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Blockbuster had exclusive rental agreements where they could rent movies for weeks before Redbox. I'm not sure where the first-sale doctrine came into play there, but this was a reality of the time when Redbox began to make a big splash in the physical rental scene.

I think the fact that renters had more choices in 1999 is because Blockbuster was a near monopoly and nobody was really challenging their status quo outside of some regional shops. All of the price changes happened as Redbox entered the scene, not Netflix streaming (though Netflix mailers were a challenge as well). So even without these streaming services you'd be seeing the same BS with only being able to buy a film for several weeks before it would be available to rent.
What if Mate kept track of the vocab you learned and as you browsed the internet, replaced English words in articles with that vocab
>> Push Notifications must not be required for the app to function, and should not be used for advertising, promotions, or direct marketing purposes or to send sensitive personal or confidential information.

Serious question: how do I report apps that violate this guideline?
> If you know what a monad is, you should also know the founding ideas behind OOP.

You know full well that those founding ideas are mostly irrelevant to what most people mean by "OOP" nowadays. "OOP" right now is C++, Java, C#, Python…

What Alan Kay was talking about is now called the "actor model", of which the most prominent champion is Erlang, which sells itself as a functional language.

Different times, different terms. Which is why I can say with a straight face that OOP sucks and Alan Kay is brilliant.
For sure, Kara has a lot to say and is smart, but opinion writing seems too shallow for her. Tyler Cowen has also fallen into this trap with Bloomberg.
You mean a straightforward negotiation.
It’s definitely an issue, and I’m interested in the recycling of solar panels in the same way that I’m interested in the recycling of all electronic and industrial products. For instance circular economy regulation which would require manufacturers to make allowances for recycling. I also personally would be wary of allowing Cadmium Telluride panels to be installed. But to be frank most of the objections you see are obviously being cultivated by the IER and similar organizations as a sort of talking point, not out of serious interest, that article and that quote is a prime example.
Nothing's stopping those scripts today from converting all links to bouncing through a redirect domain for tracking, and yet scripts aren't doing that.
Then turn those off? These things are a tradeoff for usability, Firefox is trying to be competitive for the masses, I have a feeling your ideal Firefox would feel pretty clunky to someone who's not familiar with tech.
> Asking "can modern monetary theory work" is sort of like asking "can I recreationally use heroin and not get addicted". The answer to both of these questions is yes, in theory both are possible. But look at the realities of these situations.

Sounds like the theory is wrong then
I used to rent a ton of movies, and never once ran in to a rude employee.

Long lines were annoying, but the worst was having to drive to and from the store. The independent video stores in my area were much further away than the nearest Blockbuster, so Blockbuster was more convenient but their crappy video selection made going to the independents instead worth it for me, and Blockbuster was the store of last resort.

Once I started using Netflix's DVD service, I never set foot a brick and mortar video rental store again. Why would I drive somewhere when I had an excellent DVD selection at my fingertips that would mail the DVD to me?
The complexity and existing implementations of traffic AI in these kinds of games makes me wonder whether it's possible to get Google to make a generalizable Google maps engine for any 2D map, with a well-defined addressing system and multiple transit options with stops and routes.

- networked simultaneous agent navigation for real-time traffic reporting etc

- rerouting after mistakes

- comparing multiple transit options from flexible (walking/driving) to fixed-line (public transit, flights, waterways)

- handling updates to the routes, addresses, and the map in general

It would be especially cool if it could handle any kinds of transit determined by general traits (ground/air/water, speed, flex/fixed-stop, fuel type, passenger count) so you could even use it for a fantasy town with a dragon-drawn carriage and a catbus.

Unrelated, I find it depressingly amusing that the simulation was built with automotive traffic being the default and only way people can live their lives, and public transit and pedestrianism is a "TODO", much like many major cities in the world (esp. outside EU/east Asia). Once those are implemented, I'd love a fork of this project that straight up doesn't have cars. I would like to see the emergent effects (or failures) of a city that is forced to grow around pedestrians and trains.
I did this alone. The database itself was only about 200 lines of code but took about three weeks of effort which included writing the initial implementation, refactoring it, writing performance test, optimizing the implementation for the intended load and integrating in the application.

The application was much larger, about 40k LOC and took about two and a half years to complete, certify and deploy to production.
Are most of these Canadian visa holed up in the various Motel 6s in the Washington area? I imagine the ICE fished in this area, because it was a good spot to catch fish. In general, I don't think much of the government, but I am sure they have metrics. The local ICE satrap isn't going to keep sending people to Motel 6 if they aren't catching any fish.
Education Dept. rejects most applicants for student loan forgiveness program
Many years ago, I created BabelFrog, a chrome extension to to instantly displaying the translation for any highlighted text. Unlike other similar extensions, I don't have access to your pages until it's activated, slowing down your browsing or risk your privacy.

It's activated with a keyboard shortcut: Cmd-E or Ctrl-E.

https://babelfrog.com
Agreed. It remains to be seen if Boeing deliberately used a loophole to avoid reclassification of the MAX8. If so, I'm curious to see how this would be different in a court of law. Especially if Boeing is compelled to provide email around the comms with specific regard to MAX8 certification.
Yes, but why should the debate be framed in terms of only looking at fees or living with congestion? There are other approaches to what is essentially distributing limited resources.
> de jour

I'm not sure if this was intentional, but I kind of like this for a legal status viewed as being ephemeral, as a portmanteau of du jour and de jure.
the irony of what you just said.
> a big point of the OP is that Netflix has 100K+ titles, obviously Redbox can't match that.

It would be tough to get studio buy-in, but it would be amazing to have a version or Redbox that burned DVDs in place.

From a logistics perspective it would be ideal if they could use disks that degraded after 5 plays, but they could also just accept disks back, read them, and destroy them.
Side note to Andrei: If you care about keeping your email address hidden in the screenshot, don't just blur it. Blurring text is not sufficient for privacy. See for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8078747
just because the conditions are appalling doesn't make doing illegal things okay. you don't see me break into my rich neighbors property and move into his garden cottage just because my house is in appalling condition.
"You can die from exposure, you know."
Prototyping Best Practices Using React for Front-End Developers
I’d love to hear more about your experience. I’m designing new ways of conducting research at a big research institute.
>> A warm place to sleep, good health, good food (and coffee) and nice, caring people are priceless. Dropping $5 you don't have on overpriced coffee is proving that it has no power over you.

In modern society, money has power over us no matter how we act. That is, we're forced to make money to sustain a satisfactory quality of life. Wasting $5 on a coffee will actually increase the power money has over you because you will be forced to make more money down the road.

It seems like you're wasting money as either 1) a training mechanism to prevent yourself from developing an attachment to money, or 2) an expressive mechanism to express to yourself/others how much you hate the fact that you have to make money.

I'd suggest finding a healthier mechanism for expression/change than wasting money. Lots of people learn to value things in life other than money without digging themselves into a financial hole.
> What stops the os from taking an irq

From the article

For data confidentiality, in addition to the call stack management described previously, Ginseng must also intercept all exceptions to save sensitive registers to the callstack before the exception can be handled by the OS. Ginseng intercepts exceptions using dynamic trapping. A NOP instruction is inserted at the beginning of the exception vector code in the kernel, and replaced by a call to the secure monitor at runtime when sensitive data enters registers. (Once the registers are clear of sensitive data, the NOP is restored). Once the OS serves the exception, control is handed back to the app. GService manages the return address to ensure we resume at the correct point in the sensitive function.
> The article isn't advocating that you buy a coffee every single day. It's saying a. focus on larger issues and b. it's okay to do a little self care and a little self indulgence.

Huh? That's exactly what keeps people that are on a cusp of climing out of the hole in a hole.

It is too bad fatwallet.com is dead. It has very long threads ( years long ) of people describing the tiny improvements that they made and how over years it significantly affected their life in a way they could not imagine when they made that silly "I won't buy $5 late and instead add that $5 to my credit card payment" change.
Funny, considering I was born and raised in the US yet I grew up poor.

And yet I don't see the US doing anything to stop 'domestic' poverty. In fact, I see programs being dismantled for the poor and downtrodden.
Manning is willing to talk on the record and "snitch". She just doesn't want to do it behind closed doors. But all grand jury proceedings are done behind closed doors for good reason. Manning has no moral high ground here.
Streaming content selection is garbage, except for their original programming, and getting Blu-Rays by mail, which are easily ripped, is less risky and higher quality than piracy. Not hard to see the appeal.
Embryos can be screened - doesn’t help the individual but prevents inheritance.
Is nobody aware that you can pop the web inspector out into its own window?
Thanks for the link, very interesting! I've always used the term McDonaldization.

If you look at % of people who trend towards similar culture affects, I think you're probably right (but would love to know how/where people are tracking this!) But, if you look at absolute numbers of people who are into something non-mainstream (e.g. not the primary culture), I bet we're way ahead of where we used to be. Also, I bet there are more subcultures flourishing out there -- bronies probably weren't a thing 500 years ago. Finally, I also think we have more acceptance for not being of the primary culture than years ago.

That isn't to invalidate your point, I just have questions about statements that claim something about long term trends.
Yes, this bothers me greatly, particularly since in 2018-19 you could throw a pebble in any direction and hit someone who knows JS/jQuery/CSS/HTML. You almost have to go out of your way to find someone who doesn’t. I’m sure this guy is great at other things but students are paying thousands of dollars for this education.

I only remember having one prof who clearly didn’t know the material. He spent most of every class just copying code onto the board by hand, then trying to talk about it a bit. I really didn’t learn much in that class. Unfortunately it was the foundational C++ class at my university and really kind of handicapped me in successive classes that were also taught in C++.

My alma mater? The University of Michigan.
99.9% of users wouldn't know why their phone battery is dying more quickly. They'd just complain that the latest update (or whatever) made their phone worse.

I guess they could have some sort of pop up saying "The website you're visiting is using a technology that uses more power on your phone" but that seems like a pretty crappy compromise.
I would use this all the time.
i do think that we re not far from the average redditor.
You're entirely missing the point; which is blind faith in technology and scientific authorities, and humiliation and public shaming of anyone who dares to step out of line.

Same, same but different. At least you can hold your local shaman responsible when you learn that he took money to feed you lies.

Are you saying that matter can't be infinitely subdivided? Because I'm pretty sure the jury is still out on that one.
> My problem with this vision of OOP is that it would seem to take a great deal more support from the programming environment to make it work, compared to FP

One way to think about this is that there isn't a difference between your programming environment and the rest of your computing environment. There are no real "applications". There are just message sends and objects floating around. This is what Smalltalk was/is like.
I am aware that he says that people can be in multiple categories. However, many of the things he describes in the ruiner category are way more typical of mental illness, which to me is deeply problematic. The focus appears to be on how bad the people in category 5 are. It's attaching a shitty, judgemental label to very sick people at the very bottom rung of society.

Yes, there are scammers, predators and just plain assholes in the homeless world (and these people should be in a much smaller and better thought out 'ruiner' category). However, the difference between someone who "needs a bit of help to get through the day" and "someone who is painting the walls of their room in poo" is largely a matter of degree (i.e. one requires massive quantities more help to stabilze).
Breitbart is usually the one that receives and publishes those types of leaks because they are increasingly one of the only outlets that conservatives in those companies trusts to consistently protect conservative sources and reliably follow through on publishing that kind of material.

It's unfortunate that the wider media increasingly ignores leaks and news that goes against the grain. It's made me, someone who does not like what Brietbart has become post-Andrew, have to check them occasionally to get a fuller picture.
Yeah, no, Redbox selection is slim. Unless you're into direct-to-inflight slasher films. In that case Redbox is dabomb.

;-)
Even the "Head of People Operations" gets $827,000. Rank and file? $0.03 cents per share.
Well scaring people away from renewables is pretty counter-productive to the decarbonizing cause so that was not my intent. I happened upon that article when reading something else earlier today and thought it might be relevant.

Certainly coal is worse. We should just be careful to not replace one problem with another. Obviously in mass, coal will dominate. It's most a question of raw material availability or economics of recycling that matter for the vast expansion of energy harvesting we're talking about here.

I'm glad that you as a knowledgeable person in the topic are not concerned about any negative implications of vast renewable buildout for electricity, transport, heating, and industry.
Because these conversations happen all the time, have been happening for at least twenty years, will continue to happen for at least the next twenty, and somehow always feature the same whataboutism responses.

It's my preemptive retaliatory strike to bring up a high profile case of someone looking in the press like they pulled of a 2x improvement in 4 years and really they did no such thing at all.
8 years after it was implemented in Firefox and 7 years after IE and Chrome. It is far from a new thing, but it is great to see Safari catching up with the web standards.
Thanks. I'll keep an eye out for IER sources in the future and be more skeptical of their talking points.
Generally yes, although I definitely wish the initial load was speedier the better looks and "flow" are worth it imo.
I usually browse Reddit using Relay and look at my saved posts on desktop, which has benefited a lot from the redesign since I can just do stuff in a single tab instead of middle-clicking a bunch of posts.
Yes, that was my intent.
There is no such thing as "free" energy. The technology you use to capture the energy costs something. The cost of getting energy out of batteries has to be added to the cost of generating the energy that gets put into them in the first place to get a number that makes sense.
There is little to no correlation of benefit to society provided and salary gained. Nobel prize winning scientists are generally not poverty-stricken, but they rarely make anything close to what a successful Wall Street stockbroker does, for example.
Libraries vary tremendously in their selections of DVDs. Some libraries have pretty good selections (though still not nearly as extensive as Netflix). Other libraries have absolutely awful selections.

Also, from my experience, many library DVDs tend to be scratched up (especially popular DVDs), while Netflix DVDs tend to be better (though some still don't play on my DVD player, for some reason).
VVVV gamma version is out
Again, subscriptions are 15% after the first year. Spotify is acting quite disingenuously in their claim.
> what is the language and mindset of “objects” with dynamic dispatch providing you apart from an endless stream of bugs that seem to keep reoccurring everytime you try an evolve the software to introduce a new requirement?

The only mindset required to avoid long-term bugs and maintenance problems is a personal conscientiousness, a personal approach to defensive programming based on (ideally, extensive) personal experience, which will inevitably include a very-hard-earned skillset of decoupling.

Everything else is trivial (borderline bike-shedding) in comparison.

Static types, OO, functional programming, agile, TDD, etc, etc -- these will not save you from your own personal deficiencies. Only long, hard practice will.

A skilled practitioner can build a large, complex system in Visual Basic or PHP using entirely OO idioms. Now he or she may do a somewhat quicker (and happier) job if he or she is able to employ some convenient tools of the trade (eg syntactic niceties, functional-orientation, immutable libs, testing libs, etc etc etc). But the quality and manageability of the system is entirely a function of experience-based skillsets that far transcend the particulars of the programming paradigms that we currently have available to us.

I've seen many a strong static typer, who thinks they have found God, make an absolute mess of everything including its leverage of the type system over time.

I've seen many a developer write OO code within a functional language and vice versa and the success or failure in these cases is irregardless of even the slight misapplication of the tool in hand.

Can you articulate a real world problem into a sound domain model? Can you decouple the behaviors of your system into composable parts? Are you conscientious enough to informally "prove" the transformations (ie git commits) you make to your software system?

If you can do these things, you avoid a mess of a system regardless of your PL and programming paradigms.

If you cannot do these things then no matter what kind of process you bring to the table, you will not be saved.
Everyone is aware. It's much more convenient to have it docked.
Maybe sync subtitles with a mobile device.
No. It's buggy, slow and looks terrible on a desktop/laptop. Not only does it look awful via mobile, it is practically unusable on a phone.

If they cared about usability or user experience, they wouldn't have 3 different reminders to use the Reddit app or redesign each time you visit the site, each interrupting flow or completely blocking the visible page itself. Certainly the web app wouldn't "forget" that you opted out of the redesign or log you out if they cared about user experience.

It's very clear that the redesign was an effort to more efficiently push ads to users and drive their valuation up.
well, congratulations on your courage, but i actually find it less readable, because titles do not stand out from everything else on the page
>Maybe the world will see free codecs on one day.

Of course we will, Supporting H.264 long enough it will also become a free codec. Which is ~2027. Considering x264 is still one of the best if not the best in Medium to High Bitrate encode, this is something worth looking forward to.

And MPEG are already working on new codec based on H.264 that will be completely royalty free.
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Maybe dual-language novels are what you're thinking of?
I'm in analytics, not ad tech, though they are pretty well coupled.

This is a pretty concerning move. One week is super aggressive. There are several ways around their restrictions, but I really wish I didn't have to consider them.

Long story short, if you reflect a client-side cookie back from the server-side (by having the host site set up a CNAME to your collection servers), then it sets an HttpOnly cookie that will last as long as you tell it.

This technique is pretty effective at also skirting adblockers, which is why I really wish it weren't the easiest solution, as my company has been very conscious of not trying to work around ad blockers and the intent of web site visitors.

This is going to surprise and confuse a lot of customers in the analytics world, but ultimately, they'll adapt and we'll make do.
The scientific method was first stated by Robert Grosseteste and later refined by Roger Bacon. They were both, FWIIW medieval monks -in the 1200s. Science and the scientific method and the business of scientific inquiry itself remained an unbroken tradition from the moment Grosseteste first stated it up until the present day. From Robbie BigBalls to James Clerk Maxwell; you could trace the direct scientific lineage.

The Greeks didn't do anything remotely resembling science; I've read, for example the remaining fragments of Eudoxus and Hipparchus (and Claudius Ptolemy); they had no concept of hypothesis experiment and verification. It was just model building -like modern Economics or something like noodle theory; it's only right by accident, because they have no way of testing when they're wrong or right. Cool idea using math to model reality: it's not the same thing.

This isn't something I just trot out for dick waving contests on the internet: I actually know something about it and thought about it well beyond the reading of wikipedia quackery. Avicenna, for example, was a very interesting character and arguably he and other islamic thinkers may have influenced Grosseteste. Heck, you could argue that Kautilya had developed something like the scientific method. However, none of them birthed the scientific tradition: the monks did. I'm sorry if this triggers you or whatever; it's a historical fact -as self evidently true as the existence of Julius Caesar or Philip II of Spain.
No. Not quite. Framerate for me oscillates between 12-30fps (2018 XPS 15 laptop). It's quite usable but not 'desktop speed'.
Only if you think the goal of the tax code should be to get the most money.
I don't doubt you, but it's frustrating to have a "Saved For Later" queue of 50 or so titles that will likely never appear on Netflix.

Walking Tall? Giant? Gaslight? Beach Blanket Bingo anyone? Return of the Dragon? Ran?