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Yeah, what next Spotify tax for music broadcast? Freaking city mafias and the politicians running them, tax anything that has revenues. A political upheaval is impending.
Oh I didn't hear about the court case, thanks! I'll see if I can track some information on that down.

I live in Japan, no tv and a phone that doesn't receive TV broadcast, but the nhk guys hastle us every month or two and almost convinced my wife to pay.

Some of the tactics I've heard of them using are quite scummy as well.

Edit:

Link to some information about the court case.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/06/27/national/crime-...
I use zim-wiki for my notes. Open-source and stores notes in text organised by folders. I like markdown but actually prefer the simple wiki syntax it uses.

If they need to create a PDF I use pandoc and if I need to move a table to a spreadsheet I just copy the text and use the text to columns from delimiter feature. Not sure if this help you or not.
More that it constantly asserts that things are working when they aren't and aren't when they are, freaks out if it isn't the only thing connected to an HDMI port though DP and DVI are fine, declares some titles "undownloadable" for no reason.

Nothing, though, compares to the irredeemable idiocy of forcing the user to have a monitor, mouse, and keyboard facing their play area in order to set up the guardian system, which you have to do essentially every time you use it because it will go out of alignment at a gnat's fart despite being screwed to the desk.
Apple "fans" are less bothered by this than they would be bothered by the problems of the alternatives. Or they are locked into the ecosystem.
There was a commercial thorium reactor in Germany, which was a financial disaster:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THTR-300
Centurylink has pulled quite a bit of fiber in Seattle over the last 3 years, but their expansion plans are erratic (eg: putting a 12 port GPON aerial terminal in the middle of blocks of 4 story MDUs that aren't allowed to use it) and the serviceability database often has said GPON ports misallocated due to incorrect identification of the number of units in a particular property.

I think Centurylink is hard up for cash at the moment, as they just dropped gigabit fiber with a free modem & install down to $49 a month for life in most areas. Frontier did similar offers for the 2 years prior to selling the Pacific Northwest division to Ziply Fiber.

Ultimately the City of Seattle struck a bad franchise agreement with Centurylink that didn't mandate universal fiber coverage like more sparsely populated suburbs did (eg: Lynnwood, Kenmore, etc). The effectiveness of these agreements was middling though, only the litigious cities were able to ensure the franchise agreement was enforced.

Poorer townships like Kenmore have universal fiber service available to every property by 2005 written in as a hard requirement of their franchise agreements with the telco, but without enforcement action the fiber will not be built.
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This is the scenario the author Stephen Baxter used in the book Timelike Infinity.

Wormhole technology on a ship sent in a relativistic journey circling the solar system, used to bootstrap humanity and influence it in the past.

There is a catch, this sort of time travel like many others only allows one to go back as far as the creation of the wormhole. Sort of like in Primer, it isn't a general form of time travel. You can take the wormhole forward, or from the other end backwards, but not prior to the time it was created.
We have the same scheme in Germany. The reason given for the fee vs. taxes I think is the independence of public broadcasting from the government. Imagine a bully as the head of government that can threaten to defund public broadcasting, if it doesn't report favorably for him.
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I can see how an attacker could potentially use this to break into a server or other secure room for the purposes of hacking into systems that have physical locks as security measures
I'm aware of how publicly traded companies work. Activist investors don't take a majority stake, just one large enough to get a board seat or two (5% is considered the minimum in the US) and make some noise. Shareholders vote on whether to add newly-nominated board members, so if they think an activist investor intending to fire the CEO is not acting in their interest, they can vote against adding said investor to the board.

If an "activist" investor actually bought 51% of the company (aka an "acquisition" or "takeover"), they would also own 51% of the downside of any CEO changes. At that point they have every right to decide what's in the company's interest. The company's shareholders can also vote on whether to accept the acquisition offer, which means dissenters who lose the vote can sell and get out if they disagree with the new owner's direction.

For that matter, Elon Musk only owns 21% of Tesla right now[1], so if 51% of the board think he's a net-negative, he could go immediately. They clearly do not.

1. https://www.investopedia.com/articles/insights/052616/top-4-...
They could be. Absent other forces acting on them, they would move along geodesics, like everything else. Near an ordinary massive body, geodesics are orbits.

Popular example: the wormhole in "Interstellar" was orbiting Jupiter.
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> but I feel desperately uncomfortable tying my notes to a piece of proprietary software

Obsidian is proprietary, but Markdown isn’t. And there will always be Markdown personal wikis. I guarantee it.

> What about if I want to style a real PDF in Asciidoc?

Pandoc can export MD to PDF, HTML, .doc, anything. And you can style with CSS.

But once you add spreadsheets and sketches into the mix, there’s basically no way around proprietary software.
That's one of the issues with current energy policy of most of the world - the terminology and thinking is stuck in the days when everyone thought the problem is we're going to run out of oil or coal or whatever.

But that's not the problem humanity faces today - we will all die of climate change decades sooner than we run out of oil or gas or uranium. We should be focused on low/zero-carbon energy and not on renewability.
The comment you're replying to says:

> but I feel desperately uncomfortable tying my notes to a piece of proprietary software.
I've not done the research, but following your #s, there remains 60% of the $36b unaccounted for. Where's that coming from, and what are those margins?
The first book is certainly very different from the rest. If not for other reasons then simply because it is a self-standing short novel while later books tell a continuous story spanning three books, with each book being about 2-3 times longer than the first one. Calling them unreadable is a bit harsh though. I still found them to be good sci-fi reading.
Yes, that puts the lower bound for spy satellites at one. Who could have known that before?
Have you guys checked out the episode on JRE with Graham Hancock? [0] They talk about the Bronze Age China and Göbekli Tepe. At the time I was seemingly convinced why the academic community wouldn't let these new theories flourish despite the archeological evidence. I was not aware of the work by Hanson so I can not comment on that.

A similar thread on HN in the past [1].

[0] https://youtu.be/aDejwCGdUV8
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23761252
However, picking a lock still requires a short period of being unobserved. This may not be the case in for example an office building. Taking out a key and unlocking the door is an absolutely normal act and few people would notice. It even adds an air of legitimacy - that person has a key, they’re likely allowed in there.
Look into vimwiki.
Imagine this as a counterexample. A wormhole could connect two distant points as being the same time in some specific frame. Go through either end at t=0, come out the other at t=0. Go through at t=1, come out at t=1. If that's the only FTL travel there is, then there are only two options to get back to your original position. The short way through the wormhole, but we've established that causality is maintained in that direction. Or the long way, but it'll take long enough that in any frame you get back after you leave. Either way, you can't get back before you left and can't affect things before you left.

You get into trouble if there are two wormholes like this that connect points in different reference frames. You could go through the first wormhole at (t=0, x=A) to (t=0, x=B), then the next wormhole at (t'=1, x=B) to (t'=1, x=A), where I'm using t' as the time in this second wormhole's frame. Even if (t=0, x=B) is before (t'=1, x=B) in all frames, there could be some t' frames where (t'=1, x=A) is before (t=0, x=A), letting you return before you left. But at least there's some scenario (only one wormhole exists) that doesn't have tricky causal implications.

And there are other setups where even going back in time isn't paradoxical. Take this viewpoint: You just can't kill your father when you go back. "It didn't happen" is the same as "It won't happen," so it's a non issue. If you go back and try to kill him, then instead of you succeeding, whatever happened will happen (which we already know wasn't your father dying). Mathematically, it's a loop. You can't continue forwards around a loop to get somewhere that isn't behind you. As a tautology, the only loop-containing solutions to the physical equations would be the ones containing self-consistent loops.
The context about the anger and powerlessness.. I haven't heard too many people mention that.

I got the bug in March and my GP (who is amazing) told me to talk to the health department and the health department told me to talk to my GP or go to the ER. I was in the middle of moving out of my house when it hit. My girlfriend was gone (she had just taken an internship) and I was alone. I was furious about my lack of options and just the bullshit from everyone being overloaded, the stress of work (I work from home) and still wanting to pack boxes to finish my move. The last 4 days of fever were the worst. I remember my last night of fever acutely. Sitting alone in my bed with a throat that felt like a sun bleached mummy of a garden hose full of glitter, hallucinating, and stupefied (the coronavirus brain fog is one of the most interesting symptoms IMO). I sent my doctor's office a message on the medical portal and said "Fuck you and fuck the fucking health department, if I die alone today I want you to know you might have been able to help." My fever broke a few hours later and I was largely functional by the next day.

I've seen my doc since, we are fine and haven't talked about my message. I'm dealing with inflammation that looks like pericarditis by a lot of blood markers but is almost invisible to anything else that would confirm it. I had a heart attack a month ago. I'm 37 and relatively fit for a console jockey. That feeling of powerlessness and isolation. The worry of giving it to anyone else even if I did ask for help... On top of that the disbelief that I was going through it and the still persistent disbelief that I get from other people if I do talk about it. I won't forget it any time soon. Especially because ever since it feels like I've got a dinner plate glued inside my chest that no one can find.

Wear a mask. We are in this for a long haul. Well, I might not be.
Any specific suggestions for how technology can cut municipal costs?

Most of the fat in municipal spending tends to be political (pork) or criminal (public corruption and/or organized crime), rather than due to process inefficiencies that could be remedied through better use of technology.

Municipal spending tends to be dominated by the kinds of inherently labor-intensive services that can't readily be automated. Automation isn't going to have much of an impact in the number of people needed for firefighting, garbage collection, or to run and maintain urban water, sewer, electrical, and road networks anytime soon. Automation in policing is another huge civil liberties problem best left untouched.

Urban government costs money and municipal tax grab attempts like this are either evidence of greed (and/or corruption) or inadequate funding models. These are political, rather than technological, problems.
I'm using VS code and the markdown preview plugin, with a private repo on github. Works pretty good and would support other filetypes besides MD.
And I demand a pony.
1. Rich people historically take wealth out of a country via offshore tax heavens. If money is spent on giga-companies instead of local businesses, it drains wealth from communities and creates inequality.

2. Taxation is not robbery at all. Rich people have used all public services at one point or another, it‘s only fair to pay back. They don‘t most of the time, so these services wither.

3. The „free“ market has shown time and time again that branches of business will steer to monopolies if you give them time. Look at amazon for example. You _cannot_ create an amazon competitor. Many have tried. All have failed.

4. Giga-Companies and Rich people have shown many times that they will just copy a good idea and steal your customers by using their giant existing consumer base.

Things like these don‘t make it impossible to „get rich“, but they make it very hard.
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If you care about security, for starters you don't use pin-tumbler locks. They are pretty much useless as far as stopping a determined attacker is concerned.
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No you don't. What would you do if all the files of your customers that did not pay for backups are lost ?
Cars go underground, beneath underpasses, inside of parking garages. I can't imagine any way even 100% aerial visual coverage can possibly track individual cars with any degree of certainty.
I got that to after playing around a bit and then trying that phrase. It gave me a really good laugh, as if AI just went "ah shit, why does everyone enter this stupid phrase eventually?"
This is the scariest part of using machine learning as an engineer on any practical application as well.

Without an error bound, ML can’t be in charge of anything that could put human lives at risk.

This is also why I don’t understand all the hype about FSD / L5 autonomous driving. We don’t even know yet if such error bounds even exist, so we don’t even know if machine learning is even the right tool for FSD yet. All certification entities for control systems that put human lives at risk in aviation, automotive, etc. require those error bounds. So it actually doesn’t really matter if Tesla comes up with a “maybe L5” system, without right error bounds, their cars won’t be certified as L5 and drivers will need to keep hands on the steering wheel.
Well, firemen are tough.
I think this is about crony capitalism. The old mates want to have their cake and eat it too and get paid as well, and their mates are making that happen.

Just the fact that the ABC and SBS are excluded says it all really. This is clearly not about journalism.
For the uninitiated, WTH does semi-public mean? Did GPT-3 only provide an API but not the model?
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I mostly use my wiki as a place to store actual information and use a different system for managing todos. I would agree that wikis aren’t really fit for that, if that’s what you’re saying, but that’s also not their intended purpose.
It's unclear they even exist..or work..our could even theoretically work now we have digital. Their true enforcement strategy is to harass the small minority who don't pay the license fee.
Though, probably humans fumble or bump things >1/10k times. I certainly do, anyways.
Kinda reminds me a bit of how Milwaukee wanted money from Pokémon Go because the players was playing in the local park and some even went off the path so they were arguing the app is responsible for plants and stuff being damaged. The city lost but had to pay $83,000 in attorney fees. I think it's a bit of a overreach that a city in Indiana is trying to regulate a company in California.

I know Ohio cities can have franchise fees for cable too, wonder if the regulation is city by city or all based around the same state law... If Netflix had to follow that, I guess they'd have to have a army of lawyers review each city one by one keeping a database, filing paper work, etc. 50 states, multiplied by hundred of cities. Sounds like a massive mess. Maybe if you are the only person in a town of a few thousand watching Netflix, wouldn't be worth all the extra administration work. So wonder if maybe only the big cites would get Netflix then?

Satellite has also faced the problem of being treated differently too. I know in Florida Satellite they charge a higher tax rate compared to cable but that's state wide from my understanding, since they don't have the local equipment and as many employees to maintain the infrastructure. Well both cable and satellite has installers, etc but they could very well be contractors but still putting people to work locally.

Then I know some areas try to require a permit for satellite TV and the FCC sued cities over that because of the Over-the-Air Reception Devices (“OTARD”) rule or limit the number of satellites to 1. I have Dish at home and for some reason they installed 2 satellite dishes pointing at a slight different angle than the other one. I guess some cities and HOAs think satellites are ugly too. Some still have these ordinances on the book, so surprised cities haven't removed them... Then again in some states same sex marriage is still illegal on the books too like Ohio and Tennessee, but you know they can't enforce that anymore either because of the supreme court. I guess the problem is in Ohio marriage is defined in the state constitution, so it'd take a convention to change it but I guess not a priority even though it's kinda symbolic even if no longer law. Virginia did the same, but 2020 they passed updates at least - 5 years after the ruling.
But Enron CEO was running a scam.
I bought a Rift and I knew the risks. I wanted to try it and in case I don't like it, at least I didn't spend too much money compared to competitors. I hate their app, you cannot even uninstall it by conventional means (you have to do it withing the app).

Headsets are not cheap, but I am not really crying for not attaching it to my PC ever again. I just wonder who would want to develop against that environment. Not that there was that much available as it is.
> 418 says it’s that you tried to brew coffee in a teapot.

That you tried to do something so absurdly inappropriate that there isn't even a proper technical way to explain why it was wrong and why it could not work? Like, the server could not even begin to understand what you tried to accomplish with that request.
A call for telemetry on Linux written on Facebook ... is the author trying to be nominated for the worst persuasion move of the year?
If you have high-quality 3D sensors (or in some cases, good-enough 2D cameras) and usable IMU/odometry, you can assemble quite reasonable 3D models for many small environments. The biggest challenges in a home environment are that many items we want in our houses (stainless steel appliances, chairs with thin legs, glass anything, reflective floor materials) are almost pathologically bad from a computer vision standpoint and are very hard to see and avoid in an uncontrolled household setting. Vision-based navigation against a known environment is doable with reasonable reliability, but adding fixed markers or positioning systems goes a long way towards robustness.
OpenStreetMap uses it too: http://twitter.com/Anonymaps/status/1247863053976252416
Or have never been in a situation where their mother, father, or themself has a serious medical condition requiring over $1,000,000 and many years of fighting to treat it. "I can't be bought" is a failure of imagination.
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This messed up my git history， and can't express the information clearly.
Unrelated to the article but I looked up the address of the printer's building in London and found this post [0] describing how it was bombed on December 29, 1940. That gave a fascinating look into what it was like trying to operate a business in the centre of London during a war. And made me think how lucky it is that St Paul's cathedral is still standing when pretty much everything around it was destroyed.

[0] https://alondoninheritance.com/thebombedcity/operation-texti...
You can use ParaView from Jupiter just fine ? You can even embed its views, pipelines, controls, make interactive notebooks, etc...
The reason is mostly I couldn't replace my current workflow using other tools.

1. open-source.
2. One command away from my editor(I only use desktop for taking notes), also synced to my dropbox in case.
3. Amazing extensibility with plugins and custom scripts. Eg: bugwarrior + pomodoro(using Timewarrior, I've used this a lot when freelancing, not so much now) + some custom scripts.
4. Journaling - custom generated template of what I need to records/daily tasks etc.
5. Viewports in taskwiki are amazing, eg: for any project related notes I can do write `# Task | project:Pro1 and +PENDING` to list pending tasks in Pro1, you can also configure to use tags like development, bug reports etc.

I couldn't find another tool that is as extensible. The downside is you need to dedicate a weekend to understanding and setup!
So let's make this assumption explicit: A and B are far apart in distance, and the time between them (in seconds) is smaller than the distance (in light seconds).

This allows different observers to reasonably disagree about which came first. Basic relativity.

Alice sees A happen before B. Bob sees B happen before A.

Everyone will agree that once they saw one event, it was too late to reach the other event before it happened, even at the speed of light.

But faster than light? Then you could get there before it happens.

> How can A come before B come before A from, from one observer?

An observer wouldn't see that.

What they might see is someone exiting a wormhole before they entered it.

Let's say Alice observes A, then wormholes over to cause B. And Bob sees B, then wormholes over to cause A.

Anyone watching from the outside will see a logical-seeming series of events: Alice and Bob exit wormholes and each cause an event. A "different" Alice and Bob watch the events and enter wormholes.

Some observers will see Alice exit before entering. Some will see Bob exit before entering. Some will see both. That's obviously weird. But they'll see nothing weird about A and B. A and B are perfectly normal.