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People did actually have to pay those fines in Germany for a while. It was pretty insane. There were even house searches where the police confiscated everything electronic they could find, potentially for months. It's not as bad anymore, IIRC some laws were also changed that sets maximum fines for this kind of stuff. But it's still pretty harsh.

However, this is only true for torrenting. Because this was treated as "distributing copyrighted material" since you were uploading while downloading. (Don't ask me if there was some sort of byte limit, I'd like to know that too.)

Downloading from other places (where you don't upload at the same time) was never really prosecuted since the "damages" would've been laughable anyway, plus it would have been way harder to get the IPs.
Well, he's not wrong.

It's a system which is slow to change, nigh on impossible to experiment with, we only have one experimental unit, and it responds to interventions. No wonder it's difficult to science it properly.

'Macroeconomics' by Williamson is my go-to example of the worst textbook I ever had to read (setting aside postmodernism). Overly certain, badly argued, with fishy math. So, a good place to go to for everything wrong with the discipline.
I think it's both highly encouraging and humbling. What it means is that even though his skills could allow him to work on much fancier, complex applications, this simple 1 hour job made an enormous impact. Just think about what you do best and imagine if you could redirect the same energies somewhere else and maximize your payoff with a minimum of effort. It's not a feat that's easy to reproduce, but it is something we can all learn from.
Inscape, an ACR company, have this revealing paragraph on their blog. Note the "following your IP from the exposure to the ad, to the sales funnel" part:

"Advertisers like ACR data because it provides second-by-second feedback on how their ads are performing. Nielsen provides its data in 15-minute blocks, so if viewers tuned out after the first ad in a pod, the advertiser has no way of knowing. And since IP addresses are included, companies like iSpot.tv and Data + Math are able to use that information to create multi-touch attribution ratings that help advertisers understand how certain ads and placements helped move viewers through the sales funnel, from seeing the ad, to googling the product to actually buying it. It’s a lengthy process that requires a lot of data and a lot of rigor, but it’s an excellent way to prove to marketers that TV advertising actually works."

https://www.inscape.tv/resources/why-acr-data-is-poised-to-b...
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I think the article doesn't tackle it from the correct perspective.

There aren't _many_ choices at all, because we don't hire the service for the service itself, instead, for the content, and content here is exclusive.

For instance, you have competition on the PC market: you can buy Dell, you can buy Lenovo, and while the outside may differ, inside, you have the same thing. You also have choices of Burger joints, because although we may prefer one to the other, whenever we want a burger, we can choose from anyplace.

This kind of content, TV shows and movies, however, is different. There's more uniqueness to each piece than a burger or a PC have. You can't interchange Game Of Thrones with Vikings and be really satisfied, worse, you'll probably want both.

So, right now, what we have is little choice - recent shows and movies are on a single platform, and just a few are on two or three different ones. So to have all content you want, you might need to subscribe to many different platforms.
I hate LaTeX typesetting, it looks very archaic and reeks of academism (is that a word?). Unless document require lot of formulas, LaTeX is not a right tool in 2019.
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They can always do economic sanctions. Just look at what happened to GBP after the Brexit vote.
One of the reasons, though, why doenloading is and remains legal in Switzerland, is that a levy is charged on blank media, which can be used for recording purposes[1].

Even though I can hear the wails and hollers it seems to me like a rather fair compromise and it's not incredibly high to begin with.

[1] https://www.suisa.ch/en/customers/levy-for-blank-storage-med...

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Is there some kind of legitimate reason it has to work this way that this workaround takes advantage of, or is it just an oversight/bug?

How you're describing it it sounds like they only block the first sound you try to auto play - if the latter is the reason then that's really surprising.
You could keep mints instead of gum? My parents kept gum in the car for a long time, and every time I took some it was always stale.
He's not really wrong. As a French speaker myself, seeing "from 'des territoires'" and a translation as a definite article was jarring, since the definite form of the article already contains the "from", so preceding the quote with the "from" strengthens the intuitive parse as an indefinite article.
That has nothing to do with economic sanctions, though.

That's related to the fact that the markets believe that the UK boarded a train loaded with nitroglicerine, going downhill with failing brakes.
Your comment doesn't make sense. The US has both civil and criminal penalties for copyright infringement. It's certainly not the same as in Switzerland. And there isn't a single country I can think of that bullies the US. So what are you referring to?
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It's between 10 and 11 years rather than 12-13, but, regardless of that, I was still just making a joke.
I was talking about the implementation. To whoever has implemented and who will maintain this; to them I think this will read horrible, and that is not good even if it is invisible to an end-user. I mean, how long wouldn’t even a very experienced bash programmer take to understand that substitution...
Does it make sense then to limit the impact by de-globalising economic activity to a scale that can be more easily understood?
Same in Austria, there's that tax but downloading is illegal so we get worst of both worlds.
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I'd love a language that feels like a more convenient C. C as it is, with some niceties like built-in containers with some nice syntax sugar. Maybe someday Zig will get there.
> A modest fuck you fund that makes me feel better and gives me that sense of Oh yeah, if I stop liking my situation, I can afford to do whatever I want for a year or two without compromising my lifestyle

I think this is the main goal that people pursuing wealth want to achieve; moving from HAVING to work to WANTING to work. I mean I'm at a stage myself where I can comfortably take a few months, probably up to a year off using my savings; it's making me a lot less attached to my current job, and makes me look a bit more critically at it and at what else is on the market. And it makes me consider working less hours or taking less pay in favor of more enjoyment in my job. (no luck yet in that regard, lol)
why the complications, just go straight to robbing a bank. after all end result that you aiming at is money.

"whoops, i have lots of money"
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what economic sanctions? I haven't heard of any
> We should be steering society ...
> We want people ...

Who is we, may I ask?
The down-votes on "Hacker" "News" are amusing again.

Never argue in a technically correct manner here. Use misdirection, grandeur and talk in a presidential voice.

This is not comp.lang.c.

How is the DS 9000 for C11 coming along? ;)
Downgraded from "You can trust this code" to "You may certianly put your trust in this code" in https://github.com/psf/requests/commit/9d4fd3c968b134d98ed27...
Weimar Germany experienced hyperinflation in the early 20s. The 1930s are when severe deflation and massive unemployment hit, leading to political crisis.
> But if you created a massive piece of work that did wonderfully well, would you deem it fair you family gets nothing, whilst if you'd have survived, they'd share in your success?

I deem it unfair that the family of a rich person gets anything at all, through inheritance or otherwise, so my answer would be yes.
So don't base it entirely on the author's lifespan. We could go back to the original terms: a flat 14 years, plus a 14-year optional extension if the author is still alive.
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Nobody sells data, like pay and get hdd with data. They "analyze" it and sell results, or "allow access" for "optimization" of whatever. Or they have "partnership" and "exchange". Or they slightly obscure data (of course insufficiently) and then sell whatever resulted claiming that they don't sell "data". And so on, whole departments work full time on the ways to bullshit regulatory authorities into thinking that they don't sell personal data. (And they here I mean corporations in general).

And regarding Apple - I hear this "not their business model" argument often but I see zero real life reasons why it couldn't be but we wouldn't know it. It is like saying that "John only trades tomatoes, it is impossible to him to sell cucumbers, it is not his business model". How is even related, monster corporations have multiple divisions with multiple business models, one doesn't exclude another.

PS: this is for the sake of discussion. Personally I also tend to think that Apple collects much less data than FAGM, and there were experiments that indirectly support this theory. I'm thinking about moving to Apple ecosystem but it is rather costly and will cause vendorlock. Not an easy choice.
My biggest quarrel with kubernetes is that its API Reference often contains broken link to non-existing documentation page, usually pages that have been moved somewhere else (but who knows where?).
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No, because the idea is that the right to a special monopoly would disappear. So the price of a book would drop from print costs + copyright to print cost only via the magical hand of the market. The "authors share" is a wholly legal idea that exists because everyone agrees the authors should get something for their work.

There is a reason my fiction bookshelf is 60% 1700s/1800s classics like Wilde or or Austin instead of authors I prefer like Tolkien or Mervyn Peake. Books out of copyright are cheaper (less margin to be extracted) and more easily available from a local bookshop, so I've bought more of them over the years.
If you click through, it's bylined CBS News on those sites. That's not regurgitating PR, that's syndication.
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I loved this tweet from him a year or so ago: https://twitter.com/boonepickens/status/953398294172102658
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Which is what we started with: a flat 14-year term to start with, regardless of whether the author is living or not, and a 14-year renewal allowed if the author is still living.
Same in France, except that tax is so high it's skewing the EU average and it created a black market of hard drives and DVDs.
Not if copyright expires at the author's death; then it transfers to society at large because the publisher doesn't have the sole right to publish it anymore.

(Not advocating for this per se, just pointing out copyright expiration doens't necessarily transfer wealth to the publisher)
To be fair this is one of the least readable examples of the document. They're not all that bad.
Article is from 2015, not 2018. Title is incorrect.
I've been in my current position for almost six years. Also, I do have a degree. It's just not in CS. And yes many jobs were contracting at the beginning or hopping for better pay. Everyone in the valley does it if they can.
The industry has disconnected itself so much from actual human beings that "There are people who prefer seasonal work" is a valid response.
I am a Dane living abroad. I don’t have to do any paperwork and jump through hoops for the Danish government.

That the U.S. government makes demands of people living outside its borders is preposterous.
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If the copyright expires on author's death, then you're incentivizing convenient accidents and straight up murder.
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States in the USA have been doing this for years too. 10 cents for bottles and cans in California, and you just don't really see them on the street for this reason. What you do see is... everything else.
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> Would you agree though, that if written language has a single origin, then there must have been an ancient worldwide trade network, through which cheese would also have travelled?

The question of language is independent of this question, I think. Even if there was a single origin, cheese might have been invented locally after languages had separated.

Moreover, we know that there were ancient worldwide trade networks. The Roman Empire had silk imported from China 2000 years ago. Cheese and cheese recipes could have traveled from Europe along the Silk Road, just as tofu might have traveled from China to Europe. I wouldn't assume that the idea of cheese was unknown in China until recently. For whatever it's worth, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese#Origins says: "The earliest ever discovered preserved cheese was found in the Taklamakan Desert in Xinjiang, China, and it dates back as early as 1615 BCE." linking to https://eu.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/02/25/worlds-oldest-... as the source.

So if cheese is historically not popular in China, I wouldn't think that this is because there was no knowledge of cheese in China, I would guess that there are some cultural preferences or other reasons that it didn't catch on. Maybe the Chinese knew that they couldn't digest milk well and decided that milk and milk products in general must be bad for you. I don't know.
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That's the raw definition of freedom: your freedom stops where the freedom of others starts.

You're free to give passports to war criminals to flee to Argentina, we're free to require Credit Suisse to give us their list of european clients if they want to operate in european markets.

Everyone is free in the best of worlds, long live free Switzerland.
It's foundational research, not product development. IBM does a lot of research that doesn't have immediate practical applications.
Are you kidding? IRIs is what sets RDF above and beyond other data models. Global identifiers are crucial if you want to work with data interchange on a web scale.

Show me a definition of a "general graph model"? Nothing shows up on Wikipedia.

There is on the other hand a directed graph model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed_graph
This is exactly what RDF is, with labeled vertices and edges.
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Australia also has blank media surcharges, from memory. Though it is not well known about. I've always thought of it as an insidious method to recover potential future (criminal? civil?) losses from otherwise innocent people in the present.

Though I will agree it is highly pragmatic, and not a noticeably large amount in Australia. Otherwise, people would perhaps have noticed.
You can also combine it with ripgrep. Much faster than git grep.
Of course. I advocate writing both perspectives, knowing that the bias of the victor would show up.

But looking back, I think we’ve done a major disservice in the US by not including the dark parts of history in our stories: civil war -> states rights. Nazis -> no american ever supported that idea.

Stuff like that. It makes the times we live through now feel like a surprise to many I think. They’re shocked people could actually support racists, bigots, worthless people.

But here we are.
This is not particular to Switzerland. Any bank in any country that has U.S.-related clients (just having a green card is enough) is compelled by the U.S. to comply with FATCA and similar legislation.
If you refer to Ctrl+Shift+Z, it is very common for redo and also very convenient since you switch between undo/redo by pressing Shift (which is also consistent with many other shortcuts that use Shift as a way to reverse their effect - see Tab/Shift+Tab, Alt+Tab/Shift+Alt+Tab, etc). Many programs provide both shortcuts for redo (including by OS vendors, e.g. Microsoft) though they're not always shown in the Edit menu (f.e. Notepad++ shows both whereas Visual Studio only shows Ctrl+Y but also supports Ctrl+Shift+Z)

Having said that i think Photoshop's non-standard Undo/Redo use is that it uses Ctrl+Z as a "last step undo" in that Ctrl+Z flips between undo/redo so that if you do some operation, press Ctrl+Z, it undoes that operation and if you press Ctrl+Z again it redoes it (and Ctrl+Z again undoes it, etc). This is because Photoshop at the past, like many other programs, had only a single step undo where Ctrl+Z would undo the last operation - including undo itself (so if you painted, undo would undo the paint and the next undo would undo the undo itself thus restoring the paint). Many artists used to this as a way to quickly compare the result of operations like crops, filters, etc so it became part of their workflow and was mentioned in articles, books, etc so Adobe most likely decided to use a different key when they introduced an undo stack. That was at a time that many other programs still had a single undo step so using a different key wouldn't really be non-standard. But again that became part of workflow, documented, etc so both remained as they were to avoid alienating users.

Though TBH that is based on my very brief use of Photoshop many many years ago, things may have changed since then.

Note that some simple programs still work like that, e.g. Notepad only has a single level of undo and pressing undo again undoes the undo itself.
I can’t think of any legitimate reason, but it’s not impossible to imagine an unintentional bug like a race condition or flawed logic causing this.
No sanctions were involved for that, just the market losing faith in a currency.
Would you mind expanding on this with an example? I'm trying to improve performance of my bash logging
Nice to see. Though it's hard to tell if these feature HDR support, despite the 'Ultra HD' nomenclature. On one sister site it mentions 'HDR support*' with a footnote that a 'HDR signal display is possible' which makes me dubious.

As one of the draws of Ultra HD displays for consumers is HDR content which has become more common with online films/tv, UHD Blu-Rays and games.
Some TVs will connect to your neighbours' open wifi, so no, you can't, unfortunately.
My city started charging £5 for a "bulky item pickup", which needs to be booked 2 months in advance (I just checked). Unsurprisingly, we now get mattresses/furniture dumped on the side of the street for a week.
There are reasons to believe quantum computers will be really great at optimization problems we would encounter in simulating the molecular machinery of cells.
Not defending this particular example, but there are contexts where avoiding an external call can make a difference. Think a script calling an external program in a deeply nested loop. This sort of optimization could be used as a last resort, after identifying a real performance issue and evaluating the possibility of restructuring the code.
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Also, "Teams of engineers you see come from top outsourcing agencies of Eastern Europe and Latin America, known for employing top quality local talent and offering much lower rates than those in the US or UK."
AFAIK EU wants closed borders and a different financial center if UK leaves EU. Both of these can have the effect of hurting the UK economy.
This is probably a great strategy. There are a lot of IT providers out there that are... less than totally competent. From the little places that handle the "my Outlook isn't working" questions for local small businesses, to the global services divisions of Fortune 100 tech companies, these places have enormous access. They also tend to not treat their people particularly well...
Sure, but the point of Bash is to run external programs.
No, that is now how freedom works. What you're saying is that if there is a schoolyard bully who doesn't beat you up if you give him your sandwich every break, then you are free because you can choose whether you wanna keep your sandwich or be beaten up. Obviously that's nonsense. The pressure from other countries is obvious bullying and power play and an attack on sovereignty, especially what the EU is doing.
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Not really sure what you would have expected the embassy to do in that case? In Poland, Polish law applies to everyone, U.S. citizen or not.
Anywhere I would want to work away from the office - my house, a cafe - has decent wifi. I'm not sure how 5G will make any difference there.
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At that point TV may become a thin sheet of everything integrated in a single piece of electronics. They are already close to it.
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The cost of that is considerable. No more cheap smartphones means no more app economy. If you want to go even further, the only way to really de-globalise is to stop using oil ...
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I do wonder what happens when a process writes to a memory mapped file, but crashes before the page is synced to disk. Does the write disappear?
Water scarcity is not the biggest problem in India. It is gross water mismanagement at every level and public and political ignorance and apathy. The summer this year was extraordinarily hot and our place was under severe water scarcity, but the rainy season hasn't even started and we've already got almost 6 months worth of rainfall for my city. The problem is most of that water is not allowed to go into the ground and recharge the groundwater since almost every single inch is cemented or tarred and it runs-off into the sea or evaporates back. There is sufficient rainfall to meet the needs of most regions on India but due to a large number of causes the water is not conserved or utilised properly.

Some of the causes are deforestation of hill slopes, large, ill-planned dams which are silting over, lack of water micro-management, storm-water drains instead of recharge wells, lack of rainwater harvesting, excessive consumption, encroachment of nearly every water-body, pollution of most of the remaining lakes and rivers etc. etc. It goes on and on. The point is India does get enough rainwater despite very hot summers, but human management sucks abysmally.
You’re repeatedly missing the point. This is about optimizing startup time.

The comparison should be:

cost of downloading payload + runtime cost of parsing JSON

Vs

cost to download protobuf lib + parse and execute JS protobuf lib + download payload + runtime cost of parsing

Specifically, the article talks about how parsing JS is more costly than JSON - this cost will apply to the protobuf library which certainly far exceeds 10KB. There is no way the math will work on your favor until you get to MBs of data.
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Does technology really empower us? Almost.
Here's my initial implementation:
https://github.com/ajxs/cxos
I'm going to continue to work on it for some time, but this is the minimal working example that I had enough time to properly document.