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Apple uses your information for advertising as well.

https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/apple-advertisin...

It also exempts itself from normal tracking opt-outs in iOS. It has _another_ set of settings you need to opt out off to disable _their_ advertising tracking.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/105131

Given this law, it seems reasonable to expect the State to provide said database, no?

> I've yet to see any SV billionaires admit any of their success involves luck.

Are you even trying, or just being glib for karma?

"You have to get lucky in today’s society in order for that to happen" -- Mark Zuckerberg https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/24/billionaire-mark-zuckerberg-...

"... it's both massively luck and massively hard work. Sometimes it's more luck than hard work, and sometimes it's more hard work than luck. But every success requires both." -- Reid Hoffman https://www.businessinsider.in/linkedin-founder-reid-hoffman...

"I'm a lucky guy. I mean, I certainly had a lot of near misses, but I was very lucky in terms of actually achieving success." -- Elon Musk, CNBC, May 2017

The DMA does not specify a minimum fine for violations.

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This is grossly exaggerated. Yes, sometimes Perl looks like line noise to the uninitiated, but to the seasoned Perl programmer, it looks like checksummed line noise.

So if you make that illegal, you just made basic website logins illegal.

Again, it's really hard to define what we all "mean" in legal terms.

Defining fingerprinting in a legal terms is fairly difficult.

Most regulators would also likely consider fingerprinting for certain use cases as acceptable. E.g., detecting abuse, fraud, CP, etc.

> When you finish college, you're still a "kid" as in totally young and nothing to loose.

A lot of kids walk out having lost quite a bit of money to tuition.

Worse, the degrees they paid a small fortune for won't provide them jobs to payoff that debt.

IANAL but my understanding is that they're generally not enforceable in California?

Dumb question: Why can't we store the excess capacity midday for consumption during the evening?

E.g. using using solar to pump reservoirs to a higher elevation then hydropower during the day? I know they do it with natural lakes[1] but couldn't we simply do this more?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/05/02/climate/hydro...

If there is no ecosystem -- if there is no way for creators to make money for the countless hours they put into creating content -- that's a net negative for users.

Just look around -- a lot of amazing creators talk about how YouTube is what really enables them to do what it is they do. Mark Rober, Destin Sandlin, Linus Sebastian, Marques Brownlee, etc have all made statements to that effect.

If you, as a user, don't want ads, that's okay. There's a no-ads version of YouTube, YouTube Premium.

Sad to see, but not surprising.

In 2011, Google found that Microsoft was basically copying Google results. (It's actually an interesting story of how Google proved it. Search for "hiybbprqag")

It's worth noting that Eyeo makes money by being paid to not block ads. This article estimates it at 55M euro in 2020.

https://www.startbase.com/news/adblock-plus-mutter-eyeo-waec...

I can understand defining a standard for acceptable ads.

I can understand allowing ads that meet that standard.

What I struggle with is allowing ads that meet that standard AND require payment.

One of the few movies with a mathematical consultant, Len Adleman.

If the name sounds familiar, he's the A in RSA.

> I don't understand why people don't have a fundamental right to refuse ad exposure in their private life

This seems a bit of a strawman in this context. You have the right to not visit YouTube.

Likewise, you have the choice in subscribing to a magazine. If you choose to buy the magazine & bring it into your home, it seems odd to ask why you don't have the "right" to an ad free existence in your home.

And, at least, in this context, YouTube does offer an ad-free version, YouTube Premium.

> I'm not buying that there's a lot of bad blood there

I didn't see anything in the article that there was bad blood, just that Paul fired Sam. Those are not the same thing.

YouTube itself offers a subscription version without ads.

https://www.youtube.com/premium

Chris Voss, a former FBI hostage negotiator, discussed this policy on Lex Friedman's podcast. Here's the clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm4hb5yNxyE

The policy has been widely misreported as "we don't negotiate with terrorists", which is wrong. The actual policy is we won't make concessions to terrorists.

> There are around 2,500 billionaires in the world right now, with a combined wealth of over £10 trillion. Just a fraction of that money is enough to, say, end global poverty, eradicate malaria and re-freeze the Arctic.

The US Federal government alone collected $4.4 trillion in 2023. I'd have more confidence in statements like that if existing revenues were used to solve any one of the issues stated.

Ticketmaster was still seen as a monopoly long before LN bought them.

In fact, Pearl Jam sued TM for being a monopoly in 1994, about 15 years before LN bought TM.

https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/1994-when-pearl-jam-took-ti....

> Ticketmaster has exclusive deals with artists and venues.

While it's true Ticketmaster does have these exclusive deals, it's demonstrably false that this is the reason why TM still hasn't been replaced.

If you've been around the industry for a while, you'll remember that LiveNation & Ticketmaster were distinct companies. In fact, LN tried to leave Ticketmaster. LN was the one with the exclusive deals with artists. LN was the one who owned the venues.

Yet LN failed. They dumped hundreds of millions into building a ticketing platform unsuccessfully. And eventually just bought Ticketmaster.

It a good data point that even if you have the right contracts, you'll fail if you don't have the right tech.

I worked for Ticketmaster as an Engineering Director for a few years. Reading through the comments, most of them are wrong. Here are the real reasons, imho.

(1) The ticketing system you want as a consumer is not the ticketing system that artists/venues/promoters want. As a consumer, you hate those Ticketmaster fees. The others? They love those fees. That's how they get paid. There are almost no standard fees for Ticketmaster. Every fee is contract specific and split between the parties. From the convenience fee to the print-at-home-free -- cuts of those got to everyone.

You could build the consumer-friendly platform, but it's not going to be used anyone, and certainly not by top artists. Top artists expect to get get 95% to 105% of the ticket price (yes, more than 100%). That leaves everyone else (including the promoter & venues reliant on other revenue streams like fees.

(2) The business requirements make it a technical beast to solve. Nevermind your LAMP-based ecomm site. Tickets aren't fungible. That creates a lot of problems. Thing selling airline tickets, not widgets on Amazon. Venues can be configured in countless ways. Pricing strategies are complex, often unique per show & dynamic. Most shows don't sell out. The promoter is the one who took the financial risk and needs to figure out how to maximize the revenue per show. Once the show is over, those unsold tickets are worthless.

(3) Scaling is hard. Massive spikes during onsale, but very low QPS at other times. The hardware cost profile is challenging than most non-FAANG services.

(4) Creating a ticket system for a small theatre with fixed seating, or purely GA events isn't that hard. What's hard is a top tier artist going on tour across the country. (And that's where most of the profit is.)

(5) Ticketing isn't that profitable. You'd have to invest a lot of resource for not much gain. The last serious attempt was LiveNation. They dumped hundreds of millions trying to build their own platform. Then gave up & bought Ticketmaster.

Or, you know, "Lab Leak of Coronavirus casts chill over virology research".

I know it's not definitive it was a lab leak, but many US agencies including, notably, the Department of Energy, say it's likely it was.

And when you change the headline to reflect that, it sure does change the message.

It's not impossible. You can sign up for YouTube Premium.

https://www.youtube.com/premium

> Amazon attempted to sell phones with their own fork of Android without permission, but didn't have much luck.

FYI - Amazon's Fire OS is based on Andriod:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_OS#:~:text=Fire%20OS%20is....

There was a Fire phone, but I thought the issue was it didn't find commercial acceptance.

> If a reseller buys the ticket, and then sells it again to the end user, Ticketmaster gets paid twice.

Yeah, but Ticketmaster doesn't own the tickets.

Nor do they decide the fees. Or even keep most of the revenue from the fees. All of that is decided by the promoter, possibly with the artist (if a big enough name) and to some extent the venue.

It's not cyclists.

Here in Los Angeles, a friend of mine was crossing a crosswalk last week. The light had turned green. Several other people in the intersection. She makes eye contact with a car turning left.

Or so she thought she had. The driver said she never saw. No lose of limb of anything like that, but my friend was taken in an ambulance to the ER. The other driver was uninsured.

LAPD arrived on the scene. No citation issue.

Not for hitting a pedestrian. Not for driving without insurance.

While she was in the ambulance the officer came over and gave her the contact info for the other driver & said to contact her tomorrow. That was it.

Infuriating.

> There Melian dialogue is literally them shaking down their neighbors and then brutally murdering them

"The strong do as they will. The weak submit."

Additionally, if there was a nationwide push to nuclear power, we'd have cheap, clean energy -- putting a sizable dent in both clean drinking water & climate change at the same time.