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Tell me what you think the game was lacking. BTW, this belief that all cyberpunk stories need to have some explicit critique of current economic systems is wrong and doesn't accurately represent the genre. Cyberpunk has always been primarily about style.
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My account has been in a "limbo" state. I can unfollow and not much.

Can someone help me out?
> There is some argument to be made for exp, as it is considered an 'elementary function'.

But exp() is defined as the limit over an infinite sum, so why does it get to be an elementary function?

My point it that the distinction between closed form and non-closed form is arbitrary, and that there is no qualitative difference. In fact, limit and integral are just (higher-order) functions as well – and rather ubiquitous ones, so why aren't they considered elemental?
I’m sure MC would prefer to keep collecting the processing fees with a client of this size — the problem is that there has now been a very public report of illegal practices taking place on the site and MC’s lawyers must think that continuing to process payments on the site could make them vulnerable to criminal or civil penalties.

Would you risk your massive global business for one client? I wouldn’t. I agree that it would be nice to see due process happen first, but I don’t blame companies like MasterCard from proverbially yeeting this stuff away.
wouldn’t they just use any of the private existing methods of distributing it, like facebook?

I can’t imagine the audience for posting publicly accessible child pornography is larger than “private” mediums? probably impossible to know?

wouldn’t it also be easier to track down illegal pornography and the people behind it if it’s being posted in the open?

I think this is something that might feel and sound better than it really is... but it’s hard to argue against it without being labeled as in support of exploitation (which i am against, to be clear)
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> The strange part of this story is the way how it's set to snipe at certain companies - CDProjekt and Rockstar were target of these stories, but other development studios for some reason weren't.

It seems to be cyclical that the company in the cross-hairs has a bad PR year and people talk about only the one company as if it isn't a systemic problem until memory gets blurry and people forget the last time it came up, and few people connect the dots to the systemic problem. (Almost every major publisher has been in the spotlight at some point in time or another. EA very famously had the "EA Spouse" cycle of bad press. Activision had one a few years later.)

If there is something interestingly strange here it's that CD Projekt Red tried to buck the system and do the right thing and its getting smeared so badly that it tried and failed. The takeaway for a lot of people is going to be subconsciously "it's better not to try at all to do better and stick with the status quo", which is hard not to assume is intentional this cycle from some of the members of the status quo. (It resembles other anti-union bullying tactics.)
Newborns and infants are higher-risk for everything, simply because their immune systems are very immature. There are also minimum ages for all the common childhood vaccines. Not particularly comforting, but something every parent deals with. I'd avoid daycare under age 2 if you can.
Lemme draw the picture...

reality is that owner from these sites knows the law...

"Porn is allowed to a certain lvl..."

and it's not about humiliation/pedobear and stuff like this...

in short... Those who hates porn... and have no sex :D

are sabotaging these platform simply by pushing illegal content...

Ez...
Watch_Dogs 2 is pretty close to "cyberpunk themes for our time" - it's set in SF, with clones of Google, Facebook etc. as the baddies.
> The whole activism movement is toxic and whoever brings it to the workplace.

Why do you find people that are putting in the work to bring fairer, more just, and more even-handed application of human rights to all corners of society "toxic"?

What are you afraid of, or believe is "toxic", by removing the gap in privilege* that exists between white men and everyone else?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_privilege#History
The pinhole diameter slider is backwards; the objects should appear sharper as the aperture shrinks. Also it'd be good if you showed the effect of diminished light-gathering power at the same time, to emphasize the tradeoff.

All of the sliders should be labeled.

All in all, this is a good conceptual effort, but the details aren't strong.
I think they just updated the National Electric Code so that newer homes need to have Type 1 or Type 2 surge protection devices. The guy on the radio show I was listening to was talking about how this is a "whole home" surge protection.

I'm not sure if this would cover you in an event like this though.
It's not useful to them.

And even if it was, they'd be breaking half a dozen rules at the risk of getting the whole study trashed and billions lost, for almost no benefit.

Getting a study invalidated is the nightmare scenario of every pharma company. And it's not just the FDA or EMEA but also scientific journals that go through this stuff.
The kit is a nice idea.

I have the parts to build the MIT Cosmic Watch, but have not put it together yet. I think there were two or three things left to source...and it ended up on the back of my bench, then on a shelf.
It seems a little strange to criticize someone for asking a question on a site where most users seem to value curiosity. Not everyone has a background that makes it as easy to imagine problems like these, and while you've given some possibilities, I would also be interested in knowing exactly what accounts for the size.
> So because there are illegal videos on other platforms, they should be allowed on PH

And this is called a “straw man”!
Oh, don't worry! They're probably working on it: soon you won't be able to install whatever you want on your laptop.

Just making some unsubstantiated irony, but I wouldn't be surprised if it happened.
Are you asking me? (the OP)?

It's https://songbox.rocks.
I don’t see how that’s responsive to my argument. My point is that, despite much higher turnout, Trump maintained his vote share in Texas.

Biden increasing his vote share at the expense of third parties doesn’t indicate any structural benefit to Democrats from higher turnout. It seems quite specific to Trump/Biden as candidates versus Trump/Clinton. Clinton and Trump had very high disapproval ratings, which pushed people to a surprisingly strong third party vote. Biden had much lower disapproval ratings than Clinton, which led those third party voters to vote for him in 2020. That doesn’t show a structure benefit to Democrats from higher turnout.

I’ve done a little numeric modeling, and it produces some surprising implications about who new 2020 voters selected. Pre-election polling showed that 9% of Trump 2016 voters planned to vote for Biden, while only half as many Clinton 2016 voters planned to vote for Trump. Moreover, they showed people who voted third party in 2016 strongly favoring Biden.

Trump won about 11 million more votes than in 2016, and Biden won about 15 million more votes than Clinton. But there was an over 3 million vote drop in the third party vote. If you assume that Biden pulled in a significant number of Trump 2016 votes, say 6-8%, while losing only 3-4% of Clinton 2016 voters, and won the majority of people who voted third party in 2016 but not in 2020, then its quite likely Trump actually won a majority of the 22 million new votes in 2020.
I think reasonably high!!!!
> It will be interesting to see what they plan to do for Amazon Linux 3

Rocky Linux from the CentOS creator looks promising:

https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/10/rocky_linux/

https://github.com/rocky-linux
So you are of the opinion that the women were lying. Thanks for clarifying, I was unsure what you were responding to.
There's a picture of the problem like halfway down the article.
The question is then who is doing criminal activity? Is PornHub liable because couple users sneaked something that is illegal? Or is there something we are not aware of and PornHub engaged in it? There is no information on that.

If it is the case that only minority of users are responsible then Youtube is likewise liable and Mastercard should stop serving Youtube knowing that at any point in time Youtube has some users that have illegal content.

It is different to stop payments for illegal activity and stopping payments to a large corporation that has huge user base that has some users engaging in illegal activity.

If it is ok to do that then practically no current large company that has large user base could be served by payment organizations.
Do you think any of those circumstances are happening on FB? Does the supposed rarity make them harder or easier to find?
Many ways to do that, including OTC desks that can do a big lump sum conversion at once. Retail can use a multitude of exchanges.
Sure, but none of the cases listed in the comment I replied to are close to having control like Grinnell+affiliates.
I think we also have the obligation to not act as judge, jury, and executioner. If we suspect a customer has committed a crime, we should report that, with any evidence we have, to the proper authorities, and let them decide whether there's actually a crime there, or if we're mistaken.

Access to a reliable payments network (of which there are very few in the world, and even fewer in the western world) is required for doing any kind of online business. Whether or not to destroy a business based on their -- alleged! -- illegal activity should be decided by a court, not a corporate legal department.

Unfortunately, there are garbage laws around financial transactions that make MC liable if they don't do their own policing. IMO those laws need to go.
The key here is "it looks like they are equivalent".

In fact, I am not sure they are equivalent (in general, without taking into account the context), and even if they were, proving this would be S.F. for a compiler today (2020). Even coming up with such an optimisation without hardcoding it does not seem plausible.
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Yes, sex work can be "exploitative", "debasing", "soul-sucking" etc. So can all work.

And more importantly, it doesn't have to be any of those negative things. Sex work and pornography can be enjoyable for people on all sides of the equation. The fact that it often isn't is a problem to fix, not a reason to brutally narrow our perspective on what's acceptable in the realm of sex and sexuality.
I am handed several terrabytes of data and is asked to find the needle in the haystack.

You tell me, that I should be concerned about the UX of the scripts I develop to go through all the data and hand me the result I will answer back with?

I would say that I should just solve the problem, answer with the needle, and get on with my life.
>Imagine you are working on a software project, there is a massive bug in your code, you know it is there and you intend to work on it before release.

If only we could design a method to openly share the source data, perhaps even with a way to track those bugs. Alas, it's totally impossible for humans to collaborate like that.
It's one of many things that will have to close down. Every business will argue that it should be an exception, that there's not enough evidence (I've heard this from so many random businesses - "there's no study showing that the virus spreads in hair salons/pet shops/clothing retailers/badminton clubs") or that it's only a small part of the overall picture. In the end, tons of non-essential business will stay open, and transmission will remain too high. The policy should be across the board, with exceptions only for things that really are necessary (groceries, pharmacies, utilities, delivery services, etc.).

The level of contacts between people has to drop as much as possible, so that R can be pushed down as far as possible. The father you push R down, the shorter the lockdown has to be. Countries that have gone halfway have found that new case numbers plateau, but that things don't get any better - they just don't get worse.

> California can't just print money. (The Federal government can, but that's a different problem altogether.)

That's one of the reasons why the Federal government is critical for an effective response. It has vast financial resources that the states, individually, do not have.
I wasn't the person you responded to, I just wanted to point out the expectation should be the article is fiction. The women may not even exist. They may not have been quoted correctly if they even exist. There is no expectation it's been fact checked. The article is in the opinion section, which means NY Times doesn't believe it's journalism at all.
They really aren't, at least not where I live.
Since you cannot sell an app for that much money, it is not a legitimate question, and there is no reductio ad absurdum. Therefore it is a joke question. If you could sell one app for that much money, and real money or genuinely equivalent value is actually exchanged, then other apps would be worth similar amounts, and the entire segment would simply rescale to be quintillions of dollars; alternatively, if you or others were unable to repeat the sale, then the market has a weird transient spike one quarter, then goes back to normal, and everyone discounts the outlier as a Spiders Georg.

Notwithstanding which, sure, monopolies are indeed not defined by revenue, they are defined by market control, which is enabled by market share, which is quantified by value (there being no other universal measure), i.e. by sales i.e. revenue, which is why it's part of the consideration but you still need some qualification to support the quantification. Such as, by way of painfully topical example, Apple successfully forcing other market participants to actively mislead the consumer or withdraw products, which is not merely a naked display of market power but also an egregious misuse thereof.
appreciate it, thanks
This is all excellent feedback.

I actually cannot believe how much interest this thread has gotten today. It's going to take me a while to categorise and document all the feedback and ideas... but I will!
> They are certainly free to do business with whomever they please

But should they really? Because I am completely with you in that this is increasingly problematic in a world where certain services are so core to our lives, taking part is increasingly unavoidable and being shut out is actullay a disturbance to ones social or economic life. Considering how lopsided the power balance is, I do not think it is okay for companies to be allowed to in essence randomly terminate accounts and services that are vital for other businesses or private people to function, no matter what is stated in the ToS.
I doubt PH is making money from CP. It's probably hard to break down the revenue generated by individual videos, but I'm assuming that what little CP there is on PH is in the unverified user generated pool. Users can't pay for that on PH, and I suspect that if PH makes money in other ways (advertising and whatnot), that the audience watching these videos is not big enough to make them any money.
Aside from ObjC garbage collection, those things are all still good. Bindings enabled you to create things like complex editable tabular UI without writing any code. And the recommendations about how to use GCD efficiently have changed over the years, but it's still the foundational solution to concurrency on Darwin platforms (including being the basis for the new async/await runtime for Swift).
I believe you're contradicting yourself.

In your example, if the underage drinkers pay using MasterCard, then it's MCs job to check, as they're doing to pornhub.

MasterCard should stay out of it, as they do in other situations.
How does this actually work? It clearly can't be forever, since any non-zero dollar amount * infinity months is infinity dollars, which is going to reduce the budget below zero since any non-infinite number minus infinity is less than zero... thus locking it immediately.

Even if we say "you get N months of storage before we delete it" and subtract N * current storage cost/month, what happens after you're locked out of all actions because you added an extra GB? Storage APIs cost money to use, so you would get locked out of those too (note that if you're not, people would set arbitrarily low limits and get storage access for free) and couldn't retrieve anything. The only remaining actions are delete (which is free) or raise the quota and do the whole rodeo over again.

Abuse is impossible to ignore at public cloud scale, so "free storage forever" (or even, storage at a one time fixed price) as the fallback isn't a viable option.

Lastly, from an optics perspective, which blog post would you rather see on the front page of HN: "I did something dumb and spent too much money on Cloud" or "Google is holding our data hostage" (or "Google deleted all my data")?

Source: I launched Firebase Storage, which has a GCS bucket that has a hard limit.
Capital Flight
Where does it end? Renting my house because Airbnb says it’s “enabling owners.” At whose expense? The neighbors who know live near a hotel of daily guests, partying when it wasn’t zoned for it.

Why? Because Silicon Valley says it’s cool?

What’s next, an owner opening a hair salon, not needing a permit or zoning “because rights and freedom”

Airbnb destroys neighborhoods , is a direct cause in many areas of decreased available long term housing.

In certain areas maybe. Overall it’s enabled more terrible situations than it helps.

It only drives greed and profit at the expense of community.

The data is all there for anyone to objectively analyze , but now they all counting their profit
The law of unintended consequences applies. By not not processing porn payments the credit card companies force porn companies to generate revenue via advertising that works best if they give the content away for free. My surprise here is that Pornhub was able to process payments via Mastercard and Visa as I was under the impression that all porn was rejected by them already. https://www.vice.com/en/article/kb7ak9/the-secret-censorship...
collect every piece of data about yourself you can think of, copyright the publication, issue DMCA taketowns on your intellectual property
As noted in other HN discussions, I have found Debian (a user since 1997) to have the highest quality of the distros I have tried (except maybe Devuan which is a close Debian derivative). Specific things worked reliably which seemed like they were inconsistent, broken and/or untried by their developers, elsewhere. And the Debian Policy makes packages and the system as a whole work well, more consistently, IMO.

(Though I mostly use OpenBSD now -- when I have to use a linux, it is debian or devuan.)

Edit: also, Debian is very easy to install, has extensive documentation, and (IIRC) commercial support is available. There are reasons that there are more eventual Debian derivatives than of any other distro.
Probably worth updating the link to https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/10/business/visa-mastercard-... or similar as Visa joins the suit:

“We are instructing the financial institutions who serve MindGeek to suspend processing of payments through the Visa network,” pending the completion of its investigation, Visa said in a separate statement.

(source: https://twitter.com/VisaNews/status/1337133093031841792)
> Funding criminal activity can itself be a crime.

Yes, but they don't fund crime. They just allow transactions between customers and sellers.

Especially in this case I think it's more appropriate if:

- the payment provider reports to the police

- the police is properly founded and equipped to handle such cases (hint it isn't in most countries I'm aware of).

- If after a initial short "check" the police believes a deeper investigation is adequate the payment provider might have to suspend service (temporary with time limited and telling the porn company why).

I thing this would be much more appropriate.

Furthermore: Requiring manual review of pron material and reasonable proof of consent/age if it's not obvious from the video.
No. The payment processor just needs to not commit crimes. It's also a crime for an individual to aid and abet the commission of a crime. That obviously doesn't mean "it's my job to police the behavior of every person I come into contact with."
All true, and good points you raise.

However, Google's army of lawyers costs them real money, where your bill is largely made up numbers.

Perhaps the true cost is still enough to warrant sic'ing their lawyers on your company.

Even in that situation, a wait-and-see approach is still pretty advisable. The worst case scenario was already known to you - bankruptcy.

Nothing Google or their lawyers do would change that worst-case outcome, and if Google was aware you literally don't have $72k, and might just declare bankruptcy and walk away, they'll be much more eager to negotiate a more reasonable bill and settle your account. It's exactly as J. Paul Getty said...

Very glad it's being worked out and you will not have to go down that path.
None of your links identifies a "consensus on the true origin" you claimed. Instead you highlight multiple recent open questions that indicate there is no consensus.

The claim it escaped from a lab is not a contradiction with a bat-based origin; in fact, emphasizing all the research evidence tying SARS-CoV2 to bat strains already sequenced years ago in China – like RaTG13 – makes the outbreak's connection to prior research more plausible.

The November 2020 Proceedings of the National Academy of Science article, by Stanford & Veterans Administration Doctor/Professor David A Relman, in the comment to which you are replying (https://www.pnas.org/content/117/47/29246), lays out the mainstream understanding very well, and it leaves oven 3 main possibilities:

> There are several potential origin scenarios. First, SARS-CoV-2 may have evolved in bats, which are known reservoirs of immense coronavirus diversity (2), and then spread directly, or indirectly via an intermediate host, to humans through natural mechanisms. The degree of anticipated but undiscovered natural diversity clearly lends support to this scenario, as well as support to other scenarios. Second, SARS-CoV-2 or a recent ancestor virus may have been collected by humans from a bat or other animal and then brought to a laboratory where it was stored knowingly or unknowingly, propagated and perhaps manipulated genetically to understand its biological properties, and then released accidentally. …

> The third scenario, seemingly much less likely, involves laboratory manipulation or release, with the clear intention of causing harm. …

> Even though strong opinions abound, none of these scenarios can be confidently ruled in or ruled out with currently available facts.
> Kind of interesting avenue for publishing content on the web that isn’t tied to any specific platform.

Except that the protocol will be designed not for the benefit of the web in general but rather for Google to maximize its ad revenue.

I'm all for sites doing new and interesting things, but just like AMP I'm wary when these innovations are being driven by a single company that has monopolistic power over website discoverability and profitability.
It's just taking the current model and exposing all the gears so people see exactly how it works and cutting out the middle men.

If they allow you to load your own money into it and make the amount required explicit for transactions, all the better, we're even closer to direct payment for resources again. Then the watching of adds to pay for the content is just like doing the dishes at the restaurant to pay for your dinner (as long as you work it out in advance). I don't see any problem with that, it's still just an exchange of goods and services.
So when in IT industry there will be responsibility for what we engineer?