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>the ugly side of this is... that the world is... an unforgiving place - there's gotta be someone out there doing the dirty work for someone else

Much uglier side is that our stupid culture hinders automation of human labor. We could automate 90% of physical labor with previous decade's technology if it were a political agenda (meaning will to optimize lifestyle around machine labor thus ditching expectations of interacting with retail and salesman employees when buying products etc).
It's just that overwhelming majority of people are ok with current state of things as they are either because they have won the lottery of being in 1st world and with money or because they work like biorobots in the rest of the world and don't have time to think.
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It can tell you why people left. Which might tell you the problems in it.

Update: Imagine a company has many people leaving, and they ask why. If everyone says "Got paid better elsewhere" it means you have a problem with salary. If "Sick of commuting out to the sticks", maybe look at relocation. If "Tech is old fashioned and boring", maybe look at what your employees are working on. If "Manager is an asshole", maybe fire/retrain that manager. etc.
Isn't DD-WRT and OpenWRT just router firmwares? AFAIK they don't actually flash or touch the baseband.

The limitation for local regulation can (and should) be done in the base band, many routers will have (or at least used to have) different base bands for North America, Europe, Asia and "Other World" regions.

The router OS it self knows only how to talk to the baseband but it doesn't handle the RF part on it's own it just own.

DD-WRT doesn't know what QAM is or what beamforming is it just knows how to trigger certain flags in you BBP to put it in a specific mode.

Seems to me that all that needs to be done to comply with this ruling is for router manufacturers to ensure that the baseband complies with US regulations and that you cannot unlock these features with software which should be easy enough to achieve by just having a dedicated version for the NA market if they don't have it already.

And it's not like it's new I've only seen a few routers that DD-WRT allows you to actually unlock channel 14 in 2.4ghz is only allowed in Japan, even if channel 14 appears in the selections in many cases it won't do anything and either the radio won't work at all or it will fallback to the default channel.
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> 80,000 Hours is part of the Centre for Effective Altruism, a registered charity in England and Wales, Registered Charity Number 1149828 Centre for Effective Altruism, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Littlegate House, St Ebbes Street, Oxford OX1 1PT, UK.

An English charity recommending people joing the English civil service is pretty far away from SF Startup culture.
They still update it, just very slowly, but I wasn't aware of this other patent troll. I guess Terraform and Fugue are in danger as well.
Even if the copyright expires wouldn't you be forbidden to use eg. the "Mickey Mouse" name for your own mouse-stories? Because of trademarks, which don't expire?
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Yes, I'm really talking about the ratio going from a website visitor to 90 day retention user (edit: I now realize this is conversion instead of retention, sorry about that!). I would think getting users as far as pulling out their credit card should also be part of the equation. Your value proposition is part of the product/market fit I would assume.

Retention alone doesn't seem to completely cover product/market fit.
Just tried it on squarespace, it works like a charm!
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I also disliked them and thought they were mainly inaccurate reflections of the preceding question. Being logical is not the same as being a math whiz. Being analytical is completely different to being a grammar and vocabulary pedant.Being willing to work in a competitive field is not the same as having a personally competitive personality.
It is in NA there is a lock beyond channel 11, Europe allows upto 13, C14 is only available in Japan.

The sad part is that most wifi cards won't even able to see anything on C14 none of my phones or laptops see the network on a router which is confirmed to have an open baseband.

But on most router's I've seen the baseband doesn't actually operate on C14 even if you set it up it just defaults back to it's default channel, 12 and 13 can usually be accessed these days on NA routers as well.

Basically every time you operate on a locked channel you are breaking the law, channel 14 in the US the only one which is flat out forbidden (most likely due to overlap with military communication), while 12 and 13 are restricted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WLAN_channels
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the hobbit was filmed on new Zealand... by Hollywood. who gave NZ a new thematic airport (it's like entering the shire) and in exchange for the airport and the movie production taxes got the head of kim dotcom on a tray.
At 10% or under retention, you can't afford to acquire users -- the total customer lifetime value would occur in 3 months or less. You'd have to charge a lot to make that a viable business.

edit: from your above comment, you're using a nonstandard definition of retention.

For your business to work, CLV must be greater than acquisition costs. My guess would be you need lifetime value / acquisition costs to be greater than 3 to have a particularly viable business.
A couple of things I noticed:

- It's extremely subtle, but the background of the site is black while the background of the planet images is #020202 or #030303. I imagine most people won't notice...

- It should be ITS SURFACE, no apostrophe.

I kind of wish the Sun and the Moon were included, but I realize it's called Planet Compare. Since Pluto is included, will you add the other large dwarf planets too?
On the desktop there aren't more than a couple of apps which create notifications and the frequency is much lower than on a mobile phone.
I would say there was a problem of too many email notifications and Slack is just compounding it. :/

I found this app on android called (Off Time) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.offtime.kit
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Messaging on Moto G2 (Lollipop) does have this setting under MMS. Disabled it from there.
That's an odd shifting of the Overton Window. I would generally think that someone who was anti-copyright would start from the position that copyright shouldn't exist at all. And that someone who was very anti-copyright would be actively protesting against the law.
because that's easy to move to them. want more gray area on stock manipulation when you give answers to "will Sony stock rise this month"?
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It's not exactly "forgetting":

"Actually, Sonny [Bono, Congressman who pushed the Copyright Extension Act] wanted the term of copyright protection to last forever. I am informed by staff that such a change would violate the Constitution. ... As you know, there is also [then-MPAA president] Jack Valenti's proposal for term to last forever less one day. Perhaps the Committee may look at that next Congress."

-- Mary Bono, speaking on the floor of the United States House of Representatives
For B2C products, once word-of-mouth and customer referrals become a significant (~10%) chunk of your customer acquisition, it's safe to say you have good product/market fit.
"Building a credit history" also seems to be a US phenomenon. If you want to buy a house where I live, you save up about 25%-50% of the price, and apply for a loan for the remainder. To get the loan you prove that you have a stable income, provide some collateral (e.g. your car) and prove that you never defaulted on debt (which doesn't mean that you need a history of loans).
lobbying group that can order new presidential mandates and for Angelina Jolie to adopt a dozen new kids.

you have no idea how PR works...
By your logic there is no justice system, and I'm not sure that everyone agrees with that.
You are living in a dream world. Give me access to Visa / US banking infrastructure and I'm 100% certain I can find ways to bring down costs by at least 99% and probably at the same time make it more secure and consumer friendly.

Take the laissez–faire attitude in government, with a sprinkling of corruption at the highest levels of the financial industry, and you get merchant costs that you have in the US.

Wow, what a claim, right?

Let me ask you this. In what industry in the history of the world's economies can prices (such as those that banks / credit cards charge merchants) remain so stable in a truly competitive environment?

Let me help you. The answer is NONE.
Some of the reader apps will let you choose which one gets displayed, or displayed most prominently.
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My only problem with it is that it's super hard to combine it with other ingredients (baking for example). It stays in the granulated form no matter how much liquid you add or how long you stir.
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The one thing I can think of is that the manipulation seems not to be focused on gaining money directly by the stock market manipulation. That should still be illegal, but it makes the case a bit less clear cut.

Secondly, that seems to be a plan and not something that was actually done. Still illegal, but nothing where they could say "they harmed us, they have to pay us".

The other aspect might be that a separate legal win is not what Google is after with that specific document. It is already part of a court proceeding and shall help Google counter the subpoena and further actions against Google by Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood, if I get the context right. To destroy those actions (and that man's career) would be a huge win for Google, going after specific individuals for stock price manipulation not. If I understand that right, that is something the state would have to do on its own anyway, in a normal criminal investigation, which would have to start now automatically.
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The flip side of this is that the boardroom decision will come down to can the billion dollar tax be passed onto the consumer or competitors? If you apply that to some other forms of IP like patents, the answer is "quite possibly yes"

The individual creative will relinquish copyright after 20 years, even if they're still hoping somebody might one day make a film out of their work and are kinda keen on having some sort of creative control. On the other hand, Disney will potentially still be shifting enough videos and merchandise to be renewing copyrights up to year 49. It's not exactly unprecedented for major studios to create high value brand families out of 20 year old books either, but in this case they'd rarely need to cut the author in on the profits.

Other than the revenue raising potential, that actually seems worse than the current situation for skewing copyright in favour of the brand families.
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What do you mean by "Is a market developing soon ?"
At these prices I would rather install MySQL on Hetzner myself at a fraction of a cost.
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Speaking of which: I am having trouble finding the link to opt-out of Apple Music before the paid period starts. Help?
Or rank them more highly
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Its nice of them to dive into their decision to redesign the tab switcher, and I utterly disagree with their reasoning. "Merge tabs and apps" is something I turned off right away and something my non-tech-savvy android using friends constantly ask me for help in disabling.
This is incredibly sexist and insulting. Do you really think that, as a man who wants kids, I would rather just knock someone up and bail than settle down and be a proper dad?
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Just any programming blog. I don't see why it matters if the author is a female, you won't even notice that by looking at the code. Unless you're implying code written by a female looks different?
> Not disagreeing with the general point, but aren't bones stronger after a break? I thought that was the whole point of martial artist's punching hard stuff.

They don't break the bones, but merely introduce microfractures.
I wonder how you would value sites like Rap Genius this way. It is pretty much an SEO play, so I would expect only a very small fraction of users to come back.
Thanks, it makes significantly more sense now.
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We have a justice system, it's just hopelessly corrupt and biased in favor of those in power.
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I'm just going to comment on the first aspect of this, the "Merge Tabs and Apps" option.

The first thing I do with the "Merge Tabs and Apps" is to disable it and use the in browser tab switcher.

I usually have many tabs open and I usually have many apps open. Merging the two lists just creates more noise in the app switcher. Imagine if they did this on desktop and suddenly alt-tab gave me (right now) an extra 26 things to switch through! I don't even think I am a heavy open-tabber.

My non-techie spouse wanted me to change it back immediately after the update with no prompting from me. I'm sure some people must prefer it but I find it way too busy in the switcher.
I have both the new Kindle Paperwhite and the old Kobo mini e-reader, and I like the Kobo much better. Kobo's UI is far superior, and it connects with Pocket, so you can catch up on your articles too.
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> "It's a thing, although I misspelled "trolley". I wasn't intending to imply trolling on your part. [1,2]"

Ah I see. Yes, the trolley problem, didn't know it was called that, but that's what I meant. Thanks for the links.

It's a problem that is applicable amongst all types of drivers, but the issue with autonomous drivers is that you have the choice to program for it in the AI. The question then becomes what is the best way to handle it? Furthermore, if you do try to minimise deaths, how do you communicate to the other autonomous drivers that they should not also self-sacrifice?

> "The same ones we have for humans with the means and authority to kill. [3]"

Let's discuss something concrete from that handbook...

"the right to use force in self-defence arises in response to a hostile act (attack) and/or demonstrated hostile
intent (threat of imminent attack)"

How does an AI determine hostile intent? Reading the intent of humans is a complex task, depending on a wide range of cues (visual, verbal, physical, historical, societal). Can we design an AI that can read all these cues better than a human? Do you expect this to be easy to program?
It's not really to do with what the products are in a narrow technical sense, as to do with what the social context of their use is. After all, that's what makes a social network.

In particular, when people came to gmail in the first place, they were using it as an email service. When they came to youtube, it was as the world's largest collection of videos. They did not want these conflated.

You could list all those items for Yahoo and for AOL as well. But Youtube is distinctive in offering a huge collection of searchable videos. You name it, it's there, until it gets taken down by contentID or made unavailable in your country. Can you even search for videos on Facebook?
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They won't do that, they aren't MPAA, Comcast, NewsCorp or Hollywood ;-)
I also love the Kobo.

They have hidden internal MicroSD cards. A few screws and you can upgrade your device pretty easily.

I disliked the "activation" process of setting up an account stuff and needing to connect to the Internet, but there are workarounds for that. http://uscoffings.net/clc/tech/embedded/kobo-touch/
Which side, people bringing entertainment to them or the ones destroying any private life they have left?
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social mesh between the many (very) popular Google properties like YouTube, Play, Maps

Genuine question: what do the videos I view, the apps I install on my phone, and the locations I search for have in common? And what's "social" about any of those?
I think this is personal preference. The first line of the git commit message is the commit subject line, and everything thereafter is the commit body.

Much like an email, the subject line usually starts with a captialised letter, and does not end with a period.

Disclaimer: I normally use Mercurial as my DVCS of choice, and do capitalise and end with a period.
I'm actually wondering how illegal this is? This is trying to influence the stock market and attacking 1 company without "legal" jurification. They are trying to hurt Google's through stock, this IS actually the same as stealing/taking away a billion $ (stockvalue) ... (that should be illegal, isn't it?)

They obviously failed before execution, but that shouldn't matter...

Does anyone know if Google can use this information in court for a lawsuit against MPAA?
IF the FCC was better at the main job, allocation, maybe there would not be any abuse at all

IMO FCC is the one abusing the spectrum by allowing it to be "owned" by private companies that "buy" huge swaths of the spectrum and never develop it, it just sits there unused for decades at a time.

Spectrum belongs to all persons, it should not be "owned" by a few huge companies
You buy phones for their "interesting" factor rather than actually wanting to use it as a phone? If so, you're probably an extremely tiny minority in that regard...
Ready for OnePlus 2: dualsim, 4GB RAM, 3300mAh, still inviteOnly
Just makes governments want it more.
do you know the business model? how do they make money?
Stripe must introduce cross-border card 2 card payments asap (available for many countries). It's a killer feature and as far as I know is not available by any major world-wide player yet, just on per-country basis.
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Thanks, do you/does anyone know a db of RSS feeds?
Yes, the OnePlus 2 is an allround winner. Just alone the dual sim for that price with that specs
It kind of does because it helps you establish a fairly predictable gaining v.s loosing customers. Which then allow you to calculate the cost of acquisition per customer/user which then in turn allow you to stabilize your growth.

The goal is that your revenue will help pay for your growth.
>"The omnibox: Now that the switcher is fully integrated to Android’s, the Chrome omnibox relationship with the Google search box will become more obvious and friction-less. Before this change, entering a search in the system Google search box opened a tab inside Chrome. Now, triggering a search will open an activity in the Android recent stack, at the same level of any other app, not buried inside one."

I can appreciate how much Google wanted to fix that "search buried inside an app" problem, seeing as how they are a search company.
Thinking of buying an iPad just for this use case. Most of my technical books are in PDF form, converting them to any other format ruins the readability, and the PDF on the kindle is terrible to navigate.
Sign me up for that. Give me more battery and less screen ; we have voice commands now. also make it as rugged as possible. i hate using cases or being too careful with my phone.
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> We C++ veterans know that implicit conversions are one of the worst ideas to put in a language

Too late to yank them now, can be disastrous in the wrong (read: beginner) hands, but they're fantistically useful in the dsl department so...

> The average codebase lifespan is about a decade

maintainability is an issue for the long haul, sure, Scala won't win that battle until it stabilizes, which is at minimum 3 years away when Dotty (Scala 3) comes on the scene.

> I certainly wouldn't mind Scala marketing itself -- like C++ and Haskell do -- as a language for specialists

Typesafe does the marketing, and as a business they'll never sell their technology short, even if what you say is closer to the truth wrt to specialization.

> better off opting for the excellent OCaml implementation on the JVM, or even Frege if Haskell is your cup of tea

no users = no dice; doubt either will grab much mindshare in the near-term. Personally I would love to see SML cherry pick the non-crufty good parts of OCaml (including coming implicit parameters) and have that find a following outside of current tiny academic circle it languishes in.

> Also, I'd like to see what those DSL codebases look like after five years of heavy usage

They probably look a lot different than how they started out as...paraphrasing someone, "you're going to rewrite it [your application] at least 3X" ;-)

Basically the entire Scala ecosystem is a moving target, including the language itself. Enterprise outfits looking for a static dependency graph that will work today and 10 years from now should look at Java as the host language. I doubt Kotlin will be able to deliver the same guarantees, but if it can, watch out Oracle.
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I deleted apps such as facebook from my phone. This solved most of my issues. I turned off notifications on twitter.
Which critical infrastructure cannot be profitable?
It's a compromise. If copyright really is so important to your business model, then you can afford to pay for the extension. Once it stops bringing in money, it becomes public domain within a decade.

As it is now, all art that does not generate money is forgotten and remains inaccessible forever.
Yes. Copyright does not stop you from using the name "Mickey Mouse" for anything. Trademark does.