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Sometimes there's no better alternative, but your wariness is well founded. FOSS Patents should definitely be taken with a grain of salt.

FOSS Patents is written by Florian Müller: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florian_Müller_(author)

As some may recall, Müller was frequently criticized back in the day for failing to disclose conflicts of interest in his reporting. Quote from HN user gpm:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18333187

> I wouldn't trust FOSS patents and the author Florian Mueller as far as I could throw him. He has a long history of being a paid shill, lying about it, and being flat out wrong.

> (Paid by oracle) http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120419070127103

> (Paid by microsoft) http://techrights.org/2012/08/18/vile-lobbyist/

> (Paid by apple? I can't find other/primary sources to back up this claim though it does seem likely.) https://mrpogson.com/2012/08/21/apples-paid-shillconsultant-...

> (More examples of him being wrong) http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120820111527257

> Refuting legal arguments takes time and expertise I don't have. He's good at his job, and I have no knowledge about this case. So while I put no faith whatsoever in his analysis I can't tell you how it is wrong, and yes this is an ad hominem.
An unfortunate amount of my interaction with doctors has just been waiting for them to diagnose me or a family member with the same thing I already figured out is probably going on, so we can get the drugs or treatment to fix it. Self-diagnosis on with the Web has a bad name for a good reason, but with a critical eye you can nail what the doctor's gonna say damn near 100% of the time, or at least narrow it down to the couple things they'll run tests to decide between. It's kinda fun but also kinda sad knowing everything they're gonna say and order in advance because you read stuff on the Web for 10 minutes before the visit. Obviously never let on that you've done that.

The best are when you go through a couple and they can't figure out WTF is wrong and you finally get one who's like "oh yeah, I can't believe they didn't check for this, circumstances and your symptoms make it pretty likely and it's not uncommon" and you're like "yeah, I f*cking know, I read some Wikipedia before the first visit and have just been walking you all through the process of figuring it out, while I pay you for the privilege, but I can't push too hard or you'll think I'm a crank".
Case in point? We’re still alive.

That's a rather crude metric...
"Make the leap from JavaScript to CoffeeScript!"

5 years later: "oh no"
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The very same goes for food: US regulations are extremely lax when compared to other wealthy countries.
A zinger.... except is this even remotely true?

Buying bigger TVs every year and disposing of them in landfills (and sacrificing your quality of life to afford it) seems a bit more toxic than "being smug on the internet."

Plus, isn't the remark itself exactly what it accuses others of... smug?
It's a tricky issue, the NHS is probably understaffed and underfunded but also extremely expensive already. Massively gutted isn't really true: Spending ( % GDP) has decreased but levels are still at record absolute spending

Nurses are to the UK what Soldiers are to the US, any criticism of the NHS is effectively shot down as Capitalist propaganda. There are some serious questions to be asked about the NHS, which arguably cannot be answered (Even if the result is staying with the status quo) due to an extremely sceptical and anti-capitalist left wing.
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So do Boeing engineers, mechanics, and everyone who works there.
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I am growing really concerned about Tesla. It would suck really hard to see Tesla go bankrupt. Regardless of Elon's antiques, Tesla is important for the world. I personally relate to Tesla as a company that is struggling to survive and will make it big in the future.
The operations of a company with size and might of Huawei in China is nothing like the operations of big European or American companies. The Chinese government is very involved. They have offices in the company. Do you think Signal has a government representative on site all the time?
What society has done or is doing is a rather different matter than what it tends to do.
That is a terrible article to base an argument on. You come off more as anti-american than open minded.
That is scary. But what gives a certain government (in this case the US) the right* to say code that has been contributed by global citizens should no longer be accessible to certain people (possible including those who contributed in the first place?)

Isn't something that is restricted against the following statement from "The Free Software Definition"[1]:

> “Free software” means software that respects users' freedom and community. Roughly, it means that the users have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. Thus, “free software” is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of “free” as in “free speech,” not as in “free beer”. We sometimes call it “libre software,” borrowing the French or Spanish word for “free” as in freedom, to show we do not mean the software is gratis.

> We campaign for these freedoms because everyone deserves them. With these freedoms, the users (both individually and collectively) control the program and what it does for them. When users don't control the program, we call it a “nonfree” or “proprietary” program. The nonfree program controls the users, and the developer controls the program; this makes the program an instrument of unjust power.

... the users have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software - That sentence in particular seems to imply that if you restrict it, something can still be open source (OSS), but no longer free/libre (FLOSS). So if the DoD claims to have FLOSS code that cannot be used in certain cases, by definition it should be described as OSS, not FLOSS.

[1](https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html)
I sympathize with where you're coming from. There needs to probably be a unified response from each country to make this transition happen as soon as possible.

Please keep in mind that building a coal plant wasn't a dumb idea 20 years ago where we had forecasted load growth, expensive natural gas, and renewables weren't a thing.
Right, we don't know what the long-term usage of these composites in commercial aircraft will result in, in terms of service-life. I'm sure Boeing have their projections, and I'm sure they're optimistic. I think the larger firms will sell off their aging stock to developing nations as they approach end of life. Those nations might be inclined to extend the life of their air frames past original specifications due to economic reasons.

We know the FAA rubber-stamps whatever Boeing claims at this point, so don't expect regulators from keeping your plastic plane from disintegrating mid-flight.
> and passing on the right

Passing on the right is legal on multi-lane roads in pretty much every state in the US:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13o588Jy5G3cyHEJrk6bN...
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This is absolutely true. In general I feel like it's good when a language belongs to a core team, but they don't appear to be learning from past mistakes. The core team put out a proposal for modules and then immediately implemented it with very little community feedback except what could be done after the fact without breaking much. There was huge backlash and they claimed they would do better and seek community feedback earlier, but now they require that you use a Google web service when fetching modules (I've turned it off) and shoved that out between two versions without any community feedback as well.

Strong central leadership is great, but leadership needs to actually listen to the people they're leading (and not just as an after thought).
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Or, use the excellent uMatrix browser extension to block cookies and JavaScript on bloomberg.com. Blocking cookies and/or JavaScript works for getting around the paywalls on many other sites, including the NY Times, Washington Post, etc. On some sites, you can view paywalled pages simply by going into "Reader" mode in Firefox.
Maybe they called all their "fishy" friends to confirm they caught all their bad stuff?

More seriously, the background seems to be that DB has poor controls overall, so likely this tagger was simply combined with something too permissive and the error ends up not mattering very much.
Free speech! Except for these guys.
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You're not a real pedant until you can spell it correctly.

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> I live in the Tennessee Valley, TVA is consistently the WORST utility in the South in terms of green energy initiatives

Really? Of TVA's energy sales in 2017, 7.09% were from "green sources", good for #4 of all power utilities, private or public, in the country.

https://www.nrel.gov/analysis/assets/pdfs/utility-green-powe...
We(UK) actually rank relatively poorly in terms of healthcare outcomes compared to (notably) the US.

The only measures we rank highly on are those weighting access as well as outcome
Ending the arms race is of value. If you offer a fair thing, then you can push the shady guys out.

DRM support in the browser allowed video on demand in a way that video providers were okay with. It ended the content war for video.
"with no significant chance of unintended transactions or MITM attacks"

I have worked with anti-fraud teams at Alibaba and other unnamed large Chinese firms. This is extremely far from the truth, and shoulder surfing QR scanning scams have been in the national news in China many times. NFC tags are cheap and already being proposed for scooters, etc.

QR proliferation is again enabled mostly by the fact that there is no incumbency advantage, not because they're better innovations. Even you admit they aren't, and you don't seem to fully understand how bad QR is as a payment media. Imagine Square's uptake in American SMBs and then mentally map that almost every Chinese retailer is or recently was an SMB. That's simply what's happening.

I don't harbor the notion that the US is particularly advanced, especially in standardized infrastructure, but pointing to QR as an example of Chinese innovation is not convincing.
This headline should be changed to "Will Close Its Coal-Fire Powered", as the announcement is really just for 2028 and onwards. They haven't shut down the coal-fired power yet, thus the present form of the verb is overly charitable.
It doesn't give any specifics. "2 of 121 parameters were configured incorrectly". Maybe host and port? ;)
I believe that's as likely as Foxconn actually fulfilling their end of the deal in Wisconsin.
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The ads aren’t usefully targeted?

In the early days of AdWords the ads weren’t based on tracking but on page content (much more useful IMO). Nowadays there is this bizarre belief that somehow knowing everyone’s intimate details means your random context-free ad will result in someone buying something.

The problem with the gratuitous tracking is that people cannot opt out of it. I don’t have a FB account, I don’t go to Facebook.com, yet I know Facebook has a profile built up because of those abusive like buttons.

Similarly if I go to an online store, and buy something, there is an additional invisible tax I am being charged: the ads on the store pages feed multiple ad networks my personal info. Despite me literally paying them money.
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Not to be a jerk, but you really should do a bit of research before you make claims that no one would use it.

There was a large HN discussion not too long ago about the fact that Johnson & Johnson's baby powder contained asbestos [1]

The free market doesn't really work in this case because issues as a result of known carcinogens, asbestos etc can take decades to show up. By the time that happens, the executives in charge might've already changed, the company might be dead etc and it becomes harder to hold them accountable for essentially poisoning their customers. So yes, we're alive today. But in five or ten years, would you be happy to know your cancer was the result of a specific brand of baby powder?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18684384
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Yes, I personally prefer streams, LINQ seems to me like mixing SQL in C# and that feels wrong.
You don't know there's nothing inherently unsafe about the handling characteristics, that's a Boeing talking point. You're not qualified to make that determination, and the regulators didn't bother to make it either.

> The purpose of MCAS was just to prevent the need for pilots to recertify by masking the difference

This is a Boeing talking-point as well. The real purpose of MCAS might be to make an otherwise wildly-unsafe plane flyable, and without it it's a disaster waiting to happen. Again, we don't actually know how safe the plane is without it.
The concentrations required for such effects are way higher than atmospheric CO2 changes that'll happen any time soon.
I assume you propose capitalism as a better way? Unfortunately the free market is a utopian myth.

Personally I agree with anarchism that all hierarchies must be abolished, including monarchy, wage labor and even the concept of the nation state itself.

Greed and territorialism have only ever brought grief and misery. The people in power have succeeded in dividing us into easily-manageable tribes and set us against each other, and while we squabble they reap the rewards of our work.

You really should look into anarchism (or anarcho-communism). Peter Kropotkin and Mikhail Bakunin are good places to start. I would also recommend Max Stirner, for a good introduction to individualist anarchism.
I see some similarities here between VW Dieselgate and DB. Must be a German thing :)
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yes, formaldehyde is a carcinogen.... if you swallow it

The main concern with formaldehyde tends to be inhalation.
> I have no idea what having a "soul" means

A design philosophy. Some sort of measurable practice that influences design. This is not limited to Java. Design by committee has been destroying the maintainability of many languages.
And yet really, isn’t that the most important one?

If the whitelist vs blacklist attitude were really as important as everyone in this thread is claiming, wouldn’t there be some mass catastrophic extinction-level event in the US? There’s not.....
Which resulted in an incomplete second check of payments.

(Just to add the other small part.)
Because in exchange they get content. We know there are users who want this because loads of people complain about paywalls.
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Why is this down voted?
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Part of it is due to the fact that advertising has worked just fine without tracking for literally hundreds of years in a variety of different media.

As to your points, though, paid content is great. If people won't pay for it, they probably don't actually want or need it.

I don't want to see any ads. No ad is relevant to me, so all ads, even supposedly targeted ads are random. In 30 years of using the web, I have literally never once intentionally clicked on an ad. So better tracking for ads gets me nothing and loses me a lot.

Wealthy people already subsidize lots of content for political gain, so nothing is changed by having it be targeted ad supported or not.

Most small companies cannot use the legitimate ad networks because they don't have enough volume. So this is a non-issue.
For hosting in Europe I recommend Hetzner:

They have an incredible price/performance ratio and their new Cloud offering is very competitive (for the limited features it offers). The Cloud user interface is wonderful as well: Simple, elegant and very fast. I recently started moving all my domains to them as well since they provide very competitive and non-BS pricing (i.e. no bait-and-switch offers like so many other registrars) and I trust them much more with my data than other providers.

If your business is in the US their services might not be very attractive though as they don't have data centers there.

Scaleway is also a very good provider for simple cloud services, I don't think they offer domain services though.
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I wonder if this could be used to verify a device is who it claims to be, like an alternative MAC with additional security by obscurity. It seems like it'd be useful for apps like password managers or OTP/2FA, though I know next to nothing about this stuff.
> it's arguably safer

Actual data please?

How is it safer? Do we have data on people dying from cosmetics? What is the differential between woman life expectancy in Germany vs. the US? It's about the same in both countries for women. So are we going to argue that European cosmetics are "safer?" What's the actual data say?
In the context of a new UN report "I'd blush if I could: closing gender divides in digital skills through education"
https://9to5mac.com/2019/05/22/female-by-default/
This is all caused by advancement in medical technology. So many people are alive now that should have died during birth. So many should have died at younger ages that are kept alive due to medicines (that people depend on for life). Pain reduces your ability to think. So many people are alive but living in pain. In past decades those people would obviously not be alive.
Completely agree. Convincing someone to feel/not feel is a senseless endeavor!
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Ah, okay. That makes a little more sense to me.
This is news?! All software has bugs. NYTimes is taking advantage of the general public’s ignorance of this fact to imply something sinister. Without additional information - such as it specifically targeted certain transactions - that is misleading.

Remember this when you read articles about subjects you are not knowledgeable about.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect
That only takes us so far.

First of all:
Chrome still has broken color management. DisplayCAL has a way to generate profiles that look like garbage in applications which process color profiles incorrectly, and this happens with Chrome (but not Firefox.).

Besides that, even if it had feature parity with Firefox, we'd still remain stuck in the land of ICC color profiles, and those have a few issues.

I'd love to see web browsers support this modified version of this:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.06067

For which an implementation exists, here:

https://github.com/nschloe/colorio

…but no operating systems and hence no browsers support it.

Edit:

See also my comment here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19983604
Subjectively it feels like NYT publishes a lot more negative articles about Deutsche Bank than about any other bank, or at least those articles get upvoted much more frequently here. Does anyone know what's up with that? I would've assumed that most banks are equally terrible.
Somewhat off-topic:

I wish I could wave a magic wand and get enough trained teachers and funding across the world such that kids can learn electronics and programming from a young age.

Imagine what the computing world would be like if IT familiarity was common?

Back in the day I remember flabbergasting my teachers with the BBC micro plotting program in... I think it was 2nd year Junior school in the UK (so age about 8 I think). I put a loop and extra instruction around the example 5 pointed star drawing code such that it made a Spirograph-like pattern/mess on the screen. Draw x units long, turn 72 degrees, repeat 5 times, at the end turn a few degrees more and keep going. I didn't become a master programmer, I didn't write an open source kernel or any award winning apps, but my comfort and familiarity with computers allowed me to jump in and become a sysadmin. I wish every child could have that opportunity.
A combination of shutting down nuclear to just import from France's nukes down the road and use solar where they don't get much sun I would guess.
The reason asbestos is banned is because it was used and did cause real harms (and even today it's still occasionally found in old buildings).

Sure it didn't decimate the UK population but that's a very low bar to step over.
> should no longer be accessible to certain people

That's hard to enforce, but it's easier to restrict what those other parties can do with the code once they have it, e.g., ban their business from your country.
Clearly not as the US has adopted that mindset for new chemicals. From the linked article...

"The US has similar rules for new chemicals entering the market but no such precautionary principles for the thousands of potential toxins already in use"
> Gary Vee only preaches hustle if you're not happy with where you're at.

I find this phrase trite and full of significance at the same time.

Much of existentialism is an investigation of anguish — the permanent, low-lying anxiety of existing and trying to find meaning in life. This anxiety comes from, and is the process of, realizing one's potential.

Thus, anyone who realizes that their current station in life is not the top of their potential is bound to not be happy with where they're at.

This is not just in business and money. You can be anxious about not having enough fulfilling friendships or spending meaningful time with your children, or any other thing you value highly. Many people give up on stressful business enterprises, but move their anxiety towards other targets — family life, politics, future events, or specific interests.

Conversely, only those who do not realize the gap between their potential and their current situation will be satisfied. The more qualified and diligent you are, the more likely you are to be aware that you're not your best yet.

It takes active work ("hustle" of sorts) to be diligent and unworrying: meditation, therapy, etc.
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This spec literally defines a way of doing so without attribution - the various confirmation mechanisms are all done using stateless and cookieless network requests - all the site operator gets is confirmation that someone did something.

The alternative is a browser breaking all the tracking mechanisms and then getting blocked because it’s “blocking ads”.

This provides an API that allows ads to work, while also allowing a browser to block all the tracking techniques currently being used.

That way web sites can have a revenue stream without gratuitously violating their reader’s privacy.
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