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> They are just replacing the one incredibly bad ISP with a somewhat less bad one.

... we hope. That certainly wasn't the case the last time (when Spectrum bought TWC). As far as I can tell, NYS doesn't have any idea who's going to replace Spectrum.
soon

https://diegorod.github.io/WillMcAfeeEatHisOwnDick/
> We live in a free market, they're free to find work elsewhere.

except taxis aren't currently a free market, and definitely weren't when many of those medallions were originally purchased. the government shouldn't have been mucking with the market, but it did.
If I run a restaurant near a theater, why would I want their data?

I already know the clientele that visits the area, whether that's relatively high-end, working folks on their one-movie-night-escape a week, high school kids on date night, etc.

I can already trivially find show (and run-) times from the theater and plan to stay open later or otherwise staff accordingly.

I can advertise, in the theater even, for not a whole lot of money, and reach the people who saw "movie x". Theaters are happy to take your money for a 30-second spot in between pre-roll movie trivia clips.

If I'm an uber/lyft/taxi driver, the same thing applies -- it's easy to find out when movies are out, so it's easy to be in the area.

I guess I just don't see the value in "exact location and time" (at the theater, shortly before the movie starts) or any other data they can provide.

What am I missing? What use-case is there for that data that makes it worth paying for?
Zulip seems to be trying for "a better Slack", down to the (disgusting) pricing model centered around keeping your message history hostage.

I have no need for a slightly better Slack. I can see how your topics make it slightly better to find message, but how do I find topics once there are hundreds of them? How do I find unrelated issues that popped up in a thread, like they tend to do in human conversation, and that people didn't bother to make into a new topic?
So what? Businesses are born and die every day.

Every major US tech company is being fined in the EU nowadays. Poor EU regulation shouldn't dictate US policy.
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Looking for books/blog posts on management/process strategies on maintaining high quality in software engineering teams.
That's the thief part of the article title.
Edmonton.
Well techncially Google is an information company that happens to use ads to fund its mission of making information more accessible and useful.
When a company completely dominates a field they get different rules to prevent them from taking over every related field one at a time. "It's their product" doesn't cut it as a member of our society when that means they can control entire industries and jack up prices.

Having a single company own one industry after another is completely antithetical to the idea of capitalism, and if we're not going to do capitalism then we might as well start taxing Google even more to pay for public services, which I am sure they also don't want
The crisis is that students are wracking up debt for degrees that will take, on average, 22 years to pay off and have a less than 10% chance of actually being useful for their chosen jobs.

If you want to study humanities, then there are dozens and hundreds of resources available for free or very little financial cost to you.

I took a humanities "education" in my spare time over 5 year span because I love the arts, philosophy.

But I got an actual degree where I can give substantial value to society (as measured in income)
Probably because they're more reflective, like gold
Funny enough I use Linux and am using the new Skype. The old Skype on Linux wasn't perfect but it was leagues and bounds ahead of the current Electron-based garbage.
It seems like the implication is that poverty in the Congo is the result of cobalt extraction. This is not supported by my understanding of the history. During the Rwandan civil war of the early 90s, Tutsi rebels with Western weapons -- rebelling against a Hutu-led genocide of Tutsis -- followed defeated Hutu factions into the Congo, ostensibly to prevent their resurgence. The resulting cross-border conflict led to the near-collapse of the Congolese government and a prolonged civil war that continues to this day.

Other countries with large resource extraction industries, such as Chile and Norway, have been able to take advantage of the profits to build their economy, thanks to their political stability. The resource curse can clearly be lifted by a suitably durable politics.
Simple supply and demand, really.

The same skills that can provide software which - if the right people tell the right politicians the right things about it - could save some amount of librarians' labor ... can also provide software that will wow a VC enough to throw enough money to far outweigh the librarians' labor.

On the other hand, if enough people tell enough of the right politicians the right things, then the number of librarians nationwide using the software just might become high enough to swing the comparison the other way.

But until then, nobody in their right mind should be paying a programmer enough to convince them to work for a library (presuming that the programmer is also in their right mind, which is generally required in order for the resulting software to not be dogshit).
> It can be argued that the European Union has failed/is failing, at least partially, because of a lack of a common language. In the peak periods of the Roman Empire, Latin was the Lingua franca that enabled business transactions, along with Roman law, the precursors of civil law as a framework.

The interesting thing though is that the Roman Empire is a great example of a bilingual state. Greek was known to all Romans of class: for letters, art, learning, and rhetoric. It was the lingua franca and administrative language of the Eastern half of the empire, which contained around two thirds of the population and wealth. It was the language of the New Testament. If you wanted to do business in the East, you probably had to know Greek. Latin may not be that much of a help unless you were talking to a member of the army or lawyer.

I think we have blinders on the dominance of Latin because the Greek speaking portions of the Empire were conquered, the ruling class became Arabic speaking, and were taken them out of the cultural orbit of Christianity. It's a really a selection effect.
I mean the plan seems to be that except the marginal losses are supposed to go down as they reach higher volumes. Attract the heavy movie goers first and lose money on them till you can attract enough light movie goers that will buy this and forget about so you can afford the people seeing more than 2 movies a month. There's other ways to drop that marginal cost like getting deals from theaters on tickets for bringing people in (eg give us a better deal or we'll block our users from your theaters) and sell data.

I don't think this is going to work out but I can see how this would look workable in a model and pitch.
If every imaginable move is made to render the humanities rote and ideologically captive as possible (seemingly for the personal leisure of a handful of faculty), and at the same time prices are increasing, is it any wonder that they are fast going extinct? (or more accurately, that the absolute interest in study under humanities departments is not keeping up with the interest in STEM study)
There was a specific policy of discouraging mining in the U.S. sometime mid-century or earlier.

The history of mining in the West can be pieced together from hundreds of different online sources. The BLM spins the story that all the old mines have all been worked out and that is why they were abandoned, which is believable, but certainly not the case, although some mines have been worked out.

http://www.miningartifacts.org/Mining-Photo-Index.html has a brief history of mining by state.

Executive Order 6102 made it illegal for a U.S. Citizens to hold or own more than $100 in gold; coins, bullion or otherwise. It allowed the Federal government to seize gold and required citizens to turn in all of their gold, at the face value of $20.67 per ounce, or face up to 10 years in Prison and or a $10,000 fine.

Later Executive order L-208 essentially banned all non-essential mining operations. Gold and Silver mines being paramount on that list. Later expensive bonds were required before a new mine could be cut, which limited new mining to well funded mining companies. All of these contributed to the end of most small scale mining.

Source: https://plus.google.com/+NationalbureauofminesOrg1/posts/fDh...
> I'd rather they used some of this borrowed money to refund the remainder of my year

Issue a chargeback.
The incident occurred a full year before he was released to the US.
We learned a lot of Afrikaans tech words in computer science in high school in South Africa. It's pretty useless for me. I've never used any of it since, and have forgotten most of it.
That is ...good. We should be funneling more women and minorities into lucrative majors like CS and engineering.
The article is incorrect in its description of South Korean children increasingly having their tongues snipped in order to pronounce English words better.

That procedure was only done rarely, as far as I can tell from about 2002 to 2004. Immediately attracting heavy news attention there was even a government-sponsored video to scare people away from the procedure, which is virtually non-existent today. Fret not, there are still plenty of other opportunities for plastic surgeons in South Korea...

One thing to notice, however, is that Korean people would even consider that their tongues aren't naturally suited for speaking English, that's to say that their tongues could be different from other tongues. The idea of minjok (민족, 民族), meaning ethnicity or race -- the word itself a loan from fascist Japan during the Japanese Empire when Korea was annexed, though most Koreans are unaware of this --, is so strong in South Korea that indeed it might not seem strange for Koreans to believe foreign pronunciation naturally unsuited to Korean tongues. Similarly I recently saw Korean packaging that portrayed Korean digestive tracts as longer and more complex than those of "foreigners". In the South this "race"-based consciousness is fading away, in part surely because of English, the language that allows South Koreans to connect to the world. In North Korea it is far far stronger. There, along with the cult of the leader, the minjok really is the national religion, adapted from fascist Japan, which itself learned it from the German military (which trained the Japanese Army, which occupied and ruled Korea) and more generally the racist West of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Not that they didn't have their own home-grown prejudices in the region. Far from it, sadly.

Edit: All this said, it's both hopeful and ironic that even in North Korea the kids study English.
>It's unclear what amount of correlation - if any at all - exists between miner control..

Manipulation of arbitrage and suppression/prioritization of transactions.

This was demonstrated in an attack on the Ethereum network by the mining pool F2Pool, where a timed smart contract was manipulated by the mining pool to prioritize its own transaction and ignore other users transactions.
Why is everyone posting squares?
Like many folks living in NYC, Spectrum is my only choice for broadband. The only other option is Verizon DSL with "up to" 7Mbps. If this transition causes issues for my internet, I'm screwed.
You're statement has an underlying assumption that founders are hiding things from employees.

As stated above, I think its that employees aren't asking the right questions.

It's like when purchasing a vehicle; it's up to the buyer to educate themselves. Savvy buyers get better deals. We'd like to think of our industry as a meritocracy; but it's still largely based on humans with monkey brains,and greed is a powerful incentive.
That’s obviously not the claim and it’s churlish to imply so.

“Fairness” in a democratic system is a pretty messy concept. A “fair” vote might require rules (like controlling spending, foreign influence, and truthfulness), it might require clear criteria and outcomes, or it might require a well-informed population.

The UK’s Brexit referendum was a perfect example of how not to run a referendum:

- Billed as advisory but clearly not

- Electoral laws broken

- Shady foreign influence

- No definition of what the outcome of one result would be

- No success criteria beyond a simple majority (like requiring consent from all constituent countries)

- A vote on an extremely technical issue poorly understood by most of the population

I imagine this will be used as a textbook example of a terrible political event for decades.
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>China may very well become the largest economy in the world, and there is no way that Chinese, as a multi-toned, symbolic language, will ever become the Lingua franca, as it is near impossible for most adults to learn, in contrast to English [2].

Is this true? I would think that english is just as hard to for chinese speaker to learn.

Isn't all language has the same level difficulty? Is the preceived difficulty is mostly relative to how close it is to one native language?
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> What distinguishes the global English style?

I'd say that it's basically just the lowest common denominator of English. Imagine an English where any accent is acceptable as long as you're consistent and any regional vocabulary is okay so long as it's well known (e.g. either "torch" or "flashlight" is okay, "soda" is okay but "pop" is not). You then have "global" English.
Don't forget the Viking raids and settlements. They left a good number of words behind in modern English.
When a company has an almost complete monopoly and they decide to bar someone from service, how is that not hurting them?

If you run a website that earns revenue based on incoming users and Google cuts you off, how is that not damaging you? You could use every single competitor and still not even get a quarter as much traffic as Google.
I'm 32, my parents studies humanities and strongly discouraged me "because in the future there are no well-paid jobs in the humanities". I presume I'm not alone?
The cited context is about segmenting data for editing, where right now everything shares one context. For display and most others uses, the data is processed to create convenient layers.
The trick is that assonance is sufficient for rap in contrast to a strictly true rhyme.
Although that is somewhat of a simplification, it is certainly more true of Chinese than of English.

The written language is also typed to a certain degree. Almost all disease words use a common radical (e.g. 癌症 for cancer), for example. As a more extreme case, every chemical element name in Chinese incorporates a radical that reflects the chemical's basic state - liquid (water), gaseous (air), metallic (gold), or non-metallic (earth) - symbolically connecting the old elemental system with modern chemistry.
> I'm proud of my state for pushing expansion of rural broadband where federal efforts have failed.

Not me. I live in a small apartment that I pay tens of thousands of dollars a year for. In Franklin County people can get a lot more space for a lot less money. Why should I subsidize their broadband rather than them subsidizing my living space?

Life is all about tradeoffs. Wanting to get all the benefits of your choices and have other people pay to ameliorate the downsides is understandable but unreasonable.

If we are going to subsidize broadband at all, we should do it statewide and means test it.
I'm sure there will be plenty of blame to go around. In a car accident, culpability can fall on the driver, the car manufacturer or even the supplier of a faulty part. Regulations will eventually get put into place setting reasonable guidelines for determining negligence and which party (or parties) are at fault.

Unfortunately a lot of innocent people will be victims of bad policy and training until then.
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I feel like the political implications of this aren't being discussed.

So the 60 day period after which Spectrum would cease operations seems to end September 25, a week before online voter registration ends for the November elections... and even independent of that, it's at a critical moment for campaigning.

For many without a fiber connection in the NYC area, Optimum is now the only game in town, and it has no reason not to price gouge (there's no regulation forcing them to offer now-unnecessary promotional pricing to people). So many low-income people in old housing may need to go without internet and cable during the time immediately preceding the elections. Yes, most phones have data plans nowadays, but quick question: how many people do you know who would be able to print the PDF voter registration form easily from their computer, but would have no idea how to do so from their phone, and can't figure out how to set up a hotspot?

Imagine if New York were a swing state - it's normally not. On the one hand, you're making it suddenly more difficult to register to vote last-minute; that's not necessarily voter suppression, but it certainly smells like it. On the other hand, you're suddenly raising the effective price of (for example) Fox News/MSNBC, their online presences, access to Facebook on desktop computers (where ads are more prevalent), and streaming access to both Alex Jones and Bill Maher. You're cutting people off from information that reinforces their world view, and (gasp) they may need to watch basic cable, the most "mainstream" of mainstream media, while eating breakfast. That's ridiculously impactful.

Perhaps some of these concerns are overblown. Perhaps Optimum will, um, optimize for long-term goodwill and provide a reasonable upgrade path. But at the very least, we should be discussing these implications.
The company I work at explosively welded the material for the end caps on the MMRGT. It was sourced through a contractor so we did not know the application until a reporter called to verify that our parts were on mars!
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I've not used Go before, but I'm not convinced Go over bash is a benefit in this scenario. It's introducing another dependency and more complexity into the solution, making it less useful for people who don't work with Go. Perhaps it's not aimed at those of us, that's fine but making something less portable to make it easier to build seems like a frustrating trade-off from a user perspective.

Obviously this is an open source side project, so it won't cater to everyone, I'm just skeptical of it being the benefit that it's claimed to be.
I fully agree with you, of course. That doesn't mean the technology is bad, though - it's just that people are too cocky and think they know everything. Knowledge can't be bad nor good, people and their use of knowledge are.
If you don't like their service model, just run your own host. Zulip is open source, apache licensed and available on github. I haven't tried it for a couple years, but it was easy to get running in a VM last time I tried.
It would be interesting to see the graph of degrees in these majors as a percentage of the entire population, rather than as a percentage of total degrees.
Ask HN: How do you effectively use IPv6 addresses up?
My ISP started assigning /64 blocks to customers (residential) on request, with bigger allotments available, so I was thinking of asking for a block for fun - the question is - how do you effectively use them? Right now I don’t have static V4, but they’ll give me a static V6 block, so I’m converting my DNS server into using static V6 address and ditching v4 (using a 4-to-6 proxy), but aside that I’m not sure what to do, thoughts?
My wife and I were exactly the same way. Only the “event” films were worth seeing in the theatre. Most other movies we would see when they fell off of a truck onto my Plex Server.

We have gone to see a lot more movies this month since we had it. If you see two movies a month you break even. If we see one $17.26 IMAX movie we almost break even.

But more importantly, for us. It is a commitment device. There are a lot of times that life gets busy and my wife and I don’t go out. Now we just get out the house once or twice a week and go to a movie. We can even meet for an extended lunch sometimes since my wife had a split shift during the school year. She’s off during the summer.
All of those alternatives together don't even provide a fraction of the service that google provides.

The monopoly takes control and keeps prices higher than they would be with competition. New competition comes along every now and then but a monopoly just has to compete heavily for a short time to put the new comes out of business and then it's back to mining the market. This is how monopolies work and what anti trust legislature is supposed to stop.

Based on your comments here, I have to ask. Is there any situation you can think of where the government should step in to break up a company, short of violence or breaking a contract?
I don't know what to say to this. The DPRK is evil almost beyond comprehension. If Warmbier harmed himself, surely he did so under the most intense psychological stress you could imagine him being under. He was imprisoned for tampering with a poster. Surely we can all agree that was a terrible human rights abuse. Nobody is (or should be) trying to immunize the DPRK here. Certainly I don't intend to put any of the responsibility for this tragedy on Otto Warmbier; what he did is something I might have done myself were I there at his age!

My point is, as it was downthread, that there's a special recent history to reports of abuses by enemies of the US. If the prevailing narrative about Warmbier's treatment by the DPRK is false, and is exploited by the administration as casus belli, that's not hairsplitting.

Like I said earlier: whatever the US accused the Iraqi Baathist regime of doing, their actual abuses were similarly awful. But in the question of how the US relates to other countries, the distinction matters.

Candidly, I think the debate about US/DPRK relations is (on HN) less important than the debate about what it means to report on these stories and to challenge a popular narrative. If I've been triggered to respond by anything in this thread, it's the subtext (in many comments here) that the reporting in this GQ piece is slapdash or done in bad faith.
Pretty much. I felt too guilty to cancel my gym membership so I paid for it for many months telling myself I'll go next time. I felt no guilt canceling MoviePass.
> This is not an IPv6 issue.

It's not an IPv6 specification issue, correct. It is an IPv6 adoption issue. My ISP has provided IPv6 for 5 years, only last year did I get a router where it worked (apart from the other issues I've mentioned).

>> IPv6 requires DNS, even with static prefix

> False.

Of course it doesn't _technically_ require DNS, but in practice I'm not going to remember the 16 hex digits that is my prefix. And that's before SLAAC.

>> Dynamic prefix requires firewall rules to be updated when prefix changes.

> That is the DHCPv6 client's job. You should be able to provide a script that the DHCPv6 client runs on server reply messages.

Why should I have to provide a script? At most, I should be able to check a box on my router/firewall. Ideally I shouldn't have to mess with it at all.
It's more an issue of culture than anything. They preferred calligraphy, so not many things were done with moveable type (which did exist in China before Europe; it wasn't just woodblock printing). That said, there were still plenty of reports, up to the 19th century, of how widely things were printed and how cheaply they were available in China.

The bigger issue is what the culture valued more than anything.