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That's the kind of level I was thinking. Compared with VAT levels of around 20% in most EU countries, with a de minimis level of around €15, I'd call that a low rate and high de minimis level.

Edit: it seems there's no de minimis threshold for VAT anymore, so that's even more of a contrast
Question: How hard would it be to block it via firewall?
> Does the kernel ever remove support for devices or does this stuff just bloat up the codebase for eternity?

As long as there is an active maintainer for the code, the code can stay forever and it's not really bloating up the kernel due to the modular nature of it.
>Fixed resources. For instance US has a limited amount of farmland. You cannot scale farming up. From one perspective there are a fixed amount of farming jobs. From another perspective people will go hungry if population is too high. The higher population California has, the more carefully it has to save water.

That's sort of related to zero sum thinking - if arrable land ever became scarce there are alternative methods that become viable at higher cost , same for water.
(also with additional manual labor and R&D it's easier to solve those problems)
A lot of his arguments make sense for amzn, facebook, ms, all the big tech players I think. He indirectly mentions this in a couple cases, even if his focus is on Google. I think it's reasonable to focus on them because of the huge impact services like Maps can have on commerce.
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Much of the intellectual class, by which I refer to the class thar engages in public discourse, certainly thinks there is something ignoble about making a profit. Online comments demonstrate that.
These type of posts are now starting to sound like propaganda. Just emotional catharsis of some sort.

There are plenty of large companies on this planet.

Why do you focus on Google?

and why do we see these posts frequently making it to top ten of hacker news?
In pretty much all systems today drivers can do the same...
32-ish-year-old Herzog (in German) is another fun thing to compare.

https://youtu.be/l_SxmZWuwdk?t=391
I read it more like "at the peak of societal reaction to the pandemic", as in the shutdowns and other things that directly affect Yelp's business. I doubt they're thinking of the medical aspects when they're writing a company blog post to plead with people to go spend money again so they get a cut of it :p
Funny, I usually go in the other direction. I'll find something to automate and I'll think, "That sounds buildable in a weekend," before realizing after the weekend that it would actually be a multi-week, sometimes multi-month effort.
Microsoft themselves are making some progress improving / consolidating the cmd.exe shell and Powershell. it's named Windows Terminal and actively being developed on https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
So we can agree the shipping isn't make it cost prohibitive. Your point about there being less hay making finding needles easier might be possible (although I don't think it matters, as with our southern border, a higher detection rate just means you need more chance to get the desired total smuggled). I would imagine there would just be more product shipped to Central and South America and then imported like everything else south of the border, cars, trucks, boats planes. "The flow of fentanyl to the United States in the near future will probably continue to be diversified" [1] Production in those places might also increase. Moral of my story is this change in shipping prices will have no long term effect on amount of fentanyl brought into the US; though, it might very well increase the involvement of SotB cartels. If there are buyers, these will be sellers.

[1] https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2020-03/DEA_GOV_DIR-...
Here's the rub: I strongly suspect that YouTube is not profitable, or is just barely profitable, such that it would be difficult to run as a separate company from the rest of Google. This is even more true for Maps. Breaking apart Google would substantially risk those businesses.

On the other hand, maybe that's a good thing.
What's wrong with the kernel supporting a wide variety of hardware?

As long as the stuff is actively maintained, I don't see a problem as this means it's actually being used.

Linux always has had a very wide hardware support and if you are bothered about that, you can either use the make target "localmodconfig" or just don't build your kernels yourself.
The ransomeware makers can counter that by making their ransomware divide the victim’s data into a very large number of separately encrypted sections each using a different key. Then instead of trying to sell the victim one key for a million dollars they would offer say 100000 keys at $10 each.

Now it only costs the victim $10 to pick a random section and buy its key. If that works they can pick another and buy it’s key, and so one until they are confident the seller can be trusted and they can then buy the remaining keys.
I might show videos in the near future. Not sure about the download yet since this would consume a lot more bandwidth.
> Mac & Windows did away with always-visible menu bars just fine.

is this sarcasm? it appears disjointed from your comment and disagrees with your thesis.

> Remember how Windows 8 tried to hide the start menu and how it had turned into the worst UX experience in the last decade ever.

part of that is surely that trigger start in windows 8/8.1 closed (hid/whatever) you were working on before, forcing an unnecessary context switch. i can't print or save documents in office anymore for the same reason - if you choose “File”, it closes your current file.

note that mac os, windows, and to a much greater extent iOS and Android have abandoned the visibility principle. having a dedicated button vs a “force click” feature? i'd prefer the button.

your objections to dnd depend on it not being well implemented. but when it's core, it is well implemented. i use dnd, even sometimes to copy/paste on windows.

° "Drag & drop to open" has other issues too. For one, there is no orthogonality between open & close. Do I drag away the icon to close the file or is there a standalone "close" option without an open?

i don't understand your objection here. is there orthoganality between open/close on other systems? i have never thought so. i close by clicking x (windows, gnome) or just going back home (android). but i open by doubling click the file (linux) or doing something ad hoc (windows, android)
Kudos, amazing effort!
> When? · The best time would have been sometime around 2015. The second best…

This makes sense.

Maybe then we would see some attention directed back to search quality and to delivering a quality alternative smartphone os (I finally caved and went for iPhone last year after 8 years of waiting for another good Android. Yes, that means I used to like one or two of the early models.)
I mean, it's not like the previous comment proved you otherwise by posting a link to the current kernel git tree.

But ok.
How could that be? Server costs? Seems like YouTube would be raking in the cash.
A lot of mc's features don't work on Windows. FAR without ConEmu is still better.
Plam needs to think about a better logo.
> Why is Macintosh II still being worked on but 386 support got killed?

Because developers care about Motorola 68000, but no one cares about i386.

No one wanted to step up to work on support for the original i386, so it got removed.
Thank you!! By the way, just curious, what draws you to work on it?

Edit: OP explains here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23675025
I've seen it done before, as reinforcement on large cracks, but the level this guy goes to, to perfectly restore this is amazing. I am truly open-jawed after looking at all the pictures. There aren't many working SX-64s out there, so the effort involved was totally worth it.
Exactly. It's arch-specific code. It won't even show up in the kernel configuration unless the architecture is m68k.
The insurance policy would be tied to following some (infosec) best practices. In the best of all worlds, insurances would then check on their customers to make sure best practices are followed in the same way that we follow best practices for avoiding fires in terms of building construction and not having flammable materials lying around too much.
I'm curious why golang architects (looks like top smart people) treated ABI as stable interface not only for Linux/Window but also initially for BSD/macOS.
What is the use case for brand logos?
None of your points make any sense. It's as if you believe HATEOAS is something entirely different than what it really is.

The DOM is irrelevant wrt HATEOAS. HATEOAS is just a way to decouple clients from servers. You get that by not resorting to hardcoded links, and instead getting your server to supply links to clients in the form of links driven by link relations. HATEOAS is capabilities discovery. HATEOAS is API versioning without explicit versions. HATEOAS is a documented and discoverable API. That's it.

It's also irrelevant to HATEOAS if you have 1 our 9999 links. You set a root document with a link. That's it.

HTTP is completely irrelevant to HATEOAS. HATEOAS is an element of an architecture style. You can do REST with UDP if you'd like. And no, you can easily do transactions with REST over HTTP. No need to mix DB stuff on the API.

Finally, you let it clear that you don't like REST or HATEOAS. That's ok. Yet, your personal preferences don't mean something is broken, specially if they are derived from misconceptions, confusion and ignorance.
No, there are probably more kernel config options than ever ... but they are decently well organized in a tree. I always start with my linux distro's stock kernel config, and then go through and find stuff to add and remove which is familiar enough to me, leaving the majority as-is. There is search, there are other ways to get a good starter config, I'm no expert ...
You gotta be extremely shortsighted to fail to see how YouTube fits inside Google. I’m really shocked Tim would say something like that.
I know that there's a quota of at least one "Google bad" article at the top of Hacker News each day, and that's fine and all, but I feel like the bar for them is getting lower.

There's a pretty good case for breaking up Google, but this article doesn't make it. The word "monopoly" doesn't appear once in the whole article, which is pretty weird in an article about how to break up Google and the justifications for doing so. It lists six reasons, and not one of them is about how anybody would be better off if Google were broken up, nor are there any about the legal burdens that must be satisfied to do so.

Instead, we get reasons like "YouTube has become the visual voice of several generations and is too important to leave hidden inside an opaque conglomerate." That's not even an argument. "The world needs Google Cloud to be viable?" That's an argument AGAINST breaking up Google.
They're capitalizing on the data with the way this post is composed. I don't mean that in any bad way, but the post seems worded to tug at our collective heartstrings about how many restaurants are suffering—including ${YOUR_FAVORITE}—so we should all go eat at our favorite places to make sure they survive! (and implicitly give Yelp a cut when we use their app)
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Their transcode, storage, and compute costs are what lead me to also believe YouTube is not profitable, or just barely profitable.
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Yes, let’s destroy one of the few large companies which has found a viable method of long term innovation instead of endless cost cutting and outsourcing.

Let’s force Google to be like every other company in needing to constantly extract money from every project quarter by quarter.

Not to mention that it is not clear that any except advertising are viable businesses by themselves.

YouTube wasn’t profitable for a while. Even if it is now, it is probably barely so.

Not sure how Maps would make sufficient money without deep integration with advertising.

Android would just be dead.
I understand that it’s not a solution for my BSD servers then. Thank you though, I didn’t know about that and I might try it later.
> have k-j and j-k mapped to esc [...] and not being able to do that is terrible

Me too, and for me too.

What do you use that doesn't allow jk for normal mode? I found it works with most programs in which I use vim bindings nowadays:

https://github.com/tasuki/dotrc/blob/master/.inputrc#L8-L13

https://github.com/tasuki/dotrc/blob/master/.zshrc#L41-L42

https://github.com/tasuki/dotrc/blob/master/.ideavimrc#L5-L7
When restrictionists stop using the lump-of-labor fallacy as their opening argument then discussion will no doubt evolve.
Well, it probably does _now_. Cambridge Analytica was nowhere near alone in their cross-aggregation of data.
Perhaps, but fakers can do that too. Also I expect that the actual effective cost of the individual keys - especially the first - would be more than $10.
I have been a long-time Amiga user (since the 90s) and never let go of the machine - like many others in the community (we even have regular conferences and meetings etc with new hardware being developed and released).

I personally became the m68k maintainer in Debian because I was asked whether I would like to work on the port shortly after I became a Debian Developer and I agreed.

I learned really a lot about kernel and software development in general that I stayed with it. It also helped me land a job with one of the big Linux companies.
Practically, this is how all these ransomwares work in big organisations...

It's usually ~$1000 per machine. Sometimes more for machines with big disks or depending on which active directory groups they're in.

That tells you that UCSF paid for data recovery on 1000+ machines probably...
> Why do you focus on Google?

Because there's no thing one hate as much as the one that one loved and that then betrayed you I guess.

(Note: I neither loved Google nor hate it now but I'll go as far as admit to being a big fan earlier on and really disappointed now.)

> and why do we see these posts frequently making it to top ten of hacker news?

Because so many of us agree with them. (FTR, I'm an oldtimer with a fresh account.)
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Starting with companies that make over a billion dollars a year and are in multiple markets seems like an uncontroversial place, though.

The problems don't occur when companies are in multiple markets, arguable that is better for competition and hence the person on the street. The problem is when a company or two dominates a single market.
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If those costs were high they'd have long ago banned the spam accounts that upload autogenerated garbage.
Server and storage costs must be astronomical - last time I checked something in the order of 48-hours worth of content is uploaded every minute. Coupled with the fact that they've had a couple of issues with advertisers leaving or withholding spending, I doubt what they pull in is enough to cover expenses.
Nice article!

However, roaming support is entirely missing. Handover between access points is really important in my experience. It would have been nice to have an overview on the current situation in WiFi.
Insurance companies still have a lot of trouble pricing and selling cyber insurance. Ransomware is a bit of a outlier here, being the most popular category of cyber insurance and all, but it seems to still be difficult for insurers to price their premiums.

It's mostly because there aren't a lot of good measurements for assessing how likely a company is to get hacked / hit by RW (I'm not a believer in infosec through Q&A / self-assessment).

These are of course growing pains and especially for SMB some form of insurance + cybersecurity tooling basics will be the dominating approach to managing cyber risk.
Continuing the viewpoint of time as options, an epistle from near the BC/AD boundary: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23668877

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> Force Google to be like every other company in needing to constantly extract money from every project quarter by quarter.

I agree with the article but have my upvote: this is good counterargument to parts of it.
> Page and Brin each own 25.9% and 25.1% of Alphabet's voting power, respectively, accounting for over half of the company's controlling shares. That's because of Alphabet's super-voting structure, which gives 10 votes per share of its Class B stock.

also:

> Mark Zuckerberg owns the majority of the voting rights to Facebook due to a dual class structure that weights certain shares over others.

I would like to see eminent domain used to restructure these companies with weird controlling shared structures in to being truly publicly traded companies as a first step. I have no problem with Zuck getting all the money his shares of Facebook are worth, but I have a big problem with him and the unelected Page and Brin having all that power with no recourse for the market. Am I being foolish?
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While I think we all recognize that the approach, to handle data and not live objects, is different, you seem to have missed the core objections, which are that REST is and was widely misunderstood and FIOH might as well be the true protocol in widespread use today.

The irony is that this 'REST' is used now in part to support lifecycle management of live objects, in the browser, but this has architectural implications.

Further, dogged adherence to arbitrary 'REST' or FIOH explains the growing popularity of a growing number of non Restful http protocol extensions like websockets, webrtc, graphql, as people search for rpc alternatives for things REST was never intended for. This seems to be a pretty valid criticism of the state of industry 'REST'.
I didn't contradict myself, I was referring to 'limited restrictions for the elderly', the parent commenter's recommendation. The parent commenter was also explicitly against widespread mask wearing, and for allowing the disease to spread during summer. Japan has extremely widespread mask wearing, and while lockdown orders were not enforced, there were recommendations for the populace to work from home and avoid going out for the night which were respected on a wide scale, paired with travel restrictions both internally and internationally, and school closure in the cirtical period at the beginning of spring.

Related to targeted measures for the elderly and their success, of course care homes should take all precautions, who would oppose that?? I am saying that it can't be considered enough, and we have seen that it is not enough, for example in Sweden. The fact that there exist care homes in the US that have had few or no COVID-19 deaths is proof of nothing, except of a job well done by those people, and of good luck.

But the elderly don't live only in care homes, and it is not only the elderly who are getting sick and dying. And many more care homes have done a terrible job in keeping their wards safe, becoming hot beds of infection themselves.

> > Limited protections for the elderly have not been shown to work anywhere in the world, so why bother discussing them?

> That's an extremely unhelpful way to approach any complicated subject, especially one of such enormous importance. Thankfully, most healthcare professionals don't indulge is such nonsense

Limited restrictions <for the elderly> as the only measure taken against COVID-19 have not worked anywhere in the world, are against almost all medical professionals' recommendations, and aren't even worth discussing. It has been tried by madmen, and it leads to tragedy. This is what the parent was proposing, and this is what I am combating.

Less-than-lockdown restrictions for the entire populace can work, if they are respected on a wide scale. Unfortunately, most of the people who are against lockdowns are also against any such restrictions, imagining instead that they can shift all of the burden on the elderly and sick. Not only is that a heinous attitude, it has also been shown not to work.
> A falling GDP due to low fertility often comes with an ageing of the population. Older people usually don't work, usually need more healthcare, etc. Hence there's a growing need of money to redistribute, but less money coming in since there are less young people working.

That's accurate. The main "issue" here is that people live longer, ergo their retirement period is longer. When retirement systems were set up, with the retirement age set to ~65, people lived to be 70. Now they live to be 80, and the retirement age is still at 65.

On the other side: "back in the day", a lot of jobs where quite physical, which made it hard to do them in your 60ies. That's very different today. And of course: productivity gains more than make up for low fertility, we no longer need 30% of the population to work in food production, thanks to automation and modern technology, 1-3% can do the same just fine.
> For many years, the astonishing torrent of money thrown off by Google’s Web-search monopoly has fueled invasions of multiple other segments, enabling Google to bat aside rivals who might have brought better experiences to billions of lives.

When a company makes so much more money than it needs to invest to remain competitive and grow in its primary business, I believe that's a HUGE red flag that the company should be classified as a monopoly or under some much stricter rules, and also that governments should look at anti-competitive practices the company might employ. Because in almost all cases, when a company has more money than it knows what to do with, it must have employed some anti-competitive practices.
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Well thats a chicken and egg problem in a way. Without data you can't build some types of software. I think you have three types of data.

1. Private data / Linked Data

This is the data contributed by the user. Shopping data for example. I think the EU data laws are meant to guard this. I think it is both unethical and illegal to sell / publish primary data without the user's consent.

2. Public data

In social networks you also get interaction data, which the user had made public. I don't see any reason for companies not to publish this. Right now people use crawling to get this data.

3. Insights

This is the data generated by ML and statistical analytics.

By open data I mean user should be able to get a dump of all three and the organisation should? publish 2 openly and 3 if it wants to openly as well.

Also see: http://www.veen.com/jeff/archives/000810.html
Ah, sorry, I misinterpreted your post.

I thought you meant that USA import duties are much lower than EU import duties, but I now see you meant EU import duties are much lower than EU VAT taxes.

Completely agree then.

The removal of the €22 low-value exception for VAT will happen in EU on July 1st 2021, so not in effect yet.
The sheer magnitude of video data they have to deal with is enormous. They, along with netflix, comprise the majority of all internet usage. Yes, the videos you see on your front page with 10s of millions of views are raking in the cash and have negligible hosting cost. Those videos are subsidizing the 10s of millions of videos that get 4-5 views apiece.
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Apple is seen as the one to sustain those profits. The models for Samsung either see lower profits or discount them more steeply in their risk adjustments.
Yeah, but there are, for example, at least five car companies at the top end that have kind of equally attractive products and 20 others. But in tech it‘s different.

Additionally, I don‘t think anyone working in the tech industry should want a future where a few large companies control everything. In the long run, this is not in our interest.