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“ Doubleday doesn't own the pages of the books they sell me.”

But if you copy them you can still be taken to court and/or imprisoned, just like copying a disc.
Relevant article from last year:

These WhatsApp Messages Show the Opioid Crisis Was Just a Big PR Headache for the Sackler Family
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/12/these-whatsapp-...
The actual title is "Meme Stock Alfi's Facial Recognition Ad Technology Fans Privacy Concerns"

The original link didn't work. Try this one

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-01/meme-stoc...
There are hundreds of thousands, or possibly millions of BIPOC individuals out there in the USA who have felonies on their record and ruined lives for selling marijuana, or other trivial low level personal-usage-amount drug crimes, and these guys get to walk?
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> TL;DR Vaccines vs. Ivermectin, in two pictures. Vaccines work, Ivermectin weakly moves the needle (maybe).

Since Ivermectin is mostly being hyped (and, often using veterinary formulations, abused) as a treatment rather than pre-diagnosis preventive, wouldn't a more appropriate contrast be Ivermectin vs. monoclonal antibody treatment?
Yes, there is: they are the only things that know how to talk to the OS in a stable way. There’s no other way to write apps for iOS.
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Are you sure 64 -> 32 threads isn't some sort of locking?

Sequential read memory bandwidth on modern hardware is tens of GB per second as I recall, so I think there's probably some optimization you can do on the program?
Huge difference. Deviating from a flight plan, even majorly, is orders of magnitude less dangerous than glancing at your phone on the highway. Airspace is really big, and flying into area outside their flight path is so unlikely to hurt anyone as to be laughable.

The ballsy part that deserves respect is pushing the envelope on safety, executing perfectly, and playing it off like it's nothing.
Admittedly I can't be sure of how much of their wealth is or isn't tied up in the bankruptcy--though I think the same is also true of everyone else here--but if they're anything like most others who own large companies, it represents a significant fraction of their net worth and it's about to be worthless.

Bankruptcy court is pretty much always like this, though. I remember the same kinds of things coming up during, e.g., SCO.
Interesting. I always wondered why Senior level engineers at banks got the VP title. It seemed odd for someone formerly an IC to suddenly step into a VP level role, but this makes sense now.
These people don't mingle with the riff raff. The only middle and lower class people they see are their employees, and that's usually only through a screen or several sheets of glass.
I also like the font. I just checked and there are two different fonts, the headers use "granville" and the running text uses "brandon-grotesque".
I respect Chomsky's well-constructed, dark analyses of how we got where we are. He usually stops after this 20-20 hindsight. The messy part, what to do about it, is left to the Chomsky consumer. Unfortunate for those who can only respond with depression or attempts to revive the past.
You don't have to hand your license over when a store asks to scan it.

Whenever I have purchased something that is age restricted, I have just held my license and held on to it, and not let them scan it.

The insecurity of the POS systems means I don't trust them to not store that data and let it be leaked/stolen.
At what point does this cross the line from "selling a legal product" to "mass murder"?
As Gabe Newell said, piracy is a service problem. It was said in the context of video games, but I believe it very much well applies to other parts of the entertainment industry.

If people are pirating content, then consuming that content is not worth the hassle to obtain.

> If a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate’s service is more valuable.

In that way, stamping out piracy is trying to address the symptoms, not the cause, and even if you are ultimately successful in eradicating piracy, then you'll likely still end up with a bunch of non-customers.

Anecdotally, the popularization of Netflix definitely greatly reduced piracy among my demographic, up until the point where every publisher decided to roll their own, often subpar, streaming service, each with different region-locking rules.
I don't expect Zig to take off until A.D. 2101.
Shocking. Perhaps TSA's security theater could undergo similar scrutiny?
Yeah, people should totally be able to kill someone than go back to their own country and never be held accountable.
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Rand Paul was suspended from Twitter for saying that.
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Yeah, a few artists I follow were in the first batch and I'm already getting tired of them shilling for Patreon, Twitch subs, Ko-Fi and now Twitter subscriptions, all at once, all over my timeline.

I realize these people need an income but I can't be the only one that feels a bit put off.
Agreed about the chickens and it will have a broader negative impact than the $SPCE stock price.

Fundamentally I think it’s a culture problem. Collaborative engineering that identifies problems, views them as opportunities, doesn’t finger-point, and works each problem. Versus a sales and marketing organization with hard deadlines and a 100% focus on perception and revenue targets.

We don’t need an Apollo 1 in the private space industry. But if it happens, there will be a hard reset in terms of regulatory oversight and safety protocols which will cost us several years. Perhaps it’s needed.
> get around corporate card policies

This isn't true for tech companies (except maybe the antiquated ones). At my current firm, everyone got a corp card on request.
Are there any non-hospital mask mandates anywhere that require anything but a cloth mask?
In french, the verb "formater"[0] can either mean to format (like to format a hdd) or to brainwash.

They must have though the meanings where the same in english.

[0] https://fr.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/formater
The Oppression of Profession
Where did the title for this post come from?

> Villages where cloth masks were distributed experienced a 5 percent reduction in symptoms, while villages where surgical masks were distributed saw a reduction of 12 percent.

Also: this is a specific set of circumstances with many variables.
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“This study has several implications for policy-makers. First, there is clear evidence that community mask-wearing can reduce COVID-19. The effects were substantially larger in communities where surgical masks were distributed, consistent with greater filtration efficiency measured in laboratories, and surgical masks reduced 1 in 3 symptomatic infections among individuals aged 60+.”

I don’t think he said that
Why wouldn't the police accept a legal document that is valid for the state you received your drivers license in?

Police in Texas also will happily accept a drivers license from out of the country in whatever form that happens to be. Same way I can travel around Europe with my US drivers license...
Yup. Become too big to fail and you can do anything.

We have decided that economic stability and stability in general is more important than honesty, accountability, abiding by the law, or pretty much anything else. If we hold anyone accountable for anything the stock market might go down.

The same seems to happen in politics, but it works a bit differently. If you hold a politician responsible for gross incompetence or worse, such as George Bush Jr. for Iraq WMDs or Donald Trump for January 6th, then they or their allies might retaliate or hold back legislation that you want passed. On top of that extreme partisan division makes this worse by making it virtually impossible to get members of a politician's own party to hold them responsible for anything. I realized recently that extreme partisanship makes it easier for politicians of both sides to get away with bullshit.
It'll be funny when someone searches for this later.
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I think your experience is fairly characteristic of software developers. However, there's a lot of other segments out there where title comes into play a lot heavier; where it caries weight in the same way experience does.

It's probably also worth noting that title can impact pay when it comes to a job; a lot of companies have pay caps based on title.

Really, my point was that title is more than just self-gratification.
I will think it will continue to go unchecked until there is financial incentive for such individuals to face repercussions from other individuals since corporates have largely co-opted the state.

Probably will take the form of looming $20 billion in open interest expiring worthless on options on whether $x pharma exec will be alive by $y date, that trades on a decentralized options exchange that uses a decentralized prediction market amm liquidity pool as a underlying price feed.
More courses are "flipped" these days with viewing the lectures out of class and solving exercises in class.
The worst bit is some of it is quite-likely Russian destabilizing astroturfing. Stoking a class war would be absolutely in scope for this stuff.

- https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/10/28/its-not-e...
- https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/download/10...
Its a smorgasbord of git commits, READMEs, wikis, Jira tickets, documentation 'websites', word documents, google doc like documents, etc.
Not sure about that. The major VPNs have similar (not identical) functionality and price. They're competing on the perception that they are more secure than others. In that light, having a passing security audit by a reputable company would be table stakes for a lot of customers. As noted by another commenter already, not having one could also be a deal-breaker on a vendor security assessment by a big company, too.
I've used Exercism for a number of years now and have enjoyed it. It's nice to see they added an editor in the browser so you don't have to use the command line to interact with their system. I'd like to see them implement vim keybindings for that editor (or maybe just embed neovim), and also offer a dark theme. I still prefer codewars.io because of the two things I listed, but I think this is a big improvement on their part.
It's not that he should or shouldn't have, it's that once you make that decision, certain consequences become likely.

I place it more on the author trying to paint a victim narrative, given the guys board resignation (he knew his fate), and the fact that the author directly benefitted from the decision that got him fired.
I'm generally supportive of Apple's right to a revenue share from apps which sit on the App Store shelf and/or rely on Apple libraries and APIs—but even I think Apple should just completely give up on attempting to share revenue from multiplatform reader apps.

There's a lot of reasons why I think this, but for me the main reason is that the thing of value here—the creation of desirable content—occurred entirely outside of Apple's developer agreement and any of Apple's intellectual property associated with it. Plus it's a just a crappy looking thing for the largest company on Earth to do when directly competing with other "reader apps" in the streaming music and streaming television spaces.
Debugging your startup when it isn't working
Is there any business that isn't backed by state violence, to some degree? The computer you're typing this on is powered over copy wires, and those copper wires have value. What's to stop someone from just coming up and stealing them and everything else of value you own?
Apple to Let App Makers Point Users to Web to Pay for Services
> Edit because I can't be bothered to reply to all the comments below: excerpts from other books (often by the same author, or in a similar genre) are not ads IMO.

Ah, so what you mean is you've never encountered an online ad in a printed book.
This seems like a subtle way to announce a pretty significant change. It sounds like Japan’s regulator has insisted that reader apps be able to link to their own websites, and process payments outside of the 30% tax that Apple imposes.

If it applies for audio, video, newspapers, books etc, will it apply for Fortnite?
I'm considering the wide class of 'medicines that reduce covid severity'.

To your point, I've heard reasonable Ivermectin proponents arguing that it works best as a preventive and/or started early after infection. To the infamous Youtube moment where somebody took preventive Ivermectin on camera.
Microsoft / wslg:Support for Wayland and X server related scenarios
Cosmic Rays: The Universe Is Hostile to Computers (Veritasium)
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Shh...no tears...only content marketing now.
A valid license is a valid license? Whether or not rural cops are aware is a different issue. I'm also curious how it will work to hand over "license and registration" info. Traditionally, you give them your physical license, they might go back to their vehicle with it, and come back after several minutes. No way I'm giving them my phone!

Until the technology is ubiquitous, people will have to carry the physical copy like normal. If it becomes ubiquitous, it should become ubiquitous in tandem with something like a handheld scanner the police brings to your window. Will it ever completely replace the physical copy? I doubt it... Apple Pay has been out for 6 years now and not all point of sale terminals accept it. It's hard to know beforehand which places accept. Not to mention that phones run out of battery and can get misplaced. Redundancy is good.
Does it stop at not doing the laundry “or whatever”? Or does your procrastination sneak into other aspects of your life?
There are some survivors out there from the era of the internet before Facebook and Reddit came along and wiped out a lot of the interesting discussion boards and special interest sites.

The recently renamed GearSpace [1] is a good place to discuss most things related to music gear, recording and production techniques, the music business and related topics.

Weight Weenies [2] is a location to talk about cycling, although mostly high-end with a fixation on reducing weight and the latest in expensive gear. The site has had some uptime issues lately, which isn't a great sign.

There must be some other gems still out there. I am looking forward to some other responses.

[1] https://gearspace.com/board/

[2] https://weightweenies.starbike.com
Unless they are the wife of a diplomat?
I guess I disagree with this guy's characterization - unless the point he is making is that the Fed has to operate within the constraints of what makes sense given the market or otherwise the market fails.

This blog post summarizes my opinion https://www.themoneyillusion.com/monetary-policy-and-interes...
Man, I need to get into this business where sucking at my job is justification to be paid more to suck even more at my job. M
Whether or not violence is the answer, it seems inevitable if the trend of unequal outcomes continues on the trajectory it has been for the past 40 years. If the wealthy were as smart as they think they are, they would get behind some form of redistribution just out of a "Bread and Circuses" self-interest plan.
Got one. I guess it’s clear, we don’t need any more movie poster designers.

I would have appreciated some more recent ones though. I don’t quite remember all movies from the 80s.
You should go for it. I've really enjoyed diversifying where I earn my money. I have always been one of those people who have a million side hustles and used to castigate myself for never focusing. At some point I decided to just embrace it, do everything, and see what worked. A few things have: https://www.isaacforman.com.au/

I think my tips would be to think of what content people will buy. Lots of people near me focus on beaches or random public places which have limited commercial opportunities. One of my focal points has been wineries[1]. You can sell the content to the winery, to the local wine association, to tourism authorities, to wine trade, wine tours, and so on. And there are ways to do it where you come across like a helper rather than a salesperson. Then you persist until people are approaching you to commission shoots.

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>1) actually just letting people pay to get rid of ads + see content in chronological order without other bullshit

It can't because the people most likely to pay are also the ones worth the most to advertisers. Thus you need to charge more to make up for it, thus selecting for even more valuable people, etc, etc.

>2) allowing users to edit tweets which people have been begging for for years.

Due to the high possibility for abuse either by users or people taking over their accounts this is unlikely unless it resets all metrics on the tweet. At which point you may as well make a new tweet. Same reason you can't edit the title of a reddit post.
There were suggestions when you used the meta?(windows) key and then typed something in Ubuntu. Windows does this too, I forget who did it first. I went from xp x64 to win 7 ultimate to win10pro and managed to keep the telemetry to a minimum as much as I could.

IIRC the Ubuntu change was pushed in a non-LTS distribution.

As an aside I think 5 year LTS is too few, with the advances made in AI/ML in the last decade five years on os support means that 80% of all the tooling is broken now, at least without spending lots of time backporting or hacking fixes in.
If the government comes for you, good luck explaining the officers you don't accept their laws and that you're just defending yourself.
You'll end up in jail, a fugitive or dead - unless you're in GTA.
> I think sharing this story reflects poorly on me also. Perhaps finding out somebody has been telling you lies so they could continue to participate isn't a great sin. Perhaps I was simply too focused on getting shit done in impossible timeframes to realise not everybody can cope with that kind of strain. It's all yesterday now and little can be done about it, other than document it for posterity (and full disclosure) and move on.

A self-aware essay that comes from the heart. Thank you for posting.
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