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It can be true if people spend more than they think they are willing to spend on content via advertisements. That is, people underestimate how much advertisements affect them. And of course there are people who simply block advertisements.

Either that, or advertisers overestimate the impact of online advertising.
>If you can find a host for me that has a friendly parrot, I will be very very glad. If you can find someone who has a friendly parrot I can visit with, that will be nice too.
Yeah, people should be afraid to be "creepy" in public. Bring back that good old high school dynamic where nerds knew their place. Next headline: RMS stuffed into gym locker. Right on!
The biggest difference between car companies and tech companies is return on invested capital.

According to that Tesla is somewhere inbetween a tech company and car company. Also it's the only car company that used software to substantially improve the performance of the car using software after selling it.
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If you know what you're doing (important qualifier), I'd imagine cost is a huge factor too. RDS is pretty often a significant % of your AWS bill - how valuable this is, entirely depends on how confident you are doing it yourself.
Equifax's security practices were laughably bad.
Because it's besides the point. It's a distraction from the actual topic at hand.

It's also naive. I mean... powerful billionaire brings you to his private island and presents to you a beautiful young woman who wants to have sex with you, a 70-something man. That sounds like the "plot" of a really bad porno. You'd have to be obnoxiously naive to believe the woman wasn't being coerced in some way.
Or wait for the conscious elevating "WeSit" tech unicorn that changes the way you sit
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That's good for you. And because it was hard for you, everybody else should do it the same way, right?

I would really love easy modes. I don't even get far in Super Mario 3D World, and that's considered to be an easy Mario game.
I like how there are some standout musicians whose catalogs could put a serious litmus test to any definition of 'classical' that one might suggest. People like Bela Fleck and Chris Thile... Some of their music is definitely classical, and some definitely not, and some in huge grey areas that would defy definition regardless if whether the basis is on compositional style or instrumentation/orchestration.
Because real engineers enjoy making hard things boring.

edit: to be clear, I'm not claiming to be a 'real' engineer. I love writing whimsical, complicated stuff if it makes things easier for users, and make sure I'm writing maintainable code my colleagues are comfortable with with code reviews and removing as many flourishes as possible.
> It is within their exclusive economic zone

Yes it is, and China has put a military base there and is chasing out Filipino citizens.
if one of the richest companies in the world is hammering your server without paying for it I would hope they don't get their feelings hurt when the server blocks them until they pay for it.

I mean I've worked at some of the riches companies in the world and I think the conversation would have gone like this

Me: hey project manager our access to server X where we get the really needed X1 resource has been blocked. Probably cause we are hammering their server (which we probably talked about some months ago)

Project manager: hmm a paid account will need to go through approval. Can you tell them we are trying to get a paid account, see if you can get them to give us temporary access, and maybe we can cache the result so we don't hit their server that often.

Me: ok I'll do that.

In fact I mean if I was on a small company providing a service that a really big company was abusing in such a way that I think they might like to pay for it - I think the smart thing would be to force them to contact me somehow because how do I even call the part of the big company I need to talk to.
I agree, but I don't know how to phrase it better.
Has Softbank rung you up yet?
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Indeed. The "best case" assumption that Minsky could have made was that Epstein was a procurer and a pimp.
While this has been submitted a year ago, I want to give it more attention. Commercial time trackers get all the light of day through Show HN [1]. This isn't my project, but I do think this should get the light of day because it's open-source and free (as in beer).

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=time+tracking
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I should create a business to facilitate the transition from WeWork to leases, for the landlords. In 2 months I’ll be an intermediary worth... about 2bn.

I’m joking, I’m sure the CEO already has a reversion clause in the lease contracts, that leases should fall in the hands of his 3rd company in case of WeWork bankruptcy.
No one shadowbanned you. Some of your comments were killed by HN's anti-troll software. I'd be happy to apologize if that happened by mistake, but you have been breaking the site guidelines rather badly, so it seems the software was working as intended.
Elon Musk claims he didn't intend to accuse British diver of pedophilia
>Paying off politicians isn't some feature of capitalism

Exchanging money for goods and services is the most essential feature of capitalism. If you wish to prevent such exchanges, you need some strong socialist regulation or norm, like "politicians exist to serve the will of the people". Without it, what you call "bribery" and "corruption" isn't even considered wrong - it's just how the world works. Why shouldn't rich people be able to buy policy? They can buy everything else.
One advertisement I've heard a few times is the "Drive sober or get pulled over" campaign from the NHTSA.

But to JohnJamesRambo's credit, there are a lot of people who don't 'invest' in the US government either.
But surely most 35-year olds would say that they changed much less drastically from 25 to 35 than 16 to 25. I mean would you say it’s ok to have sex with 12 year olds since they “never stop maturing” and who’s to pick a number? I think we can pick a number: don’t have sex with people who are barely out of middle school. It doesn’t need to be scientifically verified; it is simply common decency. It is frankly disappointing that in 2019 this is a controversial statement at all.
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You write this like it's an insult, but with a dozen stuff and million dollar budget he's done more for the world than most of us could do with 1000 staff and a billion dollar budget.

That's a testament to his vision and leadership.
Appart from siblings' mentions, I think they also opensourced networking libs/protocols, bonjour and cups. Cups should be mentioned especially, since that was a basis for network printing under linux. (I hope im right on this)

While Im not a fan of the corporation, its strategy and most of the policies, some dilligence is due here. They are known to release low level stuff.
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Yeah sure, but if its valued similar to Ford, you'd expect it to grow to the size of Ford, at least. That seems a tall order, so then you're looking for other reasons for the high valuation.
The exact reason why most software engineers aren't really engineers.
> I think it’s wrong to absolve Minsky of responsibility, though.

Stallman was not saying that Minsky should not be absolved of responsibility. He was just saying that the term "sexual assault" is inaccurate in that it implies violence.

> I think Minsky was smart enough to know what was happening.

That's a fairly large assumption. Minsky's name shows up twice in hundreds of pages of deposition. Once is in a statement by the victim when she is asked to name names:

> They instructed me to go to George Mitchell, Jean Luc Brunel, Bill Richardson, another prince that I don't know his name. A guy that owns a hotel, a really large hotel chain, I can't remember which hotel it was. Marvin Minsky.

And the only other reference (that I am aware of) is in reference to being on a private flight with a bunch of other people.

How are you able to infer so much from so litte information?
No worries. For what it's worth, that's what I assumed you meant. I was more or less attempting to rephrase it in my own words.

In a world where one's written words can be so twisted beyond their original intent, it's good to reaffirm an assumption of good faith.
It wasn’t, and it’s absurd that people still insist on calling it a sexual assault. Stallman’s logic was spot-on.
Can we stop calling it the Hubble Constant? The Hubble Parameter is a much better term. It's not meant to be constant in time, only in space. It is continually decreasing over time, even in a Universe in accelerated expansion (unless the expansion is exponentially accelerating which is not the case).
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Not unwittingly.

We finally have tools to check whether a renewal wasn't submitted, and so can check against that negative to see if the book should be available publicly, and can be scanned and returned to the public without negative consequences.
I started a Medium draft a while back just detailing what all bots I use and how I organize all the channels, but it honestly felt pretty boring/droning.

I'll see if I can clean it up and finish it though; if you have any particular questions you'd like to see included (selfish: so I can feel like it's less braggy and more interesting), I'd love to hear them. Contact info is on profile if you don't want to derail this thread. :)
It's about a long string of behavior like the comment he made on the Minsky case over the course of like 15 years. If this was the first time he had done something that he'd be called out for "being inappropriate" for I doubt it would have led to his resignation.

It's not as obvious to people who haven't been in/around FSF/GNU circles for a while I don't think, and the sort of semantic picking he's doing here is honestly kind of his whole thing.

I have my doubts as to whether he really gets what people are pissed about, but this same sort of thing has happened enough from him for people to have had enough.
Just saw a tweet that claims he "LOVES RAPE".
A lot of women enjoy sex. Some enjoy BDSM, some enjoy tentacle porn, some enjoy sex with older men and so on.

If she seemed friendly, interested and didn't mention anything about this being against her will, how would he know she is being forced? Should we just assume a younger woman can never be interested in an old guy?

As a rather extreme example, Hugh Hefner's 3rd wife was early 20s when she married him and he was in his mid 80s. Should we assume he coerced her too?
is that meant to be a sarcastic comment? there's a vast undersupply of programming talent, that's why salaries go up. people are attracted for the super expensive cities like seattle and sf because there's companies importing them.
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About time if you ask me. RMS is brilliant but also completely unpalatable to people outside the world of GNU.

Time for someone who is a bit more accessible and savvy to take the FSF cause onwards.

The question though would be, will the FSF mission change or it's cause be diluted without RMS at the helm?
It's not "Silicon Valley", it's Silicon Valley. As in the show.

My wife just started a contract at a new WeWork office in London. The lobby features a giant but non-functional as skateboard ramp, and two DJ booths, both manned (at 9am on a Monday). The bathrooms feature the very latest in digital toilets, but they aren't flushing, and nobody can figure out how to reboot them.

At an aesthetic level, this couldn't be more Silicon Valley if Mike Judge were in charge of the service design.

In this context, the media pile-on may be annoying -- but it's inevitable, and basically deserved.
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> we all agree it is pretty much impossible, unless....

... well, not waiting months to patch a vulnerability in a well-known piece of software us probably a start.
If you are the leader for an organisation focused on advocacy (i.e. raising awareness and communicating), then your words become de facto the words of the organisation, even with comments not related to your organisations purpose.

If your leader appears to advocate pedophilia, then your organisation no longer becomes "that organisation that advocates for free software", but "that organisation run by a pedophile apologist".
look up some statistics. For example here they say that 72 million phones are damaged/lost/stolen in the US each year: https://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherelliott/2019/07/06/a...

Actually this article mentions phones being lost or stolen - another 2 cases where a cheap phone comes out much better.
I'd say carry on your investment study in increments, over the years you'd research in far more depth in fraction of the time you would initially.
That's a very neat feature I never knew existed. I only suspect this will hurt their larger mission at helping many smaller teams and individuals to use the models.
This reminds me that I should bake a börek again sometime. With a decent salad, you can have it even for lunch or dinner.
I would hope Softbank use instagram or something, telephones are so last century.
You believe free speech actually means not being able to express an opinion on anything anywhere that someone else could be offended by or lose your ability to live/eat/get medicine you need to survive. This is what getting fired means to normal people lest you forget.

Having a a factually or morally incorrect viewpoint on a public happening isn't an assault on a victim. Its an opportunity to help that person learn better and even more importantly to help the many more who believe the same as the speaker but who wont speak up learn as well.

Silence dissent and you lose that opportunity and everyone is poorer for it.
I mean, his defense was of Minsky, not Epstein. RMS believes that Minsky likely wasn't aware of of either her age nor the coercion so Minsky could hardly be blamed for not knowing. I haven't followed this too closely (except on HN) but I think that incident also predated Epstein's first trial (conviction?).

I suspect (and really really hope) RMS wouldn't have such a defense for Epstein himself.
> RMS is brilliant but also completely unpalatable to people outside the world of GNU.

He just sacrificed his job and legacy to defend the honor of a friend.

What kind of person do you want leading the FSF, a mealy-mouthed politician?
And then you're blacklisted by the corporate firewall for doing what looks like port scanning.
As an outsider, I think the US already has a brilliant system of designating land as tiers of national park, monument, national forest, BLM land, state park, etc. Especially in the west, there are huge amounts of land preserved for those interested in using it - hiking, camping, hunting, recreational vehicles (bikes, ATVs, etc). And all ages - families, college kids, travelling couples, grey nomads, etc. Loads of these places are not at all crowded.

The problem is purely that people concentrate in very small areas of that broader wilderness. Photo-driven tourism exacerbates this. People are inspired to travel by a photo they've seen, so spectacular things get buried in people.

If you want a wilder experience, it exists in almost every park, either outside of peak season, peak hour, or sometimes just a short distance off the main thoroughfares. The majority of people don't go beyond the easiest viewpoints.
It's also the model of internet peering, but it requires an even exchange otherwise the imbalances lead to failure.

As an example, the current dispute where the US is leaving the Universal Postal Union (a month from today) because the exchange is unbalanced due to e-commerce from/to China.
The New York Public Library appears to be a major player in this initiative, which suggests that the libraries are likely doing so quite intentionally.

https://www.nypl.org/blog/2019/09/01/historical-copyright-re...
Sorry — when I said “middle of the pack” I meant performing at “meets all” level for the level above.
The attitude stems from the belief that if you suffer in this life, you'll be rewarded in the next.

Western culture as a whole has moved on, not only the american.
The larger your audience, the more likely one of them will consider your views hateful or bigoted (regardless of what your views are).

Are there perhaps some views that you think are not quite hateful or bigoted, but aren't totally fine to state? Maybe, "err on the side of caution" type views?

I wonder what Zeno would think on moving your views from completely hateful to completely fine: first you must go halfway-hateful, then half of that, and so on. Perhaps one will never find a completely fine view to state!
Or a whole series of Facebook > OtherthingBook trademarks, perhaps. See Easyjet and its use of Easy as a trademark.
For those that just want the meat, this is about the Duffin-Schaeffer conjecture [0]. Here's the relevant paper:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.04593

For those that want a little more, the Duffin-Schaeffer conjecture is about rational approximations of real numbers. The setup is this:

Given some real number, we're concerned with its rational approximations. To this we choose some function that assigns an "acceptable error" for every possible denominator.

Thus, we want to look at the set of "acceptable approximations." A priori, we can intuit that if our errors are too strict, we might not have any---or only a handful---that meet our criteria. The Duffin-Schaeffer makes this intuition precise, giving a condition that tells us whether our set of acceptable approximations will be finite or infinite.

[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duffin-Schaeffer_conjecture
I wouldn't come to a conclusion before even considering what situations would be plausible for the girl to be in. In the case of a 17 year old and a 73 year old, the main responsibility rests with the adult, just based on the respective age and positions of power. I wouldn't make an exception for friend nor foe, but if I had a friend who did that, I wouln't any longer consider him a friend, and there is nothing about the girl, short of her raping him, that could change that.

"Friend" isn't just some flag that gets set by cosmic rays and then stays that way forever, that would make it meaningless to me, not more noble.. blind loyalty isn't loyalty, just blindness. I say this as someone who did cast of friends, which was painful to me, even though it was for totally trivial and harmless, outright edifying reasons in comparison.
I'd say that it is a problem when you have optimal lighting in the workplace.

It's sad that we have to stare into a bright light all day just to accommodate natural sunlight, or shut the blinds and code in the dark. Can't wait for cheap, fast and unlit high contrast monitor technology resembling the experience of plain paper.
He draws a distinction between statutory rape (can't legally say yes according to the law, but otherwise willing and sexually mature) and forcible rape (when someone says no). He made a point about how statutory rape wouldn't be considered rape if it happened in a different location (e.g. Italy) or if the person's birthday were slightly adjusted.

One can draw a distinction between rape by physical force and rape by coercion, manipulation and deception - but it's kind of undesirable to push any kind of line that a lack of force makes this a automatically a different kind of crime. For example, sex with police officer or prison guard when someone is in custody is in many jurisdictions automatically considered to be rape because the circumstances mean a person can't really consent - and that's entirely logical. In this sense, "statutory rape" and forcible rape aren't entirely different.

Maybe one might find situations where under-aged sex isn't rape by manipulation - where you can argue consent could reasonably given (an eighteen year old with sixteen year in the same High school is hard to argue against). But the Epstein situation is clearly the wrong place to look for this.
How else were you supposed to find out about the status of ID games?
"I was involuntarily self-promoted into management."
And how would you be contacting Apple, from your little 3-person startup in Paris ? You assume they have the means or contacts to do that; and IMHO the tweet is not that aggressive.

It's been done before, (e.g Intel has been called out for consuming kernel.org bandwidth and git CPU power) and is the simplest way to have people from inside BigCorp get a message.
Personally I listen to the likes of Hans Zimmer, Jesper Kyd, Garath Coker, Ramin Djawadi, Michael Giacchino, etc when I'm looking for orchestral/symphonic instrumental music.

I don't think you could call them studio musicians - which was how John Williams started out (working for Mancini) but I can't imagine them fitting what is considered "classical" at the Guardian.
Great you might be right but are you sorry people got to hear your opinion AND Stallman's? Would it be a better world if only your thoughts were heard or would you not even be sharing them if not for his thoughts being shared?
This is pure fearmongering.

If you truly feel this way, you can put money where your mouth is and do actions to remove your very own words from the digital world (because you own the copyright to them if in the US, under the GDPR in the EU).

Alternatively, you can support dismantling tools that build outrage mobs (Twitter) and be a proponent of good faith arguments with conduct becoming of earnest debate. Preventing the fearful future.

I hope you can see why I think lazily lamenting some imagined dystopic future makes me sincerely question the actual genuineness of the underlying fear, and the lack of evidence makes me question the rigor with which it was dreamed up.
I wasn't quite convinced by the etymology, so I figured I would check Gerhard Doerfer's Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen (vol. 2). It turns out this is not an easy word to trace.[0]

Doerfer judges it as not originally Turkic, owing to its limited distribution and absence in older texts, and suggests that it more likely came from Iranian languages. So far so good. But, he adds, "Here it also seems to be unetymologizable." Womp womp…

It may be that Andreas (sic) Tietze found something else—I haven't looked at his Turkish etymological dictionary, which was unfinished at the time of his death. If there were a clear answer, however, I don't think it would have escaped Doerfer and the others who looked into this.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/sTbWtq6.png
Yep. Anti-usa sentiment (and posters here are seriously overestimating any such sentiment imo) was originally rooted in the reaction to the CIA-backed coup that overthrew a progressive, democratically elected prime minister and effectively installed of the shah, regarded by many as a despot, who was of course on fabulous terms with the US.