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> So they don't "only" apply

Some laws DO "only" apply if a company has a large enough market power, yes.

The point of the statement, is the general concept of a company being "large", having an effect on if the law applies or not.

> That's what I thought.

Actually, my previous statement is correct, you just mis-interpreted it. Because I was referring to this general concept of a company being large, and how some laws include this factor as a metric that is relevant to if the law applies.

So I was correct the entire time, you just made up a different idea to attack because you were not able to understand what I was saying.
I buy physical tech books and ebooks only if there is no paper version available (then I print what is interesting to me).

The reason is that I have ADHD and using ebooks is too slow. If flipping between pages takes me more than 0.1s I easily get bored often forget what I was looking for and start to procrastinate. There is also an additional reward for using a physical book, that you get to flip the pages that is akin to using a fidget spinner, so looking for information in physical book is more engaging.

I can also have multiple books next to each other with quick access, which is not possible on ebook readers (as far as I know - you have to close one book, open another etc which takes forever and if I get a notification or something popping up, I can easily get distracted and start doing something else entirely).
Misleading headline - it’s a discussion about one Sony TV, that was released in 2015.

Worth checking others, but the headline makes it sound like they all do this.
He's breaking his agreement with Adobe but it wasn't ethical for Adobe to obscure the fact he was agreeing to a cancellation fee in the first place.
If you're hosting a game server on your own computer, Microsoft shouldn't get to censor you and your friends while you're playing on it.
See SWIFT and various payment clearing systems in Europe. You don't need a CBDC to do this.

But a CBDC is certainly useful when the current fiat system has been blown up through hyper-inflation and there's no alternatives. It will usher in a new era of mass surveillance and control which for some inexplicable reason you seem happy to welcome in.
I certainly agree that we don't know what we're missing. My best guess timeline for this is very vague for this exact reason.
If the goal is to remove bad execs, then a document trail can help, although I'd suggest starting with some statistics like "over the last 3 months, we moved the goalpost 8 times, which led to an effective throughput of 4 weeks of work being done rather than the expected 12 weeks. How do you think we could improve these conditions?" Collaboration first.

Keeping email threads for reference is probably plenty data enough, btw; "signatures" sounds like the wrong approach. Maybe even just summarize the direction given in a wiki document with a change log with time stamps and requesting person, which you can review once in a while, and the sheer length of it might be enough to bring the point across.
Well no because this is banks, so some amount more than other industries. It totally depends on their rates, how much they deserve to be demonized. Like in Chile they exponentiate their borrowing costs to the 18th power onto their debtors.

So let me explain: if you borrow at 10%, and double the interest, what do you get? Well the critical thing is time, patience, so doubling the interest means allowing half the time to pay back. So in fact the interest is 1.1, not .1, bankers should never add one or subtract one. You take that 1.1 and you square it, that's double the interest, get 1.21. Just as like, the banks take 1.01 international rates and exponentiate them to the 18th power to get 1.2 percent rates, what the market will bear...sort of, haven't borne it very happily recently. Lots of violence.
I've created my own list, which is a more condensed version: https://github.com/r0f1/linuxhelp
Never bothered me to login. FF 104 with ublock origin. Black on white.

Relevant posts:

> I measured the standby power consumption on my set, and it uses an extreme 23 W, or 200 kWh per year
For context, this would be approx 10% of the average consumption of a German...

> My Apple TV uses 1.2 W in standby

> Have anyone else measured their set and seen similar figures? Any way to lower it?
> I tried setting Eco to high, and that lowered it by a whopping 0.5 W in standby to 22.5...

> edit: According to the specs, it's supposed to draw 0.5 W in standby? What is going on?
> https://www.sony.com/electronics/support/televisions-project...

> Thanks, I had already turned off remote start (it lowered standby by 0.5 W). Remote Device Settings did not affect it much either

> I reset the TV to factory settings, set it up without logging in to Google, and declining all privacy policies and "extra" services. Still idling around 23 W

> After some trial and error, disconnecting the ethernet cable seems to be the trick. Then the TV is able to idle at 0.5 W after a few minutes

> Something must be terribly wrong with the software though, that keeps the SoC active if it has internet connectivity? I found in the Norwegian specs that "network standby" should draw only 1 W

> I'm no longer using the smart features after I upgraded to an Apple TV last year, so in principle this is not a problem for me to lose Chromecast, but it is quite irresponsible of Sony to have such buggy firmware

[EDIT: I forgot to include the concluding post:]

> Indeed, I disabled Chromecast from the app menu and then the SoC is powering down to the 0.5-1W levels after a minute or so

> So to summarize:
> If the TV has a network connection and Chromecast is enabled, the SoC is not powering down such that the set idles at roughly 25W instead of the 0.5-1W per the specifications

> This is not good if it applies to more people than me, as each set would consume about 200 kWh per year in standby

> German households consume 130 TWh electricity per year, or 1500 kWh per person. So this is sizeable in an European setting, and would help tremendously with the electricity saving targets that may come this winter due to the war

> Now, how to get the attention of Sony and Google to fix this? This may even be in breach of the ecodesign guidelines!

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That doesn’t result in there being no competition in the marketplace. They don’t care about having an equivalent product they just want all the market share.
Same here, books on specific technologies are useless to me because you can learn more from the official manuals and playing with it than from someone else's interpretation of it X versions ago.

The tech books I do get are more meta, books about programming in general or design in general, things that you can't just find in a manual.
Depending on what you do either get an Nvidia Shield or an AppleTV.

I'd recommend the Shield for Plex or the AppleTV for streaming Netflix, etc.
If that was really the case why don't say JPMorgan and Wells Fargo enter in a partnership to provide such service?

If it's really cheaper, faster more convenient then they'd be enthusiastic about doing it because it would look good for their bottom line.

Money at the end of the day represents trust.

If the Fed is the most trustworthy entity then JPM and Wells Fargo are at #2 and #3. Nobody would care if the #2 and #3 institution exchange money between each other instantaneously and 24/7/365 but only settle their accounts at the Fed weekly or bi-weekly.

This thing for everybody to have an account with the Fed in the form of tokens (digital dollars and digital euros) is something really strange and that nobody has asked for. It is the project of some beurocrat which has seen a topic of interest among the population (crypto) and wants to look good to his superior or wants to claim that "I was at the helm of the team which developed the Digital Dollar".
Loved it. Great work :)
Is this close enough ?

https://news.softpedia.com/news/ISP-Sued-For-Banning-BitTorr...

In countries with Net Neutrality, or more : those where Internet access has been deemed a minimal human right, needed for basic citizenship, Internet Service Providers are indeed very restricted in what and how they are allowed to block...
The TV came on market in 2015 AFAIK, the C denotes the 2015 model year
Microsoft – Common Data Model for business apps
To be more productive.
Be more selective.
It's the difference of an OS targeted exclusively (at the time) for home users vs one for academia and web servers.
> I feel the same way about systemd, its safe, reliable, and always a good choice for "dinner".

> Basically I am saying that systemd has withstood the test of time and has never disappointed me.

IMO, when you make a reference specifically to chicken tenders, there is an implication of childishness - implying that systemd is a bit of a toy implementation. It doesn't sound like you mean that particular interpretation.

It would be the same if you mentioned red jello, milk boxes, capris suns, fruit snacks, or any other stereotypically children's food.
Yeah it is an adaption of Robot Wars for America. Apparently they did that for lots of countries.
Study Links Drinking Tea to Reduced Risk of Diabetes
That's not been my experience. Typically both are developed in parallel. The integration of the story into the dev build might come later, but certain entities that enable story development should be there. Things like checkpoints, non-background characters, locations/state driven events, unique items and environments, etc... What I saw in this leak did not include anything that - it all seem generic, and that pile-o-cash loot item highlights what the mission reward system is going to be like.
PhD gets 5x increase in postdoc interview invitations by just changing his name
I have this love/hate thing with prawns and lobsters, prawns especially.

They taste so, so good, but if I'm presented with them unshelled/unprepared, I have to try hard to silence my revulsion as I pull off insect-like legs while it stares at me with its insect-like beady eyes :(
Nope with an exception for CS academic theory. One year for CS is like a decade for human life and thus almost every IT book gets obsolete after a relase. That's why I read official docs or getting started, they are far more accurate and up to date. In rare occasions where doc is not too good, I check source code - it never lies.
Cursive is still faster to write than typed fonts, and less taxing when writing a lot.

On the other hand, I don't think the difference is huge, so the value of it depends a lot on how much time it actually takes to teach cursive vs teaching non-cursive.
I've been consluting a few mid size companies regarding CBDC and their usage in trading. The approach CDBC will take for business as an Exporter use case is similar to any contract that runs on eth.

1) Importer and Exporter settle on a price for a item
2) Importer "deposits(locks in)" total or % value of goods into a contract via CBDC through banking or a guarantee(AKA Amazon) entity
3) Exporter is guranteed funds, exporter sends the goods
4) Importer receives the goods, funds gets released(provided all contract terms are fulfilled) to the exporter immediatly.

This is good use for CDBC in trading. There is no Letter of Credit, Drafts etc that eat up a % of profit and time for both the importer and exporter.
It just feels like an amateur hour thing.

If my plumber came to me to ask if he can just dry assemble the pipes and leave them that way I'm gonna get a new plumber.
> There's a reason why the U.S. is the oldest democracy.

Under most viable definitions of democracy, the US isn't the oldest. If you restrict to non-aristocratic (i.e., not limiting franchise by ancestry) representative democracy, Finland and New Zealand, among others, achieved that first; if you accept participatory democracies, the Iroquois Confederacy has it beat by even more; you need to tightly define “democracy” around exactly the US model at a particular time to make it first.

> It's also the legal foundation for the establishment of the country

No, it's not, the country was established before the Constitution.
That would defeat the purpose of streamlining production and being able to sell the subscription services, so probably no.

But on the other hand, pricing is not yet published, so time will tell.
I'm not sure if it's still there, but for a long time there was a chunk of code in the Mozilla code base that hunted for several browser extensions in Windows every time the browser started up and did some patch up work in the file system to make sure that those extensions could be found in the browser because some older installers would dump them in non-standard places. This was to avoid the issue that if the user had already installed the application with the corresponding extension and it was working in Internet Explorer, it wouldn't automatically work in Firefox without this patch up process. And in that case, it wasn't the extension that was broken from the user's point of view... It was Firefox.

Some technologies are so fundamental to the web experience that when they break, the user perceives the browser to be broken, not that technology.
> If nobody can define what 'hate speech' really is and if the definition changes person to person, then you're arguing for the wrong reasons ...

Hate-speech is like pornography. You know it when you see it. Of course one man's "pornography" can be another man's "erotica". But social media companies have the right to decide what they think is pornography vs. what is "erotica", and what they then share or not with all their customers.

Why are we not complaining that Facebook muzzles the free speech of people who want to spread pornography online?

Hate-speech is similar in concept to pornography but far more dangerous. It directly increases the risk of violence.

Should social-media companies be forbidden from blocking pornography on their site?
This is not new type of puzzle, the most basic version of is defined like this:

The man needs to cross the river with a wolf, goat and a cabbage. Wolf would eat goat, goat would eat cabbage, boat has only room for two.

Every kid in Russia knows that puzzle, although your implementation is quite good.
Show this thread to management

Create a monorepo

Design and setup new architecture to use going forward

Allocate x%-time to write tests and port old stuff over time (continuous weekly process)
This is what should have been Facebook's next big bet for this coming decade: to make WhatsApp into the superapp to end all superapps.
So allowing banks to transfer funds between each other and the Federal Reserve in real time will erode your rights?

Don't look now but they do all this already using ACH --- just more slowly and inefficiently.

Buckle up chicken little, your sky is going to fall because the economic case for it is overwhelming.
Fingers crossed!

We need more decentralization and redundancy in these services lest we see our future turn hostage to corporate financial or political interests.
Do you have a blog perchance? I'd love to read more about this, maybe with fully-featured examples.
I used this to generate some two dozen wallpapers of various color schemes that were on my desktops for _years_ (I still use them on iPhone and iPad). Loved it, and also loved the result since they were varied and interesting to look at without being distracting.

I now have a set of scripts that downloads the Bing wallpaper of the day for Mac and Linux, and I like those as well, but sometimes miss the gradients and ambiance these generated since (in Windows at least) extrapolating the dominant color in those photos for desktop theme highlights mostly results in… brown.
What I really liked about this game was the lack of instructions. It's like you get two games in one - figuring out how to play and then figuring out how to win.
Yes, I prefer the physical experience more. It's more portable (holding a book in a good reading position is easier than holding a laptop in a good reading position).

Page navigation is also easier and doesn't change when the viewport is adjusted, which is really jarring.

Plus it's a reminder that I've got the book and should read it, as opposed to existing only as a tab in Brave.
I work part time because I love not waking up to an alarm.
> I assumed the tests wouldn't be for correctness, but for compatibility.

You're assuming that the people coming in to write these tests can even make that distinction. How do you even know what the compatibility should be without really diving deep into the code itself? Given how screwed up the codebase already is, it could be multiple layers of things work against each other. OP mentioned multiple versions of jquery on the same page as an example.

Writing tests for something like that is really a waste of time. Better to just figure out what's correct and rewrite correct code. Then write tests for that correct code... that's what moves things forward.
> The reality is that even those of us who were taught cursive--Palmer script in my case--and can vaguely sort of still write some poor imitation of most of the letters, would generally struggle to read a lot of old documents.

Yes, I can attest to that. But it rapidly becomes easier if I stick with it for more than a few minutes. If you can read it at all, with effort, it's something you can acclimatize to.
I would assume this has some effect on gen z signatures?
At least more people are waking up to the real problem here.
My kids never learned to write cursive either. It's not a problem except that they don't really have a signature as a result, and they're starting to have to sign stuff for school.
Semi-related question:

Most contracts and many kinds of forms that require a signature will have two lines, a first line that says something like "Print your name" and a second line for you to sign your name, which has always been understood to mean sign your name in cursive.

What do young people do now? Presumably they just print their name and then (for no reason whatsoever) print their name again?

Just something I've been wondering about...
Clip Studio Paint and Krista seem like notable competitors for digital drawing or illustration. Adobe Animate doesn't appear to have Flash's popularity and Clip Studio Paint seems to be the most common choice for a young person keen on animation.
Here is an article "The beginning of the Monte Carlo method" by N. Metropolis: https://lib-www.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/getfile?00326866.pdf
Kiwi Farms’ proxy service and Kiwi Farms has been hacked
Great stuff! So would you say that, in a way this is implementing a node-level control plane?
Ah, that's funny -- I took it to mean like... an OK in a pinch and generally unobjectionable, but not something to be excited about. Which is basically how I feel about systemd (as someone who doesn't do systems engineering or run a distro, so, probably I don't see where it becomes exciting)
Out of curiosity, when you say "print it" here, does that mean "write it by hand but using print-like letters", or literally "print it using a computerized printer/type-writer"?
Kinda. Bits of it are still in force[0], despite us not having a definitive text, but much of it was written to deal with contemporary political problems and was repudiated fairly quickly. It's more important as the start of a (semi-mythical) tradition of political liberty then as an ongoing source of constitutional law.

Even more excitingly, some of the documents we consider constitutional aren't even statutes. My favourite is a pseudonymous letter to The Times sent in 1950, which authoritatively established a constitutional convention for when the monarch can refuse his Prime Minister a dissolution of Parliament[1]. (The writer, 'Senex', was the King's private secretary Sir Alan Lascelles).

[0]: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Edw1cc1929/25/9

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lascelles_Principles
Yeah it really depends on the book.

I have a lot of algorithm, math and theory books. Theory rarely changes, it’s just added onto.

I also have a few books on C around that I’ve worked through and use as a reference.

Other than that, I just check docs.
I had a somewhat "unique" perspective on learning cursive (and English in general) through my education in the 2000s as I went through a few different school systems.

Starting out in the American system I hadn't been taught cursive at all, writing in print was normal. Right before I left we had just started typing lessons. They had convinced my parents that trying to force me to write with my right hand despite being a lefty was wrong.

Then I spent two years in an Indian private school, where they were rather nasty about how not knowing cursive reflected poorly on me (a similar nastiness came in solving some math problems in a different way, imagine humiliating an 8-9 year old in front of the class on their first day about how stupid they are for solving a set of math problems differently despite the solutions still being correct). I had to just sort of pick up cursive on my own, so while it was mostly okay there were some letters I wrote differently from "proper" cursive. On top of that they required gel pens rather than ball point, leading to my writing being extra prone to smears (not to mention always having ink stained backs of fingers). Typing assignments wasn't really a thing and computer classes were generally meaningless things about how to make wordart.

Then I moved to another country, where an Indian public school was the only option available. At this point I was old enough that they didn't push too hard on writing in cursive in general schoolwork, although there were still things like handwriting contests where they claimed that I would've won if I hadn't written my capital H's differently. Not too big of a deal but that still seemed to emphasize cursive writing as some measure of success. Notably even at this point I still got treated poorly by some teachers for things like my American accent (which included complaints to my parents, although they ignored the complaints because I was always expected to go back to America for university).

Finally I moved again and this time ended up in a school based on the Ontario education system (although not located in Canada). At this point no one really cared how I wrote or spoke. Despite my accent making me sound like a native speaker I turned out to need some catch-up English classes but on the other hand I had managed to skip grades for math, physics and biology.

Nowadays I rarely ever write by hand and when I do it's usually still digital like on a tablet. I have a couple of ink pens still around but I use them so rarely that I almost always have to search for them when needed.
>unlike either caving or diving in isolation

Caving, the activity where people crawl in spaces barely fitting and if take a wrong turn there's a high chance of getting stuck and dying even when it's found they're missing and try to pull them out? Wouldn't really say it's much better. Though cave diving is that plus carrying a big oxygen tank.
For me, the need for professor to actually be able to read what the heck I wrote continued out weighing the speed factor :). Legibly, I was faster block printing.
I write in cursive in one place only - physical checks. Had a subcontractor rip me off on a house remodel years ago, adding $1000 to a check I'd written with printing, not cursive. The bank reimbursed me, so no loss, but from then on I always write the check amount in cursive, careful not to leave any space to insert a change.

Of course, I now only write a handful of actual checks a year, and that just because I pay someone regularly who prefers checks to Venmo.