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There are so many works that are a crazy tangle of copyright that make it quite impossible to legally get a hold of them.

Shows where individual characters have their copyright held by various estates (where the original copyright holder has been dead for fifty years), the music rights have reverted back to various production companies, and the distribution rights have been sold and split and re-sold so many times the only way to discover who owns them is to let yourself get sued.
I saw the parent's comment more countering the grandparent's assertion that He Jiankui will be lauded. He will not.

He may go down in history, but he will appear in the ethics chapter alongside Dr. Rascher and will not be lauded.
The problem with these "many many ways" are that those that tend to work better also tend to be user hostile (subscriptions for things that have no reason to be provided as a service instead of as a product), make the users the products themselves (e.g. advertising), be privacy nightmares (like both the previous examples, at least for the majority of cases), etc.

At the end of the day the plain old "give me money to give you thing" works the best for all parties involved (assuming said parties want to be involved), despite any drawbacks.

Also as a programmer i'm not sure how i'd go about doing a live show :-P
All knowledge is a palimpsest, I'm increasingly convinced.
In what sense is Donna Haraway a "highly credentialed biologist"?
I'd say that it isn't just a matter of comfort, but also one of personal security.

I'd be far more apt to take a local train in Tokyo or Switzerland than I would BART.
> The market is stronger and smarter than any government

If that is the case, the parking minimums should indeed be abolished, because they are mandated by the government, no?
I'm getting the same spam/events. What's really weird is I'm pretty sure all of these emails are getting sent to spam but gmail/gcal is still adding the events to the calendar.
While perhaps slightly misleading (hence the lawsuit they settled), nothing says it has to be specifically earmarked for anything... at the end of the day it was in the company’s bank account either way and could end up being used for anything, even if they had actually claimed it was specifically for one particular thing ahead of time.

And maybe, just maybe, they had plans and did eventually use it for all the things they said, but didn’t have a particular program in place yet? I really just feel like this is trying too hard to look for something clearly nefarious when it’s just not there.
This is one of the many problems Guix solves on a slightly lower level than most package managers, because binaries live inside Guix packages (/usr/bin is simply populated by absolute symlinks). Of course package managers also do this, but Guix kind of lets you symlink to a (unique) package, rather than `install`.
Do you think it's a fair, balanced decision taking in a wide range of opinion or a reactionary one based on a few particularly loud naysayers? Past conference experience leads me to believe it's most likely the later.
Ask HN: How to handle non-responsive content
Hey HN. Working on a hobby project, where there's an editor that would not make sense to use on anything smaller than an iPad. How would you handle that in regards to mobile users? Give them a message to use iPad or larger, or just give them a scrollable sub-par editor? Cheers
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Feminism makes women unhappy, as its net effect.

https://www.nber.org/papers/w14969

It’s well documented in social sciences, yet the left-wing continues to push an ideology of suffering as somehow “pro-women”.

“Hostile to science” isn’t uniquely right-wing.
>I'm constantly in the process of improving my abilities and I'm happy with my progress. I know where I am and where I want to go. But when I see another developer simply say that they have given up on this process in some fundamental way I will view that with disdain because I see it as a failure, which it is.

So, you get a free pass at crude graphics because you're "constantly in the process of improving" and will "get better in the future", but veteran developers, with fans, many titles, and 25-year old careers don't, even though they have perfectly good (not to mention objective and spelt out in 2 posts) reasons for not investing in better graphics, and their whole genre is not about graphics but gameplay/story anyway.

This is Dunning-Kruger meets entitlement meets rudeness.
Japan, the golden child of public transportation, serves suburban areas as well as urban cores. I am not convinced it's altogether an issue of population density. It seems more a cultural issue. In America, public transportation is seen as being for people who can't afford a car. In Japan, it's just part of how you get places.
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Went and looked it up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sfc2Jg1gkKA

Tim Dodd (The Everyday Astronaut) is just a very good speaker on all space-related topics. Him and Scott Manley (with a healthy dose of Kerbal Space Program) are incredible teachers about space.
Seems like Paglia is stating the blindingly obvious, because so many in her field were rejecting it?
The new breed of SaaS providers seem to be providing pretty good transparency in pricing. Most, if not all, provide pricing directly on their pricing pages. The only difference might be in bulk or large users pricing, but mostly pricing in those SaaS spaces seems transparent.

I think there is MUCH better opportunity in the Enterprise Software space, where margins are ridiculously high, and shady sales tactics are super prevalent. Read: Oracle, IBM, etc. There might also be opportunity to have anonymous users share sales and execution related dirt on Enterprise Software - such as non-performance, technical and security problems, and of course pricing. For instance, try going to IBM or Oracle's Web sites to purchase a "license" for any of their software products. Almost always you'll be directed to contact a sales representative.

One wrinkle in your process is going to be navigating non-disclosure agreements.
I think the Unison language goes exactly in that direction

http://unisonweb.org/
>Listen to any child’s tantrum and you’ll hear echos of foucault’s whining about the unfairness of power.

No offense but it appears you've never read Foucault. He never said power is unfair. It's like saying gravity is unfair because someone was hurt after a fall.
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Everything correlates with everything. Politics is a special case of that.
Hong Kong is a migration issue. So there is a lot for the US and the rest of the world to learn there. A lot of mainland Chinese are working in Hong Kong and this has put increasing pressure on property prices as well as depressed wages. Hong Kong has extreme income and wealth inequality so what you are seeing there is a place at its breaking point. I don't know for sure but I am guessing it's probably challenging for a Hong Kong resident to leave and work in China, you probably need a visa and a work permit. In addition they would be giving up some of their freedom by doing so. And if you are unskilled labor I imagine that is even more difficult to do so.

Brazil also has massive income inequality. They have rising crime and a failing economy which lead to the rise of Bolsonaro. Reading about Bolsonaro and his rise to power is quite illuminating. A conservative authoritarian wave has been building since the 1970s world wide. Also his electorate where mainly influenced millennials which is really troubling. They basically responded to an idea/ideology without thinking things through.

In the US the border crisis is largely manufactured. Yes, people are coming here. They are escaping worse situations at home, seeking a better life for themselves and their kids. The previous policy was "catch and release" sounds bad but 90% of the undocumented immigrants continued to appear and processed through the system. Families were not separated and these people mostly went to family and friends already in the US and had support. Some could work pending their court appearances. That is the most American response to have, let people work! Putting them in cages helps no-one but the for profit prison industry.

We also see large examples of whole industries where immigrants are necessary to keep food prices low. The examples here are restaurants and food processors as well as in farming. So if there is a demand for these workers we should have a work visa system where people can earn their way in. We could say hey no more, but you will get inflation (if you raise wages... but even then there are no Americans who want to do the work) or a contraction. New businesses won't be able to develop at all. My guess is that industry will demand that the prison labor population be used to maintain competitiveness. The problem with the work visa approach though is that over time these folks will want representation (either unionization). So there is a lot of pressure to keep people undocumented.

Brexit is also about immigration and housing costs as well.
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$0 doesn't imply a problem with the market, it implies an issue of oversupply. If the "problem" ends up being that coal/oil plants only run during the winter months, that seems like a net win for the world.
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We use this one, paid version. Sometimes it's a slower load, the UI is less good than GA, other little issues but we still get the core data, and can trap page-level-events.
>Nobody likes the idea of arresting undocumented immigrants and kicking them out of the country

Tell that to my grandma
> Also as a programmer i'm not sure how i'd go about doing a live show :-P

I see live coding happening all over Youtube and Twitch.
the point is to create a negative expected value with low variance for illegal behavior. if the expected value is positive, it is still rational to employ illegal tactics. if the expected value is negative but the variance is high (ie good chance of getting away with it), people are going to be tempted to roll the dice anyway. once you set fines to a level where EV is negative, it should be much more effective to increase the rate of conviction than to continue jacking up the penalties.

think about speeding. a speeding ticket is a meaningful amount of money to most people (usually well over $100 in the us); in some states (eg Virginia) speeding turns into a criminal offense if you are going 20+ over. and yet, most people still speed sometimes and a sizeable chunk of drivers speed almost all the time. on the other hand, speed camera tickets give a $40-50 fine but they get you every time you go 12+ over the limit as you pass the camera. almost no one exceeds the limit by more than 10mph in photo enforced zones. the fine is much lower, but the consistent enforcement makes it much more effective.
Celebrating the death of a feminist woman because you disagreed with her politically is probably the best way to get people to trust you, produce helpful discourse and not fall in line with whoever makes their argument most aggressively
Before I learned Czech, I pronounced it like most English-speakers: da-vor (rhymes with door) zhak (rhymes with shack). Now that I speak pretty decent Czech and can throw down a respectable 'ř'(which is one my great life accomplishments :), I feel that the English pronunciation is absolutely fine, and it requires no change.

You write can write Čapek in any way you want. But, personally, I'm proud that it's spelled that way. People know his great works, they (across all languages) commonly use a word he coined, and they literally make people learn a tiny bit more about the Czech language when they say, "Ah! So in Czech the Č is a CH!"
Hero's of Hammer watch required it, and would not run without it.
Induced demand is not nonsense.
As long as they're weak enough regulations, or they keep staying on the horizon, why would they care?

We'll eventually have regulations cracking down on the privacy shitshow the web is today. But how many billions of dollars were made on the abuse to date, and how many more will be made still?
Fun fact about the origin of flanger, it was originally made with tape machines and got the name because you'd do it by running two tape machines side by side, and press your finger against the metal "flanges" of one to make it slow down relative to the other.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flanging#Origin

> The finished music track is recorded simultaneously to two matching tape machines, then replayed with both decks in sync. The playback-head output from the two recorders is mixed to a third recorder. The engineer slows down one recorder by lightly pressing a finger on the flange (rim) of one of the playout reels. The "drainpipe" or subtle "swoosh" 'flange flango' effect "sweeps" in one direction, and the playback of that recorder remains slightly behind the other when the finger is removed. By pressing a finger on the flange of the other deck, the effect sweeps back in the other direction as the decks progress towards being in sync.

The story goes John Lennon coined the name. Ken Townsend at Abbey Road had worked out a way to mimic vocal double tracking without actually recording the singer twice using this technique. They called it Artificial Double Tracking, or ADT. But Lennon would just call it "Ken's Flanger" and the term stuck.
Intellectual "property" should, at least, be a controversial form of "property." Starting with the fact that the clause in the US constitution that gave us patent and copyright exclusivity for a limited term doesn't contain the word "property." The word is tendentious.

It's a weak right, if it is one: The term of exclusivity is set by statute. Imagine real property rights having a fixed term defined by the whim of Congress. Indeed imagine any right needing to be enumerated, explicitly, and then thrown to Congress to set a time limit on it.

Nonetheless the Framers thought it worth putting in the Constitution and so we have a duty to keep this right from being controlled by big publishing interests, big pharma, etc. (also not mentioned in the Copyright Clause, just authors and inventors).

Indexing the term of copyright exclusivity to US life expectancy, for example, might make us think harder about a range of national policies.
Hosting companies banning you is very rare(at least with reputable ones, I am not sure of the cheap VPSs on lowendbox). And you can always download the database and move to another hosting pretty easily. Subreddits getting banned is not so rare. If lets say Disqus (or reddit) bans you, how do you move those comments to another third party lets say facebook comments(or HN)?

>And you will contribute to unethical tracking practices even if your users are not logged in to Facebook or Disqus[1].

I don't care much about that because one way or the other one of the tech giants is going to track us anyway. I would much rather install Google analytics and get a great overview of my visitors. I don't think anyone who is an active user of the tracking behemothos Facebook or Google(which represents most of the internet users) should be concerned about tracking.

But coming to main point, I am actually against Disqus or facebook comments. I prefer plain old self hosted comments(wordpress) for other reasons and this solves your concern as well.
Arable land is getting cleared out en masse to farm cattle. Cattle farming is not driven by the inability to grow crops on that land, it's driven by the demand for red meat (and dairy products).
> the data is still generated & collected, even if there's no intention of it being used.

As an aside, this practice is explicitly banned by the GDPR: if you cannot justify the collection of data based on actual, current business requirements, you cannot legally collect and store that data. From https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-39/:

the specific purposes for which personal data are processed should be explicit and legitimate and determined at the time of the collection of the personal data.
As way-too-often, I think the solution should be a good IDE. There is nothing stopping your IDE from completing "foo" as "module1.foo" and offering "module2.foo" as well if it exists.
Alternatively the IDE could just display "module1.foo" instead of foo because that is what the import dictates.

As always with dynamic things and editing code for them, this will be more difficult to get right when imports are dynamic.
Love Xfce. I've never been able to get into a decent workflow with Gnome or KDE. Much lighter on resources it seems, too.

Congrats to the devs!
Because we're the land of the free? When was the last time you showed your passport to go from Iowa to Illinois etc? We wrote it into our Constitution that interstate travel would be unfettered. And back when that was written, each 'State' was indeed an independent political entity.

Extending this today to other Nations is not so foreign an idea.
Seems like an inability to store private vehicles for free on public property would reduce cars and traffic.
Most of the cases of Google "spying through home assistant" (along with the other assistants, Amazon, Apple included) while obviously invasions of privacy were generally (all?) legal.

At least in the US they weren't breaking any laws. I'm not saying they would never break any laws for financial gain, just that most of the breaches in privacy aren't technically illegal (thus the need for privacy laws)
Yup, it's crazy how things that used to be bipartisan no-brainers are now these hugely polarizing issues. Freaking Nixon of all people created the EPA, and look what he had to say about pollution pricing:

"We believe that part of the answer lies in pricing energy on the basis of its full costs to society. One reason we use energy so lavishly today is that the price of energy does not include all of the social costs of producing it. The costs incurred in protecting the environment and the health and safety of workers, for example, are part of the real costs of producing energy-but they are not now all included in the price of the product."
Stupid question: The article never says what ICE is, anyone can give a clue to non-americas readers?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SexsvIO4vE
internet is full of these examples.

My point is, computer with,

- more data, (historic on how to act on certain situation, live data for event i.e. sensor data, lidar/radar data, images) vs human driver who would not have access or the ability to process these.

- faster and parallel processing vs human driver

- single focus/goal (of driving from x to y safely and making appropriate decisions to achieve it) vs human driver (with "physical limitations", "emotions", "hormones" and other things that makes up "life") is more likely to be distracted...

computer with all of above advantages compared to human driver may able to make better informed decision much faster than human driver can do (and when it doesn't it's hard to know/prove if human driver would consistently make better decision every time for same situation)

having said above, I agree that tech is in its infancy and it's gonna take a decade or two to be matured and even after that human intervention just in time in some cases would be needed but for the most controlled/learned environment (which is 70-80% of total driving on day to day basis) these systems would be immensely helpful.
Would you argue that there isn't a gun problem because gun sales went up after a shooting?
Correct. But employers have WAY more leverage to take "under the table" action against employees than vendors do, without filing a lawsuit or in any way tying the punitive action to a Glassdoor post.
Comment readers be warned, this is a fairly toxic and divisive thread.
Yes, Palantir does do a good job of supporting authoritarian regimes.

I guess the yc hive mind disagrees

https://theintercept.com/2017/02/22/how-peter-thiels-palanti...

https://southfront.org/palantirs-user-guide-mass-surveillanc...

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-palantir-peter-thiel...

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/07/palantirs_sur...

https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-surveillance-apple-watc...

https://mijente.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Mijente-The-W...
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If parking is valuable, and included in a property, then the property price is higher.

That's not really true, because a landlord can charge almost as much money for a place with a parking space as for one without. Even if a parking space is valuable to the renter, they might not have the money to afford it. So it will usually be more profitable for a landlord to build more housing and less parking.

I'm not really sure how the landlord has more power here.

A landlord can survive for a while with an empty unit. It's a lot tougher for a renter to survive without a landlord. Democracy is one person = one vote not one dollar = one vote so sometimes it comes to a different equilibrium than "the market" would.
It’s a contract. They’d be in pretty hot water pretty fast if they didn’t honor it, especially in the EU.
The problem I have with mass transit is that outside of a couple major cities, the system is a horrible time waster. I used to take a bus to downtown job in my mid-sized Midwest city and it was like commuting 2x--I would have to drive to a park and ride, then wait for a bus, then board a bus and then go sit in traffic on a bus. I would arrive 40 mins later, dropped off near the building I worked at, but still had to walk outdoors in sub-zero temps and deal with low-level street crime at times, too. Yes, I got to read or do other crap on the bus, but all the colds and other sickness I caught didn't make up for that.

Contrast that with me just getting in my car and driving to the downtown parking garage and paying for parking at a place that has a skyway where my feet never touch the street at all, and you can understand the dilemma.

Then I got really smart and just stopped working downtown completely and got a job in the suburbs with free parking and while the traffic is still bad, it's nothing like heading downtown is.
I don't think either "side" can claim any sort of moral high ground on this issue. In the case of the video I'm referencing above, the issue is decidedly from the left which has been trumpeting a post-truth, highly individualized, no-harm-freedom, and consent-based understanding of personal conduct.

But on the other hand, I think you are right in that there are people who can and will say _X is unquestionably always true_ by calling out to something like truth even though it has little to no basis in reality.
The various content industries already had to move to models that assume everything will be pirated since its so common and accepted.

For some the result was not bad. Even good (Spotify and co are pretty cool, at least for a casual user like myself).

Some were downright awful. Games with DRM, always online requirements, decline of AAA quality single player game (at least proportionally) and user hostile monetization (micro transaction).

In a magical world where we actually had enforceable IP/piracy laws, but reasonable IP terms, I wonder how different things would be. Some stuff would likely be worse. Some would likely be better. But for sure things would be very different.
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Well... I've seen a particularly aggressive company use their IP to kill competitors.

You can't make a specific file format without using this company.

It seems any free or low cost competitor gets bought by them.

It's made the CAD world horrible.
I had to go into the Gmail UI to report the event as spam and seems to have fixed the issue for me.

in the process disabled the automatic fetching of events from my emails which was causing double bookings; ahh!
Enforcement of immigration policies in those countries, with the possible exception of Bolivia, is far laxer.
On the quality and costs of science publication