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That was back in March, which is pretty much 100 years ago

Delaware Court of Chancery also holds the doctrine of shareholder supremacy, where execs actually have an obligation to maximize shareholder interests. Other states don't recognize it or allow balancing other stakeholder priorities.

> people's interests aren't fungible

But financial capital, political capital, and public attention are fungible and directly trade off. Want a space program at the top of a national political party platform? What are priorities are you going to give up fighting for to prioritize that?

How about this: We have celebrities share their political views on a range of topics. The media will cover which celebrities say what positions, perhaps moderate a debate among them. The people then vote on their favorite celebrities, and those who are the most popular get to collectively vote on political decisions. If they make unpopular decisions or go back on what they promised, then the people can vote for someone else during the next regularly scheduled election.

/s (in case you're missing it, politicians are already effectively celebrities)

> Nepal has banned all pornographic sites in 2018.

>It's a minor issue, but it's annoying in language.

Call it what it is: clickbait, an intentionally deceptive headline meant to get you to click.

> who is going to watch all of this older content?

Historians, archivists, and everyone who is interested in having access to the past.

Maybe you don't value history, but many people do. The point isn't entertainment, or the kind of entertainment you're imagining. Of course this won't compete on the streaming market. The point is that it is a time capsule of an age we've already forgotten.

People don't seem to understand that matplotlib is the lower-level backend/API and not really intended to be a visualization interface for the average user. It's a power tool. Matplotlib's users are other python developers making more high-level visualization libraries, like seaborn, pandas (df.plot()), plotly, ggplot (the python port/version). If you know the matplotlib API, then you can directly modify figures from seaborn, etc.

How is this relevant? Pgfplots isn't even a matplotlib competitor really, they're completely different in terms of use cases and ecosystems.

It sounds like you're not addicted to Wikipedia, you're addicted to imposing your particular point of view on everyone else, and all the messy Internet drama that results from that. Things don't go your way in a collaboration and so you "vandalize" other people's contributions, and then blame the platform that "addicted" you?

It sounds like if you joined any open source, open collaboration project, or volunteer organization, you'd be a huge pain to work with unless everyone agreed with you all the time.

Since 1914, there has been a US law on the books that empowers the current Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to make broad enforcement of unfair or deceptive business practices:

"(a) prevent unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce;

(b) seek monetary redress and other relief for conduct injurious to consumers;

(c) prescribe rules defining with specificity acts or practices that are unfair or deceptive, and establishing requirements designed to prevent such acts or practices;

(d) gather and compile information and conduct investigations relating to the organization, business, practices, and management of entities engaged in commerce; and

(e) make reports and legislative recommendations to Congress and the public. "

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/statutes/federal-tr...

No, you're not missing anything. HNers and techies in general lean to the right-libertarian corner, and with that comes a common belief that when the government gets involved in something, they'll mess it up.

It is against HN rules to call out a commenter for having not read the article, and earlier comments set the tone of the discussion when a post hits the front page. For many posts, by the time it hits the front page, the top-voted comments often include hot takes from someone who just saw the title and wrote a comment about whatever they imagined the article to be.

> analyzing the data they did not provide to you directly for that purpose is something to be removed like cancer

For the record, cancer is an appropriate metaphor to describe the data broker industry

> I'm not sure if this is a stupid attempt at a rebuttal, or if you've accidentally made a rather good point as well.

How about you stop making personal attacks?

> biz users are email and a few small spreadsheets. I don't get why biz users need multicore anything.

Have you opened a Chrome or Electron app recently? And many biz users need to run those apps while on Zoom with a virtual background for the camera.

Based on your logic, all most biz users really need for email and spreadsheets can be done using Lotus Notes / 1-2-3 on a single-core IBM 5150 with 5 MHZ and 256KB of memory.

> Everywhere you look, in nature and in society, you will find inequality, and some people always present it as a moral wrong.

Everywhere you look, in nature and society, you will find violence, and some people always present it as a moral wrong.

Just because something is natural, normal, or always present doesn't mean that thing is good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature

This whole "shut up about your intellectual property rights and your ability to make a living being a creator, you greedy self-centered idiot, because your livelihood is getting in the way of my vision of the future" is not convincing to me. Especially when your vision of the future is literally based on science fiction and may never actually come to pass. More likely gen AI will be like every technology, whose inventors and fans promise a post-scarcity world, but in reality it just either makes the rich already richer or swaps out one ruling class for another. We were promised the holodeck and the replicator, and what we got was Amazon drivers having to pee in bottles.

> All the major Internet properties are falling to pieces. I’ve encountered more hung GMail loading screens and empty IG story trays (which should be impossible if feed loads at all) in the last week than in the decade starting at 2012.

Nothing like that on my end. Sounds like a confirmation bias story: you think the tech industry is collapsing, so you see failure everywhere.

> it's just some code that can be thrown away at any time for something better.

That's exactly what the author is arguing against. Decisions about foundational infrastructure (frameworks, databases, programming languages) have consequences for the organizations that decide to use them. Switching costs can be high. Lock-in of all kinds is real.

> When we list humanities technological inventions a century from now, I don't think we will be listing CockroachDB or similar.

That isn't at all what I or the author of the article was saying.

> Would you consider a different pattern, woven on a old loom a new technology? A app is not a "new technology". A microprocessor is a technology and the code you run on it is just another pattern on the loom.

It's not useful to get pedantic about the definition of a "new technology." What is your point? Take the example cited in the article about deciding whether to store your data in SQL databases, vector databases, or blockchains. Are you saying that this is a purely aesthetic choice and not a choice that bakes in a lot of other patterns and decisions?

The "competitors" who would benefit the most from this article are the individual independent hotels who have to eat the cost of stays booked through booking.com and aren't part of a big chain network that has a big enough legal team to be taken seriously.

> "I deal only with my regulars … I refuse strangers."

> ‘They are mostly strangers to us, and we just have to play it by ear in deciding whether to accept a cheque’, said an official.”

Sounds like a recipe for discrimination and inequality, which isn't mentioned in either article.

it's a typical reddit creative fiction

> we may unintentionally consume other developers' time by using their libraries without giving back

Absolutely incorrect, and I have given away much code as open source for free. Nobody who uses my software consumes more of my time just by using it. I already spent that time building it for myself, and I have no idea when someone types "git clone"

What does take my time are things that bridge the gap between what works for me on my machine and what works for others on theirs: packaging, documentation, requests for features, bug fixes, etc.

I'm going to trust the recommendations of a professional association with dozens of named authors written after an extensive public notice-and-comment period, rather than what seems like a bespoke equation from some pseudonymous blogger with no expertise in the field, cobbled together in 15 minutes with coefficients that appears to just be the first figures found on Google.

The lengths people these days will go to in order to not make a phone call...

This is an audio only recording app. I do not see how the creator can reasonably call it a dashCAM when it is really just a dashMIC.

Sure, I agree with you on that. But that's a different argument than "It's crazy that we have stuck with either binary or 5 star ratings this whole time across the internet." We haven't.

> Honestly, all review aggregates are kind of trash. It's crazy that we have stuck with either binary or 5 star ratings this whole time across the internet.

Are you aware of metacritic? They take all kinds of ratings, scales, stars, grades, etc, from all kinds of critics and reviewers and turn them into nice 1-100 percent ratings to average.