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I dunno. I love the German language and didn’t struggle too much with it. To be honest, the variety of accents is far harder.

Every language is pretty much equally difficult if you want to gain near native fluency (even Esperanto). If you are aiming for quick business level fluency, English and Mandarin are easy due to the abundance of resources. Generally, however, sticking with your native language’s family is going to be easiest. I personally think that most of the English speaker trouble with German is that it is at once both familiar and frustratingly foreign due to the Romanization of English after the Norman conquest, while Spanish or Urdu is just foreign. The speaker carries no assumptions with himself/herself into the learning process.
That is a lot of text for what is a very simple concept. Being able to say "no".

> Even then, they're held on a leash and abused through visa programs like in the US where they're paid a fraction of the rates their US native counterparts earn

That is not abuse. They can leave anytime. And if you talk to them, they are grateful for the opportunity to work here for "a fraction of the rates their US native counterparts earn" and would resent people like you who would take that away from them.

What is outrageous about the story posted is that they can't leave anytime they want. Their passport is taken from them. That's wrong.
First you blame the media ... then you explain why the problem may not be the media.

Maybe it's just me but your post kinda says *FOX NEWS FAN*.
> and more reliable and efficient than the common electric compressor variety

They are far less efficient than compressor refrigerators.
The realities of day to day software engineering ARE a chore and when you focus too hard on solving difficult problems it’s easy to miss a step that will advance your career.

I remember working in a team of 30-40 developers and we had those incredibly boring monday morning meetings. Nobody wanted to say anything, most if us were just waiting for the meeting to be over. But as soon as some trivial question came up there were always a few to seize the chance to waste everyones time with some nerdy discussion while there were some acutal and serious software design fuckups in place that nobody wanted to tackle. This is the core issue with most software engineers: they are not invested enough to make something great.
Not 100% sure what you are implying?
OP seems to be not from Qatar (notorious for being a modern slave labor economy) and in turn implies a good worker/emplyer relationship.
Quite a few people from poorer countries seek better conditions and employment elsewhere for understandable reasons, whats so wrong in this case?
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> It just unfortunately produces an increased number of false alarms for an activity (skiing) that is done very geographically concentrated

Skiing isn't the only industry affected by this. I'm involved in the auto racing industry. At a recent conference, there was some intense discussion about false alarms resulting in emergency services showing up at the track and who's responsible for paying for it.
We don’t even call 18th-century indentured servitude slavery. The conditions of Atlantic chattel slavery have set a particular threshold on the spectrum and people don’t seem to revert to the old, Biblical definition.
What I really wonder is if we replaced copyright laws with plagiarism laws, how would that shake out? That is, you can distribute my work however you want, but you can't claim it's yours, and you can't claim that I'm being compensated if you charge for it.

The question I think is interesting here is: can you still be an author without being lucky enough to gain celebrity that you can slurp value out of (e.g. endorsements, etc.)? Certainly there would be plenty of freeloading. I don't think there would be much reselling, except for extremely low margin stuff on the level of print-on-demand, because it would be easy enough for buyers to just get the content for free. But there would also certainly be social pressure to compensate creators for their work.

What I wonder is how that balances out when CC-BY is the norm and not some weird thing that most consumers are learning about for the first time when they see a donate link.
Tangent: Guatemala remains one of my favorite travels. The Mayan ruins are stunning, especially Tikal (Yavin 4 for you Star Wars fans), you can hike on volcanos or in jungles, and I can't recommend enough the old Spanish city of Antigua. (Lake Atitlán was fine. Skip Livingston beach on the east coast.)
i didn’t downvote but i think “i have {{person}} working for me” is fairly idiomatic american english. that’s why i was confused.
The idea is to provide a system that "Just Works".

I know what OP is talking about. Managing ebooks is a pain in the ass. I want to buy books directly from the author and put them on my reading device, but I barely ever have the option to. Often the only source for ebooks is Amazon, which I dont really want to buy from for several reasons.

There are other stores, but often their ebooks are locked to their specific devices, essentially locking you in to whatever platform you pick. God forbid the one you picked doesnt have a particular book you want to read.

I end up buying a paper copy, because I dont have to deal with yet another shitty ebook that may or may not work.
> The latest version of "look inside" has become super stingy. The default is to show you the first twenty pages or so, then you have to use "Surprise Me" [...]

Note that this is only for print editions. For Kindle editions it does not have "Surprise Me". For those "Look Inside" seems to just show you the same sample that you get if you ask it to send a sample to your Kindle.

I've found this is often completely useless for music books and math books as the sample doesn't get far enough in to actually have any music or math notation, and it is terrible handling of such notation that often makes an otherwise good Kindle book unreadable.

I once bought a Kindle edition of "Proofs from the Book" and it had been produced apparently using OCR which didn't know how to handle anything other than normal letters, digits, and common symbols. Things like integral signs, summation signs, and set relationship symbols showed up as whitespace.

Another math book I bought had many of the equations as graphics. Reading on the Kindle app on a computer or tablet was fine. The images were scaled to a reasonable size and were quite readable. On an eInk Kindle however they were not scaled. They were tiny and required more magnification than my best magnifying glass had for me to read them comfortably. I had to tap them to get a menu that would let me show the image full screen. This made reading the book incredibly tedious both from the slowness of the Kindle and only being able to see one equation at a time this way.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think stories was a snapchat feature originally.
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Personally, I've bought quite a few (non-fiction) books eBooks.com, all of which can be downloaded as DRM-free PDF and EPUB files. Not their whole catalog is available in DRM-free editions, but enough to satisfy my needs are.
I think they release a minor version once per quarter. Not sure how vital or hard it is to update everything, but it's way more secure than WordPress.

Another option is to take advantage of a service to host your static files for you. For example, netlify can be pointed at a git repo with static files, or you can drag and drop a folder of files to deploy / update your site. Because your files aren't really tied to the hosting platform, if you decide to switch solutions it's really as simple as changing your dns records.
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Vulnerability IDs are not cred. Nobody who has cred thinks they are cred. They are just numbers that the database will just hand out to you if you request one; the vendor doesn't have to be involved. They are essentially isomorphic to issue numbers; some issues are really good but some are just straight up garbage. The value to having issue numbers is you get a stable identifier for a problem, not something that you can wave around thinking it has some sort of inherent reputational boost.
If buying and consuming DRM-protected media was easy and fast, then it would mean that DRM is not working as intended. Because then it would be easy and fast to copy the file, and even if it'll always be possible to pirate one way or another, they'll try to block it anyway and these restrictions will impact paying customers 99% of the time.

No matter what happens, the ones who pay will be the ones who pay.

Why do you think Netflix is restricting offline viewing? It would be so convenient to download first and watch it during travel when Internet connection is impossible or too expensive, but no, that's why I don't have Netflix anymore (it's been a while). I've heard they've allowed it since, but I'm not getting Netflix again.
The only question to me, is WHY ?

Everything exists for a reason, but normally it's hidden in all the books, blog posts, tutorials, ....

Find it out and you'll find the essence of why you're doing.
I’ve always used libgen. I mostly used it for textbooks so I can’t speak to its volume of literature, but I have found novels I’ve needed before.
I also “have” a son, employees, a dog, none of which are enslaved in any sense.
The only reason they are exploitable is because they don't have property rights. Why don't they have property rights?
There is also significant cases before and currently in South Korea, namely illegal immigrants working at farms with nigh-slave labour conditions and factory workers in Samsung/Hyundai etc large multinationals
If you’re looking for software dev books, check out Manning. They are amazing and their ebooks are PDF without DRM.

https://www.manning.com/
There are lots of uses of "have" that are not property. "I have many friends," "I have a butcher in town who does great work," "I have 10 employees in my business."
Tangent: Elo, not ELO. The rating system is named after the creator Arpad Elo, it doesn't stand for anything.
What market or niche? Is this a SaaS?
Average people like me, who visit a bookstore once in six months or so tend to stock up on books. Never had a bookstore bar me from entering because I bought too many books. On the contrary, they asked me if they could help out by delivering them to my house for free...
Yet strangely, the word "buy" is used in the Kindle store. Seems like straight up commercial fraud.
I don't think you've worked on distributed systems before. Consensus algorithms do not solve bugs.

Say, being human, and a software author, you didn't anticipate a node with a single ID producing two valid blocks (someone's blue/green setup went active/active).

Yes, one could say that you should have anticipated a single node producing two valid blocks and programmed defensively. I would argue that many people would not have, and even if they did, they would not anticipate other potential bugs. This does not mean the design is centralised: it's just that it's a peer-to-peer design with bugs. Like all software, ever.

You can read cause and effects of the outages, including the one above, here: https://status.solana.com/history
I'm amazed this hasn't gotten taken down. it's been around for years and years
Should they not be? The other alternative is for them to be bored in their cell.
I don’t think it’s fine at all, but the reason it’s allowed to happen is that they aren’t “your” books - what you’ve bought (or been tricked into buying) is a license, and that license comes with terms and conditions, including the right to revoke the license, which usually means you must remain in good standing with your new ebook feudal lord.

Personally I think ebook vendors should be required to use language that makes it transparent that what you are buying is a kind of contract, which is different to a physical book in several important ways.
What a terrible article. It's more like 30 seconds in the launch control room and an article filled with fluff and garbage about Elon and SpaceX.
Traveling to Japan (~1999) really got me aware of vending machines. Even then, you could buy so many strange things from machines compared to what I had seen in the US. It took a while but the rest of the world did catch up.
"He once had a shoebox full of recovered dud coins in his Wythenshawe office, but it was stolen during a break-in."

Hard-working burglars there ...
Those two statements can't be reconciled in any viable society.
That's great, it certainly isn't clear from the two paragraph article

"HANOI (Reuters) -- Vietnam's gross domestic product grew 8.02% in 2022, the fastest pace annually since 1997, backed by strong domestic retail sales and exports.

The reading is higher than an official growth target of 6.0%-6.5% and growth last year of just 2.58%, when COVID lockdowns left a dent on the economy and impacted factory activity."
The idea isn't missing, you just didn't see it.

He (and I as well), want to be able to easily buy non DRM'ed epubs so we can transfer them from one reader to another, sometimes offline.

After getting increasingly aggravated by Amazon over the years, I transfered my files out of Amazon into Calibre and onto my Kobo. I am not at all interested in connecting Amazon to my Kobo. I explicitly do not want Amazon to know I bought a Kobo, they can of course see I am not buying any more books from them. [I buy them from multiple competitors these days.]

It was solved already in the distant past. It is called first sale doctrine. You sell me a copy. That copy is mine, we no longer need to speak to one another unless I want to buy something else from you.

"Oh, but what if you copy it and give out many copies?" So you're assuming I'm a criminal and using that to justify ruining the perfectly good relationship we had before? If I'm treated like a criminal anyways and get a better experience by actually being a criminal--well it is better to be a criminal and treated like one than an honest person treated like a criminal.
Indeed. Thirteenth amendment, section 1.
Big fan of Supabase and bigger fan of PostgRest, I have so many weird side projects I wouldn't have done if it wasn't quick and easy to set up this stuff.
I know maids from my mothers village in kerala India that have been imprisoned there and passports taken away. Some of them have had no contact for decades.

lots of men are imprisoned there too in similar circumstances. People think slavery is a relic of the past but We have the highest number of slaves now in history of humanity.
No, he's talking about the chilling effect of cancellation, which is why such controversial topics are not broached in the mainstream.
The average person is more or less incompetent at owning *anything* meant to kill. As a result, statistics show they are a danger to themselves and anyone around them.
I'm sure you're aware that amazon can discontinue this at any moment. My ebook reader just reads an sd card or I can use a usb cable to transfer files. That's harder to remotely kill.
Made me think fondly of the days I would update my .plan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_(protocol)
That's exactly it. There is no smoking gun. What we've learned is that, somewhat paradoxically if not surprisingly, is that previous Twitter management had both a leftward bent to it's moderation perspectives (i.e. what to moderate and when) and a general deference to requests from agents of its host nation's government.

Which we basically knew already.

This is like if someone else buys Twitter and published Twitter Files 2.0 and we discover that Musk was sharing conspiracy memes with right wingers. Not much of a shock.
Use annas-archive.org to search across pirate sites. Works well; no login neededs.
You don't really get to become a billionaire in the US without playing well with the establishment, so quite a few people believe that at some point someone pushed him a little too hard to do something he didn't want.

I'm in favour of the leaks, but ultimately none of the surveillance laws that whistle-blowers exposed in the past two decades were actually repealed at a later point. However, the very fact that this causes such huge debate in the US points to a much healthier public discourse in the US than most western societies in my opinion.

I do think that he probably regretted having to actually commit to the sale. This whole thing reminds me a bit to dealing with racist bouncers growing up. I'd leave disappointed thinking to myself that one day "I'll buy a club myself and put high quality bouncers there that judge people by their substance" only to forget about it a few weeks later. Except that in this case there were also a couple million people every day daring him to do it.
>https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1606701519486988288?cxt=H...

>The CIA has yet to comment on the nature of its relationship to tech companies like Twitter. Twitter had no input into anything I did or wrote. The searches were carried out by third parties, so what I saw could be limited.

>https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/1605304933242343426

>Here is my reported piece w/more detail. I was given access to Twitter for a few days. I signed/agreed to nothing, Twitter had no input into anything I did or wrote. The searches were carried out by a Twitter attorney, so what I saw could be limited.

Still not clear to me who is doing the searches and why we should trust that this isn't the tip of the iceberg. Matt Taibi says it was a third party. Lee Fang says it was a Twitter attorney.
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It doesn’t denote property. “I have to go.” Do I own “to go”?
I use a Boox eink tablet, which supports epub, mobi and pdf quite well. The large size makes pdfs useful.

Because of this support I can download directly from libgen without converting or using a different device. For books that are only available through Amazon, I have the Kindle app installed.
This was true when written, and then reality inverted itself in 2015/2016 when internet culture became mainstream culture.
Rather shamelessly in fact.
They did copy the infinite video scroll from TikTok, among other things.
Probably means shopping cart.

I'm a Kobo user so haven't bought Kindle books in many years, but IIRC you can only click to buy a single book at a time, rather than add them into a cart for a bulk buy.
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Ah, this. Yes, I have it too on the Maps main interface (though it is just a line I can expand). The important thing (at least for me) is that it is not present during navigation.
> How has 'the US tried to be "harsh" on drug dealers for decades'?

We have the highest incarceration rate in the world, for starters.
I agree with you about the formatting it's pretty bad.
???

If they're "poor", don't they have to rent or buy low income housing, and so "concentrate into economic ghettos"?

There is no policy concentrating the poor with each other, any more than there is a policy that concentrates the rich with each other. The market makes available different products, and different economic market segments purchase different products. With a policy, or without a policy, the poor will live with the poor.

And form "economic ghettos".
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As much as a hooker is a person who makes hooks, and a carpenter is one who makes carpents =P
That was my experience as well. I was so excited to see wacky vending machines in Japan but I just saw hundreds of drink machines, maybe 3 ice cream ones, and just a single snack machine. After doing some reading it seems the really cool ones that sell hot ramen and burgers and things are all at old roadside rest stops in the Japanese countryside.

I suspect it's partly the cultural taboo around walking and eating in Japan.
It's not fine, it's precisely the kind of thing that needs to be regulated because the average consumer is not capable of understanding the non-obvious long term consequences.
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I work in ebook production, and Amazon, Spendesk, and even drm are not part of the epub standard. Those are imposed externalities best avoided if you can.
Not sure if you over complicated it because mailing yourself the epub will convert it and send it to your kindle
Theres a bunch, but ultimately its a marketing and knowledge issue. There are okay calculators but its alot more like glasses, where you need to wear one to know how you feel
But that's not what it says, it literally says 'we have a Filipino woman, who works for us'. The difference is subtle and that's what made it jump out at me. If it were written the way you just did that likely would not have happened. I assume this is because this isn't my first language even though I use English more than Dutch these days but oddities like that jump out at me likely much more pronounced than they would to someone who is born into the language.

If I had written something to the same effect it would likely have been 'A Filipino woman who works for us' just to avoid that sense of possession, doubly so because of the context.
sounds like hardened political rhetoric to say simply that it's not viable. even ahistorical if you look at recent eg wengrow and graeber research. where's your intellectual curiosity for possible alternatives to status quo? but sure, enjoy your current "viable society"
Personally, I think we need more protections for consumers. Either that license must be perpetual and unrevocable and grant far more rights than it does, or licenses should be abolished for proof of ownership for a digital copy. Real ownership, not some weird license that isn't even worth the paper it's printed on.

Corporations (at least in Europe) aren't allowed to make you sign away your rights. I don't see why it should be any different for ebooks.
The 'have' in that sentence is not followed by a verb, but by a person.
You know, for a while this seemed like a non-issue for me. I was naive. I just told myself "a company wouldn't do something like that, that's not how this stuff works". Boy was I wrong. 15 years ago I had nothing but glowing admiration for these large tech companies, now I avoid them at all costs. I pay for Kagi instead of using Google for free. I deleted my amazon account, and now just shop at normal retailers. It's not like the price is much different. I sold my Kindle, and just buy my books from Barnes and Noble. Oh, Netflix only has season 2 of Mr. Robot? Guess I'll just pirate that. I got rid of my Nest cameras (Google COMPLETELY ruined that product) and use Blue Iris locally now. Everything these companies touch turns to poison.

Unfortunately, for now I'm still stuck with google / apple maps and Gmail.
Don’t disagree, it’ll probably backfire, but political expedience means they’ll still try it. Plus I include the middle class in the working poor, once the middle class are no longer able to sufficiently save for retirement I consider them poor. Most middle class don’t know how poor they are yet and when they find out they’re going to be mad.
Probably a typo, i think than OP mean "shopping carT". It's how my brain have auto-correct it.
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Well, it's easier to shoplift something than buy it, too. No need to wait in line to check out. No need to have a credit card or get cash from an ATM, either.
Then how about banning the word "buy", and any other language that implies the transfer of property? The yellow button in the corner should say "Rent now a restricted right to read for an unspecified duration, which we may later modify... with 1-Click".