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Copyright is not like trademark. Amazon can choose to enforce it selectively, and it should not influence any specific case.

The latest DLC added some environmental effects to the game, but nothing on the scale that SMAC had.

Law-enforcement agencies in the UK, to name one relatively liberal country, had no qualms about using their anti-terrorism tools to track and arrest minors during, after, and even before climate change protests. "Think of the children," indeed.

No Starch Press has several books in a bundle for a few more days: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/data-science-no-starch-bo...

Visual Studio Code. It feels like every other week there is another release with one or two very useful features.

I wonder if there is something like a Hawthorne effect for diets that would explain why almost any dietary change leads to some weight loss. Simply changing when they eat seems to make people ingest fewer calories.

A puzzle will more often than not have one right way to do it, unlike real engineering problems which are made of trade-offs, and that one way is unintuitive, otherwise it wouldn't be much of a puzzle at all.

Data Engineering is far from saturated, so I'd highlight my experience and focus on that, instead. And don't forget you just need to succeed once.

Maybe not computing, but cathode ray tubes were used as RAM in the forties: https://www.radiomuseum.org/forum/williams_kilburn_williams_...

One thing to consider is the Pygmalion effect[0]: If you and the people around you believe you inherently lack the moral fortitude to resist those impulses, you are much more likely to make irresponsible choices. Your weakness becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Then there is the risk of recreating castes. It is one thing if you abdicate the right and responsibility to control your finances, but what if that became institutionalized? What if only people who pass certain genetic tests have full citizenship rights? Maybe future governments will legalize gambling and recreational drugs, but only for those individuals that don't have a genetic predisposition to addiction.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_effect

An economist would say that customers and workers are capturing most of the value of the transaction, so that would be close to optimal.

It is easy to look back and say, "I should have made this modular," or "I should have isolated that external dependency." It is easier to see how another level of indirection would have saved you work after the fact, but maybe YAGNI was the right call at the time.

That's the trap that Magic and poker players call results-oriented thinking: You got burned once by making the best decision available given the information you had, and you give that experience a disproportionate weight, like the player that lost big with a pair of kings in his hand, and undervalues a pair of kings after that.

That's what the industry looks like among early adopters, but most developers wait for clear winners to emerge on new niches before they commit.

Dancer is actually really nice, but that ship has sailed.

Stasis is probably one of the worst cards to play against, to be unable to do anything as your opponent slowly chips at your life total or makes you draw your whole deck, but at least that gives you a lot of time to admire the lovely art.

As someone who lives in an apartment building close to several bars, a simple white noise app did wonders for my sleep. I just leave it on a mix of sounds I find soothing, and it hides most of the noise that would keep me awake.

Only the use of violence isn't enough; you have to ban the incitement to violence. Authoritarian causes never lacked martyrs.

Had they done it fifteen years earlier, I think Perl could have been the language to learn for Data Science. It still is a fantastic language to slice, clean up, and extract information from text files, and it was already very widely used in bioinformatics.

Not only their neighbors, they will go all the way to the Atlantic Ocean. Last year, a Chinese tuna fishing vessel rammed and tried to sink a Brazilian one in Brazilian waters.[1] They ignore the law knowing Beijing will throw its weight around if they get caught by local authorities.

[1] https://maritimebulletin.net/2018/11/25/fishing-wars-in-sout...

Redditors are already talking about going in Rockets gear and Winnie the Pooh shirts.

The requirement was zero maintenance, not zero cost. If you have a web app, a hosting cost is expected.

Apparently the news that a million Muslims are kept in concentration camps [1] and that Falun Gong members and other political prisoners had their organs harvested for transplant [2] were being conflated.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/million-muslims-are-held-...

[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-forcefully-harvests...

One issue that has been mentioned multiple times on Hacker News is that, in some categories, it is almost impossible to find good products: https://www.vox.com/2019/2/28/18168354/amazon-marketplace-pr...

It's mostly a matter of finding the right environment and developing strategies to stay on track.

Mississippi is arguing otherwise, after an undocumented immigrant was mistakenly killed in a raid: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/09/27/ismael-lope...

Capital. Two-sided markets take a lot of capital to get off the ground.

There's nothing wrong in picking the low-hanging fruit. Pick enough of these, and you start seeing a difference with minimal cost.

This is the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLTyX4zL2Fc

I think the similarity is that you start with a pool that you deplete with a random action.

It's one of those books that is so widely read, that most of the lessons become common knowledge.

I switched to Firefox for Android after getting tired of ads that redirected to a landing page or Google Play and prevented me from actually using the site I wanted.