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The problem isn't so much having too many distribution services but rather that each service has a monopoly on specific content.

If each service had access to the same content as every other service then market forces would not only satisfy the price argument but also the quality of the services itself (lets be honest, some of the pirating services run circles around the legitimate ones).

Unfortunately though, the movie, TV and music industry have been allowed to operate monopolies - even push for extensions to copyright law and against reforms - for so long that I can't see it ever changing.
Ah, guess I missed the 10k limit by only signing up today? Certainly wasn't clear that it was limited to day of the post.
This. "We can't find a qualified applicant at 75% of market rate, guess we need more H1-B visas". No wonder wages are stagnant.
Pretty sure the vast majority of those WordPress sites bring them no revenue.
> It eliminates the per-country cap, which meters issuance of green cards so that they are distributed to applicants from all countries

I'm not an especially pro-diversity person, but won't this just mean Indians will get 99% of green cards with immigrants from all other countries fighting over the remaining 1%? I don't know if that's a good thing necessarily, change my view.

This perception is just based on my own company, in which I (an American) seem to be in a tiny minority compared to Indian H1-Bs.
What issue caused postgres to not be safe recently?
That's a myopic and emotionally charged way of looking at it.

When I interview people, I ask straight forward, probing questions looking for how the candidate approaches the problem and the path they take to the solution. I don't ask trick questions, I don't mislead the candidate, and I help them as much as I can to get to a solution on their own. However, I look for and probe for information throughout the process. It's relatively easy to discern whether someone knows what they're talking about and can apply it versus someone who crammed for the interview. Moreover, if someone did cram for the interview and was able to apply the knowledge that quickly - great, I want to work with people like that.

Had someone asked me to implement a JSON parser in brainfuck - I would have got up and left. More generally - if someone asks me to use a _specific_ language in an interview; it's not someplace aware enough to know that 99% of the time the language is unimportant and not somewhere I want to work.

With all that being said - technical interviews are not "the worst thing ever". They serve a vitally important task of ensuring I work with competent and personable people.
Sure, but bash only has certain language constructs. This implementation is using parameter expansion and some other built ins. It's definitely more complex than yours, but that's what bash has to offer.
In some ways I think this is the environment Apple has cultivated (maybe not deliberately) over the years. Basic features like cut & paste are left out, and then announced in a later version to as though it's this great innovation. Not that this particular app is such a basic feature, but illustrates the reasons why there are so many single-function utility apps. And of course the danger of them for their developers, if they rely on them for their livelihood, is that Apple will at any moment swoop in and copy the most popular ones. For the record, I'm not sure there's anything wrong with that on its own, but there is when Apple doesn't let developers access iOS as deeply as they do themselves.
> They violate the following moral principle: “If everyone did what I’m doing, what would happen?”

This is probably me being stupid but I have a little trouble understanding exactly how to apply this principle in practice.

Example: assume for the sake of argument that living in a suburb requires enough additional resources (land, energy, whatever) that if "everyone did it" in your state/country then it would become infeasible and there would be no suburbs as we know them today. But luckily enough people naturally prefer to live in a city that things just work out. Does that mean the people living in the suburb are nonetheless "anti-social"?

I suspect not but I'm having trouble identifying a clear reason why the moral principle does not apply to that situation but it does apply to the situation where some people abuse the HOV lane and some people don't.

Is it the existence of a rule forbidding it? In that case the principle seems more to be about the rule than about "what if everyone did it?".

Is it restricted to the situation where "free riding" is universally preferable on an individual basis, and only self-restraint prevents people from being free riders? If so then piracy advocates can save their argument by arguing (truthfully) that some people simply prefer to support the creators and they don't.

What am I missing?
>Amazon, YouTube, Netflix, Apple TV

I think only YouTube works properly on Linux without the DRM EME botnet plugins.
Not true; there have been huge reductions in poverty across South and East Asia including in Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia -- all highly capitalist countries. Not to mention India which I believe last year had the highest rate of poverty reduction in the world.
Movies have dropped down in my perceived value considering within a year or two you can get a 60+ hour AAA video game for ~$15
Spacevim actually has some original features (kind of ripped off from emacs) that I really like, and can't find a way to get without using Spacevim. There's nothing wrong with using it, but most vim users like to start from scratch and build their own experience to meet their specific needs. Starting with something like Spacevim is 100% ok if you've never used vim before, but most people end up moving onto the more 'custom' experience eventually anyway.
Regarding the energy situation, I've also heard that Egypt is also rushing to get their new gas field in the Eastern Mediterranean sea up and running as fast as possible.
My proposed solution to this: require frand licenses from copyright holders before they are allowed to bring copyright claims to court.

Whatever license they want to give, they should be required to offer the same terms to whoever comes along, if they want public assistance in protecting their work. If they think they can keep it locked down on their own then they are free to offer discriminatory license arrangements. If they want help from society protecting their works, whatever is offered to Amazon ought to be available to Netflix, or anybody else, including you and me when we start our own alternative.

Edit: to deal with rights holders that don't want anyone else to offer their content, they are free to make non-discriminatory royalty arrangements with extremely high royalties. However, they must pay those royalties to the government as a tax (again for access to the courts).
>Xi has to play domestic politics...

All tyrants have the same excuse.
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Anyone have a TLDR summary of the bill?

From the twitter posts, seems like it removes the per-nation cap on Green cards. Is there an overall cap on green cards across nations? In other words does the pain just get spread onto everyone or does it actually improve things?
>What does hiring qualified h1b visa holders have to do with anything?

Because as surprising as this may sound to you there are plenty of qualified talent already in the USA that can't compete with the lower wages companies can pay H1B employees. I see plenty of H1B employees who will literally eat shit from management over the fear of losing their status.

I'm not against bringing in hard to find talent that we don't have, what I'm against is bringing in cheap labor to replace US Citizens/IT Workforce which is the norm with these companies.

Here is a link breaking it down for Texas.

https://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/map/2016/TX.pdf
OK, I see your original comment, no need to be rude. If you're working on a computer that struggles with 'making a commit' and 'editing a text file', I feel like you're working in an environment that's going to be very frustrating when writing code.

Are you thinking about rebasing through an IDE? IDEs are uniformly terrible at git.
Can we stop subsidizing oil and corn too?
People don't use Netflix et al. because they want to follow the law. They use them because they're a better service and experience than the alternatives (PVR TV and DVDs).

When streaming services no longer offer a superior user experience, there's not much reason to use them. Maybe we'll see a new round of "You wouldn't download a car" ads.

I would happily pay for a service that let me download content to my personal machine, without DRM, and without restrictions. The price paid for that right now is breaking the law, and current enforcement of that law hardly a price to pay.
You might want to ask your ISP to participate in the Netflix Open Connect program [1], which provides service providers with free caching servers. My ISP (Init7) does that and the performance for Netflix is absolutely fantastic (instant playback in highest quality).

[1] https://openconnect.netflix.com/
I was a bit exaggerative - the entire "development" arm of the bank had read only access to all customer financial data. One of the devs was a customer and pulled up all of his information.
Ten rules of photography and when to break them is a decent guide to start with:

http://photonlab.com/photography-classes-florida/creativity-...
It’s not “everything available everywhere for $13”, it’s “most things available some places for $13 plus $7 plus $97/12 plus...”

That is, even if you get the Disney premium package, you still need to rent netflix, Amazon prime, Hulu’s ad-free experience, CBS, NBC, HBO, and ever other nickel and dime streaming service out there.
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What would be the point of such testing when we don't have the means to follow such targets?
I think there's been a huge change in HN's tone over the last 1-2 years or thereabouts towards "takedowns" and lots of negative rhetoric against people, companies, technologies etc. I used to think it was mostly just specific things, like anti-Musk sentiment because a lot of people find him grating, but I now think its mostly just a reflection of the general anti-tech that's very much in vogue.

I also think it's a one-way street, because it's very asymmetrical. It's super quick, easy and satisfying to burn someone because they appear to be a hypocrite, but quite hard to make the counter-case, because reality is often messy and grey (such as this guy, who was both an oil man and a wind energy man). So fewer and fewer people will bother to do all that work to reply to negativity, which will naturally lead to more voice/upvotes on one side, which makes it even more onerous to reply etc.
I have the Nikon full frame D850 along with the holy trilogy of lenses (14-24mm + 24-70mm + 70-200mm f2.8 zoom lenses).

in 2018, for every picture I took with the D800/850, I took +200 iphone pictures.

I still believe there is room for a high caliber camera but I don't want to own it anymore, I just want to rent whenever I need it.
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It sounds facetious, but this comment is completely on point. It's pretty egregious that governments (e.g. the UK where I live) have stopped subsidising renewables, but continue to subsidise fossil fuels. People saying fossil fuels are cheaper often seem to forget this.
I don't understand how this would go through with unanimous consent. Diversity is the lifeblood of America. We don't want immigrants that are proportional to the rest of the world's population - we want the different ideas and ways of thinking from all over the world.

The other day, I was at a table with a white American, a Tunisian, an Omani, a Turk and an Indonesian, and it was some of the best conversation I've had in a while. All besides me (an immigrant) and the American were the children of immigrants.
I have an app on my mobile, where I can upload my pictures from the cam via Wifi and then share them if I feel the need. I'm fine with that and syncthing just get's away with the stuff.

And yeah, DSLR bodies do have GPS but since they have a kind of "real" GPS it's more expensive and more power hungry, hence it's not really mainstream. (and about your phone's GPS: just enable flight mode and try to use it. Enjoy!)
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Being able to pre-visualize the photo in your mind is the key skill aspect of photography. That skill can absolutely be learned so you can look and anticipate an interesting photo before you shoot it. Often that requires you to move around a bit and see what the camera can “see”. The latter is why phone cameras are so amazing compared to, say a DSLR which shows you what your eye can see (which is quite different). The former requires training your mind to see objects differently. You can do this through deliberate practice, e.g., shoot round things for the next month and look back to see how you are improving. Good luck!
> “The roadmap is the same. I just think we might be able to do it in five years instead of ten,” Mullenweg said.

I tried to hunt for why the investment was taken and this is all the article mentions. It just doesn’t make sense to me. I’m guessing that competition is heating up and they need marketing fuel to keep people on the platform while they transform it from a duct taped blogging tool to something more flexible.

There is no middle ground with WP. You’re either buying a generic theme that doesn’t really fit your business and forcing your content into it... (every small business out there right now) or you’re Rolling Stone and you run big boy WP with major customizations. The middle area is weak. That’s where people like Wix etc... are eating their lunch.
I would never send my kids to school (2017)
So you believe they have more rights to work in the USA than US citizens? A US Citizen can't even apply for the job the company slated for an H1B applicant.
My (personal) better recommendation is to avoid bash scripts whenever possible ;)

I generally tell people that, once a script is longer than ~100 lines and/or you start adding functions, you're probably better off with something like Python.

I know that's not a popular opinion with shell enthusiasts, but it's saved me so much frustration both in writing new scripts and coming back to them later for refactoring.
> I don't think it's worth getting hung up on whether anyone "took" wealth versus created it, because I'm not sure those are mutually exclusive.

I am hung up on this because I do think they're mutually exclusive. You can't create something that already exists. You can't take something that doesn't exist. Something has to exist in order for you to take it. If you created something, it impossible that you have taken it.

The quote implies that there is some big pile of money out there and rich people are just greedy people who take more of it than everyone else. While poor people are ... polite I guess? and only take a little amount. If someone honestly believes this then the only question is, why don't you just take more of this money? I mean it's apparently all just there for the taking and the only differentiating factor of the rich is their willingness to take more of it, right? There couldn't possibly be anything else that rich people do that results in them being rich.
I had no idea it was possible until reading these comments, but sure enough...

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/android-and-ios-devel...

I won't be doing it myself, but it's interesting to learn that people do actually build apps this way. Maybe back off with the insults.
The GC wait times for Indians are insane and it needs to be remedied, but the backers of the bill got a bit too overzealous.

I personally prefer a temporary lift on Quota 2-3 year time frame and capping per country to 49%.
This is totally hypothetical, but if these orbs and weird multicolored lights were actual physical craft I can in fact think of a physically plausible propulsion system that might look like that.

We know how to build two kinds of rockets: high thrust rockets with low specific impulse (Merlin, Raptor, SSME, F-1, etc.) and low thrust rockets with high specific impulse (ion thrusters). Excluding crazy stuff like thermonuclear pulse propulsion, we do not know how to build a rocket that is both high specific impulse and high thrust.

There is no physical reason to believe that such a thing is impossible though. We just don't (at least in the declassified world?) know how to build one.

A rocket that's both high thrust and high specific impulse would have a thrust whose particles are traveling at probably near relativistic speeds. Think of it as using a high efficiency high throughput particle accelerator as a rocket.

The performance of such a thing would be simply awesome, especially in terms of "delta-V budget" as per the rocket equation. In physics terms it's a plain old reaction engine but to someone ignorant of the tech it would look almost like anti-gravity or some other kind of magic.

Now here's where it gets kind of neat. What would such a thing look like visually if it were operating in the atmosphere?

Those crazy high energy exhaust particles would immediately collide with the atmosphere and emit light. The light would be a mix of the emission spectra of whatever the exhaust is made of and atmospheric gases. If the exhaust contained heavier stuff like metal ions the colors could be vivid and bright. Brightness and possibly color could change based on thrust and thrust vectoring.

It would look like a flying orb or a neon light show.

It would also be dangerous if you were anywhere close to it since it would kick off quite a lot of heat and probably X-rays or worse. If it were truly near-relativistic it would probably ignite small amounts of nuclear fusion in the atmosphere and emit neutrons and gamma rays too. I imagine that might give it a little more power too, like an afterburner from hell. I imagine there would be RF emissions as well.

The craft itself would be hot as hell too since the power requirements would be at least in the hundreds of megawatts. Even if the power source and thrusters had really high efficiency, the second law of thermodynamics would require the craft to dump at least tens of megawatts of heat overboard somehow. It would light up brightly in the infrared and be really obvious to FLIR.

Small craft using a thruster like that might look like flying orbs or multicolored light shows. A much larger more powerful one could probably attain velocities that would allow interstellar travel in "reasonable" time frames... for something with a really long life span or non-biological that is.

Again just speculation, but AFAIK does not violate any known physics and would match quite a lot of UFO reports.
Globalisation is a term describing the deregulation of goods and capital, it is not at all related to migration.

The millions of people that have been lifted out of poverty in India and China are obviously still there, they haven't migrated. Globalisation is said to have helped people out of poverty by the increased flow of capital it represents, not by literally having them all move to richer countries.

In the face of the daily deaths along the "illegal" migrant routes, the idea that globalisation has made personal movement easier is unfounded.
The Philippines, Mexico, and China hit their cap as well, so they would benefit as well.
I disagree. I think what they’d need is to learn enough programming along with enough of a given programming context (web dev, game dev, app dev, etc) to be able to piece something functional together. If they go purchase a book “Fundamental C++” then you’re right, they’ll likely give up.
What makes you think they haven't embraced computation in their cameras?

https://www.sony-asia.com/microsite/assets/cyber-shot/2012h1...
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Hmm maybe.

I don't distinguish that hard the second I get into the qualitative so many factors (like experience) inform the quantitative work.

Sometimes the qualitative goals is created because of the quantitative data.

What you are saying is certainly also what I mean but I don't think I only mean that but I see what you are saying and yeah it might just be my english.
It's a free app though.
>Our company had a slew of negative reviews suddenly. Upon closer look

Did you scrutinized positive reviews the same way or just glanced them over and went "yeah, five stars, this is good"?
For both H.R.1044 and S.386, if they pass, people not born in India will wait for years before getting the green card. For example, currently, people born in China (note, it matters only where you born, not what citizenship you currently hold), would wait about 4 years to get green card (after they start the process), but once one of these bills passes, they would have to wait for 10 years to get it.

You would probably say they have a grace period, but unfortunately it only "protects" people born in the country that currently doesn't not exceed the per country limit. People from Philippines, China, etc will get the impact almost immediately. To make this really fair, we need to create extra quota for people born in India, not grabbing quota from other countries. (But I guess this will diminish the chance of this bill getting passed so they choose to hurt others, which from the perspective of people born in India, I totally understand, but I feel sad that I and other people not from India will get hurt inevitably once this bill passes).

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Sky used to have a web client. Now you have to use their apps, even on the desktop, which come with a suite of monitoring services (Cisco Videoguard) to prevent people from streaming their content. On my Mac Mini the video player takes up easily 80-100% of the 6-core/12-threads i7.

It's almost unwatchable. Unfortuantely it's a requirement if you're into german soccer.
Does anyone though ?
"They are spying on millions of people"

If you consider tracking an anonymous identifier for the purposes of better marketing "spying" then I think that's a stretch. Calling out TV in particular for it is a bit silly - it's simply everywhere.

"...without their consent and without telling them about it."

Yes they are. You opt in or out when you buy the TV. They tell you about it then. You can be like most people and not read the fine print, but then don't be all surprised when someone's pulling the wool over your eyes.
What I'd like to see is a direct comparison of an Xs running neuralcam and the 11 night mode. I've taken a couple of photos so far and the app has done wonders. https://imgur.com/a/BwvW6J8
The point is not the level of effort that it takes to create the drug, the problem is they are allocating resources to research drugs to treat already-served ailments due to the profit motive rather than trying to find solutions for conditions which are not yet adequately treated.
Perhaps it shouldnt be defined as what the regex can do, but which unit tests its able to pass.
>This perception is just based on my own company, in which I (an American) seem to be in a tiny minority compared to Indian H1-Bs.

The question is, which of these two seems better to you?

* Someone comes to the US, works 10 years on an H1-B, and then goes back to India afterwards.

* Someones comes to the US, works 10 years on an H1-B, get's a green card and stays in the US.
> I'm certainly not going to be able to capture many images like the ones in this review.

The cormorant fisherman literally pose in costume in front of dramatic landscape features. All you need to do is show up at the right time of day and give them a few yuan to take their picture, and you will get comparable results.