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>> Are they violating some sort of law?

This kind of question is literally determined in such court cases. There are laws about polluting, causing harm to people, the environment and such. Giving these laws meaning in practice is what courts do.

Of course, any legal system "pretends" that they're actually just interpreting... but this is never really true. If you gave an alien lawyer a book of laws, without the accompanying book of precedents (even in civil law systems), they would not know what is and isn't legal.

It is pretty interesting that there's no fine or punishment. A recognition-not-recognition that this is a pivot point. Hopefully, antitrust courts will adopt the same approach. Fining Google or Amazon has been a bust.

Laws don't come from gods, not even the gods or pure reason. The come from people. Courts, parliaments, polities, regulators, etc.
So then the next piratebay will have the -original, the -coke and the -redbull version?
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From [1]:

> An estimated 1.7 million individuals worldwide acquired HIV in 2019, marking a 23% decline in new HIV infections since 2010....

> However, progress on the prevention of HIV transmission remains far too slow, with the estimated total number of new infections in 2019 more than three times higher than UNAIDS’s 2020 target.

That's not "under control" or even remotely close to it, not even by UNAID's own goals. Needle exchange programs and general attitude shifts have certainly improved the situation in developed countries but cost, education, and logistical challenges with drug cocktails still hold back the rest of the world.

[1] https://www.hiv.gov/hiv-basics/overview/data-and-trends/glob...
I imagine some futuristic version of git where... basically git but they've got better merge algorithms after they've solve NP and P.

You can sync to the trees of ships near you and catch up, and once in a while one of them gets to a station and updates to the tip of wherever development is at.
You get way more access on unjailbroken iOS than on unrooted Android. The equivalent of the entire /data partition is available to both read and write via iTunes backups with very few exceptions.

On Android, you used to be able to backup maybe half of app/user data in this way (many devs opted out), now closer to zero (adb backup deprecated)
This, still?
Mubi really is excellent if you like the kind of art-house content they license. I think if I only kept one streaming service it'd be them.
Not related this directly, but it brings to mind the whole saga around the (failed) attempt to remove the rat from the final scene of The Departed:

https://www.indiewire.com/2019/02/warner-bros-shuts-down-kic...
Sure maybe some are willing to pay, but finding what you want to watch across 10x different services is obnoxious. Signing up for a particular monthly service just to watch a single show is also not ideal.
From a mechanical perspective it would seem it would be more effective at filtering air going in rather than air going out: when you inhale it creates a lower pressure which causes a better seal around the mouth. When you exhale you create pressure under the mask which can “break” the seal and allow more unfiltered air through.

It was kind of a way to make people with valves n-95 masks feel “guilty” for wearing them.
I never said otherwise.

I just wanted to readers to understand that the US One China policy is really to just not have official relations with the ROC. The policy is _not_ to recognize the PRC's claims to Taiwan as well as the other territories the ROC controls. You seem to apparently know this, but there is much confusion on the internet so I thought I'd clarify.
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An In-Depth Look at What/How/Why Books Sell (2016)
Depends on your standard for reliable.
And its friends, Utah teapot, Cornell box and Susanne, the Blender monkey.
I'm not sure what you're looking for beyond what PayPal offers. You say you "just want a payment system that works and does not take exorbitant fees" but you also say that PayPal "just works," which seems to satisfy your requirements.

So, can you elaborate more on what you want? Do you feel that PayPal is taking exorbitant fees? What would make a "just works" system better than PayPal?

Does Stripe "just work" for you? If not, what doesn't work?

Are you looking for a payment processor with no "plans for world domination?" (Good luck with that! This problem is hard and globe-spanning ambition seems to be universal among the competitors.)
>But also, probably the MBAs are going to come out with infinite combinations of tiered-services that nobody will understand

Like bundling stuff you would never subscribe to.
Is driving a car today "knowingly contributing to a preventable dangerous situation"?
You can define formats without HATEOAS.
I don't think there is any argument here isn't that everyone should build their own payment stack, or their own shopping card, or invoicing software.

It's that other companies that have built on top of Stripe as a platform are all being eaten away at, and often done in a way that a "stripe platform" user can't compete with (either through private APIs, or across-the-board data access, etc).

Stripe bills itself not just as an end-user service, but also as a "platform". The argument is if you effectively kick your "business partners" off your platform as soon as you want to do the thing they do, then you're not really a "platform".
While this can be true the local option can be quite attractive for the 90%+ use-case of watching at home. Not to mention the costs of storage in the cloud. Best deal I found was a Hertzner server for $30/mo with 6TB (2x3TB). I used that for a while but in the long run, local is king. I have gigabit fiber symmetrical so that does have to be factored in (if you have crappy upload and want to provide for remote access then a seed box might be ideal).
I ditch the management completely and do a Plex Share.
My rule of thumb regarding watching content is: if its only 1 movie or tv show I want to watch just pirate it, if its more than one on a streaming platform subscribe to it. I subscribe to netflix just once a year to watch everything I want to watch and then don't bother subscribing again for a year. I guess eventually I will do the same to other platforms if they have enough content in them.

I can't fathom how someone can pay to streaming sites month after month unless they have quite a lot of stuff they want to watch.
I'm sure I ate one of these as a child.
Technically, that'd be increasing their expenses rather than capital investment.

They could also, in theory, build schools in central africa. They could even pay their taxes. I think acquisitions are more likely though.
For all the green energy virtue signaling, Bezos & co. could achieve the greening of the US with their own money (and also turn a small profit).
I've never paid more than around $150/month for internet+tv.

I switched back to cable TV a few years ago. It's just cheaper for me now. The price of streaming has risen, and the price of cable has fallen.
Seems fair; your carbon emissions somehow manage to reach their way into my life!
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Thanks for your compliments! It actually works with Netscape 2.x and up :)
Ask HN: How to Pick the Right Database?
There are so many options when picking a database, and I haven’t found anything close to a definitive guide (except MongoDB stealth marketing on Quora) on this topic.

To ask the simplest version of this question, what is the best choice of database for a read heavy, low write application?

How about a high write, low read one? Similar read and write volumes?

Is read/write latency a different consideration than throughput? How does that affect your choice?

Finally, are there benchmarks or objective comparisons I can find somewhere?

Thank you
>Everyone knows fossils are at a dead end

If that is true Shell should die naturally. Images of stranded fish, flopping and gasping for breath springs to mind. This court order indicates otherwise. I'm under no illusions that orders like this won't hurt me in a real way. And i am not a fan at all of EV's in their current format. Despite (what i perceive) propaganda (NOT a negative connotation, mind you) to the contrary, i don't think they are mature enough to replace ICE.

Slightly off topic but i'm a huge fan of those electric scooters and bikes. I think they are the way forward, not some huge EV. They should definitely be made legal, anyway everyone uses them. I just have a depressing feeling that they shall be slaughtered, hamstrung and/ or castrated on the altar of pedestrian safety.
People don't own land just because their ancestors occupied it. Do I have a claim to parts of England and Scotland?

Literally all land has been stolen at gunpoint in the past.

What we should be doing is progressing as a civilization, which requires private property and the freedom to erect infrastructure.

Of course, if you will defend the communist, totalitarian, authoritarian, dictatorship Cuba even for one second, there's probably no point in saying any of this to you.

Do you consider yourself a leftist or a progressive? Why do leftists and progressives support illiberal, authoritarian regimes?

The rest of your comment I'm not going to respond to.
Mostly, yes. The large banks are strict about know your customer rules and willing to divulge information to foreign states depending on tax treaties.

Keep in mind the Panama papers you probably are thinking of had little to do with Panama. The law firm was located in Panama, but the corporations and shady financial things were happening in the usual handful of island nations. If the law firm was located in New York it would have been the Manhattan papers - it didn't have much to do with Panama at all.
>I don't think most people can actually afford to lose.

I think how you describe the problem is solid, but the situation is the opposite:

Most people can totally afford to lose -- because they wont be losing anything that they have anyway. Not winning at being a famous and rich YouTube influencer still leaves you with what you had before (and the same need to hold a job, etc).

What they can't really afford is to participate, because competition with all the elite people for things most have 1 in a million chances of ever achieving would just drive them mad.
The 'staff' resigned, so it looks like a powergrab by them via starting their own network and disparaging freenode. I didn't see anything that was irreconcilable at the start of this, only that the 'staffs' demands of having DNS ownership were denied.

> The self-proclaimed "Owner and Guardian of Freenode" has not yet put in the effort to earn himself a seat at that discussion table for a single one of those communities, much less all of them.

That's just your opinion. I don't share it. I think Freenode is going fine, I'm fine with cutting bait with the outrage mob. If you want to go, go.
I know India is vast and it has a long way to go, but there is a general downward trend in the cases in India.[1]

[^1]: https://mobile.twitter.com/ShamikaRavi/status/13974936885115...
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There's a bunch of reports (keep scrolling and reading). I'm not sure what you want for 'hard evidence'.

You'll see things like - "Since 2003, coalition forces have recovered approximately 500 weapons munitions which contain degraded mustard or sarin nerve agent" (among others).

As I said, I'm not really sure that justified the war, but they did exist. They also had a bunch of yellowcake and stuff like that.
> and examine temporary ICU statistics, because it is too difficult to tease out the impacts of COVID vs the impact of lockdown.

It's actually quite easy.

If you look at the outbreak in the UK that started in November, you can see cases and hospital admissions rising rapidly before lockdown is imposed. Then in February, you can see cases falling rapidly while lockdown is still imposed.

The cases and hospitalisations are related to Covid - they don't map well onto lockdown. In fact excess deaths became negative for a while a the end of the spike, with lockdown still in effect.
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"lol"
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No. Conspiracy theories become conspiracy fact, regularly.

Choose to be exposed to more learning, questions, and info, or choose to not be where info is sought.
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Very much still a thing, e.g. for reducing the poly count of a mesh before running it through a procedure to spit out gcode for 3d printing or milling.
> sit through 22 minutes of mind-numbing commercials

Commercial detection and skipping has worked well for me via MythTV for nearly twenty years at this point.

Seems like there’s a free startup idea in there somewhere. $100 worth of equipment and a webapp and now your parents can watch network TV, local news, sports, and weather without ads.
Amazon? You mean the company owned by a super-rich guy, who's taking $10 billion of our dollars, to prop us his rocket company, because he lost out on a contract?
All they need now is a house building company and they can sell people everything they need for their entire life (the grocery store, entertainment, health, news, movies, music, goods). Then they can start selling Gatorade for plants to their customers.
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Sounds like this could push Shell to fund a beachhead market to get carbon removal companies started up. Note: folks seriously interested in carbon removal or starting a carbon removal company should check out http://airminers.org
Is that nugget actually true or is Bezos just obsessed with the glamor of Hollywood?

I'd trust the words of someone who actually has access to Amazon's financials over the word of a blogger on the outside.
I too am doing the same. I own hundreds of these things. The part where I am a bit 'afraid' is they just decide 'who buys dvds anymore'.
Great news for OPEC, Russian & Chinese oil producers! Now they will be for sure the lowest cost to serve suppliers!
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> We could really use laws that force, once again, some sort of separation between production and distribution

Why though? I wasn’t aware these laws exist(ed). Why are they needed?
Recelty finished it. It's a great game.
I just don't understand why an advertiser would risk doing this. Seems like it could very wrong if the inserted material rubs people the wrong way. It reads as a tacky thing to do to me.
I wish we had the data on this but I suspect a customer only selects a one or two video platforms and _MAYBE_ juggles a third when a hot show like GoT shows up, which is rare. There is a limited number of attention hours, it doesn't make sense to be on 10 platforms.

Regardless, the end game of these streaming services is probably going to be consolidation or partners, if it makes since because the market is too diluted. We're coming off, wha, $60-100 a month cable bills? The streaming providers are still siphoning this value before we start seeing consolidation of the losers with the winners.
Well Netflix formula is throw a bunch of stones in the ocean and see what sticks and then make more of it. Its a bad strategy because users waste time watching content they would rather not watch. HBO imo is the only platform that focus on quality rather than the number of shows.
> Ian M Banks’ “Culture” series can be kind of hopeful in a way, in that the entire existence of the Culture itself is a neat space utopia.

Worth noting that Earth isn't part of the Culture, it has been left in ignorance to stare out at an apparently silent universe.
And I always thought Times New Roman sucks on screen before Full HD.
You can now hide like counts on Instagram and Facebook
Besides the reasons mentioned by others, it is also convenient for users if Gentoo is on the same server as other similar projects since a /join is a lot easier than setting up another server with nick registration, SASL and what not in your client/bouncer - double so because NickServ/ChanServ are not really standardized across different networks.
No worries, simple mistake. (I felt that I probably wasn't clear enough with my comment!).
This is why I said you were ignoring my point. I specifically didn’t claim that the virus is “evolving to be less deadly”.

My point was that human vulnerability is due to it being novel, and that as more people’s immune systems become attuned to it (whether via contracting the virus, vaccination or being exposed to fragments in the environment), it will become less novel and less deadly to those exposed to it. Therefore, we should still expect the fatality rate to be steady among those who have never been exposed to it, but that will start dropping off quickly as immunity becomes more widespread, which is what we're seeing.

Based on everything we know, a “new” “novel” virus would most likely hit us via a jump from another species, not through continued evolution of this virus.

As for higher fatality rates from B.1.1.7 or other strains - reports about this are contradictory [1], and notably the headlines about it being no worse than other strains are always much smaller/less-prominent that the those trying to terrify us about it being much worse.

[1] https://www.contagionlive.com/view/sars-cov-2-b117-variant-m...
> I feel like I am swimming in an ocean of never ending content produced with the same recipe.

This is what machine learning, pattern recognition will get us.

I watched one show in Amazon prime. One shocking thing I noted besides repetitive plots every few episodes, is that one character say something and after few minutes or next episode another character spoke exactly same sentence in different situation. And it happened so many times I thought I knew what is about to be said.
Maybe he turned it off. I usually disable autorotate because it annoys me.
Exactly. When the movie star system died, it took a lot of material made for adults with it. Even Robert Downey Jr. can't carry a movie that's not a popular IP. Now everything is a $200M sequel to something else or a $1M movie that's financed by 18 different companies. The TV golden age was serving adults for a while but seems to be dying off now.
"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield" is my favorite line and my personal mantra for difficult times in my life.

This is my favorite poem.
I would say to develop the tools of a generalist (get good at learning and being flexible) in order to find the speciality that best suits your personality and also generates income.
PayPal's APIs, SDKs and documentation are leagues below Stripe's. It's simply much more of a pain to work with. And if you are using PayPal for a SaaS, it quickly becomes clear that it's not the intended use case (every payment has the option to "print a packing slip", for example).
But that was not even a tangential side point of mine. To my mind it was just a pertinent comparison. I'll bear in mind what you said but i'm slightly disappointed.
I think actually this a valid concern. A billion dollars is a ridiculous level of wealth that no person should need.

But if you implement higher taxes at the to end, past what point do those people just leave, or leave on paper. There is an inflection point where the tax would actually do more harm than good. And nobody knows where it is. I'd like to see us get closer to it though, there is room to raise taxes on the very wealthy.

A bigger problem at that level is loopholes and compliance though.
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How hard is it to transport Oxygen for a few miles?
> The meaninglessness of $8.45b relative to amazon's scale is mind boggling.

My coworked compared it to the Dogecoin marketcap of $44b... kinda puts things in perspective.
The simplest of these schemes is pretty fast, only five times slower than the naive approach. But it absolutely doesn't give you the benefit from trying all the combinations and I expect it will produce worse results than existing tools.

The problem is, while you know which outputs compressed best so far you can't be sure which will compress best in combination with future outputs you haven't as yet filtered.

Imagine for example that one filter for the current row gives what seems like a random sequence that doesn't compress very well. Your proposed scheme rejects this filter, it compressed poorly, so don't use it. But, what if it turns out that every future row can be compressed to the exact same sequence with some other filter? Deflate can compress the rows extremely well together, even though the first one on its own did not compress.
More like if Little League Baseball, the umbrella organisation, changed hands. Let's say the new owner intends to officially keep the charitable structure, but to monetize it by partnering with his own media company and televising the games.

If he didn't change anything for the users (kids and parents across the US), but cleaned house in head office and installed his own management team, the local teams would continue running as they always had. The owner really would benefit from the goodwill of the community and really would "own" it in a meaningful way. Some grumbling idealists would start a new "really truly non-profit" competitor, but for most people the friction of switching would be too great. But if he interfered too much and made the players' experience worse, people and teams would find it attractive to move to the new competitor.
This doesn't have anything to do with the Internet. Corporatism and wealth consolidation is the problem here.
We have the laws and organizations but the FTC and SEC have failed us in the 21st century. There is no consideration of the consumer or marketplace, only shareholder value.
In the grandparent's defence, I thought it was about a cgroup controller: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/cgroup-v1/pids.txt.
Additionally, bikes sold out last year, pretty much every bike sold out, people where grabbing old bikes off craigslist for 2x or more their worth. There has to have been a disporportionate amount of bikers and new bikers compared to other years.
I remember reading a satirical article about a remake of 2001: A Space Odyssey, redoing all the product placement (of which there was a lot more than I noticed: https://everything2.com/title/Product+placement+in+2001%253A... basically replacing defunct companies with newer/modern counterparts. Can't find it, but I don't think it was The Onion.

Anyway... good lord stuff like this might actually happen.
Piracy doesn't solve the more dangerous underlying problem of influencing opinions.

For example all Apple TV shows are full of Apple product placement every minute or so.

It's not something new, Disney creates most of their characters with merchandising in mind. Look at baby Yoda.

But it also goes deeper, when it aims to spread ideologies and behaviors.

Now that a James Bond villain write the show, I wonder who the bad guy will be.
> A +ifm ##foo was set up: No one who's still on #foo can speak there, and any attempt to join redirects to ##foo.

I'm not super familiar with irc, what is the significance of this? What does creating a second channel accomplish?
We continue to develop our ability to turn inward from the world, to shut out or edit what we don't like about it and construct ever more convincing fantasies by tricking our brains. Advertisement wants to be there with you in your most private thoughts, manipulating your private fantasies.
Well, I think it's important whether the company encourages unsafe behaviour. If you only have gigantic menus with no incentive to take the small soda, or if social media is engineered to be as addictive way beyond the healthy amount, then I think the companies take some of the blame. I think this analogy holds for shell.