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Yes, there’s no god given right to be paid for your art. Just because I put some tones together and throw it on the Internet doesn’t mean I deserve to paid significant amounts of money. Or indeed any money at all.

But there is a God given right for software developers to get more than 70%?

Not only that but Apple Music may soon be the dominant streaming platform, and if they can do that would resorting to anti-competitive behaviour then is show that artists can make a living, and consumers can continue paying ~$7/month for music.

How do you propose that Apple becomes more dominant than Spotify worldwide when Apple only has a 15% market share? Are people really signing up for Apple Music on Android or are the few Android users who use Apple Music doing so only as part of a Family Plan where the other member of the household is an iOS user?

That only proves my point, competition is driving up payments to artists, the system works.

It’s only “working” because Apple, Amazon, and Google don’t need for music streaming to be profitable - unlike Spotify. They can operate at break even. Artists aren’t choosing one over the other.
What an age we live in: the meteoric evolution of the information superhighway has culminated in a Facebook-owned walled garden that retains its original features as a photo- and video-sharing platform, and so delivers substantive information as pictures of text that cannot be copy-pasted or searched for.

The platform explicitly bans hyperlinking to ANY resource outside of Instagram, except from the bio section of user accounts, forcing purveyors of information to entice content consumers to follow the "link in bio," of which there can only be one.

Users can "save" posts to custom-named "collections" within the platform, but are intentionally prevented from exporting these collections, or indeed saving any post to their local machine in its original format, short of screenshotting in the mobile app, or using browser extensions or digging into devtools on desktop.

You can't sort comments by anything. Time, votes (sorry, "likes"), length -- nope, you're stuck with whatever inscrutable, undocumented order "the algorithm" has chosen to present to you, annealed out of some black-box ranking procedure based on various engagement metrics.

You can't create comment threads: all levels of replies to a comment pile up in the same indent level, forcing the reader to mentally build conversation threads by reading username tags and scrolling up and down while repeatedly clicking "view more replies." This undermines any hope of substantive discourse about whatever serious issue is addressed by the seven-panel meticulously designed infographic rife with unsupported claims, gross oversimplifications, and handwriting fonts.

Oh, and roughly every fifth post or story is a paid ad, just to remind you that you're the product. (Wherever the $7 billion and rising of quarterly revenue is going [1], their comment-system team evidently isn't getting much of it.)

Instagram becoming an "information powerhouse" is a slap to the face of information accuracy, accessibility, and credibility.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/448157/instagram-worldwi...
You're not. I've been using Wayland exclusively on FreeBSD for a couple years now, with both AMD and Intel GPUs.
Ukraine is a different story altogether: yes, having a pipeline that goes around Ukraine makes it impossible for Ukraine to put pressure by shutting down the the pipeline.

Still, it's unrelated to Nord Stream 2. There is no risk to Germany there, simply because it's entirely voluntary mechanism.
I was an engineer for years and then a recruiter before starting interviewing.io.

After having hosted ~60K mock interviews, I agree with one of the big takeaways here. Practice practice practice. It's not the same as working problems on your own. But after 5 or so, many of our users reach an inflection point.

As for cover letters and getting in the door in the first place, no one at large companies reads them. However, best thing you can do is find an engineer at that company and send them an earnest, short email about why you admire their work and why you want to be a part of it. Don't talk to recruiting... unless you fit a very narrow, specific mold, they're not incentivized to take risks.
I've tried Snapchat, never felt the same thing I'm getting with TikTok. TikTok is not being hyped to me, I genuinely get a good laugh out of it everytime I open it. Never had that with Snap or really any other social network. This is huge.
When billions of people believe something, it will become a "fact".

Right now the public opinion in China (not mine) is that India and America are hypocritical bullies and abusing the "national security" excuse, while China "never banned" any foreign web services, those "simply refused to comply with Chinese laws regarding terrorism" and their "inaccessibility" totally justified.

You see, here's the logical trap, Tiktok ostensibly didn't refuse to comply with any foreign law, and it will do any "dirty work" if being asked to (unlike foreign companies in China), so by this logic, it's a model citizen and the ban is unjustified and ridiculous. This plays right into the party's hands, right into its "century of humiliation" ideology.

>why should US allow Chinese?

So here's the catch, the CCP sabotaged and overthrew the Chinese Nationalist Party (now Taiwan) government exactly by exploiting its liberal constitution and free speech, the lesson they learned from that epic success is that never allow these freedom, China never touted freedom and rights so it doesn't matter, while the US being the democracy beacon breaching it has everything to lose.
Well, YouTube's core audience isn't going there for TikTok-style content (no judgement on that content either way.) They mostly come for vlogs, let's play's, tutorial videos, video essays, etc.

Also worth noting that YouTube is a money sink so it's not like it's the most lucrative business model.
DB design is not the most important part of a business nor the application. This is a very misinformed view point.

I've never seen a business go bankrupt because of the DB, but I've seen plenty never make it to market because all their money was burned in development. This is stupid and a great example of how shitty engineering can doom a project.

Most important thing is to determine if people are actually gonna buy your app, if you can make a business out of it. Like it or not, marketing is the most important part of the business.
In the sense that they have been known to remove discussion that the CCP doesn't like [1], that they've created an environment where people feel the need to talk positively about China to get views [2], and in the sense that they are controlled by a company with close ties to the CCP (like practically every large company in China, harder to cite this but for an example see [3]).

[1] https://www.engadget.com/2019-09-25-tiktok-censorship-china....

[2] https://www.wsj.com/articles/tiktok-users-gush-about-china-h...

[3] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bytedance-filing/bytedanc...
The issue with leftpad wasn't that it was small. The issue was that so much production code relied on it not going away, despite npm letting the author make it go away.
So is perl, and tcl and shell and JavaScript and PHP. For a "simple occasional job" the right tool is the one you know best (or the organization knows best).
> I really hate the people talk about 'collecting' IP addresses or getting their "IP address exposed". There is no risk in anyone knowing this, not to privacy, not to security.

That's like saying there's no privacy or security risk to everyone knowing your home address or your phone number. I can understand if you're not concerned by it, but it's non-zero.

Privacy-wise, knowing your router's IP address is enough to score/segment you and (over time) to build a profile on you.

Security-wise, an IP address enables bad actors to scan and potentially attack your router and possibly your internal network.

Real Security Experts™, am I wrong?
Wouldn’t this still break a consumer who doesn’t realize the trick is being employed? Doesn’t this assume the consumer is making the requisite changes in their library as part of upgrading to the “nonbreaking” upgrade that slips the new type definition in via its dependency on its own breaking upgrade?
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You said “more likely to happen” not “has happened”.
I have sunk countless hours into this game during my high school and college days =)
You keep drawing me back in because you state the issue, but don't seem to see it as an issue - you're not seeing the forest but the trees are obvious.

It's not about the workarounds, those are symptoms and some of the reasons this is a thing in the first place.

The face that sentiment around Facebook is generally negative but most still use it is testiment to the monopolistic powers these discussions are all about. Could people migrate to Twitter or some other social network? Sure, maybe. Are they? No. Why? Everyone thought Facebook was a blip in a string of Friendster, MySpace, etc -- but boy they've had staying power despite the low switching cost we thought we had on the early internet. How is that not worth exploring to the fullest?

We don't actually know if these issues affect most people. What would Amazon be like without their Amazon products crushing their third party partners? What would Facebook be like without WhatsApp and Instagram? What would Apple be like if you could plug your weather app of choice in vs their acquisition and likely destruction of all current iOS weather apps? Will Apple nail the DarkSky integration and make a top notch user experience? Almost certainly -- that's not in question.

All of that has a ripple effect through the economy and right now there's purely discovery happening and I still haven't heard one good reason why this discovery process isn't worthwhile, outside of its lack of effectiveness, from the very people who seem to be against any kind of change.
Has sending in a resume ever worked for anyone ever? (I’m only slightly exaggerating.)

All of my opportunities came from inside referrals. It’s hard to imagine getting one any other way.

I mean yeah, a resume is involved — I fill one out — but it’s never been the reason for the opportunity.

Ah, I have a suspicion there are two types of engineers: those with FAANG on their resume, and those without. Perhaps that accounts for the disparity. :)
Looking over the wiki so far, looks like a great resource. Thank you!
If you enjoy this kind of thing, check out the wizardry/madness over at https://www.dwitter.net/ - javascript animations in 140 bytes (the size of a tweet, hence the name, "dwitter").
Whippersnapper. I grew up in Montana back when winters were severe. I did walk to school—about 25 feet as my parents drove me.

None of what you seem to think about my rant represents what my position is. Read my other note in my thread about the NYT article concerning Knuth and Norvig’s commentary. There is a time today for total deep dive. There is skill involved to do this and wisdom when to do this.

There are folks who write with minimal libraries cf qmail.

What seems to be completely missing from today’s discourse about programming is something dijksata said about interrupts. Paraphrasing “If you don’t see the code on the page in front of you, you will make mistakes. “

Take a look at modern Java. Levels of abstraction in use require serious deep dive to truly know what is going on. There is a famous Node package issue where code that wasn’t even on your computer crashed a swath of applications.

Quality in the context of the article means the code is pleasing to read, doesn’t crash unexpectedly and doesn’t have side effects that you may only discover when Brian krebs emails you about your customer’s data ending up in some remote online flea market
Ok so say I have enough risk tolerance to put my money in something other than cash, but not more aggressive than a fund that tracks the S&P, what precise steps should I do to live off of my cash stack while doing absolutely 0 work other than sitting on my couch?
What you are talking about would no longer be considered insurance.

> the accounting profession formally recognizes in financial accounting standards, the premium cannot be so large that there is not a reasonable chance of a significant loss to the insurer

The vast majority of automobiles do not hold their value, they depreciate over time. If I've had my car for say 5 years and I've paid the premiums for 5 years, I may have already paid the full value of my car as it is today due to depreciation. I probably pay for one minor incident per year in premiums. Unless I total my within the first 5 years I'm not really getting insurance what I'm really getting is a payment plan for a payout I most likely will never get.
Google adds 'Black-owned' business attribute to Maps
I attribute it to collaborative and cohesive directing of energy.

If you are not a user then it is not possible for you to see the ephemeral stories, where the majority of the content is shared. The static posts you might be aware of, and their divisive comment threads, are largely ignored.

You might not be able to see the longer format IGTV stories that people spend a lot of time consuming.

What's different is that this is its own platform now, and its growth required no advertisement. It is just here. People have been considering Instagram a play-thing for hipsters for an entire decade, and they were incorrect for most of that decade. The GUI painted over a much more robust system, which I know you are aware of and are vigilant about. That system is being used productively right now.

There are productive conversations from accounts about disenfranchised groups towards "SJWs" about what actually is or isn't a concern and focus on police liability issues, instead of just the reaction to how often a video of black person's interaction with the police goes viral, when theoretically there should be thousands more videos burned into our mind regardless of the demographic proportions.

The pressure of sharing the numbers to contact in any municipality, going viral in the stories all day definitely has contributed.

The web of the social graph showing people in the profession of law enforcement what the people are thinking, the focus on the District Attorney's and the Mayor and Governors instead of just an individual officer has absolutely caused change. Police are getting fired for less egregious actions over the last two months. The legislatures in several states have implemented comprehensive reforms. Things that were always at their discretion.

Do you want to quantify it? It's not possible, you have to be on the network. But just consider, what if I'm telling you about something important?
If you mean Coca Cola, you're wrong.
> How does the site know the user's OS is patched? The User Agent?

User agent is a great place for a version 0, sure. 99% of your assets aren't compromised, so worrying about a bypass isn't important to most of them. For a v0 just knowing that most of your boxes are patched is a huge win.

Of course you'll want client certificates on devices, or some sort of TPM, which is how Chromebooks work. The attacker having a box is not enough - identity is a key principal of zero trust networks.
So soon all the tech savvy kids will learn that their favourite apps are only available on the Hauwei app store?
GoRecord – ActiveRecord-like System for Go programming (Golang)
Europeans don't have a word for entrepreneur.
Like the biggest attack vector was BIOS, they wanted to secure that with UEFI, it was nothing but headaches with my dual boot installs.
So what does it mean?!
Yeah that's why I used spheres :)

I plan to make a part 2 that covers more complex constraint based methods. I'll put rotation in with that.
None of which _are known to_ apply to this action. Sure. But it still doesn't change the root of the problem: the alleged security problems with Chinese products, caused by government being able to force manufacturers to do whatever their intelligence agencies require, are in fact real - but for US products, not Chinese ones.
We’ve been at that phase of the game for centuries if not longer. There is no easy fix
As opposed to, say, bankers?
> The FBI has opened an investigation into Breonna Taylor's murder. The Redskins are changing their name. Many police departments are cutting budgets and in some cases replacing those police officers with social workers.

How exactly is this the case; I keep seeing attributions to these events that have no real basis or clear definitive metrics for doing it. I really want to believe its true, but I'd say the potential of another wave of wide-spread protests in the US (and Corona cases that follow) as what was seen for Floyd is what did everything you mentioned with the exception of the Redskins name change, which quite honestly is about as useful as Social Media 'change' can really achieve in my view. Outrage culture can spill-over into entertainment, and academia really well, as I mentioned in my earlier post.
That’s your personal experience. But I can guarantee that if you rewind a few years you’d be able to find many people who would say that Snapchat gave them the kind of experience Instagram never did, or whatever. Snapchat was huge. TikTok is huge. But there’s no guarantee of permenance.
I would sit on it until the situation gets more clear, good deals should be coming and cash is king
That can't possibly be true in the limit though. A market with no active management would allocate capital arbitrarily, without an eye to returns. A company burning money on making millions of unwanted skunk-scented bouncy balls would be as likely to attract capital as one that made, say, food or medicine. Resource allocation would break down if nobody made active capital allocation decisions.

The question is how high the share of passive investment can go before we see misallocation.
> As we have learned over the last 4 years, the president has near absolute control over all federal actions.

Maybe this period in history is a hint to stop electing legislators that are happier letting someone else do all the hard work of deciding what the government should do.
There's a difference between random one-time gifts of $1,200, and depending on the largess of a single patron every month in order to feed yourself. The B in UBI stands for basic, not luxury, and it's unclear that those dependent on UBI to survive would be able to save money.

UBI will help the destitute, but if the person holding the purse strings, be it a billionaire philanthropist, the government, or your employer, and you're dependent on that to survive, that gives that entity power over you.
Considering the government strong armed Google into not interacting with Huawei, and considering many other governments have done IP bans / app store removal pressure, I find it a bit funny that the original reply was saying "who said the government will block TikTok?", as if that wasn't news directly from the President's mouth
But modern computers let you send them instructions entirely in a Turing-complete language, with no requirement that you first know how to unroll them into a static circuit (constant-bounding every loop). That seems like a bigger difference than "oh sometimes you get out-of-memory errors".
Ha. President Trump tweets a lot of stuff that fails to take reality into account.

Personally, I hold anything said on Twitter to be at the same level of informational trust as something said in general chat in an on-line game.

The President may think he's playing a MMORPG, but I can thankfully shut the chat window.
> Frank Force

Hey, that's the guy who did Bounce Back[0] for JS13K! He's got some pretty cool stuff on his website

EDIT: Wait a minute, that's KilledByAPixel, who submitted this link

[0] http://frankforce.com/?p=6936
> They want google to pay for re-hosting

That's odd, usually companies pay Google to host their content via GCP
My point was that Asia already managed their way through SARS in 2002+. While keeping a functioning economy.

And yet there seems to be a surprisingly little amount of "What choices did Asian countries make in 2002, 2003, and 2004? Which were effective / ineffective? What were their economic impacts?"

Instead, at the highest Western government levels, there seems to be an assertion that no one has ever faced anything like this before, and the choices that need to be made are without precedent.
The problem with this thinking is that only those privileged enough to take advantage of it get to pick how their tax money is spent.

I disagree with (even despise) some of the ways government spends our money, but should I get to choose like some special snowflake while most don't have the same opportunity?

This just enforces a rigged economy... and guess what? Many of the privileged few would support government programs the rest of the so called democracy wouldn't.

Your tacit assumption is that wealthy individuals who can take advantage of bullshit tax favoritism will spend that extra money in worthwhile (subjective) ways.
As someone from the third world this leaves a very bad feeling if it happens. I do expect it runs into legal hurdles before that.

Neither Apple nor Google have found TikTok problematic enough to delist them from their app stores. Neither is there charges that TikTok may have broken US laws.

Banning something which hasn't broken US laws, on arbitrary grounds shouldn't be possible.

The President shouldn't have authority to ban anything at all let alone an app available through privately operated app stores.

Also dictating which apps an individual can install/not install shouldn't be the job of the Federal Government.

All indication is that the president does not have authority to execute an outright ban of the thing.

Also what alarms me the veil of secrecy on the procedings. The proceeding of the CFIUS should be made public in this regard.

At this point US is seemingly acting like a dictatorship with very less transparency.

Policies and decisions should be debated and argued before they are executed, not merely justified after the fact. That's what US and a few oher democracies have turned to doing in recent years.

Ultimately I feel that it is US who has been more to blame (contrary to much of Western media coverage) for the deteriorating US-China relationship, and drumming up the chorus for a new coldwar. Chinese policy seems to have not significantly changed in the last 5 years towards the US, but on the other hand US seemed ever more keen and eger to pursue a hostile attitude towards China.

With the pandemic and with genral economic malice affecting much of the world, I don't think a path of increasing hostility and conflict is what the world needs.
So once you guys fully eliminate human labor who do you think will buy all the dumb shit capitalism produces?