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Being able to go to a different chain is nice. For example, near home there is Regal theater, but near where everyone hangs out there is an AMC.

I'm considering switching from MoviePass to AMC A-Stubs or whatever it's called, but will lose out on the opportunity to walk to my local theater for a free flick.
Good point, but I thought it was very clear from the examples that these are aimed at pleasing existing customers in a support or consulting scenario. There's even an explicit warning about "No" that your company's bottom line comes first.

Agreed that a negotiating/sales scenario or a crisis management scenario require different strategies!
Generally speaking, there is nothing 'measured' about the way the democratic process is influenced by widespread irrationality and emotionalism.

I see no reason to believe that these laws are a result of a measured response. I see reason to believe the opposite.
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The article glosses over the fact that the US (and to a lesser extent UK) is a great exporter of its culture and language through movies, TV, and music. This is aided by the fact that the US has a values-based society where you don't need to be of a particular race or ethnicity to identify with it. I can't tell you how many people I've met traveling abroad who learned English by watching American shows and films.
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Statistically, these "mother wrongly arrested" stories are about as rare as genuine child abductions. Avoiding parenthood because of them is as irrational as reporting a woman for leaving her child in the car for five minutes.

(Not that that's an excuse for the abominable actions of law enforcement in the story. Shame on the police, prosecutors, and judges involved.)
Following the 80/20 on everything. You'll get 80% of your business from 20% of your customers, and you'll get 80% of all problems from 20% of your customers. Figure out who is in the 20% of problem customers who isn't in the 20% of profit customers, and fire them. Even better if you can refer them to your competitors.
I don't know why the article didn't mention the most prominent technical features of Pop!_OS that propels it beyond being a mere copycat.

* HiDPI Daemon: They wrote this themselves and what it does is if you have mixed DPI monitors, it auto-detects and conforms them to the lowest common denominator. Wayland does this by default but support for Nvidia isn't there yet and applications like Firefox don't reconform between monitors.

* Systemd-boot. GRUB is the past. Systemd-boot is life. Faster startup to desktop.

* Do Not Disturb and performance profile picker from the menu bar.

* Dat installer. They collaborated with Elementary OS' Daniel Foré on this. It's polished, easy for anyone to grok, offers simple full-disk encryption, and and creates a recovery partition in case you hose your install.

System76 has really thought through these usability improvements to bring us a desktop that anyone can use and encourages security out of the gate.
During the peak of British colonialism, French was the...lingua franca... of the diplomatic and academic world.
The internet is mentioned in passing, but the reason that English is dominating is that the vast majority of science, engineering and academia in general is published in English, and then is quickly added to the English language Wikipedia. If you want to be at the cutting edge of global technology, it is just easier (and sometimes important) to be able to read English directly. Translations can be problematic, particularly for technical subject matter.

As others have mentioned, other languages have played this role in the past, and probably will in the future.
Dumping SNES Zelda ROM
In fairness, this is the way you remove any android launcher, it's not some crap MS cooked up.
"possibly derived from an even older Dravidian (another ancient language spoken in what is now southern India) root, naru, meaning fragrant. "

The Dravidian language referred here is Tamil. The fruit in the citrus family is called Narthangai. The unripe fruit makes a sour delicious pickle.

It's such a joy to hear a Tamil word used everyday around the globe.
She makes a good point, here:

"We do not think about the statistical probabilities or compare the likelihood of such events with far more present dangers, like increasing rates of childhood diabetes or depression. Statistically speaking, it would take 750,000 years for a child left alone in a public space to be snatched by a stranger. Statistically speaking, a child is far more likely to be killed in a car on the way to a store than waiting in one that is parked."
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One of your several mistakes here is to assume that Unicode is necessarily connected with multilingualism. In fact, ASCII is not enough for even typesetting English at a professional level: various kinds of non-breaking spaces and hyphens, curly quotation marks “” instead of straight "", ligatures, etc. are all things that any professional English-language publisher requires but are beyond the ASCII set.
Nautilus is built on this kind of psycholo-garbage. The conclusions go way too far, but the title gets clicks.
It is simpler than most European languages, in my experience, as well. Logical, not so much, heh
English does have double negatives, and they're grammatically correct when used properly. They simply cancel each other out which differs from Spanish where they add emphasis.
As a native English speaker who has passable Spanish, I think the main hurdle, which I guess wouldn't be called a "complexity", of learning Spanish to a high level is understanding native speakers in natural conversation given how fast they talk.
They're not incompatible at all. Libraries aren't given any special provision when it comes to copyright. Physical copies of media are single transferable licenses -- whether it's a book, tape, CD, or DVD. And when libraries buy digital books they negotiate a license with certain number of seats where patrons check out a license when they download a book -- exactly how a lot of commercial software is licensed.
> You can thank American and European governments for that. They extorted money from private companies for "due diligence violations" and now they will ban you and close your account on any smallest suspicion of financial impropriety or connections with sanctioned individuals or countries.

> As an example, people lost their money to PayPal and had their accounts banned because their address contained a street named after a sanctioned location.

That is ridiculous. Modern companies have no problem Hoovering up and analyzing vast amounts of intelligence on consumers for marketing purposes. PayPal almost certainly has liasons with any number of three-letter agencies that also feed them intel related to criminal or terrorist activity. Link analysis and graph database software has reached commodity status; it's affordable and available. Directing them to do something to stop transactions between accounts known to be affiliated with terrorism is a reasonable request.

If their solution to money laundering bans accounts based on something so naive as terms found in a street address, their unbounded, colossal incompetence is not the fault of any government. PayPal has never had their shit together-- run-of-the-mill fraudsters have no problem keeping accounts open, but yours will eventually be seized without notice or explanation.
Personal opinion: the fact that type of sharing hasn't happened with open source services speaks volumes about the priorities of the open-source communities and is the single-biggest argument in favor of allowing large corporations leeway to create big cool things with big data. I don't see anyone else stepping up to solve the hard problems like this.
Please Sell Me on Vuex
I mean this post with the utmost respect for the brilliant minds that brought you Redux. Given that React is a view handler and not a full state controller, it completely makes intuitive sense.

Vuex on the other hand I'm failing to see the use case for, but I feel dirty. I'm coding without it just fine, and everything works great, but I have this nagging sense that I'm doing things wrong, reinforced by the infinite masses of trendy JS articles urging me to join The Church of Framework X.

Can some kind soul out there put into words what makes Vuex awesome and why it was worth it for you to use, given the nature of Vue being so darn good at two-way automagical bind handling?

Thanks for any input.
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I hope this will not be the case, because it would be yet another way in which we'd become dependent on computers and would be royally fucked if skynet would happen. Which probably wouldn't be too unrealistic if computers are smart enough to really understand and translate human languages with all their nuances and concepts like wordplays, humor and sarcasm.
One of the main reasons we moved to the community we did is that I was driving by a house on what happened to be the last day of school and saw multiple elementary school aged kids walking home alone or in groups.

When I was little I would take the shuttle bus after school to the school for slightly older kids (4th and 5th grade), and from there a pack of probably 5 of us would walk to our baby sitter's half a mile away (just checked on maps).

Happy to know there are at least some parts of the US that haven't given up on children being capable little humans.
> Microsoft's own way of justice is against the legal systems in all the modern countries, which always makes sure that the accused knows their faults, as one of their rights, and for the benefit of the accused not getting involved in such acts for a second time, for that they this time will know.

Welcome to the modern world.

I read frequently on the /r/androiddev subreddit about Android devs who have had apps suspended or accounts closed for reasons beyond their comprehension.

I frequently read about people wanting tech platforms to start censoring more actively (Twitter, FB, Youtube?) and for them to boot controversial people for using their free speech (even if offensive).

Unfortunately giving "the accused" any sort of recourse doesn't seem to be a priority when the PR machine is going against a tech company - it's easier for them to use the banhammer.
>EVCache has become a fundamental tier-0 service storing petabytes of data and hundred of billions of items,

So newest Memcache with extstore allows them instead of PB of RAM to PB of SSD. I look at the pricing of EC2 instances, turns out it is may be a $3/hr saving between Memory Optimised and Storage I/O optimised. On a petabytes scale at 500GB / node that translate to roughly $4.3 million saving per month from on demand pricing. Likely much lower from Netflix discount but still quite a bit of money.
You're trying to rebut an argument nobody made. Nobody is saying that the DPRK is trustworthy or that their story about Warmbier is accurate; in fact, the article itself throws that story into question, because according to the timeline it establishes, Warmbier's injury occurred almost immediately after his sentencing.

You don't get to make up elaborate torture scenarios and then use them to rebut the article. The point that the article is making is simple: the story spread throughout the media about what happened to Otto Warmbier does not align with discoverable facts. The claim was that he was beaten, so badly that his "teeth were rearranged". That appears not to have been the case.

Saddam Hussein was a horrible person, one of the most horrible leaders in the world. The Baathist Iraqi regime was an evil on par with that of North Korea; in some ways perhaps worse. Nevertheless, our adventure in Iraq, based on false intelligence, was perhaps the greatest foreign policy blunder of the last 100 years. Nobody can pretend that discrepancies in stories about the crimes of American enemies don't have particular valence today. This is important reporting. You'll have to do better than just making up stories in message board comments to tear it down.
That doesn't really matter, you get used to more than a dozen quite different pronunciations within a week for basic talk, within a few months you can understand each other perfectly.

EDIT: Visit England you cunts (wrt downvotes).
I really dislike reading the tweets in this bizarre thread reader. The page width is much to wide and the, line spacings are inappropriate for the size of the font, and that's not to mention the lack of contrast.

Even worse, I could not find a single link back to Twitter, the canonical source.

It's just as easy to read on the twitter website, it provides additional context, and allows for interaction.

https://twitter.com/_rsc/status/1022588240501661696
I would say that so far what I wrote there has been spot on. The sky didn't fall, nobody got sued, all the fear mongering was for naught.
Nitpick:

> the ALCU set it to use an 80% confidence level threshold, which should result in a 5% false positive rate.

I'm not sure where the "should" in this sentence is coming from. As far as I know, Amazon's documentation doesn't claim any particular relationship between confidence and false positive rate. The 5% number in the article was simply talking about the actual false positive rate that the ACLU observed.

Not to say the conclusions of the article are wrong, though. It certainly seems unreasonable for someone to assume that "80% confidence" would give an FPR of less than 5%.
Couldn’t people just stop using Google search though? There’s Bing, Duckduckgo, Ask.com (are they still around?)
I couldn't help but to notice that in every drawing of this thing, "Support Cables" are shown beneath this gigantic floating structure, and they apparently keep it in the sky.

I may not know too much about spaceflight, but I do know that gravity tends to pull downward, towards the earth. I don't see cables doing a good job of suspending these things in the air when they are constructed beneath the structures...
For the most part, yes. Though, if you flip the word order, it immediately sounds off. "Were I a rich man, I wouldn't have to work hard." sounds reasonable. "Was I a rich man, I wouldn't have to work hard." sounds rather jarring.
I think it was straightforward to predict that monthly active users would be down after they banned the bots (and lots of accounts were tweeting about losing 4-7 figures worth of followers) -- I'm a bit surprised that this is being cited as the reason for the bloodbath. Surely this point is not a sophisticated analysis or am I way over-estimating owners of tech stocks that live and die on earnings calls?
It will be hard to satisfy your demand for proof, because there's no good way to search "tweets you've seen", but I have seen it happen.

Person A starts a thread.

Person B who A doesn't know says something dehumanizing to person A.

Person A says "fuck off and die".

Person A gets shadowbanned for a week.

There was even a time when, due to their bad automated processes, you could get shadowbanned for using the word "queer" in a positive sense.

(Hilariously, Twitter's position on shadowbanning is that they do no such thing, they just hide your tweets from everyone's timeline, which is exactly what everyone means when they say "shadowban".)
I'm not aware of any literature related to your hypothesis but it makes sense intuitively. Self-determination theory, which seeks to identify what motivates us as humans, has as one of its pillars, "relatedness." Engineers need to feel like their work matters, PMs can help with that by sharing a vision and customer feedback that drives a group of individuals forward.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-determination_theory
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Uber has a network effect, but it's not exclusive—hence the larger number of drivers driving for both Uber and Lyft. I don't see Uber's position as being very entrenched at this point.
An emergency loan with no change to the service whatsoever? They are really having a deer in the headlights moment.

Reminds me of a startup I worked with once.

The goal wasn't to make a viable product. It was to make a big splash and get bought.

10 Start a product/service
20 Make a big hype and get lots of publicity
30 Get bought by some larger company that sees you as a threat/opportunity
40 Founders get big cash payout, everyone else gets the shaft
50 GOTO 10
> if one is willing to accept @mention from a random twitter user instead of only from a pre-cleared group of one's contacts, one does not get to post action claim that the @mention of his or her account is abuse because one does not like the content of that mention.

So do you truly mean to claim that if a given user accepts any public replies, they may never claim that any public reply of any kind, regardless of content or intent, is abuse?
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A lot of English's exceptions are things we hardly notice as native speakers. For example, we have a lot of irregular verbs. Of course other languages also have these, but oftentimes they fit into more neat patterns or small verb classes as in Spanish. Using verbs together is more complex than in other language (when do you add the word to?). We have a lot of nouns that you treat specially, like glasses/pants/deer.

English also has a lot of complexity. Comparison adjectives can be difficult, e.g. when to use faster or more fast. 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).

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.

None of these properties, which may not even be most of them, are unique on their own, but in combination they add up to quite a lot. It's hard for me to even think of all the rules like this since I'm a native speaker, but when learning Spanish I noticed how much more uniform many of its rules are.
I’ve had 2 great managers, 2 average to bad ones, and the rest falls in the average to ok category. I’m a manager myself and I think I fall on the good side of the fence (actually I’m pretty sure of it but it’s always difficult to judge oneself so I’ll err on the side of caution).

Beyond good and bad, I believe a lot of the fit or lack thereof is linked to behavior (which can be worked on), motivation (which is pretty hard to change so you better make sure it’s aligned with the job’s objectives) and communication (which you can never work on too much).

As a team member, understanding your boss’s objectives, pain points, and default behavior / failure mode is a good place to start. A great manager will spell those out to you when you join the team so you don’t have to guess at them; if not, I absolutely encourage you to ask these questions as early as you can (during the hiring process if you can).

Discovering MBTI has been tremendously helpful in figuring out manager-managed relationships. In particular, there are 4 sub-categories (NT, NF, SP, SJ) with markedly different behaviors, motivations, and managerial expectations. Reading about these and making connections to past managers (and the people in my team at the time) was a lightbulb moment for me. Often you can take a good guess at your future manager’s category in the course of an interview, especially if you know what questions to ask. Based on this info + your type and preferred way of working + the role you’re applying for, it’s possible to detect a potential misfit and steer clear.

Of course, all the items above assume a modestly competent manager to work with; they don’t do much good when you run into clinical cluelessness, unabashed douchebaggery or the aftermath of the Peter principle (although they do help you rationalize the situation).
> and going down the Linux road is way too rocky for my preferences

The Linux road is pretty smooth for most things. And it has the advantage that it doesn't just disappear into thin air with no explanations....
They are super similar, but Discord is free. I can't imagine what can be said in its disfavor.

Fun fact: several months ago, Russia blocked Telegram. Telegram refused to go quietly and started hopping between numerous Amazon IPs to avoid direct IP blocking. The Russian regulators started blocking Amazon IPs en masse and severely damaged internet connectivity for weeks. Youtube slowed down to a crawl. Slack was paralyzed. Discord? Not even a hiccup.
Don’t know just launch all of the current expendable rockets then the only munitions will be using after that would be pretty reusable.
Google will very soon force app to target the latest API level, making them adopt all the new background restrictions.
Fixed wireless should definitely a part of any small/start-up ISP plan. If you're in an area that's solidly served by GPON and ADSL2+/VDSL2 by the ILEC phone company (FIOS), and they're really built the fiber network out a lot, that's hard to compete with. And hard to compete with a solid DOCSIS3 network that reaches everyone. You'd have to find an area on the far outlying reaches of your metro area that is much worse off, where a market need exists.
I think this color survey from xkcd is very interesting
https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/
Forcing the search business to open up and be overseen and governed by a transparent boardroom is probably the best way to go about it.

Since search has 90% market share and creates 90% of revenue, it needs to be both made into a standards organization and separated from google sufficiently enough that Google begins to pay better attention to the profitability and development of the other products and other bets.
Why is the rent so damn high?
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That doesn't provide a perfect answer. Sanjay and Jeff (and a lot of other senior Googlers) were all at DEC. Why didn't DEC succeed to the degree that Google has?
Heh; I didn't know about this practice! This is amazing, sort of a proto-"posting a shasum to Twitter so you can say 'I KNEW IT' at some point in the future".
> I would suggest that there are prompts all around us that will trigger a "revisit" of a problem, it is conscious (or at least autonomous based on stimuli) action, but not directed.

That doesn't explain dreams. The notion that the brain requires constant external stimuli to keep it pumping along doesn't fit known phenomena.
I see it differently.

I see the classic situation of "post acquisition we serve the needs of our parent company, not necessarily the users".

I used to be on a team that used Hipchat. After they got acquired by Atlassian the story was "look we integrate with Atlassian products" which was useless to us. We wanted bug fixes and some new features. Eventually we switched to Slack because it did what we needed.
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I can’t find the numbers now, but Imax did make some kind of deal with AMC.

https://deadline.com/2018/06/imax-approves-amc-theaters-new-...
By
“wouldn’t affect the overall economics”, I assume they meant that AMC promised them that the offset in revenue would be made up by the number of people seeing IMAX or they would make up the difference. Not they are paying full cost.
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