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> if they did and all content is licensed to everyone, there will be nothing distinguishing the different services.

Pricing and UX?

But even though some companies are incapable of making good UIs, UX isn’t much of a moat.

At the same time, differentiation through pricing leads to races to the bottom and unsustainable / worthless markets (and, in our case, probably diminishing content quality).
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For anybody interested in a simple introduction of PID control, I recommend watching Brian Douglas' videos
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUMWjy5jgHK20UW0yM22H...
Yep. I keep Prime for the shipping but I took a break from Netflix and just pirated Army of the Dead.

If they want to be consumer hostile, we should be hostile as well.
Dutch court orders Shell to deepen carbon cuts in landmark case
Also by the creator of the railtutorial the learnenough.com series
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Simple, the man is the man and the law and the court so behaviors and ethics and rulings naturally coincide /s
>I fail to see a reason why freenode would prefer that you transition away smoothly?

The actions here are of an abuser seeing their partner is considering leaving, beating them harder as a result, locking them out of the house, then using their victim's devices to contact the victim's friends and tell them that everything is actually alright and the victim has decided to stay.

Consider the argument, "I fail to see why a domestic abuser would prefer that their victim leave smoothly?"
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If you want the drugs market to dry up you wean the users off drugs rather than combat the source of drugs because as we have learned from the Mexican drug cartels, when one goes down another one will emerge to fill the demand.

In this case, you need viable alternatives.
Great, that's what I sent him
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Detection is very hard if the developer employs very clever obfuscation. See: halting problem.
Are you sure about that? Amazon is one of the most loved brands in the country https://www.zdnet.com/article/theres-a-new-list-of-americas-... and has been for quite awhile
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It would be very disruptive given that Shell is headquartered in The Hague, and NL has small but not insignificant oil reserves of its own on both land and sea.
this is one reason I prefer mountain biking/trail riding to roads. At least there, all I have to worry about are trees, rocks and roots. No worry about being an unexpected hood ornament.
My impression is that the article mostly describes data analysts, not data scientists, though of course job titles are fuzzy and variable. IME data scientists pretty much universally at least attempt to work on things that directly and demonstrably increase revenue or reduce expenses. That experience is colored by the fact that I work in a field (insurance) where statistical analysis is core to the product, but my impression is that it's true more generally - if you're a data scientist in e.g. conversion optimization at a big company you probably have no trouble justifying your salary, and even the relatively unsuccessful data science teams I'm familiar with tend to work on things like staffing level optimization that are at least plausibly a value-add for the business.

The more interesting line of argument to support data science being a bullshit job is that all of these lucrative use cases are just a tragedy of the commons. Insurers in aggregate did just fine when pricing was based on actuaries using simple approaches to "square the triangle" and then adjust rates based on rules of thumb, the only reason they can't always do that today is that everyone else has data scientists. And if you don't have a good recommender system, your customer will just buy somewhere else (or "worse", avoid an unneeded impulse buy).

Of course, it's not strictly zero-sum. Insurance pricing is "fairer" now, which is probably a good thing, and data science is enabling all sorts of obviously positive-sum products like wearable health monitoring and car safety features (to say nothing of self-driving eventually). Other use cases like "engagement" optimization are probably negative-sum. But in general my point is that creating millions of dollars' worth of business value per year, as many (most?) data scientists do, doesn't preclude you (or me) from having a bullshit job.
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And Iraq invasion of 2001, that replaced a stable (albeit dictatorial) regime by a civil war, and enabled ISIS to become a state.
"Blacklisting" the Netherlands from receiving any oil or oil products? A member state of the European Union with Borders to Germany and Belgium and with access to the North Sea? Who should do this "blacklisting", Royal Dutch Shell, headquartered in The Hague, NL? And who is supposed to enforce it? Even if there was a case for such a thing, which there isn't, no member state of the EU ever would dream of doing any such thing, since that would violate the Four Freedoms doctrine of the EU, and also because the neighbors get a sizable part of their oil and oil products through Rotterdam.
Are you infringing a patent if you publish a PWA?
This is an absurdist point of view.

If you go to the average non-technical user's Chrome extensions tab, they have 10-12 extensions. 7 of them are actively malicious.

This isn't like a "hey, freedom allows you the freedom to make mistakes" thing. This is a "good practice hasn't even been attempted here, and it's the top vector of all bad things ever" thing.

It's fine for browser extensions to exist, they serve a purpose. However, all existing extension stores should probably delist the entirety of their collection, solely re-accept extensions which an actual software engineer has reviewed, and make it much harder than one click to inadvertently install one when a website asks you to.
If Musk playing with BTC is any indication, Mars would've been an interesting socio-political experiment if we had the terraforming technology.
A different calendar doesn’t necessitate mean a different year length. We still measure a year as a complete solar cycle, and that hasn’t changed.
Have you been tested for POTS? If you're afraid of heart rate issues and fatigue, especially when combined with small amounts of exercise, that's the syndrome to look for.

Buuttt.. POTS is when you have an increase of 30+ beats, not 10-15, I'm pretty sure that's a very normal amount of increase. Going from sitting down to standing up is weirdly enough a very difficult exercise for your body. A Lot of blood needs to rush to your thighs in a very short amount of time, body compensates for that by just pumping a little bit harder for a short amount of time.
Comcast can bite me.
Isn’t the body hostile to cancerous cells too?
I know mad cow disease came from farm raised cattle in the UK. People ate the beef and got mad cow disease.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovine_spongiform_encephalopat...
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Yes - and this is by far the strangest aspect of it all. My local telecom advertising that Netflix is bundled into the cell service. Netflix licensing shows from BBC or ordering content from other outfits. Netflix being built on top of AWS infrastructure. Streaming brands being available as “apps” on AppleTV. HBO becoming a property of Paramount, and both being owned by ATT. So many examples of complex relationships and weird inter-dependencies.
At the very least their marketplace and their store should be separate entities.
Now this is something that could have an actual impact on carbon emissions. The sooner these fossil fuel companies get fined or taxed the better.
... or on my 2013 Google Chromebook Pixel, 240 ppi. You can sometimes find them for about $200 on Amazon.

On a larger external monitor, I’m not sure you should directly compare the resolution, because you view them from a longer distance. So a smaller resolution would be optically equivalent to a higher resolution on a laptop. This is the reason you need even higher resolutions on phones, as we view them from even shorter distances.
Also FYI for others reading this, hackint forbids any Matrix bridging [1], which might exclude some communities, as it did our hackerspace.

[1] - https://hackint.org/archive#20181028_Matrix_Bridging_Sunset
What is your definition of "retina grade"?
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That blew my mind. We have so much sci-fi depicting the evil mega-corp that's it has become a trope, yet we're just lumbering along towards that exact future.
Shell was held liable because it is the largest emitter in the Netherlands.
Their defence "but if we don't deliver the fossil fuels other companies will", which was not taken over by the court. The Judge (paraphrased) said "Those other companies will also have to reduce their carbon emissions".
To a degree the “golden age” is as more about a certain style as it is quality. Casablanca is an entirely wonderful movie - but at the time it was just one of a fleet of films pushed through the machine. The ‘Hollywood style’ was intended to be 1) immediately legible/easy to understand for a wide audience and 2) easy to make quickly on a factory line-like studio process.
Yeah... but how would it be cheaper? Caring for humans is hard. Human societies are complex. All of that is a huge risk.
> I watched the sci-fi show "The Expanse" on Amazon Prime Video. Season 4 (the one made by Amazon Prime Video) felt like it had a tenth of the budget compared to season 1 and 2. A completely different show that I found very boring and unwatchable.

Ultimately that's one show though. Amazon have spent BIG on some of their series. The Grand Tour had an enormous, enormous budget compared to Top Gear. They are spending Game of Thrones money on Wheel of Time.
Maybe people should stop assuming we all think the same ways. We don’t.
Thanks for clearing that up.

> I'd suggest an improvement to the DMCA would be to hold copyright holders responsible for claims determined to be made in bad faith, or even just an "excessive" number of false claims.

Yes, that would be a good idea. But it still leaves a bad taste, as it makes one wonder why we had to deal with the DMCA in its current form in the first place. Perhaps there should be a constitutional law which says that when it comes to things like entertainment and culture, then the benefit of the doubt should go to the people, not corporations. Imho, the US is taking the value of entertainment way too seriously.
What's the definition of "Retina grade"? Surely the eyes ability to distinguish pixels depends on how far the screen is.

An average 4K TV at a typical viewing distance is going to be impossible to distinguish the pixels. Same with a typical 4K monitor, depending on the size and viewing distance.

EDIT: A 27" 4K display at 60 cm viewing distance (53° horizontal FoV) has 73 pixels per degree (ppd).

A Retina equivalent display is anything above 60 ppd (i.e. 1 arcminute per pixel) as far as I can tell.

Calculator here: https://qasimk.io/screen-ppd/
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> Imagine if it were to kill 100% of its hosts after 10 days, if you don't get a single symptom in the first 5 days while you're still able to transmit it

Sure, but as you say, this is an imaginary scenario, not the reality.

In reality, it's symptomless/benign for most people for 5-7 days, then in some people it becomes symptomatic, and in relatively few cases - of impaired/frail people (or occasionally people who seemed "healthy" but had some hidden vulnerability) - it becomes severe and potentially lethal. But that last part is due to the fact that it is novel and takes time/effort to fight off, not because it has some magical quality that makes it sit dormant in your system for 5+ days before it wakes up and says "surprise, you're suddenly nearly dead".

HIV is a totally different kind of virus, so comparisons to it are mostly unhelpful. Whereas plenty of coronaviruses and other respiratory viruses have become endemic and mostly-benign before.

There's no reason to believe the rate of severe cases won't decline (more quickly than 10-30 years) once more people's immune systems become attuned to it.
Sid Sybandrij from GitLab has been extremely transparent and accessible in the two years that I have worked here.

Never experienced this in any of the other organizations I worked in the last 15 years. The CEO is just another team member, and that's saying a lot.
And if the government can reach as far into your life as putting limits and fining you for carbon emissions, is there anything in your private life they can't touch?

Perhaps some people agree with the tool now, but wait until you see how they use it later. Eventually, you will get someone with the power who will use it for something you disagree with, in a big way.
Same here, but we haven't gone as far back as the 50s. Mostly we've been enjoying family movies from the 70s, 80s, and early 90s, back when sets were elaborate and most effects were practical. Many of these older movies have really stood the test of time. Hook, The Goonies, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Muppets movies, Ernest Scared Stoopid, Willy Wonka, etc are all family favorites.
this has been extensively covered over the last week or so
Sigh, none of that is true.

Dendrite is another homeserver that is good enough to run as a daily driver, and there's a community developed Rust one, Conduit, that's making steady progress.

There are plenty of alternative clients - FluffyChat, NeoChat, Fractal, etc. Making a basic client is pretty easy (I've written several), and my friends and I have been making a more fully-featured one in our spare time.

Federation is not fake, I was there on my own homeserver when matrix.org went down and had fun happily continuing to chat through the biggest test of matrix's federation resiliency.

Every time I've seen Arathorn interact in threads, he has been very professional and patient, even when others spread FUD (cough, cough). He certainly doesn't spread lies or FUD about anyone else.

Modern XMPP is not better in every way - Matrix is an eventually-consistent distributed event graph, which makes it better at handling big federation testing events like the matrix.org downtime.
The biggest opportunity cost was having to schedule a specific time to watch something or not being able to pause and watch later or not being able to watch while waiting for your flight to board.
The real scope of the project is not known. As I said you must discover the true requirements. Even if you just did exactly what he said, they always change their mind and add more. Fixed scope is as I said a fiction and structurally false.

If your goal is to try to sell him a large sum and then come out ahead by easily completing the task in a relatively short while, just realize that he has a similar but opposite goal with such a structure. And even if he isn't trying to squeeze as much work out as he can, like I said the scope always increases naturally.

What you do need to do is make sure that he has a budget sufficient for his ambitions and if he doesn't make it clear that you believe that will limit the success of the project.

If you want to make a lot of money by selling something for an outsized price, then maybe become a used car salesman or something.

Having said all of that then if possible bill for half-days or full days. Just make sure he agrees ahead of time.
I spent an inordinate amount of time while watching the show just thinking about how you manage the computer systems on a spaceship, especially if you're a scrappy crew without a large corp's support.

Presumably, every space ship needs bulletproof software routines for calculating trajectories, making burns at the right time, etc- a combination of real time hardware control and sophisticated math.

But presumably, ships need to get updated in-flight, and upgraded routinely, and presumably, it doesn't make sense for your own ship to drift too far from the common development tree. This is starting to become a major software engineering problem- how do you manage a fleet of ship firmwares across a solar system?
That's silly. The point is that the series of products has been discontinued; if Valve had a v2 version of the Steam Link or Steam Controller, nobody would be talking about this.
With a job offer that was signed on both ends?
This kind of confusing experience is certainly advantageous towards extracting more from the viewer. It’s like shopping malls being designed to be difficult to get out of.
Thanks for the info. But this actually confirms what I was saying: EU doesn't tolerate it, it even doesn't tolerate CIA doing this on EU soil.

Since CIA is doing the torturing, there is no question US allows this to happen.

So conclusion: torture is not allowed by EU, but is by US.
But that’s literally what the history is supposed to be. It’s not as if this a a web app that stores your mouse movements or something in your history.
I still think DRM should be banned and paying for content should be super cheap - say per movie $1 for HD file download and $2 for a 4k version. For me I'd literally spend hundreds of dollars per year on content that I can own going forward.

The funniest thing of course is I bet the studios would make more money than trying to charge me $4.99 to rent movies and absurd sums to "buy" them...
I have used this tool to tune the water level PIDs of several hydroelectric substations. I passed from spending days with manual fine tuning to a couple of hours of a simple experiment and tuning with this tool.
Gregory Peck made a lot of great movies. Charade and North by Northwest are both very good.
AFAIK they do fight against the entire principle, too: https://www.eff.org/issues/dmca.
>But we’ve also exceeded our carbon budget as a species

So what do you suggest. From yesterday, every truck, ship factory etc should stop working because our carbon limit has been exceeded. I mean, if you think orders such as these are the way forward, that is very going to happen. Haling global fossil production= halving global energy consumption= half of all industry shutting down. I think my sums are right.
I have an old commercial electric bakery oven with simple a simple 1 to 10 dial. I have looked into upgrading it to a digital thermostat with a PID, but have never figured out how I would set up the PID. This looks like a great resource.
Ok, I think I have found the answer. The number is from Shell itself - 45% is its target CO2 emissions reduction by 2035. The court seems to have moved the deadline by five years and made it legally binding.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/26/dutch-court-rules-oil-giant-...
I always thought that a "silent" message would be a good option, in addition to scheduled message. The sender would be able to pick a "don't make a sound or vibrate the recipients device" option when sending a message. This would probably be a feature for 1:1 messages or chat apps (WhatsApp, etc) more than sending to entire channels (but I guess that would be on okay option too).
Why not go after them for the damage caused by their sale of plastic pellets as well. Through the idea of "recycling" they created, they knowingly hampered the public's discovery of the truth about plastics.
Software by committee. (committee being defined as engineers who rarely stay for more than 24 months)
> don't expect them to keep your empty channel with a pointer elsewhere intact.

...except that has been the written policy. And then after channels were forcible taken over, they changed the policy to remove any mention of this.
Large displays are usually further away than laptop screens, in fact that's the main benefit of them - you can have a lot of clear desk space.
Nope, You generalize large country based on my comment. it's mistake.

First thing, I am advocate of Open Source but I don't mind Anything that is doing something ethically.

Whatsapp, I believe is biggest hypocrisy. It advocates, argues for privacy and against spying while it being itself a spyware.

I don't mind whatsapp existing, i wouldn't simply use it,right? No, like i have mentioned in comment above, my college forces us to use whatsapp. Atleast it has API? no. or some standardized protocol? No.

Since it's spyware and it is pushed down my throat, i wish it not to exist. Since, whatsapp has gone against government itself, and we know that government doesn't like itself to be criticized, well it may ban Whatsapp itself, because then, my college will more likely to move to Telegram and it has atleast open source client.

Well, your criticism comes out of air without valid claims. i never told that the government should give it free to me because i like it.

moreover, my dislike of whatsapp has valid reasons.
No need to resist, Buy n Large provides everything you need to be happy.
Statistical modelling assumes that the observations can in some way be described as random samples drawn from an (unknown) probability distribution. One can then try to estimate properties of that distribution using the observed data.

For example, one can assume a gaussian distribution and estimate its mean and width using the mean and standard deviation of the data. Bayesian inference aims to directly extract the underlying probability distribution without assuming a fixed functional form.

In any case, one should be extremely skeptical when someone tries to apply such methods to sparse or cherry-picked data. Including SARS-CoV-2, there are only seven coronaviruses that are known to infect humans. This is an extremely small number to do statistics with.

Of course one can make educated guesses based on experiences with previous similar viruses (such as SARS-CoV). But using the language of Bayesian inference for this is just cargo cult science in my opinion.
The chimps don’t have jobs that tax mind and attention!
> I wonder if Amazon will change MGM's stance on "Movies Anywhere"? MGM is one of the few major studios that currently does not participate in that.

MGM's home ent catalogue isn't that big tbh but maybe.

> Does it stream from Fandango's servers? If so, who pays for that bandwidth?. Fandango accounts are free, so I've not paid them any money. Do they just eat it, assuming it will balance out due to people who bought from Fandango streaming on other services? Or does MA tell Fandango that I bought the movie from Apple and Fandango periodically bills Apple for Apple store movies played via Fandango?

It streams from Fandango and Fandango eat it, in the hope that if you're using their services you're more likely to buy from them.
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Ban roads the prevent bank robberies. 100% of bank robberies use a public road for their getaway. This is unacceptable. We need to ban roads immediately or else this rash of robberies will just continue.
You're ignoring my argument why this virus is different, and just repeating the same argument that it's like the flu. In addition, nothing in your argument implies that the "end is near", only that there is an end.
It's been a while so my memories may be incomplete, but I recall coming on instances where traffic would use the same lanes of a stretch of road in both directions controlled by a light (so running a red light would result in a head on collision) which made me feel uncomfortable. I remember other Kafkaesque scenarios also, like encountering a 5 way intersection with 4 one-way roads going into it and a single two way potential exit which was under construction and lead to a truly bizarre detour back out a one-way street. Just in general I got the sense that whoever was in charge of street design was asleep at the wheel.

I have no discomfort around black people and have been lower income for most of my life. Most of my safety concerns were around aggressive traffic and sketchy-looking public infrastructure.
What if Krasinski wears his Bluetooth headphones through the entire episode?