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Elsevier and other capitalist firms that lock up papers are the real pirates in the first place:

"Digital piracy and the digital copying of cultural products for private use is a refusal to pay rent-tribute to knowledge capitalists.

Therefore, piracy is miss-naming of the phenomenon.

The sea pirates take away by force others' properties. The digital “pirates” only use universal commons which have been artificially fenced off. They just remove fences, and by doing so they do not take away knowledge, because, knowledge cannot be taken away. They use something which by its nature belongs to the whole of humanity. The producer of knowledge uses knowledge, as “raw” material, which is part of the general intellect of humanity as a whole and the produced knowledge itself becomes immediately part of this general intellect. Therefore, the fencing of knowledge is, essentially, more similar to the traditional piracy. The knowledge capitalist fences off, with help of the force of law, universal commons that does not exclusively belong to her/him. Therefore, s/he robs commons. To put it bluntly, digital piracy takes back that which has been stolen from the public. Therefore, although illegal, it is morally and ethically justified. The very fact that public ethics and the bourgeois property rights contradict each other on this matter evidences that such rights are superfluous in our era of digital technology.

In this way, the digital piracy and digital counterfeiting is an important economic-social movement of our time. This movement is expressed in various ways including the following.

First millions of individuals around the world, understanding and believing that they are not involved in theft, copy things for individual uses. The historical, cultural and political significance of this practice can hardly be exaggerated. It undermines the moral and ethical legitimacy of the bourgeois intellectual property in the very pours and veins of everyday life. Digital piracy is a major force of the growth of knowledge and culture, on the one hand, and the self-improvement of the individual on the other.

Second, “pirate” activists illegally copy fenced off knowledge and make it available for a global public on the net. A good example was Gigapedia digital library on the net, which was created by activists who scanned books.

These activists are either from poorer countries or classes or our era’s Robin Hoods from privileged countries and classes. Aaron Swartz was one such Robin Hood. The very massive and online and off line protests against SOPA in the USA and ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement ) in the European Union, and their temporary success, are evidence of the moral legitimacy of digital piracy and digital counterfeiting."

Source: professor Jakob Rigi, https://triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/487/1146
> There's really only one router, with a pretty mediocre MediaTek cpu/wireless chipset, that has 802.11ax support at all

There are many MediaTek devices including UniFi 6 APs, but also in robimarko's dev branch, Qualcomm IPQ807x support is working very well. Modulo some kind of slow memory leak that seems to happen when an AP doesn't have clients :D but the "hard parts" are working. Speed is high on all radios, sysupgrade is working, thermal/clock management is working, there's even hardware offloads for NAT and other stuff I don't care about (I only use these devices as APs).
Your grandfather was 141 years old?

(Or from a country which abolished slavery later, like Brazil?)
If anyone was interested: as the author of the post in question: it was +3, -2, killed then vouched then +4. It’s just a controversial topic.
Since most people would like themselves a PPOR that still has the effect of heating up the market.
Even if this action were to have unintended consequences, the question was "do they want to". No, they don't, obviously, not any more that the people who gave "go" to STS-51L wanted to kill seven astronauts. What they want to do is to get rid of predatory investors.
But never ever look at the standard library source code for C or C++ unless you want nightmares !
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> There literally could be a loaded gun hanging on the wall because X is a secluded hunter living in a cabin. Is this then a violation of the principle?

Yes. If the gun doesn't appear anywhere after its first mention, then it should not have been described. This is quite literally what Chekhov says, and I think he's right.

It works the other way too. In order for a gun to be used in a story, it has to have been alluded to before. A character cannot suddenly find a gun in their hand and use it in any significant manner. If they do, the audience will feel cheated and be upset. But avoiding this pitfall is super easy, all one has to do is just present the gun a few moments before it is needed.

It the final scene of "Sea of love" (1989), Pacino's character overpowers the bad guy with an object he finds under the bed. This object has been shown to the audience before. If it hadn't, the scene would not have worked.

Of course, rules exist to be broken... but do so at your own risk.
> What I do imagine will happen is that one instance takes off, gets itself a board or VC to answer to, removes activitypub, runs away with the win

Any instance which did this would be totally forgoing the network effect of being able to link up w/ other instances. So this is quite unlikely, at least in most cases.
Why would anyone not do this? Do people enjoy enriching copyright monopolists by paying hundreds of dollars for 24h access to one paper that may or may not have dubious methodology? That's fucking stupid and these paid journals can't go bankrupt soon enough.
Are the non-EU states like Belarus and Ukraine really better off than CEE EU states? While the situation may not be ideal for the CEE EU states, the alternative doesn't seem great either.
I'm very unhappy about this. It won't be possible to buy a reasonable retirement income anymore and all the profits of the property sector will flow toward those deep pocketed property firms who have the right political connections to get permits. I think the governments just want to work us till we either reach a much extended retirement age or die from depression (which you can be euthanized for here). I'll be fighting to get a second property in the coming months to rent out.
Alexandre Dumas did, and his stories are among the best there are.
I'm not sold on the Economist article. I do believe in home ownership. The idea that a person spends a lifetime in the same home and community is a good one. We're tribal creatures, and you want a tribe -- you want people to know their neighbors, have community BBQs, and live in real communities. You want enough of a vested interest in municipal politics that democratic structures work. You want kids growing up with the same friends in school.

The flips side can be pretty dark too. For example, there are are plenty of stories of poorer communities, especially African American tenant ones, being broken up and priced out by gentrification of rental markets.

Ownership is less economically efficient, but much more resilient. Once a mortgage is paid off, you've always got a roof overhead. You just need to earn enough for food, clothing, and medicine.

I think the trick would be to implement significant differences in land tax based on:

* a home you live in; versus

* an individual investment property (e.g. if you own 2-3 homes); versus

* an institutional investment property (e.g. investment fund owns hundreds of homes)
This move is well appreciated. Currently, I own a house in oudegracht, Utrecht. It is very terrible situation here. All the apartments in and around me are all the time rented out as airbnb. During peak of pandemic, it was pretty much a ghost town.

The housing prices have skyrocketed due to covid, but all these all-cash investor are jumping and swooping in the apartments, holding it for a while and passing it to the next person. Some of the people, even have to pay around 50k euros over the asking price to buy it.

Because of the rising prices, the annual property tax to be paid also increases dramatically. People blame the low interest rate, but based on what I am seeing and heard from other people, it is investors all over the globe investing in properties in Amsterdam, Utrecht, Rotterdam etc.
If it can be done in JavaScript, it will be done in JavaScript. ;)

This is good to improve JavaScript and Web security. After all this input simply adds to the arm’s race.

From a hacker perspective I also enjoyed it.
Another Cornishman here (Par). The financial destitution and how much harder they have to work for the same things I do in the South East is unsustainable. Cornwall has Luther to the right politically and that’s because there’s been some useful scapegoats. Now those scapegoats have been slain and things are getting worse not better I hope we’ll see policies that are focused on root cause issues instead of ideology (left or right). Property is an obvious example. Dormant second home now means the Cornish rent or live in low quality new build accommodation (hello Wainhomes) but when communities are hollowed out and empty through winter local businesses fail and the destitution affects even the pretty locations. Those people wonder what happened to the quaint fishing village their second home is in. Why is cafe closed, the nearest shop a supermarket that is a 30 min drive away. Why is their a drug problem? Why are the pins all boarded up etc etc. I hope Cornwall and it’s political representatives can act before the bust comes and find a balance between tourism and building sustainable local businesses in different sectors. The obvious place to start is accommodation. If people cannot put a roof over their head how can a community function least of all an economy.
It's just that most people would prefer owning a house over owning stocks.

Because when the economy tanks and you lose your job, you have to sell your stocks at the low point to make rent. When you own your house, losing your job still sucks, but at least you still have a home. Thats also the reason why the low interest rates, although nice for homebuyers, also aren't a great levy of the situation: I have to pay back the credit for my house over 40 years, I have the same risk of losing everything in a downturn. You can't make the credit payment and are forced to sell your home at the market low.

Maybe I'm just traumatized. When I left school, 2008 economy crash was in full swing, two years after leaving Uni and in my first job, Corona happened.

On the topic of price distortions through government influenced loan rates: I think what you say makes sense.
The real problem is that governments around the developed world gave up on building affordable social housing since the 70s.

AirBnB investors just highlight the symptoms.
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It was even deeply discussed on Tesla's AI day 3 weeks ago.
> Two years ago, I told you about a paper by Subir Sarkar and his colleagues, that showed if one analyses the supernovae data correctly, without assuming that the cosmological principle holds on too short distances, then the evidence for dark energy disappears. That paper has been almost entirely ignored by other scientists.

Is this a case of science advancing one funeral at a time? We have to wait for the dark energy "establishment" do die off?
Mainly that's because that's where the jobs are. (Remote isn't a 100% solution, either.)
It could just be the uncanny valley. Like it or not, we’re used to looking at other people as being either male or female and many trans people don’t make good versions of what they wish to present as. There’s also some men who enjoy presenting as female as a sexual fetish which can cause problems in locker rooms and other female only spaces.
“Investigate the Investigation.” “Second Kira.” “L.Y.”
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Awful hiring process at Woven Planet Japan
Thanks! Yes I meant in production. I get your point. I wish it was simple to update a single xhtml file, not the full war.
Why don’t you use a mailto: URL instead?
Have you heard of Alexandra Freeman's Octopus? https://www.science.org/careers/2018/11/meet-octopus-new-vis...

Edit for direct link to Octopus: https://science-octopus.org
Goodreads is amazing at what it is, which is an IMDB equivalent for books. Yeah, it is neglected, outdated and owned by a shady megacorporation, but I don't see any viable alternatives as of now.
Yeah, distasteful is putting it lightly. Its entire purpose is to deny us our computing freedom. To protect their code from us like we're some adversary in their threat model. To prevent us from understanding what our system is executing.
IANAE, but I'm guessing part of the problem is also that housing is not part of inflation (i.e. not in the indexation).
Perhaps relevant to this discussion. Another article on the same website from 7 days ago.

https://nltimes.nl/2021/08/29/us-investor-blackstone-accused...

Cant help but think, may be this is some form of insider trading by the wealthy - buy up apartments before such a regulation comes into place?
That seems a little overdramatic. Notice how all the companies named as betraying the crypto revolution are the ones that by necessity of their role must have one foot in the fiat world. (USDC, coinbase). And thus partially at least need to play by those rules.

That was always going to be necessary unless you wanted crypto to exist in a vacuum. Plus all that money fueling the current crypto success has to get onto the chain somehow
I think real solution is to increase governmental supply. That is push market rates so much down that only marginal gains from property could be gained. Let's say 2% year... Property shouldn't really appreciate very much over time.
Where are the people who work in those cities supposed to live? Are they expected to commute an hour a day, diminishing their earning potential and increasing their expenses? People in the wealthiest cities also tend to have access to more resources, due to the concentration and diversity of the population. Denying low and middle income families access also diminishes their potential, while diminishing the potential of cities through the reduction of diversity.

At best, this sounds an argument to hold people back. At worse, it sound like an argument to push people down.
The story presented in the article is actually a simplified example presented by Cleomedes to explain the method. It is unknown what Eratosthenes did to derive the calculation, but according to Eratosthenes, he used existing surveyed measurements to derive the value, likely with the understanding of the relative locations of those measurements beforehand.
Perhaps people’s perception of the risk of living in a smaller town is sufficient to merit the risks of higher land prices in some of the wealthiest and most expensive cities in the worlds. Namely the risk of losing your source of income in a small town and the increased probability of higher income/access to opportunities in major cities.

Of course, it is a pendulum, and it is possible people’s perception swings too far towards the small town and the big city and back and forth.
It is likely that the Tesla motor has a clever geometry for achieving low torque ripple and high efficiency, but combining switched reluctance and permanent magnets in the same motor is nothing new.

This combination has been used for many decades in the so-called hybrid stepping motors, where "hybrid" means that both PM and SR are used.

In the case of stepping motors, the advantage of the combination is to provide in the same motor both very small steps and also a static torque, i.e. the motor can maintain a position even without the power supply.
In The Netherlands I don’t think this would make a big difference around the major cities as there is a huge housing shortage and this will stay the same at least for the next 10 years, probably more much longer.
To a great extent, the difference between "a data structure plus a dispatch table" and "an object" is primarily in how you squint.

It's certainly a form of polymorphism.
Yes the currently do. The goal of this new system is to allow them to no longer have such keys while at the same time not allowing just any content to be uploaded to their cloud systems.

If you want to upload anything on their cloud storage you need to pre-encrypt it with some other application and the upload it as a raw file.
The median price for a property in London is £600K, the average is over £1M today.

That means that normal people cannot afford to buy anything in London even with HTB which is a terrible policy the people who can afford to use it are already in the top percentiles.

A £600K property as a first time buyer requires you to have about £100K to get on a property ladder.

10% deposit for a 90% LTV mortgage is £60K, stamp duty is £17,500 (£20K from end of Sep 21) that’s already ~£80,000 then you have mortgage fees, legal fees, furnishing costs (since new builds don’t even come with blinds)…

The average salary in London is £41K, that leaves you with take home pay of about £30K after tax (if you have no student loans).

So a house hold of two people living in London has about £60K per year if both earn the average pay, £25K or more of which would go to rent per year, another £4000 will go to various utility bills and council tax, another 5-5.5K would go for travel (assuming you live within zone 1-4), then you have food, clothing and other living expenses, so if you are somehow lucky and can save up £10K per year that’s 10 years to save up enough for a median property which is most likely a 54 sq/m flat.

Add kids to this mix and well you are royally fucked.
> Amazon basically didn't touch it since the acquisition almost a decade ago.

This is what I love about it. When something works for me (and Goodreads does), I don't want it to change.
I wonder how much this principle holds with respect to real life stories, which is filled with irrelevant details. Of course you can render true stories to have a dramatic version.
It makes somewhat more concrete sense when you take into account the startling brevity of some of Chekhov's own work. I don't think you have to agree with the notion as some universal literary principle to appreciate he was a consummate and successful adherent to his own advice.
Surprise is overrated. Suspense is superior. The best explanation of the difference is given by Hitchcock in an interview with Truffaut.

We see two characters talking for 45 seconds. Then a bomb goes off, that was under the table. The audience didn't know there was a bomb: big surprise; but the dialogue between the characters is completely irrelevant and eclipsed by the explosion.

Now imagine the same scene, but before, we see a terrorist placing the bomb under the table. Now the scene is totally different, and every word that comes out of one of the characters' mouth is fascinating. Does either one of them know about the bomb? Will they find out in time? Will they survive? Etc.

Suspense > surprise.
> That's unfair: most people 2000 years ago couldn't even read.

2000 years ago, ancient Spartanians had full universal education, with a double digit pupils further pursuing higher studies
To add to the topic, in NL you, as an owner of a property, are obliged to report to municipality if your property is vacant for one year. This is to prevent squatting. Very recently U.S. investor Blackstone reported ~300 apartments at once in Amsterdam for being vacant. They did it only after it was found out that some of the properties were squatted. And according to different sources, the apartments were vacant for very long time, more than a year.

On top of that, the investors often buy social housing. After some refurbrishment they start renting it as a non-social one. Many people are upset by this behavior as well.
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This is becoming a problem in farmlands too. Young farmers are unable to buy farmlands, they are forced to lease from huge landowners. It is zero risk investment for these big landowners. Farmers do all the work, put in all the investment like tools (except the land) - landowners simply collect rent. Some of these people own hundreds of thousands of acres (Bill Gates, for example).

This is an ugly situation. This is not sustainable. At some point, we'd have a few hundred super wealthy people/corporations owning much of the desirable land and property. Everyone else would become just a peasant/tenant living in tiny apartments working all our lives just so we can have a tiny roof over our heads. This isn't hyperbole - one look at BlackRock should give us an idea in the direction this problem is going.
it's exactly the same idea as DRM. I think society should outlaw DRM as a mechanism to enforce intellectual property rights.
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Condemnation is not enough. We must actively work at dismantling the foundations of their power. We must abolish intellectual property laws, especially copyright.

They'll still try to maintain control but it will no longer be a crime to resist. They will lose.
Houses that are vacant for a long period attract higher council tax in London and the whole of England.

Of course you may argue that the difference is small in relation to multi-million pounds properties, but that is a more general issue with the council tax's range.
Hmm, I’m fairly certain we have some laws giving squatters rights if they live in some housing long enough without opposition.
Property investors are not "hoarding" houses. They buy them and then rent them out, thus increasing the supply. It is actually better for students this way: an investor that does not live in their property can rent out it whole. If a house can fit 5 people that means a living space for 5 students. If the house gets bought by a family, that family moves in, so 3 out of 5 spots are now occupied, leaving only 2 available for rent. I don't know, maybe that's the hidden goal of this policy: push the students out, and bring in more families.
CIS is very prescriptive. It gives you a list of very specific checks with very little context. NSA, on the other hand, explains the problems and potential attack vectors allowing you to adjust and extend the checks to your specific needs.
Great data point! Thank you!
Reading and highlighting is definitely much better on an iPad than a laptop. Writing and web browsing can also be great. Since you already have a laptop, maybe take a look at the iPad Air instead of the Pro, it still supports the Pencil and external devices and USB-C, if you don’t need the power or the 13” display. As others have mentioned, coding on the iPad is really not feasible without some hacky setup (remote dev environments).
A finer point often missed on HN is how different publishing is across fields. In physics i have always been able post preprints to the web/arXiv and leave them up indefinitely. Their scientific content is identical to the journal formatted version and they show up in search often before the paid version. This is true even for the historically worst offenders (i.e. Elsevier)

Last I heard the situation in chemistry was still completely different. The ACS is also known for bullying cash strapped college libraries into exorbitant and unnecessary journal subscriptions.
Ricky Gervais called him out on national television about his use of child labor and the partnership with the CCP. His reaction was this smug, stone cold expression, and absolutely no acknowledgement or action afterward.

Tim Cook receives zero respect from me.