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This is one of those ideas that seems obvious when you hear it and also I'm pissed I didn't think about it. It also seems like a key component to a universal translator. This + VTT + a phone sounds like it'd put UN translators out of business (:) yeah I know, nuance probbably matters there).
I agree with you actually, though to me that would still count as a decline of users.

I mean, IBM is still around aren’t they.
Ah, I'm of the "whatever gets the job done with the least amount of effort" school.
Excellent example of a place where the file compiler can differ from the REPL, and as you point out this is perfectly legal. It's why #'eq is often not the best equality predicate unless you know what you're doing.

CCL and Lispworks return NIL for this test in both cases.
There is actually a 35mm scan with iffy colors, but absolutely no extreme green tint. For example Neo in the office is just basically normal colors, same as the new 4k remaster.

Edit: Here are some screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/f8630kc
Re (1): It looks like (consumer durables / consumer expenditures) returned to the level it was at prior to the late-2000s recession. Do you have any explanations for what happened from 2010 to 2020? Seems like 12-15% is a more "normal" level than the 10-11% we saw during the 2010s.
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What if she was just the person who auditioned best for the role? Why are you assuming her blackness means she must have been shoehorned into the role? I see no valid reason why her blackness should have to be explained to anyone.
The same pattern described in the article should be applicable to any time sink. Also, there’s several great threads here mentioning HN explicitly.

Occasionally, I’ll use HN to break past writer’s block. I’ve noticed that if I can find an interesting thread, where I might have something interesting to add, my brain flips from consumption mode to output mode. I’ve started using this as a calibration mechanism; how inclined I am to reply to a thread I’m interested in tends to be an indicator of where my mind is on the create/consume spectrum.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrophysiology

I think this is the field where they got most of their tools from.
The first scene in the first episode of Get Smart is of Maxwell receiving a shoephone call in the middle of a theater. Today, that scene is not funny, because it just makes Max look like an ordinary asshole who neglected to silence his phone.
I don't think fewer works would be created under a less restrictive copyright regime. Some classes of works wouldn't be profitable anymore, but that's not a tragedy to me. (Taking away some of the profit motive sounds like a good move to me culturally but that reflects my preference in more "indie" media and less "mass market" media.)

Morally I find the idea copyright flat wrong on the basis that it restricts human expression and culture. Pragmatically I can see a use for it. We're better off with it, even if it (and the class of "workers" who benefit repeatedly from only doing work once) is morally repugnant.

The social contract around copyright, as it sits now, has been "negotiated" significantly in favor of the owners of copyrights to the detriment of the good of society (terms that are too long, works becoming orphaned because mandatory registration was eliminated, infringement without profit motive treated the same as "piracy"). I'd like to see it brought back to a more fair arrangement.
It is more complicated than that. Who would the mandate apply to? Ships are are basically contractors and may not own all the containers. You can charge storage fees, and some places do.
"The lack of general empathy humans have towards one another is a leading cause of depression - such as people being anti-women, anti-gay, anti-trans, racist, classist or politically biased in such a way that they seek out the thrill of having their "happiness" be at the cost of others."

You're just making things up and politicizing a well studied subject. The leading causes of depression are brain chemistry, family history, physical health issues, substance abuse and personality.

Followed by less tangible causes like job loss, divorce, grieving, etc. Then there's hormonal changes as experienced by women that gave birth and finally, loneliness.

Nothing about what you said is a leading cause at all. For sure those issues do not help, but they are in no way a leading cause.
Yes, it's bad to get completely locked-in. One ban, and you're essentially left out in the cold.

But, then again, I think that's just the result of people casually trading their data for convenience. For most people, it's apparently no big deal.
I don't feel that it's just Google trying to replicate this, but Microsoft and Apple as well.. Microsoft and Apple just have more legacy code to rewrite to reach this goal.

I think the lesson has definitely been learned, some just learned it later than others.
I can live with semi-infinite copyright terms for non-encrypted IP IFF the copyright owner is required to periodically re-register the copyrighted items with the copyright office or lose the copyright.

Why registration? Because if the copyright owner gets to rely on the legal system to protect its rights, the rest of us should be able to find out what rights are being protected.

Why exclude encrypted IP? Because IP owners should get only one bite at the apple. Alternatively, the registration should have the plain text, to be made public when/if the registrant decides that registration is no longer worth the trouble.
So I've always leaned toward the "ends at death" model (if not sooner; I actually have tended to lean toward no IP protections) but I think you've raised a good argument and might have changed my mind.

However, can't you somehow create some legal mechanism for transferring rights on death to handle the sort of scenario you describe? This is, after all, the arguments about divorce settlements (Person A is supremely financially successful, but was supported by their spouse, so their spouse is heavily rewarded by the court). So couldn't you somehow smooth that process?

I tend to think copyright lengths are arbitrary except these kinds of arguments:

1. Death of the creator(s) -- or those supporting them, or designated by the creator(s) as you've outlined. People dream up all sorts of murder plots, but it seems like those kinds of incentives could be worked out.

2. Some decline in profits or failure to make available a product. That is, once the profit declines to a certain point, or if someone takes a product out of print, it enters the public domain.

You could also specify something based on averages. Like, the median product ceases to maintain X% of profit after Y years, so that becomes your copyright length.
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I cancelled my Netflix sub as they continued raising the price while lowering the quality of content. There is no reason to carry a Netflix sub year round. I pay for one month and catch up on anything they made worth watching (not that much), and then check in next year.
Online streaming has been a thing for 10+ years now. Whatever distribution issues used to exist with finding a local guy to drive around a truck full of DVDs are long gone. They could have fixed this issue by now if they cared to.
What does this have to do with Nazis?

Is the claim that the left is being fascist or the right is? Ie, who bum rushes someone off the stage these days - is that a left wing thing or right wing or both?

Is this claim meant to undermine my claim around the extremism now in the left and right?
I'd hate to be the guy reviewing a commit constituting "days of work". Micro-commits are dual purpose, providing a hedge against lost work and making commits readable. Worse comes to worse there's always "git push origin head:my_tmp_branch"
Disney made big budget Star Wars movies separate from the established universe. Something like that happens to all decades long series. Even with 1 owner.
Why would the children need to inherit the copyright? They can inherit the money that the parent earned, the companies he founded, the merchandise and brands he created with the IP. Imagine inheriting the Star Wars brand without the exclusive copyright, it would still be worth billions.
They can inherit a LOT even without having the copyrights.
Thanks. I've been using other browser extensions for this, doing it from ublock origin is a good idea, will simplify things.
https://fabform.io/a/alternative-search-engines
yes

you could even control what sort of machine code it output (086/286/...)
I reckon if you know exactly the direction you have to go and have some good hard ground to run on, the distance can be covered in a night at a decent pace. 20 miles is really not that far.
To be fair, on some of my teams I would have called them out. That particular team was at a large company, for a sysadmin team whose job was to keep one of our enterprise platforms up and running. The dude kept it up and running. I truly didn't care how much time it took him, and there wasn't much intellectual property concern from his role.

In a startup, small company, or a role more critical to the strategy and core business, or a role with a less defined scope, I would not have let it slide.

To me, it is all about what the expected business relationship is. If I hire someone to do a specific scope and they get it done, that is one thing. If I hire them to a more generalized role whose job is to put a full-time effort into making the business succeed in whatever way they can, then I do expect full-time effort put into that job, and I expect them to look for more ways to help if there is spare time.
I think copyrights are too long. But, devil’s advocate, I haven’t heard a super convincing argument as to why something I make should ever revert to public domain, especially while I’m alive. Why shouldn’t I have the right to take my work to my grave and never have someone else profit from it? (Not saying I advocate this; I don’t. I’m just asking for a more clear argument as to why the public should be able to co-opt some IP and call it “culture” just because it got popular and/or profitable.)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard].

I’d wanted to design interactive interfaces since before I even knew what those were. HyperCard, although it’s mostly forgotten today, was nothing short of revolutionary if you wanted to experiment with GUIs in the early 90s and you weren’t already a software engineer.

That’s also what got me interested in automation and personal information management.
I find that most people don't understand creativity. If you believe an artist or inventor is some mystic sage who creates works ex nihilo, then you misunderstand creativity and attribute to it far too much. And therefore you might grant an artist a period of copyright that is longer than is really deserved or needed.

Through much of my life, I have been accused of being "creative". In elementary school my class recognized me as the best at drawing. In fifth grade I wrote a book that was checked out so many times from the school library that it filled up the check-out card front and back. In high school, I made dozens of little movies with my friends. After college I was a graphic designer, and both of my employers expressed awe at my work.

The best explanation of creativity that I have found is a video series by Kirby Ferguson called Everything Is a Remix, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJPERZDfyWc

It shows what I always knew in the back of my head: that nothing I ever made was from staring at a blank sheet of paper. It was just me ripping off all my favorite things I had seen before. Everyone tries their hand at art, and often it obviously is a copy. My secret was that I would take a little of this, a little of that, copy 5 different things and mix them all together, rather than making a straight copy of just one thing. I wasn't trying to hide anything, it was just how my mind naturally worked. I thought one thing from one movie was cool, so I took part of that. I thought something else from a drawing was cool, so I took some of that. Then I merged it all together, naturally, without really thinking about what I was doing, just trying to make something cool.

Then I saw that video and realized that is what pretty much everyone had been doing, no matter how famous. A great artist is not someone who creates stuff out of nothing. More like someone who comes up with a new recipe based on five previous recipes. I'm sure they deserve something, just not everything, foreverz!
When a luxury house is built and a family moves there, they have to move from their old home which is presumably worse. So will the slightly less wealthy family that buy their old home, and so fourth.

That said, preventing gentrification requires an active effort from policy makers.
This is not my experience with nginx, I am seeing requests eventually time out. Then I am seeing 504 errors even though the backend is up, seemingly like it takes some time for nginx to notice.

This might very well be a configuration error on my part though.

> your client should probably support some forms of server "failure" modes, including a "try again soon" type of reply

Currently the "try again soon" is passed on directly to the user. For a lot of endpoints, the client is a web browser for which this is not possible (short of turning the whole thing into a PWA... just for the ~10s a week the app is restarting...)
Imagine the noise!
If you bought an NFT, it's more likely you bought an address that points to a JPEG, not the JPEG itself. Of course you can save the JPEG locally just like any other JPEG unrelated to NFTs.
Here's an interesting anecdote: Tesla cars have traction control that monitors the differential in rotation speed among the four tires. If you put new tires on the rear and leave worn tires on the front, the rotation differential between the inside rear and outside front on a tight curve is enough to fool the traction control into thinking the worn front tire is slipping and will pulse the brakes on that wheel only. It's pretty unnerving.

Put new tires on the front and the problem is solved.
Amazon and Facebook are by far the largest competitors in the area, and Google and Apple have more stable ecosystems since its users cannot easily move between Android and iOS.

There's nothing like that for Netflix: its amount of unique subscribers is within the same order of magnitude as Amazon Prime Video and Disney+, and as long as you aren't halfway through a series unsubscribing is easy.

I think Netflix is one underwhelming season of content during an economic crisis away from failing.
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The experience is quite good on desktop!
> I don't own any copyrights - probably never will

Actually, you do own lots of copyrights. For example, you own the copyright on almost every blog post that you made. (The exceptions are things like lists of facts.) You own the copyright on every picture that you've taken or drawn.
I'd say it can be useful, but that's not often the case (especially not to the tune of 1000+ words).
The first problem to solve would be the abolition of the corporation.
I'm afraid that 100 years are not achievable in a guaranteed way because of the tin whiskers phenomenon [1].

Maybe covering the solder surfaces with thick, hard resin could help. (So goes repairability.)

[1]: https://www.microcontrollertips.com/when-tin-whiskers-sponta...
> Online streaming has been a thing for 10+ years now.

Movie theaters and broadcast/cable are still a thing, and still an important component of how legacy video makes money on content. And the geographic distribution issues there still exist. And for them to work, geographic exclusivity can't ignore streaming, either.
This. For a firm with all these supposed high-performers trying to discover and cater to my viewing habits, they sure had a hard time figuring out that I never chose their "original content" that they were shoving in my face all the time.

I dropped them in 2020.
Hey man, try some breathing exercises and cold showers if you can - I watched this documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cvhwquPqJ0

and then the original vice documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaMjhwFE1Zw

and then tried the breathing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tybOi4hjZFQ and cold showers and they've been helping a lot with inflammation!

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For most intents and purposes, it's also true that Alphabet is Google. (Youtube is also part of Google.)
Maybe those containers used to be full of "recyclable" materials?

It does seem that they people who have control over this situation don't have much on an incentive to improve it.

In particular fixing any piece of this loop would fix the others... eventually they just ran the port cranes longer and opened up the hours that trucks could go in/out. Is it "solved"? No, but the local pre-Xmas crisis is averted, which is basically peak for the year.
If the half life is 2.5y, you probably don't even have to keep it 25y. 100 half lives is completely ridiculous.
Big Mouth is a show about puberty with awkward teenagers discovering their sexuality and fucking cushions.

Not quite sure how that's pedophilic. Not any adults being attracted to kids. Just horny teenagers being horny teenagers.

Not seen Emily in Paris so I can't comment.

And you already covered EotfW and Black Mirror showing its a bad thing.

Not sure I'd call that pedophilic either unless simply touching the subject of pedophilia is somehow "promoting" it.
Waymo may be ahead but I’m not sure that’s good enough by itself. The largest manufacturers are all working on their own self driving systems. If Waymo software ends up shipping with Nissan, Jaguar/Land Rover, and Volvo products, that’s still a fairly small portion of the market. They might have some success as a robotaxi business but there will be a lot of competition there as well and likely thin margins for companies that can’t achieve significant vertical integration (Tesla, GM, Ford, VW, etc)

I agree this is definitely their biggest opportunity, but it may be more difficult to achieve mainstream success with it than it seems.
Should you never speak to be sure you aren't recorded?
> is an extremely misleading description of what is an overwhelmingly common situation in English speaking democracies.

... but who signs the check?

> they're all arms-length, independently run organizations.

I have no doubts they claim to be. It's pretty convenient to have a news organization that you can claim is "independent", but that will still take commands from you. Like, for example, if you don't want a certain story to be heard. After all, you are signing the check...

Even better, because you subsidize it so much it makes it harder for truly independent medias to survive, so it becomes a single source of "truth". Because your competitor has to make money and attract viewers, while the state-backed network doesn't.
FB is declining in America, but only technically and in terms of user count. It's more than made up for by increasing user monetization and growth in the rest of the world.
> why am I supposedly owed the right to use something for free that someone else created after some arbitrary amount of time

That's the natural default. If two people don't interfere with each other's happiness, then there is no copyright. You don't need a right to copy, the owner needs a right to stop you from copying.

Why are they owed the right to a government-enforced monopoly?

Well, xyz there are good reasons but also those reasons make more sense with a time limit.
Discourages low-hanging, hit-and-run usage that's likely to get their site shut down.

If someone wants to fake a statement there are already 100 ways to do it. Not making their servers the ones doing the deed puts a meaningful barrier in place for more casual misuse. And for serious cases like impersonation on a large scale, the resources are there to likely do better than this instant feedback model can.
So do you want more regulation?
Because we are talking about the ability to copy or mimic things when talking about IP/patent laws. We are not talking about physical goods, but instead ideas.

It's a crime to steal someone's bible even though the bible texts are (largely) in public domain.

It is not the same to compare a thing to a concept. I can copy someone's bitcoin hash all day long, but I don't own that hash simply be copying it into a text document. Same principle.

Anyone should be able to write and sell a story about Superman or Mickey.
A sufficiently interested public will push the legislators. Part of interesting the public is informing them that there is a problem, and that there is even a relatively simple solution.

The public interest route seems both far simpler and more realistic than... I don't even know, what's the alternative here? Some kind of non-profit for public domain advocacy that somehow has a budget to rival Disney, never mind the rest of the interested industries?
> adults talking about direct job opportunities they know about, it's not a job board

Serious question: what's the difference? Looking through this thread, the positions being advertised are mostly posted by people who work at those companies. More to the point, would a judge see a distinction between this HN thread and another job board?

Seems like GP is right. Many of these companies probably do employ at least one Colorado resident and therefore are subject to Colorado jurisdiction.