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> There are at least three options:

> 1. Pay for the service

> 2. Suffer through the ads

> 3. Don't use the service

Those are the customer's options. What about Spotify's?

1. Offer the service as paid-only, no free with ads option.

2. Offer a paid version and a free version, but some people use ad blockers.

3. Offer a paid version and a free version, block ad blockers and expose your customers to malware.

The last is the only one that has "expose your customers to malware" in it, so maybe they should pick one of the other two. Because if all the customers chose either paying or not using, that's the same anyway, and if they didn't, they're actively harming the remainder.
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If you gave me money with no requirement that I perform a task, or adhere to a set of rules, just free money in my lap, I'm going to use it to increase my level of joy and comfort, and avoidance of work. Granted I may take that money and spend it all on hookers and blow, but I will be doing what I want with that money, and not having to return any service or labor for it.
I use uBlock Origin and I still receive ads on Spotify. Am I in the clear or not? (I would pay for it but Spotify keeps delaying Indian launch)
CC0 is a pretty solid solution to this problem, though.
There was literally no account activity other than this. What 'nefarious shit' could it have been used for, given there were no tweets, likes, retweets, follows, DMs, or anything of that nature?

EDIT: I should also add that I have a very strong password which is not reused anywhere, so I doubt very much someone guessed the password.
You go to the presentation and someone demands you empty your pockets into a bowl that they will take into another room while you watch the presentation, wallet, phone, keys, etc.... You decline and leave, but you already ate the bread! Did you steal it?
As a academic researcher, here is my takeaway: European scientist will be much likely to see my publications under Elsevier and therefore much less likely to cite it. Going forward, I will avoid publishing under Elsevier (even in those journals with a high impact factor) out of fear that the work will not be cited in the future
No, paying for service doesn't guarantee ad-free and tracking-free experience at all, especially for VC backed companies. They probably already inject tons of tracking for paying users. And those users are still just users, not customers. The only real customers of spotify are advertisers and sooner or later paying users are going to be sold to advertisers, there is just more money there and they can't ignore that.
I'd have hoped for needle-less operations (lack of pain is not the best of arguments).

That said when MEMS meets medicine there could be a vast change.
Sadly the era we're living in is that which blames Trump for every thing that goes wrong with no evidence whatsoever and many, many people cheer. That is dangerous as hell.

I'm happy to be proven wrong but to also be clear: there is zero evidence that Trump had anything to do with this.
Same here. RIP original Babe Ruth Runaways recording.
If you look at the period from 1945 to, say, 1975, though, which is the speaker's perspective, American political and economic influence were both extremely strong compared to today, in addition to the obvious military influence.
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> Researchers have very little to say about this, except if you look at their real behavior (arXiv, sci-hub, etc).

If powerful researchers cared, they wouldn’t review for journals they don’t like. Obviously the benefit from doing the reviews is bigger than their preference of Open Access.
> who gives them the money, nevertheless?

When it comes to subscriptions: academic libraries, under pressure of academics. (And in this case, a group of German libraries finally refused to do so.)

When it comes to disproportionally high publishing fees, however, academics do have something to say, because they can often choose to publish somewhere with lower fees. However, that's not really an option as long as their career progression is determined by which journals they publish in. Thus, I think part of the cause there is those who use journal names as a criterion when judging e.g. grant applicants.
Years ago, a Windows virus slipped on to three family machines I'm the go-to-guy for, due to Spotify using IE to display ads, and not vetting its ads properly.

My answer was two-fold - never use Spotify, and always use an ad-blocker.
IE is dead. Edge has replaced it. The defaults on Windows 10 settings is questionable already - so my suggestion would be to use Firefox instead of either chrome or IE/Edge. Brave is another choice (but it's built on chrome browser engine blink).
In the end, automata are automata and anything that tries to do what regex's do winds up looking a lot like regex's -- which look a lot like regular expressions (as a representation of a finite state machine). The difference between "regex alternatives" and regex's is that the alternatives tend to be more verbose and less well documented...and less likely to elicit good answers on StackOverflow...and perhaps less likely to generate good questions there.

I think the hard part of pattern matching is reasoning about pattern matching. The obscurity of Regex notation is mostly a function of unfamiliarity with the concepts. [:word:]+ is not easier to reason about than \w+ and "\w+" is much better documented than "[:word:]+" or "Word + [1+]."

The other problem with learning Regex's is that regex notation is someone else's code. There's always the attraction of fixing it. I've dunning-kuger'ed it myself. Fortunately, making my new more sensible superduper regex notation complete required RTFM'ing...and then I'd read the manual and realized I'd already fixed regex notation by fixing the absence of knowledge in my head. Plus I could talk to other people about pattern matching using the common language of pattern matching.
They don't need to share log-in data to be able to do this. There are plenty of other ways they can identify you.
I've been studying history privately for about 8 years now, and 'Maps of Time' by David Christian has fundamentally changed the way I look at the progression of mankind. Essentially, he's described from the highest possible level how modernity has come to be. There is too much detail in the book to go into depth, but it's a fascinating, and more than worthwhile read for the knowledge-seeker.

Another I'd add is 'The Selfish Gene' by Richard Dawkins. I have a Bachelor degree in science and never thought I'd be able to add to my understanding of evolution, but this book accomplished it. Almost everything I've studied can be broken into two periods - that I studied before reading the Selfish Gene, and what I studied after.

Lastly, I'd add Hume's 'Treatise on Human Nature', specifically his theory of substances. The basic idea was that as you learn more information about a substance, how you define that substance changes. First you see an orange ball, and you think it's just an orange colored ball. Later someone tells you it's a fruit, and your understanding of it changes.

How this is relevant is that I realized this can be applied to the world at large. Our understanding of any given phenomena is intrinsically linked to what we know about it. So there is no such thing as 'enlightenment' 'self-awareness' etc, there is only ever increasing awareness as we move through life, and we can also make a point to be intentional about increasing our own awareness.
I got this email notice today and my first thought was "why do I still have a Spotify account?" then I remembered I was unable to get rid of it when I tried a few years ago. I found you can delete it here[1]: Account -> I want to close my account permanently. Then there are a bunch of confirmations, including an email.

https://support.spotify.com/us/contact-spotify-support/
Absolutely, not using Spotify is better option. My original comment was arguing against "just pay for it" being a good outcome, as it relates to Spotify's future incentives.
Unfortunately the prevailing ideology dictates that if you're not working you are worthless and you should not feel happy.
>I would rather say that it seems likely science in the strict sense cannot either support or refute the existence of consciousness

Yes, that's the whole point of my first comment. Glad that we ended up agreeing!
where will the hookers and blow come from if the hookers and dealers are on basic and doing nothing?
I wouldn't view it as 'this is what Germany wanted from WW2', instead 'this is how Germany should have carried out WW2'.

You can imagine that if Germany made better use of individual European countries, made some high-profile infrastructure and regulatory improvements in the countries that it occupied (as the EU does now), and dramatically toned down the anti-Pole and anti-Jew activities- it would have been a lot more successful in its aims. Heck, mass conversions to Christianity of the Jewish population would probably have been successful, and been supported by many Christians worldwide, and any staunch Jewish holdouts who refused given the opportunity to fight against the British and create and mass-migrate to Israel as a German sub-territory.

Germany could have created a new European identity, and sought new land and direct expansion of European populations into the Middle East and Africa against easier opponents, instead of against Russia.

Eventually it would have just outgrown and outlasted Britain and Russia. Britain as a democracy would have eventually rotated in a set of politicians willing to make peace.

I say all this as the descendent of a Polish Jew :-)
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It began creating a history for that account based out of Russia. Which would be useful in the future should somebody in--oh, I don't know, Russia--wanted to use that account for nefarious shit.
Well sure, then don't use Spotify, what's the problem?

If a business is offering a product at terms you don't like, how exactly is that bad? Just don't use the product.
Capitulation could have ended the war even quicker, at the speed of a telegram. Clearly, that cannot be the only criterion.

(not seeking to argue with you, I'm replying to Heisenberg so to speak)
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I'm not sure about that. They certainly control which browser apis they choose to support.

And it seems like those that support web applications getting closer to native apps functionality are the ones they lag on.
Why should spotify have any say on what software you use on your computer?
We already have continuous blood sugar monitors that are good, and work with Apple Watch. The invasiveness of the patch is not a big deal in my opinion given the benefits.
I think you're misunderstanding what I've been saying about leisure, then. I've not suggested you take time off work, nor to fill your time with nothing.

Work is additive, "free" time is not subtractive.

I don't understand any else of what you're saying. Electronics is something you can do anywhere, and I'd argue there's a gaping need in much of the spaces in between towns and cities in North America...

I think you're just discussing personal preferences at the end there.
No, because cigarettes will still be available on the black market for cheap.
Manufacturing insulin isn't under patent or a trade secret is it? If the price of insulin rises, then manufacturing insulin becomes more economically viable, so new players will enter the arena, thus driving the price down.

Is there any reason this wouldn't be subject to the normal laws of supply and demand?
What principle, exactly? That all businesses should have to offer their product for free?

Can you state in clear terms the "principle" that Spotify is violating?
That doesn't sound right (well, Qantas did have RR engine trouble, as did all RR engined A380s) as all A380 fleets have four of the same type/manufacturer of engine (RR or GE, depending on the airline) and it will be common across all the planes in the fleet. It doesn't make sense to have to double up on maintenance costs, equipment and engineering staff with two types, plus the added risk of a GE bolt/whatever accidentally fitted to a RR engine causing an accident...
No that can help with Type 2 diabetes only Not Type 1, or 1.5 ( A/k/a Flatbush Diabetes). The rest of the posters are talking about Type 1 or t1d, which is currently an incurable reaction to a yet unidentified pathogen . Your body attacks and destroies the pancreases ability to create insulin. The current method of management of T1D take synthetic insulin, insulin extracted from pigs , or genetically engineered insulin , check your blood sugar. Limit what you eat to limit how much insulin you need to take. As so on. Eating fruits , grains as a t1d with out taking insulin will kill you! .

By the way there is a study about how 46.5% of all studies are just made up.
There are many reasons why these devices persist not only in DC but all across the country.

One is resource management and risk evaluation (aka, there are bigger problems), another is knowledge of FIS operations and many others...
Use the built in backup and restore and you dont lose your groups. Signal's primary design direction is encryption and privacy, you're going to have to compromise somewhere.
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I don't know what Google does with those packets. Also, I've seen far too many examples of deanonymization to trust claims that data is properly anonomyzed.

When it comes down to it, principle of least privilege applies here. Homebrew doesn't need to phone home to Google to install packages, so it shouldn't.
They didn't crawl under a rock. They socialized with their families, maybe played on a team, contributed to the Animal Shelter, who knows what-all. Its called a life, and work is not the goal of it.
> Obviously the benefit from doing the reviews is bigger than their preference of Open Access.

Researchers don't usually benefit from doing peer review: they don't get paid for it, and it eats time they could spend doing research. It's more of a sense of duty they have that they're "supposed" to do those reviews, and I can't really fault them for that.

(Though I would very much encourage them to only review for fully Open Access journals, and respond to review requests with invitations to submit the work to those journals.)
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This is amusing. I am not "Signal bashing", I am talking about problems I (and many other people) have experienced.

The fact that you have it good, and have never had problems, does not contradict the fact that I and other people have had problems. Talking about these problems is not 'Signal bashing', just like talking about traffic problems is not 'car-bashing'.
"I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything."

--The President of the United States

Everything you mention pales in comparison to the quote above as long as it's between enthusiastically consenting adults.
Speaking as an outsider - Did you see what their choice was last time around? I'm far from pro-Trump but it seems Hillary would have come with a whole different set of issues. Unfortunately it's the whole 2-party system that's broken.

I'm speaking as someone from a country with pretty much the same system (the UK). Voting for anyone other than the candidate you dislike the least is essentially a wasted vote. I and plenty of others in my country really wish we knew the answer (and so do many Americans, from what I've seen).

I'd be interested to hear where you are from. From what I know about Japan I gather that people are generally satisfied with their leadership. Maybe New Zealand as well?
This is already true for the NIH in the US, the single largest research funder in the world.
> The price of insulin is already rising

That really is a sad state of affair, insulin is cheap to produce and we shouldn't live in a world where such a basic medicine is controlled by for profit organizations.

At least in countries with a proper health system the cost isn't impacting on an individual level.

https://beyondtype1.org/how-much-does-it-cost-to-produce-ins...
> 'happier but jobless'

That's a very misleading title.

> Universal basic income, or UBI, means that everyone gets a set monthly income, regardless of means. The Finnish trial was a bit different

That's a huge difference. It encourages some of the unemployed people to stay unemployed. That's called "poverty trap".

This was not real UBI. Also, a 2-year long trial can be very misleading. People take very different choices knowing that they'll receive UBI for 2 years, or 10 years, or their whole life.
But without some incentive to do so, they won't. If they're already getting around basically one of the biggest dealbreakers for the Free tier (the ads), then there isn't really incentive to pay 9.99 a month when they're already getting essentially the same service for free.
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I'm a guy from Europe and I've finished recently my computer science degree. I'm very interested in startups and building products and companies. I love to write software, I love technology and my biggest goal is to work for my own startup and to develop a product which is useful for the world. What I don't understand is the business side of things. Its like black box for me. I don't know accounting, i don't know anything about finance, controlling, manegerial accounting and all this stuff. I can't understand how some computer science graduates mostly from USA can build companies with hundreds and thousands of employees. Getting funded with incredible amounts. Where do they learn the business side of things? Where do they learn how to scale the companies from 10 to 10'000 employees? What is the secret of silicon valley? Are there any helpful books for the most important business fundamentals like accounting, finance, funding, VC? Which topics do I have to know just to run a company? I could attend a second undergraduate degree on one of the top business schools in Europe or attend for an MBA in 1.5 year or start my company as side project. What would be your advice? Have you been a successful entrepreneur, I would love to hear your story!

Thanks very much
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The effort was indeed huge, but it's not so obvious that the Germans could not have done it. IIRC the V2 missile program may actually have been more expensive? Different technology but also hard... hard enough that in 1969 the same guys were still leading the world.
Yes the drive by microphone adverts should be banned. There's no reason an advertiser needs access to my microphone, ever.
If you look at the success rate for US public schools, you may want better odds under a healthcare system. The VA is a good example of government run healthcare that continues to fail its members to an astonishing degree.
The other outcome that seems too-common is they hang onto it, and then once they pass their heirs sell it off cheap for a quick buck.

In this case she's already a heir- but there will be heirs after her.
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Absolutely, they have right not to serve any customer they don't want to serve. But do they have a right of tracking your actions? How would you react if there was an employee of any broadcast TV station peeking through your window to see if you're avoiding ads on their channel, and if they determine you avoid the ads, install a broadcast signal jammer near your house?

I don't like the increasingly intrusive behaviors from big tech companies, and this case with free Spotify is a good example. If they can't provide a free service without privacy intrusions, they shouldn't offer it. Radios and broadcast TV survive on ad-based model without privacy intrusions.
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I've found that the best way to improve my own writing is by practicing writing, editing, and reviewing. Two books that have helped me improve are Stephen King's On Writing and William Zinsser's On Writing Well.

Working at Google, I like that I get the chance to practice through design docs, although that may be my rose-tinted 6-month-tenure glasses speaking. I also try to write outside of work, though the deliberate practice does take some effort for me.

Have you taken the technical writing class at Google? That may be another good resource, although there's a deep waitlist for the ones I see now.
Show me one place selling a $10 latte in SF. $5-6 sure, but you're exaggerating for no good reason.
Do industrial themed apartments, have a mini museum up front with a couple of the cooler machines and measuring tools. If she needs to keep machining to satisfy her fathers wishes save a couple 1000 sq/ft and buy a few modern CNC machines that can do the job of the existing antiques.
I think that Twitter could but they care more about growth and err on the side of caution and less aggressive account validation, otherwise the new account sign ups would flatline and investors would be pissed. Capitalism.
I wonder if this is applicable to electric motors? Probably not since the force is described as “unstable” in the article but interesting to think about.
In many cases, "layout" is a standard LaTeX/Word template done every few years. "Editing" on text-level is done by the authors, based on feedback from reviewers that aren't paid. Filtering is done based on the same reviewer feedback.

Coordination and archiving are valuable, but don't match the prices asked by some.
Yes the tone is coming through, where did I say that poor people aren't trying hard enough? When you work long hours for low pay or have a family, time and discipline are difficult, I am not belittling the effort it takes.

Money is a huge problem if you are poor. My point is just that you can substitute frozen vegetables for whatever you are eating and it can be the same exact price. It does take more time to make, and is less convenient than unhealthy options. This is what I mean by time and discipline.

There are comments about vegetables having a high cost per calorie, but this misses the important point that many unhealthy, poor people are obese in the US. By swapping a meal at McDonalds or packaged snacks at the convenient store for some pasta with frozen vegetables, you may not be getting the same calorie/dollar value. But getting enough calories is not the issue for most poor Americans, getting enough vegetables is.

I'm not talking about fancy meal prep either. Roast some broccoli in the oven, boil some noodles. Add salt, pepper, butter. Done. Don't like broccoli? Swap it for something else.
Nobody thought the USSR would develop nuclear weapons as quickly as they did. Had it taken them an extra decade or so I think there's a very possible future where the United States strikes, with nuclear weapons if necessary, any site where another state was developing their own nukes, in order to maintain sole possession of the weapons.