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> If consumers don't counter-lobby/protest/break some heads they'll get the laws ip-holders want.

If IP holders get too greedy, consumers will just pirate stuff. I mean, consider the situation for music vs films. Music is available at low cost through streaming services, and piracy is no longer a major issue. But piracy remains a serious issue for films, which are still priced way too high.

But I suppose that piracy is a form of protest, so hey.
I'm honestly not that sad.

In the enterprise, open source looks a fair bit like a Java monoculture, and it's one that's become way too heavily influenced by the interests of a very small number of corporations. It's another story that starts off looking like a big success for open source, and ends by looking like a big success for co-opting open source.

I'd be pretty happy to see Java fall down a peg or two, so that we can move back toward being a bit more bazaar and less cathedral.
> you have to accept that things like Siri operate just like talking to human customer service representatives, who these days always begin conversations with a rote "This call may be recorded for quality and customer service purposes."

Then why isn't it mandatory for Siri to start every conversation like that too?
Maybe it's how you grew up or where you grew up, but I know some 1%-ers, who are rich but not SF/NYC rich, that take much pride in their lawn, garden, and having a tidy home. And they very much enjoy being the ones that take care of it. As much as my dad loves to bitch about his lawn that takes 4 hours to mow, he loves doing yardwork. I think it's actually relaxing for him and gives him a sense of accomplishment he doesn't get from sitting behind a desk all day.
You are most safe just pronouncing it as "Dvoraak".
Hopefully you’re right.

But I think if you look at how the people of Greece have already suffered since almost having a sovereign debt crisis you’ll agree the potential is there for it to be quite bad in Italy.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/09/business/inte...
You read this story and think it boils down to "hating on Musk"? Which of the story's numbers or claims about SolarCity finances and production do you believe are distorted or misleading?
I have never met anyone confused by what beyond meat is offering and find the complaint that it is false advertising is ridiculous.
Could you explain what you think the difference is between "carbs" and "sugar"? Fried potatoes have a very high glycemic index, making them pretty much no different from eating candy IMO.
Nothing about the scale of McDonalds should suprise you. It is one of the top agrifood supply chain businesses on the planet.
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Writing a lengthy article in 3 languages is pretty inclusive. Thanks.
From broke English teacher abroad to Uber Software Engineer in 8 months
Not just his cousins (I doubt Musk actually cares about them), but himself personally. He personally held a bunch of SC bonds. Tesla shareholders footed the bill to bail out Musk himself and get him out of those terrible bonds.
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I haven't, no. If anything I've been trending more OOP by starting to write C++. I just haven't had the opportunity to switch gears that much.
Nah, corporations are just waiting to replace us all with robots and AIs. Even said "perfect" woman pales in comparison.
I'm not even what people usually describe as hard of hearing, and I need to go back and rewatch a couple lines of TV with subtitles to get it. It's useful for all kinds of people.
I feel like this could be any number of things, but ultimately it is a story with a wonky title that IMO implies a great deal more than the information does, one source, and who knows what else.
The problem is fair use isn't something that can be algorthimically determined. All you can really do algorithmically is say 'this bit of content matches this bit of content' determining if that match is part of fair use requires determining the context in which it's used which will be a hard problem until we either figure out uploads (and some poor schmucks' uploads have to watch and filter YT videos all day) or general purpose human level AI.

There are some heuristics that could be used but so many of them break down in pretty common cases. Eg: If we say using a small portion of someone else's video in a larger video won't strike it leave out some types of videos like Destin from Smarter Everyday or the Slowmo Guys where the most interesting shot could be 3-5 seconds total or if we just measure by length of copyrighted material vs the whole video we'll wind up with bit 10 hour compilations of copyrighted stuff from different places maybe. It's a hard problem and unfortunately Google (pushed somewhat by the law and somewhat by their own internal decisions) take a flag and contest approach that favors the 'original' creator.
The best time I ever had was in a "bull pen" situation (our team at the time called it alternatively the "oven" or the "barn"). It was at a new job, doing something new to me (server automation), and our team consisted of one of their senior devs, myself, and two really "green" new guys who were also hired along with me. One was new in the sense that they had a fresh comp-sci degree but had never worked in the field before, and the other had worked in the field, but never at an employer (only as a remote contractor).

The place had no open desks for us, so they decided to turn the small conference room (we had interviewed in) into our shared "office". Trouble was, it had no A/C vent in it. Hence, with four people and four computers and four monitors - it became "the oven" (there were other reasons we named it what we did, but they aren't relevant here).

But the camaraderie we built in a short amount of time as a team was beyond anything I had experienced before. We'd keep the lights off, a fan running, and a spotify playlist cranking out weird music (our lead controlled it, he was younger than me by many years - as an older person just turning 40 - his choice of music was both odd, and interesting - I'm glad for this, as I discovered new music genres I never knew existed - like Pirate Metal - yes, Alestorm was one such band).

Eventually we got a portable A/C unit, which made things more tolerable.

Ultimately, though, that room helped to form a team that cranked out some interesting code in a very short period, which I think helped to lead the company to be sold to a larger competitor about a year or so later. I ended up leaving the company (the new owners did a "rehiring" process in which they offered me my position at a 25% pay cut - yeah, sure, let me get right on that).
Agree with the article's criticism of the heavy focus on Brittany Kaiser. It felt like the filmmakers were trying to put her into Snowden or Assange type circumstances, and then use those circumstances to manufacture credibility and heighten suspense. I have difficulty with the scene about a news article breaking that mentions her. Shes groaning about her career being over, but you can tell shes really excited to be in the spotlight. Assange comes off equally self-centered in the Poitras documentary, but in that case the magnitude of circumstances had already been established, along with his central role in those circumstances. The filmmakers behind 'Great Hack' never reached those levels of clarity regarding involvement, and as a result their decision to use Kaiser as primary subject felt misleading.
French fries contain no sugar? What? What do you think starch is?
I agree with some of the sentiment, but I do disagree on a couple of notes:
1. I don't think white rice needs a tax, nor would I consider it a "fatty product". I end up eating white rice probably 4/7 days of the week, paired with whatever vegetables we bought, and either a legume (chickpea, lentil, black bean) or tofu/seitan. If I didn't prep anything, I'll pop a bit of rice in the instant pot and mix it with peanut butter and nutritional yeast in the bowl. I love brown rice, but for a couple of reasons we mostly eat white rice, and I would still consider us healthy people. We do Quinoa and oats a lot as well. I think the main problems with white rice apply to any food. I could get just as fat over-eating brown rice or quinoa. Grains, no matter which you choose, should be just a component of your meal.

2. I'll keep this one short since I rambled for way too long about rice, I think eating more than one piece of fruit per day is fine. Depending on what is in season, my personal tastes sometimes have me missing my fruit target, but I still think having an extra apple or some berries is a way better snack than anything but maybe some raw vegetables. Juice, and dried (with sugar added) fruits are unhealthy except in moderation, but fruit shouldn't be lumped in with those. The fiber helps slow the digestion, and they are vitamin-bombs.
Also they've been completely left out of the vegetarian market other than for snacks.
> Why do they knowingly do this? Do they think they won’t be found out?

In the attention economy, it doesn't matter. Get found out? More attention, more clicks, more likes, more ads, more money.
The issue with this review is it bizarrely focuses solely on the US. Another case of American-centrism.
If the US did start adding 240v circuits they would almost certainly use NEMA 6-15 or 6-20 plugs for compatibility with (the rare) 240v appliances like air conditioners or hotplates which use those plugs today.
Rousseau found a way around the block. He uploaded the video again in a way that caused it to be claimed, rather than blocked, by a different company. He'll still have to dispute it, but YouTube is not obliged by law to take down content that only received a claim. The video is no longer blocked.
Also Tim Hortons is offering Beyond patties in many of their breakfast sandwiches.
I worked at a few WeWorks and many of their floors had rooms that were vacated and empty. When we left We Work they offered us big discounts so that we would not leave them. If a recession hits I think they will lose a great deal of customers.
I think plant-based is actually a selling point currently, so they would be doing themselves a disservice by not making it explicit on the product. I don't expect people to buy it accidentally.

As for the wording, I don't see why its any different from veggie burger, or diet soda. Consumers associate these products with certain properties, which can be emulated in the substitutes.
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Potatoes are starchy and have a high glycemic index (like sugar) as well as fats (potentially saturated) from the oil.

They’re not good for you, but I’d argue they’re not as much of an issue because you can avoid fried potato products much more easily than sugar.
The title of the Show HN grabbed me and the design on your homepage had me leaning in.

I think it's hard to differentiate on design fully as a basic CRM. One idea you could look into as both a feature set and a focus of your marketing is leaning into the idea that you're the ideal first CRM and you make migrating to Salesforce dead simple.

You can snag ppl like our company who have been told you'll eventually need to be on Salesforce but aren't ready for all of that overhead. Then once you've got a community of users, you have a chance at adding more and more functionality that will get people to stay with you instead of migrating.

I've always thought there was a market opportunity around that.

Good luck
Unfortunately all shared library entry points have to be marked as possible destinations for indirect jumps. However, both seccomp and SELinux can block the execve system call.
Diabetes is the cause of nothing. Diabetes is not a disease, it is a status. Like a runny nose when you have the flu. What you can say is that people with Diabetes tend to develop something... Sure. But causality is not causation.
The thing with the sodium was debunked like a hundred times already, how long is this myth gonna last? Beside a temporary spike in blood pressure, there is nothing wrong with eating salt.

https://medium.com/@drjasonfung/the-salt-scam-1973d73dccd
All of the fastfood chains based in united states have much better quality abroad.
I think you might be surprised about how many churches don't ask / don't require you to share their exact views on abortion.
I charge my other manufacturer electric vehicle from a standard outlet every night over 12 hours or so it's sitting there because I drive it less than the charge needed every day, much like the vast majority of people would.
What combination of words would you like to be used to describe these new foods?

Do you feel the same way about soy milk or almond milk?
Related scenario: Imagine I sold a digital image (artwork). Imagine I sell two versions, each licensed separately (if you want both, you have to buy both): One is a full color image, and the other is a grayscale image.

If you display the color image on a black-and-white monitor, you will be seeing something virtually identical to the grayscale version.

By the logic I'm seeing here against Amazon, it would therefore be considered copyright infringement to sell black-and-white monitors?
Thank you for the recommendation; that was a very interesting read. I find that I can't quite agree with the last "nontrivial goto" example, though. This version without explicit gotos is actually shorter, and IMHO not really any more difficult to follow:

int parse(void)
{
Token tok;
while ((tok = gettoken()) != END)
{
while (!shift(tok))
if (!reduce(tok))
return ERROR;
}
return ACCEPT;
}

I will say that any language without goto, or where the use of goto is discouraged, should at least provide guaranteed tail-call elimination as an alternative. In this case the gotos could easily be converted into loops, but not every algorithm is so accommodating.
Hey, author here.

So this person actually put that title in the email to me.

Aaron basically realised he didn't want to be a broke ESL teacher any more, learning to code and is now working at Uber and has got a 100% remote contract.
Fundamentally a documentary is trying to sell a narrative using documentary cinematic style.

Now sometimes this is mostly benign or even "good." Such as detailing an event in a in-depth matter-of-fact style. Works such as the early Planet Earth series are simply trying to capture and show the wonder of life around the planet! And maybe hopefully encourage you to try and protect them as a secondary upshot. As time has gone on, they've produced works are that much more blatant with their "save the environment" messaging.

However, most of the most popular ones have a significant editorial bias. Heck, one of the first landmark pieces, Nanook of the North, was almost completely fabricated! Often quite easy to spot as well. Some are very up front about their bias, such as Michael Moore's work. Some less so, such as the editorial narrative in features like Forks over Knives or Blackfish. And some it's quite subtle. The recent Making of a Murderer comes to mind where certain facts weren't presented and it's framed in a very sympathetic light towards the defendants. Sure they have a lot of true facts within them. And often you learn quite a bit! But they are often presented in a particular fashion or certain points are talked up while others are ignored or not presented.

It's an unfortunate thing, but even the most innocuous of documentaries have some small bias. And it's up to the user to try and understand how much is narrative editorializing and how much is "truth." It's all part of making the documentary feel more true and tap into our need for a strong narrative arc via romanticizing the story we see unfold.
I'm concerned that any action on sugar will drive up artificial sweetening. I don't believe that's a good alternative.

I've recently come across content that discuss palatability, food triggering your reward center, and how we're maybe meant to consume a bland diet: https://chriskresser.com/the-healthy-skeptic-podcast-episode.... I've posted this link before, in another thread. I'm a big fan of the message.

All in all, it's hard to say. I don't think the public has a good understanding of what "healthy" and "good" food actually is. Schools of thought say there's nothing more dangerous than mixing carbs and fats, while fats and protein and carbs and protein are "good."

Nutrition science doesn't help make things any clearer, on a weekly basis you can find studies contradicting each other.

I suppose I'll add:
there are particular diets (macronutrient combinations, unprocessed - food preparation) more effective for fat loss where palatability doesn't trigger fat storage, than say maintenance of body weight with good nutrition.
Other responses have tried to summarize WHAT is happening, but not as much as the why (or at least, the direct why as opposed to the handwavey "encourage innovation" why).

For that, look to the past before copyright was a thing. Sure, there was the immediate result of when you put out a book others would copy the text (sometimes poorly). But another huge issues was _translations_. If you put out your book in, say, English, that meant you had a fairly small market. Those with the money for books and the background knowledge and interest in your topic were probably among the smaller well-off classes in several countries. Translations of a hot title were big money - and they'd be done, probably by others, and probably not as you (the author) would like.

Thus, while the first copyrights were "don't copy the text", derivative works like translations were soon added. And because other languages mean other countries, there was an incentive to create international agreements, and this led to modern copyright.

Arguably, all of the above are pretty decent reasons for the copyright protections we have. Consumers benefit because creators can expect to be paid for their work, and because creators are more likely to focus on quality than just getting it out first (particularly on translations).

In that light, the argument that a speech-to-text translation requires permission makes some sense, at least legally. One could even argue that the copyright-holders (publishers, in this case) have a reason to not want a poor speech-to-text translation to ruin the reception of their works.

Of course, this falls down when the publishers are preventing purchasers from making use of such services even when those purchasers are aware of the source of the translation, and any motive other than greed falls away when the publisher wants to be paid a second time. But the publishers aren't coming at this from nowhere, it's an existing, long-present concept.

Arguably laws should change. Alternatively, consumers could demand changes in behavior (I have low expectations of that, but that's the theory).
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I'm a confused person. I thought 'beyond meat' sold lab grown meat, not vegetables that taste like meat.
This sort of context ignorant pedantry is extremely tiresome.

The comment they replied to literally says "(refined) sugar". They are talking about added sugar, not the constituent molecules of the food.
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Also things like:
"U.S. economic growth is not translating into higher median family incomes. Real GDP per household has typically increased since the year 2000, while real median income per household was below 1999 levels until 2016, indicating a trend of greater income inequality"

And:
"Total compensation's share of GDP has declined by 4.5 percentage points from 1970 to 2016. This implies that the share attributed to capital increased in that period."

Also:
"Measured relative to GDP, total compensation and its component wages and salaries have been declining since 1970. This indicates a shift in income from labor (persons who derive income from hourly wages and salaries) to capital (persons who derive income via ownership of businesses, land and assets). This trend is common across the developed world, due in part to globalization.[16] Wages and salaries have fallen from approximately 51% GDP in 1970 to 43% GDP in 2013. Total compensation has fallen from approximately 58% GDP in 1970 to 53% GDP in 2013"

The whole picture here is a pretty mixed bag and not at all a case for how median wage to the average worker is phenomenal.
I think they should not call it meat anything. They should just create a new thing, so people can appreciate it for what it is, rather than expect meat and get an uncanny valley effect.
Fully, fully agree.

Tech has opened up "channels of analysis" that the US spent a huge amount of time, effort, and social strife legislating against. Because of the hub-and-spoke model of tech and data, a lot of these channels have been re-opened in indirect, but socially important ways.

What goes in one end for social media, comes out the other end in your insurance rates. How do we think Rocket Mortgage generates am instantaneous rate, when mortgage lenders used to rely on a great deal of relationship management and building to do the same loan issuance (and, they had credit scores back then, so it's not only an API into FICO that's changed).

There are so many unknown unknowns here now. Previously, your mortgage rate bumped up if you lived in a red-line neighborhood. This was legislated against. Now, is the same thing happening with online banking/online health insurance rate quotes, etc., if you have a history of social media locations that place you in minority neighborhoods? Odds are, I bet yes, or something very similar.

The more people that realize what is going into seemingly innocuous uses of tech - game apps, social media, food ordering, comes out in the other end in things that really matter to us - banking (this guy's kid spends $1k a month on candy crush), insurance (see the article), politics (we all know this), the more this can start to be legislated safely, and at least make the consumer aware.
To get people eating more healthily you have to get them accustomed to eating healthy dishes. In India a go-to meal might be various curries with legumes and vegetables. In Japan an everyday meal might include grilled fish and tofu soup. In America many people default to foods like fatty ribs and butter-laden mashed potatoes.

They may want to eat healthier but people turn to foods out of familiarity and convenience. People don't have time to always think of new ways to eat vegetables. When you encourage Americans to eat more vegetables many will instantly think MORE SALAD. I mean salad is great but it's not enjoyable all the time.

You can think of different food cultures as providing different proportions of nutrients. American schools should introduce kids to food from other parts of the world early on that taste great and are great for the body. If they default to tried and true "American" foods like burgers and pizza, they prepare young people for a lifetime of unhealthy eating.
They were never going to give you recourse anyhow. They'd be idiots to do so. I certainly would not be willing to personally guarantee that hostile, intelligent human beings will not find some way past the security I implement. I'd love to be able to, but when the opposition is as smart as you and generally endowed with more time and motivation, giving out lots of recourse if they do manage to score some points is a fast route to bankruptcy.

If you think about it, most of our normal concepts of "recourse" involve things entirely under the other party's control, and in serious contracts, still often have a call out of "acts of God". It'd be like a football team offering legal recourse if the other team wins; not the brightest move.
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Except Israel moved their entire Comsec to Beer Sheva in the middle of nowhere.