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If something has long-term public appeal, fantastic. Then the creators should be glad to have contributed something that lasted so long. But when you say "viable", I hear an implication of "commercial viability". I think that's a poor framework in which to understand copyright duration.

The public domain isn't meant to be a dumping ground for forgotten properties. Rather, the public domain is a wellspring from which new writers can draw upon. Just as I may name a character "Sherlock" (1887), "Romeo" (1597), or "Odysseus" (~700 BC) in order to bring in specific character traits, I may also want to name a character "Superman" (1938), "Gandalf" (1954), or "Skywalker" (1977). These are all part of our shared cultural heritage from previous generations, and we have a right to build upon that heritage to create something even better for the next generation.

That is why I think roughly one generation, 30 years or so, is an appropriate maximum copyright duration. As adults, every generation has the right to retell and remix stories and characters from their childhood. The current duration of copyright is a gross abuse of that right.
That's a separate problem.
I have a bunch of leather for various projects, and am thinking of just sewing up a tiny pouch that can tie the tag "flush" on the collar. Tried a few 3D printed case ideas, but they just add more bulk.

Worst case if it falls off the caller is you just go find it (and come up with a better system).
I come from an extremely similar background to yours, and due to the proximity to the situation and the trauma it causes, I think people with a past like this tend to massively overestimate the pervasiveness of this behavior and how large of a problem it actually is.

For every one of these people there are many more who aren’t like this and do manage to claw their way out of poverty (or at least give their children a legitimate shot at it) with the help of social programs.
Sounds like an 001 story. For my personal favorite one read "When Day Breaks."
> tagging your items just for apple to see

Not sure what you mean there, but Apple doesn't get to know where anything is.
> It is becoming more and more evident that ransomware attacks are the killer app of crypto.

Illegal activities were always the killer app. I doubt bitcoin would be where it is today without the silk road sites.
> Looking back, state lawmakers who passed the bill resetting property taxes for New York couldn't have dreamed of a skyscraper boom almost 35 years later.

Really? New York politicians didn't realize that skyscrapers and luxury condos were a thing in the 1980s?

This article lays out all the tax code shortcomings and writes it off as expensive condo sales being a new and unique phenomenon in NYC, which is bizarre.

Here's a simpler explanation – these laws are working exactly as designed.
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If you're interested in SCP, this game might also be of interest: https://store.steampowered.com/app/870780/Control_Ultimate_E...
It's interesting, because this tracks my take on code coverage metrics, speaking from a quality background.

There are only two intrinsically meaningful values: None, and less than yesterday. Former indicates no analysis, second indicates new code/branch/paths checked in without tests.

Past that, it's all relative. Major code coverage here and sparse there tells some kind of story, either about lopsided risk, lopsided difficulty, or lopsided process.
I don't like the term "type hints" because typecheckers like mypy are genuinely proving type correctness. Yes, if you don't annotate part of your program then you can get a type error in that part of the program, likewise, if you pass a value of the wrong type, you can get a type error. But if you are using a typechecker, you are guaranteed that if your inputs are well-typed, then you won't have a type error, which is a stronger guarantee than "hints" implies.
Make coins paid in ransom subject to seizure wherever they may be found. It’s not a silver bullet but it would help and it’s an easy change to make.
> BlueOrigin has the money to do what SpaceX does

No amount of money can give BlueOrigin the freedom which SpaceX has to blow up rockets and telecast failure globally every week like it has happened for the last 5 years.

The CEO of Amazon just can't be associated with such public failures.

For Musk Tesla and SpaceX were parallel efforts, they were never such thing for Bezos, in 2015 when he got serious about Blue Origin , Amazon was already a bigger company than Tesla is now and will ever be.

He simply didn't have that freedom.

> Based on all objective measures they are not.

Q: "How can you become a millionaire mr. Branson?"

A: "Be a billionaire and start and aerospace comapany"

These are not software margins we are talking about, to channel my inner Ricky Bobby: If you ain't software, you are last.

> And the believe that Gates has a veto at the WHO and the UN is nonsense.

Gates can pick up the phone and occupy a week long of Biden time if he wants, same goes for Xi Jin Ping, the WHO director and the climate workgroups at the UN.

This is what happens when you do what others would never do: donate money to philantropic efforts way beyond the marginal PR utility returns of such donations. You get politicians lining up because they know they'd be able to take credit and do vitcory laps after a job well done which Gates would never claim ownership of, that is beyond the occasional Bloomberg conference which only policy nerds attend.

Stark difference with Musk who doesn't do philantropy and frankly scans for causes to inject himself in the loudest possible manner such as the Thai soccer team trapped in the caves.

Musk should thank that Gates is magnanimous enough not bring up the mess which Tesla is when he talks with Biden and John Kerry about climate policy. And Musk attacked him first, because he committed the sin of buying a Porsche so that he'd be able to lap Laguna Seca without the car overheating and exploding such as Teslas.
The internet isn't a "surveillance network". It's just a network. It's deceptive to just make up terms like that.

Also, what on earth does email or internet traffic have to do with any of this? They use secure protocols in the first place, and they all already rely on large companies like Google and ISP's. And Amazon sure already knows everything I've bought on Amazon.

So I have absolutely no idea what point you're trying to make here.
The last time I bought a TV, >10 years ago, a high end, but not top of the line quality dumb TV was ~$1000. I'd gladly pay that again, especially if I think it's going to last 12 years or so.
you can get ones that can last 3-4 weeds and cost about the same and unlike airtags there are no anti stalking measures, not to mention tile is exactly the same. Snooping was already very easy and casual and all airtags are doing is making people realize it and of all the trackers the only ones with any sort of anti stalking.
That's a set of great points. Thanks for suggesting :-).

We are getting started, so we have a limited bandwidth. However, we are thinking to developers and to how they will have to integrate. So fare we tried to keep that as simple as possible given the limited time we have. We created a couple of sample examples with two popular stacks and we are adding others in the next days (basically it's the most basic project you can create with such framework with the integration; the idea is that if you are familiar with the framework it should be easy how to integrate (plus the integration code is well commented and isolated, take a look https://github.com/saasform/saasform/blob/main/src/demo-expr...).

For the moment we kept the code as simple as possible, even if we know there is room for improvement. Also, we are almost always online on the discord server and we have weekly office hours in EU and US timezones)

Of course we don't yet have a stable solution for every thing, butwhat I wanted to highlight is that developer-first is one of our leading principles, even if it slows down a little the release pace.
We can call the effort 'Sematech'.
Same experience - I also went all in on tile - it really does not have the density of reporting and I'm also pretty sure lacks privacy protections apple has.
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If I’d been forced to guess what Paris Green was, I would have gone with Absinthe
It's one I'm happy with, though it's not all that elegant. Just spent $50 on a collar with a space for an airtag because I'm a single man with too much disposable income :|
> Would the general population just give up if things got that bad?

I suspect the general population is already mostly- immune to this.

I think most people keep their pictures and all other important data in Google or Apple's services. Movies from Netflix, music with Spotify.

Those companies have backups.

If your phone or laptop gets hacked, you just wipe it and reinstall Chrome.

Access to email is what most normals need to protect.

Ransomware is really better shaped for attacking organizations than individuals, IMO.

...I still burn our family photos to write-once M-Discs, mind.
I am morbidly curious how much being a hit man pays. I don't want to look it up for fear of finding myself 'on a list' :) but it's such a high risk occupation that one assumes it's pretty profitable. In the US, anyway. This brings me to bitcoin.

Would it be smarter as a murderer-for-hire to ask to be paid in a less-expensive (for now) but growing currency such as Etherium or Litecoin? I mean, ask the 'client' for X dollars worth of that coin and then let it appreciate over time. Maybe that's missing the mark. But I sort of feel like you'd be better off going for the long term gains and, potentially at least, being able to cash out earlier?
A few days ago on HN there was a video of someone drilling a hole in an airtag at precisely the right location.
I feel this extends to other field. Its basically describing two of the big five personality traits conscientiousness and openness.
Note how the stock market saved them. It's not a coincidence that there is an organized effort to inflate markets. It's the only way that the average american state, city, municipality, or anything with a pension can stay solvent.
I feel like you rather overestimate the prowess of law enforcements ability to solve murders, especially non-slam-dunk ones with a witness and an obvious connection between the murderer and victim.
> Why didn’t it work the last time we gave away free houses?

For those of us not familiar with the daily activities of the government of California, can you provide a reference link giving details about "the last time we gave away free houses"?
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In this world, obviously, we would be complaining about the government subsidising unprofitable chip factories with billions of tax credits. Since we wouldn't have a chip supply crisis, we wouldn't know what its like to have one :D
The first two are older than these tools, not sure about lz4. Not 100% sure why but I would imagine that’s at least a reason.
This is the only good answer. Making it illegal to pay any form of ransom under any circumstance would hobble a ton of different extortion activities.

Ransom only encourages more crime. It's a form of aiding and abetting.
Most just grab location data from your cell phone which is already tracked.
And it blows the f35 out of the water.
That's not how government funding of sports stadiums work, why would fabs be any different?
that would have been my guess too
This histrionic piece really reduces this author's credibility in my mind. I say this as someone fairly skeptical of cryptocurrency, or at least of the value of present-day cryptocurrency.
How do you mistakenly put insecticide in a cake?
And they're not wrong. Without regular shipments of food into population centers the shelves will quickly empty out. Once that happens, people will start doing whatever might be required to feed their kids.
I think most people haven't considered stalking like that and don't realize how many cheap and small devices are out there already.
I think amazon might be more focused on owning the middleware for smart home devices to improve the features available (compared to say zigbee) and improve the experience... and sell chips to device makers for $$
The title is interesting, do you have a link we can read without an account?
For additional context: this was the winning entry in the SCP's Short Works Contest[1]. The idea was: can you make a good SCP entry in under 500 words? Bonus points if it's under 237 words, the length of the first ever entry.

Of course, the entry with zero words won.

[1]: http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/short-works-contest
My team has an ideas person. But he is only responsible for the first iteration of an idea. I get an uber-complicated idea I break down into small pieces and iterate on it until it's good– I'm executing.

I set the target and keep the team focused on the current main goal. The idea person hates me for it, because he sees good ideas being ignored. Those good ideas won't deliver substantial value to users until the next milestone is completed, because it is blocking something more important.
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That sounds like a great and ambitious roadmap Aly! :)

Best of luck scaling to support 100x users! In case you are not already using it, New Relic's new program for nonprofits provides their entire platform for free, and it can be really helpful for scaling by seeing how the app is performing. In case you are not already using it, here's the link: https://newrelic.com/blog/nerd-life/introducing-observabilit...
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The economist Richard Thaler (who wrote the book Nudge & won Nobel for behavioral economics work) has, I believe, actually argued against opt out in this case because defaults are so powerful next of kin will also argue there was no informed consent.
Tile just announced they’re partnering with Amazon so that Tile devices will participate in their ‘Sidewalk’ network. This will help them compete with the network of Apple’s billion+ ‘Find My’ devices.

https://macdailynews.com/2021/05/07/tile-teams-with-amazon-i...
Presidents dither around for four years but unless they screw an intern or start a reasonably large war, noone will remember them a decade later.
Wealth incentivizes that activity. Cryptocurrency is one easy way to transfer it, but it's not the "singular" reason ransomware is "possible."

> literally blood money

("Blood money" is an idiom, a colloquial metaphor. So a virtual currency is "literally" a metaphor? Ugh.)
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>Doesn't sound like a very good design.

because there has to be a trade-off between usability and privacy. Something following you for a few hours (max trip for airport to home) could be a stalker, or could just be an airtag on your uber driver. Excessive alerts is counterproductive because people eventually tune them out, which makes them useless.

>How about just showing you a single alert (or stationary info page you could check optionally) "Airtag that's not yours travels with you, still here"?

You'll get that every time you're on a subway/bus.
A disagreement between two individuals should be initially communicated between those two and ideally resolved privately. Hopefully both sides have enough empathy to understand the other's perspective to reach an amicable conclusion.

Airing out on Twitter as a first response (not sure if that's what happened here) is a sign of immaturity and not what someone does if their goal is to fix the original concern. By airing it out on Twitter, you put the other person on the defensive and they're less inclined to actually help you to resolve the original complaint.

Airing it out on Twitter is an escalation, and a decent outlet for escalating issues that are systematic and/or can't be resolved through other communication channels.
This system that Israel uses to intercept rockets is called Iron Dome. Fun-fact: Israel helped Singapore set up a similar defense system due to the potential threat of surrounding nations, notably Malaysia.
Replace "Bitcoin" with "Banks", in your argument.

Doesn't change anything
Any examples? I recall HN convos discussing this as an eventuality but no examples yet.
> People often say, if you think you can colonize mars, colonize the Gobi Desert first, as it is 10,000 times easier.

If we're talking about population living on earth, that argument makes sense - from a population pressure standpoint , there's no argument to go to mars.

But if we're talking about civilization expanding from more resources, with some space where you can potentially crash land a few asteroids while trying to pull it into orbit for easier mining, then Earth is out of question.
I think it makes the most sense as part of a strategy to incrementally migrate a codebase from C to Rust, or else if there is a clean separation between components such that people are working in one ecosystem or the other but rarely both.

In whichever case, we should be careful not to overstate the complexity of integrating Rust and C. Specifically, bringing in any given C dependency means integrating its bespoke build system (and those of each transitive dependency) with that of your project (or more likely, you punt on reproducible builds and instead push the dependency hell onto every contributor) which doesn't strike me as considerably less work than integrating the Rust toolchain (and since Rust has sane, standard build/dependency tooling, it's pretty much a one-time cost rather than a once-per-dependency cost).
Laws are not written overnight. I am not really sure what kind of `SLA` you have in mind for drafting and passing legislating for new fields (especially massive paradigm shifts with countless unknown-unknowns), but history would suggest that it takes...a lot longer than you expect.
Yes, that is great to hear! Pre-pandemic, Quill had the most luck with in-person hackathons, where folks could spend a day contributing to Quill, and some of those folks were then interested in staying connected with the work. Hopefully as those events return, you may be able to scale up your community building efforts.
Because an LED to transmit and a photodiode to receive cost essentially $0.00 at volume. The rest is software.
I have been learning classical guitar lately, and in looking for modern composers I discovered Andrew York (no small name, but I hadn't heard of him before). I watched/listened to his full unedited 1991 performance[1] and it was a really captivating experience, especially as a new student to the instrument. He tunes the instrument on-stage, including changing tunings entirely; discusses some of the pieces; the long pauses between pieces are captured. All stuff Mr Petzold describes. Definitely a different experience from listening to an album, and I look forward to doing more of it.

As a complete aside, Petzold's "Code" book is one of the best computing books I've ever read, and totally informed my career after I read it in high school.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF5Pc6YjRqA
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My big question, and I would love an answer:

Why is it that an organization can topple to malware and ransomware by some L1 tech clicking on a "bad email"?

People are going to click on shit. That's a 100% guaranteed fact - be it intentional or not. But WHY is our computing and communications paradigm so brittle that any Jack or Jane can click a link and pwn the infrastructure?
If you’re stalking someone there are effective alternatives with much lower exposure risk.
and none of the anti stalking measures.
Seems to go for less than $100K USD, which surprised me (source is Australian though http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/02/05/australia.ki...)

The Wikipedia page has more info on "contract killing", won't put you on a list to just read that :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_killing

Since this murder-for-hire chose to use a global and transparent ledger that will have that transaction until either the world disappears or the ledger somehow disappears from all nodes, I don't think "smarter" should come anywhere near this. Using blockchains like Bitcoin for crime is far beyond stupid.
I don't know, something about this feels more like an abstraction than a real thing. If you say "the speed of light is the speed limit for information" that doesn't feel like you're saying something about the way the universe works directly.
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What you claim is completely false. Key quotes from the articles you linked:

> Ring, she added, “does not own or otherwise control users’ videos, and we intentionally designed the Neighbors Portal to ensure that users get to decide whether to voluntarily provide their videos to the police.”

> The user can click to share their Ring videos, review them before sharing, decline or, at the bottom of the email, unsubscribe from future footage-sharing requests.

> Ring says police officers don’t have access to live video feeds and aren’t told which homes use Ring cameras or how homeowners responded unless the users consent.

So, please explain how this is "nearly unrestricted access"?

When it requires the owner to explicitly choose to share their own private video with police on a per-request basis?

To the contrary, it is 100% restricted.
Why are comments in the form of putting words into someone's mouth which they didn't say, so pervasive? The blog says "reign in and regulate", not "ban".

But, to address your point, because they're good arguments. "We need to regulate $thing" has saved lots of lives. No longer can you sell plain river water to drink, dump sewage directly back into rivers, dump industrial waste into rivers, build houses which collapse, build hotels with no fire consideration, build using asbestos, make buildings with electric wiring without circuit breakers, adulterate food with sawdust and plaster, sell products with lead paint, burn leaded gasoline in places where people breathe, and on and on and on.

That's progress; try things, filter out the things which are badder than they are good.
It's a real thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_flush_reaction

Ask anyone who possess two copies of the acetaldehyde dehydrogenase-deficient allele.[1] Or if you want objective data, look at incidence of esophageal cancer relative to alcohol consumption.

It's just not as universal in various communities as sometimes assumed. And rather than make one more prone to alcoholism (i.e. as might be believed wrt Native Americans), the current scientific conjecture is that it makes one less susceptible because of the discomfort. Though, needless to say, indulging in such conjectures doesn't have a great track record, with or without the imprimatur of science. There are few if any facts that can't be twisted to serve some cultural prejudice.

[1] 23andMe.com test for these polymorphisms. I presume similar genetic tests do, too, as the function is so well established.
Ordered 2 separate products from 2 separate Chinese (Amazon only) brands: https://imgur.com/a/E8YCMBr

Amazon dont do anything when this is reported and block your review when you mention it. Some product manager/C level exec is putting short term profits over long term trust in the system.

It's now got to the point where EU needs to legislate and punish this behaviour and those who enable it or fail to action it.
i don't mean Tile and such devices, i mean the ones where you can put a SIM in it and have them text GPS co-ords. something like https://www.onlinespyshop.co.uk/sms-tiny-tracker/

i know that AirTags are way more accessible, but i just mean these kinds of tools have been available to adversaries for a while.

(i also don't really know how well these trackers really work.)
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I would expect that it depends on the state.