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Historically, publishers take on the cost of marketing and printing. Printing copies of a book demonstrates their capital investment in the work and that helps unlock distributors, retailers. Often publishers would supply editing and formatting/publication services too.

Now, for ebooks, the marginal cost of "printing" is close to zero. But editing and marketing are still expensive. I think there's a lot of momentum towards preserving the historical royalties even if the business has changed.

The music industry seems to have made this leap to electronic distribution (near exclusively in their case). If royalties have been upset in that industry then we should probably expect something similar for writers.
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I'm surprised that no one has yet pointed out the irony of using Feynman as an "expert opinion" to make the case that you should question authority and don't "just believe the experts". I'm pretty certain Feynman would have gleefully pointed this out himself.
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Is chess master also racially charged word ?
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On the face-masks, the majority of experts do think it's a good thing, but there is not really any solid evidence. The WHO June 5th statement on this:

At present, there is no direct evidence (from studies on COVID-19 and in healthy people in the community) on the effectiveness of universal masking of healthy people in the community to prevent infection with respiratory viruses, including COVID-19.

Indeed, interviewed on BBC Radio 4 last week, Professor Venki Ramakrishnan, president of the Royal Society (the UK "academy of science") declared that to ask for such evidence would be "methodological fetishism", we are expected, no demanded, to accept the opinions of experts.

So I'll stand with Feynman on this.
That would make republicans very scientific - they totally believe in the ignorance of experts.
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Probably... in my case since I never speak nor listen to spoken english it is mostly a written-only language to me.
If Google has agreed to store user data locally/share it with the government in exchange for favourable policies/government turning a blind eye to its monopolistic position, its a very cheap price for what would be basically a win-win deal for both parties. The product i.e. extremely price-sensitive average Indian voter/consumer doesn't care much about privacy anyway.
The lemon laws were written for the combustion engine days, where hundreds of mechanical components can reasonably add up to an unfixable lemon.

A defunct battery can be swapped. A bad electric motor can be swapped. Sensors can be changed. These are trivial to do on an electric car.

There’s an incredible labour cost to do this kind of swapping on a combusting engine. An engine swap? That takes a highly experienced mechanic for an ICU. Transmission issues are also write offs.

The bar for an electric lemon is much higher.
No, it's not. All Indian startups combined raised a total of $14B last year (2019).
The ban of Facebook in 2009 was clearly a result of the Chinese authorities not being able to stop the spread of "misinformation" which they saw as a major factor in the Xinjiang riots of that year.
I think there's a qualitative difference in somebody merely very rich and a person like Ambani who is in the top 10 wealthiest people in the world. He is not quite a 'local' that the Government can just CBI-raid into intimidation like e.g. Prannoy Roy.
Some time ago I went through the list of my country (France), and some were definitively not supposed to be here.

One was in a retail shop like 100m from our office, one of my colleagues actually went there to warn the personel, and it was taken down in the next minutes (I think they cut off the power of the cameras until necessary action was taken).

An other one was in a restaurant, right above the cashier and (most importantly) the credit card terminal. The name of the restaurant was visible on a floor mat, so I could find very easily the website and the e-mail address to send an e-mail to. But then I struggled when writing the e-mail. I didn't want to sound like a hacker (and was afraid to be prosecuted), but also I really wanted them to take it down, by citing some laws here in France that is very strict about video surveillance on the workplace.

In the end I didn't send any email. I'm not a lawyer, and there was too much risk IMO. Maybe I'll try going through the ISP next time I browse the cameras.
What's are these "serious" applications?
The Indian market is evidently big enough for homegrown cola brands (as in much smaller countries) but ultimately you have to question how much the Indian economy would benefit from special legislation to force its consumers to buy cola owned by a local oligarch rather than a foreign plc. Since the manufacturing and distribution jobs for the Indian supply chain are all in India either way and making sugary carbonated water isn't something which takes time to learn offering massive future opportunities, the argument for protecting fizzy drinks isn't very strong. Protecting your own industries can keep some domestic spend within the country, but it also tends to reduce foreign investment, lower the product quality/choice and deter exports, unless and until you start developing major strengths in the areas your govt protects.

India's present economic strengths and growth opportunities are in its ability to carry out work in the English language and IT sector for a wealthier multinational market: it's not a good bet especially not in the short run to sacrifice those opportunities to try to get Indians to mainly use Indian manufactures. Which is also why you have Google India and Amazon India. China didn't really have that same level of opportunity even if they'd pursued complete economic openness that's entirely alien to their political culture. And most countries smaller than China have been highly selective about which industries and resources they protect and for good reason.
Yes. In fact I suspect they haven't paid bribes because the US will arrest their CEO if they pay bribes. There are complex reasons exceptions, but in general us companies don't pay bribes unless someone's life is directly threatened. The same goes for UK companies, and I have no doubt all the other major countries in Europe have similar laws.

One of my companies competors get caught bribing. After investigation it was determined the company doesn't pay bribes and so this was a bad employee. The fines otherwise would have shut them down. This was used to justify sending me to anti bribery classes even though I don't do the type of work where I'm likely to have opportunities to bribe someone (or so I think?). I wasn't told who it was though.
I used to have migraines with auras as well; in my case, it started with a blind spot somewhere in my cone of vision that would gradually grow, sometimes even covering my entire field of view except for a very tiny point I was looking at.

The funny thing is, sometimes, I would still be perfectly capable of reading. I didn't see the text, or at least didn't perceive it, but apparently it still reached the parts of my brain responsible for interpreting writing.

If I remember correctly, there's even some people who have this as a permanent condition, that is, are completely blind but can still read text even though they don't even see it.

It's quite weird, honestly, and if it hadn't been for the fear of actual migraine that would follow the aura distracting me, I imagine the experience itself would have been quite uncomfortable on its own.

Another interesting effect was that in the days after a strong migraine, my vision would stay messed up and start to get weirdly distorted whenever I tried reading something, which might be quite similar to what dyslexia feels like, at least for those cases where it's more on the visual side.

I've always found all of this incredibly fascinating, as it goes to show just how complex the human brain is and how it can malfunction and react to internal and external influences.
Most certainly trust is missing, but I think this is a wrong approach. You cannot enforce trust anyway, but there are countless topics where more questions would indeed be accurate.

Russian collusion is an example. One of my favorites since this scare has been used all political sides by now. Some people still believe it to this day. Propaganda is in place? Should be easy to get an example because it is directed at the public at scale. Questions about contents were never asked.

But given the contents, too much trust seems a bit too naive. Our media is at fault since many decided that they need to frame stories so that readers get the correct impression. Maybe it is honest fear that they could reinforce prejudice, but I doubt it. With their deeds they are responsible for it and basic psychology can tell you why that is the case. That behavior warrants zero trust and we now live with the consequences of this hubris.

Sure, everyone and their mothers currently blame the media for everything, but there is a degree of truth to it and I would think that degree is pretty large.

Trust isn't taken, trust needs to be earned. We certainly aren't living in a time where the public asks too many questions.
Yeah, I added this yesterday.

For the record, you can also view exact timestamps on the detail page: https://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/details.php?hostname=plausibl...
I know how induction works, believe it or not

> in this proof is that the steps for proving k+1 in terms of k don't work for all k > 1,

Yes and those are steps 7 and 8, not step 9. Because that "proof" is already wrong. It comes from a wrong premise, surely, but that's already wrong at this time

This is why I'm calling BS on step 9 being the fallacy there.

> Step 5: Let G be an arbitrary group of k+1 people

> Step 7: Consider everybody in G except P. These people form a group of k people, so they must all have the same age (Right conclusion from wrong premises)

> The trick in this proof is that the steps for proving k+1 in terms of k don't work for all k > 1,

7 and 8 doesn't work for any k > 1, it's not "for all" it's "for any". That's why this is so ridiculous

Step 9 fails for k<=1 and k=2 and that's it.

So yeah the induction doesn't work, but it's not only because of step 9, it's because of 7/8 (which are just erroneous conclusions of a false premise)
I mean, they're probably bad examples, in that they're populists, in Trump's case in particular of the "know-nothing" school, and they're basically the poster children for bad governance. And Merkel is _one_ example of a politician trained as a scientist. But there are plenty of reasonable politicians who aren't scientists.

In an alternate universe where Obama had run 4 years later and was thus presiding competently over this crisis, and where Germany had elected some sort of weird hotelier with silly hair who had screwed up their response, that would argue for _lawyers_ being good at science by this approach.

I think all you can really take out of the example of current world leaders is that competent leaders are better at dealing with science than incompetent leaders. Mostly because competent leaders are inclined to listen to expert advise rather than making it up as they go along. But you don't need to be trained as a scientist to be competent. (There is probably an argument that scientists, and indeed lawyers, are more likely to be competent than business scions or newspaper columnists, but it's going to be a difference of degree).
I don't think you agreeing with the article at all. You seem to be specifically saying that experts must be treated like high priests and only approached in a special way.
One of the biggest problems with thought experiments designed as an introduction to an entire class of problems, is that they get misinterpreted as a complete statement of the problem.

Charlie Stross is quite dismissive of paperclip maximisers: Elon Musk "has an obsessive fear" of them, and "isn't paying enough attention" because Tesla does the same thing. He refers to a "pure paperclip maximiser" and discusses the "naive vision of a paperclip maximiser".

This is quite insulting, because the paperclip maximiser is a thought experiment designed to introduce the consequences of intelligences which have fundamentally different values to human beings, in an accessible way. What he's doing is like reading a kids' book on counting and then writing an article contrasting naive apple-based addition with his brilliant new idea of generic fruit-based counting.
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But the compiler checks your code, and if the compiler is slow, the problem remains.
I'd go further and say there's nobody that can compete with China at this stage. Sure, some US companies are doing tactical investments here and there, meanwhile the Chinese government is plowing billions into basic infra like railways, ports and roads across swathes of Asia and Africa, and then its companies follow.
>money should not be main motivator for writing a book.

I know my case is an extreme corner case, but I did finally try my hand at writing a book to make money. Long story short, I left my job, was living on my savings, tried a few things, etc. The only active earning came via 1/2 workshops I conducted at my college. I started maintaing materials for those workshops and expanded it on my own interest and tried to get donations. But no one did (GitHub didn't have sponsors at that time).

Finally, as a sort of last ditch effort before being forced to start working a job again, I tried my hand at converting my materials into a book. I had been working to convert "Think Python" to "Think Ruby", so that gave a bit of experience and confidence as well. Second book gave an initial sale of $250+ (enough to pay two months of my expenses), so I've continued with it.

With the pandemic, my workshops have dried up. Fortunately, I have 6 books now and looks like I'll comfortably cover my expenses this year. My monthly salary from 6 years back when I left the job would've covered my current yearly expenses, but I'm unlikely to go back to working like that again.
I never mentioned performance, I'm suggesting that kqueue is a better 'interface'.

epoll is an interface designed by someone who didn't know what they were doing at the time, that's the only way it can be described.. if you look at alternative implementations (such as IO-Completion ports on Windows) then you can see there's a lot to be desired, one of the things epoll doesn't do, for instance is tell you how many bytes are waiting on a buffer; so you have to read the whole buffer and determine if you're beginning a new unrelated message or not.

There's also the fact that epoll will evict things from the buffer on read; so you can't do a partial read and come back. It's just.. bad. io_uring solves a lot of these issues.
I think/hope you wrote "tiptoe around" when you meant "respecting the opinions".

The problem is the us and them mentality exists, is very prevalent but basically invisible to or ignored by those on one side of the divide. Addressing issue already present isn't significantly furthering the divide, it's making people aware of what's already there. All the people saying "look how divided we are now!" fail to realise this has always been the way.
The new liberals and SJWs invading tech have decided that simply using the word “master” (just like you and I did now) makes you a racist, no matter what and “considering context” is something you’re not even allowed to suggest.

Never mind the 12+ meanings[1] of the word not related to slavery.

Tech is going to be so much fun now.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/master
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Ask HN: How to find motivation to persist when you feel you're going sideways?
For the past ~12 years I've being an entrepreneur and had about 5 projects.

I didn't actually found my 2nd, but was invited to be a founding partner and, after 4.5 years, I sold my shares for a good amount, that allowed me to keep going for 3 years with the bare minimum to pay my bills. And, after selling my shares, I founded other 2 projects that failed and 1 that is my current.

After the 4th failed, I decided to take a time out and was invited to work at a prominent startup. Been there for 8 months before deciding I really need something of my own to feel fullfiled.

And I'm currently on the 3rd year of my 5th endeavor, which is generating good money, I have a good salary and good dividends each year. Not anything that will make me really rich, but I'm doing ok.

We have 13 people with us now and for the next 6 months we plan to have 20.

We're a B2B company developing crawlers and automating data routines (RPA/data collecting/enrichment), made around US$500k last year (which is an amazing achievement for my country). We're about to launch our first SaaS, within the same crawler/data collection area, as our previous business model is totally reliant on consultancy/custom development.
But now I feel like we're going sideways. From January we don't have as much new leads and the projects that we get are smaller. I know Covid struck and most companies slowed down on investments, but as I mentioned we're in this position from 2 months prior to covid. And now, after 3 years of existence and positive results, we're having negative results for the past 4 months.

I'm afraid our new SaaS won't sky rocket and our current consultancy model won't be enough to hold everything together.

So, I'm starting to lose motivation to keep going.
I'm not whining, I'm really looking for ways someone out there found that extra motivation pill to keep going. I used to love having my own thing and worked around the clock like it was fun and all. Trying to find that again.
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> I think that the engineers at Netflix "could figure it out".

And I would still like to see some evidence.

> Whenever I have to do anything other than set an IP address I throw up in my mouth a little bit.

Very compelling case you make there.
One reason might be that these "legit" accounts are used to pay for ads:

https://www.cnet.com/news/your-hacked-facebook-account-may-b...
Fair and true
I never saw docker as being built for security, I think it's a common concept that's attributed to them because "contain(ers)" sounds like it contains things, the reality is that they're talking about shipping containers pretty exclusively in the context of docker.

Shipping containers are not secure.
It's actually super easy now, with PiHole if you'd like to self-host or NextDNS if you want something that Just Works.
Allowing independent teams to deploy their service into production is a hard problem to manage. One way is to provide them with self-service to abstractions that are managed with guard rails.

Persistent storage, key/value stores, caches, naming, service discovery, networking, access control, authentication, authorization, versioning etc etc.

Having that as an API means you can deploy safely. Having it as a library means that you're missing the indication that these are networked services that you are relying on and must accomodate.

Having it as a networked "sidecar" means that it can be upgraded independently, so is an extension of the control plane beyond the lower level system services of k8s and equivalent. It can express business logic in terms of deployment policies, sign offs, audits, accounting etc.
> “considering context” is something you’re not even allowed to suggest

Funny, you just suggested it. Are you still alive?
Medieval monks couldn't even agree on 'How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_many_angels_can_dance_on_t....

Why were there so many sects, religions and religious wars if they agreed so well?

On the other hand, the speed of light is the same under any system of reference, any regime, culture or religion.
Well, they can see for themselves the empirical evidence that socialism fails, so they seem very science based.
I would go even further, the more scientific education one has the more sceptical one regards scientic articles and often we try to find flaws even in published articles, leading to attempts to, for example reproduce results. Unfortunately there is no reward for reproducing others results.
I actually learned functional programming first. The first language I spent any considerable amount of time with was Scheme, working through college textbooks and then later taking college courses.
This is exactly how you recognize a good internet marketeer. They don't focus on getting a lot of traffic, they focus on getting the right traffic.
Yes, and OP is explicitly saying that is incorrectly conflating two separate things. The questions you list would be answered by a theory of quantum gravity. That theory can be consistent and answer all of our questions. A theory of everything is superfluous.
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Pretending that any resource will always be available is shoddy programming. Check your return values, trap non-fatal exceptions, and always assume remote network resources might not be available. Forget China; there are many reasons an HTTP request to facebook might fail.

A website that ignoring errors when fetching a remote resource is bad programming for the same reason ignoring "file not found" errors when calling open() is bad programming.
Just out of curiosity, is chess master gives also bad connotations ?

Do chess pieces color seem racial to you ?
how does one even begin to become known in a scene if you don't even know where (or if) it exists?

Not that I'm planning to purchase any of those services of course, I'm just curious because it sounds like there's no possible starting point, unless by pure chance one of your personal friends happens to be already involved in the area and lets you know.
CEO is Indian, so makes sense.
I get the argument about blaming tools, but there's precedent here that suggests a ban could happen. Apple bans torrent-related applications from their app store despite the protocol ostensibly having nothing to do with piracy.

I think that's less likely to happen with WebRTC. But for workplaces that don't otherwise use it? Maybe.
It's been +6 months of Coronavirus, and still people don't get this right:

Wearing a mask (for the most of us not working in healthcare) prevents you from spreading the disease. It's not for protecting yourself, but for protecting others.

Since you can spread the disease even without having symptoms, and showing symptoms can take up to 15 days, then you should wear a mask, specially in closed, crowded spaces.

There is no hidden agenda, conspiracy or whatever satisfies your imagination.
No, it's an insult, and any sentiment expressed in using it is entirely subjective opinion, not "fact".

> false-call for civility

Is this another "fact"? Got the proof that the call for civility is false? Otherwise this is bad-faith.

> ignoring the reality

The "reality" you describe is disputed.

> people REFUSE to help

they refuse to participate in a bad-faith, antagonistic discourse. There is no attempt at "help" here, just demanding your perspective be accepted as fact, and insulting all who do not obey.
Name a single group of skeptical dissenters who you think are right. You can’t. But science is always proving itself wrong and just as it has always been, groups of dissenters will overtake the people who preside over convention, scientifically. So which one is it? Is science “finished?” Has everything been figured out or are you just not able to differentiate between dumb people and legitimate dissenters, as I pointed out above?