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marakv2··on Cities sue Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, claim they owe cable “franchise fees”
Oh I didn't hear about the court case, thanks! I'll see if I can track some information on that down.

I live in Japan, no tv and a phone that doesn't receive TV broadcast, but the nhk guys hastle us every month or two and almost convinced my wife to pay.

Some of the tactics I've heard of them using are quite scummy as well.

Edit:

Link to some information about the court case.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/06/27/national/crime-...

marakv2··on Modeling a Wealth Tax
This.

The author is playing the typical Rich man's game. Oh woe is me, look at these poor people who this tax will destroy!

The fact that so many people here are defending them, is maddening and disheartening. Arguing that anyone with a value of over 50mm can't pay a higher tax rate on those funds is disengenous at best.

marakv2··on Modeling a Wealth Tax
Because society helps you grow your wealth faster. Better trained workers, happy and healthy workers, a functional medical system.

These are things that help your business create more wealth. As the grandfather comment said, it's wanting the 30c bonus without paying the 20c fee.

marakv2··on Modeling a Wealth Tax
Greater profit. How else are you going to pay a ceo 10mm per year...
marakv2··on Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store
I'm in the same boat, except using i.reddit. how come you use the desktop version?
marakv2··on Twitter is dropping coding terms like 'master' and 'slave'
Primary, secondary. Problem solved. Need more, well English has it.

Anyone arguing against this is just pissing against the wind -or worse.

Move on. Were supposeto be the people who adapt and change the fastest.

marakv2··on My experiment with clear and direct communication
I'm 4 days late to this party, but as a teacher, it's not good there either :-)
marakv2··on Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after Tiananmen event
For us, teaching children online, the cost of switching would be huge.

I was on the team that chose zoom (which I now have reservations about, but that horse has bolted).

During the initial discussions, Google dropping products was brought up and was our primary reason for not picking their product.

marakv2··on Maillard reaction
As a chef and a geek I've been asked about your book by non chefs! Sadly I haven't read it yet, but I saw your link had the first two chapters for free so I'll give them a look tonight :-)
marakv2··on Massachusetts calls for classrooms with no more than 10 students this fall
I'll mention that to my US friends, cheers :-)
marakv2··on Massachusetts calls for classrooms with no more than 10 students this fall
That's quite an assumption. While I was WFH, I know quite a few friends (also parents), who had to work. Essential workers.
marakv2··on Transcribed police scanners in real-time
[my side project is using speech-to-text so this is amateur hour response]

Yes, but it takes a bit to build up that weighted list and it can be quite hefty to parse. So they may be building this behind the scenes currently. As another commenter pointed out, being able to correct a chunk and send it back to help the algorithm would be a nice feature here.

Side note: I'm dealing with this issue at the moment - if anyone has a good resource on reducing the workload I'd love a link!.

Ed:spelling

marakv2··on $60953 self-sufficient loft-style tiny home on wheels can be towed anywhere
As someone living in Japan, that looks awesome.

To put this into perspective, you can get apartments that size here. Obviously designed for bachelor's.

(A company called leo palace rents them out, but there are independent ones as well).

marakv2··on This Website Will Self Destruct
Damn op that's addictive as hell.

Some of the things you read can be incredibly sad, to be followed by something inspirational.

Excellent job, I'm interested in just how long it lasts!

marakv2··on Local TV stations pushed the same Amazon-scripted segment
Their not paying for it? That doesn't seem right.
marakv2··on Google no longer providing original URL in AMP for image search results
Aside from installing Firefox (best option), there is this:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/redirect-amp-to-ht...

marakv2··on Local TV stations pushed the same Amazon-scripted segment
It is that bad (imo), unless it's clearly stated that it's a paid advertisement (that's what PR is), then you cannot trust your news source.
marakv2··on Show HN: A Firefox add-on to strip Google search results of 'blacklisted' URLs
I'm pretty sure it use to be, I remember searching for something like this years ago and stumbling upon a comment saying it had recently stopped that offering.
marakv2··on Magic Leap has apparently raised another $350M
As funny as that is, this was recommended to me next:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n0uhkLa5lBg

Id buy that.

marakv2··on YouTube Automatically Deletes Some Terms Critical of Chinese Regime
After discussing this with some Taiwanese friends they say it's not as strong as you are making it out to believe.

More on the level of calling someone a member of the 50 cent party or a paid shill.

marakv2··on Defold game engine source now available and free to use for commercial games
Are you affiliated at all?

Edit: ahh just noticed that you are(from comment history).

marakv2··on Ask HN: Now we're staying inside with Wi-Fi, have you changed your cell plan?
$40 a month in Japan for 50Gb/ month. I think your providers are.
marakv2··on Don't set the language of your website based on user location
Haha, maybe were all hoping other devs will notice and remember next time this comes up?
marakv2··on Show HN: XP.css – Windows XP CSS file and framework for building GUIs
Wow, that's awesome. I'd also forgotten how nice the interface was of xp.
marakv2··on Chrome phasing out support for User-Agent
Except, that has been pointed out in the parent comments, it's not the application, it's a deliberate bug targeted towards a different browser(hence changing the user agent fixes it).
marakv2··on States reject Trump talk of restarting U.S. economy early
I'd say he is arguing that the public is okay with it as it has been blatantly obvious for his entire presidency, without people rioting
marakv2··on Cloud kitchens – commercial facilities built to produce food for delivery
Tablespoon(15g/ml).

Sometimes it's written as tblsp, tsp is teaspoon (5g/ml)

marakv2··on The rise of solar is ‘jeopardising the grid’ and it's a lesson for Australia
According to this (1) quite good actually.

But getting our government to do anything that isn't coal related. Pfft.

(1)http://www.ga.gov.au/scientific-topics/energy/resources/geot...

marakv2··on Many elementary teachers don’t understand math, and it makes them anxious
Children arnt idiots, they are people seeking knowledge. What they need is patience, understanding and slow explanations as they grasp both the concept of what you are saying, the language you use and the minor concepts that you take for granted.
marakv2··on Many elementary teachers don’t understand math, and it makes them anxious
What?

35/350 (to simplify) Once is 325, twice is 300, X, X, X, we end up at 10 times is 350 divisible by 35.

I'm wondering if I'm missing something (and if I am I'll own up to it lol)

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