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"That's nearly how much the New York Times ($17/month) "

With no unit-cost, volume is a big deal for such content.

So if Times got 3x subs, they could cut their prices by 1/2 no problem. Car companies can't do that.

So creating a good marketplace with demand and volume can do this.
Its not an infosec problem, but a privacy problem
TL;DR: nothing

I would be shocked to see solid proof that tiktok is substantially more intrusive than snapchat or instagram. Data collection should be limited at the OS level anyway.

The only crime of tiktok is being chinese.
Not a terrible deal if you're working for an international firm remotely and can be anywhere. Some job security issues -- e.g. lining up a new one if you get fired or something -- but that can be worked around.
The building across the road sold for $1500 a year later.
hah, if only it were that easy.

The paywalled stuff is bullshit too. Plus, they know they have a micro-targettable audience of suckers who are willing to pay.
> Financial reparations to African American communities are key, argues Prof Baradaran

This seems obvious and fair. Blacks have never been given a fair chance in America.

> In 1863, when President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, black Americans owned less than 1% of US total wealth. Nearly 160 years later, this number has barely budged.

Just setting slaves free did not, in any way, put them on equal footing with the rest of the population, and they are still mostly in the hole today that they were then, through mostly no fault of their own.

Yet it is my impression that most white Americans, across the political spectrum, are repelled by this idea. There seems to be a widespread, though usually not so bluntly stated, sentiment, that blacks are to blame for their own problems. And not much recognition of how utterly disenfranchised, and frankly destroyed, this people were during slavery, and that this has effects generations later.
> Most of the companies I see want me to buy a new system and lock into 3 years of monitoring.

That is why Comcast pushed hard into home security. Is there a significant value to home security companies, or is the whole industry a scam?
As an academic, it feels natural and organized for me.
I'm German. Public broadcasting, including ARD/ZDF but also countless of local radio station is without a doubt significantly better in quality than BILD/RTL or other private tabloid media, and it's one of the reasons the country still has by and large a shared reality when it comes to political discussion.

I don't think that they also provide entertainment is in any way problematic, because entertainment is part of a cultural offering that should be accessible by everyone. I don't really see the competition issue here, just like the BBC they produce content, which is fine.

Has to be said though in quality it doesn't really measure up to the BBC, but you can try to claw Tatort from my dead hands
Dang, you must build your own homes, cars, and computers too! I bet you even raise your own livestock and sow your own fields!

Everything you just said there would make 99.999999% of peoples eyes glaze over.
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Because of Apple. Not to mention their last 40% price increase was because of the Vision fund's nonsense.

Publicly traded companies that rely on income from "licensing" peak in revenue then stagnate because innovation becomes harder to come by.
>Every policy has a differential impact, that doesn't mean we chose not to address them when we see them.

What do you mean? If every policy has a differential impact, then your contention is that therefore we must address every differential impact?

If, let's say, bank has a policy that you need 20% down payment to qualify for a mortgage, and let's say this has a differential impact on some group, how do you go about addressing this?
UPDATE: For anyone else running into this problem. Of course, Google never clearly stated this reason, I (and you) have to guess until you get it right. Each guess takes more and more time. My last (and successful) attempt, I had to wait 16 hours for Google to do its review and unblock our site.

Turns out sites are guilty by association. If Google finds malware on "old.chess.ca" it will bock every website ending in "chess.ca". Including "www.chess.ca" even though that website is on different servers (different IP) and contains zero links to the other bad website. Removing the server from DNS, plus disabling with .htaccess rules that redirect all requests, ... plus waiting 16 hours for Google to do another review ... is what got us back up & running.
I think if you are on a green field and do not rely on specific i.e. libraries that are not there yet in Rust, I would have a hard time finding good reasons to use C++ over Rust. Mainly I guess if you have really good C++ programmers who are not interested in Rust.

If you are not on a green field, stuff gets complicated. If you have a really good Rust programmer on the team, that is willing to take care of the language interop it can work well, if you have a bunch of Rust learners, you might blow up.
I know that; I think his book on Marx(ism), from the parts I've read, is actually one of the better ones written by mainstream economists, but that's quite a low bar. There are some good criticisms of it floating around on the 'net.
1990-92, kids didn't have CD players yet but the "Hi-Fi generation" that grew up alongside the rock and pop music industry were deep enough into their careers to have the disposable income for buying a CD player and an accompanying library of CD re-releases of the LPs they could not afford when they were young. Re-releases where huge in the transition period from LP to CD.
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My advice: Scrub hard, don't soap.

I stopped using body soap in the shower about a year ago and I can't recall a time my skin has ever been healthier or cleaner.

Instead of soap, I use a wet washcloth and scrape my skin with it, similar to using a loofah or pumice stone or (as I infer from the article) wet sand. The dead skin, sweat, and accumulated dirt gets pulled right off even more effectively than with soap -- I never get that gross "skin pilling" thing anymore. I get zits way, way less often.

The washcloth obviously gets dirtier, even being thoroughly rinsed and wrung out several times, so I swap it out more often than I used to. The soap in the washing machine cleans it just fine.

I sometimes still end up with a mild musky armpit scent either way -- I find that scent pleasant on people, and think it's just how people are supposed to smell. Whenever it gets strong enough that I think others might be offended, I'll dash on a bit of baking soda, which kills the scent instantly (and I think resets the microbiome a bit).

(For reference: Male, European descent.)
> Because everything is propaganda, either everything should be allowed or everything should be banned?

How are either of those things worse than let's ban this propaganda but allow that propaganda? Is propaganda only bad if you happen to 'disagree' with it (ie not be as extensively indoctrinated by it)?

> Because you lose faith in everything.

Including, according to your argument, propaganda from who you think (because of propaganda) are on your side.

Propaganda from what is supposed to be your own side is actually, if anything, more repugnant and indefensible than 'enemy' propaganda.

> Even if your own govt. spies on you, stopping the propaganda of a foreign country takes precedence at all costs, if necessary, even by war.

So when your own country, while not spying on you, spreads propaganda in another country, you think it's totally understandable if that other country starts a war over it?
Saying that somebody's pre tax income is "their earnings" in the first place is precisely the problem.

The tax you pay doesn't belong to you and you didn't earn it - the law is very clear on this.
He was also a creep.
>> Imagine someone disagreeing with PRISM, and making the same statement as above, but substituting "CCP" with "American government".

> The problem isn't just the data, it's the propaganda and the reach of the CCP.

The problem is the method by which each entity might effect their goals.

In the US: Go to FISA/FISC and request a warrant. Otherwise, request a surveillance warrant in normal court.

In China: Go to the company in the dead of night, and tell them what they need to do.

In the former, you at least have a paper trail. In the latter, you have nothing.
I’d be interested, which use case of yours would be restricted by Postgres‘ strict typing.

All my experiences were wonderful, especially its performance and powerful features like rule rewriting.

Also PostgREST is brilliant.
And what if Google buys 5% of every player in the market? ;)
What threat do they pose...

It's Google, so they'll probably force you to create a YouTube account to watch videos recorded by your security system, put adverts for private security services over the top, share what time you're usually out of the house with third parties, and then shut down the service after a couple of years.
The American equivalent would be BLM protests. We all know how the feds are kidnapping citizens without warrant. People around the world are watching this closely and they're not fools anymore.
My strategy for this has been to switch to a different browser (Brave, simply because it's Chrome-ish and runs on Linux). Since the reCaptcha network has seen this browser before I'm seldom abused with more than one or two rounds of image guessing.

OTOH when I see reCaptcha-wanted websites I'm mostly inclined to just bounce. There has to be a really compelling use-case to propel me to go to all the bother.
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Most IP cameras support standard methods of accessing their video feeds. A program like iSpy will work fine, you just want to also have a firewall that will block your cameras' attempts to call home and not set up any cloud access.
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It actually doesn't depend on when it was said. It was wrong. But, for the record, he said it in October 2016.
> nothing in "investigative reporting, [..]" is, what I consider news. q.e.d.

At this point I don't think there's anything I can say that will convince you.

But yes, if you invent some contrived definition of "news site" that disqualifies every left-wing site, only right-wing ones remain.

And I don't understand how that is even relevant to the article - as long as you can "get your news" from some source, that's enough. It doesn't have to pass some made-up purity test of what qualifies as a news site, because readers won't be applying that test. To pretend only right-wing sites share news and opinion for free is just willful blindness.
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I struggle to see how this is relevant.
I hear you. I read this as: what if you can't meet the Doherty threshold? Do you try harder? More caching? Put a spinner on it? Animate? Try to tell some jokes?
If you want support/service/monitoring by someone not you, security companies do have a purpose. Depends on your situation though.
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It's US music industry sales data, so there's no reason to believe it applies _directly_ to Germany.

Also that's revenue.

I didn't check, but isn't Compact Disc an industry standard and registered trademark, that required payment? So, there would be revenue associated with hardware sales which would front load the figures??

That chart needs an overall revenue area, and an items sold overlay to make it really useful.
"Numerous examples" is fantastic but what he said was a generalization and as a generalization it holds up. What % of congressional Republicans would you estimate "did not automatically spring to his defense"?
To add to this, The Netherlands has a safety net that is perfectly fine. Is it a lot? No. Is it enough to survive in a normal situation? Yes.

I think it makes sense for KLM to lay off those people. A business cannot keep on people if there is no work for them.
It is just depressing to read these comments. Most of these are arguing that it is not a good investment for the banks to invest in a high crime rate area. Well if it is not the banks, who else? If it is nobody, are these areas condemned to be in this state forever? It just shows how broken the American society and psyche has become. I am sure even if the local, state or federal government try to make the same "bad" investment, the same people will come out demanding that tax dollars be spent elsewhere.
Microsoft also has substantial Chinese operations (compared to other tech giants), so the Chinese government may have a preference to pressure Bytedance to sell to a relatively friendly company.
Uhh.. start your own line of products?
I have two maybe odd examples where I had an opposite of normal bias/prejudice.

I had a smart mom growing up and stories of an amazing grandma. I grew up _knowing_ woman are smarter than men and men made up for it with physical strength. This was largely reinforced in high school where many girls held top academic positions and few boys matched them. Heck, I can recall the first time I met a “dumb girl,” I was in my late teens or early twenties and she was a stoner chick who dated a friend of a brother in law. It was mind warping as I thought girls were incapable of being as dumb as guys.

Fast forward to getting my teaching credential, and I was exposed to the concept that many held the bias that woman were worse at math. Queue studies of poorer math performance for girls and some of the reasons behind it. I talked to my neighbor, a former college math and physics professor, and he agreed that woman couldn’t keep up with men, especially when 3d visualization came in. This did not jive with my biases and required time to process.

Given data and studies, I can academically see the issues that could negatively affect woman’s performance and presence in math and math-focused fields. But emotionally, I have trouble accepting it due to how I was raised.

I did not fully abandon my bias on woman being smarter than men, but through education and bias training, I’ve come to learn about issues that negatively affect woman esp. around math education. Meeting people who don’t match a prejudiced model and learning about the historical reasons why the bias exists are important.

Related, I have a bias that older people should be wiser and more experienced. As an interviewer, we took some bias training and I learned that many hold that older candidates often fight agism. I learned I was unconsciously expecting more from older candidates and that was unfair. I had to combat my bias and temper my expectations and know it was ok if an older candidate only did as well as a younger candidate.
You likely want Apple News+ [1] at just under $10 USD /mo - a single cost for a la carte access to a large pool of publications, basically the only premium subscription model that's going to be able to gain mainstream adoption.

[1] https://www.apple.com/apple-news/
Woah, it's just 108k on Cygwin. Amazing.
The end of Wirecard.
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As someone who works on a business app using CouchDB+Typescript, I can tell you that (a) you will also hit the edge cases of NoSQL, like transactions and joins, and it will not be that awesome either and (b) at some point you'll realize that you'll need to do schema validation still. Frontend bugs, possibly malicious clients and protected attributes (i.e. 'disabled' should only be set by an admin) will force you to write a lot of validation anyway.

It definitely allows for faster iteration, though. You can deploy a prototype or change very quickly without caring about this, which is pretty nice. But you need to keep track of that and pay the debt if you use the prototype.

Overall, I think it would not give or take much if we'd be using PostgreSQL+some JSON column for general data instead of CouchDB. You just need to know your stack and its drawbacks and work with them.
> Small company rises to produce quality software, it sells, responds to bugs, listens to users, adds features etc.

I would say:

Small company invests time and money into creating a decent enough product. They listen to customers to build their roadmap and respond to most bugs in a reasonable time. Small company could grow to a medium or large and still hold true to their roots.

Large company buys a mediocre to decent company instead of doing R&D. New company is integrated into large companies suite of products.

Large company fixes only enough to keep the product running or shuts it down completely. Support loses its personal touch and is transferred to the cheapest FTE location. Large company’s corporate politics causes infighting between departments with similar products.

Large company merges with equally large company to reduce competition. Execs cash out and leave ASAP. That’s where I work now.
Clearly, private sector entertainment is unable to compete with public broadcasting.
> You want the detailed Times reports on neo-Nazis infiltrating German institutions, the reasons contact tracing is failing in U.S. states, or the Trump administration’s undercutting of the USPS’s effectiveness—well, if you’ve clicked around the website a bit you’ll run straight into the paywall.

Excuse me but why would I want to pay for that ? I don't earn by reading articles online and the news websites are already littered with advertisements and autoplay videos. I get tracked around the web by these ads and I'm supposed to even fund that ?

Thank you but I will pass.

> The New York Times is, in fact, extremely valuable, if you read it critically and look past the headlines. Usually the truth is in there somewhere, as there is a great deal of excellent reporting, and one could almost construct a serious newspaper purely from material culled from the New York Times.

... and can't you do the same with Infowars ? Critically read it and look past the headlines ? Perhaps the truth will be there somewhere too. (albeit as a total negation of the Infowars article)
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And in GA where the governor sued the Atlanta mayor among others for trying to implement stricter policies.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/georgia-mask-mandate-lawsuit-k...
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> So when your own country, while not spying on you, spreads propaganda in another country, you think it's totally understandable if that other country starts a war over it?

Yes. In today's world where mis-information and propaganda can topple governments and wreak havoc in societies, it's imperative that a destructive act of propaganda be seen akin to an actual act of war.
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Go also can't call any C libraries without massive overhead (at least not the reference implementation), nor run without a runtime. Go isn't really an alternative to C/C++/rust and it's not meant to be.
> can do everything that C++ can

There are still areas where C++ is more expressive than both rust and go. AFAIK rust just recently got the capability to work with const generics and compile time evaluation.

Lack of overloading (besides operators) in Rust is a double edged sword. Overloading allows for very expressive C++ code in the expense of awful error messages when it doesn't work out.

C++'s concurrency story is continuously improving, but I'm not qualified to compare here. C++20's coroutines will be quite powerful.

And there is one area where Rust and go can't compete: interacting with existing C++ code, including templates. There is a lot of that already.

Having said that I keep a close eye on rust, it can certainly replace C++ in certain areas, possibly all areas in the future. But it can't replace it overnight, considering that there are millions of lines of _maintained_ C++ code out there.

Not go though, that's like comparing apples to oranges.
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Hi there.

I’m a metal fabricator by trade and work closely with engineers and steel detailers.

You ask for a non-professional solution to four professional grade problems.

So I doubt your gong to get a satisfactory answer.
Not ventilating people at the first sign of O2 dropping helps a lot.
Yeah, they can install a cheap TrendNet PoE switch and a handful of cheap offbrand cameras, and charge you for them monthly into perpetuity. After that contract point to repay for the equipment, it's highly profitable, as it turns one time costs into a recurring fee.
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Yes! I end up soaping my hair about once or twice a year if there's a sudden spike in oiliness (I don't understand why this happens) but the vast majority of the time I just scrub with hot water.

From what others have said, it may take a little time for the oil levels to subside if you stop soaping -- apparently there's a bit of homeostasis going on.
Using a hot key 100 times a day for 10 years sounds like exactly the kind of thing software engineers SHOULD understand. I heard a lot of anger from Vim users when Apple messed with the escape key.
iTunes wasn't even available on Windows initially. (Although it was added pretty quickly.) It was definitely primarily initially about songs ripped from CDs (or downloaded via Napster).
I was responsible for administrating an ADT security system for a Los Angeles-based startup (too many hats). Dealing with ADT was an absolute nightmare. Their support agents knew nothing about our configuration. ADT support technicians could take days to respond to a faulty sensor, which meant our operations folks would have to wake up at all hours of the night and check for false positives or disable the whole system. The experience led me to believe that office security systems are ripe for additional competition.
> It's the 'movie' version of negotiating that plays to a populist crowd.

See also: "the art of the deal"

> The problem is the audience of the negotiating stance isn't the counterparty, it's the domestic base who elected you because they were fed up with nuance and are suspicious of the counterparty.

Not just the nuance, but the lack of dramatic change, a handful of examples of bad behavior by the party of nuance being equally corrupt or useless, and a constant stream of propaganda highlighting that.
I 100% agree with you.

You're fighting mass hysteria right now from irrational people, the same type of fear and irrationality thats led to all kinds of negative things throughout human history.

Just be sure to vote against people who support this. That's all.
Neutrality in reporting is a relatively new concept and was brought about by the wire services so that they could have their content bought by the broadest reach of newspapers. You will still find unbiased reporting in the wire services themselves: Reuters, AP, etc.

Individual news sources have almost always been biased. This is why most cities had at least 2 major newspapers until relatively recently. You could get the liberal one or the conservative one (or in some places dozens of wildly politicized papers, anarchist papers from the early 1900s are great).

Consolidation has lead to a removal of voices from most local newspapers and the market has spoken when it comes to television: people prefer partisan news sources. The internet has gotten us closer to that 1900 view but then Facebook/Google became the arbiters of news for most people.
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