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I feel like your comment has a serious anti-welfare-state slant to it.

The US government is (well, let's stipulate anyway) a democracy. It represents the will of the people. We've decided we like stuff like Social Security and Medicare and we're cool paying for it.

You frame this like it's some kind of scheme to enthrall Americans, but our government is us.

If you want to talk about inefficiencies in the social safety net, let's start with the weird public/private meshing of providers and facilitators written into our laws by conservatives who wanted to "unleash the efficiencies of the free market" (i.e. give government contracts to their peers and later themselves).

It's not like "thinkers these days" have been frightened into silence by a mob addicted to social services. They've been disenchanted by the depth of corruption in our system.
As a recently naturalized US citizen, I have the same observations about American politics. Both the parties enjoy the benefits of lobbyist and PAC donations when they are in power and thus no one wants to do anything about. Gun control - no action, climate change - no action, infrastructure - no action... list goes on. As if the only goal of the party in opposition is to obstruct progress at any cost.
Ask amazon warehouse employees if they take these principles seriously.
Thank you very much! So I assume these factory functions still live in the JS world and provide some processed input / nodes for the actual audio rendering happening at the end of the chain?
One of the only real bright stars from the COVID fiasco of 2020 - large swaths of people realizing they can work from home as effectively, if not more, from home. I think we are on the cusp of seeing a population migration that will make the post-WWII suburbanization move look tame in comparison.

And I think we will all be FAR better off for it!
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Only upvoting this for visibility.

This decision hurts the consumer/registrant in the end, making future registrations and renewal costs less accessible to a lot of markets.

For clarity, this $8.39 amount will become the wholesale cost to the registrar — we of course need to markup on top of that to cover our processing costs, overhead to offer great support, mitigate abuse, etc. Registrars do the heavy lifting in delivering the core user experience — we see none of this margin and the consumer does not see any incremental value from this hike by the registry.

Namecheap stands against removing price caps and allowing these incremental price hikes that only hurt the consumer.

-Ted from Namecheap
> Apple solve this by making spares super expensive and only available from partners.

This is even more hilarious: they sell you a "spare part" which is the logic board, for nearly the price of the laptop.

But they (1) do provide spare parts and (2) sell them at a ""reasonable price""
Hahaha — not a sarcastic/malicious laugh. I went through the Amazon interviewing circuit and I remember these principles. I like them. The reason I found this funny is because the two new ones,

1. Strive to be Earth’s Best Employer

2. Success and Scale Bring Broad Responsibility

seem really different in tone relative to the other ones. Everything else sounds like a directive that one cannot disobey, while the confident tone goes down in #1. It's like someone talking tough on certain things, but then in another topic lowers his/her voice and goes slightly quieter

#2 doesn't exactly sound as much of a guiding principle. I can see how one could use it as one, but it sounds more like a fact—a piece of information that is just true regardless of it being a leadership principle or not

I'm at least glad they recognize the issues and are trying to make a statement on it. Hoping that they act on it
For me it played a big role that I wanted my kids to have grandparents for as long as possible, since I lost mine relatively early. Also the other way around, for my parents it is nice to have grandchildren now too.
Charities aren't appealing not just because you don't feel as connected to outcomes, but because we know many of them pay out big paycheques to execs and other overhead to the point where barely any of our donations are put to good use.

Maybe just being cynical about it, but if I help out at a soup kitchen I know I'm helping people, when I donate I am just getting a tax credit and boosting a charity's executive bonuses.
The repl maintains an environment.
This is exactly what I'm looking for. Would you mind sharing the store?
/Also Swiss
You can use a REPL powered debugger. You can interact with the debugger to a higher degree than with most mainstream languages. It’s not quite as powerful as CL though, from what I’ve read.

Or you pull out expressions and test them in isolation with given (assumed) inputs.
Putting bullshit-bingo "principles" up on a website is easy.

Tackling abhorrent amounts of waste and damage to the environment is difficult [1].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jun/22/amazon-fa...
And I remember _faxing_ a letter on company letterhead signed by the CFO to prove that we were actually the entity we said we were. How the tables have turned...
I think it fails even at that... because that UTF-16 is followed by default (8 bit char) std::endl, which is definitely not a valid UTF-16.
Banks require a planned version of this: you have to take so many contiguous days off at least once a year. But it's an anti-fraud measure, as most of the frauds you can run internally require you to be there to juggle things, and you make the number of contiguous days long enough where such a scheme will come crashing down.
Servers to register and get money.
DNS server.
ICANN fee per domain (of which about 10% is spent on running ICANN servers, rest is other stuff)

So less than $1 I'd bet
Ad the now-deleted critical sibling comment: Note that OP implied the edits were innocent, likely made by teenagers having a laugh. The misedits, which OP didn't say they made themselves, presumably didn't hurt anyone and taught a lot of people to be critical of what they read.
“Because we can”

They have a monopoly and they’re allowed to do it.
This won’t do anything in the realm of millions of users. I’m not even sure what the lazy part is trying to say. What OS are these supposed people moving to? It’s not Linux. It’s likely not Mac as moving to that will be for other reasons, not this...especially when every MacBook and iMac has a front facing camera.
> You can do that as well in many EU countries. Without being rich.

But, interestingly, few people do. And those who do seem to take on less risk than their counterparts in the US.
> Self-hosting in the cloud

That’s a contradiction in terms. It’s like saying that you own your home when what you have is a timeshare. The cloud is a timeshare.
Profit is after expenses so they are incentivized to pay themselves ridiculous salaries to appear less profitable.
Lots of groups with their own armies is just asking for constant fighting. There is a reason that each state doesnt have its own standing army. The founders saw how such a system worked in Europe with countries using war frequently to take what they wanted.
Can anyone fill me in on what Verisign actually does?

It's my understanding that ICANN ensures that the namespace/numerical space infra is secure and stable.
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I love this and will use it.

I watch video at 2x and made a simple bookmarklet to control speed for video/audio https://github.com/emehrkay/media_speed
Could we take a step back from the scepticism and acknowledge that maybe this is a sign of a company that is trying to change. Unlike google which actively chose to be evil, maybe this a sign of change at Amazon leadership - realising the damage it's doing to their reputation.

Amazon has huge issues to overcome in the near future. I have no doubt the quality issue with their products is going to reach boiling point in the same way it has with warehouse conditions.

Let's see.
Note the interesting point that there's an AppleQEMU!
Maybe that's why they added it?
Not meaning to make a koan. If this was the culture in place, would the core principles need elucidation?
There is absolutely speculation involved. But a domain name is and inherently exclusive thing, is it not? Sure you can have different TLD's (.com, .co, .net, .org, etc) but there can be only one owner and that person is the sole determiner of how much they want in order to transfer ownership.

It's also my understanding that the trademark rule only applies if the trademark was made before the scalper purchased the domain name. If you're a startup or just someone who wants the domain then you're out of luck. Your only options are to pay the asking price or hopefully wait until their claim on it lapses and they don't renew.
It really reminds me of this exchange from Better Off Ted:

Veronica: There is no program to green the building.

Ted: Yeah there is. They made a commercial about it.

Veronica: I didn't say there wasn't a commercial about
greening the building. I said there is no program to green the building.

Ted: So it's all a lie?

Veronica: They prefer to look at it as a dream.

Ted: But one they're not working towards?

Veronica: Are you working toward all your dreams, Ted? Then stop pointing fingers.
Your last paragraph goes against your original thesis. Whatever Microsoft did. It didn’t impact much at all. There was no migration. Netbooks aren’t even a thing any more outside Chromebooks.

The point doesn’t stand since there won’t be some exodus of users switching to Linux.

None of my friends or likey acquaintances who aren’t programmers or in related fields including a handful who sometimes or frequently keep up with general tech/gadget news, can tell you a Linux distro name. They likely can’t tell you what a distro is. I’m sure if I was to say Ubuntu they would say yes they have heard of it of are a bit familiar, but that’s the extent of it.
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Seems like a smear campaign. Like the carrier figured out they could and are using it to make google look bad for some reason.
Hmm, I mostly agree that patents should be abolished, at least for software systems...

But I'd like to examine this concept as patent trolls as heroes for the little guy - are there any actual examples of this, at least in the domain this usually is found (software)?

The only example I can think of is the inventor, who does indeed come up with concepts which he may only journal - ironically it used to be there was provision for this, having prior art on the subject invalidates the patent, even if only in concept. The difference being that this precludes the inventor from being sued for having invented, versus the first to file as it is now, which is what creates the whole pyramid of perverse incentives in my view.

Patent trolls typically have done no work or have no prior art, subsisting solely on "purchasing" invented arts - i.e. they have done no previous work.

As you say, this mainly creates a system where the 'little guy' just loses out, or people who have done nothing seek to swindle. You can have a system which protects concepts only if you also allow in the system that it is a system only to be used in an actual defensive situation, such as an inventor with an idea being protected from a large company trying to sue for so called copying (under copyright law)

Of course you would need to create a second classification at present, i.e. if you actually create a widget then you can only claim a limited right to exactly thay widget and nothing else - just the hint if non specificity would mean that the 'patent' was invalid. And a broader class of patent which would be claimed only in defense, i.e. public or private prior art.

What is broken seems to be the implementation (heh) not the concept of patents.
Agree with all of these statements except this one:

> Verisign will suck about $3 billion dollars out of the world economy just by having some powerful friends at ICANN.

It's not a zero-sum game.

If Verisign manages to extract $3B from the poverty-stricken folks who are buying up .com domains, it doesn't just disappear (unless, of course, Verizon takes it in cash and sets it on fire in the basement.)

That $3B will then be spent on whatever pet projects Verizon feels like spending it on, thus re-injecting into the global economy.

I personally think that Verisign should have to compete to run the .com registry, just like how we do FCC spectrum auctions, but hand-wavy statements like "suck about $3 billion dollars out of the world economy" do not help make that case.
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Yeah, those days were bad. Yet that doesn't mean the present isn't bad, either. I don't care for paying hundreds of dollars each year for domains for passion projects, especially when I suspect the actual cost of running a TLD registry is much lower.

In other words, I think the .com registry should be a non-profit, public service, rather than a money-printing machine that some lucky company gets to exploit.
I don't think Youtube is all that great for learning the kind of structured basics they teach in school.

Many people are self-motivated enough to watch videos on woodworking or sports or video game production. Less so for algebra or grammar, but these are important base skills.

This is part of why all the online course websites have such abysmal completion rates.
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So I need to rehearse two more stories if I want to interview there? Sign me up for that!
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This is an article from February. Why is it posted now?