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The garbage monopoly makes me think about the cases of cinemas.

The core of their activity is at a loss and they make up for high profit on the side (selling drinks).

Then the cinema kicks you out if they catch you with a cola you bought in another shop.

All the shop did, was to provide a better service, at a better price.

This situation could stop if the law would stop allowing that.

The cinemas wouldn't die; the movie distributors would ask for less and less fees.

Now the distributors can ask for high fee (up to 90%) because they know the cinemas charge for these add-ons and make some turnover.
> What would be an example of mob violence that led to a net benefit?

The American revolution, the February revolution, the Red River Rebellion, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the revolutions in Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, the Chech republic, Poland, do I need to keep going?

All of them had violence inflicted on property, and most of them had violence inflicted on people.

Were one of those events happen in your town, your police department, your mayor, your governor, and your president would without hesitation call them 'a violent riot'. Your news anchors would be clutching their pearls, showing pictures of broken Amazon Go storefront windows, bookended by testimonies of police officers, and terrified citizens who'd just like the world to go back to the way it was last week.
It takes about 2 minutes to download and install a browser. Most operating systems already expect an internet connection when you're installing them, it would be easy to add a screen saying "select which browser you want" as part of the process.
> There is no denying the way this is done by distros is good.

Let me tell you, the way it is done by distros (Centos, Debian) is far from being good. You will get the fix a long time after the bug is published. And you only get it if your system is recent enough.
Basically USSR collapsed for trying to match USA by overspending. Do you realized that is going on with China as well. Given their wastage is several magnitude higher than most western countries, go check what is happening to their reserve in the last 3 years. Also, seems like mother nature is compounding those wastage as well. Maybe we get to see Chernobyl 2 and Agfhan like what happened to USSR?
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> The woke argue objectivity and any either/or binary about truth (answers are either true or false) are part of white supremacy.

But see, critical theory also makes claims about truth that are quite binary. (Try telling them that objectivity and binary truth are not part of white supremacy, or any of a number of other things that contradict their doctrine.) But that means that, by the quoted statement, critical theory is also part of white supremacy.

I love using recursion on claims like the quote...
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There will always be these cases. The issue is that in many fields it is the norm rather than an exception.
>Many of the comments I see from him violate the guidelines at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Having gone back and re-read many, I have to agree about most of the downvoted items though not all. I do agree with most of them though, so that's why I felt this way.

That being said, most of the comments I saw that could be considered to be breaking the guidelines do have substantial content, but are ended with/include non-negligible snark.

> Many of his blog posts (4 out of the last 5 submissions from drewdevault.com) are ill-informed and angry rants about a technology or company. These discussions generate a lot of heat but little light; it’s not surprising that they are downvoted.

None of these were posted here by ddevault. His statement about writing them is above, so presumably you've seen it already.

I would like to add, I use much of ddevaults software on a daily basis, and have found it to be some of the absolute best I've ever used. As such, I tend to give what he says at least a moment of thought.
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Not if they just made the site return a 404/500 just to his IPs, which any half-decent adversary would do. The "play dead" strategy works great with these kind of vigilantes.

We're employed similar tactics against DDoSers at work. Start returning 500s or just tarpit their requests, they think the site is down and they go home.
The answer is obvious, at least with our current 'clean energy' systems and their related costs. We would _all_ just need to use MUCH less energy. This of course would force major life style changes and industry output to be drastically reduced, not something most people and business are ready to accept at this time but the point is, there is a way, right now, with what we have but the terms are unacceptable to most.
If you detain and imprison eight year old kid, grabbing him from school, it is reasonable to assume, that his father, his grandfather, his older and younger brothers will hold a grudge, so to speak.
In case anyone decides to self-host their docker registry, Pluralsight has a nice course [0] on that subject.

[0] https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/implementing-self-hosted...
Most cars don't need to be recharged fully every night, and don't need a full recharge in 8 hours. If you get home at 8pm and leave at 7pm, that's 4.7Kw/h for 0-100. (I checked my oven and it peaks at 4.5Kw out!)

A Zoe has a 245 mile range on said battery, but assuming you drive at 25% efficiency for 20 miles to and from work, you'll use about 30% of a zoe's battery in a day, which spread out over our 11 hours from earlier gives about 1.5Kw per hour.
Yes because on Android it’s much easier and also requires much less complicated/expensive exploits abuse including leveraging the users themselves.
Consulting would offer an avenue for growth. If you do well, you can hire more people and make more revenue.

Both of Mozilla's likely search revenue partners in the US are also competitors and both use anti-competitive means to push their own browsers.

Building their own search revenue stream isn't going to happen on $400M annually. And I don't think Yandex or Baidu are planning to seriously address the US market.

Also, I could be wrong, but I thought ad spending was way down this year.
I like the strategy proposed (linked in the article).

In increased production capacity: 4x electric vehicles, 16x batteries, 12x wind turbines, 10x solar modules. 2x the nuclear capacity. 25% of the energy grid converted into communal/consumer owned renewable production.

Basically full production in every technology that result in zero air pollution for the energy grid. Full production in all technologies also allow us to see which clean technology is cheaper in practice without people sitting still while arguing over which strategy they should use.
GitHub access tokens are a bit of a nightmare since you can't limit the permissions for a token. Only workaround I've found is to create another GitHub user for an access token and restrict that user's access.
We've banned this account for breaking the site guidelines egregiously.

Personal attacks are not ok. Smears like this are particularly not ok. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They are at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The truth is that the HN community is diverse and divided, with plenty of people on all sides of this issue. Attacking people personally (let alone nationally, ethnically, or racially) simply because they disagree with you is the epitome of what we don't want here. This is not a China issue, it's a Hacker News issue, an internet issue, and frankly a human issue.

Plenty of past explanation here:

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&type=comment&dateRange=a...

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
The 90% number probably comes from Mozilla's financial report, last released for 2018 [1].

"Approximately 91% and 93% of Mozilla’s royalty revenues were derived from these contracts for 2018 and 2017, respectively, with receivables from these contracts representing approximately 75% and 79% of the December 31, 2018 and 2017 outstanding receivables, respectively."

Since for 2018 'Royalties' income was about 430 million, and reports are[2] that the deal was 300 million per year from Google, it's still a massive chunk of Mozilla's operating income, but you're right, it's not 90%. It's more like two thirds of their revenue coming from their market-dominant direct competitor.

Also note that while this specific contract is a four-year deal, Google had been paying Mozilla millions even before then; in 2006 most of Mozilla's money came from Google (note the source is a now-deleted blog post from the current CEO of Mozilla)[3]. It is indeed a decades-old source of revenue, but it remains to be seen if it's dried up; word is they're renewing the contract, but we'll have to wait for Mozilla's next financial report to get more information.

1- https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2018/mozilla-fdn-201...

2- http://allthingsd.com/20111222/google-will-pay-mozilla-almos...

3- https://www.cnet.com/news/a-dangerous-conflict-of-interest-b...
We're talking 10s of millions here. Plenty of consultancies make 20million+ per year in revenue. It could even be the start of a new branch with value adds like Confluent, Databricks, which are more in the range of $150-200million.
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> Yeah, only one person needs to start the semantics-splitting topic and the rest of the lazy uninformative pseudo-discussion just flows from there, with every other guy adding one short harmless post.

Maybe you should learn how to scroll instead of reveling in the very thing you're complaining about, otherwise people might take you for a hypocrite who is only making matters worse.

> garbage threads like this. Did I participate in the thread? Yes.

And how was your cake?

> “Nor did I say anything at all about the rest of the article” — that should probably have tipped you off in a small way about the value of your addition.

Do you think all comments are required to address every word of an article? Maybe someone should tip you off that not everything posted here is going to be written with your personal satisfaction in mind.
Chromebooks also seem to fill this need fairly well—I know a lot of people in your situation choose them for family members. This appears to work despite the fact that you can unlock a Chromebook's bootloader and do whatever you like.
That's a bit confusing, is it max pulls per image per 6 hour period, per org, per user (which is weird since it's authenticated vs anonymous).

Honestly though 5 dollars a month isn't bad if you don't want to deal with hosting yourself.
Fortnite is popular enough to count as "big pressure" all on its own. I couldn't find recent numbers, but as of 2018 they had over 100M installs and were doing over $1M/day in revenue[0] and by early 2019 they'd already done more than half a billion[1].

[0]: https://venturebeat.com/2018/07/30/fortnite-clears-100-milli...

[1]: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-02-08-fortnite-i...
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Things have indeed slowed down but you're cherry picking numbers. +50% single-thread but +200% in multi-threaded!
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A 2019 OECD paper analyzing European satellite data estimates "that a 1 µg/m³[!] increase in PM2.5 concentration (or a 10% increase at the sample mean) causes a 0.8% reduction in real GDP that same year. Ninety-five per cent of this impact is due to reductions in output per worker, which can occur through greater absenteeism at work or reduced labour productivity."

[1] https://patrickcollison.com/pollution
> Oh and bandwidth isn't free.

I'm not sure what protocol is used for pulling Docker images, but perhaps it could be enough to just initiate the connection, get Docker Hub to start sending data, and immediately terminate the connection. This should save bandwidth on both ends.
docker pull and push integrated with IPFS is a great idea!
I think I misspoke there; the keyboard is going to function the same regardless of which model is chosen, blank caps or not. I didn't mean to imply that the keyboard didn't have reduced functionality.

What I had meant to say was, that without the legends on the face of the keys it would be less discoverable for a new user who has purchased the keyboard to discover the arrow keys, pgup etc.

I mention this because the author of the article mentions that the keyboard doesn't have arrow keys. However I see in hindsight that this was in reference to the keyboard not coming with a dedicated set of keys, as opposed to the functionality not being present at all.
I have no problems paying through a wide variety of payment processors on the web: Shopify, Stripe, PayPal, Braintree, Amazon, whatever.

What’s the concern? All cards are zero liability, and you should be checking your statements anyway due to fraud risks.
Firefox is open source and it doesn't need to be tied to Mozilla. Maybe a fork is necessary.
That's not quite the right perspective.

You most likely do know your software better, after all, you wrote it. However, their concern is the integration of your software into larger system, and they may well be more familiar with those issues than you are.

In all my years of (Debian) distribution maintenance, this was the most typical cause of disagreement between packagers and upstreams. It's very common for upstreams to make fairly arbitrary decisions which might make sense in the context of an individual project, but which are not appropriate when considered as part of the system as an integrated whole. Neither are wrong per se, but as an upstream, your focus is on your project and it's easy to miss the bigger picture issues. Conversely, packagers' focus upon the system as a whole, so their view is at a higher level.

Additional to this, don't just discount the knowledge and expertise of distribution maintainers. There are of course some who just blindly package up other people's work and aren't experts. However, there are others who are software authors in their own right, with decades of accumulated experience and understanding. The latter may well know more than you do, and might be able to provide some keen insights you could benefit from. There are an awful lot of developers who don't know how to make software releases properly in a way that allows it to be consumed straightforwardly by others, with proper understanding of API and ABI issues, proper versioning, and proper use of build systems.
It does not seem that the author is affiliated with Canonical. Ideally, Canonical should be the ones defending their product.

IMO, it is okay for the backend to be propriety as long there is a published, easy to implement protocol for talking to snapd (along with an accessible way for clients to configure snapd). Otherwise, there is lock-in to the service. It's not just the FOSS community that should be concerned, but business users as well. Do you want to internally distribute in-house snaps via Canonical's servers?

> DockerHub and GitHub are insanely popular and they are completely proprietary.

These are arguments against, not for, using these services. And many proprietary SaaS companies sell installations on on-prem air gapped servers.
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Sorry you got downvoted, one doesn't get a point of view from Ethiopia every day, too bad yours was faded to gray.
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i have seen this. in interviews for infosec dev roles, i would mention that i have read the entirety of the Snowden leaks, every page, as well as the TAO EQGRP source code leaked by the Shadowbrokers. I had thought mentioning this would demonstrate i am really interested in the subject of exploitation and defense and what is really going on in the invisible world of cyberwar.

but what i found out is most people conducting interviews don't want to know and they don't want to hire nor work with anyone who does want to know the big T Truth. I have been able to tell the interview conversation tone just shut down after I mention Snowden or the Shadowbrokers. All of the interviewers were ex-DoD and/or ex-Intelligence. I could tell they would not be proceeding to hire me because they got very quiet and quickly transitioned to the "let's wrap this up" phase of the conversation.

it greatly puzzled me for a long time why would the class of civillian infosec workers be affraid of the knowledge of how NSA had ran circles around them in the dark and why would these workers on the front lines of security want to NOT know how to defend themselves and their customers?

maybe ex-DoD folks are scared of Snowden, because they were always forbidden from reading Snowden leaks, since they would be violating their classification authority by learning about top secrets for which they were not cleared to know. i find that funny and scary in an Emperor's New Clothes sense, that us unwashed civillians on the streets can know more about cyberwar than DoD's own cyberwarriors, because we can study public information, while DoD indoctrinated workers have to pretend the Snowden leaks and Shadowbrokers never happened.
there is probably also a factor of shame and face saving that makes DoD infosec types choose to be willingly ignorant. Snowden and the Shadowbrokers were the biggest embarassments to NSA.

imagine you are NSA. you are untouchable, you have as good as an infinite black budget and you are above all laws. you have pulled off the biggest victory in intelligence history--for 12 years after the Patriot Act, you have been hacking everyone and spying on everyone and nobody has figured it out and nobody can prove a thing. then along comes Snowden and the Shadowbrokers and your whole cover is blown. that's gotta make anyone who drink the Pentagon's kool-aid pretty personally mad. so anyone else who comes along and is blabbing about things they read in Snowden leaks will be treated like an outcast and shunned for adding insult to injury.
Maybe we should call these "Gaming CPUs", as it seems to be the most common usage they get, by far.

As someone who's really enthusiastic about CPUs, but not at all about gaming (we have things called "workstation" and "playstation" for a reason) I'm really pending towards AMD in the x86 space, because they have some really interesting parts in their EPYC line (and some pretty amazing deals in their APUs). Having said that, if x86 compatibility is not my goal, POWER9 also looks pretty cool too, as do all the ARM-based server chips that popped up recently. I also find the LinuxONE Community Cloud machines to be very interesting (I just wish I could have a zSeries of my own in a 19" server tower chassis). It's really sad the desktop or deskside workstation market these days is mostly x86. It's boring.
That pricing is for private repos. It's free for public repos.
They're public keys so they can be in plaintext and protected by 0644. They don't really have to be different from apt keys.
Maybe an old dude like me should make an attempt
If i'm not mistaken, Apple doesn't even have a "separate wallet" requirement like Consoles do where, if you have a cross-platform game with virtual currency, you have to keep currency purchases made on one platform separate from currency purchases made on competitor's platform - Eg. in Fortnite, purchasing $10 of VBucks on the Nintendo Switch means you have to spend those VBucks in the in-game store while on the Switch, you can't go to your PC and spend them or combine them with VBucks you've purchased from Epic directly.
my additions: npm and esprima

Both had significant impacts on the JS developer-experience.
Google at least can argue that if you don't like their rules, you're free to distribute the app yourself. Whether that will convince lawmakers who knows.
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I don't think that would happen. You can sideload into Android but as far as I know no one sideloads Tik Tok, you just get it through the store. I'm not saying it can't happen, but I just don't see it as a reason for not owning a device that allows sideloading (unless you mean that one could oppose sideloading in principle and boycott devices that allow it?)
> The other elephant in the room, IMO, is that V-Bucks don't actually cost Epic anything. They're just bits, and Epic could set the price to whatever they want without much consequence.

Can't you argue this about any software? A copy of an expensive, downloadable software is always "just bits", and the marginal cost of selling one more copy is ridiculously low, but that doesn't mean the software itself is free.
In order to sell those V-Bucks, Epic had to spend millions in order to develop, market, run and support a game that people actually want to play.
I'm very very surprised that the number one parallel has yet to ever be mentioned in these kinds of discussions: the 2005 Paris riots.

French police were held responsible for the deaths of North African teenagers and riots broke out all over suburban Paris that caused waaay more property damage than anything we've seen in America this summer. French media framed the entire issue as brown people showing their true colors by not posing any 'coherent' message to French political establishment, eg. no slogans or demands. French politics sense has drifted further Rightward, further edifying the French political ideal that if you wanna live in France you better play by our rules (same thing in Germany where you have to pass a cultural test to gain citizenship, imagine such a thing in America! [And no, answering questions about the constitution, the foundational legal document, is not the same thing]).
North London buses pumping electricity into the National Grid
i wonder how we will combat eviltwin webpages?
In my town as well, street people are collecting plastic bottles as fast as possible in order to get back a couple of cents.

As a result, the trash is less full, it doesn't spill everywhere, and the "legitimate" waste pickers have less to carry as well.

And for myself, it's an added value: I don't need to sort, I don't need to pay.

It costs me 10 cents per bottle but I'm sure it will be properly processed and that the money will go to the most motivated.
Any modern (ie 2020) third-party benchmarks ran against these processors have the vulnerability patches applied. They're factored in.

Yes, Intel will often cite performance characteristics without the patches applied, and shame on them for that. And, Yes, it would be interesting to know how much of Intel's performance lead pre-Ryzen was due to this bad speculative execution microcode; it seems likely that AMD wasn't as far behind as everyone thought, but the past is the past.

But the debt is now paid, and Intel still leads in single-core performance. Really, they've never not led in single-core performance (maybe going back to the late-90s Athlon days they were trailing). That's something an Intel shill would tell you, but it's also something anyone can find out just by looking at the benchmarks or doing their own testing. Marketing is mostly lies, but those lies stop when I hold the silicon in my hands.
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