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DRM manages rights like jail manages freedom.

It's time for legislation to change the "Buy" or "Purchase" button on these pages to "License".

People need to be aware they are making an exchange of money for a long term license that can be lost/suspended/deleted at anytime.

If you want to own a copy you need to physically buy a version without DRM or at least with a DRM that has been defeated.

California has been losing a ground war to hordes of homeless drug addicts for a long time. If Newsom can win a battle it'll be turning the tide even slightly...

I worked with a team that built an engine that did exactly this. There are complex issues to resolve. Mostly, the market for retail analytics is very small so even though this type of data fabric can offer retailers incredible insights into what they should be purchasing and how to bundle/market their products together, they won't pay what it costs to scrape such much data to generate the recommendations.

The product recommendation angle for eCommerce is a better angle but only works well for big companies where you have enough data at the onset to drive better recommendations. With smaller companies and lesser known products you must make probabilistic determinations based on image analysis and context structure that will be mostly guess work until you have real data. Such as you surmised with your A/B testing.

Anyway, it seems you already got some major clients under your belt and have proven a track record. Hope you are able to succeed in your quest to make better recommendations work for small business with the data fabric you created.

Happy to chat through my experiences if you have interest. hn (at) strapr (dot) com is my email.

I’m still on MacOS 10.14 thanks to depreciation of 32 bit support.

Guess Apple really wants to keep me locked in an old OS for as long as possible.

Absolutely true.

My buddy managed money for the kind of non-profits everyone has heard of at one time or another.

Tends to be that once they get big enough they find themselves recipients of endowments that they can invest however they see fit. They tend to put that capital to work in whatever yields the highest return.

Know what offers the best returns? Stuff that tends to cause the problems the non-profit might have been set up to stop.

Becomes a self sustaining ecosystem where the investments from the societally damaging corporations pays to sustain the cleanup effort.

I’ve been using DDG for almost three years.

Going back to Google is actually frustrating for me.

Their results are so badly presented and the number of ads so onerous to scroll through...

Windows 10 is quickly becoming freeware. It’s smart. It’s probably worth much more to Microsoft to Track user behavior and sell ads through it than to charge for it.

Surprised they haven’t done this sooner.

No doubt they’ll still offer a volume license/pro version with less advertising.

I haven’t used Windows as my daily driver since 2004 but companies pay lots of money for me to support it for them. More ads means more issues means more revenues for people like me to help companies.

Sucks for consumers who aren’t technical.

Every company today is basically a tech company or transitioning into one. Does that mean you can now own only one stock?

The solution to bad government housing policy is less government housing policy.

I like the model of forcing new construction projects to have some units setup for public housing while private owners buy or rent the rest.

It takes people from lower socioeconomic parts of society and pushes them to mix with folks who are on top.

Church used to do this before religion started to retreat from society.

Lack of mixing of classes is killing civil society in America.

From a values perspective I like this approach. I don’t like that other people get to determine how much of the capital I pull in gets to be mine after all.

On the other hand, I don’t think it would create much tax revenue.

We only gave our government the right to institute an income tax thanks to the idiots who banned alcohol. Before that the feds relied on alcohol taxes to survive.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

https://www.heinzhistorycenter.org/blog/at-the-history-cente...

I used it for two years without issue.

Tried to export and reimport to no avail.

I know entrepreneurs who have used them to take down phishing sites that mimic real corporate websites and feature the photos of those involved in running the legit company.

Fastmail doesn’t offer phone support for paid users.

I have an account with them and spent months troubleshooting a carddav sync issue with my two Mac computers before giving up and switching contacts over to iCloud.

Proton mail seems pretty hungry for business. I inquired for a paid plan and they follow up all the time with sales people who have unique email addresses.

I've read that ancient Roman concrete was manufactured in a way that is seemingly lost to time. It's also practically impervious to the elements.

http://www.romanconcrete.com/docs/spillway/spillway.htm

If we want to find a way to build beneath the sea that's a good place to start.

These are all great tips. While you are looking you can also get paid to hear job offers at http://www.joinjune.com

What makes you think that I want to be paid to talk to a recruiter?

Thanks for this. Having lived there for 10 years, I was sure Ohio would rank at the bottom. I was shocked they spent the money to have a decent website.

If you are in Chicago let me know lanecampbell at outlook dot com

They should have hosted with Amazon instead of Azure.

Check and see if they are using flash cookies. It's amazing how few people check to see what sites have left a trace in flash... especially when all porn sites use it as the defacto standard for videos.

I hope that Google is working to protect the people who work for them. It's scary that nutjobs like this are publishing personally identifiable information and all but directly encouraging mob action.

FreeNas was acquired by IX Systems and as of version 8 is no longer m0n0wall based. IX Systems is actually a great company but I don't like this change. If you need to build a NAS with ZFS try out Nas4Free to keep going with the M0n0wall based FreeNAS that we all loved.

Can anyone explain to me how Mercurial is used at Facebook in conjunction with Murder (https://github.com/lg/murder)?