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> Where is it hosted, or whether it is in German at all doesn't matter much

Well, it matters in that if you don't live in the EU, it is unlikely that they will be able to target you for anything.

People in America don't spend much time worrying about the fact that in Saudi Arabia it is illegal to be gay, so I don't see why they would worry the much about copywrite laws in the EU.
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Why is abandoned a problem? If you're looking for books to read or TV shows to watch, do you avoid "abandoned" series?
Network effects.

There are probably hundreds of thousands of credit card terminals installed in the US. The delta of potential improvement is small enough that there isn’t a huge motivation to change anything.
Yes, in US you wont go to jail. But the companies will beat you down for beeing too laud with their lawyers. US first amandment is just smoke and mirrors. You are allowed to say anything on the other side, you don't dare to say anything as you might get sued. I have lived on both continents and once you look at political correctness/criticism/newspapers you will see that people in states are far less outspoken than in europe. At the end it comes down to the system and who it protects: in europe people - in states corporations.

Anyway, for a proof, just check this thread on HN. People can have their opinions, as long they don't express them. Once they do, and are not in line with majority, they will be punished with -1. The moral of the story, in US there is a mentality where only people strongly over average can express their opinions (mentally, moneywise,..). Everyone can agree or is being beaten down by everyone.
I'm curious how fast the sqlite json extension is for validation and manipulation of json data when compared to this library.
This is a good point. Desktop/web clients have existed for a while, but I find that I listen to probably 90% of my podcasts on my smartphone. Prior to owning a phone with a large amount of storage, I just didn't really listen to podcasts (at least nowhere near the amount that I am now).
This is a _really_ good point! I'm trying to find some data on this right now... might have to dig through e.g. Apple's previous phone releases to see trends over time.
I think it is a problem if people or companies are advertising a non-existent or unsubstantiated medical benefits of a procedure.
I'm sorry that you experienced such an inhumane ordeal. Were you incarcerated at a publicly or privately operated facility?
> Until all the banks go under

If 2008 taught us anything it is the fact that big banks don't "go under" because they are considered "too big to fail" and as such will not be allowed to fail.

The German term for this is "systemrelevant", (systemically important) which imho fits way better than "too big to fail" because it's way blunter.
Oh I HATE the trend of corporate podcasts shoving episodes of other shows into their feed. I look forward to a new episode of the show I like only to start it and hear some other show.
A close second is some podcasts have started putting reruns into their feed. I guess someone told them that missing weeks is bad so they just put a rerun in. Ugh.
What a perfect way to encourage consumers to go further into debt for items they don't need.
I agree but I understand where they were coming from. It's easy to point out flaws in any system and it's something I'm seeing more and more in politics and religion. People are willing to throw the baby out with the bathwater because it's easy to become blind to the benefits of the system you are raised within until the revolutionaries tip the scales and then the system resets through widespread suffering.
The response is to offer Google News in europe with snippets from newspapers from Québec, Mexico, Brasil, Saint-Marin...
An I beam is also a design not a material, if you want to be pedantic. You can buy aluminum ones.
There's no expiration date on having a good domain name, though. If anything their value increases over time.
The fees per transaction charged by credit card companies seem crazy to me in 2019, in that they're exorbitant and bear no relationship to their actual costs. The industry really seems like it should be a candidate for anti-trust action.

I have no relevant domain expertise though, so I'd be interested to hear alternative viewpoints.
Exactly. I used to live in a low rise apartment building which used modern wood construction. Not only did I hear everything above me, but the shock waves (from foot strikes) would also travel thru the structure, so you could feel everything as well.
Back office's job is trade reconciliation, pnl, and accounting.
It's not cliché, it's NOT ok that these corporations can commit huge crimes and no one goes to jail. I would say the fact that you seem OK with it is not OK.

Literally no one went to jail for the crimes of 2007-2008. No one went to jail for laundering money for the cartels, no one went to jail for Libor scandal, and no one went to jail here. Yet if you walk into McDonalds and rob it of the amount in the cash register, you could go to jail for many years
The thing is that DNS infrastructure (which registrars basically rely directly on) is very OLAP oriented. bind(8) and DNS daemons like it are DBMSes in some sense, with replication and serving highly-concurrent reads being their primary focuses, and inserts/updates/deletes taking about fifth place compared to those needs. And registries (and sometimes registrars as well) build their entire infrastructure to use the DNS-daemon “store” as the canonical store, rather than having it be a secondary system synchronized into from an online OLTP DBMS. So this writes-are-expensive paradigm creeps into the entire DNS infrastructure, including things seemingly far away from the core, like the registrars’ control panels.

A good comparison is blockchains, which are also highly-replicated, cheap-reads expensive-writes DBMSes. CryptoKitties chose Dutch auctions to sell their kitties for a similar reason to that of the .dev registry: since putting state into their “DBMS” is so expensive, they wanted as stateless a system as possible. (In their system, even the current price is just statelessly computed by comparing the client’s time-at-bid to the chain’s recorded start-of-auction time. The only writes needed are to start the auction, to place the winning bid, or to cancel the auction.)
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Which is exactly what Japanese were doing on their legacy "galakei" phones before the iPhone took over.
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Wood is terrible for multi-tenant buildings. Ever hear your neighbor walking around in a concrete/steel building?
If I'm remembering the book correctly, it's discussed at some length in a later chapter; maybe the last chapter.
Agreed. I had the same experience. I think just calling it "Signatures" would be better.
In principle, bits are just voltage levels with a dumbed down interface
This is it. I downloaded every episode of LeVar Burton Reads earlier this week. Over 2GB on top of the 400MB from the other handful I subscribe to. My last phone would complain about insufficient space long before now.
Personally, I'm not a fan of podcasts at all.

I've tried, and listened to some interesting ones, but in the end I'd much rather consume the same content by reading instead of listening. It's faster, it's easier to skim and skip around, you can have hyperlinks to other references, etc. Overall, text just works better for the kinds of content I'm interested in.

There's a podcast related to a product I work with that I've tried a few times. The podcast is very well done, but each one is about an hour long. I'd much rather have it as a blog post where I can skim through to find the pieces that interest me. They've gotten a little better with their episode descriptions where they tell you what topics they are talking about and when they start, but it's only a minor improvement.

Podcasts are also completely inaccessible to search engines. If I want to find the podcast where they talked about an interesting thing that I want to revisit, and it's not in the episode description, it's basically lost forever.
I don't actually listen to many tech podcasts - instead I use them to get news/politics to cut down on mindless browsing.

NYT The Daily and NPR's Up First podcast can get you up to speed while doing all your daily hygiene stuff. And NPR's weekly politics roundup is good.

If you like history "Futility Closet" has a lot of good esoteric history stuff.

Reply All is eclectic and fun. Radiolab has good hard science stuff. Hidden Brain is more social sciences oriented.
The Podcasts subreddit (https://reddit.com/r/podcasts) is full of recommendations. I also use PocketCasts, which has a "Discover" feature that I have used from time to time. Lastly, I've heard of several podcasts via word of mouth from other friends.
You can make it harder by using 16x16, 25x25, 36x36 etc boards, and see how fast you can make it. There are lots of known patterns to allow for elimination of options http://www.sudokuwiki.org/Getting_Started, of different computation complexity relative to each other, and all faster than regular backtracking. So the goal is to find the order at which to apply them for maximum speed and minimal need to backtrack. You can also try to multithread and use GPU, or FPGA if you're nuts.

All that said, it's all still pretty mechanical. So if you're looking for something more inferential, then another game would be better.
> A major unaddressed issue is laws like PLRA (passed in 1996) that utterly wiped out federal court oversight of local/state prisons/jails.

Well, it greatly reduced it. It didn't utterly wipe it out, as California’s post-96 experience rather dramatically demonstrates.
I think it's fascinating that you don't understand what is meant by that sentence. I'm a native german speaker and would probably not make that mistake but I can't imagine somebody not understanding the combination of the words "own" and "servers".
Thinking that an oncologist does not know tumor sequencing is available is absolutely laughable as it is oncology 101. No need to go to conferences, just open any oncology textbook edited in the 21st century. But yeah of course your company is doing it more completely and more precisely, I get it. Now is the information that your company provides currently useful to the clinician? If your immediate answer is "of course", then you should think again.

The issue is that what seems important about it to you is not the same as what they perceive as important. It is interprofessional miscommunication.

And just to be clear myself, you should understand that your defense, although rational, goes against accepted medical ethics and ethics research.

I also understand that this is not from bad intentions on your part.
Weird flex, but okay
Thank you for taking the time to answer my question!
I do not know. But, there have been experiments, and some microbes are more durable than expected.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_microorganisms_tested_...

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qkvk33/bacteria-a...

and... well... the moon has been there a while.
Well yes, right now that is true. Without filesystem access, without long term persistence, just process memory access, a compromised browser can dump whole db from 1password7 at once. You only need seconds of time.

If only recently accessed passwords were unencrypted, only those would be available.
Afaik, processing fees for higher-volume vendors are below 3% and kick-backs to consumers tend to be 1-3%. Is there much margin left for VISA, the bank, and Apple to share? Can anyone here can speak to this from inside experience?
There are "better" payment networks, but they're regional, and run either by governments or nonprofit organizations. There doesn't seem to be much will in the US for banks to cooperate to form a nonprofit in order to undercut Visa/MC.
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Agreed, re-runs are another annoyance that is driving me away from many podcasts. The concept is an obsolete relic of broadcasting.
Nothing happened to it. If you like your one liner, keep using it. You don't have to use this tool.
Well, 9x and XP were two completely different operating systems that just implemented similar user space APIs. That was a one time transition. Drivers written for NT or 2k might have worked.
Well... yeah if they’re about current affairs like the military or the current state of tech.

I don’t want to listen about a new fitness test introduced in 2011 that they’ve already replaced, or how they’re asking for feedback on programming language design changes they already made half a decade ago.

Also if I get into a podcast and it only has three episodes and then forgotten about I then have to go looking for a new one immediately rather than subscribing and then always having something to listen to.
there are 168,000 gas stations in America. Any given day maybe 100 have a skimmer working...seems like an moderate inconvenience for something that will literally probably never happen to you.

And if it does... just call your bank and get a new card and get the transactions reversed in a 30min phone call.
I love podcasts. As a self-employed person who needs some light distraction but can't walk to a water cooler and just kill some time, they are perfect.

I tried going back to the radio yesterday for a moment and almost threw up with the quality.

Not sure if a "Netflix for podcasts" would work. Unless ad money dries up because advertisers think people skip them too much, then I am not sure what the advantage would be.

I do skip some of the commercials, but I feel like enough get through to make worth their while. I have legitimately bought stuff because of them.

I saw an article about how much Joe Rogan's podcast makes and it was insane, over tens of millions of dollars per year.

The guy does zero advertising and probably has less than 5 people working on it. Fucking ridiculous.
Money. It takes a lot of money to go to all the banks and convince them to switch credit and debit cards. Before that you have to convince the merchants to accept a new card network. That takes even more money.

This cost is why we saw some retailers attempt to make their own wallets. A wallet app is a bit easier to integrate for the merchants than a new card network. The downside is that consumers don’t care about wallet apps. We want our credit card rewards!
It's true! Rule of thumb (which may surprise people) is that cars, boats and planes are all about the same for grams CO2 / passenger mile.

So if you commute 10 miles to work every day, they are similar.
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Yeah, there are some shady dark pools and order types going around.

In regards to money, I think that decimalization actually really hurt market makers. There has been massive consolidation in the HFT space with most players either going out of business or being acquired. Profits are way down and latency arbitrage is almost impossible nowadays without billions of dollars of trading infrastructure. Profits have dropped by something like 90% in the last 10 years and the super-normal profits now (after consolidation) are just "normal."

The good thing about HFT is that with the right infrastructure, it's (almost) risk-free. The problem with HFT is that the returns don't compound, there's only a fixed amount of pennies that can be vacuumed up. This is in contrast with other non-HFT quant strategies, which can run tens or even sometimes hundreds of billions of dollars in capital and can make over 10% annually.

The story with HFT is the story with any new market. Players get in, make a ton of money. More players get in, now they are making a little less money. Even more get in, and now they aren't making enough money. Then the people not making enough get bought up or go out of business. And now the equilibrium has been reached: everyone is making "normal" money and everybody forgets about them.

And all of this is good, it's the natural market cycle. People like Elizabeth Warren were talking about how unfair HFT was blah blah, but now, no one cares. Fortunately, the entire cycle resolved before the government could get their sticky little fingers on it.
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This comment seems like an entirely disingenuous argument for me. I'm sorry if it's not, truly, but it's an argument fit for a Fox News editorial.

> There are plenty of things you can say at the border that will get you on the next plane back home.

Do you mean there are things that non-citizens can say at the border of entry to the US that might prohibit entry into the US? That does not seem like a limitation of free speech within the US to US citizens to me.

> There may or may not be people being held in captivity without access to a lawyer for their speech. We don't know because the proceedings are secret.

What a convenient, non-falsifiable "rebuttal" that takes no position on the matter.

> Someone who practiced his freedom of speech is currently in hiding in liberty-loving Russia of all places.

I'm a defender of Edward Snowden and think it's sad that he has to live in Russia to avoid prosecution. And yet, this doesn't seem like an argument about "free speech" made in good faith, particularly the relative merits of free speech. Which country permits their citizens to disclose highly classified information with not repercussions, however unjust those repercussions may ultimately be?
Also it worth noting this research is done by Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, CA and point to other projects of this research group as well[1].

[1] https://hackingmaterials.lbl.gov
Should note: Apple does partnerships with entities while a new consumer behaviour is in approach, to learn from it and have the option of going 'fully monty' if/when the time arrives.

Before the iPhone, Apple did a big partnership with motorola on a phone that acted like an iPod and integrated with iTunes etc... I was essentially to wet their beak in the market and learn.
Had a nice LOL at the dog relieving itself while they met with Kissinger. Anyone who remembers the Vietnam War would probably laugh even harder!
We shit on Holmes all the time, but sometimes I wonder if she's really so different from the average tech CEO/founder.

Consider that the requirements and circumstances are totally different in our industry vs. hers. She has to do a shitload of testing, she has to wait years... but our M.O. is to move fast and break things. Could you imagine being in her industry, and having the patience to go through years of trials and testing and passing through regulations?

She seems to have some good qualities needed to be a founder: believing in yourself to a delusional degree, being good at getting money an getting people to believe in you, etc. Maybe if she was in our industry, she could have been quite impressive and successful in running a company.
Much of that material is okay, but unfortunately a lot of truth has also gotten pretty badly mangled and misinterpreted.

They cite Terman that dawn simulation is not quite as good as light box therapy but better than placebo (true!), however..

They also claim that dawn simulators are "really nothing more than a timer and a rheostat (a device to slowly change electrical current) hooked to your bedside lamp." This is FALSE, and Terman himself hates such devices, explicitly calling them out in the 2013 review I detail in my main reply. The devices used by Terman in his trial that demonstrated dawn simulation efficacy were on tripods so that they projected light downward, from a meter above the bed [1].

This is exactly the sort of misinformation that enables the snake oil the OP complained of. But I don't mean to make you feel bad; the presentation is of high enough quality it would've fooled anyone who hadn't actually read the original research. Your recommendation of the Daylight by Carex/Uplift is terrific; it has indeed been used in studies and is probably the most reasonably priced of the reputable light boxes.

[1]: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6648580_Controlled_...
I think the lesson to be learned here, obvious though as it is, is that there doesn't seem to be any difference in the early stages between startup ideas that are delusional, which seems to be case for Holmes, and those that are "frighteningly ambitious" (http://www.paulgraham.com/ambitious.html). The execution determines which is which.
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Imagine a malware ad, using zero day browser exploit that is designed to dump 1password db at scale and upload it for further processing. As an attacker you can run this for a while (while exploit is valid) and then compromise thousands of bank accounts you have collected. As many as your scripts support.
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> LeVar Burton Reads

I'll have to take a look at that one... Is it in a book? It seems like a new reading rainbow...

https://youtu.be/uPqpmSWwuGk
Donaghy told his handler (allegedly) that he could swing a game by 6 points, anything more and it would be too obvious.
I like this idea. I could build a client and compete in the messaging space with this tomorrow. As a developer having come of age in a world ruled by FB Messenger, iMessage, Whatsapp etc, this is a whole new freedom and opportunity.

I'm aware that these battles have all been fought in the MSN/ICQ/AIM era too, but it looks like we're going to have to fight them again.
.+\@.+

... I hope
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Agreed. I'm completely skeptical that the expected return is higher for "early stage startup" vs large tech co or "decacorn" (love that term, btw) and investing in index funds and maybe some real estate.
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I just had a brief vision of some translucent card, chip, embedded e paper like display, maybe it mooches power from the reader to do something.
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May I ask how you got that figure? Using Amazon's S3 calculator here, I am getting sub 10c:

https://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html

This is assuming a 5 KB image, no free tier, US East, S3 Standard, and at least 1m requests (GET/SELECT). I'm including data out and data transfer.
But there already is a solution to this in the USA.

The solution is DMCA safe harbor laws, and putting the burden of enforcement on the copywrite holder.

ie, platforms get immunity, and effective non enforcement in all but obvious cases of infringement.

This is the solution that we use in the real world, and it is working fairly well.

And it forces the copywrite holders to be the ones who have to put in the work to enforce things.
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A pragmatic way forward is absolutely to ramp down the institution over time as obsolete. When the car came out farriers did not lobby the government that they needed their institution protected because that is just the way things are.

Its the same argument that was constantly used in defense of segregation, slavery, imperialism, colonialism, feudalism, the belief in the humors, the prohibition of drugs, why housing prices are out of control, etc - its always "thats the way things are and they cannot change". Which is total bollocks.
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How much do you stress the GL implementation? See, I write rendering code fairly regularly and I need drivers that don't keel over in use cases that aren't covered by desktop compositing and the occasional properly ported AAA game title. What I have seen from AMD so far did not encourage me to even try and buy one of their cards.