version of OS X that Apple abandoned (both PPC and Intel, IIRC).
Nokia to build and test 5G apps in China with Tencent, WeChat and QQ
I don't believe that. They never installed Whatsapp? The intersection of people who build chat accessory apps and people who have never installed Whatsapp is surely empty.
The convergence of the Messenger and Whatsapp communities is all but imminent despite strong internal resistance from the Whatsapp team.

You don't need to migrate anything on the short run. The Whatsapp classic experience will probably remain the same for those who prefer the lite messenger, with the added feature of linking a Facebook account and talking to those people too. The heavy and encouraged experience will be Messenger, that already scours the phone book of those dumb enough to use it, and is perfectly positioned to talk to Whatsapp clients.

The massive network effect this move will unlock cannot be ignored by Facebook. I'm sure Whatsapp's privacy features will suffer, but users don't value them.
Maybe it's more of a Danish thing but that description is pretty accurate of the parties here: getting blackout drunk and hooking up is bread and butter.
The UK has a higher cost of living, with London pretty much equal to NY or SF and other high cost cities. The other equivalents are cheaper in the US.
I suspect the reason he doesn't want that job is that he doesn't want the stress and responsibilities associated with that job, not that he doesn't like being creative.
For those who need more details, I recommend checking the guide on this topic "Everything You Need to Think about Before Choosing the Right Payment Solution" (g2a pay blog)
Moxie Marlinspike did this kind of thing with Signal last year. Not a full SQL engine though. Surprised there's no mention of him.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/27/signal_turns_to_int...

HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15935955
Yes, it's commercial use on the part of the host.
I wouldn't be surprised if by sheer code size and tools needed, a major browser is a more complicated me…, erm, project, than the OS+UI itself.
TenFourFox isn't SPARC but PowerPC. Rust runs on PowerPC but not on OS X on PowerPC. OS X earlier than 10.7 lacks at least some thread-local facilities that Rust expects.
> I think that current implementations of update filters are not ready

There's no one filter nor any way to do this. YouTube designed and implemented a system. Some other sites might have their own design. Most have nothing.

Try to think about what's needed to create something like a filter. It's quickly obvious that it's a massive undertaking (expensive). If I'd be Google, I'd actually be happy with a strict law as YouTube has a filter. All other competitors would immediately have a huge disadvantage.

Note: I quite like Formula 1 and I've noticed that people quite easily get around the YouTube filter. They make the video a bit smaller, add some moving stuff around it and they're done. This while the filter blocks valid use cases.
Your argument is that criminal activity (which is what this now is) is justified in the name of innovation.

I agree with you that it's a ridiculous argument, because it's the same exact argument you made.
When high paying companies come to London/Oxford/Cambridge/Bristol the effect is just the same, it's not a US only phenomenon.
That's when you need to make friends. It's a multiplayer game, after all. Some of the most enjoyable moments I've ever had in a video game happened like that in UO. There were relentless groups of PKs killing our miners. So what did we do? We grouped up together and went out in force.
Why do you even need districts? Just split based on the total percentages of voters.
The text and data mining restrictions are anything but reasonable. Why on earth should there be an additional copyright for processing data automatically when you already have the right to process the same data manually?

This kills European AI startups or drives them away.
> According to the recruitment website Hired, the average tech salary in London is $78,000 a year, versus $142,000 in Silicon Valley.

And this is one of the reasons for the brain drain that the mention before. Silicon Valley firms pay significantly more than the competition, and they are still paying almost half of what they do in the US.

It isn't only about money, but it would be naive to deny it's impact on people's decision on where to live and work.
Yes. I find that hard to believe as well. With YouTube, PornHub, Netflix, Facebook/Instagram that probably only leaves 10% of bandwidth for everything else in the world.
The story of Denmark's rebel cakes
Remove articles 11 and 13 with too ambiguous and fuzzy limits. They provide an open door to abuse.

It's time to change business models and evolve. Destroying the internet just to protect some profits should not be an option.
Make subventions from states to newspapers illegal. Make scholar journals selling other peoples work in numeric form illegal.

Terminate google news and equivalent services. Journals don't deserve that free publicity.
As a clarification: the remote positions with security management do require regular onsite presence; on the order of a day weekly. Once well incorporated in the company longer periods of remote work are perfectly possible.
They start out by building a superior product; then that product gets big; then they realize they need to monetize; then the product stops being superior, but it still has everyone's contacts, so most users stay; then the product keeps getting worse until it's unbearable and everyone switches to the most popular superior alternative...

WhatsApp is currently in the "no longer superior" phase.