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>Nobody at all bothers to download YouTube videos or Twitch streams since the content is free anyway.

I download every single video on youtube that I think there's any chance I'll want to watch again.

When I look at my playlists, so many of the videos have been deleted. Even if I paid for youtube I wouldn't be able to watch them again.
Bankruptcy judge approves Purdue Pharma plan giving Sackler family immunity
Record industry does not support content production at all. Less, artists. They are one of the biggest scams on the planet.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100712/23482610186.shtml

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110707/03264014993/riaa-a...

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140425/07192227027/riaa-c...

...

That industry should be killed with fire.
I think this college experience is really a PR thing. It's what you pay the most for and it is more entertainment than anything else.

Most countries' universities seem to work like the community college: it's near your high school, you go there and just study, the dorms for people from other cities are just cheap flat in the surrounding area, and you try to make your campus as small and focused on study as possible.

At least that's how it was in France, and my memories or universities are full of technical discoveries, amazing teachers and passionate friends. Not lifestyle changes, but intellectual ones.

The drinking games and parties, they stated at 16 and felt not very different at uni, just normal part of youth.
i wouldn't pay for tweets, but i might be happy to support people whose regular tweets entertain or inform me (right now i do it via patreon for a couple of them)
>The argument against this is that when the Sackler family realized that this was all going to go south they started sucking all of the profit out of Perdu Pharma (over 10 Billion dollars shortly before it declared bankruptcy).

Source for this happening? If so it'd fall under fraudulent conveyance. I suspect what actually happened was that they slowly withdrew the money years before bankruptcy or even the lawsuits, which makes it hard to go after them.
Yeah this would make sense. I still do think all nighters would probably harm your memory retention even if you do it a couple days before the exam. I'd imagine the brain has more time to really process what you're studying if you sleep after doing so.
land is zoned for particular uses for a reason (lack of utilities, traffic management, etc.) and it's the government's job to enforce these expectations for the neighbors and community.

imagine buying a rural land to get away from the city bustle and a developer builds high density apartment next to your place. or buying an apartment in the city only for someone to demolish blocks around you and turn it into farmland so you are not as conveniently close to shops and facilities.
The claim that is caused tens of millions in lost revenue is always funny to me. It is the same argument used to push DRM everywhere. The fact is, a lot (if not most) people that downloaded the movies or shows would not have paid for it in the first place. So it is not lost revenue.
Amazon has invested 10's of billions into wind farms, solar farms, hydrogen fuel cells, electric/hydrogen vehicles, etc.
Similarly, I can stop hiccups mentally. It's just a little trick of concentration while focusing on the right thing.
> My recall 20 years later is excellent, so this is not cramming.

Then one of the following is true: you have an exceptional memory, have been reviewing the content since then, or are dramatically overestimating your recall. It has little to do with your technique.
Apparently not so boring that we aren't still discussing the status of Pluto https://www.sciencenews.org/article/pluto-planet-vote-status...
Last I heard the Mozilla reskin is cheaper. And you support Mozilla (the foundation? Corporation? I can't tell).
"Let's ditch open protocol X that has worked well for decades, in favour or closed protocol Y. Because of some transient issue with open protocol X, it's now time for open protocol X to die"

Heard that before?

It's as if if your doctor told you it's now time for you to die because you caught a cold.
Buildings on land don't move. You don't have to plan for the scenario where your neighbor's house shifts it's location a few degrees and runs into your house, or where your neighbor's house will be in 2 years.

These constellations aren't stationary, they move based on their orbital parameters, and to properly predict their orbits, you'll have to account for their future movement for the next while (depending on expected lifetime and how close they come to your intended orbit).

Saying this is like buying a plot of land is missing the level of work and complexity that goes into orbital mechanics.

If you need to illuminate the same area of the earth, which would make sense if you're also looking to serve the same populations, then you'll need to either be at a different altitude or have neighboring or intersecting orbits, which will need to handle the orbits of all other objects. That's why the level of complexity increases a fair bit when you need to plan for two large-scale configurations.
People are watching whole percentages of their lives tick away. That's not the only thing they care about. We need an end in sight and we need to draw a line somewhere.
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Most flights have a visual portion. While it’s legal to takeoff 0/0 and legal to land in 100/0.5 (or lower for Cat-III), airplanes are overwhelmingly flown in visual conditions.

Navigating in spotty cumulus clouds or cumulonimbus (thunderstorm clouds) for ride and avoiding severe icing. Avoiding other airborne traffic (specifically required by federal law when in visual conditions) are other reasons to look out the window.
> life imprisonment

Life imprisonment for copying digital bits. Less than that for premeditated murder.

US justice system does not serve justice or the people. But the corporations.
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not?

Crenshaw and others never claimed that CRT and other variants of Conflict Theory were empirical in nature.

In the early 2000s, while pursuing my engineering and applied economics degrees, I focused most of my electives in the social sciences, and actually had several courses in classes where various flavors of Conflict Theory were explored. Essentially, Marx was a Conflict Theorist who focused on class divisions while deconstructing the rather miserable conditions of living in the height of Europe's industrial revolution.

Kim Crenshaw's work was always presented as a lens in which to deconstruct and then analyze various societal conditions.

What I can definitely attest to is that Conflict Theory and it's offshoots are strongly post-modernist in flavor, in the sense where they view attempts at quantifying and measuring to be so strongly biased by the dominant groups of a given culture as to be useless at best and tools of oppression at worst. It's not that they aren't empirical, it's that they are actively hostile to empiricism and reject it.

One of my sociology professors (a true statistically literate prof who specialized in poverty dynamics) used to joke that the CT and CRT folks didn't do research, they just wrote essays that referenced essays that referenced essays.
> PGP is literally thirty years old now, and I'm not aware of any significant changes

sounds like a good thing to me
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Anyone using patreon.

Unless you’re one of the few creators that have set up a DRM scheme using Patreon’s API, Patreon is functionally just a pay-to-view newsletter operating on the honor system and the idea that you’re paying as a show of support, not for a specific product/item.

Creators share text updates, images, video, download links, etc based on paying tiers. A Twitter feed works just as well for that.

Many (most?) artists use Twitter as a sharing/visibility platform already, equivalent to a “free tier” on Patreon but with much better visibility thanks to retweet-sharing and Twitter’s size. Having a smooth on-ramp for casual viewers to transition to patreon-style support could be quite useful.
It is the "easy to get one" part that is often the kicker. There are a lot of examples out there, many of them concerning poor people, but I will use my late grandmother as an example:

In 2011 Wisconsin instituted a Voter ID law that required a valid government ID in order to vote. Being in her 90s at the time my grandmother had stopped driving (at her childrens' wise insistence) a number of years prior. That being her only government ID that was acceptable, she needed to get a renewal of it, but this time as a non-driving ID.

So she was taken to the DMV to renew it, only to be told that they could not renew it (or convert it), because it had expired too long ago. She needed to start the application from scratch, and for that she needed an original birth certificate, with a stamp. The only birth certificate that she had had no stamp (the county she was born in not having had one until much later). So that was going to require her to get a new one of those.

So my aunt called around, finally finding the proper number for the hall of records in the county where my grandmother was born. Unfortunately it is a small county, so the hall of records is only open once or twice a week for part of a day... and the only place they accurately record that is on the door of the building apparently. So just getting in contact was quite a pain (a couple weeks of occasional work).

Then we learned that she would have to present herself in person to get her birth certificate. I remind you that she is in her late 90s at this point, and had never traveled far in her life (the farthest ever was probably to my wedding on the other side of the state), so this was not going to be a minor trip for her (only an hour-and-a-half... but for her...).

This was just too much for her, so she gave up. She grouced about not being able to vote in what wound up being her last major election, but... the hurdles she faced were just too much.

She had voted in pretty much every election she could, but her last one was denied her by the Voter Id Laws.

The answer to your question is that this is entirely an attempt by one political party to make it harder for people to vote, knowing that the people with the largest hurdles are likely the ones who are going to vote against them. It is disgraceful and underhanded, especially from the party that likes to associate itself with religion.
They don't even have to do that, just buy yeast and some juice/grains, let it sit in a jug you got from some foodproduct on stamps whatever. Tobacco you can grow from seed gathered from a field. It requires work, not money.
Well if you think that some combination of being exceptional, or being hardworking + a bit lucky, or some such gets you further in the US than other places, then you can bet that the exceptional and hardworking people are going to end up coming to the US.
I'd be in favor of requiring all city lights to be turned off after 7pm so I could see the night sky better in my rural location. (/sorta s)

A small city 40 miles away hurts the view far more then the Starlink satellites do.
It's not enforced because it's not true, the GP didn't read the article they posted, it's just a shitty financial advice column. Those "restrictions" are just suggestions.
If you know exactly what you want, you're better off going directly to the company's website or a retailer specialized in that category. Pretty much every such company has e-commerce these days and the risk of getting scammed is basically zero.
Yes, it's about the frequency and filtering. Some screens use ridiculously low switching frequencies that mean the resulting signal can't be filtered out with anything that would fit in a thin laptop.
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The lines you quote do not seem to actually say anything to support your claims or contradict those of the person you responded to?
Well Thunderbird just went to a 'roll-your-own' version of pgp, so seems it is an issue with the mail clients instead of pgp itself. And I expect Apple and Outlook use their own thing. Plus this seems specific to html mail.

So sending mail via mutt as text should still work fine with gnugp.

Also use proprietary Signal ? Really ? Not me!
There's you, who you think you are and who you think you're supposed to be or become, but only one of them is real.
I had a bad run of three Lenovo laptops and gave up on the brand completely after years of being an IBM/ThinkPad fan: a ThinkPad P40 (pen digitizer and power connector failures), a Yoga 720 15" (SSD, touch digitizer, and internal wi-fi failed), and a Legion 7 (known hinge design issue leading to failure).

I know the Legion 5 is good, which is why I (foolishly) thought the Legion 7 would also be good. It's the inconsistency within and across their product lines, and their god-awful depot support, that's made it a game of Russian Roulette to buy a Lenovo device — some people still swear by them because they either luck into, or do the deep research to find, the very specific models within certain lines that aren't failure-prone.

The 720 and Legion 7 failed within weeks, not months, and the 720 went to the depot twice and had at least one repeat or new failure within weeks after returning each time.

The P40 broke my heart the worst, though, because it had every feature I wanted and I paid through the nose for it thinking it'd be a 5-year device, minimum. It didn't make it to 2, couldn't get a refund, and didn't have the heart to sell it even for parts.

The 720 and Legion, though, failed so quickly that I got refunds from their retailers; I couldn't possibly resell them, and with the Legion 7 in particular I wasn't going to gamble with their depot service rejecting warranty coverage for the fault as people were reporting on Lenovo's own forums, and especially after the touch digitizer failed after the _second_ depot service for the 720.
after thirty years of being in this debate, I tend to agree with the down-voted parent. In the West, there must be a source of payment to artists, production houses, management and legal.. its a tragedy when that fails, because it is the artists that lose the most, the quickest.
I’m hoping to do it by the end of the year. I had to build my own GUI framework and such which complicated things.
Thats a good start. Now he should move on to adjusting the sizes of other things on demand and start teaching it online...
It can load scala tuning files, that makes it worth it for me to at least try.
Yes, well, people who aren't familiar with life in fly-over country tend to miss a lot of things.
Heh. He’s probably a nice guy... and his example is just the one that came first to mind.

It irks me people like Branson are blasé about faking something they don’t have to fake. He’s probably dedicated to the environment even if his activities and businesses aren’t friendly to the environment.

But just faking it like he really did it, he carried on with the ruse during his little speech too. Like, why?
This isn’t someone who torrented game of thrones, he was part of a scene/warez group called SPARK.
Right now, a lot of "creators" use Twitter to generate leads to sell premium content of various sorts (e.g. paid newsletters, ebooks, etc.). But the premium content has to live somewhere else, and there's a challenge getting people from Twitter to those other platforms.

I can see both the creators and consumers of content being happier if the lead gen and delivery of the premium content could happen in the same place. This especially makes sense if Twitter integrates this further with their Revue acquisition.

A few examples I could imagine:
- This could be used as an alternative to Substack/paid newsletters.
- I could see this being popular with people who share tips like crypto/stocks, etc. Get the basic tips for free, pay to get the good stuff (note: I don't endorse this, I'm just saying I bet it'll happen).
- This is a bit different from everything else I'm mentioning, but I bet celebrities could get their hardcore fans to pay for inside access to various things (e.g. backstage videos).
And Mercatus is in turn has been bankrolled by the Koch brothers. I may be biased but I sort of see Cowan’s part of role as something akin to cross between a PR rep and a economic academic rep for a particular set of views to align with that funding source.
That's missing the forest for the trees. No, it's not a continuous straight line down. But the trendline is, which is what I talked about.
The blogger is a recent grad (hence his example of reflecting how he did on an exam) but the idea he pointed out is universal - some expectation that "what I am doing should feel easy, and if it doesn't then there's something wrong."

I can relate to that feeling but it's also something that is an important (positive!) clue in our work. Speaking plainly: if you're in a place where everything you're doing feels easy, then you're living well bellow your potential.

If everything is easy, it means you're only doing things you know how to do already, which means you're not stretching and growing. When you are feeling a little bit like "I am struggling and borderline failing" - then you know you're pushing, growing and learning.

The important thing is to go through it a few times, so that you recognize that feeling and interpret it as "growing pains" rather than "impending doom"
PGP is also a disaster in non-email scenarios. Many times I've had to implement systems that receive pgp encrypted files and then decrypt them and load them somewhere else. To this day there are no good libraries for this. There's either GPGMe, or shelling out to the gpg command line tool. Both options are terrible.
Speaking strictly in software, they're still competitive but you'll likely have to negotiate with competing offers to get top dollar.

Base salary caps around ~160k in non-Bay or NYC areas. You'll get a competitive sign-on bonus split between the first two years to compensate you for the fact that 80% of your stock options vest in year 3 and 4.
Through my American Express card I could get Clear paid for, and I still refuse to do it because I think the business model is just that scummy.
If you get the 12 month plan, they are the same nominal amount, but mullvad charges 5 euros and Mozilla charges 5 USD. So depending on the exchange rate, one will be cheaper. Right now and likely for the foreseeable future that is Mozilla.
> this anticompetitive stuff is counterproductive

Competition leads to better results for everyone, but helping everyone isn't their goal.
They don't just want to win, they want everyone else to lose even if it means less progress is made overall, because it means they get to be the biggest of the survivors.
Anyone who has has worked on such massive projects as Bezos is going to have some failures along the way. It doesn't matter how good a person they are, there will be some accidental collateral damage along the way, at the very least.

The average person has had much less negative impact in their life than Bezos, but they have also had almost infinitely less positive impact as well.

In other words, it doesn't really make sense to zoom in on the failures Bezos has had without putting them into the context of his successes.

And I've never really seen a clear-headed examination of Bezos' positive and negative impact. My guess is that he's doing extremely good overall, even if his negative impact is a bit higher than would be ideal.

This is similar to how many people claim that technology, or even social media, is an evil force in the world while completely ignoring the massive good it has done for people (grandparents living richer and more connected lives with their grandchildren, communities of people supporting each other, political organization, etc).
SS2 is going to be a real horrorshow idea, one way or another.
GPT-3 is a moderately proficient author with nothing to say. The problem isn't the proficiency, it's the lack of content.

Some of us here despise the writing style of The New Yorker. The writing is beautiful, literary, but it takes it forever to say anything. GPT-3 is like that, but worse, because it has nothing to say.
They literally said that about the printing press!
I'll bite. Lazing a pilot endangers a lot more than one person's sight. It's not even close to being equivalent with someone doing it to one person who's not flying a plane.

I really don't want a regulatory eye turned towards lasers, at least during a media cycle. Determined assholes will just take apart their BDR players. It'll stop most kids I guess, but I think more media coverage could lead to more behaviour like this.
Rich is how much money you own.

Power is how much money you control.

They’re not as closely linked as you think.

A managing partner of a $1B fund is more powerful than a person worth $10B on paper whose wealth is all tied up in a minority position in a company they are unable to sell the shares of.

Or consider the power of Biden vs his personal net worth.
Just confirming I’m on the right page here, what about supply and demand? Doesn’t inflation increase the quantity of cash in existence, reducing its value relative to other units of exchange, and vice versa for deflation?

So for example, a 500% deflation just means that one dollar today buys $6 worth of whatever it could have bought in the past (my math might be off)?
It supports the claim that it was a settlement, rather than the judge letting them off the hook unilaterally. As part of any settlement, each side agrees not to engage in further litigation on the same matter, otherwise there's no point in settling. I also omitted the next sentence which states what they gave in exchange for the settlement.

>In return, they have agreed to pay roughly $4.3 billion, while also forfeiting ownership of Purdue Pharma.