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> The FLAC and Ogg FLAC formats themselves, and their specifications, are fully open to the public to be used for any purpose (the FLAC project reserves the right to set the FLAC specification and certify compliance). They are free for commercial or noncommercial use. That means that commercial developers may independently write FLAC or Ogg FLAC software which is compatible with the specifications for no charge and without restrictions of any kind. There are no licensing fees or royalties of any kind for use of the formats or their specifications, or for distributing, selling, or streaming media in the FLAC or Ogg FLAC formats.

While I know through experience that you have a point about some companies avoiding anything that might be patent encumbered, and that the statement “[FLAC is not] covered by any known patent.“ would be a red flag to them, the argument falls down when we talk about how much code has been used over the years by companies who stepped all over the intellectual property rights of the authors.

Even if we look at Mp3s which are definitively patent-encumbered and commercially-licensed, here have been thousands of devices that played Mp3s before they a license (if they ever got one at all).
If I remember the discussion at the time, OpenDoor and Offerpad are pure-play iBuying while Zillow was an already huge business pivoting into iBuying to make up for declines in its advertising business. Zillow had a reason to scale faster than the others and they didn't do it very well.
Wristwatches often have at least sometime outdoors where signal propigation is going to be way better.
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If you want to control who lives next to you, feel free to buy the neighboring properties.
You are correct, some know what they are talking about. But there are also many people who think that being a smart person in one field makes them a smart person in every field. It is disrespectful, it implies that they think their field is easier than yours and it must not be that hard to figure out. It is also very easy to spot.

I did not mean to imply that everyone is one-dimensional, I personally have professional experience in the finance and software industries and have respect for the people in them. But when some finance expert suddenly becomes an opinionated epidemiologist I call bullshit (a random example that has happened far too often the past few years).
It's a lot safer than it used to be for the reasons you described but there is still a lot of software that doesn't use that mitigating technology.

There are some attacks on the browser like trying to strip the ssl in a way that the browser will not complain or trying to catch an unencrypted something or another.

But you also have other things like mitming software updates for other applications, OS misconfigurations.

I'd say overall less dangerous but still somewhat dangerous.
That is pretty much a problem they created themselves by claiming to be a champion of tge free Internet and then doing stuff like invetsing in an adtech company and then handing a sample of user browser history to said company. Why does a corporation owned by a foundation do stuff like that? If you have an official mission other than making money people will hold you to a higher standard than normal for profit companies.
The evolutionary urge for reproduction is all-consuming.

So much for humanity's claims to have transcended nature.

EDIT:

(stealing a half-remembered quote from someone else)

"Humans beings are unique in that they are the only known species who produce offspring in order to subsidize their fantasies."
And the event page.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220317014710/https://www.white...
I think there are big quality control issues with shipping away cattle to other countries for slaughter as well. Your ability to control the final product is much reduced compared to when everything is regulated locally.

I remember reading about a company importing crab and fish from china that on analysis found out what they were receiving wasn’t necessarily what they ordered, and the Chinese themselves were officially importing the food from canada, but what was shipped out to customers wasn’t necessarily that just labelled as that.

Murky waters, hard to control compared to everything being domestic.
Let's see if their fake news law works in both ways
The early 2000's were a real good time. Default passwords on everything, plain HTTP. In high school I did a MITM on a coffee shop because their router had the default credentials and just had a great time watching everyone else's browsing. My dad blocked battle.net AND found the keylogger I put on his computer to recover the router password to unblock it (though he was impressed enough by my attempt that he didn't ground me) which resulted in my first foray into linux (shouts to BackTrack) so I could crack the neighbors WEP.

Once I figured out packet injection (before cellphones) I actually cracked some random company WEP in a parking lot when my friends and I got lost in order to look up directions.

Nowadays things are a lot less fun. :(
thanks! good to know
I will admit that life is more nuance than my toy example and was expecting this comment when bringing up the 1950s (which I hoped to deflect with my 'in economic terms' but alas), but my point has nothing to do with that and everything to do with the dollar amount of house and life you could purchase with your wages. Quite literally it was a time where my family members came with no money at all, found work in manufacturing, and purchased housing. My central point is that the kind of work today that would employ someone with low skills no longer pays for things like a home.
If I save on time with development (as I do) I come out net positive. And why shouldn't I pay for a great tool?

As said it is a question of what to value more. My time. Working with a great tool (imho) or saving a few bucks.

But everybody's mileage will inevitably vary.
Boulder is... special. A college town where a bunch of rich people decided to live. I've never seen a campus with so many non-students on it, just hanging out like they belong there or zipping through campus on their bikes at 40 mph. But most college towns have similar occupancy laws for neighborhoods where they want to keep students of the wrong sort out of.
"Do market makers in the stock market run into this problem?"

Yes, that's why they have to account for the probability that whoever hits their bid is an informed trader (vs. uninformed/noise trader). And it's part of the reason they can provide price improvement when they source order flow from retail brokers, whose customers are mainly uninformed/noise traders.
Anyone else reminded of https://amarok.kde.org?
It definitely feels like market making is something all parties involved in a real estate transaction would like. The article lays out the problems of applying the concept to real estate pretty clearly.

Personally, I think the physical cost of holding inventory and the lack of commodity status (commoditization?) for houses is manageable, if not outright surmountable. I think the condition that simply must change for this business model to work is the velocity of buying and selling residential real estate. Until you can go from “I want this” to “I bought this” or “I want to sell this” to “I sold this” in a scale of days if not hours, any market maker in residential real estate is going to end up a market risk taker implicitly betting on the future price of the property. Even if Zillow could move directly from closing on the house from the seller to initiating a sell to another buyer in less than 24 hours, there’s still several weeks involved. If the market is volatile, that’s a substantial risk exposure.

Simply put, it needs to be possible to move the title twice in 24 hours along with some way to finance a buyer on a very accelerated timescale. Both of these things will need reforms at all levels of government: municipal, state, and federal. I just don’t see that happening for a very long time, to be honest.
If you're an average joe, no need to worry. If you're a VIP or PEP then you should worry that you'll be targeted, and public WiFi is an easy middle man.
> You hate your job but you need it to pay the big house.

What if you already have the house? Moving is itself an exhausting and expensive prospect, not to mention the effects of forcing your partner & kids to move with you. It's definitely a last resort.
Then you lose one factor which is the username/password. If someone managed to get your hardware token and was able to brute force the PIN (if there was a PIN set), then they could log into any of your accounts. By requiring both, an adversary would not be able to log in unless they had the certificate and the username/password. Using one of the two would not be sufficient.
Do not use anything on public WiFi unless the security patches are current.

Android [can] have better defenses than a Windows laptop:

- Android has MAC randomization.

- The Bromite fork of Chrome has DNS-over-HTTPS options in settings (I think Chrome requires a command line option to configure DoH, but I don't use Chrome so I'm not sure). ISPs hate DoH. Be aware that non-browser apps will use regular DNS. Some public WiFi blocks DoH (I'm configured for OpenDNS), so be ready to fall back to another browser using regular DNS.

- Bromite has an option to always check for https - enable it.

- Tor Browser is a bit easier to get on Android.

- SMTP has an opportunistic TLS exchange that can be thwarted, so I wouldn't use it.

- For me, I would wipe the stock OS off the device and run Lineage de-Googled.
To be honest, live streaming isn't something I've estimated before, so I wouldn't be able to give you an informed opinion. I do know that Cloudflare, at least, can save livestreamed content for later replay, so there's probably an efficiency there you can make use of. Whether they're cost-efficient for you is another question; as you say, it's easy to stumble into massive bills without realizing it until it's too late.
The energy needed to vacate the earth is some very long-term sci-fi indeed. You'd need a space elevator at a minimum.

But mining rare-earth minerals in asteroids is theoretically feasible with today's technology.
You can install a backported kernel release from the stable-backports repository for up-to-date hardware support.
Thanks I'll check those out.
> because they are optimizing for the current state of the web.

I believe people will at least start looking for alternatives. For example, I have been collecting search engines, and whenever I encounter a page with too many commercial-laden SEO-porked results, I use a different search engine in Firefox.

I have enabled the Search Bar, I can do Alt+D, Tab, Tab, enter my query, then click a different search engine, which searches instantly, unlike the main bar, where you have to press Enter once more after clicking.

I just added this one also. See my collection: https://0bin.net/paste/ZSCRYVx1#sxD+jBIpScJismXBYwaoJPh75TH9...
It isn't. Stellar nucleosynthesis and DT are both fusion reactions.

It's the same type of nuclear reaction. Both stellar nucleosynthesis and DT are more energetic per reactant mass than typical fission reactions and several orders of magnitude more energetic per mass than any chemical reaction.
I'm under the impression that 'cash offer' just means that whoever is buying has already secured their financing. That means there's almost no risk of the deal falling through and the sale can go from contingent to pending immediately. This is better for the buyer because they sell faster. Senior software eng at microsoft can pull this off no problem (no one is buying a house with cash in their bank, not even rich people).
I’m not familiar with American labelling, but in the EU there are several labels that mean different things.

I’m not an expert, but roughly speaking PDO (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_designation_of_ori...) means that the entire process follows certain procedures, ingredients come from a particular area and production happens in certain areas (usually the same as the ingredients).

PGI (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_Geographical_Indic...) instead is looser.

For instance you may have PGI Tuscan oil that is produced with North African olives, while Lametia DOP (a PDO oil) must be produced near Lametia Terme and must use Carolea olives from the same area.

You can’t label your oil “Lametia DOP”, if you produce it near Milan or if you use different olives.

All this to say that for “product of USA” to make sense, it should not necessarily mean that in order to get that label all ingredients must come from the USA. You probably miss a PDO-like certification.
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Ah interesting. Thanks for the info. Not sure most people will know about that, but it's something!

Edit: It appears to be for the new-profile ping not the install pings.
> It takes smart and dedicated individuals relatively a lot of funding and time (see mRNA vaccines or the blue LED story), but it's not exactly the same as coming up with Maxwell's equation out of thin air.

Who says there are no more breakthrough to conjure out of the thin air?
A related factor was responsibility shirking: some companies tried to claim that the problem for their lack of authentication / encryption was a problem with WiFi. I gave a few talks back then pushing what's now termed zero trust and you could just see the instinctive rejection from the telecom guys who were used to thinking of security as a function of the physical environment. That got criticism at the time, of course, but it really became untenable after so many malware attacks finally got the point through that you could not possibly rely on trusting the network layer.
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Food and shelter would be the most likely contenders for it.

Regardless of what you do for a living we're all human and those two are major expenditures for 100% of the population.

I can't explain it but in my mind its sort of a map like the Collatz conjecture where you end up in a loop somewhere that always ends up being food, somewhere down the line.
I have my own self hosted VPN, but I am a fan of Windscribe too, they offer a free VPN which I'd personally trust. I do pay for it, but wouldn't have any concerns recommending it.

They actually wrote an article explaining how/why it's free:
https://blog.windscribe.com/free-vpn-myths-debunked-70a0aa46...

Obviously do your own research.
For someone renting out a single home, I think it’s the risk of a bad tenant much more than the basic calculations — as GP said, there’s really nothing you can do about it.

I personally know a case of a misbehaving tenant not paying rent beyond the first two months pre-payment, submitted a fraudulent check for the first actual payment, had neighbor complaints endlessly with repeat HoA fines (fines given to owner, of course) — and 1.5 years to evict..

It also turned out he had started subletting it out for the same rent that he himself wasn’t paying.

That kind of thing can get you into a deep hole pretty quickly, and there’s not even much filtering you can do ahead of time, even with third party verification
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I don't need you to explain the history of my state/nation.

> [...] what does that tell you?

That the properties of socialism are unattainable and trying to do so leads to immeasurable tragedy.
Yep, if it uses GPT-3, that has to be the case:

Microsoft announced on September 22, 2020, that it had licensed "exclusive" use of GPT-3; others can still use the public API to receive output, but only Microsoft has access to GPT-3's underlying model. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-3
Personally I like getting insulted by my tools. I always put `Defaults insults` in my /etc/sudoers file so every time I enter the wrong password, I get insulted. I wish more tools supported this. I think computing in general is fun, and wish more tools had fun things like this.

$ sudo whoami

[sudo] password for user:
Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!

[sudo] password for user:
Your mind just hasn't been the same since the electro-shock, has it?

[sudo] password for user:
sudo: 3 incorrect password attempts
"Click to subscribe, call to cancel" is illegal in California. If you can get a company to believe that you're a Californian, either by giving them a different address and/or by using a VPN based in CA, their site will magically change from a snakepit of dark pattern BS to one that provides one-click cancellation. (And if it doesn't, they're breaking the law.)
Wireguard exit routing has resulted in pretty slow VPN-like traffic for me. Dedicated VPN seems like a better option just for secure browsing
I've just downloaded the .dmg for MacOS and installed it, but I can't run it because I get a system message saying that the developer can't be verified. Anyone know how I can fix this?
Re opendoor etc

> A less competitive market is less dynamic and worse for sellers, but it is better for the iBuyers that remain.

If they can avoid taking on the bad deals that Zillow was previously shielding them from. I've seen how in some markets the disappearance of a provider that falls victim to this kind of adverse customer selection merely moves the problem to other providers in a cascading fashion. It's not clear that there are that many profitable deals to be made on the iBuying model
Why is this being downvoted. It's completely correct. The value of a home purchase is not just the building, but the land it sits on.

OP got a bigger, more modern house, with a larger yard for less, but it's meaningless until we understand the market circumstances of both homes for sale.

It could be that Zillow is overpriced here, or it could be that Zillow is properly priced, we have no idea from the information provided here.
Yep, that's exactly the kind of possible and believable explanation (not perfect of course, but a generalisation) that I think would be useful to examine and prove/disprove.

(separately: perhaps Georgism would require some upgrades for today's digital economy where land isn't necessarily required for production)
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That seems kind of self-defeating. Binge watching is easy to measure, but I would have thought that users who spread their content out over many sessions would bring more revenue.

As I understand it, their revenue is mainly subscription, and then it's all-you-can-watch. The more users actually viewing, the more you spend on networking, and then you have to pay to create more content to keep them.

They're already producing some content in weekly episodes. That sounds like a good plan for kids' shows, where they really shouldn't be binging TV.
The privacy settings are defaulting to unchecked, but the description above them suggests that they default to checked. This makes me wonder how the settings are actually being interpreted (i.e., what the actual initial state is).
Right click it, and select open from the context menu.
> the homes were absurdly overpriced

That’s saying a lot for a red hot real estate market.

I still get updates from Zillow every month saying my home increased 5% in value in the last 30 days and up 30% over the last 12 months. Something is wildly off with their algorithm.
I just changed jobs after 8 years.
I am one month into the new gig. What it did was spend the first two weeks solid, doing one-to-ones with all key stakes holders, and taking copious notes from each and every one. That includes engineering managers, team leads, architects, DevOps people, sales, legal, HR. Ask what's working well, what's not, top gripes. Talk to people who are resigning for exit interviews, lots of good inside info there. Then volunteer for crappy jobs to bid trust. Customer support escalations, documentation. This gives you a reason to dig and ask questions in a pointed way, and builds trust.
False advertising still applies.

The only loophole is short descriptions by default have an ambiguous meaning. “Made with Oak” could mean you used an oak spoon at some stage in the process. So, it needs to be extremely egregious which this case wasn’t.
Icelake and tigerlake. On AWS, this is m6i/c6i. [edit] earlier AWS machines (c5/m5) have AVX512 also, but not the subsets required by dav1d's assembly.
Just checked my (old, not-used-anymore) Fios network name and there was the original password! Keeping the default password is never a good idea.
I just submitted my awk analytics solution https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30723796 which is used on http://s.mkws.sh/.
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This is so awesome. It's awesome because this statement is ridiculously ambitious, "I'm writing an MMORPG game for learning programming". Rock on! You've obviously made a ton of progress. Keep going, follow your dream.
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Just use your favorite online spreadsheet - for group trips with more than about 3 people, I've been using Google Sheets for trip planning for years. It's easy, effective, and free.
Buying a house to make a short-term profit on the resale is flipping. You can cover it up with some marketing tech-biz baloney, but it is still flipping flipping.
I certainly have not seen one. FLAC is either A) the best option for free lossless music encoding, or B) The music industry is way too big of a heavy hitter to let any others build momentum
I do not think things are as black and white as you think and its a blurry line, there are so many other factors to consider than just "government shouldn't tell me what to do" - such as how addictive the substance is, what demography of the people is the regulation going to target e.g. children etc. If you ask me if a person should be able to choose if they want to smoke, I'd say yes; and if you ask me if there should be regulation around marketing tobacco products targeting kids or if there should be regulation to prevent selling/consuming cigarettes in schools/colleges or in public transport, I would also say yes. Different people draw the line differently, with what products should be regulated and how stringent should the regulation be, and we keep trying to find the best compromise and not deal with absolutes.

The problem I have with these groups/people that "end up standing up for what people want" as you phrase it, is that while such groups generally stand up for the causes they like its also generally the same people that also carve out their own list of exceptions that they think the government should intervene on. So, in essence, what's the difference between them and the "protect us from ourselves" crowd as you phrase it.
This is why they draw on you with texta saying "cut here you dumbf*k" and then get you to sign three times to say the texta is correct and that you've confirmed it to all and sundry.

It seems dumb but if it saves me from having someone dissect my right knee when I wanted someone to bolt a new AC ligament into my left one, I'm all for it.
One of the big things about Ben Eater's kits is that all the parts he uses in his videos are still in production.

Other CPUs from that era are super interesting (Motorola 6800, 6809, the 68000, etc., Intel 8086, etc.), but they are no longer produced, so building systems requires sourcing new-old-stock or e-waste pulls from places like eBay, AliExpress, utsource, and so on. Eventually there will be no more of them.

I believe the only CPUs from that era still being manufactured are modern CMOS variants of the Z80, 6502, and 65816. Their clock rates are 10-20x what they were in the late 70's / early 80's.