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They are not. Smart TVs are slow as hell. I don't want a TV that has "to boot" and takes time to turn on because it has to load a full Android OS, takes 10 seconds to load the channel guide, have a ton of buttons that you didn't ask to open Netflix or other services for which I don't have a subscriptions to press by mistake (and each time you loose 10 seconds or so of the programs you where watching).

Really, I find modern smart TV too lagging, it's like you press a button on the remote and the TV responds even 1 seconds after, it gives you the impression that the remote is not working properly, but it's not there the problem.

A TV has to do one thing, and do it well, let me watch some TV programs, from external sources or from the aerial, with a good image and sound quality (but the last one it's impossible to find on any TV these day and you need always an external sound system). I don't need Netflix or other video streaming services, if I need that I just plug a media center PC in the HDMI port, why complicating the TV with stuff that still doesn't work well and it's slow as hell?

Speaking about car radios... car radios these days are horrible. They present you DAB radio as the primary choice, that has an terrible sound quality. FM reception is still bad. The quality of the speakers either as bad. And I'm taking about the car radio of a Mercedes car that costs 40k euros. The stock car radio of my 2010 Volkswagen Golf is far better, better sound quality, better radio reception, better responsiveness of the radio (physical knobs and buttons that I can operate without looking at them VS unresponsive touch screen interfaces that are dangerous to use when you drive).

And the worse thing? You cannot update the radio in every modern car. They destroyed the market of aftermarket car stereos, how can you replace the radio if it's not only a radio but it's the interface that you use to control all the car functions?
>Because there was little biographical information available about its author, the debate hinged on one question: Who was Isabel Fall? And that question ate her alive

and

>So what’s the worst that might have happened if, somehow, the “Attack Helicopter” detractors were right and the story was a secret reactionary text?

Why did this matter? Why does this matter? I find peculiar and dangerous the idea that the author's biography matters. A story speaks to its reader, or doesn't, regardless of whether Isabel Fall or Adolf Hitler or Donald Trump or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or Bernie Sanders or Isaac Asimov or Robert Heinlein wrote it, or what motivated them to write it.
> Perhaps we already have disrupted the traditional employer<->employee power dynamic

Care to describe what disruption happened and how? Software developers contracts seem pretty similar to any other office worker.

The only big change in employment in the last 15 years happened outside of software development: the gig/sharing economy.

And it's a huge step backwards.
There are a lot of auto repair guys (Owner operator types) that don't have a website. They either don't have time, know how, or want to spend 5-10k on a 5-8k page website. Yoou would'nt believe how many don't have a website and still do well. My barber has no website and if you walk in you're waiting 1.5 hours to get a haircut minimum. My Mechanic also doesn't have a website and I'm pretty sure he wouldn't mind one but the cost is prohibitive $6k plus for a few pages.
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Yes, both of those would correct the default interpretation of the term. For one thing, damages as something paid for isn't the same as damages paid. You pay money, you don't pay for money. On the other hand, if you pay for the consequences of your actions, that's different than "paying [read: suffering] the consequences."

Where did government defining things come into play? That seems to be a strawman you constructed:

> websites do not have to use the legal definitions of words

No, they don't. They're still misleading if they use words misleadingly.
It does seem like e.g. the US could impose this unilaterally. You, a company, have to make two tax returns: one on all the money you made here, and one on all the money you and/or your relevant "parent" corporation made elsewhere. Same rules to calculate taxes in both cases. On the latter return, you can subtract the sum of the taxes you paid elsewhere from the tax owed. The rest belongs to the US government.

At that point there'd be no point in a country offering cut-rate taxes to any corporation that does substantial business in the US, because taxes on any profit realized internationally will still be collected. It's just that the US is taking them rather than the country that's offering the cut-rate tax deal. So that country (Ireland or whoever) no longer benefits from having low corporate taxes, and they might as well have taxes at least as high as those in the US.

It seems like any sufficiently important country or union could impose a rule like this if they wanted to. There must be some facet of international law that prevents it, or some other complexity to the idea that I'm missing.
Don't governments have enough money? I think they could do with a lot less actually.
> I think you can build up a little of lactose tolerance with moderate intake (and it seem you can loose it, happened to me after staying away from milk products due to living in Asia for a couple of years)

There are three major strategies a human body may implement for lactase:

The first is that you produce lactase as an infant, and then you stop producing it. This is the mammalian norm.

The second is that you produce lactase as an infant, and then you never stop producing it.

But the third is that you produce lactase as an infant, and then you keep producing it so long as lactose is a regular part of your diet. You will permanently stop producing it if you ever go for a significant period without consuming lactose.

It sounds like you were a type 3.
Hm! Curious to hear more about what had to be re-done. (Sorry that caused you work.) Could you email me at edwin@stripe.com?
Its not that the tactic is scummy.

Its that police officers use tactics to prevent recordings of themselves being uploaded and spread. The fact that they explicitly go out of their way to avoid accountability is bad. It is bad because, given the privileges we give police, a strong force of accountability is needed.

This situation is worsened by the fact that this happened at a hearing where police conduct was the subject. There already are doubts in that community about police conduct. If they close ranks, that suggests there is indeed something wrong. Certainly, it means the relationship between police and the community is becoming more and more adversarial, and police aren't trying to bridge that gap. That is simply bad.
From what I've heard, Acer's support is nothing to brag about either.

I never owned one myself, but I've heard complaints about their laptops from several people regarding reliability/longevity.

At the last company I worked at, we had two beamers made Acer, both broke within six weeks, we sent them in for repair, when they came back, one of them still didn't work.
You clearly didn't read the review. They say it is only for models sold through Amazon
> The idea that Amazon would even spend the time specially configuring a laptop to lock the boot order?

That's not what's claimed?
It is actually a pretty good system for the CCP "politburo".
I don't think this is so much an Apple problem as a medical device manufacturer problem. These devices disable themselves in the presence of magnetic fields. Maybe device manufacturers should consider a different disabling technology. Or alert users when their device is disabled.
Because YT automated removal of copyrighted content here is just the loophole used by the police officer to avoid being recorded and published (which it's a citizen right in the US, according to the article). So it's the sergeant attitude the problem here, he would use another loophole if this one wasn't available.

Why are you trying to diverge the attention spot here?
https://plaintextaccounting.org

Not sure about receipt scanning though.
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Most of these people will completely change their stances the second someone they don't like gets voted in. I think theres a good chance that someone right wing is back in office after 4 years of Biden. When that happens they better hope it's not Trump 2 (or actual Trump).

I just don't understand the inability of people to see what happens when they give so much power away. That power does not disappear when the next POTUS appears.

These tech companies will 100% change with the wind, in fact, they already do it for China. They're only doing these things to garner favor from the current administration in hopes of staying away from any regulation. There's nothing altruistic about their behavior at all.
> Citation needed?

Op is making a bet not a claim.
> Fly.io takes Docker containers and converts them into fleets of Firecracker micro-vms running in racks around the world. If you have a working Docker container, you can run it close to your users, whether they're in Singapore or Amsterdam, with just a couple of commands.

FWIW these are OCI images, which can be built with other tools besides Docker. These are not the same thing as containers. I think Docker is overrated and am glad to be using a Containerfile instead of a Dockerfile (it's the same format).

Firecracker is great but there is an alternative: https://katacontainers.io/

There seems to be confusion as to what Firecracker is doing. Docker in Docker isn't really Docker in Docker when it's in a MicroVM - except for being run by an OCI image. https://community.fly.io/t/fly-containers-as-a-ci-runners/10... Docker uses LXC containers, and an LXC container inside an LXC container is likely to have performance problems. MicroVMs, on the other hand, are similar to VPSes.

fly.io suggests that "CPU cores, for instance, should only ever be doing work for one microVM". https://fly.io/docs/reference/architecture/ These MicroVM's are not cheap, and maybe it would be nice to be able to share a VCPU between multiple containers in a lot of situations. Fly.io could be burning a lot of investor money.

I think WASM and Deno are good ways to break down a MicroVM with a whole VCPU into smaller sandboxed entities. Also Docker run by an OCI image makes more sense in a MicroVM that has a whole CPU than it does in an LXC container with less than a whole CPU.

I do think fly.io is pretty cool. I hope they find ways to educate people more about the difference between a MicroVM (not invented by AWS) and a LXC container and to get people making more use of their heavier weight "containers".

Edit: I noticed that in their free tier and low cost plan, they have shared CPUs. https://fly.io/docs/about/pricing/

They are charging quite a bit more for one dedicated CPU than DigitalOcean, Vultr, and Lightsail. The cheapest one is $31.00/mo.

It's quite similar to Google Could Run. It looks like Cloud Run doesn't have an option to run less than a vCPU in memory though. That means you can pay fly.io $6/mo for a MicroVM with a gig of memory and not have a full cold start, but have a shared CPU which will of course cause latency but probably typically less than a cold start, but you can't pay Google $6/mo and get that. https://cloud.google.com/run/pricing Also websockets can stay open with a shared CPU, but can't in between the VM stopping and starting. I don't know if the $6/mo 1GB MicroVM with a shared vCPU is sustainable, but if so, it's a pretty impressive way to host an app that uses websockets for super cheap.

Edit 2: I said "They are charging quite a bit more for one dedicated CPU than DigitalOcean, Vultr, and Lightsail." - I was actually wrong here. It is more for self-hosting if you would run a database like PostgreSQL/MySQL in a VPS (they don't discourage it, and it's pretty simple to do) but wouldn't run a database like PostgreSQL/MySQL in a Fly.io VM (they might discourage it, and it's a bit tricky to do).
Understandable. I'm coming at this from a "violence begets violence" perspective and my fear is escalation.
Isn't it a consensus position among economists that corporate taxation is inefficient and badly targeted? That taxes on individuals (wages, goods&services, capital gains) and on land are easier to collect and better at providing desired incentives?

Really, isn't a "race to the bottom" a virtuous cycle here?

Kinda weird to see Yellen -- Treasury Secretary and former Fed Chair -- making this kind of statement.
I would expect the courts to also object to using copyright law to suppress other legal rights.

But yeah, YouTube's policies and mechanisms don't care about the fine points of law.
I'm not. I'm just pointing out that a massive effort requires a broad tax base. I understand everyone wants the wealthy to pay for everything, but there is quite literally not enough wealthy people in the world to begin to tackle a large problem. Everyone has to contribute
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I'm only interested in data, not personalities, whether Tony Heller or Greta Thunberg/Severn Suzuki.
Self employed wastes so much of my time. I had to completely redo everything this last tax year.

Switched to godaddy’s bookkeeping which still sucks but not many options out there.
I personally use GNUCash for my budget stuff but I know they've got a lot of business oriented tools and reports. Might be worth looking into.
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That is disingenuous. The standard for a preliminary injunction is "likelihood of success on the merits." The judge has to find that the law probably violates the First Amendment to issue the injunction. The second-to-last sentence says: "The legislation does not survive strict scrutiny."--in other words, he found that the law violated the First Amendment.

Indeed, the judge clearly believes that this is a blatant violation of the First Amendment. His commentary that you are citing is merely an indication that's it not as hilariously flagrantly violating it as the plaintiffs contended.
Read the review again.
Yogurt, like cheese, doesn't contain lactose. Fermentation is literally the processing of sugar into alcohol.

(Though see cheese_goddess's comment.)
There. The federal government has been blowing billions in Afghanistan, I'm sure they can try to use it on something else instead of levying more taxes from me and my coworkers.
I'll add another nod for Bench. Been using them for 6 months now and they are friggin great.
So post the video with the copyright-material-subtracted audio, plus a link to the unedited audio.
Source? Can't find anything, add an /s if you're jesting.
I use Xero for my business accounting. Works well. My accountant had never used it before, but had no problem grokking it.

Intuit has my email address from an abortive attempt to use Quickbooks, about a decade ago. It sucked so hard, I ran screaming.

Every now and then, I get an email from them, suggesting that I “reactivate” My account.

The unsub link is worthless. I have to log in with the nonexistent account, in order to unsub. The reset password function doesn’t work (non-existent account). I am doomed to get these emails for eternity, but they aren’t frequent enough to be much more than an annoyance.

But Equifax has a crappy record on data integrity. I expect an avalanche of penis pill spam, soon.
A lot of the Pacific northwest has been a desert for thousands of years.
Big companies would avoid this like the plague.
I could be wrong but doesn't YouTube just remove any monetisation from the uploader and assign it to the artist/label if it detects copyrighted music?
>>The trouble is of course that communities form organically, and so they frequently need to be policed organically.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

>>And I'm not convinced the line between a "mob" and a "grass roots movement" actually exists.

To which I agree. In their mechanics there is little difference between one group and other. Just like there's little difference between soldiers and mercenaires.

>>Just for the purposes of illustration: Were the protests in Egypt a decade ago, or in Hong Kong more recently, "mobs"? Why, and who decides?

They are mobs to people who, rightly or wrongly, wanted to discredit them (respectively the Mubarek regime and the Chinese government). A stronger set of examples you could have compared are how the American news organizations reported the more violent elements of the George Floyd protests (statue topplings, burglary, arson, etc.) and the January 6 riots.

But if you mean in an objective sense, I'm asking the same questions as you are. Those two questions are the determining factors to what a community will be immune from and what "norms" to consider appropriate. But they have to assessed on an individual level lest one creates a cult or a dictatorship.
> People want thin phones

[Citation needed]

My "thin" phone double in volume with the require case, so "thinness" is really a joke...
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It actually does have a cost. In fact I'm pretty sure it has two separate types of cost, so let's talk about both of them.

Firstly, and this is orthogonal to my original point, whenever people say "Cost" they actually silently mean "... that I care about" and so we're involuntarily obliged to agree to stop caring about anything else. Because of Hyrum's law even if you don't promise ordering (as Python's "Compact Dict" developer proposes at one point) your users will rely upon it and you're stuck with whatever you implemented. This is a real cost for a language or standard library. Look at the sad state of C++ standard collections.

But my main point is that the requirement for ordering forces you to dispose of otherwise permissible optimisations which could destroy the order. You actually ran head first into this in the article, when repeatedly removing and adding elements blows up by clogging your data structure with tombstones.

Swiss Tables wouldn't clog up with tombstones. Since they don't care about ordering they only need tombstones at all in uncommon special cases (specifically, if the entire rest of the group is full or tombstones), in most cases Swiss Tables get to just set removed (key, value) pairs as empty. But this optimisation isn't open to you.
Quite funny that this ends up making the video more popular because of the Streisand effect. Would be scary if police always had this technique though when recording as maybe it would end up becoming more normalised so the Streisand effect wouldn't happen.
> I've found since youtube tutorials and knowledge videos really exploded in popularity

At some point Google decided to prioritize video content. I don't think anybody really likes doing those videos when the main media they are working with is text, but it's a choice of doing a video or never having anybody ever find you.
What should legislators and officials change?
got it, makes sense, thanks
A corporate country. Is that a dictatorship of the shareholders?
I agree with you wholeheartedly. I'm very worried about climate change, and I would be willing to make any number of sacrifices to _effectively_ combat climate change. However, the question is this:

> _Suppose a proposal was on the ballot next year to add a monthly fee to consumers’ monthly electricity bill to combat climate change. If this proposal passes, it would cost your household $10 every month. Would you vote in favor of this monthly fee to combat climate change, or would you vote against this monthly fee?_

My utility company can barely run their billing website. Paying them $40 a month to "combat climate change" sounds like throwing money into a hole. So no, I wouldn't do that.

Would I vote for legislation that would redirect subsidies from fossil fuels to clean energy sources? Yes! Would I vote for legislation that would place limitations on the production of plastics, even if it meant raising the price of consumer goods? Probably!

I know, I know, there's complexity in these issues, but my point is that I'd be willing to pay more to combat climate change. I'm just picky about who I'm paying it to, whether the costs will be distributed justly, and what they plan to do with that money.
Coincidentally last year (and this year) in many places in the world you couldn't go where you wanted for the same reason.
Summary of the allegation for anyone who doesn't want to click:

>The court filing in question stated that Delgado had been informed that Miller had an affair with a “Jane Doe”; that this other woman became pregnant; that shortly thereafter, Miller visited the woman’s apartment with a smoothie; and that unbeknownst to Jane Doe, the smoothie contained an abortion pill, which induced an abortion.

>Krueger’s article reads, in part, “Additionally, the court documents claim, when the woman found out she was pregnant, Miller surreptitiously dosed her with an abortion pill without her knowledge, leading, the woman claims, to the pregnancy’s termination and nearly her death.”
I think there should be a distinction between 'for the public' and 'in public'.
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> As I understand it her real identity was never actually part of the conversation, so I don't understand what stood in the way of simply getting off twitter and leaving the pseudonym behind.

She couldn't stop herself, which I can relate to after she'd poured her heart and soul into the story.

>> “I sought out and read everything written about the story. I couldn’t stop,” Fall says. “It was like that old nightmare-fantasy. What if someone gave you a ledger of everything anyone’s ever said about you, anywhere? Who wouldn’t read it? I would read it; I would go straight to the worst things.”

And then there's the whole gender identity thing making it even harder:

>> One criticism above all got to her: that Fall must be a cis man, because no woman would ever write in the way she did. And because this criticism was so often leveled by cis women, Fall felt her gender dysphoria (the gap between her gender and her gender assigned at birth) increasing.
Why does everything that isn't maximal urbanism have to have some nefarious motivation to it? Maybe people just want privacy, a certain architectural aesthetic, and a lifestyle that isn't possible with overcrowding.