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Probably the only reason why Amazon is able to charge the prices that it does is _because_ of the fact that you are not purchasing the product itself.
Amazon needs to make this much clearer though, and provide an option for you to buy media content outright at a higher price. The "buy" verbiage is straight up misleading.
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I think this is missing something. Lets say I have 200 dollars of illegal money. How much value does that actually have? I would say 0 because it is illegal. Now lets say I buy a widget that is worth 100 dollars for 200 dollars. Then I sell it for 100 dollars. I now have converted 200 dollars of worthless illegal money into 100 dollars of legal money.

This happens all of the time for EBT and food stamps. Buy a case of pepsi for 30 dollars and sell it back for 15 (sometimes to the same seller). 30 electronic dollars that can only be spent on a limited set of goods is converted to 15 dollars cash that can be spent on anything.

My point is that the definition of "value" may actually align. It's ok if they new owner sells at a monetary loss because they are still making a gain.
> Nintendo lawyers incoming. People never learn

The last commit is from 6 years ago so, it has been up for 6 years, why do you think Nintendo will suddenly take action now?
oh weird, I accidentally "discovered" this when I was a kid, and assumed it was known for a long time... but 1994?
Thanks for sharing - we actually haven't. I'll ask the folks at YC and will definitely have that conversation. Very helpful. I really appreciate it.
Tax avoidance and tax circumvention are not the same.

First lesson my tax attorney taught me. ;)
Wanted to say I started taking a look yesterday and I’m not sure how I feel about it yet. But I don’t have my whole workflow set up yet. Thanks for the nudge, I’d been meaning to give it a look!
Some conferences ask you to check a box that you've read and agree to the CoC before your speaking/attendance registration can go through. What do you do in those situations / do you just check those anyway or not attend?
Not all restaurants have their own website, but a lot do, and you can order online there.
Because "justice" in the US is not about who's right and who's wrong, it's about who's got the most money and resources to pursue a lawsuit.
This is interesting. I use soundcloud for this today. I have a few recordings of my family talking about the Great Depression, and some USO WW2 recordings from my Great Grandpa. Not sure If I would pay for this, since soundcloud is free - but I generally like this idea
The hacker news comment section is proof of this.
Related, I'm curious how long y'all feel it will take for you to be comfortable with what was historically normal.

For example, riding a crowded bus or train, going to a concert, or even going shopping at a big box store seem totally bizarre to me right now. Even after the numbers come down I expect it will be some time before my brain isn't reflexively telling me to wear a mask and avoid crowds.
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I think in your cynicism you've totally lost all meaning and purpose of the code of conduct

It's not a piece of legalese with which you can bludgeon people to get your way (I mean it can be, but that is not and should not be the point)

When an organization has a code of conduct, it makes clear how I can complain about actions or events that occur under their jurisdiction. This is important because if you have high friction to reporting issues, issues don't get reported. [1]

What happens then? People who have legitimate grievances are the ones who stop coming around and you're left surrounded by the assholes who chased them off

The code of conduct should be cheerfully received by everyone:

1. I know that my actions are above board, because I can read what is allowed

2. I know that any actions that aren't will be reported and processed not in public (eg on Twitter) but in some sort of well-defined process

3. I know what the range of penalties can be

4. If I experience a violation caused by someone else I know how to report it

Four is arguably the most important point. Otherwise you end up with would-be coc violations adjudicated on Twitter.

[1] I'll add that it should also describe how people who receive reports respond and how the issue will be mediated. All of these steps are important. It's important for conference volunteers to know what to do when they receive a report. It's important that you know how to make a report.
There was definitely a presence; http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/10/28/foreign-inf...
> If you believe that genetics cause women to perform worse in technical roles, that will be reflected in your social behavior.

Can you expand on this, explain the connection? In particular, why the former (belief) would influence the latter (behavior)?

I firmly believe, based on overwhelming evidence, that genetics makes most people perform terribly in technical roles. Fortunately, there are a few bright, above-average exceptions that perform amazingly. If someone proves they're competent, I'll treat them competently, but at the same time it doesn't make sense to assume that the average person could be anywhere near competent.

Edit: answer to your second question: I try to be inclusive, I don't believe in drawing lines, at least not when it comes to belief (only behavior).
They then went on to arbitrage it.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/18/21262316/doordash-pizza-p...

> And so the story unfolds. “If someone could pay Doordash $16 a pizza, and Doordash would pay his restaurant $24 a pizza, then he should clearly just order pizzas himself via Doordash, all day long. You’d net a clean $8 profit per pizza [insert nerdy economics joke about there is such a thing as a free lunch],” wrote Roy. They order 10 pizzas this way, and it worked! The money was free, a seamless transfer from SoftBank’s deep venture capital-lined pockets to Roy’s friend’s business bank account. Eventually, in another series of what Roy hilariously calls “trades,” they just ordered pizza dough through DoorDash for $75 in pure profit.
>Why aren't GrubHub concerned about the legal reprecussions of this?

When is the last time a company was SERIOUSLY threatened by the repercussions of doing something illegal in the US? When was the last time a company was fined/sued out of existence for something they were doing to average people?
> Why NOT formalize rules to some extent?

Because they will be used to lawyerize innocent people out
of the organization by entryist grifters. That's what they're for, that's what they're used for.
Software folks with domain knowledge should really become software architects.
"Apart from X,Y,Z which I am realistically proficient in, I have knowledge a mile wide and an inch deep"
> The fact that so many Americans are willing to pick up a gun and lay down their life for this country

I don't think they are. The motivations behind those who go to war are not clear cut. Some are noble honest giving people; others less so. For some that's simply the "best" choice for career/etc.

Those that go to war purely from the kindness of their heart is smaller than implied - imo - and wearing a mask most aligns with a simple kind ask, perhaps a much smaller percentage of the gun supporters.
> Everything is expensive and you see ultra rich people everywhere, but there is little in the way of local industry to explain all this wealth.

Maybe the money comes from abroad, has this occurred to you?

> This article may offer little evidence, but it rings very true for people who live there.

It's a boogeyman used by politicians to have a set of "bad guys" to point to. The truth is most of those wealthy foreigners buying up Vancouver real estate are not money launderers, they're just wealthy foreigners.
> What does "maximizing global happiness" look like in practical terms? Is it more than "removing unnecessary suffering" (which is more like raising a floor than maximising a ceiling)? Stuff doesn't seem to make people happy long term.

How about this:

>> Here's a bold vision for a better world: maybe the ship should set as its target the goal of feeding, sheltering, and clothing the significant numbers of human beings on the planet that aren't doing so well in those categories.

It's rather interesting how in the year 2020, where a big chunk of the planet carries a handheld supercomputer around with them that can half-answer nearly any question you throw at it, we can deliver a package half way around the world overnight, where one individual is spearheading a legitimate initiative at putting humans on Mars, and so forth and so on...and yet, the abstract notion of feeding, clothing, and sheltering [1] the most vulnerable of our species is cognitively conceptualized/processed in a manner such that it doesn't even seem to be noticed by the conscious mind (see: "What does "maximizing global happiness" look like in practical terms?").

Even more interesting (for the super-curious among us) is, if one is to point out this curiosity, and its pervasiveness in our society, those who seem to be (or outright declare to be) ideologically most concerned about such problems (rationalists, progressives, humanists, etc) not only do not have their curiosity piqued, but very often seem to take some kind of offense to it - typically in a passive form, such as a silent downvote, refusal to discuss (at least that specific aspect, ignoring it in any reply)...but rarely explicit disagreement, as if there is something ~evolutionarily "taboo" about the subject (ie: "The first rule about fight club is you don't talk about fight club.” “The second rule about fight club is you don't talk about fight club.").

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs

Meta-edit: how much activity will this particular comment get in a 4 day old thread? :)
The hardest thing I think is to be just human. If you can casually ask the interviewer how he is been, make some small talk about some random stuff and get them to talk about something else, you are on the road to success.
The more they talk about something unrelated the better.

I once got a job from an interview, that completely derailed. We had rescheduled a few times, cause somebody messed it up. It all worked out after I had a call with the secretary of the big chief.

20 minutes in, I wasn't asked a single serious question but listen to them talk about scheduling how busy everyone was.
Then the big chief had to leave and was again very apologetic about it.

I worked there for 6 month before going back to university and finishing my master. Was really nice, never saw anyone from the interview again, though.
Got introduced to the team as a friend of the big chief and everyone was very nice to me.

Always be nice to the secretary.
Because of your comment, I was able to find it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQTfuI-9jIo

Seems it was Oxford, not MIT.
> Attacking a hospital is a war crime,

Strictly speaking, if people we don't like attack a hospital it's a war crime; if we do it, it's an accident.

> so how is it not terrorism?

Murdering civilians during a war is a war crime; that doesn't mean murder automatically equals terrorism outside of war.
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> But here's the thing; if one of my devs made a gaffe at a conference, they'd have the full weight of myself and the company defending them...

Maybe you are right. But this seems very surprising, the company instinct would likely be to cut loses and have that person fired to avoid further bad publicity.
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There is invidious which is an alternative front end for YouTube. It doesn't use the YouTube API or require a Google account. You can host your own instance or use one of the public ones[0]. It seems like the download button is broken but I was able to right click save a video.

[0] https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/wiki/Invidious-Instances
We had our computers go down for ~12 hours one day. Paper charts came out, which was a massive undertaking. I could not imagine my system being down for 5 weeks.
This sounds like a case of "commit fraud until your victims are too dependent on you for survival til you make it" to me.
9/11 also happened spectacularly in the middle of new york. Does that mean law enforcement tried to do something about Afghanistan? Was it the fault of airports to not do a thorough cavity search of each and every passenger?

Our life is to this day in many small ways runs on a contract that others are not trying to kill us. Security check or not.
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It would be great to see this written into something like a Godzilla film as a sleeping monsters heart beat.
It's worse than that. Entire generations have had PTSD because of major events such as this one. For their entire lives.

Edit: How is this being downvoted? It's just the truth, the stress of isolation and the permanent health risk from a pandemic have real traumatic effects. Is anyone denying this?
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If you've focused on technical topics your whole life, 40+ is a great time to pursue a classic liberal arts agenda. I had a neighbour who went to a private liberal arts college straight out of high school (pretty rare in Canada) and I always felt "I should do that!". I've been an amateur economist since my early twenties and while I'm still quite technical it's refreshing to switch domains and read/study in different areas.
I'll take SQL over Excel anytime.
> significant drop in blood pressure

Right; that's one of the main reasons they're prescribed, to lower blood pressure.
Without any basis whatsoever, and I really must one day put this idea out of its misery with some studying, I long suspected that quantum mechanics involved parallel universes where different bases more aptly fit with that other reality.

My thought is surely crackpot but I'll explain how my idea arose :

A fraction eg 1/3 describes a decimal number to infinite accuracy but creates a challenge for base 10 calculations.

I thought about the precision necessary for learning the math of the quantum particles and the experimental way we're trying to figure out how they behave to infer their properties. (Higgs was the other way around but I am optimistic that we'll predict much more in future instead of this convoluted observations rigmarole) and I started wondering if you could approximate extremely high precision decimals to fractions in non decimal bases and from there simplify calculations with far greater resolution.

How much more capable would Nyquist - Shannon sampling, if we could clock with the precision of infinite decimal fp digits but handle only a short simple "one third" input or do visor?

My silly mind wandered off to imagine particles jumping between different base based universes just as a sequential progression through the precision of their infinitessimal steps through space and time.
The “place and pay” orders the lawsuit describes are new to me. I’d always kinda held the position that saying “We’ll deliver you food from Lou’s Diner” doesn’t necessarily imply you’re affiliated. But if Grubhub is telling drivers to disguise themselves because restaurants wouldn’t accept the order if they knew it was from Grubhub, that seems pretty clearly unethical.
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Will they keep providing the media like that once the threat from piracy is gone? Even right now most video platforms only offer the lowest quality to people on platforms free from DRM.

I can easily get a 4k h265 video packed in mkv to play on my Linux laptop. I haven't tested lately but a while back Netflix would serve 720p max.

Spotify has been very cool, going as far as delivering a .deb package and Ubuntu repo for their client. However, Rogan podcast doesn't work on Linux because it includes video. Will it before they go exclusive? Maybe, maybe not. I can easily youtube-dl the latest podcast and watch it on Linux.
The fact that they're social justice types is an historical detail, in the 50s it was the McCarthy red scare types for instance.

Overall it's the same kind of people, authoritarian/social dominants; see https://theauthoritarians.org/
Every article like that should be accompanied with a disclaimer. For example:

- the author followed his own advice and invested half of his life savings into an S&P 500 put option with maturity in March 2021

or

- the author did not put his money where his mouth and wimped out
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If this were a signpost along the lines of "employees must wash hands", then there would be no problem. Of course employees should wash their hands.

The problem is the weaponization against random people for obscure reasons. The blog poster here didn't make a presentation full of racist jokes, it's not even clear what they did.

Lawful evil anti-social people exist in the world, we shouldn't let them bully people just because they're waving a rainbow flag while doing so.
Wearing a mask to avoid contracting or spreading illness, to avoid air pollution, or just because you don’t feel like shaving or putting on makeup is common across all of Southeast Asia. If Americans adopted this incredibly rational practice, it would be great for everyone.
How do you explain other countries who are very pro-mask and always have been (ie. Japan) with their cases not going away?
How many mom and pop restaurants do you know of who have the extra financial capital to find a lawyer to sue over an issue like this against a company as well-funded as grubhub or doordash?
I was cryptic in part because it is not completely clear. It's difficult even to pin down when we started on this path.

That said, one surprisingly important influence seems to be the rise of image posts + eternal scrolling. It's the ideal method for delivering a continuous stream of entertaining "the other side is bad" outrage content.
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Come on. Blowing up a hospital is a crime, and arguably terrorism. Disabling the hospital and systematically preventing it from treating patients is a lesser thing. But still arguably terrorism if done intentionally.

And yes, it matters if an enemy or friend does it. That's so obvious to not merit discussion.
That is exactly how it feels.
The same effects that cause a tone when blowing across a bottle rim might cause a vibration like this when an ocean current moves over a deep trench.
In this analogy, it would be more like you creating an eBay store called "Strand Books", listing the entire Strand Books' catalog, and then when someone purchases a book from you, popping into The Strand to get the book and shipping it to them.

Except sometimes they're out of the book, and so the customer never receives it. Or you damage the book between the book store and the post office, and they receive a badly damaged book.

The customer is going to be mad at the Strand, not at you. You'd be damaging their reputation.
It's such a mistake to use unintuitive terms with customers when your business model depends on a long-term relationship with your customers.

You end up tricking them in the short term, but they learn to avoid relying on you in the future.

If they can't actually sell you a copy of something they should stop presenting a "buy" button and stick with "rent".
Technically, the Monica incident didn't involve a CoC; that was a pretext (well, post-text). The people who made the decision were just out of touch, and pattern-matched the information they had available to the “powerful, respected individual is hurting people who can't fight back” story – not realising that they'd caused that story, with Monica as the one who got hurt.

I'm still not sure why they doubled down on it, breaking long-standing traditions of how-moderation-is-done in the biggest possible way (defaming in the press) but (at least) some of the people involved (e.g. Sara Chipps, the face of the Big Bad… the person who introduced Jon Skeet to Stack Overflow) weren't sadistic abusers, so I'd prefer to assume ignorance than malice. (There might've been more than a little over-correcting for “we mustn't let ourselves defend the ones in the wrong, even if we like them”, but that's just speculation on my part.)

And that situation was complicated. A lot of people were telling themselves they were doing the right thing, but ended up hurting innocent bystanders all the more, e.g. whoever released that poorly-redacted list of which moderators were LGBTQ+ (presumably to try to get back at Stack Exchange in some way or other). We still don't know who that was, which is as it should be; you don't talk about moderation decisions on Stack Exchange unless their target is part of the conversation (and even then, only usually if they bring it up).

The whole thing goes to show (at least, to me) how important it is not to act how the story says you should; you might have the story wrong.
You probably already know this but you can destructive just the second half as well.

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They are if they don't follow rules.

Your political issues do not free you from following tax law.
I hope there's a strong precedent set here. Companies like Grubhub list restaurants on their site/app, but put the wrong phone number on it- one that goes to their own people instead. That's clearly some kind of fraud or misrepresentation.

Makes me feel like I should setup a phone number and a website called something like "GrubhubHelp.com", and list a help number for assistance with GrubHub orders. Then when customers call to complain, I'll play an ad for the competitor who has paid me the most money.

Seems only fair, right?
That would be a trade mark rather than a company name in this instance I think. In UK registered trademarks are standard type-written letters for word marks. If they contain symbols then they're figurative marks and it's an image of the mark which is registered.

On that point though, searching on the UK trademark registry it looks like it just strips non-alphanumeric symbols. A search for "Moz://a” returns "moza".
Right, and the people that banded together to profit from this are the existing homeowners and landlords in Vancouver. The foreign investors are tiny in both numbers and political power compared to Vancouver landowners as a whole, and it really was existing landowners who profited, while flying a "preserve our great culture" flag by trying to not let new buildings be built.

The investors are the like-minded people who banded together to raise property values and benefit from it directly, while also exerting their will to keep new people out, or at least keep out everyone except the very wealthiest.

Calling this behavior "protective" of the city is tantamount to saying that the city is only for the investors.
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As an author I can tell you, it’s annoying to try to get 3D mockups of your books. I usually hire someone on Fiverr, but the results are inconsistent.

So glad this exists now. I’ll use it for the book I launched this week!