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Considering the "new normal" interest rates around the world and the direction things are going (down), I have doubts housing prices will decrease in any developed country for the upcoming 5 years.

And they’re expensive compared to flying the equivalent route/distance.

One good use case I had for WebWorkers was running heavy Regex on strings. Easy to decouple from the web app as I just had to pass the 2 strings to the Worker (text to scan and regex expression) and get back the result array. There is, however, a performance penalty there as the browser will ‘favor’ the main thread to for rendering and UX.

It was not an off-topic question, it was making a point about political ads and has nothing to do with the above.

Just a sidenote, sugar addiction starts way earlier fe. 6-7 year old kids are much more likely to eat too much sugar. Alcohol kicks in quite later and likely causes more damage to people around the subject, I agree with that.

Not quite. As a Romanian speaker I can’t understand more than very basic Italian. Perhaps Spanish is slightly more understandable but still not to a 90% level for sure.

I also doubt they understand any Romanian at all.

Can you please elaborate?

Is “saving face” an (Eastern) Asia thing? (genuine question)

Thanks a lot for this, it is indeed very clear and easy to follow! Good walkthrough on the partial derivatives calculations which imo are the hardest part.

I'd assume it would look something like:

"No, that fine is too high. We'll settle this in court(s) since we think we can do better."

Now the FTC is facing a potentially big delay and a risk of no fine if the courts eventually hand Facebook a favorable decision.

Would like to hear more about this, specially from an European perspective and EUR-denominated investments.

About 3 years ago I've had issues multiple times in Tokyo with taxi drivers not speaking english at all, thus not being able to communicate the destination. I assume Uber would smooth over that aspect as there is literally no need for communication.

The Brexit vote happened to precede a period of sustained global growth, mostly throughout the year 2017, which overshadowed its economic implications. Despite that, UK GDP growth lagged behind other developed countries but it was not enough for the UK citizens opinion to change.

As soon as it starts biting people's pockets, which might happen pretty soon according to Central banks/IMF economic forecasts, I believe a new referendum will be called and the decision will be reversed.

There might not be time for that to happen though.

Many times it is hard to pinpoint what/when the ‘end result’ is. So while the clients are happy now, they won’t be happy to hear they might have a hard time maintaining the project through the years. Clients will want to know they can hire people to work on the codebase.

For anyone interested in how (dirty) big money moves around the world in our current financial and legal framework, the “Billion Dollar Whale” book provides a very interesting insight.

A fascinating read of fraud at the highest level.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38743564-billion-dollar-...

I believe being able to make more out of the resources does not necessarily translate into actually making more. There are arguments that building infrastructure today is slower than 30 years ago due to regulations/political constraints, despite the technological progress.

Thank you for the article. As I have used Nanocosmos H5Live Server in production for over a year I can provide some insight into their product.

It works by repackaging an RTMP stream into GOP chunks and pushes them via Websockets to the browser where they're piped to a video player using MSE (Media Source Extension).

On iPhones, where there is (was) no MSE available it used something like very short, chunked HLS segments. Not sure I fully understood that part but somehow they tricked the m3u8 playlist into loading short segments very very often.

The beauty of it was that it was a drop-in plugin for your existing RTMP-based infrastructure. You just add an instance of their server software and you would use their JS player to your pull your RTMP stream, repackaged on-the-fly.

    let player = new NanoPlayer({
        server: 'wss://nano_server_url', 
        rtmp:   'rtmp://rtmp_server_url/app/stream.mp4'
    });

Maybe I was not clear enough, I was not defending ISPs. What I meant was that they will bear the extra cost if every subscriber maxes out their bandwidth usage so the cost (and prices therefore) will go up.

What customers pay is an averaged out bandwidth usage from my understanding.

Your ISP would disagree about streaming for the entire month, they bear that cost.

Could also be more, when interest adds up to the debt.

Interestingly there's no mention of HBO here (nor in sibling comments), a very high production value content which imo is running circles around Netflix and Prime.

Here is an interesting piece from yesterday about insider trading by Matt Levine: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-12-03/inside...

Quite an expensive message to send, this will likely burn a lot of business/investment bridges.

Not sure one can know. From all angles it looks like a very stupid and badly executed assasination plot. There are a lot more discrete ways to kill someone than flying 15 people/agents over on a private plane. Time will tell hopefully.

But the packets would have a destination that's inspectable isn't it?

I'd also underline how convenient this news is for the current administration - move production back home. The article is much more damaging to the Chinese hardware suppliers than Apple/Amazon which will likely get over it soon.

How does the bogus chip exfiltrate data out of the system, wouldn't the alarms go off at the network level?

Looks a lot like the Volkswagen’s emission software /s

I would also add that it's not easy to tell which revolution you're in the midst of (if any).

VR technology was also thought to be a revolution a decade back and it hasn't really delivered. Or take crypto for instance. Is it a financial revolution that will build a mega-corp like Amazon or Google in the upcoming decades or will it slowly fade away.

This felt very true in Switzerland this winter. We were the only non-chinese in a local bus through Interlaken. Not that I have something against it, just that they sure advertise it well in China. Also chinese street signs are slowly showing up.