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+1 for LLWN! Fantastic Chrome extension, especially for language learning. They also have one for YouTube.

However, the language options offered beyond those already provided by Netflix are machine translated. This is good enough to follow along or fill in gaps in your knowledge of the officially subtitled language, but is a subpar representation of the program.

Globalization for Me and Not for Thee, S36E571

This happens fairly often on German Netflix. When the program's language is neither German nor English, often there are no English subtitles available.

International licensing is obviously complicated, so it's hard to say whose "fault" it is, but my suspicion is that some rights owners will only license the service to use the local language to prevent end users doing digital geo-arbitrage.

For example, the Swedish series "The Bridge" is available on German Netflix, and the trailer has English subtitles, but the actual episodes only offer German subs. AFAICT in the US market this show is only available for streaming as a purchase from Amazon.

I don't agree that "freedom of speech" in the US is only and always equated with the First Amendment. Even if it were, the article is unambiguously concerned with the broader principle, so we should consider the article in that context.

I pushed back on your mention of the distinction mainly due to a growing tendency in which people dismiss concerns about constraints on freedom of speech/expression/opinion by arguing such concerns are only valid insofar as the First Amendment applies. (Not to say you were doing that yourself.) At best it's a tiresome debate tactic; to the extent it's believed, it's a dangerously narrow misapprehension of one of our fundamental social tenets and civil rights.

The definition of free speech is not at all limited to the absence of legal constrictions. Russell addresses this quite directly in "Free Thought…":

»When we speak of anything as “free,” our meaning is not definite unless we can say what it is free from. Whatever or whoever is “free” is not subject to some external compulsion, and to be precise we ought to say what this kind of compulsion is. … Legal penalties are, however, in the modern world, the least of the obstacles to freedom of thoughts. The two great obstacles are economic penalties and distortion of evidence. It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living. It is clear also that thought is not free if all the arguments on one side of a controversy are perpetually presented as attractively as possible, while the arguments on the other side can only be discovered by diligent search.«

This post is predicated on the deeply flawed notion that the university's purpose and value is vocational training.

It is worthwhile to consider Barlow's legacy--particularly this utopian rhetoric about cyberspace--as examined by Adam Curtis in his 2016 film Hypernormalisation (starting at 40m 35s):-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fny99f8amM&feature=youtu.be...

Here's CK's blog post: https://subfictional.com/my-theory-patreon-doesnt-want-to-be...

It's just a jape, not to be taken seriously, made in the great comic tradition of FizzBuzz Enterprise Edition: https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...

Have to take issue with this reduction by the article's author:

> Don’t get IT people who specialize in running Internet services to run your Internet services. Have software coders run them instead.

The point is that one should consider the former to be a subset of the latter.

This seems more limited in scope than the article implies, as it will only use existing fiber. From the announcement: "San Francisco—where we’ll bring service to some apartments, condos, and affordable housing properties, using existing fiber."

Sounds like you played with starvation and lost.

Ketosis does not require or imply a severe caloric deficit. It requires a very low carbohydrate intake, but you can eat a maintenance level of calories and be in ketosis.

None of the standard guidance (e.g. [1]) for a weight loss program using a ketogenic diet advocates such a severe deficit. Presuming you're a male of average height, 700 kcal is about a 75% deficit. By all appearances, that was the source of your troubles, not keto per se.

I'm glad you recovered all right!

[1] http://keto-calculator.ankerl.com/

Relentless self-promotion?

Oh, community college.

It most certainly is a generalized circumstance that Dutch cyclists don't wear helmets. A 1998 study (1) found that 0.1% of them wore a helmet. Furthermore, search for "Amsterdam cyclist" images (2) and you'll find virtually no helmets and rather few of the head coverings you posit are the cause of reduced helmet usage.

1) https://www.aaafoundation.org/sites/default/files/bikeuse_PB... 2) https://www.google.com/search?q=amsterdam+cyclist&espv=2&tbm...

Have you any references you can share for further info / to back this up?

Good question. It probably is not relevant. I presume it's predicated on the notion that olds are generally less tech savvy (and therefore less capable of fairly & reasonably adjudicating technology cases.)

Sarah Jeong has written thoughtfully on whether justices need be tech savvy: http://sarahjeong.net/2014/04/23/scotus-is-bad-at-computers-...

The first half is demonstrably false; the second half--Japan excels at perfecting imported ideas--seems more accurate to me. What's your take?

Respectfully, you seem a bit unhinged over this.

How, exactly, are you harmed by having to share the road safely with non-motor vehicles? Your stated concern over protection applies equally to motorcyclists, yet you seem to have no problem with them.

Your real concern seems to a presumption that you would get to work faster if it weren't for bicyclists. This is very unlikely in reality, and certainly no more than a couple minutes in the worst case. A belief that your right to get to work 2 minutes faster trumps other citizens' entitlement to use and enjoy public rights of way safely is somewhat sociopathic.

I can relate, though. This is what car commuting does to a lot of people. It's dog-eat-dog and me-first out there, with few norms of or need for civility. I've been there. It eats away at you progressively and makes life objectively worse. Explore your options for transit or ride-sharing or find a job you can walk, bike or take transit to. It really makes a huge difference in quality of life.

Never underestimate the left's propensity to defeat themselves from the inside out, to choose a personal sense of moral and/or ideological superiority over coalition building and meaningful progress. Especially in the SF Bay area.

Marriage equality is law in California. So yes, we should be tolerant of those that opposed it and lost. That battle is over here. And there's absolutely no indication that Eich evidenced anti-gay bias at Mozilla, in policy or attitude. (I am not one to stand on it, but there is a difference between being opposed to same-sex marriage as a single issue and being anti-gay.) By all accounts, he has gracefully accepted the result and moved forward. What benefit is there to be had by asking more of him?

The only way forward is reconciliation.

"We have been laying the groundwork to remedy this for quite some time...but it is impossible to predict when any particular mile post will be reached."

Impossible to give a date with both high precision & accuracy, maybe, but certainly not impossible to predict. Statements like that would give me pause were I were trusting AgileBits to protect my secrets.

If there were ever a title worthy of being enjoyed without compensating its creators for their labors, it's "12 Years a Slave", right?

The cognitive dissonance, it burns.

I'd take it a step further and say that all on-duty officers should have to wear cameras that stream continuously into a third party repository.

The BART police are mandated to wear cameras in the wake of the killing of Oscar Grant. Unfortunately it's up to them to activate the camera. Recently a BART cop was shot & killed by another officer when searching a robbery suspect's home. Supposedly none of those officers had their cameras running. http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Fatal-BART-shooting-not-...

There is often a countdown timer as well, and the article implies that was so in this case. Since the timer has to be set to accommodate the slowest pedestrians, the majority of walkers will in fact be able to safely cross even when commencing after the flashing/countdown has started. A reasonable adult can certainly gauge whether the remaining time is sufficient to complete the crossing.

Note that for autos, the equivalent is the yellow lamp in a stoplight and in that case the rule is that the vehicle must have entered the intersection before the lamp turns red. So LA seems to have standards that are paradoxically more stringent for pedestrians.

The ban list changes are pretty clearly ideologically driven, not arbitrary.

From TFA: "he suspects badBIOS is only the initial module of a multi-staged payload"

"Our investigation currently indicates that the attackers accessed Adobe customer IDs and encrypted passwords on our systems."

I take your point, but "The 1%" she is not. At least, not unless she happens to have a net worth of ~$9M, which is the floor for 1%erdom in the U.S.

Nor are most "techies", even if they are fortunate enough to be an exception to the downward trend in real wages (for the moment.)

There is substantial evidence that lead poisoning, particularly that from leaded gasoline, is the causative element behind the violent crime spike and subsequent decline: http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-li...

Pinker's thesis is not without serious detractors. Edward Herman and David Peterson's critique[1] in ZNet is worth considering before taking it as fact.

[1] http://www.zcommunications.org/steven-pinker-on-the-alleged-...

The glide slope transmitter for the ILS approach on runway 28L at SFO was out of service since June 1. That said, I believe there is an alternate, GPS-based system that could have been available as an alternative for automated approach.

I'd suppose that given a pilot with low experience on that aircraft and relatively good conditions, this was considered a good opportunity to get a visual approach and landing under his belt. That presumes a lot, of course.