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> Is blockchain being adopted anywhere for micropayments like this?

These aren't really micropayments, just regular small payments. Cheap cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin Cash work well for these amounts.

As a bonus you can stay private enough from your spouse and the chargeback issue basically goes away from the business side.
The entire app can't be pure as we wouldn't observe any effects of its execution :)

This post offers an interesting discussion on this subject: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/funct...
Almost all the energy we have, ultimately comes from the sun. As long as we can covert energy in a clean way, there is nothing inherently environmentally unfriendly about spending energy on one thing that could have been used for another thing.
In what sense are the courts not part of the goverment? It’s not like they are private, are they?
They are selling content through different payment services, this is not money laundering, stop being an alarmist.

"the concealment of the origins of illegally obtained money, typically by means of transfers involving foreign banks or legitimate businesses"

Illegally obtained money being they key term!

> literally what the feds took down Backpage for recently.

Also, incorrect. Backpage was taken down because they facilitated human trafficking https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/501214002
Well I took it to mean that because you think it treats you as a "big boy" you don't think it has problems.
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Knowing which consultants to hire and when is presumably the domain of the finance guys. You can buy competence, it's just expensive. $10 million is enough to hire a full turnaround team.

The key is you have to have it as cash in the bank. You can't finance a turnaround, the better move at that point from a financial perspective is to just fold up the business, but if you have it, you can use it as collateral for a more aggressive expansion.

That way if you run into enough problems, the money guys can 'foreclose' and use the reserve capital to enact a turnaround plan, and eventually earn their money back. It's an extra form of security.
The problem with this approach, and the related proposals like 3D Secure and Bitcoin, is precisely that it puts a low ceiling on what the site is allowed to charge to exactly what the customer is willing to spend on porn. The bread and butter of porn and most other internet subscription models is to get hold of the consumer credit card data and then setup a long run recurring payment stream, on the expectation that while most people will cancel it, a profitable minority will forget or enjoy and pay for the service further.

If just 25% of the customers let the subscription run for an average of 1 additional year, you will net 4x more money compared to a site that needs to renew the purchase every month, with zero customer acquisition costs and zero marginal costs for the provider - the content and platform are a sunk cost and traffic charges are negligible. Only now you have 4x more money to produce the content and generally be more competitive, pushing out of the market those who don't adopt the same tricks.

This is what The New York Times and porn sites have in common, and that's why you will see similar dark patterns of making subscription hard to cancel. In the porn's case, it's a much steeper uphill battle to get the money from the customer and his bank (and his wife), so they are forever relegated to the high-chargeback bin and must internalize that into their business model. Which might explain some of the "breakage" the original author is observing.
Oh and I have no idea how to downvote on HN. Not that I care, but I don't see any downvote buttons.
The 'too mentally taxing' bit and poor road quality are obviously good points, I agree, and make driving at speed less pleasant, but they are external to the car, and its handling capabilities...
Anecdotal but: I've experienced this problem first hand and know not one person with the same experience, that doesn't share the opinion that AOT is a much needed thing.

In Germany even suggesting a law like this will provoke immediate protest by some people who claim to fight for civil rights. What I've encountered though is, that those people who claim to speak for the affected ones don't have a friend or relative with this condition and have never even met such a person.

Fighting against AOT is for me not a defense of free will, but an act of denying people having a free will in the first place.

Sure, there should be certain checkboxes to be ticked off first. But e.g. if the whole family and friends speak out in favor of forced treatment in front of a judge, it should be regarded as one such checkbox.

In a country like Germany, with generous social services that even provides housing if your landlord evicts you, the vast majority of non-immigrant homeless are homeless because of schizophrenia. The friends and relatives I know affected by it, are only not homeless because we had to pull every legal string possible, so that social services don't treat them like the rest of their customers.
"were nothing like a normal economic relationship" is not a very substantive claim.
PureScript compiles to JS but it's quite readable JS: http://www.purescript.org/
The problems with legal cannabis companies accessing credit card systems have nothing to do with banks worrying about public perception or societal issues. It is entirely because it is federally illegal, and banks are federally regulated.
CCC is better than Defcon. It's actual hackers, not the Infosec Industry.
Much of the "we stand up to authority" hubbub of US security researchers and developers is mostly an act. The sentiment is there to comfort the participants and validate their existence, just like in many other industries. While I hope I am wrong I wouldn't expect people not to fold when it matters. Somewhat understandably so since the current alternative is arguably, or at least ultimately, exile.

Just look at this situation. Unless hotel security have been breaking the law, which is unlikely, staying at these hotels means they can legally search your room and possibly your things. The only thing standing in the way of this is the reaction from the organizers and attendees. So if you care about your rights you don't really have much of a choice than to react and moving, at least out of Las Vegas, shouldn't be a hard decision.

And this would be illegal in at least part of Europe since a hotel room is categorized as a temporary residence.
This would be great as an Emacs extension. Is there something like this?
I think in The Netherlands the rule is that when they are a danger to themselves or others they can be forced to be treaded.

Imho this is a very clear line.
Deductions are not entirely equivalent to a 0% bracket in a progressive tax scheme, they come out of top bracket income.

So high earners get a larger tax reduction from deductions than low earners. There's not really a way to do that with a 0% bracket (and in fact we have both a 0% bracket and deductions).
That's why the money has to be cash in the bank, fully liquid. You can't convince anybody that their money would be better spent on your business if the numbers are like you say, but if the capital is in reserve then nobody has to.
The paypal route made you choose which type of processing the account would be. "microtransaction" account was indeed the 5% plus 5c, and the 'regular' was the 2.9%. One account didn't process both ways.

Would be nicer if paypal just ... adjusted your charges. I used paypal in a situation where some charges would be ~$5, and some would be $50+. The 5% rate applied to a $60 charge was comparatively crazy. I ended up creating 2 paypal accounts, and routed $5 charges to the 'micropayment' account, and others to the regular once. It was against paypal terms of service, technically, but... was also annoying. I was doing enough transactions that the 2% spread was... well... I wasn't raking in millions, but the 2-3k I did some months meant a difference of $50/month or so.
"Google to acquire thousands of retina scans in exchange for subpar diagnostic services"
Do tryouts for the 100m team involve benchpressing? Nope.
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: A Mind Map
https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/business/technology/229210...

They fly into it and die since giant metal structures are not found in nature. Makes sense, right? Tens of thousands of birds can die in one night on one tower during migrations.
Test your skills at https://playground.riddles.io/competitions/game-of-life-and-...
Of course... this is the government led by an ex-merchant banker that said "Well, the laws of Australia prevail in Australia, I can assure you of that. The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia."
may the force push with you. always.
There is a lot of research in this field which occurred in Russia and the eastern bloc and is still practised there.

The Scenar device for example is popular for reducing pain and allegedly speeding healing:
http://www.scenar.com.ru/en/production/

Not posting that as proof but as an example of the sorts of devices Russian health care use.

From what I understand most of the research is untranslated and often ignored here in the West so it’s good to see some headway occurring on the effect of electric signals in cellular growth.
Those businesses are not in business for a long time.

If one does not know the first thing about software development I don't want to work with that person. Because if I do, then I will have to do two jobs for one pay and a lot of free stress.
Such a moving, poignant poem. Thanks for sharing.
Yeah, I'm being nice to them. They'll carefully under-interpret "systemic" to allow for back doors if they can.
>The first is indisputable.

The first is mentioned and protected by the Constitution, and often employed by Republicans and the right to defend and justify their speech and politics, so no.

>Are you suggesting twitter regularly purges

As soon as you used the word "purge" your bias becomes apparent, so I'm going to find a better use of my time. Good day.
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It's just a manner of expression, they simply mean someone they disagree with.
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"obviously mentally ill people on the street homeless"

The problem with forced treatment is that while there is a category of people who can be said to be in need of help, there are others who are quite within their right to do with their lives whatever they please, as long as they are not explicitly breaking the law, but prefer non-conventional life choices.

The main problem with enforced norms is that it pigeonholes everyone into "standard acceptable human" categorization, and if you don't fit into it, you become an outlaw.

The western societies had great fun categorizing people into various abnormality groups, leading into practical eugenics (forced sterilizatin) and forced incarceration. See for example [0].

Germany's 1940's escapades brought this arbitrary categorization fad to an end with the holocaust, where it became explicitly clear what the logical end result is when you start mass categorizing people into first-grade and second-grade citizens.

I have close relatives who would have benefitted from forced treatment, but I still prefer a society that does not do this.

True, there is a difference between eugenics and declaring someone 'too sick', but not that great actually since we don't really have a reliable gauge for a persons mental health - hence, it becomes arbitrary categorization based on just not falling within subjective norms of the dominating culture within society.

[0] https://www.nature.com/scitable/forums/genetics-generation/a...
Not sure what your plans are but I think there are tremendous upside into bundling their solution natively into the juggernaut that is Facebook Video/Watch. As much as the company has been decried for its influence lately, it means that innovations for acquisitions get to be put in front of a billion people or two (including getting support from engineers who dedicated years to getting code to run on quirky mobile OS).

A personal note to the team, as Facebook is very much a manage-your-own-journey company: I would strongly recommend you look into professional application, as in, Workplace.

A. that means a free trip to London for you, which is always cool. You get to meet more people with whom to joke: “It’s in the middle of a swamp! — I know — Why?! – I don’t know.”

B. there are tons of applications, roughly empowering internal equivalent to Coursera. Any solution that I know about (and it’s alas a lot: worked for 20+ companies) is bad, expensive, dysfunctional and impractical.

Getting people to use video to document their workflow, think about edge-cases, etc. is the most impactful thing I can imagine because it introduces billions into structured logic in their tasks, allows them to step from code-as-Excel-spreadsheet into code-as-a-system.

Workplace is already teaching a lot of businesses to be open, transparent, interest-driven, to record interaction for later use without closely-defined audience, etc. That happens a lot through Workplace videos — in spite of that tool being very feature-poor. Adding editing, slide-control and later something closer to choose-your-own-adventure, tests, etc. that would be incredible.

I hope you can demonstrate that there is a lot of great things to be done with interactive videos.
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I was occasionally Googling the source code out of boredom, and one day this yielded a bannister.org post of Sean claiming he had obtained a scan of the source code from the USPTO.

I proceeded to contact him and he proceeded to scan and publish it in a few days.
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The article does not elucidate the complete circumstances of the girl's hospitalisation and due to confidentiality, can not.

That is enough reason for me to consider this article to be sensasional. It is impossible to say who is at fault.

In general, it often happens that people think they know better than doctors, and in this case she may simply be lucky that she did not get seriously ill. The article itself contains a lot of incoherent quotes and it is impossible to make any sense or argument from it.
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It varies by state in the US (what doesn't?), but most states do have a clause in their FOIA law that says something along those lines as well. It may be completely ambiguous ("at cost", fees must be "reasonable", etc.) or it can be more specific ("may not exceed the hourly salary of the lowest paid employee who can do the work", etc.).

Of course the former is pretty worthless, especially if the state doesn't outline any formal appeals process - you'd have to actually sue them for the records, which is rarely going to end up being cheaper. It also doesn't mean that the actual cost couldn't end up being insane. If no one has access to perform that particular query or knows how to get that data it could involve requesting a custom report from whomever developed and/or maintains the system. No one is reasonably going to pay IBM's hourly rate to write a report for them...
Yes, the OCRed version has a lower quality and is smaller.
However, archive,org does preserve the original if you need it.
Wouldn't it be more sensible to deputise willing cyclists for a limited range of offenses?
I assume you don't work or live in a multilingual environment, do you? That's the kind of shortcut that brings huge problems to people all around the world.

Of course it means more engineering effort. That's why we're here for.
I understand the down voting and I also understand your response. But wouldn't it be nice if there were fair-trade porn sites? Where we know people are treated an paid well? It's insane that there is so much for free while there is so much work involved.
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he probably is american
It’s not like anyone is taking their actual laptop to DEFCON…
FWIW in case you wanted to format the list HN does not really support markup, so you need a blank line between list items so they get displayed as separate paragraphs rather than folded into a single one.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1029059581136105472.html (linked in this article) makes me question the professionality of the Caesars' hotel staff.

At least say you're sorry and don't make your 20-year long business partner lose his job over your fuckup?
Iosevka font has an awesome looking Interrobang. See https://be5invis.github.io/Iosevka/specimen.html (scroll down to the U+2030 row; ‽ is U+203d).

I think that other fonts should follow that example too.

Until then, as I anyways use subsetted fonts on my blog, I can easily specify the font to use for the ‽ glyph.
I’m still getting a 404 but going to the top level index worked even though the URLs are the same.
Because it's insane. You will not use of those algorithms in your job, and even if you do, they are ready to use in modules already.

It's just a way to see who can learn those algorithms because the big five need to filter out most people somehow. This is their method of doing it.
Credit, really? For pursuing the only sane course of action after all others have been played out?
How do they make sure someone is taking their medication? Is it by monthly injections?
If you contact them about err... things that may be close to the line, they do have links with companies who are willing to take on a higher risk business
This "I know better than you" disease needs treatment.
We need to force AOT on all those individuals who are unable to understand how their actions are dangerous to society by enabling forced treatment. We need to enforce treatment on those individuals to stop the looming danger of forced treatment as a political control tool.
There was a very good post about that a few years ago. It probably doesn't explain this specific case, but it is a fascinating read nonetheless.

>I Contribute to the Windows Kernel. We Are Slower Than Other Operating Systems. Here Is Why

http://blog.zorinaq.com/i-contribute-to-the-windows-kernel-w...
> we're all supposed to be ashamed of porn and sex outside of marriage in the west

So basically, you're not aware of any of the stuff I'm referring to, and reroute it to what you do know. It isn't the weakest possible interpretation of what I wrote, it's completely out of bounds -- there is no way you honestly think I'm referring to extramarital sex with "horrible, vile stuff" and "excessive dehumanization". And it's pointless and a bit unfair, because I can't show you anything, and even to just describe it in detail would ruin my day.

I don't feel anything I'm "supposed to" either -- including this idea that if someone is into X, and it's legal, you can't say bad things about it, but they can say good things about it all day long. Because "it's a thing", and once it's a thing, it's just there in the world as an item to pick off the shelf and consume, and the cardinal sin is to have any opinions on the choices of other consumers. All that matters is that someone wants something, and that it's legal. People are into things because they are into them, end of discussion, and in many cases also end of reflection.

That's like one "camp", and anyone who has anything to say about that other than "awesome" has be be conservative, religious, whatever. It's like many conflicts, try to talk sense to hawks on either side and they cannot imagine you as anything but a "supporter of the other side". If you can imagine shame and horror only as response to social conditioning, religious upbringing, and so on, you by necessity cannot understand where I'm coming from.

If I had the choice to give an earful to anyone who consumes or makes movies and games and music, as someone who gamed a lot, loves music (but to be honest kinda stopped watching a lot of movies) or to anyone who makes or consumes porn, porn doesn't even enter consideration. But the subject at hand was porn, and while I don't think the person I responded to meant it that way, taken literally they said that any adult site, i.e. all of them, is nothing to be ashamed of. That is the only reason I responded, that's too broad for me to agree.
From a comment below, it seems some instructions (BCD related) were patent encumbered, so removing them means less royalties per chip and possibly a big saving, especially since you probably don't need binary coded decimal in a toy like this.
Or till their insurance runs out...
I'd say that gambling does a lot worse damage and that is much more widespread and "legitimate" (here in the UK at least). Online gambling sites are even advertised on primetime TV!

Or for a better example of a perfectly above-board and healthy activity enjoyed by huge numbers of people that can become addictive and "a problem" - how about gaming?

(I'm not trying to belittle your point or resort to "whataboutism" here, just pointing out some examples from other industries).

The problem with porn is that it's sex and sex is dirty and bad and you should feel ashamed for having anything to do with it. /s
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GF (https://www.grammaticalframework.org/) might be relevant to this, it seems to have a similar perspective but is an established multilingual project, though with limited support for Turkish (yet).
Do you have a link to the summer school? That sounds super interesting.
> Would ACH solve an issue like this?

Still doesn't solve the problem of people with shared accounts and then one half pays for porn without telling the other. It happens so often UK banks have ways of looking up subscriptions.

People would reverse the transaction, still enjoy porn and the company goes out of business.

> Would 3-D secure solve the chargeback problem?

As far as I know, that's a European only thing? It shifts it to the consumer, but people get very angry on the phone to the bank causing a higher chargeback rate.
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Another example: the US military uses a device to treat anxiety. It is commercially available.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/wellbeing/7918685/Trea...

https://www.alpha-stim.com
The second I start wanting a bash pipeline, probably around the third pipe, I scrap it immediately and move to using a text editor to write a script. Because if I'm wanting a pipeline, I'm also going to want to store it, and transmit it over the network, and manage it, and put it down and come back to it later.

All things perfectly manageable inside a PORO. Bundler even has an inline mode, so you can put everything in one file, close to your data, Bundler just handles dep management under the hood like a boss. Check out bundler-inline.

Sure, you can do all that with bash. But you can also make system() calls with Ruby, with full string interpolation power tools. If you're a Rubyist, and you want to do data analysis, this is the workflow you want.
There's nothing like seeing 'Year Zero' in practice.
A proposed partial decoding of the Voynich script (2014) [pdf]
Money laundry means disguising illicit gains as lawful gains to hide the fact that you are breaking the law. In the Backpage case, the law that were broken pertained to child prostitution. Moving legal money around, no matter how complex, is not money laundry by itself.

The intention here is to circumvent the high chargeback rate of porn by disguising the purchase from the customer's bank, thus making it harder for him to issue the chargeback for an amount you have legally charged. That does not sound like an illegal action, but a breach of contract with the payment processor.
Used openSUSE ~5 months and finally switched to Fedora.

- SUSE was sold 1 month ago and current owners doesn't have IT business - will surely be sold again
- many small bugs
- Red Had community is much more bigger and active