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One wrinkle of that era was how they even had their own stable of actors working for them exclusively. The new vertical integration doesn't seem to be going that far down. I imagine there's not as much interest in that, and actors have a powerful union now.
> We could really use laws that force, once again, some sort of separation between production and distribution.

Piracy is competition to bad content behavior. It's a meaningful consumer response to monopoly, balkanization and other anti-consumer practices.
It's from a David Brin book IIRC... Existence.

Good book.. there are a class of people worth trillions of dollars and he explores all kinds of weird things that could happen. Like trillie teenagers launching themselves into space on joy riding rockets illegally.

That's just one tiny little aspect of the story.
The issue isn't the number of things supported, it's that there are optionally-supported things. If every cable needed to support everything, and every host port needed to support every valid device type, it'd be fine. But instead you get cables that don't properly work with alternate modes, host ports that don't implement DisplayPort, etc. It's cheaper, but ridiculously frustrating.
That Supreme Court case [1] stopped the vertical integration where the studios signed actors under exclusive multi-year contracts, made the films, and will only release them in their own theaters. It was overturned by new legislation in 2020.

1- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_P....
iOS isn't designed for apps that connect to servers not run by the App Author.

Push messages must be signed by a key registered to the developer and there is no mechanism to delegate that (for example.)
Someone in another thread posited that purging existing users is the intended outcome, perhaps leading to some kind of business move, re-branding of Freenode, VC funding, etc.
Because even simple topics aren't so simple. Everything is a part of a complex system of interrelated parts. Sometimes the most interesting discussions aren't on the direct effects but on the indirect effects throughout the system.
I'm unfamiliar with US television - but was NBC broadcast free to air, via a government regulated transmitter?
How about this, then: the region we're talking about is right in the homeland of the Yamnaya people, AKA the people who spoke Proto-Indo-European, and the ancestors of all Europeans. ("region between the Southern Bug, Dniester, and Ural rivers" as per WP)

In terms of genetics, the R1b haplogroup spread from that region, and is the most common haplogroup among modern Europeans.

So, if you're European or European-descended, many of your ancestors lived there a few thousand years ago. And the language you just wrote in traces its ancestry back to that region (as does German)

EDIT: The point of what I wrote is just that the ethno-linguistic composition of regions is very fluid, and drawing lines around a region and saying "this is what German is" (or whatever) is just a dumb exercise when you put it in historical context. (My own ancestors include many in Alsace, so I'm keenly aware of this -- what's "French"? what's "German"?). Essentialism is dumb.
I don't know how many mining companies there are, but if there is only one or two companies that take 80%+ of the market, then yeah, that is a monopoly/duopoly. Online - one company (Google) controls most of search, two companies (Google and Apple) control nearly all of mobile OS, one company (Amazon) more than half of cloud market, one company (Facebook) controls much of social, one company (youtube/google) controls most of video market.... etc etc.
This problem exists for many criminal issues such as tax evasion. We don't give up on these issues, we work on them globally.
You need to be ordering from Amazon weekly to break even on Prime for shipping costs. It’s likely worth it for some people but it really doesn’t fit my habits.
Is it possible you're under estimating the number of lo-dpi devices? AFAIK most windows laptops are still lo-dpi
Is anyone tracking the migration from Freenode/Leenode to Libera?

The numbers must be amazing to see.
That’s kinda happening now too but with directors that have signed first look deals with VOD providers.
> "OpenBSD users: Hi Mark!"

This is Mark Kettenis, who has despite comments made jokingly by marcan, been working with a few other OpenBSD developers to bring-up OpenBSD/arm64 on the Apple M1. At least on the Mac Mini the Gigabit Ethernet works, Broadcom Wi-Fi, and work on the internal NVMe storage is progressing.

There was an early teaser dmesg posted in Feburary showing OpenBSD booting multi-user (on bare metal): https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-arm&m=161386122115249&w=2

Mark has also been adding support for the M1 to the U-Boot project, which will not only benefit OpenBSD, but also Asahi Linux.

Another OpenBSD developer posted these screenshots and videos on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/bluerise/status/1359644736483655683

https://twitter.com/bluerise/status/1354216838406823936
they’ve got some good originals, just not at the rate Netflix does… I’d say they’re maybe 3rd or 4th. Not bad for what’s basically just an add-on to Prime.
Thanks for the great feedback. These are all legit issues. We have on our roadmap a revisiting of our API this year and I think we need to have a lower tolerance for abstraction leakage.

Would you mind dropping me an email jacob@revenuecat.com? I think for our long term viability we need to have the trust of people who care about edge cases like this. I’d love to hear more.
Why the future of work will be hybrid, and how you can implement it
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The characters are so good. The plot lines are great. The enemies are actually bad.

While TNG is idealistic and more or less wholesome, SG1 definitely lines up with DS9 in that it's more real/gritty yet still has all the hope, fun, morals, ethics, etc.
After ~15 years on Freenode, I was taking a wait-and-see approach. Despite reading like four explainers, I didn't really understand what the drama was or why the new owner was such a disaster. I kind of expected the drama to die after a few weeks/months, and then Freenode would go back to being just another IRC server. Then I woke up this morning and saw this. Bye, Freenode.
Indeed. The acquisition opens up numerous product placement opportunities. I can't wait to watch John Krasinski watching a mission briefing with his mPow 2021 Slim Noise Cancelling Bluetooth USB-C headphones.
In a vacuum, I would agree. However, given that 'herd immunity' was absolutely not the approach east asian countries were going for, many of which had been battling with COVID already, and who had a great deal of experience in respiratory diseases, I think it was at best reckless.

I guess the thing that bugs me is that Boris Johnson is kind of a flippant person, and that approach carried over to the response to COVID, with the weeks of head-start we got being wasted as he missed important meetings to work on a Shakespeare book, and made the whole thing out to be some kind of joke, when if he had actually being paying attention, he probably would have seen it for the deadly threat it was before he caught it (and nearly died of it).
Is there a single example in recent memory of an open protocol achieving mainstream success without being sponsored by a large company?

I really wish something like this Solid protocol would succeed, but I don't see how you could generate enough momentum for it at the moment.
The difference is simple: NBC was (and still is) free to watch if you have a television and an antenna.
Why not making a phone and enter mobile market?
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.

OT: how the heck does MA actually work?

Suppose I buy a movie from Apple that came from a studio that supports MA. It almost immediately shows up in my Amazon Prime Video library, my Fandango library, and others. I then stream it using the Fandango app on my TV.

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?

Or does it stream from some common CDN that keeps track of all this and bills each seller for their share of bandwidth?

Or does some magic happen so that even though I'm playing the movie in the Fandango app, it is actually streaming from Apple servers?
It wasn't bundled with a subscription to eCommerce/grocery store/ebook/video streaming.

This is going to force subsidization of all entertainment. Then big tech will gobble it all up.

We're going to have a lot of Netflix Original-caliber shit that gets cancelled once viewership changes.
That spy guy (I don't remember his name) in series 1 has this ability when he's re-wiring the airlock door interface panel in order to escape. He uses his AR ability a few times but I like how it's not overdone.
Why don't you try and find out what would happen, instead of making spurious accusations against the Libera staff?
I don't live in the UK and had no trouble understanding that. The UK and US were both terrible at it in the beginning (Q1 and Q2 of 2020).

Afterwards, those countries did pretty much the same as everyone else and they ramped up vaccinations much faster than other countries, so the later response masks the total incompetence of the initial response.
They are just volunteers, not employees. They can always quit and that is not a temper tantrum.
I agree with all of this, but especially the last bit.

It sets up the stories to come, even if some of it borderline contradicts SG-1. The characters that go from the movie to the TV show are much more likable in the TV show.
Any good guesses as to what name will the final world corporation take?
We don't know if it will, and what the costs will be. Saying "The end is near" as the article suggests is not justified by current evidence. So far the increase in the virues' virulence with new mutations wasn't correlated with decrease in deaths as far as I know, and the pandemic has been here for a while now (I only know about inverse correlation). This is not just like the flu.
My poinr wasn’t about type system per se but the ability to compile code down to natively execute without going through an interpreter. Whether you solve that through type inference or type hints I honestly don’t care, but afaik Julia has an easier job by allowing you to make types explicit on the data structure side while being flexible for the algorithms. Semantics are certainly also a big part, but it would be nice to have first party support for what Numba does, JITing a reduced set of semantics but keep everything else compatible.
And if you lived in a location close enough to a city to receive the airwaves. I do not see what that has to do with it, but you can swap out NBC for a non broadcast media owner like Comedy Central.

Point is content is more accessible and cheaper than it has ever been in history, and that is partially due to the elimination of middlemen like cable/satellite TV distributors.

But media is always going to have an owner, who is always going to be able to license it to whoever they want at whatever cost they want.
It's important to remember is happening now is not without precedent. There have been large monopolies in living memory. It's also telling that they have all but faded from the memory. It's not just some hopeless, "evil" power - grab. [Edit: so thanks for mentioning that!]
> Libera ate Freenode's lunch

The part that leaves me perplexed the most is that said lunch is two crackers with cream cheese.

How much money could there be in running an IRC network?
I mean, what do you expect of someone who posts a social-media-style PR article as a PDF.
This is Kite all over again.
Before I entered management, I spent about 15 years as an engineer building "greenfield" drug manufacturing sites using automation packages such as Allen-Bradley, Emerson DeltaV and Siemens. There is nothing more time consuming than trying to tune the hundreds of PID loops in these facilities not only during site acceptance testing of equipment, but also during validation. These companies try to offer PID packages but they were always really inadequate. I wouldve loved a tool like this.

One of my biggest mistakes was tuning a loop during the winter shutdown on a large scale vaccine reactor. It dramatically increased the cells growth rate to a point where we would have had to modify our drug application. Understandably, the regulatory people had me de-tune the loop.
borkdude is awesome. He is one of my favorite people I follow on Twitter. His very fast starting Clojure interpreter Babashka is useful for scripting, check it out.
I can't vouch for it's accuracy, but here is a 'phenoage' calculator I came across while chasing down this rabbithole (after reading the paper) a couple of days ago
https://www.oliverzolman.com/phenoage-calculator
pngcrush doesn't actually brute force, for exactly the reason the article gives, it would take too long.

Instead, pngcrush is using yet more heuristics to guess what else is likely to work and then trying some of the other options that wouldn't be picked by the defaults.

By default it only tries a few approaches that it deems most likely to work, but even with the "brute" parameter it does not truly try everything, again, that would take too long, and pngcrush "brute" is already very slow, it just tries all the methods it would ever have used on any image.

Actual brute force of a relatively tiny 32x32 image would require trying all five filters for each line in combination with each such filter for each other line or else you might miss a combination which, astonishingly, was smaller even though it wasn't immediately obvious why. I think that's 5 raised to the power 32 combinations.
It is also worth noting that the Iberian peninsula where it is now Spain was an Arab region for 800 some years. The Spanish language is full of words with Arab roots and Arab culture is everywhere in Spain.

It is funny to see the right wing politics trying to preserve this national Spanish heritage that they came up with.
That is interesting. Does the DMCA not require the takedown notice to inform of the right to file a counter-notice? I always assumed it did because that seems to be the usual practice. I wonder if Comcast is being unusually aggressive in their interpretation/lax in their compliance or whether most companies are going beyond what is required in their takedown notices?
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Seeing the Taiwanese politics, presently KMT is opposed to giving up the claims to mainland (KMT has historically ambitions of taking back mainland), and DPP are statusquoists, and there no significant political movement in Taiwan that is espousing Sovereignty.

US itself has a "One China" policy.
I don't like to use Styled-Components
A democracy? Not for Blacks in the South...
Or we could fall back to watching movies made from the ‘30s to the ‘50s, that’s what I have been doing for more than half a year now and it has been wonderful for my mental well-being (they really knew how to make comedies back then, even after the Hayes code).
How about something legal instead?
If they vaccinate, then they will avoid COVID deaths when they reopen. The vaccine completely changes the game from "kicking the can down the road" into "total victory."
Github has the right to kick out people but people also have the right to leave and they will.
> A lot of consoles are sold at a loss

I don't believe that's the case anymore. Newer console generations have moved on from exotic ISAs and the like towards using a lot of off-the-shelf parts for smartphones or PCs. The Switch, for instance, has been sold at a profit from day one [1].

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20170131084504/https://www.bloom...
My thesis is that to justify their P/E and valuation Amazon has no option but to keep expanding into new business lines.

A side effect of this expansion is lack of attention to their existing lines of businesses. For instance, Amazon retail UX and website has largely remained unchanged for like well over a decade and in fact gotten worse as they cram more and more things to sell within a screen.

Same with AWS, quite a lot of highly asked features haven't been implemented for years now, and AWS console is showing its age.

I have a feeling those Alexa* devices will not age well.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27286771
Revise can’t change structs in modules either. The only sane way I’ve found to handle this is using a Pluto notebook. But that’s not for everybody.
Creating dynamic video content with JSON
I wonder if the rise of smartphones will dampen this. Back when PCs were the standard piracy was relatively simple, you downloaded bittorrent or edonkey and sailed the high seas.

Nowadays it would be rather difficult to install a piracy app on your phone (not impossible, but definitely harder than simply downloading a binary from sourceforge). So you're left wish shady streaming sites who in my experience have terrible usability.
> federation is fake (stops working when matrix.org goes down)

Can you elaborate on this, or link to some relevant resources?
He did own PIA but not for a few years, he sold it to a different (but with its own shady past) company in 2019
Are you arguing for the opposite - i.e. that the pandemic planning was actually great, despite the terrible way that the pandemic was handled?
> …don't expect them to keep your empty channel with a pointer elsewhere intact.

That’s how IRC has always worked, and that’s how open communities in general work.

The marginal cost to Freenode is effectively zero, and the benefit is that users are not cast adrift without warning.

Clearly Freenode is no longer an open platform.
> Along the same lines, Bill Gates owns 242,000 acres of farm land. What for? I don’t know.

The point of freedom is that it doesn't matter why he wants it, he's free to buy it if the owner chooses to sell it. There's a chilling implication in your stance that people should need approval for basic freedoms like buying land. That's how you end up with a dictatorship.
This is how you kill 55.
You hadn't heard of Mi Lai? That's like know about the Iraq war but not Abu Ghraib, the war on terror but not Gitmo. If I had to list things to know about the Vietnam war, Mi Lai would be in the top five. If people are hearing about the Vietnam war, but not that part, then American media indeed has problems communicating history.
I had a similar feeling, I love the show but I still felt a grating annoyance anytime I heard the phrase "protomolecule".

It makes it easier if you think of it as "proto" being short for Protogen - the corporation that discovered it.
If a "group" is a room, then this is definitely not currently true. I'm in Matrix rooms well over this size.
Additional links on the matter...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27286628

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27285774

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27285802

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27287283

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27287750 (gentoo)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27287807 (raku)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27288673 (elixir)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27288771 (alegro)
They have tried to make a tabletop console thing for l4d where 4 players play l4d as usual and the 5th player would spawn zombies or items on them. I suppose this console is related to that
Valve has money, but not Apple or Microsoft money. I doubt they'd be able to source a high-power arm chip + the necessary hard/software features to make something like the rosetta compatibility mode possible.
> It was overturned by new legislation in 2020.

Interestingly, there are some guys powerful enough to push that kind of legislation... I don't like Musk but sometimes I'd really love to leave for Mars :-)
They are doing a lot of work on Wine as part of Steam Proton (the Wine distribution built into the Linux version of Steam), so I'd imagine they have at least some of this type of developer on staff.
The ebooks are a cheap and more convenient way to read these particular stories. I've bought all three of them from https://gumroad.com/qntm, because they're great.
Where do you live? Here in Canada properties are taxed according to their value on an assessment scale. The city does not care if you make money or not, you pay your taxes. If you also operate a business you are also assessed business taxes which you must pay regerdless of your profits.
There are also income taxes on people and corporations and all costs of the business (wages, business taxes, realty taxes raw materials etc) are taken away (called deductions) on the balance the income tax or corporation tax is levied. Usually on a sliding scale, with individuals having a protected basic exemption and then a sliding scale up to around 50% for individuals of great income. A similar scale is applies to corporations but usually peaks at a lower rate.

My suggestion to apply a business tax to the rental of each suite IN ADDITION to the real estate taxes is to make corporations have a greater burden than a person living and owning it to create a disadvantage to the corporation to offset the rent seeking aspect whereby corprations can borrow large sums, pay the spread and have the tenants pay for their equity gains. This has driven property values for a 2 bedroom home to $1 -2 million and in essence makes ownership impossible.
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You never have been to India or have never seen a video of a street in India. There are no streets as we in the western know. There is a road and traffic just everywhere and nobody cares about traffic rules. It‘s a dangerous place to live. [Maybe a bit exxagarated].

Otherwise you would know that this _may easily_ result in an accident and no-one wants to have a truck full of O2 to blow up in the night in the middle of nowhere. At least during the day „you see where you go“.
It's wild to see. It feels like only a matter of time before the tech giants eat Hollywood.
Yeah, financial consulting firms basically played this game for a long time; but they know the game, always give a report that satisfies the person who brought you in. Luckily most "data scientists" also learn pretty quick who butters their bread and 'correct' their results accordingly. Those who aren't 'team players' tend to not get brought into meetings with the higher ups, and eventually move onto real jobs.
Doesn’t it auto update? That’s a cat and mouse game I wouldn’t want to play.
This statement makes no sense.

The mRNA vaccines are sterile; there's no active virus or bacteria in them. It's also conclusively determined they reduce transmission.

(The sterility of a vaccine has no impact on its ability to reduce transmission, anyways; they're not linked. Live-virus vaccines like the flu nasal spray vaccine can still prevent disease.)
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Have you ever seen a child using a telephone or a tablet? Its the same thing, but a thousand times over! They have software injected into them and they unwillingly suffer the effects of said software.

Or any adult browsing a website with uncalled-for javascript for that matter.
When you say that all cultures are equal is a lie, do you mean that there are cultures that are better than others? Maybe you mean that there are certain aspects of some cultures that are worth abandoning and some others worth preserving. Do you think there is nothing left to improve in Western culture?
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Reminds me of that one old PC game “Virus: The Game”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus:_The_Game
Have they been releasing material worth pirating in the last 10-15 years? The movies coming out aren't even worth the bandwidth.