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> What’s fascinating to me is the length people go to in order to justify freeloading.

I can tell you didn't read carefully what I wrote, but that's fine.

Here's what Spotify tells me: "Spotify gives you instant access to millions of songs – from old favorites to the latest hits. Just hit play to stream anything you like."

Where's "but we'll also monitor you and inject whatever code we can, we might allow our customers to do so too, we don't know what it might be but since we wasted $0.003 to acquire you, we need to make at least $5 off of you and we don't really care what happens to your device or if someone breaches our customer and does bad shit to you."

I believe in reciprocity - and the odds are worse at my side if I "freeload" :)
I wonder if you should upload them to archive.org?
Not to neglect that traditional media for music can be found cheaply. I got something like 200 cds of great classical music from the relatives of a passed neighbor. Garage sales and such are great, too. They’re not great for newer music, but there are options.
no kidding, not only does it deliver a ton of value but a large portion of their revenue goes to artists. people are able to listen to nearly any band on any device at the push of a button and literally don't want to pay a penny.
(I think I had about 1500+ hours of listening last year ... 60 days or so)
It’s a sugar pill, if the target eats candy or takes any other pill it would be doable. It would also be easy to slip into food. Liquid is easier, but will leave unavoidable forensic evidence. If making something look like natural causes even under extreme scrutiny is the goal, this is a hell of a way to do it.
There is a paragraph in the wikipedia article on PBM[0] full of sources on this.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmacy_benefit_management#Co...
China's Next Big Innovation? A Used-Car Market
The way regular expressions work in Perl doesn't randomly degrade across Perl versions. For a given regex you can determine what it's complexity would be across versions just like you would for an arbitrary chunk of Perl code.
It's true you don't always get a complexity guarantee for free like in a DFA implementation of formal regular expressions.
C++, .NET also come to mind in the widely area, with OCaml, Haskell failing under the not so widely, but fast umbrella.
Finland basic income trial left people 'happier but jobless'
Don't look at it from the view of a complete project. Think of it like compound interest in your retirement account. I learn by building slightly more complex projects on top of a previous simpler project knowledge.

Want to build an entire website, with authentication, payments, dynamic interfaces, real time notifications? Learn HTML by putting your resume on the web. Then take that knowledge, and build something that takes a basic form, and maybe saves to a database. Then you take that, and build something that takes that user input, and thanks them by email. Onward and so forth.

Going from 0 to 100 for someone that hasn't done all of these little projects over the years, is way too daunting and unrealistic.
Malicious advertisements are served off of normal ad distribution networks, which is what gives them their power - they're being hosted using the normal process, not from anybody new or special. The server used for the malware is disposable and ephemeral. Vetting advertisements would interfere with the real-time auction process, so nobody does any more than is required.
> You can also simply translate your entire C/C++ codebase to V and make your build times up to 400 times faster. An automatic translator supports the latest standards of these languages.

How do you plan to translate the latest C++ standard with all those template stuff?
Yes. I agree.

The authors have had the solution in front of them from the beginning. They've been free to send out free copies from the time they finish.

But if they want the advantages that come from journals, well, someone is going to need to pay for them.
We have been thinking, admittedly for a few months, about paying for a Spotify subscription and this sort of makes me lean more against -- particularly as a Pi-hole user (though it doesn't block Spotify's audio ads).

I wish Bandcamp would start a radio-style service. I have tried in the past to use it that way but it always tends to fall out of my mind because I can't just hit play and let it run.
These sorts of things are always NP problems. If you know the answer, in hindsight it was obvious, because all the signs line up. But to think to look at the answer, to search the entire space of how to discredit someone, that takes resources.
There is so much good CC music out there, I don't feel the need to pay for a music service. Amongst Soundcloud, the Free Music Archive, Bandcamp, and Jamendo there are lifetimes of new music available for enjoyment out in the Creative Commons. When I find artists I truly enjoy, I prefer to support them directly.
Lego Movie 2 isn’t just amazing–it’s also the Solo we always wanted
>HEISENBERG: I am still convinced that our objective was really the right one and that the
fact that we concentrated on uranium may give us the chance of collaboration. I believe this
uranium business will give the Anglo–Saxons such tremendous power that EUROPE will
become a bloc under Anglo–Saxon domination. If that is the case it will be a very good thing.
I wonder whether STALIN will be able to stand up to the others as he has done in the past.

Another timeline that most can be glad we didn't go down. America would be even more dominant over the western world. Russia even more on edge.
I can think of a few strategies, alongside the other good ones people mentioned.
1. Reduce your initial expectations. When you start something hard and/ or new you will be awful at it. Just acknowledge that fact and move on.
2. Focus on time as the goal. Instead of saying, I have to master A or B, focus on time spent, focus on the raw number of hours spent learning. You should still chunk the learning, but start by tracking time.
3. Seek immersion opportunities. The person who authors https://waitbutwhy.com/ focuses on a new topic periodically. These topics can get quite complex and yet sometimes he only has a week or so to get himself up to speed. He'll do things like find all the videos on the topic on Youtube that are informative, authoritative and yet somewhat entertaining. He'll mass watch those videos, all the while gaining a feel.
> People in my experience are starting to dislike ORMs

That's what I see around me as well.
Hard numbers help visualize climate change. And it’s not pretty
"freeze dried"

"Freeze drying is a water removal process typically used to preserve perishable materials, to extend shelf life or make the material more convenient for transport. Freeze drying works by freezing the material, then reducing the pressure and adding heat to allow the frozen water in the material to sublimate."

You freeze it or shock freeze it and then "distill" the water of in vacuum. The ice goes into the vapor phase, skipping the liquid phase. This process is called sublimation and part of each first year high school chemistry curriculum.

The substance, insulin or other peptides, will be stable after this at room temperature for some time.
Memory hog only by those that don't know what they are doing and happilly new everywhere.

Yes it is hard to tune, but not so much different than playing with C or C++ compilation switches, across each compiler that is being used in production.
> but Go just isn't designed to make serverside-rendered database-backed websites especially pleasant to write.

Or anything else for that matter, maybe aside from some command line tooling.
I'm not a "freeloader" as I pay for the premium service, but this news is the last straw. I'm unsubscribing and uninstalling, as soon as I figure out how to download my playlists.

I know this news doesn't affect me, but the principle is the important thing.
I don’t understand this response. What Trump’s semantics are we playing? Why is the idea an automatic “nope”?
>>Perhaps the reason you're using an ad-blocker is because you don't want to be tracked

I use adblockers to protect myself against malicious content masquerading as ads, which both the ad delivery networks and content platforms have proven unwilling or unable to address to an acceptable extent.
Account stealers aren't brute forcing passwords. They are trying common passwords that dum dums often use, or circumventing by other means like email.
I’m hoping Apple will pull out a miracle and able to measure blood sugar with the Apple Watch. With that data, people can make apps to do really cool things to help that person out.
Exactly, I don't see this as very useful right now, looks more like fancy animations.

To actually see what happened I found myself triggering the same animations again and again.
When the business model is to float a huge amount of capital to purchase unsustainable licensing agreements while you become a record label or movie studio — then it makes sense why we are here.
All you're saying here is that science isn't philosophy.
Dennett has shown, to my satisfaction at least, that the philosophical zombie paradoxes are logically incoherent.

I see the zombie paradoxes as pulling a similar trick to the Chinese Room. They both try to trivialise the problem to a simplistic model, but of course the problem is not simplistic.

The Chinese room would have to be the size of a planet, containing millions of trillions of symbols and would take the man inside it the lifetime of the universe to perform simple linguistic processing and cognitive tasks. Likewise the philosophical zombies are cast as simple dumb mechanisms that are somehow performing a stupendously complex and little understood process, except 'not really'. They're both just rhetorical sleight of hand.
Lets not pretend like the neoliberal ideologues that supported Pinochet in spite of his human rights atrocities simply because he was a capitalist aren't the exact same demographic that now stands by the Saudis becuase of their financial ties.
Or you pay the cover charge to get into the clown-free party?
Will Bezos eat his own 2016 words to Peter Theil re Gawker:

https://archive.is/Q6f09

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has spoken out against Peter Thiel and in defense of Gawker, telling a Los Angeles audience: “Beautiful speech doesn’t need protection. Ugly speech needs protection. That’s where the rubber’s gonna meet the road.”

In reference to Peter Thiel’s recent efforts to punish critical reporters in court, he said: “Seek revenge and you should dig two graves, one for yourself.

“Is that really how you want to spend your time? As a public figure the best defense to speech that you don’t like is to develop a thick skin.”

“I’m very willing to let any of my body parts go through a big fat wringer if need be,” Bezos said.
It turned out to be more of a replacement for Python for places where you need speed. Then again, a JVM or .NET language would probably be better.
The New Nature
And then the UK had a decade of Thatcher, who tried to kill the NHS while lying that it was safe:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/nov/25/margaret-th...
You can use the malware domains blacklist [1]. It can be applied through uBlock Origin or as a hosts blacklist if you process the file.

Although I personally treat ads as a malware vector and block them. Hopefully I don't get banned from Spotify as I'm a paying customer. If I do, I'll switch to another platform.

[1] http://mirror1.malwaredomains.com/files/domains.txt
Actually I think it's quite possibly the worst definition of consciousness I've ever seen.

At best (assuming conscious cannot be doubted) it's like saying "Cars are those things which move fast". In the sense that it describes one property of cars, or consciousness, but not a unique property. Other things move fast, not just cars, other things could be beyond doubt than just consciousness.

At worst (assuming consciousness can be doubted) it's like saying "Cars are those things which flap around", which is utterly nonsense, and unhelpful. Plenty of things "flap around", but cars don't...

My point is, if you don't already have a strong preconception of what "consciousness" is, that definition is worse than no definition at all.
>Searching for and writing about topics online deemed inappropriate are known to authorities within a second thanks to cooperating companies.

This is already happening. I used to mock conservatives and free-speech advocates who claimed that Twitter, Reddit, Facebook etc. were censoring speech unecessarily. I'm pretty far to the left, and obviously I think racist and sexist harassment are bad things...however, these platforms have automated any features that allow users to report "problematic" posts or comments, which makes it VERY easy for people to abuse and mass-report anything they disagree with.

Why would I trust a corporation to correctly determine whether a comment is abusive, or just an opposing point of view?

What does it mean when corporations are in charge of determining what speech is offensive, and effectively control the "acceptable" range of discourse? In the UK a man was investigated by the police for retweeting an offensive limerick - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/01/24/man-investigated...

I don't really agree with what he retweeted, but it still seems kind of ridiculous to investigate someone for a tweet that isn't threatening or violent.
more like they threw a party where you could pay a cover charge to get into the room with no clown or you could get in for free and know you had to deal with a clown. you decide to go in for free and just duck tap the clown's mouth shut because you felt you deserved to be at the party without paying and without having to deal with a clown.
Most ads these days are CPC. As I never click any ads, the “value” is none.

I could outbid easily as if never actually pay for a lead.
ok well I bundle my media consumption with my phone service so on that hand it's not that problematic for me, but on the other hand I have netflix, paramount, cmore, viaplay, HBO nordic bundled as well as some cable channels and I would still have to pay another 30 dollars or so per month to get what I don't have now that I want
Thank you for the additional insight!
Remember when subscribing to artists would give you alerts for when they released new content? It was a fantastic way of keeping up with new music. For me it was a killer feature. They replaced it with the terrible "Release Radar" playlist that shows a small sample of whatever this week's ML algo recommends. It's garbage.
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That’s been the standard since the adoption of the Constitution. If it was a slippery slope, you’d think we would have slipped down it at some point in the past 230 years.
It would be interesting to hear more about this because with CPU spiking like that I would have expected more variability in the response time...but quite the opposite it was the most consistent which is one of the big things that the BEAM aims for.

I wonder if somebody who's more of an expert on the BEAM could chime into why that might be. More activity in the scheduler maybe?
>Whoah there! I think this might be another case of semantic creep. It's very easy to conflate consciousness with self-image in the brain

But it's very hard to say why consciousness shouldn't be conflated with self-image in the brain!
Could some kind of audio tag be added to this?
>Adams Hub for Innovation

I lived in Carson, and never in a million years did I think something like this would take off. A lot of these jobs seem more dev oriented (I'm a designer), but it's good to see more tech jobs coming to the area in general.
I hate ads and they are often brain melting / malicious / resource hogging anyway. I also cannot afford to pay $5-10 for dozens of separate services a month at the moment. Guess I'll be listening to other sites if they ban me. You win Spotify.
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Even if they could, reporting on medical information has very large consequences if the information is wrong. I don't imagine it would be worth it to them to enter that arena.
Intercom solution can increase your customer acquisition cost with more onboarding support costs so you need a higher lifetime value of the customer to compensate.
I understand that the situation is frustrating for scientists and academics, but I really hope that they understand that breaking the Elsevier's chokehold is good for science (and the world) in the long run.
why dont you just ditch the other two subscriptions and use spotify exclusively ?
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Sure, any sort of catamaran would work fine.
*assuming legality is important
I have a strong aversion to needles but I’ve been a type 1 diabetic for many years. I use an older Medtronic pump and want to move to a CGM soon

My checks take about 5-10 seconds but I can see where after a while it can make you hesitant.
An under-emphasised point: If defeating Japanese fascism was a valid war aim, then the bomb was a really efficient weapon. Even if mining the harbors was much cheaper & had more military effect. The lesson from Versailles is that surrender wasn't enough to defeat German militarism, just a few years later they could spin stories about the army being stabbed in the back... but such stories didn't sell so well in 1950, 1960, with Soviet & US tanks facing each other in Berlin. The US ability to fly over in 1 plane, 1 bomb, 1 city was another really hard-to-deny reality.

And: It's not clear that "no first use" policies are anything more than PR tools. IIRC it emerged that not one of the USSR war plans for Germany was nuclear-free.
but you forgot how businesses work these days:

Fuck you, Pay me
> and randomally delete music as they see fit

They don't randomly delete things. They remove content due to licensing expiring. Thank our backwards media licensing system for that.
> All the other systems out there require tons of tools, and lock you into doing things their way.

Nothing is stopping you from writing everything yourself in any other language. You can do the same in Java or .NET. Then you start finding out you need routing, validation, security, DB access, etc. which golang lacks and ends up making it much more verbose than other mature frameworks.
>> With the right compound in the needle, thst sounds like an incredible way to assassinate someone without leaving any traces which are unlikely to be found.

If I recall correctly there was a story about a CIA weapon that shot a needle or dart made of a frozen toxin. It would penetrate the skin, melt, and cause a heart attack. There would be no evidence other than an incredibly hard to find hole in the skin with no physical object to be found.
I wonder if she will ever end up regretting it? I feel like I've heard so many stories about people trying to hold on to stuff like this, but then either the government or other rich entities use the law and sketchy tactics to end up getting the building in the long run, by those other means. And then the person basically gets what they were trying to save stolen, and just regretting that they tried to hold on for a battle they would never win. They end up just losing out on making money from it instead of going down fighting and getting nothing. This may also be my cynical way of looking at it, though.
A happy medium for me is google play music. Basically the same song selection and features as spotify, plus the ability to upload your own mp3s that aren't available on the platform (I actually haven't used this feature in a while, but it seems like it still works). And you get ad-free youtube as well.
Considering the fact that Signal devs refuse to improve several glaring user experience holes (things like losing all group chats when switching phones, which are deal breakers for many people), we might need another messenger.
Speaking of which, AdNauseum is a useful extension for Firefox for devaluing the ad economy. Google of course banned it from the chrome store.
> so why do you insist on the human factor, if the intentions don't matter

Because, regardless of intention, results are a consequence of human action.

> What do you think of emergent properties of a system, for which nobody is to blame individually?

Are you asking if emergent properties can be totalitarian? I think this question is not very useful. Do we have a real-world system in which nobody is to blame for its properties?

> But I can see capitalism fitting into the second definition, or the first definition

If you're talking about the capitalist societies we have today, yes, they can absolutely be totalitarian. But is that because of capitalism or in spite of it?

The fear of totalitarianism is the reason capitalists defend freedom and the reduction of the state.

> can racism be totalitarian?

The idea of racism? The definition of the word? I don't think so. But a society where racists can exert power over people and reduce their freedom is totalitarian. But we're back to the human factor.
They didn't mention Kalamazoo which has at least two VC firms and an active angel community. Neither Lansing nor Grand Rapids have resident VC firms, though both have developing angel communities.
Except, of course, that the actual report has not been completed yet.

The article has a single quote from a participant, and the rest is literally just opinion and thoughts.

There's nothing to get excited about yet.

It's going to be very interesting to read the report though, once it's published.
0 A.D., a libre real-time strategy game “History is yours for the taking”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-access_journals
Can Communist History Turn Entrepreneurial Success?
You have to make your own cost analysis to see what is most efficient for you.

Writing secure, readable, quality code in PHP is something I'm far more comfortable doing than deploying Flask or Django apps on a VPS. That's a function of my lived experiences.

YMMV, but I think declaring python/ruby on the backend is "the all-around better stack" for everyone is a bit short-sighted imho.
Using Signal for years also. I don't have any of these problems except during group messages. Group messages for whatever reason are inconsistent, don't send, or sometimes break apart into single messages and then join again into the group. There was one group message between me and my two cousins that broke for hours. I didn't get any texts or couldn't send anything and signal was constantly trying to download images.
+1 spotify literally costs (per month) < 2 venti lattes from your favorite cafe, and less than a beer at most bars in NYC and 1/2 of this thread is complaining
I've always said that the problem is not framed correctly. Who gives money to the greedy publisher, for basically nothing? Blame them first and the problem will go away.

EDIT: blame the academic management who gives the money to the publishers. This way the publishers will go away to greener pastures.
Then pay for the plan! That's the point!

Or don't. I've pirated music and movies. I just don't get too mad about it.

My point, put another way: I respect the desire to block JS ads, AND I respect the will a non-critical app in a competitive market to make stupid decisions with their ad policy. AND people who don't like that policy can move to Amazon/Google/Apple/other music platforms, or pay Spotify Premium.
Uhh are you so deep in your conspiracy theories that you missed the whole fox news complex? There's no left wing equivalent to that.
> I'm not really comfortable with Trojan advertisements while I'm sitting in the office plugging away

Why not? I don't understand the problem with a condom ad.
I just want the content I paid for.
The title is wrong here. We don't claim that xeus-python will replace IPython. IPython/IPykernel has plenty of great features and xeus-python covers just a small portion of it.
Any programming language that supports overloading uses mangled symbols in a compiler-specific way.

Having said this, for C++ there is extern "language" {}, with extern "C" {} being the most common.