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>The clear and obvious solution is to make developers, managers, executives, and major investors personally responsible for the damage their products do

I struggle to understand how this is a "clear and obvious" solution. How would you go about executing this? Legislation? The big famous piece of recent tech legislation, GDPR, is, by most opinions, far and away "clear and obvious". And given the US's current political environment, I'd struggle to believe any sort of legislation could be passed that is "clear and obvious".

There has to be a better solution that "coordinate the interests, incentives and motivations for millions of users, developers, managers, and executives to pass some legislation that makes the latter group responsible."
You can gut and dress an animal quickly if you're practiced. Snares and stake traps paired with flushing animals doesn't take a lot of 'intensive labor.'

We even have the ruins of catch traps in central Asia and other places that would have industrialized animal slaughter before agriculture was ever a thing.

Agriculture was likely a required response to human degradation of formerly productive areas for hunter-gatherers due to over-taking of natural resources.
I turned off the auto-episode advance just for this reason. When I'm awake it's a perfect feature but when I'm asleep it's a total misfeature.
Open sauce
F# works around this by having expression builders be normal types, `async` is just an alias for Control.AsyncBuilder (actually, it's an instance of it if I want to be technical), it's not even a reserved word in the language specification. This is why I feel such an implementation would be a great fit for Rust, the parser already has to figure out different contexts curly braces could be used (struct initializers, lexical scoping constructs, closures, the list goes on) - you can avoid adding an extra reserved keywords and get support for more than just async expressions.
It has been all over the place. Unless you don't visit Amazon on a regular bases, or deals websites. I don't even watch tv often and saw ad on it.
As an ex-antique dealer the difference is "the original" existed in the past and has a recorded history. In the antique business it's call provenance. A piece of rusty steel pipe mounted on a brass stand and labeled "A piece of the Maine" is worth an order of magnitude less than the exact same object owned by the ancestor of an investigator of the Maine explosion with a photo of the object with the ancestor on the wrecked ship supporting its authenticity.

Value is created by humans and something being an original definitely has an unambiguous meaning to most people. I think value comes partly from a reverence of history and I would hope that is something any civilization would cherish.
"[PDFs: ] They're quick and easy to create

... they can be easily created from popular applications that people are already using to author and share documents."

This appears under the heading "Why do people use PDFs?"

However I would have listed this as the sole reason that documents should be distributed as HTML. The reasoning is simple.

Imagine a hypothetical where one has a choice of distributing documents in two formats, A and B, and there are particular advantages to each format. As such, some users prefer format A, while others prefer format B. Not to mention those users who would like to have both formats available.

In the hypothetical, users can easily convert from format A to B however converting from format B to A is difficult.

Assuming one can distribute the documents in format A, it makes no sense to distribute in format B. Users who prefer format A will be unhappy.

Distributing in format A keeps users who like format B happy because they can easily convert from A to B.
I don't blame them. Netflix had 2 options:

1. Continue licensing content and be subject to the whims of the content creators who can destroy their margin by increasing fees. The content creators can also start their own streaming services like disney is planning on doing eating into that market of streaming.

2. Create their own content eliminating the 2 main risks in option 1.

Option 2 is really the only viable option even if competition for content will likely result in content providers (HBO,Showtime,Netflix,Amazon...) not making much profit as the industry goes towards more perfect competition.
Sacred Games and Secret City (among others) are far more well-done than most other recent offerings from other providers imnsho.

Hulu has The Handmaid's Tale and HBO has Westworld but that's about it.
You're referring to changes made to Model S vehicle manufacturing over half a decade ago. The lubrication of the drive units has been automated, and battery pack armoring is built into the current cost model for all production vehicles.
Oh sorry, curry powder 1. It’s a mixed spice like “chilli powder” and it just works for this. Even better, here’s the recipe for this hot sauce!

Use gloves. Do not touch your face. Work fast.

http://www.foodthinkers.com/inner-beauty-hot-sauce/

Try it on meatloaf, a burger, or roasted some chicken marinated in it. Tooooo good!

1 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry_powder
There have been a few very large implementations of ERPNext. If I were to consult Lidl, we would have done a few low risk pilots, starting with their warehouses or back-office.

I would have gone for a federated architecture where each store / warehouse would have its own system that would then be consolidated at higher levels, rather than going for a mega instance with zillions of transaction rows.

There are many interesting things you can do when you have an open source system you can work to your advantage.
I still have 4CDs of Slackware 3.6. I was in high school when I first tried it, and I remembered all the complications of getting a PCI Winmodem working in Linux.

When I started university, I had a P3 667Mhz that booted Windows 98, Windows 2000, Slackware and BeOS 5. It used the BeOS bootloader because it was the most colorful.
This is a classic use case for carbon 14 dating, so they probably used that. A quick glance at Wikipedia says that it’s pretty reliable for organic substances up to 50k years ago. Dating older rocks will often require lead uranium dating or other interesting radioactive elements.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiocarbon_dating
Unfortunately this doesn't apply for warranty repairs directly through Apple, as Apple won't bother using this port. They'll just tell you you're SoL and happily remind you of their iCloud services for backups. I had this happen to me on my 2016 TB MBP where the logic board had issues detecting the power level of the battery and wouldn't boot. I knew of the port, and asked them to use it, but their response was that the warranty would only cover like-for-like repairs and that I was responsible for backing up the data. Fair enough, except that Time Machine can and will lie to you about whether it actually backed up the data on your machine. Which is exactly what happened with my machine when I got it back and attempted a restore. Thankfully I had a separate non-Time Machine back up that I could use to bring my data back, but it wasn't fun manually restoring my OS profile and settings. I even managed to get a CS rep to confirm with me over the phone that I was not the only person to have had this happen to them.

Apologies for ranting here; I just hope I can save another person from this BS if they attempt to rely on this port. Through the entire process no Apple rep would confirm the existence of the tool so they made it seem like I was forced to use them for the warranty repair with total data loss.

If I may ask, samcat116, what's the normal procedure for handling warranty repairs at a certified repair center like the one you work at? Is it just labor cost, with parts billed to Apple? And does that include the copying of the data off the SSDs? I'm imagining for warranty repairs the easiest way to handle them is to just swap the logic boards out like Apple does and not bother doing actual diagnosing at the board level like https://www.youtube.com/user/rossmanngroup since the customer isn't paying for parts?
I've started to get fatigue with the style of a lot of NetFlix shows. They're not just designed to be binged on, the plot only exists if you binge on it! Instead of having one plot every episode, most series seems to have one plot every season and then they draaaaaaaw that shit out like it's you're last Christmas cookie before the New Years' diet.
I see this claim a lot, but the fact that it's so often incompatible with USB-C peripherals gives it the lie.
I took that advice several years ago when I started investing, but a big mistake I made was choosing a value fund instead of growth fund. Could have got so much more.
I share your observations, but wanted to add the their browsing system is just bonkers.

Discovery is impossible — imo they overoptimize for engagement and make it hard to explore the catalog. I find out about many new shows via PR placements in newspapers.
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No. Amazon has had outages on holiday shopping days throughout its history.

Amazon has always been toxic and frugal, so obviously it didn't interfere with whatever mythical software quality it had in the past.

And today's failures might be because past engineers built unstable unmaintainable systems and then ran away.

And of course amazon is 10, 100, 1000 times larger tech system than it used to be.
Not true - I've seen this effect before in other studies, and already suspected it was true.

It's surprising that the effects of pre-k turn negative after some years, but I think it's legit science. If there's any bias, it's for researchers to publish the opposite conclusion.
that Joan of Arc s character may have been used for various means and inflated is pretty much obvious, but denying her existence is honestly hard to support when even her enemies recorded facts about her.
“It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.” -Rutherford

No offense, but this isn’t physics, and I’m skeptical of grand designs that live and die in someone’s head without the ability to be communicated to others. Maybe it’s hard to explain because it’s bullshit, and actually is hype-y?
I honestly don't care about what ranking they use as it gives good results. Thumbs up, 5 starts, 10 starts, %, it's all the same. What frustrates me is that even after changing it, the recommendations are still just as bad, so the whole change was basically pointless.
I love that guy!

Mmm...that tastes...disgusting...I’m going to eat some more...
I'm finding significantly more to watch on (U.S.) Prime than Netflix streaming, these days.

Even Netflix' premium original content is getting monotonous. Where it -- or, more broadly, "Netflix" branded content -- is not simply getting stuffed full of "quantity over quality".

I've been feeling like I should have pulled the plug, a while back.

And yes, per other comments here, someone needs to... "have a talk with" their UI people. Not helpful, recent changes.
I assume in this case he is referring to curry powder which is a variable blend of spices commonly used in Indian curries.

It can however also mean curry leaves which come from a tree and are usually added to a recipe whole.

Edit: nm, it looks like he meant curry powder
Can you explain this ? Do seeds produce a bad flavour ?
Given the whole thing is tongue and cheek, one could read "Could this be as influential as Adam Smith's work on the initial settlement of Massachusetts and Virginia" be a tongue-in-cheek acknowledgement that this work is effectively pointless.

...you know, like the whole rest of the paper.
I use Void on my media PC and Gentoo everywhere else. I've considered using Void on my NAS, either that or maybe Alpine.

I'm glad you brought up this distribution. I think when we see more and more go the Docker route, we'll see more minimalist hosted systems that are Void or Alphine for hosting containers and container schedulers.
Yep, I always open Netflix, tell myself my show should be near and start scrolling, then give up and use the search. It's so so bad. Now with the audio previews, I just bookmark shows and go straight to there. Their UI is completely useless.
You can't let an outage or some alleged talent gap be a reason for wanting to tap out.

You need to realize that your doing great, folks would kill to get a job at Amazon, the scale and the challenges are mind bending compared to what most other companies deal with and the interview is grueling and you made it.

Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet and Amazon thinks that you are a person that can help tip the balance.
Yes, that is the definition of government. Until you remove the capacity of man to do violence, that is the only form of government which can exist.
I'm trying out HBO/Movie network. Once you get through 15 mostly goid series the content gets very thin. For half the price netflix has more original and unique content and provides more value at half the codt. I like the variety I wish the UI promoted it a little better
Can I ask why syncing files between computers if a useful thing for you? I'm on the verge of cancelling my Dropbox account since I realized the Dropbox account is not useful as an external drive, but only as a syncing tool. To me that's not worth anything bit I'm curious what use the happy customers have for it.
Not suppressing inertia is indeed a problem, unless the message the kind you intend to be understood primarily by virtue of its infinitely inverse ratio of complexity to fidelity.
At Uber we invested in synthetic load tools that create fake riders and drivers, match them, etc and test our entire dispatch system end to end to arbitrary amounts of online driver and riders. I don’t see why they couldn’t do the same with carts, adding products to carts, etc
Just curious, what do you mean by growth hacking in this case?
> no way to turn off captions for some of their shows

There are all sorts of inconsistencies with subtitles and dubbing. For example, suppose a show has options for 5 languages, but not Portuguese. If you switch your profile to Portuguese (i.e., by logging to the Netflix website and selecting Portuguese as your main language), then lo and behold Portuguese appears as a choice for subtitles and audio for many shows where it wasn't offered before.

Another irritation when trying to learn a foreign language is that foreign subtitles and the foreign audio often don't match. They are both correct translations, but it's as if they were translated by entirely different people. Maybe Netflix gets the subtitling done by one agency, and then later, if there's enough demand for the show, they get dubbing done by another agency (but don't update the subtitles to match the new translation).

Yet another oddity is that, on rare occasion, they will take away a language choice they offered for a show. A show might have, say, Polish as a audio option, but the next day it's gone. Completely puzzling.
I always wonder how stupid people can accumulate $100Billion being stupid.
HBO also has Game of Thrones, Silicon Valley, John Oliver, good documentaries from time to time...
Ye, make a performance diagram.
Really? And I thought Dropbox was slow. I find myself asking what's the point of gigabit internet when I haven't found a service that users more than 50Mb.
Microsoft kills IIS or anything doing a closesocket with monthly security update
For high income a people like amazon engineers, WA is crazy low tax burden. CA income tax could only match WA sales tax of you spend 100% or probably more of your income on taxable items.
Lol, down to 340. It was ~200 in January. So it is only up 60% this year.
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I took the N out and realized that would never fly. As Netflix is the odd duck of the group, maybe some banking associate put it in there just to give some ferocity to the acronym (I.e. engineered a backronyn).
Hulu has preacher!
Tangential to the tokens/securities issue: I’m surprised that any US exchange is allowed to list coins like Bitcoin Cash where their creators are clearly attempting to defraud people. It seems there should be some protection against that to be legally compliant.

Second tangent. I’m surprised they’re allowed to list coins which are insecure and vulnerable to attacks which could leave the exchange short. E.g. As recently discussed when https://www.crypto51.app was posted coins like Ethereum Classic and Bitcoin Cash etc. could all be very easily attacked. And it seems there is little an exchange could do to prevent themselves from losing a lot of money from such an attack if used against the exchange. This could make them unable to pay their customers what they’re owed. What protections do they have against this?
That is some serious set up. I can’t see how you get close to this only spending $25K a year on AWS - maybe the price I was quoted for my needs was some sort of suckers price.
They will have the technology side covered [1] but they have to nail the pricing/catalogue/UI mix to succeed. However Disney has the resources (time/$/talent) to go at it until they take down Netflix.

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/9/16118694/disney-bamtech-es...
AWS got built over the objection of he Chief Executive and majority owner of the company?
So I'm confused. The media keeps repeating "Russia/Putin/The Kremlin interfered with/meddled with/hacked the 2016 election" (and has for about two full years now), but even though I feel like I've followed all this more closely than most Americans, the narrative is quite muddy and I don't understand what it is I'm supposed to believe.

First, I thought "the Russians" supposedly "hacked" Hillary Clinton's private email server. Or was it Podesta's email account? No, it was neither of those, Russia actually "compromised" some voting machines, maybe? Wait, wasn't there a series of stories, all from that same time period, about how "Russian hackers" managed to "break into but not quite gain control of" an Ameriacn hydroelectric dam, or something? Or perhaps none of that was true and maybe some "Russians" (the government? or not? who knows!) bought a bunch of Facebook ads--all far more innocuous than any of the rhetoric being spewed by Americans during the 2016 election season--for $10,000, and that is supposed to, uhm... have significantly swayed peoples' opinions such that they voted Trump into office? (Because if there's one thing I saw during 2016, it was vehemently anti-Trump people do a full 180 on their opinions! /s)

Until somebody does some actual reporting and breaks down the whole "Russia hacking/meddling with the election/our democracy" narrative in a way that not only I can understand, but the average American voter can understand, I see little choice but to believe that the entire thing is a confluence of several media-spun narratives that were repeated to us over and over until it was "common knowledge" that "Russia hacked the election" (whatever that means?) and/or "Russia meddled with our democracy" (whatever THAT means??).

Many of the accusations I see flying around social media and news sources sound incredibly dire, and something I should be freaking out about (not that anyone would have any ulterior motive to get myself and the rest of the American electorate to freak out about political matters, of course!)-- if that's the case, how is this information not yet out there in a clear, easily-understandable format for all to see?

If anyone wants to break down their understanding of the situation for me--WITHOUT consulting any sources, just your own current internal understanding of the situation is--I'd be grateful, because this whole thing seems to be one of the least-clear political issues in recent memory, and it seems to me that certain political and media forces are just trying to scare everyone with vague, often contradictory claims that intentionally muddy the real underlying issues at play.
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When does the recursion stop?
Most food has 200-600 calories per pound, so you need 4-6 pounds of food per day. (This lines up with Google search.) Call it 35 pounds per week. Therefore, you need to spend an average of $1.50/lb to hit $50/week. Bananas and canned tomatoes or beans are well under $1. Pasta and bread are $1. You definitely don't have to give up all TV dinners or meat, you can eat pretty normal.
Whats interesting is that they are already scaled logarithmically and normalized.. just there are clear as day differences between the currencies when it comes to their git stats. Especially when going across 600+ of them, I will look into laplace smoothing... seems interesting, or maybe the letter grading system may be too harsh? valuable feedback!
USB-C is often incompatible with USB-C peripherals. It's not a lie, it's just a bunch of devices that all implement different parts of the spec.
There should be a much better way to find/locate the "bottom" bucket streamers, and get them up in front of people's faces.

Sorting by "viewers" is just wrong, lets the rich grow richer...
Hopefully this is a lesson to Apple to stop integrating fragile / breakable components with almost everything.
I don't know if anyone else does this, but I subscribe to netflix for a while, then I hit a wall of "nothing to watch" and new content that I'm interested in dribbles out too slowly. So I unsubscribe and subscribe with a different streaming service, and watch their content for a bit, then go to another, and then eventually come back to netflix. If it's been long enough I also get free trials for another month also :)
That is probably the most insightful comment here. Who realizes india would have the second most. If Indian had the same income levels as the west the English market alone could challenge the US.
Chicha in Peru seems to be up to about 3%, which isn’t strong but presumably you could get drunk without too much suffering.
The pictures might be local, but I sure hope that retry button actually generates a request to the server.
They’re making cars, not as fast as they’d like, but faster than their most ardent naysayers seemed to think they could. The recall rates on the cars are pretty average compare to the rest of the industry, so I’m skeptical of claims by naysayers that they’re shoddily made. However, they’re yet to turn a profit, yet to show any signs of profit, they’re heavily in debt, and have given a lot of time to competing industry giants to wake up and catch up. I’d say the future is uncertain based on what they’re actually doing, rather than the dumb shit on Twitter as you say.

As for cynicism, that only really fits if a cynical outlook is conflated with an uncertain outlook. Really, I’m getting a strong, “your lack of faith is disturbing,” vibe here. I don’t know if Musk can make Tesla the kind of success that SpaceX is; it’s possible, as is abject failure. I feel quite comfortable betting against the “save the world” scenario, since I’m taking your advice and ignoring the bullshit tweets.

How about this, I’ve already clearly spelled out what I think and why. How about you explain in detail, clearly and concretely how present matters imply what you see as likely? Not in terms of what “must” happen to avert a dire future, or in optimistic terms... just get realistic with me. Convince me.
Maybe because they keep adding stuff like autoplay trailers, intro skips, and outro skips. Just play the damn TV show, stop trying to manipulate me into watching more, just play it as made.
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Many pages don’t render correctly when printed to PDF (it’s easy to accidentally make your page entirely illegible after printing), and most pages that rely on JavaScript completely fail to operate when saved as a web archive. So saving pages is, in my experience, quite a crapshoot.