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The problem is that the gap between such platforms and Youtube is enormous, and long before they are even remotely competitive they will be required to spend vast sums of money on compliance. A secondary effect will be a reduced willingness to invest in small-to-medium sized competitors due to the regulatory costs and the risks of non-compliance, further hampering growth.

Much as I hate to admit it, the biggest reason US tech companies have been so much more successful than European tech companies is that the US imposes far fewer regulations, which allows companies to use more of their revenue on growth.
I know only very few investors that would be tech savvy enough to make that call, and I don't know any investors that will publicly talk down a company they have invested in. This is pretty much content free.
> To be clear, absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence, but I'm just looking for what I can learn. If someone can't cite chapter and verse on HN, it doesn't make their point wrong, just temporarily inconclusive.

Okay, I guess I've been burned in too many discussions by disingenuous people so I was reading in a motive that wasn't there.

For a great example, think of the broadcast licenses and the FCC. Initially, they were just registrations to allocate spectrum. Over time, policies were put in place like the Fairness Doctrine, which added actual content requirements; diversity ownership; or diffusion of ownership requirements. This was all done through the renewal process, which is probably the mechanism by which the rechartering would occur.

> I'm not sure what you mean. Are you saying that government does not have authority to regulate corporate behavior? My point is that they obviously do, and that a change in the rules is not a change in the fundamental power.

The American government does not have the authority to regulate corporate behavior in the manner that Warren is proposing. That is why she is proposing this law.

You're saying that government has this power, which is true because "government" can do anything to anyone anytime. The twentieth century has demonstrated the limitlessness of government power.

But that's an equivocation. We're discussing the American government, which cannot do anything to anyone anytime.
This lot more similar to apache bookeeper.
You have no idea. Whether it's about GDPR, the Google Books lawsuit, surveillance reform, relationships with China or whatever else the policy issue of the day might be, Kent Walker was involved. He's not a leader? He has hundreds of people under him. Your "only promoted recently" makes it sound like he's a small potato. He's been around for a long time. When Google wasn't even born, at Netscape he gave JWZ the bad news about Microsoft and bad-attitude in the antitrust lawsuit (https://www.jwz.org/gruntle/rbarip.html).

Source: I used to work at Google. I would have asked Kent a policy question well before Larry or Sergey.
> Google seems to really want me to use Duo, for example, but nobody I know is eager to use it and I won't talk my friends into using it if it's not clear that it's here to stay.

Not to dismiss the rest of your point which is totally valid and a well deserved criticism, but you can use Duo to call people with Android phones even if they don't have Duo, so you don't actually need to convince them to use it.
Yes but they added so much features that the core became hard to maintain.
Having the rule about pronouns is what I was referring to. Just having that rule makes people afraid of being rejected from the group from a slip up like that. (Thus creating censorship) Personally, I avoid groups that mandiate things like that or I'll aggressively reject that rule. (I'll let them know that it's a bad rule and I will speak up on it frequently.. will I intentionally treat the people who feel the need to have a different pronoun than what they're percieved badly.. no) However, I realize that I'm different and I don't tolerate bullies.
That is not what he said, but certain right wing groups enjoy peddling this lie so much that the London subreddit has an automoderator config that corrects people [1] whenever it surfaces.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/london/comments/8e3vlz/the_heatwave...
Um, almost all of these were done first by others.
What kinds of places were you told not to look? (I'm guessing you couldn't physically point it at targets on the ground, so I assume certain sections of the sky.) Who was it that was commanding you not to look?
>This is not a manifestation of stupidity, I think it is motivated by distrust of authorities.

I'm not seeing how those things are mutually exclusive.
I was under the impression it's all aluminium cans that need a chemical buffer to prevent aluminium from leeching into the fluids. Long term Aluminium poisoning is probably worse than diabetes since it tends to eat away at your brain.

Either way I'm not particularly fond of the flavor that aluminium cans seem to impart on drinks, and have been starting to avoid them more as I get older.
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Have you considered the possibility that ones who study overseas are there because their exam scores simply made them ineligible to attend a university back home?
Yes compling and building code in real time would be a very nice feature to add!
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Very hard to say. Certainly the current form seems pretty contradictory.
No inherent advantage, but Laravel shipping Vue as a default requires 0 config and the community has crystallized around it as a result, whereas Rails' Webpacker isn't a default in the install and puts the onus of choice on the developer (no convention over configuration there) for framework, structure and best practices.

If you're an experienced dev, this is a nitpick. But for new users, this is a major hurdle.

Edit: as an aside, I'd rather use Rails or Laravel for an api unless the backend had to be a set of microservices for some reason. Less time writing architecture, more time writing biz logic :).
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Yeah, that's the downside of DIY. 2kWh of power is alot of energy to release.
Why would they shut down the Post Office for that?

Most plausible theory I've seen so far is that the spying one. Maybe they were posting hard-drives or USB sticks from there with footage of the base testing some new equipment or something.
Which Intelligence Committee hearings are you talking about? I linked to a recent one in a grandparent post that has almost no grandstanding as far as I'm concerned and for the IC that's usually how it is. I can't speak for the larger committees with more media attention.
I switched to OpenCola[0]. It tastes pretty close, given that it's based on a reverse-engineered/prototype of the Coca-Cola recipe. I like knowing what goes into it. Plus I put about half the sugar into it that the recipe calls for.

There's a UK vendor that sells the concentrate of oils premade. I keep about a liter of the syrup (concentrate + water + sugar) in my fridge and add a tablespoon of so to 8oz of seltzer/mineral water when I want a soda:

https://cube-cola.org/

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCola_(drink)
Sure, because they have nothing to push.
I own a few shares of Tesla, because I know there is hype and because I want a world where ICE autos is an option and not a foregone conclusion.

I see this (and to an extent, my interest in Tesla) as a “rising tide lifts all boats” sort of situation. Anyone differentiating their automobiles by making batteries at a noteworthy price point pushes everybody else to at least try to match. The gauntlet is thrown down.

I really care if SpaceX succeeds. I only care that Tesla succeeds enough to be a model worth improving upon. If they go down as a cautionary tale against making electric cars that would be bad for everybody.
Half of Congress is the House (and 80% by head count). They kind of enjoy seeing Senators get snubbed, since Senators so often personify the stereotype of arrogance.
I have huge hands, and have no problem - but a left handed gesture mode sounds like an awesome idea.
The acid seems to interact with torn aluminum (from the mouth of the can) to create a specific taste effect that is addictive, or preferred. My skin also would break out reliably, per can consumed (and still does when I test it out).

I switched from consuming soda from cans (and bottles) 2 decades ago. Drinking from soda fountains exclusively is more expensive at times and certainly doesn't taste as good (being a brown sugar suspension with few additives), but my skin stopped breaking out, my diabetes tests are negative, and my weight is consistent. I'm convinced it's not the soda flavor nor only the sugar nor the carbonation, but the containers and solution related to the acid. Bottled soda has all kinds of nasty effects based on how it's stored and for how long, that soured me pretty early on.
Individuals and businesses/groups can be singled out any given group or person for "shame". No problem; that's free speech.

Individuals and businesses/groups ought not be targeted by governments for differential policy treatment, IMO. That's an improper use/abuse of power.
You mean having a failing build like this new project?

https://travis-ci.org/rails/rails

FWIW, Lucee has been around for several years. (prior to Rails) It originated as Railo; some issues with the company that owned Railo the company led to the same development team forking to Lucee.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railo#History
Cool, didn't know about Floobits, i'm sure it is very more complete and polished than my simple side project ;)
>That isn't capitalism.

Well, everything was steered by capital that the factory owners had.
on the iPhone X, its the top right corner.
I doubt the idea of such a phone was ever very unique. I got laughed at in high school (2004) for saying something along the lines of "in 10 years all our phones will be one big screen and they will be powerful enough to fulfil most of our personal computing needs". I also believed they would be docked to become full featured PCs, but I guess that niche has been filled for many with the rise of tablets. (which I appalling, but I guess thats just because I don't understand their appeal at all).

TFA article claims something similar: it was apple that took a bunch of ideas and made it into something people wanted to actually use. I, and I doubt many people here, would have a good enough vision and understanding of what people actually wanted.
I agree, as a guy who wears jeans that are not baggy, the big phones have serious usage issues. Put them in your front pocket, and they're jamming themselves into your hipbone when you try to sit. I owned a 6+ and was happy to upgrade to a smaller 8 later. I wish I could have a smaller phone that that was somewhat current.

I don't understand how women deal with it, with jeans that are tighter fitting and have smaller pockets. I think most women wearing form fitting jeans put it in their back pocket while walking and then have to put it on a table or something while sitting. Or they put it in their purse, where the size isn't a problem.
You might have the underlying data files in /usr/share/calendar or elsewhere; you can try to find out with

strace -f -e open calendar

Alternatively, you can get a full year's worth of output with

calendar -l 366
I don't think the GP was saying that they are, only that stupidity is not the driving force. They even said as much at the end:

>Sure there are probably stupid people that don't understand but they are not driving so to speak.

For example, we're all aware of Einstein's flub wrt quantum mechanics, a mistake that was grounded in his religious beliefs. I think you'd have a hard time arguing he was a stupid man.
My recommendations:

- Give lots of young people the opportunity to learn the necessary mainframe skills (ideally by themselves). Lots of today's great programmers learned their programming skills on their own. This is very hard to do for mainframes because of access to them.

- Pay really good salaries and advertise it. Money nearly always has a huge attractive force.
Build your own. At that size it wouldn't be hard. You could use large LiFePO4 cells to save time at a slightly increased cost. For $500 you can have a 1.4kWh bank of 100A cells. Or you can buy used electric car packs for less per kWh.

Keep in mind something that small is not capable of running a whole house. You'd drain them very quickly, especially with HVAC running.
When has public attention ever been beneficial for corporate lobbying efforts?
"History through modern lens" seems to be a bit out of topic complaint.

The rest of paragraph explains why author thinks he was wrong. It would be interesting to read historical dispute, but your complaint seems to be less about different interpretation of history and more about making criticism of past personalities taboo.
Kent Walker had a leadership role back when I was hired at Google, which was nearly a decade ago. Titles don't necessarily mean all that much - he's been handling high-level legal issues (including dealing with governments) for over a decade.
I won't elaborate. A neat book just came out though :
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This is why I more or less stopped reading or watching the news. If something is important I will find out. If I want to understand the world better I will either read a book about a given subject, ask someone who knows something, explore it on my own or debate it with someone who holds the opposite view of me.

News especially these days is mostly sensationalist gossip made by people who's primary incentives is to get you to click their link or share it because you are outraged so they get more clicks.

I don't mind debating politics or other more problematic subjects but I don't get riled up by some article trying to paint the world in black and white, seen the other side of how the media is reporting something too many times.

If you want to have another example besides this weird can completely forced article look no further to the Elon Musk interview on Joe Rogan last which made their shares drop 8% for the day because he took one puff. Everyone went berserk because you are not supposed to do something like that if you are the CEO of a large company. Instead of actually listening to the interview which was almost 3 hours and super interesting, that puff became what the media took away from it. The media is no longer in the service of the people it's in the service of the clicks that's about it because it's much more fun to be outraged and gossip than to actually try and understand.

Each to their own of course but that's why I stopped following the news cycles. Now go and watch that great interview with Elon and while you are at it go watch Peter Thiel on Dave Rubin an equally great show that takes the time to unfold subjects even if that means three hour formats.
That's not how it works. When they called Wells Fargo to testify, they didn't allow them to send a risk or compliance officer; they subpoena'd Tim Sloan, the CEO of the bank.
> Are you saying there are some unstated engineering limitations that would hinder getting to the desired "C" by connecting more battery cells in parallel?

Two batteries in parallel have the same C rating! You double the output current, but you also double the capacity. When you put cells in series, you change the voltage but the current capability and capacity stay the same. In both cases the C rating doesn't change[1].

The C rating is just how quickly the battery can discharge itself, so it is entirely dependent on the chemistry and battery conditions.

[1]: there are finer points; more batteries in series lowers output current slightly in practice, and batteries in parallel are quite complex to deal with. Cell size, construction and cooling all have large impacts on the C rating as well but at the end of the day it's simply how quickly a square centimeter of battery material can carry out its chemical reaction safely.
Here's a real world example - I cannot use pg_upgrade because I have PostGIS installed and you cannot use different versions of PostGIS when upgrading, but I cannot install the older version in pg10.

We had to go to a slony hack (and put auto increment columns on a lot of tables temporarily) because of that.

So he's totally right, the upgrade path is not easy.
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It’s easy to forget how crazy the world was before the iPhone. Let me list the ways in which Apple blew the doors off of the industry with the iPhone:

1) battery: the iPhone was basically a giant battery strapped to a logic board. No one had designed a phone like this, ever.

2) capacitive multi-touch with inertia: capacitive touch screens existed, but the software for using them was really bad (see windows mobile 5 as the leading example).

3) non-WAP browser: all phones prior to the iPhone had a wap browser. The consensus knowledge in the industry was that doing full web on mobile was still years, maybe decades away. Apple came in and rendered the full New York Times on mobile and it changed the world.

4) App Store: before Apple, carriers had an App Store that was garbage or you sideloaded software. That was it. The App Store changed the world, not technically but politically. Finally users could get good software from their phones over the air.

I could go on for days. This doesn’t even touch carrier distribution, call quality, or any part of the OS stack which was basically black magic at the time. The iPhone really changed the world.
If anything I'd expect the opposite. US universities are more prestigious, you'd expect stronger students to be the ones who end up there (at least at better schools), because they'd have a much better chance of being admitted.
I hear the total chemical energy hound in batteries is much higher than the usable capacity.
> An engine specifically designed by developers who refuse to learn/accept NodeJs.

You do realize Railo (which Lucee forked from) was first released in 2004?
Thanks! I'm guessing you're referring to Kinesis Streams? Is there an OOB solution to persist the records past the default 168hours, or is this something that you have to build out yourself following some pattern?
I think this retort sounded better in your head than out in the open.
> I also believed they would be docked to become full featured PCs

This looks like a good description of Samsung DeX.
Recently there's been some conjecture that bioelectricity guides embryonic development as well: https://www.quantamagazine.org/brainless-embryos-suggest-bio...

From a layman's perspective, there are some really exciting developments happening in the field of morphogenesis!
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While the dosages were small, they were certainly habit-forming, and soda fountains stood to profit from such consistent customers.

People typically eat breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. You might even say habitually.

Around that time, it became obvious to the medical profession that there weren’t any health benefits to carbonated water on its own, so people started selling it as a treat

With my first pregnancy, I threw up morning, noon and night for eight months. Carbonated water was one of the things I could keep down and it helped make it vastly more bearable.

Keep in mind these fountain drinks with stuff added for "medicinal purposes" existed at a time when, no, you couldn't go to Walmart and select from a wide assortment of reliable OTC drugs without a prescription. If your medicine cabinet at home has multiple different OTC pain killers and cold medicines, my feeling is you really don't have a leg to stand on for scoffing at such practices from a hundred or more years ago.

Coca-Cola absolutely contained ingredients with medicinal properties. It's the one that is probably the best documented. That doesn't mean the others didn't also have real medicinal benefit. It just means we don't necessarily have the records of what went in them and the proof that X ingredient absolutely has medicinal uses.
> Politicians are the ones that introduce these laws

Technically yes. But politicians (the actual rep's themselves) do not really write the laws - they just agree on the spirit of the law of which they're pursuing and then basically sell it to other members.

It's the equivalent of engaging a Partner at a big 4 consultancy. They show up for the sales call, but are nowhere to be found when the solution they sold actually gets implemented.
It is worth mentioning that the iPhone had the best multitouching system in the industry for at least 3 years. I remember the android devices struggling to register gestures when more than one finger was touching the screen.
50 million people? Germany has a total population of 80 million, so something is definitely off with your numbers. What kind of "social issues" have immigrants caused in Sweden?
I'm the author of slotmap (https://github.com/orlp/slotmap) briefly mentioned at the end. I'm working hard on the requested 'independent allocation' (or secondary maps as I'm currently leaning on), and will have it ready soon.
This event was so far beyond the scale of what is reasonable to plan for though. Consider an engine company that may have 4 firefighters on a typical shift. They probably have 6-7 SCBA to account for equipment failures, etc. So, what happens when you recall all 4 shifts and suddenly have 16-20 firefighters trying to use less than half that number of SCBA? It's a situation with no "right" answer.

I was not at ground zero, but have friends and colleagues that were, and my understanding is that SCBA use was prioritized for the "most" IDLH areas, but that still left a huge number of folks working in areas where, under normal circumstances, you'd absolutely be wearing a pack.

I can only speak for myself and my agency (a suburban combination career/volunteer dept in upstate New York), but we are were careful about PPE usage, air management, etc.
By what must have literally been the 12,000th time I read literally in your post I literally suffered a brain hemorrhage.

It reminds me of how kids used the word 'random' when I was in middle school. Two years from now there'll be a new annoying filler word.
Same time - they have equal shares in Google. "First million" probably refers to Google's first angel investment, which set a valuation on the company of maybe $10M and valued each founder's shares at probably $3-4M (I'm guessing on valuation, but this would be typical for an angel investment of $700K for a company this far along. Possibly a bit higher).
> And why the batteries have to discharge at the same rate in the first place?

It's the definition of the cells being in parallel. Since they all have the same voltage difference (as the fronts and backs are all tied together with wire), they have to discharge at the same rate. The balancing dogma1138 was describing is done to allow some batteries to run at slightly different voltages so they all are at around the same state of charge.
Both man and women have the right to enter marriage, which is defined in the document as the union between Man and Women (Much clearer in the french version).
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They have less rights e.g. no freedom to be represented in parliament, no imprisonment; hence a legal entity is still different than a natural person.