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counterpoint: your larger hotel probably has to uphold some sanitary regulation, if only because they could get sued into oblivion if they didn't, while a random airbnb host likely does not.
> Genius does not own the copyright to the lyrics. Yes, they may have taken billions of painstaking person-years to hand-transcribe them onto artisanal silks, but no matter how much effort you put into copying someone else's work, it doesn't make it your work, and you can't sue people over it.

Apparently they license the lyrics now:

> Genius isn’t the copyright holder for these lyrics, it just licenses them itself.

It's not a case of someone copying without permission and then suing another person who copied them. It's a valid licensee suing someone who is copying them.

Imagine if a McDonald's franchisee sued someone running a rogue/unlicensed McDonald's around the corner. Would we have no sympathy for them also?

Legally speaking, it appears the right to sue requires at least some exclusive copyright rights, [1] which Genius surely didn't have (and a McDonald's franchisee also would not have). This is presumably why they didn't bring a copyright suit.

https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=7d4ea127-0fb0...
The new ships/concept art I can kinda understand as the artists basically need to wait for the engine most of the time.

Kinda extreme but still not a scam IMO.
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What is the future of the project then?
The most relevant quote:

> If they can operate in Germany, they can operate in Sweden.
> Initially, Swedish and Nordic clients will be mainly served from German warehouses — known as fulfillment centers in Amazon-speak — with trucks driving up to Sweden through Denmark, and a fulfillment center operated by local partner Kuehne + Nagel in the Swedish town of Eskilstuna, near Stockholm.

During the lockdown here in France Amazon was forced to close some warehouses and filfillment centers under pressure from unions (among other pressures, of course). It was big news for a week or so, and deliveries seemed to pause briefly before being picked up from German warehouses, too. After a week or so we started getting our deliveries again, usually with an extra day of delay because it was being fulfilled from Germany.

I suspect they will eventually do a deal with the Swedish unions but that, in the meantime, trucking things in from Germany will allow them to become established.
My immediate thought was that of the "Rogue Transmission" map in BF4.
Actually it's True, False, and FileNotFound. :o)

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/What_Is_Truth_0x3f_
The song was released almost a year before UTF-8 was first presented at USENIX, so I think it is reasonable for the lyrics to be expressed using the commonly available technology available of the time.
Since the available billing information lags actual usage, track the cost data over time and interpolate it forward in time to be a projected / estimated real-time figure, and act according to that projection. Be sure to let users know how your system works and that it's a calculation you're running based on a smoothed cost (you can make that as rigid or not as makes sense, you could look for variances in times of day to the cost for example and adjust your real-time estimates accordingly, and so on).

It's entirely unnecessary to be exact, you need to be close enough. This is especially true since it's a feature a lot of people want, they'll accept some weakness in the system within reason.

You could offer a flex range the customer can set, a tolerance. If you can't reliably get near that (eg if you can't get within N% when back-checking your estimates versus what ends up being the actual billing), then you let the customer know with a status update and the customer can make a decision as to what to do at that point (they could stop using your service, they could adjust the tolerance, and so on).

Require a minimum number of polled data points before the system comes alive and becomes capable of shutting down services. You need a certain number of records before you can reasonably extrapolate anything.

This system won't work well in cases of normal usage with a sudden extreme burst that blows out the customer's budget (where the customer is hoping to prevent that type of unexpected one-off surge). You could do an accelerated estimate guess if you see a very large, very unusual spike, and jump ahead as a means to over-protect (another setting the customer could choose, they could set a caution level that guides how much you should accelerate ahead in cases of huge surges).

If you're successful, Amazon will kill you or buy you (possibly ask to buy you for cheap, then kill you if you refuse). As with similar hyper platforms, the platform eats its own ecosystem inhabitants in the name of growth. And this is a blatantly obvious feature that is widely demanded, so if you figure out a way to do it even modestly well, they'll knock you out eventually. Print money for a while if you can, charge as much as you can, prepare for the inevitable; consider selling to a cloud service company if you can find the right offer.
That’s a donation to Mozilla, not to Firefox specifically.

I don’t want a VPN. I don’t want Pocket. I want Firefox.
NEC and Fujitsu was famost PC manufacturer in Japan but they are acquired by Lenovo (partially). But they are still building some PCs (mainly Laptop) in Japan and selling. I don't know whether they are exported. Some ThinkPads are also made on NEC fabs in Japan.
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> Their biggest risk is regulatory and taxation. Many AirBnBs are illegal, and what will really grind government to act are the potential lost revenues

And if they are legal, they tend to be a bit boring.

When I look at some cities, agencies rent out tons of flat commercially. In In Porto I found over 100+ flats managed by one agency, they were dominating the list.

airbnb is not so interesting anymore when the flats look all the same worldwide, you never see the actual owner and the person checking you in has no real connection with the apartment and can't help you with issues too much.
And big companies with a lot of money, such as Microsoft, seem to be starting to use Rust. If I was in a leadership position at Microsoft, I would be looking into hiring the Servo devs that just got fired.
> I deleted my AirBnB account.

How? I'm trying to delete my Airbnb account since months (as part of my regular declouding routine).

First, to my surprise, it was only 'deactivated', despite a wording that suggested otherwise, as far as I remember. Then I followed a tutorial on the Internet that said that I need to contact support through a somewhat hidden web form to actually delete my account. .. but to access this form I need to be logged in, which was impossible for me after my account deactivation.

To reactivate my account I need to talk to support, but, surprise, that's not accessible without being logged in.

In the beginning of July I wrote to the email they link in their site imprint. Two weeks later someone told my that my request was forwarded to someone else who will contact me soon. ... and that's the last thing I got.
In addition to short-range bluetooth app like Briar.

There exist long range communication : Meshtastic, with $20 devices you can send messages with kilometers range.

What would be ideal is for Briar to embrace the "Bluetooth to LoRa node".

We can extend Briar Bluetooth network by adding Bluetooth to LoRa node that can connect multiple bluetooth mesh networks together.
Prometheus supports writing (replicating) data to a remote endpoint on a per scrape basis with a protocol called remote-write.
You can pretty easily set that up on any Prometheus instance.
There are quite some implementations to receive those remote-write requests: https://prometheus.io/docs/operating/integrations/#remote-en...

You're probably exactly looking for something like that. In fact, I've given a talk about a similar scenario at the KubeCon San Diego: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrcfxkbJH20

Disclosure: I work on Thanos and Thanos Receiver which implements that protocol.
> I can't see any language being better at system programming than Rust.

Ada/SPARK, but it won't get a standing ovation from current generation of devs adopting Rust.

Luckily it gets some headlines exposure via NVidia and Genode OS adoption.
As of right now, I believe the general consensus is that it's not effective (or at least not more effective than standard treatment). However, if you went back just a few weeks you'd have seen quite a few credible people claiming it could very well be a gamechanger. It says something that Trump was taking it, because even if you dislike the man it's hard to imagine there is any other human being on the planet with greater access to the world's best doctors and whatever bleeding edge technology could be used.

That said, I was really highlighting a recent example of how poor communication is, and how fast opinion can shift.
> "...It’s all about ergonomics." That's what drove me off.

I don't understand. Their critique seems eminently reasonable, what else should it have been about that would have not driven you away? (thanks for the answer, upvoted, it lets me try to understand your position).
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Amazon is the kind of company to instead build high speed hovercraft and base them in Poland or park a large warehouse offshore.
It will be interesting to see what happens. But right now, nothing has happened...
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Good luck with Sweden's one hour lunch break. And the fika breaks every hour as well. Sorry Jeff, no forcing workers to pee in bottles among the shelves[1] in Sweden to drive up the stock price. I hope the Nordic countries wont bow down to Amazon's exploits.

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/16/17243026/amazon-warehouse...
Don't worry, no need to be sorry, Italian as a language is "tough" for a foreigner, or - maybe better said - once you get over the basics (which appear simple)it gets nuanced, and - generally speaking - Italians tend not to correct too much foreigners as long as they can understand them.

Besides the fragmentation you noted, you have to add also the language one, even if today almost anyone can speak and understand Italian and normally uses it, in many areas local dialects are still widely in use, often partially mixed with Italian, to the point that the Italian you learned from a girl from the north, border with Austria, will be (slightly) different from the one you would have learned if she was from - say - Rome, both for the accent and for the use of one word instead of another.
Booking.com has been expanding into home rental quite a bit
That's not literacy but domain knowledge
Maybe scuttlebutt could work, if the gossiping works across mesh wifis.
What a weird article. Loads of international companies operate in countries with wildly different laws, standards of living, disposable income, etc.

Why compare Sweden with a Polish warehouse workers and not investigate how e.g. Amazon.fr operates? That country at least goes on strike significantly more often (probably more so than the rest of the EU combined). Meaning, one year I noticed them on strike every other week to protest some intended government plan, even though the company had nothing to do with that, plus they only went on strike during the night.

> Initially, Swedish and Nordic clients will be mainly served from German warehouses — known as fulfillment centers in Amazon-speak — with trucks driving up to Sweden through Denmark, and a fulfillment center operated by local partner Kuehne + Nagel in the Swedish town of Eskilstuna, near Stockholm.

So partly they question if they'll operate a warehouse, but at the same time, there's going to be a warehouses. Only difference is that someone else does the logistics for them.

What usually happens with different standards of living is that the companies raise their prices a bit. Not sure why the article does not go into that.

EU is planning some changes in the trucking cabotage laws, see e.g. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/society/202.... This might (according to articles) make it more difficult to only use truckers from certain countries (e.g. whomever has the lowest standard of living / wage). Might also benefit the environment by ensuring companies might reduce the amount of trucking.
Also, at her current growth rate, my 3 year old child will be 400 feet tall, 100 feet wide and weigh 150 metric tons by the time the article will come true - all results of a very scientific extrapolation that I did using math and stuff.
While I get your point this is really unnecessary when you fly within Europe. Specifically within the Schengen area.

Usually you don't hand your boarding pass to anybody. Instead you self-scan it once when you enter the passenger / transit area and a second time, when boarding the plane through a self-service gate.

This may vary by airport, but on most of my flights through a number of European airports access is pretty much automated.
> starting today I'm going to research alternatives.

Bromite: https://www.bromite.org

Ungoogled Chromium: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
UDP is blocked completely or almost completely
It's funny, I've been doing something similar in Rust. A GUI framework that renders to Vulkan, and at the bottom is an ECS system(multiple systems) for rendering, layout, animation. But this one is very far ahead and looks very polished.

Congrats to the author on great work.
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Pi clustering: https://turingpi.com/
Nordic politicians will cave in like everyone else.

Generally it's funny how this region (Nordics) is reported in the media as some kinds of rationalist demi-gods, when in reality most politics here are just your regular smokescreen mixed with wishful thinking and a lack of understanding the real world.

In conclusion, politicians will do as politicians do nowerdays - drive their own career over the 'public good'.
Because kdb+/q has such few datatypes and you can't define anymore, it's very easy:

q) .j.k"[2.2, 3.5]"
2.2 3.5

Serialization is also trivial:

q) .j.j 0 1 2 3
"[0,1,2,3]"

In general, sending stuff across memory boundaries (files, network, ram, etc) is exceedingly trivial in kdb+/q. To execute a function on a remote server, simply connect to a server and send across the call to the handle. For example, to send synchronously compute 1+1:

q) h:hopen `::6666
q) h(+;1;1)
2

You can send over anything you want, even the entire source code of program to be executed! This is a really flexible environment, where you can create really powerful app-engines. All members of a cluster can send code, data, and messages to any other node, async or sync.

Much like Common Lisp and SmallTalk, you can easily connect to production nodes and modify code while the service is running.

It's rare to find such a dynamic, flexible, and interpreted language that also has world class performance, even often beating hand written C. Combined with an integrated database, you get a distributed system that can't be beat, at least performance-wise. And the craziest thing is that all of this sits in at 650kb executable with libc has the only dependency. And all probably in less lines of code than a simple javascript webapp!
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I'm very interested to see how Amazon's entry into the Swedish market plays out. I used to shop a lot on Amazon back when I lived in the SF Bay Area and thought I would miss it when I moved to Stockholm but honestly that has not been the case. I get 1-2 day shipping from other online retailers in Sweden anyway (like CDON and Webhallen) and there is quite fierce competition between a few of the bigger names in the game which keeps prices low. The only thing I miss about Amazon was their very generous return policy and same-day shipping on some items, but I think the latter is limited to larger markets.
Why - I suppose that government want to get tactical advantage over protesters by limiting information flow and making protest coordination more difficult.

How - both deep packet inspection + filtering and primitive solution - making communication services (mobile and broadband) stop functioning. Such things happen already in the past in Turkey, Egipt, Iran.
> Airbnbs in Barcelona, Lisboa

Lots of places in Lisbon list their AL number, indicating they are registered places for renting out.

Locals have been priced out of Lisbon for a long time, but seems like restricting airbnbs has not limited it too much.
That first picture reminds me of a level in a team-based FPS I played briefly. Can't remember the name. You can send drones out and stuff.
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> So I remember a big use case for SCO UNIX was small governments (like at the town level). Do you still see such users of iBCS?

I don't know who they are, which is the normal situation in the open source world. The few I've interacted with seem to use Informix. I, well the company I work for, is the only exception I've met to that.
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> Uber and AirBnB have revealed that the Western World is far more lawless than we had imagined.

I think we discovered that around 2000 with Napster, Kazaa, etc.
Let's see how that goes. Everybody in Sweden right now has an uneasy feeling about Amazon, and I have the impression that if people could have a referendum on the matter, Amazon wouldn't be allowed in.
I live in Stockholm, and order regularly from Amazon Germany already. It's free shipping if you order 39 euro or above, which usually delivers things in around a week. Fast shipping of two working days costs 9 euro per shipment.

Based on what I've read and this article, it doesn't sound like that much will change once it officially "launches" a Swedish site, although maybe Amazon will lower the minimum amount for free shipping or speed up regular shipping time. Re: this article, I can see them being willing to hold off for quite some time.

Also to note: During the Covid-19 peak in Sweden, Amazon provided to-the-door delivery using Postnord, which I figured was somewhat of an experiment for when the Swedish site launched. It's pretty rare here in e-commerce to get door deliveries - most online shopping is sent to local convenience stores and you need to go and pick up.
Why make a distinction?
Outline works well for TC and provides a nicer reading experience.
https://outline.com/https://techcrunch.com/2013/12/25/google...
You can measure it. For our large Javascript-heavy application Chrome is twice as fast as Firefox. V8 is an amazing piece of technology and the Chrome team should be proud of this.
I disagree with "never, ever" - everyone's fighting to get _developers_ to use their tools, which is why both Chrome and Firefox have a great F12 inspector built in, Microsoft is open-sourcing a ton of stuff and building VS code and developing a native Linux subsystem etc.

Basically, there's money in being an ecosystem like Apple's or Google's app store - you can take a 30% cut just for being the platform if you play it right - but Microsoft noticed with Windows phone and UWP that you can't just set up a store and rake in the cast unless you can attract developers to build things on your platform.

Then there's anchor products, a term from supermarkets for things like coke/pepsi (depending on the country you're in) - the idea being, if you don't stock these then your customers will shop somewhere else. If Facebook/Uber/Whatsapp/$COMPANY decides to develop their app for mobile OS 1 and 2 but not 3, then that's a strong disincentive for some people to buy OS 3, even if it's privacy-respecting and open-source and diverse and whatever. (The desktop counterpart to this is MS Office. For most companies, the choice is between Win and Mac, and will remain so unless Office ever becomes natively supported on Linux.)

Even the government has realised this, with their "clean app stores" plan - I read this part as "we won't outright ban US citizens from buying Huawei phones, but we'll make sure they only have access to a segregated app store and we'll lean on major companies not to develop a separate version for this store.

So if you ever want to launch a new platform, service or similar with a business plan that third parties will develop software for it, you'd better keep these third parties happy with decent developer tools.
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> After a week or so we started getting our deliveries again, usually with an extra day of delay because it was being fulfilled from Germany.

In some other industries (shipping) you have to be really careful to do that. There's various laws against breaking up (the effectiveness of) a strike. That's currently often only applied within one country. If Amazon does something similar more often enough they'll probably get hit with an EU-wide law instead.

It's always weird that internet based companies aren't treated like any other company. Unfair competition IMO.
Why not? The only "problem" is that everyone who actually goes down that path becomes a manager or executive given enough time.
Because a minstrel show in US America, which is given way too much cultural clout by its alleged ideological enemies, should determine how people behave in South Korea? We are truly in the age of ignorance.

This is impotent US American CSIS propaganda, doing what they claimed Russia is guilty of.

US America exporting ignorance...
Rotating as you suggest would be equivalent of swapping between vertical and horizontal seams. A tall and skinny image with vertical seams has the same problems that a long and wide image has with horizontal seams.
The Legbar breeds lay eggs with pastel blue shells (and deep orange yolks), delicious and widely available in the UK.
You seem to be misguided about the influence of politics on labor negotiations in Sweden. There is no mandate for a politician to interfere, it is entirely a thing between the two bargaining parties. That is, unless you can gather a political majority behind a major upheaval of the current law, which would have to happen after the next election because no such majority exists today.
I posted about this the other day and someone who used to work at Microsoft made a really interesting/helpful response - worth checking out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24112418
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Assuming that local production reduces costs, the question seems to become whether they can leverage demand to break the unions or not. This comes from the two further assumptions that they don't have any other leverage to do so (outside of corruption) and even though the benefit of satsifying the market presumably outststrips the cost, they will do everything they can to reduce costs anyway.

Am I missing anything?

I'll continue supporting the local competition (for books and media) in any case.
Both FIB deposition and its cousin Focused Electron Beam-Induced Deposition (FEBID) are pretty nifty; they can cut/add materials down to maybe 1nm (!) resolution. However, they're extremely slow: they can only affect a single spot at a time and move at maybe only 100nm/s movement, so patterning a useful circuit may take days; it's mostly useful for research work. I don't think I've seen anyone figure out the chemistry to use it to print doped semiconductors, so transistors might not be doable anyway.

Really the only other sub-micrometer 3D printing category right now is two-photon lithography (shine a laser to cure a liquid resin into a solid, like common resin 3D printing), which can generally only use a single, even-more-specialized-than-required-for-inkjet material---almost always an insulating polymer---for an entire structure.
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