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You can have a condescending attitude about it if you want, but the reality is advertising-backed business models make services available to people who would not otherwise be able to afford them.

The ramifications of creating barriers to advertising is ultimately taking these services away from the poor.

> only give premium services to the most valuable users?

Almost certainly. What people often miss in this discussion is that advertising is progressive--it's a transfer of value from richer people who can and will pay for both the service being used and the product that is being advertised to poorer people who cannot.

> Reduced Work Hours

> If your employer has reduced your hours or shut down operations due to COVID-19, you can file an Unemployment Insurance (UI) claim. UI provides partial wage replacement benefit payments to workers who lose their job or have their hours reduced, through no fault of their own. Workers who are temporarily unemployed due to COVID-19 and expected to return to work with their employer within a few weeks are not required to actively seek work each week. However, they must remain able and available and ready to work during their unemployment for each week of benefits claimed and meet all other eligibility criteria. Eligible individuals can receive benefits that range from $40-$450 per week.

> The Governor’s Executive Order waives the one-week unpaid waiting period, so you can collect UI benefits for the first week you are out of work. If you are eligible, the EDD processes and issues payments within a few weeks of receiving a claim.

This is a good mathematical analysis. But here's another way of looking at it: the hot hand fallacy is stating that every shot is strictly independent. You don't have good days and bad days, every day is exactly average. Which is ridiculous, especially in the negative direction:

- A player could be sick

- A player could have an minor injury they are playing through

- A player could have not eaten properly before the game

- A player could have been practicing a new shooting form and not quite adjusted properly yet

If you can have bad days, by definition all the other days are good days even if they are only "normal" days.

This is like going to Trader Joe's and complaining that you can't get brand name items. There was a time when Netflix had a lot of major films. But the industry has found other ways to capitalize on those since.

There's a difference between a deep library and a comprehensive library. Netflix's library is quite extensive, so shallow isn't the right word for it. But it isn't a corpus that includes everything you could possibly want to watch--nowhere really is right now, and historically, corpuses like that have been rare and short-lived.

Because the lyrics are not copyrighted by you, they are copyrighted by the Artist, whom Google and LyricsFind have a contract with to give them permission to use those lyrics?

The problem is that leaves you open to e.g. Car companies putting out ads that promote their gas guzzling cars while banning climate change ads that might warn of the consequences of using such vehicles.

If you do what Twitter is now doing[1], "restrict rather than outright ban", you're back to having to serve as an arbiter.

[1]https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/15/20966897/twitter-politic...

Sure you could. We have more than 2 dimensions.

It's like a weird Chinese version of the White Man's Burden. They were "uncivilized" once upon a time, so now they deserve occupation.

Maximizers and satisficers use approximately the same approach with a different threshold for the amount of the possibility space they are willing to search through (let's call it p).

Let's eliminate the extremes:

p = 0 is a blob who just doesn't do anything.

p = 1.0 only ever keeps looking at new possible options. Since the space is almost always infinite, this approach never terminates.

p = 0.01 just does the first thing that comes to mind

p = 0.99 spends an very, very long amount of time evaluating options

People tend towards different thresholds. But the right p value depends on the context. Sometimes the first thing that comes to mind--the naive approach, is in fact the right thing to do. If you're building something lower level that will be built upon later and difficult to change, more caution is often warranted.

The approach through the possibility space also matters--identifying the places to explore that might reveal the most risky aspects of the problem quickly is a skill developers build over time (often via past mistakes they later regretted).

Charge an increasing amount for the API and subsidize our taxes with it?

Sounds like they will support other USB controllers on Chrome.

> or in the Chrome web browser with the standard HID controller of your choice.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/6/18654632/google-stadia-pri...

Destiny 2 is going F2P, so it's $0

For a networked multiplayer game, the total amount of network lag is effectively the same, except that the network lag is moved from between client and server to client and "display". Now that the server and client are now just one instance, there is zero lag there.

Say what you will about the merits or necessity of all-day in-person interviews, at least the company is investing a roughly symmetric amount of time into the interview process.

> In Paris, as well as Athens, Madrid, Mexico City, Caracas, Santiago, Copenhagen, Budapest, and I imagine other cities for which I can’t find this information, metro stations are built cut-and-cover... There is extensive street disruption, for about 18 months in the case of Paris, but the merchants and residents get a subway station at the end of the works.

The cost of using a more expensive method ($750M per station vs $110) of building in order to prevent disruption to car traffic is almost always attributed to the cost of public transportation. But it seems to me like it at least partially should be considered a cost of maintaining car infrastructure.

Between TSLint's no-switch-case-fall-through and an exhaustiveness check[1] I don't think any of these things are really problems with switch statements in TypeScript

[1] Putting a function like this in a default case will enforce that all cases are declared at compile time:

    function exhaustive(exp: never): void {}

I agree that they should be held responsible for negligence or poor faith actions. But I'm not sure they should be responsible if their equipment caused a fire because it was shot full of bullet holes by some idiot with a gun[1]. My understanding is the law currently holds them responsible if their equipment was involved, regardless of whether or not they were negligent.

[1] https://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/fires/article22...

What's the difference between this and say:

FROM ubuntu:16.04

Won't that pull the latest official Ubuntu image with that tag?

Not in California. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_California_Proposition_13

A notable difference is that Debug is using the sterile insect technique (SIT)[1], as opposed to gene drives, which are much harder to control once released. With SIT, 1) we have a lot more experience using it for decades, and 2) it's pretty easy to simply stop releasing sterile insects if unintended consequences were found.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterile_insect_technique

A. gambiae in particular is so strongly anthropophilic that it would likely become endangered or extinct if cut off from all human hosts, so a widespread bed-netting program would have likely the same effect, just slower and with millions more cases of malaria in the meantime.

Any naysayers out there interested in volunteering for blood-feeding? Our current approach of "make the poor people do it" isn't exactly fair.

If it can be mathematically defined, then they can add that code to make that check in their system.

I'm sure someone here would be happy to explain to me why this won't work, but what if we built a recycling center in the middle of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?

Sure, the NYT will explain that very thoroughly to you if you'd like to read the article.

If running your own infrastructure is a strongly desired option, people will do the work to make it easier to host your own k8s cluster. I agree it's not there yet (I'm the primary person for our team running several self-hosted on-prem k8s clusters) but I can see work is already happening to make it easier.

For skins or other purely cosmetic items with no effect on gameplay, to me it's equivalent to a gumball machine where you might not get your favorite color.

Credit card company is not a government. It's helpful for business purposes to have records, but it's not always a legal requirement.

Anyway this stuff is super complicated and there's no rollback for data that was mistakenly deleted and shouldn't have been, so the point is there are layers and layers of complications and scenarios and it's not as simple as everyone likes to make it out to be. It's not impossible, but it's definitely a lot of difficult work.

Two days later the customer files a chargeback with their credit card company and the credit card company wants you to provide documentation for the transaction.

The implicit part of this argument, though, is that blockchains are expensive: in order to have this trustless system you have to have PoW which is inherently computationally (and therefore monetarily) expensive. It's not going to be easier to write either (which is the reason why people aren't using 1991 Visual Basic).

In other words, the argument here is why would you do it this other way that is more complicated and/or expensive when you could do it the default way which is simpler and cheaper.