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It's the entire reason that they split off from Netflix in the first place! I bought my first Roku the day it was announced -- 5/20/2008, the "Roku Netflix Player", and I was thrilled with it. They added support for other streaming sources not too long after and I could not have been happier.

The next version had pre-programmed buttons for various services that had paid them off, and I was annoyed, but whatever.

The version after that they wanted me to enter my credit card information just to activate the device.

And finally they just started plastering it with ads, including ads for the "Roku Channel".

I don't know why they couldn't just raise prices and sell a device. I don't know what to do next; I tried an Amazon Fire TV but it's garbage. Chromecast I also found unusable; the app would lose connection all the time so pausing was always an iffy proposition. There are generic Android boxes but I have no idea what to expect quality-wise, and there are options like building my own Kodi box but I don't know how well streaming services are supported. I guess Apple TV is the last option? Last time I tried one it was just okay, and now Apple has its own streaming platform so I'm sure it's going to get into these same fights.
How would you ensure correspondence between the stone and the NFT though?
> it is simply bizarre seeing these claims like it's some enormous expense that they're doing because they're benevolent.

That's not a claim I've made in any way, shape, or form. Please don't misrepresent things I've written based on your own self-projections.
RE: verification

AWS sends an email to the destination address and ask them to click a link to receive emails from SES.

There's no way for the email sender to verify an address. The email recipient has to click on the link in the email SES sends them.
The technical aspects many of us would like are all there and work fine - it's the business aspects that seem to be problematic.

As the hardware or service providers get greedy, they keep trying to extract more money from the consumer.

Not saying Roku got greedy, merely saying it could happen with the hardware or the streaming services themselves.
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I prefer a virtual mailbox (like iPostal1). You can view your mail from anywhere and choose to have individual mail sent to you anywhere in the world. PO box is not convenient.
> Where else are people meant to store money?

Money isn't stored in other assets. It's transferred from the buyer of an asset to the seller. It doesn't cease to exist simply because you traded it for stocks (or gold or anything else). Now the seller has to deal with the consequences of holding the money you previously held. A rational trader factors in the costs of money when they price assets, therefore one doesn't avoid those costs by trading money for other assets.
Real estate is one of the worst asset classes right now. If anything is due for a crash it’s real estate prices. And the amount of protection that tenants have been getting during the pandemic doesn’t inspire confidence in being a landlord. On top of that, people seem to get so leveraged in real estate, it’s a recipe for bankruptcy. I never hear about people investing in stocks going bankrupt unless they do something extraordinarily stupid, but I hear about real estate investors going bankrupt all the time despite simply following best practices.
Sure, but pretty much every other email option out there has protocol support. Without that, I think it's a stretch to call this an email server. (Though there are a few that are only accessible via their client, such as Hey)
Exactly this ^^^^.

This would not be permitted on other platforms, but mobile devices seem to have a new level of monopoly.
You might want to check your configuration against the recommendations in this article:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery...
Racism didn't "come from, all of a sudden". As history demonstrates, racism is an endemic problem in both places. The question isn't "does it exist" it's "how is it being expressed today".

You really seem to be having trouble getting my point about views, so I'll try again. "Party X should be in charge" is not what I'd call a view. It's generally more a tribal affiliation and a placeholder for a basket of actual opinions on specific policies and issues. If "viewpoint diversity" actually matters in a business context, we need to be specific about which views exact views are vital to business success.

And if you are really having trouble understanding how some of the Brexit-related views might be racist, it seems like you aren't trying very hard there either. I was going to Google it for you, but that rarely turns out to be worth my time. So let's try this: you tell me what you searched on when you failed to find the material and I'll suggest some better searches.

You also seemed to miss with the Southern Strategy bit. Lee Atwater isn't accusing anybody of racism. He was a hugely important figure in the Republican party and was one of the architects of Reagan's 1984 campaign. It wasn't an accusation; he was bragging.

Of course, even with open admissions like this, American conservatives will do the same sort of straining-out-gnats-and-swallowing-camels routine you're doing here. "Racism?!? Surely that stopped existing about the time I was born. How dare you accuse us conservatives of doing what we have been doing all along. Where's your evidence?"

It may work to re-convince the true believers, but it has been some years since I found it persuasive, so if you want to keep this dialog up, I'd suggest some other tack.
They should fine apple some reasonable percentage of their global revenue for this. Otherwise they will continue these user hostile anti competitive practices.
If you think about it really carefully, Apple vetting apps before I get to see them is not... exactly... the same thing as being a murdering gangster
A Pandemic and multiple conflict zones were no more than a pot hole. The markets have pushed higher with no end in sight. The Fed and Treasury are making sure that if there is no one to buy stocks they will. There is no end to the support the Federal Reserve will shoulder for the markets.

With Governments around the world determined to never let the Economy fall or stay down even if it means directly sending money to the population and spending trillions at a moments notice to support Wall St there is no chance that over the long term the market will ever fall and stay down again.

Not even a WW or a natural disaster of the like we have never seen would keep the markets down. We would be naked, homeless and hungry and the market will continue to march higher. History is a perfect example of that.
Heh.. my full circle ended up with 5 years of playing with mechanical keyboards causing RSI.

I was completely brainwashed by the community that mechanical keyboards were the solution to RSI and had a major blind spot. I even learned dvorak and got up to near 100wpm at it with no success.

When I ditched the mechanical keyboards all the problems went away.

Something about the whole thing with the tactile bump in the middle doesn't work for me. When my typing ramps up to high speed I end up pushing the mechanical key all the way down to the stop anyway and blowing through the tactile bump. Once you're doing that you're moving your fingers further and doing more work, and the stops on these key switches are harder than a lot of non-mechanical keyboards.

No doubt they feel great and I do think I can type faster on them but unquestionably for me the Cherry MX type switches give me RSI symptoms and tendonitis in my arms.

I think it's all in the travel & how the "stop" at the end of the travel feels. I have a bunch of experience playing guitar and piano too.. piano has a long travel, if the stop at the end of the travel is hard it gives me RSI, but if it's not (and it's usually not on real acoustic piano keybeds) it's mostly OK. Guitar meanwhile has a rock hard stop but minimal travel, and a good guitar you also get some tactile feedback in that if you push the note down too far it goes sharp. Guitar basically gives me 0 RSI symptoms. A lot of these Cherry type mechanical keyswitches are the worst of both worlds.. long travel and a very hard/harsh stop at the bottom of the travel.

Both the modern MS and Apple keyboards are mostly fine and I've been feeling great for about 6 years now since ditching the mechanical key switches.

I think buckling spring might not cause me issues FWIW, but I tried a lot of mechanical KBs including TEK, Kinesis, different Das Keyboard models.. anything with a Cherry style switch (Actual Cherry MX or clones) gives me trouble.
I made a youtuber yodel (auotune remix)
Semi related: “How big should a railroad track be?” Is actually an extremely complicated question that took a long time for us to figure out. It wasn’t unusual for different states to have different gauges, often requiring that passengers change trains at state lines.

Also, Russia to this day uses its own gauge, because they’re terrified of being invaded via rail from Europe.
A war? A natural disaster? That is the point! If this happens, it doesn’t matter what you invested in, money is worthless. So outside of that, it is now safe to say invest and hold is a safe strategy for guaranteeing returns over a long time horizon (30 years).
Noted, thank you - but a quick search suggests Keychron isn't in that category. On the other hand, they have replaceable caps that are (individually) quite cheap.

I'm 6-12 months away from a follow-up purchase, but will tag QMK options for the next search.
I dunno. Life insurance is heavily weighted for age, all other things being equal.
This is the best app for WASM. Integration of so many complex codecs and CPU-heavy optimizations used to be possible only in native apps.
No you can't. That info is not used anywhere in that process.
“as to the logical reason someone would pay that amount of money: no idea whatsoever.“

One possible motivation: they see themselves in a position to benefit from NFT trading "becoming a thing". Either because they already own stock, or they expect themselves to become extraordinarily successful in speculation, or they consider themselves future creators, or they own/run a market where they will be traded. No matter which it was, they'd have a very real interest in bootstrapping the market into existence.

Pass around ownership in an effectively zero sum series of transactions with exponentially growing price, get media attention, stop being zero sum as soon as the first outsider steps in.
Well, the lack of a need for a wrist rest is a good point I'd never considered. I have nice foam rests for all my mechs.
These restrictions are only for the SES sandbox mode. You fill in a form to get out of sandbox mode and then you can send many more per day (still only 14/second or so).

You only verify addresses you want to send from (for testing you might verify one to try sending to as per the sandbox rules). You wouldn't get customers to verify their addresses here, as that would let you send email on their behalf.

See here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/reques...
Arduino Co-Founder Massimo Banzi on How Arduino Took the World by Storm [audio]
Roku is increasingly _not_ just a pipe. This whole debacle (and the HBO one before) is indicative of that. They could just let you install whatever HBO or Google offered -- that's what they did for a long time. But they want to ensure that things are "integrated", that they can show ads, and that their own content (on the "Roku Channel") doesn't get downprioritized.
Understanding Big O Notation as a Software Developer
Here's the Reddit thread with information about Onion.live, since the link is focused on Dark.fail and Darknetlive sites.

https://www.reddit.com/r/onions/comments/n1byhj/has_darkfail...

Dark.fail's Twitter: https://twitter.com/darkdotfail
I'm not sure where you are but housing over the last year is a real supply/demand market condition. They aren't arbitrarily being overbid 10%+ because the dollar is worth less suddenly.
How do we begin to dismantle these systems?

The idea that a law or regulation would prevent you from advertising based on demographics is absurd, and we should build a future without these kinds of insane dependencies.
Mobile carriers were locking their devices and even if you owned the phone you had to pay some guy to unlock it for you to use it with other carriers(or buy a new phone). Unlocking the device was just a software thing, no risk to cause problems . Companies were forced to give you the code to unlock the device(if you own it) and now the devices are already unlocked(not sure if is a law or companies realized that it was a stupid idea to lock stuff by default if I buy it and then have to implement an unlock customer support line . And it makes sense, you just hate the company more if you feel they are malicious and lock you.
One might argue they already capture the value in the phone's price. Their hardware might be good, but if they switched to android overnight, iPhone sales would plummet.

It's clear many companies think the 30% cut is too high, but giving up on Apple means giving up on 45% of the highly-lucrative US market.

This means Apple is able to use its dominant position to squeeze the margin of other companies via the too-high 30% fee. A clear monopolistic practice.

As for the value-add (since rent-seeking is about charging without value-add) — it's smaller than you think. Contrast with Android, where you can at least install the app without going through the official App store. Apple's is simply charging for gatekeeping the access to its market (Google would like to do this too but historically hasn't bee in a position to do it as effectively).
No it will refuse to accept payments and even if you somehow pay for it, it will forever be stuck at customs.

The trick some sellers are doing is routing packages via Kenya etc so it doesn't look it's coming from China.
The scenario you mention can easily be done with ZFS as well. I run a raidz1 and recently migrated from 3x4TB drives to 3x10TB. I bought one drive at a time and gradually expanded the pool. For each new drive I added I simply had to resilver the pool and I was done.
The stock market is nothing more then a claim on a future stream of dividends over a roughly 50 year time horizon. The longer the investment horizon the greater the uncertainty and the greater the volatility.

To compensate for that investors typically demand higher returns. Yields on 30 year bonds are typically higher then 10 year bonds.

Long term returns on the stock market can be broken down into two categories:

- Increase in corporate earnings
- Increase in the price that investors are willing to pay for those earnings

Increases in long term corporate earnings are constrained by long term growth in GDP unless earnings as a percentage of GDP increases. GDP is a function of demographics and productivity increases.

Assuming that future returns will match historical returns is a bet that GDP growth rates will be close to historical trends along with earnings as a percentage of GDP will continue to increase. Demographics are long term trends that can be mostly predicted 20+ years into the future (you can’t go back in time and make a baby) and are mostly unfavorable compared to historical norms (lower percentage population in prime working age). There is also a limit on corporate earnings as a percentage of GDP unless taxes and wages go to zero.

So a bet on future returns matching historical trends is essentially a bet on a massive productivity growth across all sectors of the economy over the next 50 years. In addition the bulk of that productivity growth will need to fall into corporate coffers rather then tax revenues or wages. And it will need to sustain that over a 50 year time horizon.
What has the app store got with Mac laptops? And why would splitting into a different company end the laptops?
Something is potentially wrong. Saying "we only have 100-200 engineers, we can't get around to making a website" is a terrible excuse that points to mis-management. It doesn't take more than a couple developers to put together a basic "shopping for flights" web interface. If they have a backend that serves iOS, it should have a REST API, so slapping a web interface on that shouldn't be a big deal.

But it's also possible that it's like someone else mentioned: "if the product is free, then you're the product". Maybe they just don't care to get more customers/solve their problems, because they are harvesting enough data about iOS visitors to make a profit. If they don't want any more customers, then nothing is wrong.
> I don't understand why you'd want to

I want to add a single drive since I can't afford more than a single drive. But I still want to keep the data security of one or more parity drives. Synology lets me do that. ZFS doesn't.

On a Synology NAS (which just uses Linux mdraid underneath the hood so this part isn't exactly some proprietary magic) if you have an array with parity (the equivalent of raid-z/z2), you can add a drive, and it expands the array with that one drive, keeping the parity and recalculating it for the new configuration of drives.

So I can go from an array of 3 x 10 TB disks where one is parity (20 TB usable storage), and then just pop in one more disk and now I have an array with 4 x 10 TB disks (30 TB usable storage) with the same one-disk parity. I can lose any one disk, and lose no data.

ZFS can't do that, since it does't support modifying vdevs. So if I want to be able to add a single drive and expand my storage at any time while keeping the same level of redundancy, ZFS makes no sense.

Synology's configuration of mdraid+BTRFS makes way more sense than ZFS. Unfortunately they haven't contributed it to free software so nobody else can have it (specifically the part of passing through the parity data so that checksum errors in BTRFS can be fixed with mdraid knowledge). I would prefer to not have to rely on Synology's cost-cutting hardware and raft of probably not very secure software. But for the use case of me and the small businesses I support, ZFS has been a non-starter due to the costs.
Walmart is competing openly with the store down the street. If I have a iPhone I can't use another store — it is a lock-in.
Aside:

I gave up caffeine during quarantine. My anxiety is down and my sleep is much better. I know this isn't for everyone. But if you're having issues with anxiety or sleep, my anecdata says that caffeine may be the culprit. The first three days of headaches were pretty bad though, so be warned.
... which does put both cars and bicycles in the same queue, but doesn't eliminate the copy-paste for each new type completely; 'car' and 'bicycle' still wind up with separate 'get_speed' impls, which are textually identical aside from the type names.
> I’ve gotten the impression that knowledge representation research (things like frame systems) was a semi-independent influence on the design of OO systems.

Definitely! See [0]. Personally, I came across Frame-based knowledge representations in the mid-1980. For reasons that were frankly insane, I was trying to code a frame-based knowledge representation in distinctly non-OO K&R C as part of a collaborative university research project. I moved into industry in 1988 and used OO for the first time (the Common Lisp Object System) and finally started with C++ in around 1993. Obviously this was my personal career trajectory but I encountered knowledge representation research before mainstream OO languages.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame_(artificial_intelligence...
Choice is bad because Apple consumers prefer to be forced to only do things the Apple way (like when you couldn't transfer a file via Bluetooth between an ipad and iPhone because at the time Apple wanted you to use a computer, yet it worked fine transferring to an Android phone. Took me a while to figure that one out)
This sounds like in the end you agree that a lot of ML is applied stats?

The problem in my mind is not that ML is using a lot of stats (obviously), it's that foundational mathematical concepts get labelled as ML techniques. This is why the title of the post is so annoying. This totally obscures the structure of the field. E.g. I wouldn't call linear algebra a quantum mechanics technique. I would say that QM uses (and spurred the development of) a lot of LinAlg.
In reality there is very little difference between creating money (reserves) and creating bonds. The notion that private market discipline stops profligate government spending by limiting the issuance of bonds by treasury is proven false by two things:

Firstly if push comes to shove the Fed would never refuse to honour a Treasury payment and secondly that the bid to cover ratios in bond auctions always indicate a higher demand for bonds than the self imposed/legislated constraints of congress would allow.

So the real constraint on spending is legislation, we could just as easily legislate full employment instead of legislating a balanced budget target.
There's no "wrong" enunciation in linguistics though. I wouldn't even argue that this rhyme is down to a particular speaker's idiolect.

There are lots of different dialects and accents in the UK, let alone the US. AAVE for example is as legitimate a dialect of English as General American. Bush, Trump and Sanders all speak "American English" yet they sound very different because of their regional accents even before you get into personal quirks.

There's no singular "correct" pronunciation today and there certainly wasn't one in medieval England. We just have "standard" pronunciations based on a rough approximation to one arbitrary dialect we decided to treat as the reference point.
Unfortunately the exact same thing is happening with Apple TV right now. A really great box but they are absolutely jamming Apple TV+ down their users’ throats.
My argument is too simple to need sources:

Assume that, on average, smokers die at 75, non smokers die at 80, and everyone gets social security pensions at 65.

Then smokers pensions only cost 67% of non smokers pension, even though they pay in 100% as much.

My numbers are surely wrong, but all that matters is that smokers die earlier than non smokers.

This is also the hard to realize way Social Security redistributes from the poor and unhealthy to the well off and healthy.
the markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
For parents with Roku devices and are tech challenged, having no YouTube on TVs is a ++
A surprisingly huge leap forward for the world was air conditioning. Singapore's founding father, Lee Kuan Yew, said it was essential for his country's development. Without AC a huge swath of the world would still be seen by the West as this uninhabitable, uncivilized jungle.
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That games are the lion's share of what is fueling the revenues for the app store seems to indicate, at least to me, that the app store is a failed endeavor. If more apps can't monetize then perhaps something is broken? Or is it just that games are so engaging and the fremium model is too good.
This warrants some disclaimers.

We might very well be in a housing-bubble. So put your money only in there if you can miss it and if it is safe for you. And always consider spreading your money.

E.g. consider paying off mortgage, which could be seen as a safe version of "investing in real estate". As well as putting aside some cash, and buying in on some ETFs.
This "trivia" points out the flaw in the "long term average" argument: The stock market is occasionally so volatile that 40 days out of 34,675 have an inordinate effect on returns over those 34,675 days.

Over 95 years of trading, 0.12% of days account for far, far, far, far more than 0.12% of market impacts.
I wasn't talking about consuming creative works, I was talking about consumerism.
It was a pandemic. It's finished in Europe. Numbers have been back to baseline for a while already.

https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/
How about the nvidia shield? It runs android tv so can install kodi etc and can sideload smart-youtube which removes all ads.