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If something was a copyright violation yesterday, it will still be a copyright violation tomorrow. And vice versa.

If you fear that arXiv will implement filters that will recognize that what you are uploading is a translation of an obscure Prussian research paper and block the upload, I don't think that's going to happen. (But I will be really impressed if it happens!)
> I believe the law is made with good intentions in mind

the first time around? _maybe_

after the enormous backslash and numerous expert opinion pieces decrying the exact problems of the proposal? _hardly_
Right, but those feelings are the result of the culture you were raised in and the normal feelings of compassion you have as a member of a highly social species of animal. The whole reason society works at all is because I teach my kids to share, and not to hurt each other. If everyone starts believing that they should only do things out of pure self interest, then I'd say you're looking at a society that's about to degenerate into warfare, slavery, and violence.
I don't think any one is saying its easy. People are only saying access to resources and the overall process has only gotten easier.

A person still has to work an uphill run everyday until they reach some financial break through .
Great blog post! Nathan also gave an excellent talk at JuliaCon this year about building and distributing Apple App Store apps in pure Julia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSp6d3qSb3I
They all suck. Indeed got big because it sucked less but now it sucks as hard as all the others.
GPUs are just as power hungry as CPUs (keccak/sha3/sha2/cryptonight; it's going to draw more power). Monetizing your user base via any type of proof-of-work at this point is just plain stealing electricity IMHO, unless your user base is an ASIC farm or working some unheard-of cryptocoin with a low mining difficulty.

I ran 16 GPUs on Bitcoin for 18-24 months when it made sense to do so. I pool hopped to game rewards and had failover bitcoind solo nodes for when pools got DDoS'd. There was a time when it made sense, but ultimately GPUs got priced out.

The people who are chasing this dream are quite literally 6 or 7 years late to the profit margin vs. electrical efficiency equation in terms of Bitcoin and maybe 18 months too late for Monero. That's the evolution of all POW mining, electrical efficiency.
Genuine question: In what way does Microsoft benefit from people using Edge? It's a web browser. It's a rather neutral piece of technology. How can they make money out of it?
Just do this 7 minutes a day without any tools you will be fine: https://7-min.com/, at least it is a good start.
It sucks but still has one amazing value proposition - it allows recruiters and hiring managers to find me.

So I'll put up with the hassle to maintain an easy way to find new employment should my current employment no longer work out.
For anyone curious (I'm no expert) on the period value of this, I've seen estimates of ~$750,000 of purchasing power.

These are Aureus which equal 25 Denarius (silver coin of the time) which is roughly 1 full day of labor. So ball park 25 years of labor at 300 working days a year.

I realize this is fuzzy, just an idea.
LinkedIn is okay if you use it well. I've gotten multiple contracts from there.

The platform could use a little maintenance though. The iOS app is an absolute crime and it would be good if there was some moderation. Some recruiters are absolutely horrible and it would be nice to be able to report them and actually get them banned.
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Agreed. That's exactly how I feel as well. I'm only dependent on my own machines.
I've actually gotten a lot of job interviews through LinkedIn that eventually turned into job offers. Never posted anything, didn't network with anyone, just uploaded my resume, set a header image, and that was it. I've deleted it since then because those job offers never turned into jobs for reasons unrelated, but I mean it seems to get the job done if what you're after are jobs.
> Windows 10 is so much worse than Windows 7. it's become, like a "phone," a personal consumption terminal.

How have the added convenience features added to Windows 10 that do make it more accessible like a phone, equate to a reduction in your ability to work on it?

I use Windows 7 as my primary workstation and I am constantly annoyed by the rough edges. I'm looking forward to my company migrating me to Windows 10.

Bluetooth support in Windows 7 is horrid. The stack is proprietary to the vendor and device support is unstable at best. Intel provides proprietary drivers to Lenovo but doesn't change the Device IDs so Windows Update tries to install the bog standard Intel Drivers. Their proprietary drivers don't support Bluetooth 1.0 devices and their standard ones don't support A2DP.

While the Win 7 Startmenu's layout is ideal, the implementation is crap. Pinned Apps and the quick access flyouts are the last thing to load (upwards of a minute after logging in). The search prioritizes documents over Apps and Control Panel so you're twiddling your thumbs waiting if you search for "Add remove programs".

File Explorer can't make up it's mind if it wants you to use Favorites or Libraries more. It enumerates Network Devices in the Navigation Pane just cause. The Libraries in the Navigation Pane doesn't show all of the libraries you have setup, it gleefully shows Videos and Pictures which I'm pretty sure no one has ever used but leaves out Documents and OneDrive.

Ever tell your laptop to shutdown or hibernate, waited for desktop to fade away to the throbber screen, then shut the lid? That's always fun because when you open it up later it wakes up from sleep and finishes shutting down or hibernating.
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Why would you? The Link Tax and Upload Filter specifically affect service providers that moderate user content to generate profit, if you upload something with explicit consent of all rightholders then this is explicitly exempted from the directive.
If there is great resistance from the public after it becomes a disaster for all eu-countries it is much more likely to not go through than in an eu-country with resistance.
Okay but changing the minimum wage would have a real impact in her life now going forward. Does your plan retroactively change her state?

Also, there will always be some worse off country to say "look it could be worse, see how lucky you are?" I think that is such a disingenuous and irrelevant point.
I maintain that the best way to minimize the effect of a lane closure is to use whatever lanes are legal/open for as long as possible -- because leaving an open lane of travel unused only exacerbates the problem.

I agree with you. Fully packing an 'ending' lane until it actually ends is most efficient from a road usage point of view.

(I have lived for 10+ years in the Boston area but did not grow up there.
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Can fungi survive completely independent of other life?

All fungi I'm aware of (like humans) are heterotrophs (meaning they can't make their own food from raw materials) but must consume something that is (or was) living to survive.
In what way? I find Indeed pretty good and simple to use for doing job searches..
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Just uninstall Edge.
> I have no idea how you think those two are even remotely related or in the same category.

They’re both controversial EU-wide regulations, for one.
You never used linux, you're another hater. And for your other idiotic comment:

> Such a Linux Desktop evangelist comment chain. Step one: ask what problems people are talking about. Step two: completely dismiss and downvote all responses.

This is just pure trolling. You never used linux either, just like the other guy.
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Cry more, snowflake.
You also destroy value if you throw away your trash with all those nice boxes and bottles. The value is not in the objects but in the production knowledge. Increasing the demand for glass will improve production and drive down costs for everybody in the long run. Breaking windows is only taxing on society if there is full employment and there are not enough people to do all available tasks.
"I’ve never met a recruiter on there." I am by no means a fan/regular user of LinkedIn, but if you are an engineer in the Bay Area, LinkedIn is pretty damn great for getting random dm's from recruiters.
I agree, it sucks. It needs to be disrupted. There's got to be a better way to maintain professional and business relationships. Facebook has co-opted some of that need via FB groups.

I dislike the interface, it loads slow, almost 90% of messages are spam. They tried to be a content hub, but the only content hubs I read are HN, Quora, NYT and random blogs.
LI is extremely useful within scope. Just turn off all notifications and only open it when actively job hunting.
"I open it out of habit and accept everyone who adds me because I don’t know why I wouldn’t."

If you add contacts you don't know indiscriminately, you're going to have issues. That's just asking for trouble.

But then, I haven't logged into my account in so long I don't even get spam from Linkedin anymore.
Don't feed trolls with throwaway accounts.
> There was plenty of good design in the 90s in other industries (publishing, newspapers, magazines, advertising, academia, ...), but apparently fucking nothing of that filtered down to webdesign.

You have to remember how primitive web technologies were in those days. CSS was released in December 1996 but didn't get good, consistent browser implementations until the early 2000s. Besides CSS your layout and styling options were frames, tables, <font> tags (and don't forget you can only use the pre-installed fonts on the user's system), or just bypassing HTML altogether by designing your page in Photoshop and exporting it as an imagemap (better hope all your users have 56k or ISDN or have lots of patience). Oh yeah, and don't forget to test your site at 640x480 with 256 colors.
Yes, I get that you've had a difficult divorce. I empathize.

In saying "[e]ven if they could even get a divorce", I was speaking historically. In the US, as recently as the late 19th century or the early 20th century. That's the context in which activists got current divorce law established.

And about gender roles. I didn't mean to promote "outmoded views on gender roles". In my opinion, that's for partners to negotiate. But it's undeniable that those traditional gender roles remain all too prevalent.

Also, as in your case, it's unfair that you pay 100% child support but additionally contribute well over 50% of childcare, both in time and money. It's just that you married an asshole. Or more charitably, a victim who likely gets validation (socially and legally) for casting you as the asshole.
> * The content-transfer-encoding of the message "git send-email" sends out by default was 8bit, which can cause trouble when there is an overlong line to bust RFC 5322/2822 limit. A new option 'auto' to automatically switch to quoted-printable when there is such a line in the payload has been introduced and is made the default.

Nice to see this one land. That was a pretty annoying usability problem for with the send-email command, and a barrier for people less knowledable about git using it.
Haha thanks Stefan! :)
Google left China; a far bigger market than Europe.
Extensions exist, and are installed via the Microsoft Store. I use Bitwarden for password management in Edge.
A study on Linux users found that they wouldn't pay for Photoshop or other Adobe products either, expecting them to be free. Which is why Adobe never bothered.
LinkedIn probably did a "Let us help you connect with people you know!" and you friend said "OK! Here's permission to access my contacts!"

At least I think that's how it used to work. Their user interface was vague about exactly what it will send on your behalf, but then they phrase it like "Bob wants to connect with you!"

No, Bob just made the mistake of expecting to be presented with a list of people they might want to connect with, rather than silently spamming everyone they've ever emailed with a contact request.
To a first approximation there is no such thing as "non-copyrighted content" except for very old content. If you're the creator you already have to license your creation to the platform.
This isn't a system dialog, its baked into Google apps to try and get you to use Chrome when opening links.

AFAIK there's no option to set a default web browser on iOS.
Ironically years ago people were proposing proof-of-waste systems to stop spam. Fortunately they gave up.
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But for the love of god: a textured red background that made the already shittily rendered text even harder to read?! What were we thinking?

Form over function. Fun, original formatting was more important than coveying information well.

Keep in mind that displays sucked. Unless you had a Trinitron or similar quality display, you probably had a crappy 14" 4:3 screen with awful dot pitch, wildly inconsistent colors, part of the screen noticably fuzzier than the rest, and you likely could only have 256 colors (and your browser might not even select them optimally). You'd select a different window and the VGA palette would reset, making the now-background window look like a Pollock painting.

There was too much awful going on for people to care. Besides, the vast majority of pages were simple black text and blue links on a white background. As long as you didn't use the blink tag, nobody got upset.
In the clients I've used (SQLYog, Mysql Workbench), aliasing a table lets you use autocomplete when referencing that alias followed by a dot.

So, I will start with a SELECT * FROM myTable t, then go back and replace * with t.<columns appear here>.

I'll use the same in other places in the query like WHERE conditions.
When using pedal based PTT in the field, I would put the PTT pedal backwards and use my heel to develop different 'muscle memory' in relation to driving, etc.

Worked great!
Rise and fall of China's largely unregulated P2P lending startups is another cautionary tale. Over 5000 companies existed at its peak a year or two ago. And many have collapsed leaving investors protesting in the streets.

Scoring risk and determining borrowing rate at scale could see tremendous efficiencies once a lot of data is obtained. Square Capital, for example, simply uses a fixed rate around 10% against sales that is automatically deducted from daily tills. But for micro-transactions, I don't see why 4-5% can't be achievable. If the global rate of repayment skews much higher.

https://technode.com/2018/08/02/the-rise-and-fall-of-chinas-...
Clearly you're not developing software for Windows, though. I'm guessing you're a small web startup or something. You don't have to deal with the workflows of corporate offices that have existed for 20 years.
That list is full with nonsense.
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Edge didn't have extensions when it first came out, but it does have them now, including: uBlock, Adblock, LastPass, RES, Tampermonkey. Still nowhere near what Firefox or Chrome has though.
"Here's an Automotive theme that is quite unique and pleasing to the eye: ... <BARF>"
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Two parts:

1) Information gathering. This one I think needs no explanation

2) Controlling a platform is incredible powerful in influencing your users. Lets say you control an OS. Then you can nag on your users to also use your browser! If you control the browser, you can nag your users to use you mail system. Perhaps someday they will nag on the users to use their marketplace, their movie distribution system, their whatever.
The strangest thing for me was when it suggested I link with a guy who'd been a college friend of my father's, who I've not seen in person since my dad's funeral (long before Linkedin existed). How the hell did they do that? It was pretty creepy.
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What's the license though?
The 'against' camp is badly misunderstood. We're taken for pirates. And not the good kind! Example of a tweet chat with Howard Goodall: https://twitter.com/ariaminaei/status/1039856894893010945
I think my head might explode if I ever see that in reality.
I believe so, and I'm referring to bronze coins (so pennies/low value). It's likely that there are just a slew of them as well. Rome existed for 1000 years and was developed and widespread. They would have travelling mints go along with the armies/expeditions and mint coinage on site. It winds up spreading to everywhere, hence the hoards found in the UK.

It may have been that less were melted down as well, Roman currency was good for a long time.
You also don't get ahead if you there's a perfectly valid reason outside of your control that prevents you from 'getting ahead', or makes it extremely unlikely. Most dictionaries would call those 'excuses'. And you especially don't get ahead if those valid reasons exist but are seldom discussed by the people with the most power to solve them, and are instead often reduced to 'excuses', 'lazyness', or any other straw man, like the one you're complaining about.
The worse for YouTube the platform, the better for free, decentralized, federated competitor platforms like PeerTube.
For me Hearthstone is a big offender of the practice - the way they gate the new cards behind an expansion pass which you have to pay for is very predatory, not to mention a portion of newest cards always form the metagame as they suffer from power-creep.
LI did not “reach out on his behalf”. It’s likely the “people you already know” dark pattern.
You are right, Word is impressive in the same way a big factory that assembles complicated products is impressive. It's an impressive amount of work, it's complex, and it gets a lot done. But looking in the factory, you can see some things it does in house that are better left to other facilities, some machinery that is overcomplicated or inefficient, it pollutes more than it needs to, etc. But we need to hit those production targets. Changing things up would be expensive, so on we go... providing value to those who depend on it.
So? They're not published there illegally, arXiv (AFAICT) is non-commercial and publishing similar content elsewhere does not retroactively make the existing content illegal.
it's no mystery to me, but downvotes don't really bother me. The opportunity to engage in genuine cross-political discussion is worth the negligible cost to my ego.
> Spend about 5 minutes poking around on the internet with your eyes open and you'll see. If you're too lazy for that, this guy has put together a convenient, but by no means complete, list.

Why don't you just say what they are, rather than trying to offload and displace the question?

> You have many paradigms forced upon you, they're just paradigms you happen to be comfortable with so you don't count them.

Such as what? Monolithic kernel vs microkernel? What paradigm is forced upon me?

> Such a Linux Desktop evangelist comment chain. Step one: ask what problems people are talking about. Step two: completely dismiss and downvote all responses.

Except what problems have you pointed out? You're just hand-waving and saying "Oh course the Linux Desktop is unusable. Just at random webpages - that proves it!"
Does 92% usage make something a monopoly? 95%? 99%? 100%?

I think that the percentage argument is not the only important thing to consider, there are other anti-competitive practices which (when practiced at a large enough scale) become a monopoly even if "only" 50% of people use the product (friendly reminder that 50% of internet users is more than a billion people -- much larger than the population of most countries).

My point is not that Google is doing something illegal (and thus arguing over the legal definition of a monopoly is not helpful -- just like arguing over the legal meaning of the US 1st Amendment is not helpful in discussions over the concept of free speech). I'm arguing that it is a monopoly in the ordinary meaning of the word, in that effectively everyone uses Google and Google exerts a massive amount of power over their users.

But for a pseudo-legal argument: Google participates in a form of product tying[1] by requiring you to create a Google account in order to access Google Groups (which are publicly-run mailing lists and an unrelated product to their account service). Now since you don't pay for Google accounts this isn't a strict violation of anti-trust laws, but it is very close in concept to the sort of thing anti-trust laws protect against.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tying_(commerce)
I just have them turned off, no big deal.
It tries to sell you on Safari after OS installation is done, whether you're running a competitive browser or not.
Snap/Snapcraft is a perfect example of the pain points Linux ecosystem, because Snap and Flatpak are two different solutions to the same problem. What do you tell grandma if a Flatpak version of her application exists, but not a Snap one?
The EU would then fine Google for using their Search monopoly to dominate the News industry by promoting news article from the paper they bought.
The recruiters who are worth a damn are referred by happy customers and recruits.

The ones who resort to spamming random strangers are self-announcing as the other kind.
> Yeah, but wouldn't cutting 500 million of the wealthiest customers from your solution have a pretty significant business impact?

It seems likely that large internet businesses will probably pay to comply with GDPR.

Many small businesses, whose customers are often mostly regional anyhow, may decide that it's just not worth the cost of compliance.
There is a lot of evidence that cognitive decline is greater in people with insulin resistance. Eating a relatively low sugar/carb diet that doesn't cause blood sugar to spike is probably a good idea.
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Bing is probably the default search engine.
> LinkedIn sucks [...] I understand that I’m using LinkedIn wrong [...] I have 16,000 connections.

That was really some pointless article.
damn it, thanks for making me feel old at the ripe age of 26 T_T
My guess is that they can check who flagged a post, then just view those users' recent comments.
The picture is taken from this study: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3810/psm.2011.09.1933 (use Sci-Hub if you do not belong to an institution paying for access)
Right, I was referring to the assayed value, not the historical value.

Gold is basically unique in history as a material with very little practical essential use for most people who have held it...yet holds value durably over the centuries.
On the other hand, I've never had my Linux desktop crash for decompressing a big ZIP archive. Of course, credit where credit is due, Explorer crashing isn't necessarily all that dramatic these days.

The funny thing is, even when decompression "works" on Windows 10 (that is, when you join hands in prayer and don't disturb the machine), you could theoretically just download the decompressed files faster over the internet. I can only guess the there's something fundamentally broken about Windows and file systems because many operations are so ridiculously slow no matter the hardware. It's perhaps my biggest gripe about modern Windows, aside from the actual desktop (working with multiple windows) being very bare and annoying to use, useless set of default applications, and that the built-in localized keyboard layout is obsolete and thus quite restricted as far as punctuation goes.
From http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20180906IPR...

> Any action taken by platforms to check that uploads do not breach copyright rules must be designed in such a way as to avoid catching “non-infringing works”.

Utterly hilarious and scary that they think that's possible.