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Books are just arrangements of ink molecules on paper. You can't have a copyright on ink molecules, right? They're just a natural phenomenon.

Obviously that's silly — the thing with copyright is not the literal arrangement of ink molecules, it's the work represented by the arrangement.

Similarly, bits are math, but a specific arrangement of bits can represent a work with copyright.
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The 27% of people in the US you're referring to, almost all have free healthcare coverage.

That's not the correct number regardless, it's closer to 10-12% of adults, directly from a prominent study performed by the Federal Reserve.

By far the biggest healthcare problem the US will have, if the virus hits hard, is a swamping of resources, a general over-taxing of the entire healthcare system and all ICU beds.

The US can, anytime it sees fit, fire off a very large healthcare emergency funding program, printed magically out of thin air. We can offer waivers to the entire population for expenses. It will be considered a national emergency. The national guard will be mobilized. The population will pay for it via taxation and wealth debasement (debt, printing), just as they do in natural disasters now. Money is not the primary concern, Congress is always happy to spend - it's going to be health system infrastructure vs case load. We won't be able to put together the resources fast enough in an emergency situation (eg NYC & LA having having 100,000 cases). China moved as fast as they could and couldn't manage it, and they're able to move drastically faster than the modern US will be able to.
I take it you don't fly coach? There are lots of big airlines whose coach food options are pretty bad.
>Based on the comments here, I just need to have a kid.

I don’t know, my sister has 4 and still is a night owl, i can confirm it’s familial because my mom is the same and so was my grandma as i am.
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Im not having trouble. It enables me to be less tired on a long trip, and as a result, have quicker reaction times than without. I'd highly encourage you to try it.
Preparing to stay at home is reasonable. Expecting for no stores to be open isn't - even in Wuhan, stores have been open and selling essential goods.
I'm sure self driving will happen. But on that hardware, in a short time, and it's going to pay for the cost of the car??? This seems quite unlikely to me.

Any early taxicab self-driving (e.g. no responsible operator present) is almost certainly going to be bristling with additional sensors for safety CYA.
Driver in Fatal Tesla Crash Was Playing Video Game
Ugh! I may have interpreted the comment I responded to wrong, and replied to my own strawman. I think you need the power for the user to delete records (obviously) but this could mean a bug in the system could cause the records to be deleted. But it sounds from what you are saying that they sort of "intentionally" deleted the records (not sure if a human had the intent or an algorithm?) but if intentionally deleted yes that sucks, there is no reason for that I can think of, given what they do is about handling DDOS.

Unless the mechanism exists for legal reasons, i.e. they are forced to take some sites down by the government or law suits.
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I dunno if LA Times changed the headline after this was submitted to HN, but it's actually "NTSB slams Tesla, Apple and regulators over a fatal Autopilot crash"

The "slamming" of Apple seems particularly lame. Partially it's because they make iPhones, but the head of the NTSB also seems to be implying that an employer has a responsibility to prevent its employees from engaging in risky behaviors when they're off the clock.
> A minor key has sharps and flats to create tension.

The natural minor or Aeolian mode doesn't use any notes outside the diatonic scale (probably what you meant by "sharps and flats"). It's very possible to write sad music in the natural minor. REM's "Losing my religion" for example.

> To sound sad, you MUST shift to a minor key

With sufficient skill you can write sad music in any key or scale, there's no hard and fast rules here. Tonality is only one of the elements you can use to shape the emotion that's conveyed, and it's all quite culturally relative too.
But ... in a lot of ways worse.
> Hm, to quote Momento, pretty sure the world still exists when I close my eyes. I get you're making a bit of a "if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it" argument, but by choosing to ignore broadcast television it 1) doesn't mean it doesn't exist to others and 2) you are actually removing attention/power/money from broadcast television. So I'm not sure that's a particularly good counter example.

No it is a very good example. By me not doing anything in this case the existing system (the BBC in this case) will simply become irrelevant (which is actually happening). I didn't have to say anything or do anything. The world simply changed around it (Netflix and Youtube basically) which is what I said previously.

There is nothing active about it. You are engaging in newspeak. You are trying to define not doing something as doing something.

> Non-action means leaving what exists in existence and is an active choice.

What sort of newspeak is this? Non-action is an active choice. Next you will be telling me Freedom is Slavery or I am actively resting my posterior on the sofa.

This is newspeak and what you are trying to do is drag me into participating in how you define things. I am not playing that game.
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This only makes any sense if you believe that censorship will _only_ be used for misinformation, as opposed to information people do not like. Otherwise, you could end up raising the density of misinformation as "true" information is filtered out.

If YouTube existed a hundred years ago, and censorship of "misinformation" was an accepted practice, would there be any doubt that videos on women's suffrage, black rights, the perils of McCarthyism, that any of those would have stayed up?
You wouldn't? It sounds like a fun thing to try.

(Yes, obviously you wouldn't be going anywhere near full speed.)
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> 1) all women get gold features (see who likes you, unlimited swipes, etc for free)

> 2) only men are subject to double opt in (eg women can message without having been liked by the recipient)

> 3) double-opt-in is based on something ELO-ish. The height of the contact initiation barrier is proportional to your attractiveness as determined by the crowd (although this creates some extremely perverse incentives for large-scale deception).

These are all great suggestions. Yes, they should be implemented. Yes, they will increase the female:male ratio and bring in more dollars.

The economics of it is to find a balance between selectivity and availability. You can make the world's most exclusive dating app, but then you have no users. You can make the world's easiest dating app (extreme example: people automatically match at random), but then you can't monetize the male users and female users leave. These constraints create the vanillaness of popular dating apps you mentioned. They all converge to the same business model.

I don't think it is completely efficient though. One thing to optimize for would be reducing the chance of a failed date. I would suggest additional next gen screening mechanisms like potentially a full 3D reconstruction of a person's body/skeleton, maybe some AR, use your imagination, there's a lot of ways to go with this with varying levels of dystopianism. For one mild example, if someone's height in person is a dealbreaker, then the AR ghost would reveal this in spite of a likely frauded height stat.

> This is good for companies, but bad for individuals

I'm speaking from an business/marketing perspective. Obviously this is not "good" for the users. The objective is to get more men to press the Pay button--there is literally no other reason to make a dating app. The "good" thing for people is to not use dating apps, get married young, and have children. You have leave your morality at the door, like AAA game dev or high frequency trading. Nobody should waste their life playing video games or gambling in financial markets, but if they do, let's oblige them and do business.
FWIW I'm also a fairly experienced pilot, motorcyclist and I have had one driving accident of no fault in 18 years of driving.
It sucks that a German industrialist decided we should work 9-10 hours, and then it further sucks that 7-15, 8-16, or 9-17 are deemed the "respectable" shifts for work. I get that some companies are flexible on this, but honestly, I've been held back in life by being a night owl. Classes at 8-10 am were so much harder to focus in, getting to work early is a burden, and working into the evening is not an option at many jobs.

It's just straight up better to be a morning person in our civilization.
I personally find jq to be extremely complicated once you move beyond simple queries.
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It's not the journalist's duty to ridicule anyone. Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show" was very entertaining, and even somewhat informative, but I think he would be one of the first to say that it wasn't journalism. I don't like corporate bullshit lingo either but when that's what they say as their formal statement to the press then relaying it is the journalistic duty.

It's one thing if the company is outright lying, but PR blather doesn't really count (for all that it's pointless and annoying.) In any event, yeah, if they want to editorialize, that's fine but it's done in a separate "Editorial" section. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editorial )
Can they remove all the spyware while they're at it too?
I asked for a data dump via email, waiting to hear back. Ripping it all out is going to cost someone a pretty penny since it's hosted in AWS, better to ask someone to fill and ship some SATA drives. Then off to the Internet Archive!
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Well, I think that one problem is that the automation is not giving up; there is not handoff occurring. It's reporting "all's well" until fractions of a second before the crash, if that. This means that it's up to the human to remain constantly vigilant and identify abnormal situations.

Of course, when you consider that an overhead road sign and a stopped semi trailer "look" the same to the systems involved, it's not surprising that they think that everything's OK.
I think everything after the first gripe is a fair point, but I don't get what the problem is with the first code chunks... it seems like the author is saying "this is weird to me, and I don't like that," but I have no idea how else it'd work properly.

For example, explicitly defining out function arguments is exactly what Scala does for function, check out this bad mofo, defining a function with 22 arguments (that I fell in love with years ago): https://www.scala-lang.org/api/current/scala/Function22.html

Why'd I fall in love with it? Because it makes sense, that's how it should work right? I don't see how defining out 10 items explicitly; so, that each can have it's own type, is a problem. It's pretty damn nice they did it out to ten arguments, if you want more, extend the object... /shrug

If you used a list instead, e.g. `T[A]` you'd take a hot-fat erasure-shit on the type information of each item in the list (or at least you would last time I used Swift extensively)... this way you keep that type information around.

P.S. To be honest, explicitly defining things out like that can give you HUGE wins in languages like Swift because you give the compiler so much more information. It just doesn't usually pop onto most folks radar because it looks obtuse... with most modern code editors though it's easy enough to write in a couple minutes, if there's no macro system.
I thought they all do that. I never had a dentist do my teeth cleaning. The dentist shows maybe for two minutes at the ned and takes a quick look.
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>"Oh, yeah, I need padding on that, how much? 4 pixels I guess. Is that standard? Wait, no, i think we moved to 8px recently. Or, wait did we move this to 'em'?"

I'm not sure how the magic/JustUsuallyWorks/ solution fixes this issue. If the argument is people need to remember things, and SwiftUI takes that away and just puts in what an algorithm thinks is right, that's probably going to be pretty generic design for the final product.
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Why should I prep for a disaster? The odds of needing those supplies is effectively zero, and I don’t have the storage space for them.
Ask HN: What is our solution if Trump kills/censors the Internet?
Myanmar, Iraq, Iran and Egypt have had government ordered internet shutdowns recently. Do we have any solutions to stand up an alternative network?

IMHO if the Bill of Rights were being written today the second amendment should protect encryption and an open internet as the best ways to find tyranny.
Looks like the Go version of that is to steal a phone, enter the store with it, grab items, then run out without the phone.
"People of the prisoner class have really, really bought into the capitalist dream. But they were too unlucky, ill-educated, unfortunate, or born in the wrong place to have all the things that society has told them they should have. They were taught from a very early age: You can have it all, not just the wealth but the stuff. Trainers [sneakers] are a big deal, watches are a big deal, cars are a big deal."

I'd say this is fraudulent writing but it would be stating the obvious since written by someone literally convicted of fraud. The "stuff" comes before wealth for most people in all systems but it is actually in socialist societies where personal wealth does not generally exist that the acquisition of basic consumer goods is given central significance, gifting them becomes an accepted and expected way to get people dispensing nominally free or fixed-cost social services to deliver first preferential and later merely adequate service.
Yup. It could.

However, the key isn't necessarily video recordings. It's deliberately practicing individual things you are bad at in isolation until you are good at them.

We need to record LoL and StarCraft games because it's tough to pause and redo something in the middle of a match. Similarly recording baseball swings or people dancing or swimming is useful for reviewing the complete action.

But when you practice piano, you can pause and redo a measure or line until you get it right, then slowly reincorporate it as part of the whole piece.

The WORST thing you can do is keep playing and think "I'll fix that later." Because inevitably you'll play a piece again, probably do the same mistake, and now you're actually practicing the mistake and ingraining it into your memory.

A video recording and reviewing it of a whole piece can help you go back and isolate your mistakes though. But it's just a tool for the goal of identifying and fixing mistakes.
Or maybe... they are more equipped than anyone else and are taking the proper, measured actions?
The fact that at least 5 people have replied with different tools really just emphasizes your point.

Is it a perfect recreation? Of course not.

Will it do every sort of image editing I might want? A definite no.

Does everybody either quickly learn it or already have its interface burned into their memory? Yep.

Does it work well enough to do a quick edit on pretty much any OS (including mobile) without needing anything but a browser and an easy-to-remember link? YES.
>If I run a conference and un-invite someone from speaking for whatever reason, of course that is my right.

nitpick: not if it's because they're a member of a protected class.
You know they're running out of ideas when they introduce this stuff to begin with. The tank is empty if they're considering removing it.
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The interesting thing about this is that TeX continues to be reused 45 years after its inception; new libraries show up on CTAN regularly, and of course TikZ and LaTeX are far from being in the original design of TeX. Very few libraries have shown the survivability and versatility of TeX. So maybe the way we think about software reuse is wrong.

You seem to be claiming that 20,000 lines of code constitutes a large program. Is that really your intention? I mean libjpeg is 34,000 lines of code, and LAPACK 3.6.0 (one of the very few libraries that excels TeX in reusability and enduring value) is 685,000 lines of code, and each of them is just a small part of many programs. I would instead describe the monolithic parts of TeX and METAFONT as small programs of only 20,000 lines of code, omitting even dependencies on libraries.
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.dev isn't an rfc2606 reserved TLD, so it shouldn't have been used for internal domains in the first place
It's a travesty that you're even using Windows. With Arch Linux which is the best operating system, it's really appalling to hear that people use Windows these days. Come to arch my nigger. Fucking windows man listen to it. Arch Linux is the only sane operating-system my nigger.
Or maybe there's a kiosk where you can fund your account with cash? I can imagine a bunch of ways to both accept cash and also have the Go concept. But I don't know, I don't live in Seattle and haven't ever been to a Go store.

Edit: Someone else posted this link[0] elsewhere. The stores are in SF & NYC which both have laws against cashless stores. So, contrary to your reply, the following is actually false:

(Presence of Amazon Go store) ⇒ (City doesn't have a ban on cashless stores)

[0]https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-pay-cash-amazon-go-sa...
For what it's worth...those eye glasses places are run by optometrists (usually) and not an ophthalmologist. An ophthalmologist has more medical training.

They are all independent of the store and just pay rent. But they are all professionals...

Edit: Also if you have a real medical issue w/ your eye, definitely see an ophthalmologist. Optometrists are for glasses and minor eye issues...they aren't going to be doing surgery on you.
Not true. In the default case, Grandma's wifi router is just passing along -- via DHCP -- the IP address of the cable company's DNS resolver to Grandma's computer. Which the wifi router itself probably obtained via DHCP or a similar mechanism from the modem. This is in no sense a "local DNS resolver."

If Grandma has a grandchild that knows how to set up a PiHole, it's a different story. But that's certainly not the majority of Grandmas or the majority of wifi routers.
For the same reason as they do in other cars. But "Tesla" gets a lot more press because of their marketing.
Blue collar work means physical labour typically. White collar means office work and traditionally office work has been done by the middle class and the elite.

I will concede that In the last decade or those definition probably don't make any sense.

So maybe I should have said "traditional working class" to make the distinction.
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I would guess that one of the benefits of knowing React is the the relatively easy transition to React Native, which allows you to deploy to mobile platforms as well. That's why React is so popular in the industry.
Long story but I recently got very sick. I was told not to eat past 6pm. I found this really helped me with falling asleep. Turn on some music around 10 and lay in bed. Read a book. I keep some Tums next to my bed (acid reflux also impacts my "sleepiness"). I guess what I'm trying to say is that changing how I ate and just chilling in bed under the covers at an earlier time really helped. I'm still a night owl for sure, but this does combat the ratio of staying up till 2am to being asleep by 12. If I really tell my mind with my internal monologue "Look, I know we want to play videogames and do the dishes, but let's do that in the morning" and also craving breakfast before bed (so you are excited to wake up early to eat) helps.
If you don't mind me asking, what's some like meta data you could share on what makes for a 5GB photoshop file? I'm just really curious at how a single photoshop file gets that large. Does it contain a bunch of workflows and auxiliary assets or something?
Why don’t they just have a toggle, either global or per application. Live tiles, yes/no. Then the user has a choice of high/low resource usage and “busy-ness”
Why is 5 GHz Wi-Fi faster than 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi?
It's like a mini-OS layer that can be used to integrate Amazon's SDKs.

Basically it allows vendors to plug this low-level wrapper on top of their hardware's OS so they can easily add things like Alexa capabilities without writing their own API for that.

From what I understand, this is more or less what it does. It's like OpenWRT but for IoT devices and with the single purpose of integrating Amazon's SDKs in your hardware.
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Did he have to slop out?
I'm no fan of this. What if it treats a tumor as an artifact? This reminds me of the xerox scandal about broken OCR that erroneously deduplicated parts of images that had different contents.

This module might work well, but the modules by cheap competitors might have such behaviour, and it's extremely hard to test that an implementation is bug free.