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> But Telecoms and the old Robber Barons had monopolies without government forcing people.

Telecoms were totally built by govs. Back in the days govs were obsessed with controlling the means of communication, so all the related biz was due to the monopoly right.

> AT&T established a network of subsidiaries in the United States and Canada that held a government-authorized phone service monopoly, formalized with the Kingsbury Commitment, throughout most of the twentieth century.

> With $18.8 million spent in 2013, Comcast has the seventh largest lobbying budget of any individual company or organization in the United States.[62] Comcast employs multiple former U.S. Congressmen as lobbyists.

Sure, nothing to do with the government. Go ahead, try to bypass FCC and establish a new telecom company. It's literally pushed by the gov, as in any heavily regulated domain with patents and other monopoly rights.

As for robber barons, that's mostly an antitrust myth to scare people

> After 1900 it did not try to force competitors out of business by underpricing them.[37] The federal Commissioner of Corporations studied Standard's operations from the period of 1904 to 1906[38] and concluded that "beyond question ... the dominant position of the Standard Oil Co. in the refining industry was due to unfair practices—to abuse of the control of pipe-lines, to railroad discriminations, and to unfair methods of competition in the sale of the refined petroleum products".[39] Due to competition from other firms, their market share had gradually eroded to 70 percent by 1906 which was the year when the antitrust case was filed against Standard, and down to 64 percent by 1911 when Standard was ordered broken up[40] and at least 147 refining companies were competing with Standard including Gulf, Texaco, and Shell.
You made some very good points. I still think you can achieve a reasonable level of security with something like Qubes. No computer is unhackable but hacking a computer requires time and money, so it's a matter of if it's worth it. If you make yourself a target for a three letter agency they'll probably get to you one way or another. Qubes allows to isolate network interfaces and usb ports to protect also from evil maid attacks.
After reading through the comments I would like to know the following: Why are there no priorities?

I can't figure it out from the answers. I think with root privileges it should just be possible to say "GUI has higher priority" etc... Then when there is a memory issue you kill some low-priority processes to get the memory back.

But whatever any sane person considers part of the operating system because it is the bare-minimum of what is required to do stuff (filesystem, gui, ...) needs to have priority and always be fast. This can be defined by the distribution using the startup privileges.

So, why is this so difficult?
Normal crap.

Some peoples bodies can easily. Some can't.

Some people are smart enough to handle their smelliness and manage it accordingly.

Many people simply can't, so need to just follow the simple set of rules, bath everyday, wash cloths regularly, to keep their life manageable.

And this isn't a joke. The depression the comes with making life too hard is serious.

But if you have the extra life points to invest in this, go for it. But if you think you have the points but don't, you're now the smelly person people might like but don't really want to hang with.
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To the people who say you need a car if you have kids - this is how we do it in Copenhagen:

https://live.staticflickr.com/3662/3465284112_5aab494014_b.j...

A transporter bike can carry 2-3 kids easily. It's the most convenient, cheap and healthy option.
As soon as the kids are old enough they get their own bike.

Of course, it's convenient to have access to a car a couple of times a month. But definitely not on a daily basis.
But isn't that exactly what the linked article advocates Linux should also do ?

Before quitting background applications it first sends them a request to free memory, in a well-behaved iOS program you use this to clean up your caches and ensure your don't use more RAM than you absolutely need. You should also suspend your state to disk when your app is backgrounded so you can just continue where you left off if your app is killed.

Many macOS apps also do this, you can forcefully restart a Mac and after a reboot it'll restore your session to pretty much the exact state you left it in, including any open 'unsaved' files.

Linux could implement a similar mechanism to signal apps to clean themselves up and maybe a 'save your state, you're about to get killed' signal.
I hope this works -- street view of in front of a Japanese kindergarten. Electric 2 seater bikes are the name of the game here for 2 child families.

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.675605,139.6796798,3a,75y,22...
I think there are ways to game it, actually. You need someone else to give you that first upvote. I think/assume that those first few upvotes will make it visible to more people which will hopefully attract more upvotes. Of course the content still needs to be good enough to get those upvotes; but it makes it more likely to dodge the risk of good content going ignored because nobody sees it.
>Market retribution...

Good Joke
While sending comment bodies to these services :) what a privacy
My god, that paper is absolutely terrible. The science one, while not without issues, is much much better. The title also sucks less.
You don't have to use quotation marks for something to be a quote. It's not insane at all.
Read the comment by idoubtit in the thread below to learn how to prioritize:

idoubtit 2 hours ago | unvote [-]

Point 3 is wrong. OOM killing is not random. Each process is given a score according to its memory usage, and the highest score is chosen by the kernel. The way to mark priority in killing is to adjust this score through /proc. All of this is documented in `man 5 proc` from `/proc/[pid]/oom_adj` to `/proc/[pid]/oom_score_adj`.
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/proc.5.html
I've got friends in Berlin who have no car.
They're a family of four and they go everywhere either on their bikes or public transport.

Last year when they took vacation, they just jumnped on their bikes and spent two weeks on the road cycling. For me it was unthinkable until they told me there are guides telling you which roads are safe for cycling.
Pretty much how Apple does not sell other phone brands? Stores have the power of deciding what they sell and what they do not sell. This is not anti-competitive by default.
No it is not. Unless you can't buy basically the same stuff from lots of other places this is simple the usual whining about 'big cooperations'.

The reality is that amazon overs good prices and people like to shop there.

And yes, suppliers are gone complain, that amazon is evil, just like suppliers complain that walmarket is evil, just as suppliers always claim whatever larger reseller they sell to is a evil monopoly.

The definition of a monopoly in economics is if that seller can essentially employ monopoly pricing, but amazon prices are not incredible higher compared to the competition.
My six year old plays the "theme park tycoon" game a lot in Roblox and it's truly splendid. No need to spend any real money, the social part is very minimal and very nice (you can visit theme parks made by others). The controls are a bit wacky here and there but nothing unlearnable.
I used Spectacle before but switched to Magnet now (https://apps.apple.com/ch/app/magnet/id441258766?l=en&mt=12). It's basically the same.
You are effectively arguing that, in Alabama, for instance, since 2 months ago, pro choice are the intolerant ones and pro life are the non intolerant. After all, the law there, says so according to your reasoning.

> A can stab B and B can stab C, that does not make the stabbings of B and C "abstract".

If A stabbing B is a crime and thereby - according to your reasoning - "intolerant", while B stabbing C is not a crime and therefore non "intolerant". Then the concept of "intolerance" is definitively an abstract.
Have you actually commuted long distance > 70 Miles each way?

I worked out in the UK it costs (after allowing for tax) £10k pa to commute the 70 miles to central London - and thats not counting the costs of the extra hour and a half out of your day.
How are Tesla’s solar roof tiles now?
Without even clicking that I knew it was gonna be ETH Zurich... They do pure magic. Pretty much nobody _else's_ quadcopters can survive a motor failure... (But it'll come, presumably. Amazing software is cheaper than redundant hardware, after all...)
> For example, I don't think my freedom of speech should trump Cloudflare's or Voxility's right to freedom of association.

Right, but those only produce a conflict in a very specific case and your right to free speech should be defended by your government/peers regardless of where you do the caching for your blog (or whatever).

I have a huge issue with this modern relativist approach, because it leads to the situation where - instead of acknowledging that there are in fact absolute rights - we constantly debate where _the line_ is.

I think the boldest example of why this is bad is the right to live. In my view, this is an absolute right. "But what if it's a mass murderer?" - "But what if they are terminally ill and are suffering?" - "But what if they are so heavily handicapped that... ?" Adding _ifs_ and _buts_ to a right that should be absolute leads down a very dark path, because _the line_ will be a constant subject of discussion.

I think we would do ourselves a favor to just outright declare some rights to be absolute (as we did before and seem to have forgotten).
Intel has been digging this hole for a while, due to the delay of 10nm, they have just shipped rebadged 14nm chips with higher and higher clock speeds. No way a brand new node can match these clocks with decent yields, so even with a healthy IPC increase, they are still fighting an uphill battle.
I don't think the title is doing Intel justice in this case. The graphics performance went up substantially, as did the IPC. Intel decided to trade-off part of the IPC improvements for a lower power consumption. Combined, Ice Lake seems like an improvement across all dimensions for me.

Perhaps we've just been spoiled with the leaps that AMD has been making recently.
It's very easy to take a particular right (e.g., speech,
property) and defend it absolutely. But rights are
inherently social, and must be balanced against other
people's rights.

Would you find it acceptable if we societally agreed to do away with the privacy that surrounds the dispensation of healthcare - all the costly protocols (like Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and others), the costly mandated use of privacy compliant software, the costly mandated use of approved healthcare vendors and sub-vendors, the costly management, storing and archival of your records - all of that - say in the name of cheaper, higher quality and more widely accessible healthcare with more rich array of options offered to the citizenry as a whole - the likes of which that are unimaginable in our bloated, archaic and fault-prone system?

Doesn't that sound like a good societal trade off? Your paramount right to privacy can't be defended absolutely at the cost of people's basic access to quality healthcare.

Now can it?
It's probably image analysis from overflight, if I were to guess, or an ML-augmented database.
> Tesla can price lower than Ford/Toyota/Merc, lose money every year while the competition slowly dies.

That is just wrong. Tesla can lower prices (or rather get more profit from EV) because they have strategically invested in the necessary supply chain.

The idea that Tesla is systematically losing money from their sales and thus undercutting the competition is seriously wrong.

I don't know about those others, but the idea that all those companies are just living of debt sound pretty wrong to me. These companies are more efficent, and that is where they make up the difference.
You're really close.

Don't audit a sample. Audit all of the votes.
all philosophy aside, these decisions were not made based on a moral conscience of any sort. Just because corporations are in some sense treated like people in the United States doesnt mean they act in any way like them. Epik and Cloudflare are donning the cloak of moral turpitude to protect their shareholders.

Cloudflare and Epik are keenly aware that if they do not take some tangible action immediately, they expose the company to enormous risk. They understand that Americans will not be able to get satisfaction from their government or law enforcement. People will file lawsuits that will be well funded, and increasingly difficult to defend.

Even if there is no lawsuit, there could still be a mass exodus from these providers. GoDaddy enjoyed the same such exodus after years of bad PR and Cloudflare is no different. Host the site that planned a mass shooting, and companies will flee from your service to protect their brand.

This is really no different than Subway dropping Jared, or Disney dropping PewDiePie.
Middle and high school do matter, but I don’t think primary/elementary/grade school — whatever you call it — makes much of a difference. I attended the average neighborhood primary school back in my day, and went on to the most competitive middle school, high school, and university.
Some of the older tech was more reliable that the stuff put in the 70's (My dad an EE did some consulting for TFL a few years ago)
In the past, I often spent more than 30 seconds on each recaptcha. It really is a problem. That improved by allowing google cookies but now every webpage with recaptcha I visit is being tracked by Google. :(
Rakaste vägen is the aggregation of the Finnish word Rakaste and the Swedish word vägen. There are quite a few words in Finnish that are borrowed from Swedish.
made a killing colloquial but also.. apposite given what nearly happened (happy Finnair customer btw)
What illusion should I be seeing?

Edit: More information here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/color-grid-28734535
There is public health care in US. Medicare for old people, Medicaid for poor people, and anyone without insurance can go to the ER. It may not be great, but it does exist.
I was frustrated 8 years ago. I upgraded from 16mbit to 32mbit to 50mbit and every 2 years the internet speeds keep getting higher until I stopped caring.
> She forgets that the Amazon marketplace is made up of sellers and the prices aren't controlled by Amazon for a lot of their products.

1. Amazon requires you to sell your products at the price that is not higher than at any other channel you use to sell.

Even if there was a competitor that allowed you to offer a lower price because of lower fees (important on high price, low margin stuff like computers) you can't.

2. Access to many traffic/buyer driving features of Amazon is conditional on the product being offered at the lowest price it was ever sold

3. Buy box algorithm, which is a black box, is known for kicking out sellers who raised their prices.

Sellers are forced to cut deeper and deeper into their margins to account for inflation, new duties, new requirements from Amazon (prepaid return shipping) and Amazon fees (new long term storage fees, being charged a refund fee, even if Amazon shipped your product late from their warehouse).

> How about making a service better than Amazon? No that's impossible?? Well you can bet there are a million people trying right now so there are and will be plenty more alternatives.

How about creating a better mobile carrier or ISP? All US options are inferior and much more expensive than what you'd get in Europe.

Haven't happened because it's next to impossible to compete with big guys without first sinking many billions in infrastructure? who would have guessed..
> yeah, now imaging you have two of them going to two different schools, each 40 minutes walking distance from home, different directions and your office in somewhere else too.

I grew up in a small village (+-70k) in the Netherlands, we had 4 schools within 15 min walking distance and I think twice as many with 15 min cycling distance (all kids go to school by bike here). Why would you send your kids to schools 40 minutes walking distance from home?

edit: added number of inhabitants of the village
It can't look into the future, but it certainly could use the information from the past.

Has this application already allocated 90% of the memory? Has it been steadily growing the allocation without releasing much back? Well then, why let the system run out completely? Why not stop it at say 10% or 5% left?
> Aren't they playing really nice and even operating at loss until they become a monopoly?

No, they aren't. They publish their financial statement every quarter. Generally their revenue is very close to their expenses. Given that, it's impossible that "operating at loss" is an accurate characterization of their business strategy. Jeff Bezos has a saying; "Your margin is my opportunity." It lays out pretty clearly what Amazon's actual business strategy is, and it lines up well with their financial statements. Target a very small profit margin, move into every possible market by accepting a lower profit margin than incumbents, make money by leveraging scale and network effects to drive down costs in ways that other businesses can't replicate.
> Of course it's more expensive than it is in poorer countries in eastern Europe, as everything is.

We might be poorer but our telco operators pay market prices for equipment. Wages and land lease is also quite expensive. Financial cost is higher with rates and currency risk vs euro.

In Poland telco market had been skillfully and actively managed by regulator forcing constant investments in infrastructure and encouraging competition.

I pay 75€ per year for 1TB of mobile plan (calls ans SMS included).

https://biuroprasowe.orange.pl/blog/az-1-tb-danych-nielimito...

My parents broadband had been recently upgraded from 30Mbps to 150Mbps without any cost increase and without even asking for it. It is just the operator (UPC) trying to fend off competition (Orange, Netia). Cost is circa 10€ per month.

https://www.upc.pl/internet/kup-internet/

You can easily get 1Gbs in mayor cities.

Around the place where I live there is a lot of housing developments. Operators are racing to build the infrastructure and sign the clients even before the houses are finished.
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>Treasury uses three criteria to apply the designation: actively intervening in their currency markets, having large trade surpluses with the U.S., and having large overall current-account surpluses.

Monday’s action by Treasury is mostly symbolic, requiring the U.S. administration to consult with the International Monetary Fund to try to eliminate the unfair advantage the currency measures have given a country.

Does that mean it is only "unfair" if it negatively affects the US? such a definition of "fair" means that no country should be allowed to do better than US
There are often howto's on the net how to bypass the protections even of the latest phones. Last one I saw was over the settings for disabilities on the lockscreen.
As far as I remember the only reason Light lost at the end is because a character managed to make an exact replica of a Death Note overnight. A magic book that can hold infinite names. It was this plothole that ruined the ending for me.
To be fair, good cycling infrastructure is not pervasive in the whole of Europe either. In the Netherlands it is, of course, as in most of northern Europe. But I'm from Spain and in many cities, cycling infrastructure is either almost nonexistent or an afterthough with many insecure spots, just as you describe for Melbourne. And cyclists are definitely second-class citizens. Things have improved a lot in the last ten years (from cycling in cities being almost unthinkable to Melbourne-like) so I hope this comment won't be true in another ten, but we still have a long way to go.

Ability to walk to places and decent public transport is practically universal throughout Europe, though.
>You can walk in SF, I also did it, but the difference is that you don't really see much of the city if you do

What are you talking about? The first time I visited SF I just stumbled upon Haight-Ashbury and Japantown by walking around.
If they can't afford it without credit, they can't afford it with. And vice-versa. There is no credit construction that will make this different, except if it has a negative interest rate. To me this is obvious because if they can afford the credit, they can afford to save.
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Phone farming is actually easy to be banned if the investors apply appropriate fraud detection strategies such as IP/device ID collection or user behavior classification. I wouldn't think phone farming is as profitable as it used to be.
It was not a trade off, it was a last minute fix take attention away from the cpu deficit
Solar cells. They have offset the energy needed for production in a couple of months. And of course, you can use solar energy to produce solar cells.
Fast internet has been available to at least half the country for some time now. Virgin Media launched 50Mbps in 2008, and for most households that would still be enough today.
i've booked a slot.
Much like throwing away a large legacy codebase and rewriting the product from scratch, it may seem easier to "do it the right way this time", until you start discovering, one by one, all the little corner cases the old codebase solved...
> graphics performance went up substantially

Maybe this is due to design improvements unrelated to the process node?
I wouldn't say most cities unfortunately. European cities are quite walkable and not as sprawling as American ones. But it is still pretty easy to end up were only cars can go not that far from the city center, or where there is only the occasional bus. Asia is really the leader in public transport now. I think the article is slightly misleading. Currently in Europe things like bike infrastructure and public transport is sort of like the development of drones. Everyone is saying they are doing it to claim they are keeping up, but not a lot is happening. It isn't like Shenzhen were every year there is a new pedestrian street, bikes, subway line, train line or something became electrified.
It depends on what you mean by parallel: nodeJs is single-threaded, so every CPU-bound task runs sequentially. But all the asynchronous tests are run concurrently by the test runner (Mocha[1] in my case).

[1] https://mochajs.org/
True, but these weren't terrorist propaganda sites, they were the official websites of Hamas & Co, and they do have an english version for anyone not familiar with Hamas. Zoho apparently is providing Email to them.
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I am sorry if the confusion upset you. We haven't submitted this post and communicated via other channels (e.g. linkedin) where we mentioned our goal of 10k subscribers. Via which channel did you join the mailing list?
Intel Xeon is getting slaughter as well.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-epyc-7742-vs-intel-xeo...
nearby post-communist country...Slovakia...the coverage and quality they have is outstanding.
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If deomcracy been broken since the rise of technology and mass media, then I assume we're talking about Hearst and his stoking of propaganda during the Spanish-US war of 1898?

Or perhaps you're referring to British propaganda during the Boer War?

Thinking that the advent of Facebook has radically changed the use of media for propaganda purposes is misguided. It may allow for more direct propaganda and greater ability to select and target a particular audience, but it is no different to the psyops and propaganda techniques that have been prevalent during the entire 20th century.