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I just wanna give a quick word of appreciation to the precision and tact of that rather-well-deserved F-bomb. Discriminate, precise, no collateral damage. Just a perfect emphasis upon the absurdity that is DRM.
We need better software alternatives, not regulation. That’s how we beat IE, and that’s how we beat AOL, Britannica and so on and so forth.

The problem is a lot deeper: https://qbix.com/blog
You can do nothing wrong and still end up in this situation.

For example, get involved in a messy divorce, get out-lawyered, end up on the hook for astronomical amounts of retroactive child support. If you're not careful you might be dealing with a lot more than just the repo man.

Plus the way the legal system is in the US, a single unpaid parking ticket could spiral completely out of control into tens of thousands in late payment fees, fines, and jail time.
> Vendor lock-in isn't a good plan

I'll take vendor lockin over being locked into a bunch of homebrew garbage that some former developer managed to sucker the entire company into creating because of "vendor lockin". So many times engineers come up with fears about "vendor lockin" and forget how easy it is to lock the company into an unsupported, half-baked homebuilt product that has nothing to do with the company's core business.

I've seen it with reporting and analytics, I've seen it with frameworks, I've seen it with deployment systems, build systems and configuration management systems. I've seen it with payment systems, crappy half-baked hybrid cloud implementations, database provisioning systems and more. All in the name of "avoid vendor lock-in".

Being locked into your own garbage-tier product that has nothing to do with your business sucks. If stripe kicks the bucket, you won't be the only person in that boat and there will be a path forward. Know what is worse? How about when the only developer who can support your crappy half-baked payment system leaves the company? Which stack overflow article will show how to get out of that mess? Talk about vendor lockin! You locked yourself into your own mess!
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I saw this on @litquidity and thought it was still an April fools headline
And then they can "save" Alaska.
Part of the problem with climate change is that some of the effects are self-sustaining. For example, snow and ice reflect light back into space. If the temperature increases then more of the ice melts, so more light is absorbed by the earth which raises the temperature.

Then even if you get rid of the carbon, the temperature stays higher because the ice is gone and is no longer reflecting light back into space. And the ice is from the last ice age, it doesn't just refreeze on its own -- especially now that the temperature is higher.

Meanwhile with higher temperatures there are more areas of drought, which means less vegetation grows there, which means those areas can absorb less carbon. And that too is sticky. If the temperature stays higher then there continue to be droughts and less vegetation.

What this means is that we need to stop emitting carbon ASAP, and then on top of that ultimately do something to reverse the effects and actively work to get the temperature back down to where it was, because it may not be able to fix itself.

We think of the Earth as a self-regulating system, but that isn't because it's stable, it's because it's adaptive. Earth's temperatures have been higher than this and still sustained life, but none of that life was humans, and the previous changes were accompanied by mass extinctions.
I'm sorry, I do not understand what you're trying to imply.
I missed that, thanks for posting.
Discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19553452
This was probably in development before FoundationDB was open sourced, but this is exactly the type of system where FoundationDB shines. A developer from Apple did a talk at the FoundationDB Summit describing Apple’s metadata store for machine learning that people interested in this from Lyft may like.

https://youtu.be/16uU_Aaxp9Y
Applying Artificial Intelligence to Nintendo Tetris (2014)
This is the ongoing saga of a brilliant female kicking a big dent in the universe -- all by herself! Predictions of the demise of sci-hub are greatly exaggerated. How do we know what steps she has taken to make sure sci-hub is not totally dependent on her? Let's assume the best outcome, instead of the worst.
The Hokutosei from Tōkyō to Sapporo was a really good way to travel, but it was discontinued in 2015.
I can't stand to be in a bus for more than about an hour and a half (or on a plane at all), while I can be in a train all day and enjoy the ride. YMMV.
https://github.com/lyft/amundsenfrontendlibrary
To Microsoft, C is dead :( They don't get that C isn't just an old version of C++.

It took them 18 years to reluctantly produce an incomplete implementation of C99, and only the bare minimum to satisfy requirements of C subset in C++.

This is super depressing, because there's no hope of C being evolved further. Any fixes to the language will end up being "non-portable" due to Microsoft thinking C is done.
"The more prudent (and profitable) strategy however, is to remember that your ‘offering’ is not the same thing as your ‘product’, so even while the latter’s commoditized, there’s ways to compete, and even stand out with an overall unique offering."
That's the difference right? Even when the underlying product is 'interchangeable between producers', it doesn't mean your entire business needs to be. Even in your examples, airline seats and car insurance might be commodities but Southwest and GEICO can (and do) charge a premium to the lowest cost producer all the time- whether it's because of their brand, user experience, customer loyalty etc.
Since the SEC can't enforce actions outside of their jurisdiction, this actually makes total sense.
Actually, it's possible to remove all the extra CO2 just by planting trees (not to detract from all the other things we should be doing).

Furthermore, it's affordable: $15/average US resident/year. I wrote a blog post about it recently:

https://automicrofarm.com/blog/2019/03/solving-climate-chang...
> and the fact that all the page urls still had a .gne extension

What's significant about .gne as an extension? Not sure I've consciously come across that one before.
>The Denmark-Germany ferries on that route are ~150 m long, and fit a train of up to 100 m length (or something in that ballpark).

Whew!

>https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:2017-08-22-ICE_TD_Puttga....

High-tech.

>Larger ferries on other routes have multiple rails next to each other, and long trains are split up across those.

Great idea.
You wouldn't hear about the most recent campaigns because they wouldn't be declassified yet.
"...no way of gaining access to the enemy's devices without that method also being applicable to everyone else."

That's only true of some methods like using exploits and other vulnerabilities, or mass-surveillance style methods. It's not true of other types like confidence tricks and social engineering, eavesdropping and potentially watching passwords being entered or getting them on camera, phishing, fake wifi points, tailored viruses, or cookie hacking. Those methods can be designed for a specific target. Of course, there's also the good old-fashioned method of getting a warrant for data.

The entire concept that the government has "a right" to this data - an argument I've seen judges actually make to justify these activities - is ludicrous. They don't have a right to it by default. They have a compelling interest in the data/information if and only if there is enough reason to believe someone is up to criminal activity. In which case they should have no problem at all getting a warrant.
Clearly not. You’re not going to hold people captive on the bus just to make up a few minutes. However that doesn’t mean the bus drive has to accept new passengers when someone does get off (it’s not common that happens but I have seen that happen before and it’s highly infuriating for those waiting for the bus. Which is likely why it’s not common)
Vaccination is recommended before one's first sexual encounter, which happens at a very young age for many people. I was a goner before I even knew about it. I don't want other people to suffer the same fate.

People should be making a bigger deal out of HPV, not dismissing it like elsewhere in this thread.
Well investment is always a risk right? The investors aren't being fooled, they know what they're getting into but still believe in the business model.

I agree with the little guy can't compete problem though. But that has been around forever. E.g Amazon has driven many smaller companies out of business by just being able to sustain massive losses for prolonged periods.
I don't think it's objectionable that any countries Intelligence Service tries to identify threats before it's too late.
I don't think they lose any money at all. They pass the entirety of those costs onto customers.

That's why, for example, newer EC2 instance types cost less than older ones: whenever they decide to cut their margins to increase volume, they essentially do it across-the-board first, and then they back up and increase the costs for the legacy instances to reflect their increasing support burden. (It just happens to look like the legacy instances hovering at a static pricing while the modern instances get cheaper.)

Also keep in mind that when you're selling B2B SaaS, legacy services are mostly kept around because there are big enterprise accounts that pay to keep them around. If there are only three customers left on non-VPC deployments, but one of those customers is IBM, you're not going to pull the plug.
I do agree with you about risk vs benefit for vaccines. It's totally obvious that widespread vaccination has vastly improved human health. No question about it.

However, as you say, there are occasional adverse reactions to vaccination. And how that's perceived is very different for individuals vs public-health systems. Public-health systems focus on reductions in epidemic risk. And they address adverse reactions by compensating those affected.

But individuals see only the adverse reactions. In themselves or their kids, if they're unlucky. Or in news from family and friends, or in news reports. Statistics about effects of mass vaccination on public health are just too abstract.

And on top of all that, as I've argued, governments have often lied. And do lie. For many reasons. The EPA is lying on a huge scale, now, in rolling back various protective rules.
Affairs? Sexual orientation?
This is a nice "silicon valley in a nutshell" post. Meandering startup skates by on generous funding rounds before finding itself a niche in the surveillance economy, where it is (of course) still not profitable, but congratulating itself for the ability to able to raise further investor money, conditioned on the prospect of expanding monitoring software to ever wider markets (while as a sideline ruining San Francisco for working people). An unusually clear example of startup tools building startup tools.
This would help with not wasting the trailing bus's extra speed, but I think the buses being that close together is already considered failure. And in the real world, there would be many more stops on a circuit. Any advantage the faster bus has will be reset in 1 or 2 stops, and on a route with 10-20 stops, the extra space between them is negligible.
It's private money behind, but I still wonder whether this a reasonable way for the economy to run.

I'd say it is. On the one hand, it's good for you that receive a cheap service at the expense of VCs. On the other hand, the economy is far far better exploring multiple solutions, some of which will stick, than entering the dead way of what an experts comite consider sensible.

Once the capital is burnt, the survivors will be healthy businesses. As for the little guy can't compete (is that really always true?) I'd say it's the value for society that matters eventually.
Some examples off the top of my head:

- Going to a gay bar

- Going to an STD clinic

- Going to a therapist’s office (mental health unfortunately has stigma attached to it)

- Going to a legal cannabis store (I’m Canadian)

- Going in a date with someone who, years later, does something terrible

These are all completely innocent things that someone may still want to keep to themselves, and which could be used to put together a negative campaign against someone in the public eye.
Your Coffee Shop Doesn’t Use Two-Phase Commit(2005) [pdf]
Law enforcement depends on the fact that no individual can reliably evade the power of the state for very long.

The existence of bounty hunters is in some ways just a bizzare commercialisation of what should be a government function.
Um, you guys... the PR firm that uncovered this alleged plot is called - wait for it - “Vested”.

“Kim, president of the communications agency Vested (the reference is to the finance term, not the sleeveless layer), attempted to place an order for a client...”

Their website is www.fullyvested.com and their recruiting page is titled In-Vested. Get it? In Vested.

Scroll down the article to the satirical Instagram post with a new definition of “Divest” involving “guys named Chad.”

Announcing it yesterday would have made the prank too obvious.

Hats off to the creative director at Vested for pulling off a masterful stroke of guerilla marketing. Now they are on the radar of tons of finance firms who know that this firm “feels their pain,” so to speak. Well played on all fronts.
Ah crap that's true. I wonder how I could access it earlier. I don't know if there is any other source in English, sorry.
I've always found that the key realization is that on the whole things aren't "valuable data". Very few data points are actually valuable.

We call it valuable data to feel good about it and indignant about howe we're treated. Coming face-to-face with the possibility that our individual data is worth essentially nothing is uncomfortable.
I spent nearly $400 on CompuServe playing "Island of Kesmai" as a kid.

It was the first and only time I ever saw my dad visibly tremble with rage and turn red. ($400 80's bucks is a lot of 2019 bucks to spend on a video game.)
A building comprised of wood does not continue to remove carbon - but if that tree continues to live it continues to remove carbon.
Of course trolley buses (or streetcars/trams) can't do this
One of the only interesting observations in the (awful, just awful, I cannot emphasize enough how bad it is) sequel to The Prep Handbook is that synthetic fleece had, since the first book, became a hugely popular exception to the usual prep-set rule of "no synthetics", largely for practical reasons (at least at first). I wouldn't be surprised if it's a bit of dressed-down prep fashion being expressed or imitated, at least by a certain set of the folks wearing it. Finance'd be the right crowd for that.

[EDIT] that is, The Official Preppy Handbook. The sequel's called True Prep and is, again, awful, do not read it, it has none of the fun, well-voiced humor of the first, it's bad, bad, bad.
Don't think I can take Ms. Notopoulos seriously when she doles out dreck like this:

> The Power Vest flaunts a very cruel male privilege: being comfortable.

> The Power Vest is a form of male privilege, a hideous fleece totem of the patriarchy’s oppression of non-cis-male people in the workplace.

Seriously? It's just a vest.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/i-wore-...
They found the card with my passport. They took the card, and a few days later my status was revoked as well.
>The reason they care about "catastrophic and specific leaks or revelations based on their own private data" is because that is the only time the average user notices how much information they cede to these platforms.

Because the instances of tangible harm coming to someone from data leaked by Facebook et. al. are few and far between.

>If the general public truly understood how much information they give up and how valuable that information is, people would begin to take these things more seriously.

I think it's intellectually lazy to think that people disagree with you because they don't have all the facts. Most people are aware with the amount of data collected on them. They are somewhat bothered by it, but not bothered enough to make a lot of changes.
If they aren't making a profit they aren't creating value. They are destroying some value and transferring other value from investors to customers. The difference here is when you add everything up you have less, when for a good investment the total should go up.

In principle, in a fair market economy, that is OK because someone has to take the risk of being wrong about what is a good idea.

The concern being voiced is that monetary policy is diverting resources away from people who are known to make good long term decisions and towards people who have access to loans from the central bank. At some point the people who are borrowing money can't pay it back and the losses are revealed - not in and of itself a problem; those responsible take the hit. But in the mean time, the people who would have used the resources more sensibly to build infrastructure or sustainable logistics chains havn't been because they weren't being given the time of day by the markets.

The worry is that a dropping tide lowers all ships. If value is being systematically destroyed and the cause is government incentives then the potential for that to crop up in unexpected places is quite high. I'm always tempted to link monetary policy to the themes of pension issues, low real wage growth, poor infrastructure and rising inequality seen in the US.
Bloat. Just bloat.
Bring back the motherf... website that is just plain old html.
I truly hope she is able to find others she can work with in order to maintain and build Sci-Hub. She is an inspiration and a great example to those of us that believe in the ideals of transparency, freedom, and the pursuit of truth through science.
I spent a year in Germany circa 1999 and then overnight trains were all the rage. For instance, Dresden to
Amsterdam was an easy and inexpensive trip. Going east you
could get to Budapest, going south to Innsbruck, etc.

At that point an American in Europe would ride the train as much as he could, but the Europeans I knew thought taking a plane was cooler and it was a good experience because the plane had competition from the train.
>The cost? You give up some privacy. Only no one cares about that. Most people don't have anything to hide from advertisers.

SSN, PII/PCI, medical history, personal secrets, naked photos etc...? Identity theft is at an all time high, and it's only getting easier.

>Most of this personalization tech doesn't even work. I've literally never seen an ad so enticing that I've clicked on it.

Then why are they among the most successful business models in the world?
Sucks, I agree, but this shouldn't be surprising. No one wants to open source their DRM. The title made me think they blocked you from creating a browser, which clearly isn't the case, unless you really feel that Widevine support is necessary for a browser these days (is it? I have no idea...)
Well another OO way would be to add a state member to the Heroine class and create a state class for every possible state (X,Y,Z). Each state can then be responsible for interpreting the input and transitioning to the next appropriate state (if any)
> Birds choke on your chewing gum!

This is the first I've heard of this one. It sounds reasonable, but something tells me your school was using this as an excuse to keep kids from sticking their gum all over the place ;)
Mercer traffic is pretty good outside of the times of day when it’s closed and used for parking.
I condemn the rich who want to isolate their kids instead of working on a public school system accessible to all, yes.

It's oddly transparent to limit your stats to white people.
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There's also the Malmö-Berlin night train that takes the ferry between Trelleborg and Sassnitz. It doesn't go all year though.
Stop using Google products. Should have used Firefox. Seriously. Stop allowing them to contain their control. As stated in the article, Google's browser has 70% market share. Firefox is the browser we need.

"Don't be evil" has been changed, remember? They now embrace evil, they love it.

Edit: downvote this all you want, I really don't care. You're going to be at fault for the destruction of the web in the future.
Fraud is a better term than theft but this probably does not constitutes fraud, that would depend on the terms of license and sale. MS is not confiscating physical property just discontinuing a service that was hosting digital books (I presume if they are confiscating them) and unlocking DRM for those licensed books to be readable. I'm not advocating MS's play here I just don't agree the term theft is accurate for this, just as an individual is not stealing by reading/hearing/watching/witnessing copywrighted information no matter anyone's terms.
> Working at home saves you daycare.

Wow. Do you have kids? I guess it depends on your job but I have a hard time imagining this being possible with a kid under 5. Mine is 18 months and with my job this would not be possible to pull off and not end up getting fired.
This is pretty clearly not virtue signaling. If it was something they were advertising doing in a conspicuous way, then it might be.
I agree with you. Assumptions will cause a person to fail a sociology class because the majority of them are factually incorrect and anything that has the potential to cause negative consequence should be thoroughly examined before being published as valid, but if it is just an idea or a thought then I would personally write the idea as a question and send the question to those in current research.
This happens daily on the Muni 30X in San Francisco. What this algorithm needs is a comfort level such that a persons decision to get on a bus is a function of their expected comfort level and expected arrival time.
or Cambodia, which has some interesting laws on copyright that effectively mean foreign copyrights are not enforceable there.
In Soviet utopia, only one toothbrush. Very efficient, yes?