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Under modern corporate law, shareholders are the owners of the entity and its assets (operating businesses) and the ultimate governing role falls to a board of directors whose fiduciary duty is to act for the best interests of the company and its owners.

A modern B corp permits a board to balance this traditional fiduciary duty to act for the benefit of the shareholders with other specified goals defined in its charter and agreed to by those shareholders.

At no point in any of this does any type of governmental authority have any say whatever concerning how the company should be managed and for whose benefit (government has a role in a technical sense only in providing a state charter giving the corporation a legal existence and in non-management aspects such as having the power to tax the entity and to enforce broadly applicable criminal and regulatory laws against it, e.g., laws against securities fraud or illegal securities offerings).

In other words, the whole modern corporate structure assumes that private actors using a state-chartered mechanism (the corporate entity) can arrange their affairs freely to optimize the management of the entity to further the economic interests of the owners of that entity. As to that part, government has no say whatever.

The Warren proposal would substitute a range of public dictates for the private choice that characterizes the current system. It would initially apply to large cap companies but there is no limiting principle preventing the idea of such public dictates being applied to any manner of corporation or, for that matter, to any other limited liability entity, whether large or small. Taken to an extreme, this sort of regime could easily be implemented in a way that transforms most forms of private enterprise into entities restricted or burdened by whatever dictates the politically-organized forces who happen to hold sway at any moment might want to decree.

Of course, none of that might happen. It is certainly possible to adopt the Warren proposal and keep it limited to a narrow sphere of enterprise (large-cap companies) where its impact might be limited. But I wouldn't bet on it. With no restraining principle behind it, the proposal could easily be the foundation for completely transforming the notion of enterprise in the United States and I for one don't want to see a day where bureaucrats, lawyers, and second-guessing judges are gnawing termite-like at the foundations of what today are vibrant and healthy businesses in the name of other goals having nothing whatever to do with the economic interests of shareholders.
>back it up to a physical disk

Really? How? It still needs the steam client to run, yea?
I skimmed this entire article thinking it is a clever tongue-in-cheek piece, and found it hilarious, only to realise that it was from 1997 and written sincerely.

Wow, I wish I could get back those hours drawing complex tables and placing 1x1 pixel images in strategic places.
All sensible points. But you're missing some key points about the Brave Ads proposal. For starters, it's entirely optional. If you don't want ads, you don't get ads. You must opt into this system to see any ads.

Secondly, for those who opt in, they decide how often they'll see an ad. And unlike annoying interstitial ads and more, Brave Ads begin outside of the browser as a system notification. If you wish to see the ad, click the toast. If you don't, simply dismiss or ignore it.

As for the desire to see ads, many users (myself included) don't mind this. In fact, I enjoy high-quality ads that don't require me to give up personal information. I'd love to know about a sale at my favorite store, gift ideas for my wife's birthday, and more. The problem is, to get this today, I have to hand over too much to Google and Facebook. Unacceptable.

With Brave's on-device machine-learning, you hand over nothing. Ads are proposed to your device, and your device choosing what you might like to see. And you, as always, remain in complete control. Should you decide to see an ad, you'll even get paid for your attention (70% of the revenue in user-private cases).

But the baseline is always the same; if you don't wish to see Brave Ads, Brave won't show you Brave Ads. That's our promise to you.
Remember a year ago when the notch was going to be Apple's downfall? I don't think I've seen a single person mention it being on the phones announced today.
People will always be priced out of the housing market. Adam Smith observed in the wealth of the nations that once people have the basics housing tends to eat the rest of their income. You can afford to buy/rent closer to where you want to live, or you can afford to buy/rent a bigger place. Since you already have enough for the basics most people find that better housing improves their quality of life.

I have noticed in recent years that improving without changing location or size is also often done as well. A cheap laminate counter is replaced by granite - no change functionally or in size, just an aesthetic change.
My understanding is that everything in the car is network dependent. You can't run it offline, at least not long term.
It would be nice to have some views from those that keep claiming that 'Microsoft has changed'. All I see is a nicer wrapping around the exact same company. Not that Google is any better with their incessant pushing of Chrome (including fucking up the way their websites work with other browsers).
For one thing there are a lot more distros, two different display servers, and several more packaging formats. Not exactly countering their point about fragmentation are we? At least we got that sound situation mostly sorted out.
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If they use a provider that supports Apple’s e-sim software SIM, that is. The ‘not China’ models don’t have two physical SIM slots.
Right now the US seems to be using oil exports to weaken other countries, rather than banking the oil and exploiting it when supply starts to dry up. I also think that some methods aren't long-term a good idea.

I will second the book recommendations and I will also note that by far the best thing the U.S. can do in the short term is switch to electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles. (And I mean "vehicles" in the broadest sense, including but not limited to cars: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/9/10/17631318/electric-sc...). That will cut the influence of bad political actors considerably. And almost everyone can, as individuals, take important steps in that direction.
I guess in the worst case someone could find out you're associated with an unpopular or controversial organization. I think the paranoia about someone finding your org chart is pretty extreme but I've worked at a place where they were like that.
Dave Morton left after one month.
Let's say bees. "I see the problem is bees in your car. We would like to solve this by filling your car with different, quieter bees. In exchange for this, we are willing to give you some of the honey."
When was the last time you replaced an iPhone because a metal bracket snapped or something like that? Hard to really keep them accountable on this because of the large lead times involved in assessing the long term durability of their products, so they can just claim whatever they want about it with impunity.
Also how much content they contain. You could go through a new comic in 20 minutes flat. Game Gears could last a few hours. Android phones provide endless content.
I agree on complexity, but when you see a clear up/down peak that is well correlated to a popular live event... you can make a decent guess.
When a site advertises to support itself, it's entering a consensual and mutually beneficial relationship with visitors: readers give up a sliver of their attention and in exchange get otherwise-free content.

Are you suggesting that we make it illegal to enter into this kind of consensual and mutually beneficial business arrangement?
This Year's iPhones Sure Feel Like a Letdown
I mean you just log in when you're looking for a job and see who's contacted you recently.
It would make a lot of sense to hold off on announcing it for a lot of reasons: customer confusion not to mention encouraging spend on pricier devices.

Could realistically be a holiday release or 1q 2019, especially since they won't have a Red phone to release then.
I think the most important reason of having bigger devices is performance vs battery.

You can not extend a smartphone and give feature like OLED, Neural Engine etc without considering affect on the battery.

They want bigger device to solve many those issues. If they release the iPhone SE update they can not compete with other iPhones in terms of feature and performance.

Also it have huge involvement of iOS updates also. When they release iOS update you have to think all the device these updates support else people will make noises.
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I feel like the experience might be very different in other industries.
What you can get away with does not change ownership. If you ring the doorbell of all apartments in a 20 unit block someone will open the door for you. That you can then walk in to the hallway and take whatever is there does not give you the right to do so.
I had already been feeling slightly worried since installing Moment and being informed that I spend 1.5-2 hours a day looking at my phone.

Not being able to replace my current distract-o-phone with another comfortably-sized one might be the thing that convinces me to give the new Nokia bananaphone a try.
I think it's supposed to mean: "virtually _no one alive_ has been.."
Well that's the trillion dollar question. Renewable energy adoption and carbon regulation are accelerating. I'm struggling to see a scenario where we run out of reserves in this century. I wouldn't put it past a country almost completely dependent on oil to keep stimulating demand.
The part where they sold it based on promised future capabilities is.
That's fairly of high level of smug certainty in the headline considering that many US gen 3 nuclear plants that did start are unfinished and struggling to contain their overruns to 2-3x their initial budget. Even China which arguably did make the that big bet is cutting back on the number of nuclear plant projects in their large push (though we are seeing the first few plants of their big investment wave come online today - perhaps we will seem them resume, but I wonder about their safety practices in that wave). But the pullback in China suggests some of their internal data said to them that there was reason to pull back the goalposts a bit.
Do you have a source or citation for that?
No, that's not true. If the law mandated running content filtering system that costs $10M/year to run (in addition to any existing systems), then it'd be worse for YouTube, but they will survive. It would absolutely kill smaller providers dead.
It's a gold mine for journalists trying to find contacts inside an organization, find out about projects that haven't been publicly announced, etc.
The article seems pretty clear that they did actually perform the experiment, not just design it.
It hurts Russia, too.
Leading finance for a capital intensive company like Tesla is not a 'dime a dozen' job.
Assumptions are not faith, it's just a roll of the dice. Just hope you don't get snake eyes.
In my experience half the listings are fakes run by a handful of sleazy recruiters. In that respect I think LI listings are better.
Here is my take on it: with blacklisting, each update brings tons of new patches/signatures. It proves to users that the devs of their security suite are hard at work, and it's a neverending race. So all in all, a very good strategy for the AV industry.
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The presentations aren't exactly off the cuff, that shit is vetted by two dozen lawyers.

Apple doesn't 'lie'. They might stretch and embellish the truth or use very specific phrasing, but they don't lie.
I'm not sure we can equate deleting a purchased digital asset with taking back a physical item. I'd imagine deleting something would be more akin to selling a product that is designed to break after a certain amount of time.

There's a pretty wide variance of what people consider acceptable from purchased things, e.g. People generally accept the idea that a mattress will eventually need to get changed even if it comes with a lifetime warranty.
Also gmail is the default android app but I'd guess they have consider that.
You do not get to hand-wave away the fact of evolution, regardless of the level of technology. Populations change genetically over long periods of time, because math, and the idea that gene editing will not occur in the future (near or far) is not credible.
If there was any cell signal on any technically compatible network, your emergency call would've been carried by another network.
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Electric vehicles are only a minor improvement and a large tradeoff (producing batteries is a nasty business). EVs still need power production, which throughout the US uses either coal or natural gas with some solar, nuclear, and wind. I think what we really need is better energy storage so we can store solar energy during the day and release it at night while reducing oil and gas use as small as possible, or exporting it to other countries which haven't got the resources to convert their economies.
"... as evaluated on backtesting scenarios. We are in the process of deploying it live to validate that our hypotheses hold true".

It's easy to create an algo (AI or not) that performs well on historical data.

Until "hypotheses hold true" is done and proven - it's better to ask investment based on "we have a such great team and can prove it" vs. "we have such a great idea and hope to eventually prove it".

Nothing is impossible - i just don't think this idea at that stage is an easy sell.
Tiny note: Their event videos are no longer Safari exclusive. Nice!
Europe, oh brother.

Hysterics are always directed towards America, but time and time again it is Europe that falls flat on its face.
There's no need for violence and no need for taxation in such a system. The two parties willingly choose a court to fall back on if their contract needs arbitration.

>if the contract is violated and the violator taken to court and the court rules against them and they refuse to pay restitution?

If you're entering into a contract with someone and you're worried they won't pay restitution, mandate terms in the contract that require up-front collateral for a performance penalty. Problem solved.

Each person in the stage of production has the appropriate incentives to collect payment and protect their property. The reason why copyright law has been perverted is because there are distribution companies who'd rather not pony up performance capital and want to socialize the cost of enforcement onto the state.
I really hated Inbox. I thought it was one of the worst ideas they had come up with in years. But, after seeing the amount of support that it has in this thread, I'm sad it's going just for the thing you mentioned. They could have kept this as an experimental ground to give the rest of the users good features that weren't so disruptive to what we are used to.
No they aren't. No automatic bundling of trips and purchases, no reminders (what happens to Inbox reminders?), and the UI is not as uncluttered and simple.
>And with that system, you trade the owner (capitalist) with a different owner (government).

you're mistaking the economic law "Marxism" explaining why and how that stuff is happening for the actual political forces who advocate and force such a change. It like Newton's laws and the actual people shooting the guns which are working based on the Newton's laws.
Keep in mind a decent camel starts at $55k and a thoroughbred goes for $10m to $30m
occitan, catalan, breton, and basque are not dialects of french
Or they change jobs as much as we do and its not newsworthy at all?
There’s not much point trying to sell on things everyone knows about and uses already.
A remark on a mid-2009 mbp I have at home. Bought it in 2009 (thanks, Captian Obvious) for GBP2200. It came with 8GB RAM, which got upgraded to 16GB about a year later, that was about GBP70. I replaced the HDD with an SSD two years ago for EUR99. Finally, a new battery 2 weeks ago, EUR56. It is chucking along happily, if it wasn’t for lack of the retina screen, it would still be my main device. Wife uses it for work and I hear no complaints. I also have a 2nd gen ipad with new battery and I’m happy with it.
Everything that tripit does, Kayak does too. I just email all my bookings to trips@kayak.com and it does the rest. (They offer direct email integration, but giving access to my inbox feels icky, and I wouldn't want other people's trip info to end up in my itinerary anyway)
Really? Anything apple puts out people would gobble up.
I don’t think I have the patience to deal with the ‘deal maker’ in chief, sorry. I’ve heard he’s got quite a lot of experience with bankruptcies though so he might have new ideas to deal with all that debt the US has been taking on lately.
Could that just mean 1 million people installed it 10 times?
Like a week or 2 ago saw a bunch of beautiful headlines like this:

- Tesla's stock is getting crushed after TWO EXECUTIVES JUMP SHIP and CEO Elon Musk smokes weed [1]

- Tesla ERUPTS IN CHAOS After Senior Execs Leave, Musk Tokes Up [2]

Only to read internally it was a bit more tame than "JUMPING SHIP!!!!!":

> "As many of you know, Tesla’s Chief People Officer Gaby Toledano has been on leave for a few months to spend more time with her family and has decided to continue doing so for personal reasons. She’s been amazing and I’m very grateful for everything she’s done for Tesla." [3]

So the executive was on LOA for multiple months beforehand? Seems really disingenuous to craft headlines like that. Does anyone have more detail?

But then again and to be fair, anything from Tesla would do serious controlled messaging.

Point is, with all Tesla news, I'm not even sure what to believe anymore. I see headline like this, and my first thought is "Is this even true?". Maybe Tesla is really as in trouble as these headlines lead on, maybe they are not. Maybe Elon has "gone mad" and tanking the stock to go private. Maybe it's just trendy and fun to write negative news against Tesla's stock valuation right now. Who knows what's actually happening.

It's all just a bit too much reading in between the lines anymore... Just SHOW ME THE NUMBERS next earnings report and I'll decide for myself.

[1] https://nordic.businessinsider.com/tesla-stock-down-musk-fil...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-07/tesla-chi...

[3] https://www.tesla.com/en_GB/blog/company-update
Tesla builds cars by relying on very complex financing. Financing is critical to Tesla existing for the long term.
Mmm. That's the thesis of the article?

"This mobile tracker is seemingly designed to resemble a popular Bluetooth tracker and sports a LTE-M radio and GPS receiver. But as mentioned here and here, a leopard can’t change its spots."

They try to be as low power as a Bluetooth tracker, but they just can't. It will never be actually low power.
Most humans can only really understand 2D (2 variables). That is why visual representation of data are almost always 2d. Graphs, charts, scatter plots.
If you want to push margins, larger devices selling for higher absolute prices are a better option.

Imho, it's harder to convince people a "smartphone" is worth USD $1k+. But a laptop / tablet replacement? That's reasonable(!) compared to a MBP...

Given Apple's build costs don't scale with device size (++screen, +battery, +gpu/mem), selling the same internals in bigger devices for more is a win.

So you continue expanding device size and price until you discover the market boundaries. And unlike Samsung S*/Note, Apple has the ability to say "These are the only form factors this generation, if you want the newest iPhone..."
This is like scoffing at dialysis as nothing more than replacing blood with blood. The system is suffering at the hands of innumerable bad-actors who commit fraud, abuse, and more. Users and Publishers alike are both suffering.

The users have already responded en masse with the explosive growth of ad and tracker blocking software. We acknowledge the necessity for this move, as the industry has become overrun with parasites. But we also recognize that bloodletting isn't the solution; bleeding the publishers of their revenue isn't the solution.

Brave introduced Brave Payments as a means of supporting content creators. We're staking users with $500k/mo to support their favorite sites. But this isn't a short-term solution while we work on the long-term solution of reforming digital advertising.
That was my thought too. Hmm I wonder how bulky a battery add on to get the uptime to a week at a level of monitor-only activity might be?
> Sounds like they were meaningfully interacting with their friends.

That's a meaningful interaction to you - texting?
consider the expansion of plug in hybrids, similar to the Volt, Clarity, Prius, and Kona, all extend the viability of the petrol engine. In many cases it moves into the roll of a range extender because its weight combined with fuel is drastically less than what battery technology can accomplish; an example is the Model 3 which has nearly 1100 lbs of batteries for 310 miles.

engines directly? variable valve timing will be common place and variable compression has debuted. more forced air systems and better injection tuning all present themselves. there is even ongoing work on two strokes and some of them are delivering better performance and emissions than four strokes.
It’s much easier to get access to the materials for camel production, though.
not a inbox user, but cannot something similar be done with gmail tabs ?
This is what everyone is saying, but the "vast majority" is what, 95% of a vast market? 97%? That still leaves a decent-sized market, which I would think could sustain a perfectly viable business.

Apparently I would think wrong, but what's the issue? Is it just not possible to manufacture a high-quality small phone for a mere 1% of the world market? Plenty of Android manufacturers are making decent phones for much smaller market segments than that...
The DMCA (section 117) allows creation of archival copies from the original media that you legally own.

It does not allow you to obtain a copy from another entity, either by archiving theirs, downloading it from a torrent, or whatever other means. The copyright they had can't be transferred to your copy.

Even if the bits are completely identical between you backing up a copy yourself and you downloading it from the internet, only the former is legal.

Please don't claim something is legal when it is not.
Given that the iPhone 5s is about to start getting it's sixth year of OS and security updates, and improved performance for older devices was the headline feature for this year's iOS update,I'd say that the assertion is already proven.

Especially if you contrast with the "maybe you'll get two years of updates" experience provided by the majority of Android device vendors.
Isn't Brave using the blink engine from Chrome - which was funded by Google based on the ad revenues?

The BAT grant is just Brave burning VC money to get some market share and eventually some pie of the Adtech eco-system?

Also, not sure how ad fraud is relevant here or how Brave will prevent it?
Check out the increase in tidal flooding on the US east coast: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/09/04/science/globa...
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You've described quite well your weakness in social situations. Have you sought help for it?

(My comment is neither a joke nor sarcasm).
>Seems really disingenuous to craft headlines like that.

LOL
That book is the sales bible!
That small size was certainly beloved by a subset, but I don't think Apple would have made the Xr so large if the SE's sales were good.
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