Pyxl101

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by Pyxl101 11y ago
Previous discussion in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11334908
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Duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11334908
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RT is now reporting 17 dead: https://www.rt.com/news/336519-explosions-hit-brussels-airpo... I take it as people relaying the information that they have, along with the degree of confidence of that information. The rep
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Update: there are now reports of additional explosions, in a metro station. Brussel Central is now allegedly being evacuated. https://www.reddit.com/live/wmk50bsm9vt3 https://t.co/XewNyQhQS2 From Sky N
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The article title "...with Schools Attached" misses an important fact about most universities. The purpose of most universities is to engage in scientific research. They are not schools, not primarily. They are chiefly research i
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> [Yale] can't spend 2%(540/26,000) of their endowment per year on free tuition? What is this money for? The purpose of research universities is to engage in scientific research, not to educate people . Education is one of the
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Production cost is a primary factor in pricing in industries having the characteristic of "perfect competition". For example, in the farming industry, the price of wheat is primarily determined by production cost, while influenced
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Exciting work! I'd be glad if supersonic flight was a reality again. How do you plan to tackle the challenge of opposition to supersonic flight? Overland supersonic flight has been banned in US and Europe because the loud noise of soni
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If Facebook used their photos to claim to be them, then maybe it would be impersonation. Using their photos in advertising is not claiming to be them.
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No, that's not what happened. The government initially asked LavaBit to intercept and provide data for one user only. LavaBit had done this in the past for FBI on other cases. However, the owner dragged his feet for no legally defensib
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The government didn't start by asking for LavaBit's SSL key. They asked LavaBit to start intercepting communication to/from one user. LavaBit had done so in the past in other cases. LavaBit's refusal to do so in that cas
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So, if no one wants to do it, then where does this idea come from that it's a good idea? What's wrong with allowing the market to determine what kind of housing is going to be built? I'm skeptical about this whole Soviet Russ
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They deplete fishing stocks by fishing. They don't want people worried that their fish are contaminated, and they don't want their stock depleted by a different cause than fishing.
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Yes. I briefly confused SCMP with SCTP and thought to myself, "I didn't realize anyone used SCTP. What's the significance?"
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Before we talk about this further, can I ask: are you a lawyer, or have you discussed these topics with a lawyer? I'm not a lawyer, but I have discussed these topics with (variously) corporate lawyers and an Apache board member, and th
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The lawyers that I've spoken to don't agree. Until there is case law that sets precedent for how these situations are actually handled during a lawsuit, it's anyone's guess how much they matter. > If you want to prove
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What's wrong with their CLA? Apache requires a CLA as well: https://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt I think these are just good legal and business a lot of the time. They are the legal protection and audit trail
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The point is not about what percentage they take. The point was their active involvement to coordinate all major participants in an entire industry into a cartel that conspired from the beginning to raise price, as the purpose. The particip
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This is a really good essay, and good frank analysis and insight. Thanks for writing it.
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How is it a private gain? The cost to travel to pick up a passenger is built into the price of the trip. Efficiently routing these fairs could be far cheaper than owning a vehicle that's idle most of the time, while also far more conve
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A very interesting point. I wonder what was the flaw in the reasoning. It certainly seems unlikely that a major war would occur between the US and China. I believe this today: that it would just be so incredibly bad for business that it&#
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> what are the side projects you are doing currently. This question is about having insight about what people are doing. I find it interesting that you ask primarily about side projects rather than just projects. Why are side projects mo
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Trusting the cert does not, precisely, allow decryption by the certificate authority. It rather gives the certificate authority the ability to issue certificates for domains, which if they are used to establish a connection , can encrypt a
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> Apple guilty for the high-tech employment agreements, but not for working to make the same terms for their e-book store with all the publishers. Sorry, you have it all wrong. This isn't about Apple giving the same deal to all publ
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Apple wasn't alleged to be a monopoly. Appled formed an illegal cartel of suppliers, all who agreed to fix their prices simultaneously as part of a scheme to raise prices across the industry - by acting in concert to force everyone (al
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If you want to know, then here's a starting point: https://www.justice.gov/atr/case-document/file/486701/downlo... - it demonstrates clear and specific proof of the leading role that Apple played in
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If you look at emails and communication from people involved, it seems pretty clear to me that Apple knowingly and actively participated in a conspiracy to fix prices. They really took the leading role in organizing the publishers and propo
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I don't think he thinks like an engineer (not to insult him), but I think he's overlooking the challenges that exist to running large-scale systems. > Add a second for failover. That's not how it works. How does the second
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> Thankfully, Google’s pricing is very transparent and simple to work with, so we can use Spotify’s blog posts to calculate some list pricing for what Spotify might be paying Google. The biggest way in which all such assumptions are like
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I don't know about the details of that situation. There are certainly abusive situations in the world, and where that is the case, I would argue that those situations can best be characterized by their criminality and violation of huma

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