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If you are customer-facing then you are not necessarily in a position of power. However, I've found success in getting the customer to listen and take action based on my recommendations by mirroring the mentioned tone and vocab. In this manner you essentially assume an indirect position of power without offending the customer.

I think the author is writing from this context.
Yeah, that's the one that is missing the most from that list!
The economy 101 angle here is that this is a tax write off for most businesses, so these free meals not only disrupt local food markets but are subsidized to do so.
When I did my CHIP-8 [1] I collected a lot of background info and links, which you can find in the "History" and "Sources" topics of the readme.md there.

[1] https://github.com/tallforasmurf/CHIP8IDE
I've noticed how casually people say, "that should be illegal" nowadays. Usually it's half-joking, but it expresses a real sentiment about how even mild transgressions are seen as legal matters.

I have no doubt if you took a poll asking people if it should be illegal to leave a kid in a car for any amount of time you'd get overwhelming support. And, of course, that's how people like the woman in the article end up fearing prosecution after leaving her child alone for a few minutes.

> Women are being harassed and even arrested for making perfectly rational parenting decisions.

By the way, this may be even more true for men, who are routinely viewed with a skeptical eye when it comes to parenting decisions. The glee at which our current culture laughs at the perceived incompetence of men with regards to parenting has taught us all to expect fathers to be completely boneheaded at all times.
Not exactly sure what it being closed-source has to do with it.

Wouldn't this exact scenario have played out had it been OSS?
And for the employees. I don't want to pack a lunch or go seek out a restaurant every day to pick up food. I know that eating at work means I'm spending lunch time in the office, but by spending less time at lunch, I can leave the office earlier. I'm sure it's a net-win for the company -- if an employee is in the office for an extra 15 minutes since they got a "free" lunch, then the meal is more than paid for (assuming tech-worker salaries)
Interestingly, in Dutch, the word is "Appelsien" according to Wikipedia, which seems quite unrelated to any word like "Orange" - this in a country where the royal family is called "House of Orange"?
A Java bro told me they have lots of pain with version conflicts, since Java world is so reliant both on tons of libraries and on strict interfaces. Apparently there's something called 'dependency shading' to overcome this issue, though seems like it has to be done by the dependency vendor, not the user.

NPM notably doesn't have any problems with different versions (afaik), since imported modules are simply variables in the importing ones, and not in a global namespace. I think it's also possible to implement that in Python due to similar semantics, though it's not currently available.
>Have some self restraint

Might be a good idea to read a bit on psychology. Your experience != everyone else's experience.
The cables don't keep it up, they're like guide wires on radio masts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_masts_and_towers

The "support" comes from the momentum of the moving parts within the cable.
Those usually use a variant cas9 protein which is not what is included in Odin.
Challenge accepted. My nieces and nephews could literally destroy a M1 Abrams tank.
I've been trying to reconcile the libertarian perspective on this topic with my more-liberal leanings, and I've got to say that I'm perplexed.

Can any libertarians here share their thoughts on the role of government in producing tech monopolies ? Is there any role at all ?

IOW, would we see the same problem if there were still private AOL, CompuServe, and Prodigy networks instead of just the one Internet ? And yes, I'm putting aside the question of whether the absence of the public internet would be good or bad for society.

I can't see how you wouldn't just end up with one company buying out the others and becoming a monopoly, anyway, but I'm open to ideas as to how that would be mitigated by competition. There's also the issue of companies with deep pockets, or investors with deep pockets, just doing "free" until everyone else is gone, which, for some reason, seems to be in vogue now. But, I suspect that private networks would be very careful about letting any one participant acquire too much network power in one area.
This is irrelevant to American anti-trust law. Europe will move to protect competitors, but America will only act to protect the consumer.
> "Never leave home without my flip-phone and kindle" said nobody ever.

You ought to get out more. Carrying around a Kindle and leaving the phone behind (or, perhaps, getting a dumbphone), so that you are forced to consume more “serious” content during waiting times and to avoid social media, is recommended fairly often on these kind of threads.

> Your smartphone might have the kindle app or e-reader app or something.

The reason for the Kindle’s popularity in its niche is the e-ink screen. Some people may find reading ebooks on their phone to be acceptable, while others find the more limited dimensions and LCD glare and brightness of a smartphone to be annoying.
So, basically somebody went through the list of all tools most commonly installed trough ninite, and created a spoof for each of them.
Structurally, youtube and cloud co have their own CEOs.

And they all make money. so they can be split from the rest of the company.
air quotes "industry sources". where's Austin Powers when you need him?
Low earth orbit is at a speed of 28,080 km/h. If you want to separate the two halves of your satelite at a significant angle from their starting trajectory, you have to provide a lot of impulse perpendicular to the direction of travel (or from a zero-orbital speed vertical launch at apogee, which would be weird). More impulse than an explosion could make, probably even if you built your satellite like a brick shithouse.

Rockets conveniently spread the impulse out over a long period of time.
Fundamental particles are the universal spoken language because all communication must be done through their interactions
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Can you be more specific, what exactly is and when exactly it becomes different?
Today is the 25th anniversary of the release of Windows NT
This was already posted
Microsoft isn't a government. They can't arrest you, and they can't seize your property (that you haven't already given them). As a private entity, they can define the terms by which they provide or revoke services, within some broad boundaries such as Civil Rights law.

So that can suck, if you don't know why you've been banned or possibly when you are banned by mistake, but that is the risk of using these kinds of services.
Contrary to most of the posters on here, I have had nothing but positive experiences with Windows 10. I don't get served ads in the OS (or don't notice them). I don't see any upsell. I don't get blue screens. Edge is a competent and effective browser, and I often use it over Firefox or chrome, though I still use those for development. I am a happy customer.

I have a paid OneDrive account that stores all my family photos.

Reading this has made me realise it could so easily happen to me. I'm going to make double sure I back up everything locally too, from now on.

MS only has my photos though. Google really has me by the balls. Ten years of emails with friends and customers, and pretty much every login I have is tied to my gmail. If that was taken I away I would be truly boned
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Because you live in a high rent area. Get over it.
Language is more like a virus than like a system. People will speak whatever language to which they are exposed. If it enables them to express most of the information they need to express, they will expose others to that language (reproduction) and tweak it on their own to be more expressive (mutation). This implies that it doesn't matter which language is "better" according to some technical or moral metric we might construct, it only matters which language can reproduce and mutate the fastest.

To make an analogy that the Hacker News crowd will appreciate: English is the C to Esperanto's Scheme. C as initially conceived was just good enough to write Unix and thus reproduce itself further, mutating along the way until it was simultaneously everywhere and unrecognizable. Scheme is beautiful and powerful and yet still mostly confined to textbooks.
They recently started logging out users and asking for mobile number. I didn't want to give my mobile number so I uninstalled the app. Occasionally visit the website and view some users' tweets (without logging in). But as it was mentioned elsewhere it's full of dark patterns and an irritating experience.
How do you back up your Google account automatically?
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I didn’t say they only have 5 or 6 movies showings at once. By turnover, I meant after you catch up on all of the movies they have now, you won’t find 20 new movies next month. Over the course of the year, they won’t have 156 movies in the theatre (52 x 3)
Stewart Cheifet looks at Windows NT for the Computer Chronicles, in 1993: https://youtu.be/cHkdQ5CG0PY
That and the rise of weekly detective shows that focus on sexual crimes. SVU is in its 19th season, somehow. Criminal Minds is about to start its 14th. And there are plenty of others like those.

Contrast that with 30 years ago, when we had things like Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue, and regular Law & Order. Those shows featured murders committed because of robberies and affairs and the like. The more modern versions are basically all pedophiles and rapists.
Time spent isn't a useful metric. What's useful is impact.
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A Microsoft account is not about SaaS. It's about logging on to Windows, opening the Office that you installed on your computer, or opening a saved game in Minecraft.

It's also used for putting files on the cloud and renting VPSes, but those uses are much less common.
Oh okay, that's alright then /s
Let's phrase it another way. If all you care about is information access you could replace libraries with country-wide digital catalogue of media and software, a program to subsidize the cost of computing devices and internet for people with low-income, and some public internet cafes.

This doesn't at all capture what libraries actually do but the argument that we could be doing information access better and cheaper really just comes down to how the numbers come out.
Yes, this is exactly how I feel.

Libraries and the services they offer can be an instrument for people to bring themselves out of poverty and for people to be able to grow and advance through education.

I personally think of it like this - if I didn't have a job, where would I "go to work every day"? If I didn't have an income, and I couldn't get a job, I could go to a library. And a library could be the key to me finding a job, or work, or making it for myself.

A library is a positive place to go with something to do, when otherwise, maybe I would have nothing, which can help me.

My personal desire is not to disrupt libraries, but instead the opposite - to actually extend what they do until it gives even more people a chance to start their own business, find their own careers, or simply learn and educate themselves for work or pleasure.

Lest we forget, that library science is the foundation of information science!
Me too. My Spanish reading is probably at around a 12th grade level and writing somewhere around 9th grade, but my listening comprehension of native speakers is atrocious. I think it's just a matter of practice/exposure though
I certainly feel sympathy for the writer and anyone in a similar position. However, she writes as if every American is vulnerable to this sort of harassment, when in truth it's only those in most of America. In large swathes of USA, the general public would not call the police over this, and if they did the police would laugh at them. I live in such a place, although I'm not so sure about the community in which I've been working recently.

It's no surprise that many communities have this dysfunction. Decades of carefully cultivating only one approved narrative, that you all must buy the same things and live the same way has been very good for marketers and the authoritarian plutocrats who employ them, but very bad for you. In an age of remarkable policy consensus (more war, more spending, more oppression, more, more, more), the heated political discourse often amounts to nothing deeper than, "They disagree with me! How dare they?!?" This doesn't leave much room for "Well, if Sally's parents let her play by the road, I guess you can too."

You don't have to live where mothers are harassed like this, but let's face it the job market is better there. Still, you can visit the rest of America. Just drive in any direction. If you get more than fifty miles from an Applebee's or Best Buy, you can probably stop right there, or keep driving, or whatever. If you see a park, drop the kids off. It's fine.
If your familiar with arduino the esp32 and esp8266 and ridiculously cheap and easy to program, have onboard wifi/bluetooth modules, and can easily hook to a relay to make your own smart lamps, switches, etc.

Also MQTT is pretty easy to work with, which many IOT devices use. You could spoof the dns of the mqtt server/broker its trying to reach and run your own.
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I'll explain. You probably wouln't collect much in land taxes from these large tech companies.

But why this eagerness to tax them so much in the first place? Because of unfairness relative to smaller companies and employees who carry the whole burden of taxation and those tech giants pay close to zero.

In land based tax system you wouldn't collect much from large tech, but you wouldn't collect much from small businesses and employees either. Fairness achieved.

Now you might ask, wouldn't we be really short in tax revenues if we kept only land taxation? The answer is pretty surprising that it would likely collect even more revenue that current system based on sales tax, income, vat, etc., but I encourage the careful reader to study land based tax systems on their own to discover their simplicity and beauty.

I'll just hint that there is so much value stored in real estate (of which the biggest part is its location value, ie. land) that it dwarfs world stock and bond markets together. So just imagine making it a base for a tax.
I benefited from pot my whole life. How many benefits is that worth?
> Importantly, the cycle of thought proceeds one step at a time. The brain’s networks of neurons are highly interconnected, so there seems little scope for assigning different problems to different brain networks. If interconnected neurons are working on entirely different problems, then the signals they pass between them will be hopelessly at cross-purposes—and neither task will be completed successfully: Each neuron has no idea which of the signals it receives are relevant to the problem it is working on, and which are just irrelevant junk. If the brain solves problems through the cooperation computation of vast networks of individually sluggish neurons, then any specific network of neurons can work on just one solution to one problem at a time.

Are we to conclude upon observing the crossing paths of trains and passengers that a rail system can service only one route at any moment?
The EU also cannot prevent Google from buying US startups, furthering they monopoly position. And US startups get more funding because they might be bought by Google.
I might not have been clear then. The story is implying the Trump administration used the "beatings" story line to his advantage despite not having really made that claim. It appears that the media reported it from intelligence sources. It faults him, and even accuses him of exploiting the situation, for not correcting the story line which is an outrageous standard to hold presidents accountable to. My further but more convoluted point is it isn't unreasonable to speculate that some form of torture that is not beatings caused the injury. ok?

I see your point about Iraq and the importance of story lines.

Yes, I am hiding my name.
I'll be honest and say I don't go to the library very often. But, I too will fight alongside you to protect libraries.
How does one become a librarian? I've thought about it my whole life. It almost feels like the vocation I've been called to but never realized.
I had developed using professional IC design tools (specifically Modelsim and Xilinx) for the processor. However, free tools are available like http://iverilog.icarus.com/

The actual processor was implemented on a Xilinx FPGA, and it was about 2K lines of HDL code, carrying about 25 application-specific instructions which I had designed also.

For the compiler, disassembler, IDE, emulator, I created in C# and .NET.

While I did not use these, there are also ASIPs: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application-specific_instruc...
This is from a tendency in Germanic languages (and maybe others) to call the orange a "Chinese apple".
Russian-spy hookers targeting tech leaders in Silicon Valley?
You can buy a cheap prepaid sim, and save yourself from data roaming tariffs. And it is the moment when smartphones shine - you'll have the same IDs/handles/usernames in messengers. With a feature phone your identity (your number) will change.
Because they didn’t have Craig Silverstein and many many others. Lets not pretend Jeff and Sanjay, as much talented and prolific as they are, are singlehandedly responsible for Googles success.
I feel similarly when someone uses my name more than feels natural, and I suspect my awareness of this being a persuasion technique has soured my response to others using it on me. I wonder about the technique's efficacy on people who are more or less aware of it.
On Medium? We can't even comment there. It was a failure.
The cabbies or the cab companies?
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Yep, I'm from Finland and to me, using a person's name in a potential conflict situation just feels like trying to make the problem personal. In the article's examples, like "I’m not entirely sure we can do that, Liam", I hear an unspoken "you fool" at the end.
Ogilvy on Advertising still the best intro to not just advertising, but marketing and communications.
Five in the past five months. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/27/nyregion/taxi-driver-suic...
“I refuse to accept that everything must be “disrupted” and turned into a moneymaking machine for tech elites. It’s absurd to suggest that Silicon Valley look to profit from one of the few institutions available across the entire country that doesn’t exist to make money for someone else.”

This is a powerful stamenent. Love it!
Spanish may be simpler, but it also conveys less information per syllable iirc.
> Why do we do it?

Because these sort of stories represent probably something like one in a million failure rate. That is ridiculously successful. And those "simple things" you say are really not all that simple.
In terms of things that are difficult for non-native speakers, English doesn't have grammatical gender, which takes an immense amount of time to acquire.

English's irregular verbs also fall into classes. There are only a couple of (very common) verbs like "be", "go" which are truly idiosyncratic. And English has the advantage of actually having very few verbal forms overall. Other than forms of "be", the present tense only has 2 forms (3rd person singular and everything else (e.g. "I go, you (sg.) go, he/she/it goes, we go, you (pl.) go, they go") and the past tense only one form (e.g. "I went, you (sg.) went, he/she/it went, we went, you (pl.) went, they went").

> Certain ambiguous sentences are only able to be deciphered through sheer exposure to the language + context, which is not necessarily easily transferable across languages ("I can't find my shoes" means that you so far haven't been able to find your shoes, whereas "I can't eat pork" means that you prefer not to eat pork for one reason or another, whereas "I can't see infrared" means that it is impossible for you to see in infrared).

These all have to do with modality and work the same way in every language I know.

> English also has a weird way of asking question compared to other languages, i.e. in many other languages (most?) you normally say something like "You want to buy a hotdog" or "What you want?" whereas in English we require a varying assortment of nouns and helper verbs.

This is true, and is fairly unusual (though French has some weirdness of this sort).
I want to believe this is a blunt sort of satire, but I can't quite get there...
It should be illegal to harass or prosecute parents for leaving their child alone for a few minutes....

What really astounds me is that I'm not that old, and I clearly remember being able to run around or ride my bike around town for miles without any adult supervision, at the age of 8 or so. Things have really changed in this country.
Agreed. I use my own domain and I use my providers email forwarding to a sass email client. If my email provider pisses me off I just change my forwarding to some other provider. I may lose old mail, if the provider goes away completely, but that's not too big a deal for me and backups could solve it if it was important.

Now, if my domain host goes belly up, I'll probably have a somewhat painful process of porting my domains elsewhere. It's still doable but it would probably mean a few days of downtime.
Wow you guys really hate jokes :P
Qualcomm is an american chip maker and NXP is a Dutch chip maker. Why do they need approval from Chinese regulators to merge? Can someone please clarify?
Thank you! From now on, please you my app (or try it at least), and let me how can I improve it.
if they're _purposefully_ ranking their own services above competing services, then yes, I agree they should be fined until they stop. _however_, more often than not, their own service is _exactly_ what I'm looking for - be it GPM/YouTube/Maps/etc.

It's not really their fault they're head and shoulders above the competition/the de-facto provider for most of the content people search for every day (well, maybe it is their fault, but it's not a bad thing).
> Traffic violation? Suspend their TLC license at the first offense.

Seriously, all this city needs is "broken windows" policing for traffic violations.
Why build when you can buy?

Universal just has to buy MoviePass. Assuming it has the cash. From what I've read over the last few years, the big Hollywood studios are not cash-rich.
I don't know if Sanjay and Jeff worked directly on DEC's AltaVista search engine but that project was treated as a low-priority "demo showcase" for DEC Alpha servers instead of being seen by DEC management as a new multibillion dollar internet business to pursue. DEC could have had a "Bezos-hey-we-can-sell-computing-as-AWS" moment with AltaVista but they missed it and let Google surpass it.
Can you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? You've been doing it a lot lately, and we've had to ask you before.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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MoviePass' problem was that their biggest users were stingy as fuck. They would smuggle in their own snack and drink, instead of purchasing from the movie concessions stands.

This might not have been much of an issue (since MoviePass pays full price for the tickets), but they tried to make a play for all of a theater's concessions revenue rather than just the revenue traceable to MoviePass customers.