A business from any country will engage in protectionism. I never had worked a software company that said. Here you go, take this code, we will show you how to use it, and give you training classes, all targeted so you can make a competing product with it.
Amazon did this, when they allowed third party sellers to compete with Amazon n the main amazon.com store pages. Of course, the EU wants to punish them for that now.
The sensor in question (in the story, not the pitot) is an angle-of-attack sensor and has only to do with the orientation of the wings to the wind flowing over them (or not, in a stall).
Pitot tubes are commonly used as angle angle-of-attack sensors. They measure air pressure very finely, and that pressure changes with angle of attack.
Yeah, well, the ISPs are working against that, to keep the world safe for Google/Facebook/Amazon... Soon only whitelisted protocols will get through, everything else will be sent to the proper authorities for analysis. Only common carrier rules can keep the open internet above ground. Without that, we simply must develop bulletproof ad hoc mesh networks to bypass the corrupt service providers.
I assume they're talking about the sensor behind the pitot hole here. Making that the only sensor, and non-redundant, is particularly questionable. It's well known that pitot holes are very easily thrown off: an insect building a nest inside it (or ice forming, or etc) will throw off the sensor enough to crash a plane, if it's all you rely on.
It is the side effect of Free and Open information. Before the Web, While legally had the freedom of speech, being able to publish your viewpoints was expensive, and/or tightly controlled.
Don't worry, the big social media sites are fixing that. Tightly controlled is the new normal.
Facebooks latest bans? Senator Warren's ads calling for the breakup of Facebook (yeah, no one's going to believe that one was "community standards"), and the deplatforming of ZeroHedge, a crazy/fringe investment site that is routinely vocally critical of Facebook.
The problem is every opinion is not edited and we have no good way to fact check all our opinions. I could have the Opinion of an Anti-Vaxer (I don't) then spread my opinion to the general discussion. While 30 years ago, such information I may have written to the editor, and they would have not posted mostly because it doesn't fit the facts, or at worse, doesn't jive with his view. Or I could spend thousands of dollars to public my ideas myself.
The new normal is that you can't spend money to buy an ad if the publisher disagrees with your views.
Today it is like everyone has their own newspaper, that they can publish for free, with the content of a bar room half drunk discussion.
Sadly, that's not the case on social media. However, the web as a whole is still remarkably open if you want to make your own web site, and of course gopher and usenet still exist, largely under the radar now.
Theory is a part of the process. It is not enough by itself to be "science", being only the first step in the scientific method. Or, put differently, theory that never gets tested never becomes science.
Theory alone is just story telling within a rigorous framework, and the vast majority of published theoretical work is eventually disproven. Heck, there have been 20ish years of published theory about "inflation", and there will likely be decades more, thousands upon thousands of speculations. At most one is right.
Huh? So, you get no coverage with Medicare unless you have private insurance? Medicare isn't the primary payor? Can I then say that United Health isn't an alternative to Humana because I have secondary coverage through my spouse?
The billing is... complicated. Really, it's a mess sometimes, depending on the care provider. The patient might have just Medicare, or Medicare+Medigap, or Medicare Advantage (which is private insurance that uses Medicare as the re-insurer). Providers don't always sort that out correctly, especially if they don't primarily deal with the elderly.
But very few people only have Medicare. The normal thing unless you're very poor (or very rich, I guess) is either Medigap or Medicare Advantage. Most people who are "on Medicare" also have to deal with a private insurance company, in practice.
So, for most people in practice, it's not "Medicare instead of private insurance", it's "Medicare and private insurance". Instead of the paperwork advantage of single payer, it's the worst of both worlds.
The law requires you to identify yourself to cops if arrested, not to carry papers unless you're engaged in an activity (e.g. driving) that requires it.
Fair point: if the police officer understands this aspect of the law, and is in a good mood, he may be satisfied with your name, DOB, and address. Less risk in carrying an actual ID card, of course, for all that we know police are always perfect angels.
I don't think it matters which party has control. The GOP would let private insurers raise your rates or deny you coverage. Under Medicare for All it would be seen as something to deny care for someone because the total cost of their care would outweigh their benefit to society.
I don't think people talking about "Medicare for All" understand how Medicare works: most people also have private insurance. Medicare is not an alternative to medical insurance.
Savings accounts have paid below inflation since we went off the gold standard. Banks are effectively charging a fee to store your money. Bit of a scam, since you're loaning the bank money, but in the modern world there are no very-low-risk investments that pay more than inflation.
Only in small amounts. You cannot pay $10k anonymously, at least not legally in the US. The paperwork burden is high enough that most companies that sell high-value items simply refuse to accept large amounts of cash.
The exception is auction houses. Art and stamps have been the core of money laundering and wealth transfer for decades, and auction houses know where their bread is buttered. (Diamonds are also used, but always smaller diamonds worth much less than $10k individually.)
AmeliaBR: Once you start doing graphical layouts involving arcs and stuff, you need trig functions to convert from width/height distances to angular distances
Translation: my website is only massively annoying. I need it to be even more annoying than previously thought possible, and the CPU need to be pegged permanently at 100%.
Not sure what you mean by "too much production", unless you're talking about Star Wars books which certainly have silly audiobooks. Most are just a guy reading the book, and trying to do recognizably distinct voices for the different characters.
And that's more or less the definition of unfair competition. Amazon was allowed to operate in the red for many years and use that to build up infrastructure that competitors couldn't afford to operate.
You seem to think there's something wrong with that, or that anyone has the right to "allow" it.
Saying that seems OK is completely missing the point. If it's OK, then why have so few other companies managed to run their business like that? I can't think of anybody else that was able to do it.
Yes, why are so many corporation only interested in this quarters results, sacrificing the future of the business and laying off employees at random to goose that result one penny higher? More importantly, why do you think that's a good thing?
There have been plenty of companies over the years with similar long-term vision, most being real-estate focused. But your average typical mainstream non-tech company has sizable debt. That means it was at some point operating in the red in order to build facilities for the future. Pretty much every mill and factory builds their plants by borrowing vast sums of money, many many years of profits, and only paying that debt back over 20+ years. Or fails to ever pay it back, in the case of GM and a long history of airlines.
Spoiler: AOC gets primaried in 2020 and gets kicked to the curb, especially if she keeps trying to cover for Ilhan Omar's anti-Semitism and winds up handing the Presidency back to Trump.
If she keeps embarrassing the senior Dem leadership, being primaried would be a gift. With the people she's pissing off, she's on the path to a small plane accident, or a tragic encounter with a drunk driver who fled the scene. She doesn't seem to understand the rules of the game she's playing, but the billionaires who run things have boundaries they don't take lightly to anyone crossing.
Which of the confirmed candidates do you think has a chance?
None. But at this point in 1991, no one had paid any attention to Bill Clinton. Still plenty of time for someone actually strong to emerge from the Dem backfield. If they can find someone who is quick-thinking, witty, and statesmanlike, they can win. But they'd need to find someone who isn't fighting to be furthest left, and who can respond to Turmp's zingers with biting comments of their own that seem mature instead of childish. Tall order, but that's what will beat Trump.
Vertical bundling can run you afoul of antitrust laws without being a monopoly. Apple is big enough that they should be worried. However, I'm not sure that that Apple ecosystem is controlled tightly enough to get them into trouble. They can certainly claim that basically anyone can sell software on their store, for example.
have the package thrown at my front door by a cut-rate delivery driver
Give amazon credit: they also have a program where you can let the cut-rate delivery driver into your house when you're not there. And they're working on drones that can drop your package near your front door from a great height. They may even plan to leverage Blue Origin to drop your packages from orbit somewhere in your neighborhood!
It is a violation of antitrust laws to run your competition out of business by operating at a loss.
Find a retailer which doesn't operate at a loss half the time! Amazon's retail business has always be solidly profitable, if you ignore what they spend for future growth. That seems OK.
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Walk softly, else you will summon him!
Make an account, or stop your whining. The tools are right there in front of you, it's on you if you ignore them.
A business from any country will engage in protectionism. I never had worked a software company that said. Here you go, take this code, we will show you how to use it, and give you training classes, all targeted so you can make a competing product with it.
Amazon did this, when they allowed third party sellers to compete with Amazon n the main amazon.com store pages. Of course, the EU wants to punish them for that now.
I'm all for it.
I'd never see a comment from you again.
* https://slashdot.org/my/commen...
* Scroll down to "People Modifier"
* Set "Foe" to -6
You're all set.
Also known as the, "I'm not mature enough to have my beliefs challenged!" SNOWFLAKE mode
Or, more concisely, "rightthink mode". Soon to be mandated in China.
Well put.
The sensor in question (in the story, not the pitot) is an angle-of-attack sensor and has only to do with the orientation of the wings to the wind flowing over them (or not, in a stall).
Pitot tubes are commonly used as angle angle-of-attack sensors. They measure air pressure very finely, and that pressure changes with angle of attack.
Yeah, well, the ISPs are working against that, to keep the world safe for Google/Facebook/Amazon... Soon only whitelisted protocols will get through, everything else will be sent to the proper authorities for analysis. Only common carrier rules can keep the open internet above ground. Without that, we simply must develop bulletproof ad hoc mesh networks to bypass the corrupt service providers.
Or, you know, use a VPN.
I assume they're talking about the sensor behind the pitot hole here. Making that the only sensor, and non-redundant, is particularly questionable. It's well known that pitot holes are very easily thrown off: an insect building a nest inside it (or ice forming, or etc) will throw off the sensor enough to crash a plane, if it's all you rely on.
It is the side effect of Free and Open information.
Before the Web, While legally had the freedom of speech, being able to publish your viewpoints was expensive, and/or tightly controlled.
Don't worry, the big social media sites are fixing that. Tightly controlled is the new normal.
Facebooks latest bans? Senator Warren's ads calling for the breakup of Facebook (yeah, no one's going to believe that one was "community standards"), and the deplatforming of ZeroHedge, a crazy/fringe investment site that is routinely vocally critical of Facebook.
The problem is every opinion is not edited and we have no good way to fact check all our opinions. I could have the Opinion of an Anti-Vaxer (I don't) then spread my opinion to the general discussion. While 30 years ago, such information I may have written to the editor, and they would have not posted mostly because it doesn't fit the facts, or at worse, doesn't jive with his view. Or I could spend thousands of dollars to public my ideas myself.
The new normal is that you can't spend money to buy an ad if the publisher disagrees with your views.
Today it is like everyone has their own newspaper, that they can publish for free, with the content of a bar room half drunk discussion.
Sadly, that's not the case on social media. However, the web as a whole is still remarkably open if you want to make your own web site, and of course gopher and usenet still exist, largely under the radar now.
Theory is a part of the process. It is not enough by itself to be "science", being only the first step in the scientific method. Or, put differently, theory that never gets tested never becomes science.
Theory alone is just story telling within a rigorous framework, and the vast majority of published theoretical work is eventually disproven. Heck, there have been 20ish years of published theory about "inflation", and there will likely be decades more, thousands upon thousands of speculations. At most one is right.
And don't get me started on string theory.
Huh? So, you get no coverage with Medicare unless you have private insurance? Medicare isn't the primary payor? Can I then say that United Health isn't an alternative to Humana because I have secondary coverage through my spouse?
The billing is ... complicated. Really, it's a mess sometimes, depending on the care provider. The patient might have just Medicare, or Medicare+Medigap, or Medicare Advantage (which is private insurance that uses Medicare as the re-insurer). Providers don't always sort that out correctly, especially if they don't primarily deal with the elderly.
But very few people only have Medicare. The normal thing unless you're very poor (or very rich, I guess) is either Medigap or Medicare Advantage. Most people who are "on Medicare" also have to deal with a private insurance company, in practice.
So, for most people in practice, it's not "Medicare instead of private insurance", it's "Medicare and private insurance". Instead of the paperwork advantage of single payer, it's the worst of both worlds.
The law requires you to identify yourself to cops if arrested, not to carry papers unless you're engaged in an activity (e.g. driving) that requires it.
Fair point: if the police officer understands this aspect of the law, and is in a good mood, he may be satisfied with your name, DOB, and address. Less risk in carrying an actual ID card, of course, for all that we know police are always perfect angels.
I don't think it matters which party has control. The GOP would let private insurers raise your rates or deny you coverage. Under Medicare for All it would be seen as something to deny care for someone because the total cost of their care would outweigh their benefit to society.
I don't think people talking about "Medicare for All" understand how Medicare works: most people also have private insurance. Medicare is not an alternative to medical insurance.
Savings accounts have paid below inflation since we went off the gold standard. Banks are effectively charging a fee to store your money. Bit of a scam, since you're loaning the bank money, but in the modern world there are no very-low-risk investments that pay more than inflation.
The law requires is in many US states. Might want to check around.
After all you can pay cash anonymously.
Only in small amounts. You cannot pay $10k anonymously, at least not legally in the US. The paperwork burden is high enough that most companies that sell high-value items simply refuse to accept large amounts of cash.
The exception is auction houses. Art and stamps have been the core of money laundering and wealth transfer for decades, and auction houses know where their bread is buttered. (Diamonds are also used, but always smaller diamonds worth much less than $10k individually.)
AmeliaBR: Once you start doing graphical layouts involving arcs and stuff, you need trig functions to convert from width/height distances to angular distances
Translation: my website is only massively annoying. I need it to be even more annoying than previously thought possible, and the CPU need to be pegged permanently at 100%.
Not sure what you mean by "too much production", unless you're talking about Star Wars books which certainly have silly audiobooks. Most are just a guy reading the book, and trying to do recognizably distinct voices for the different characters.
And that's more or less the definition of unfair competition. Amazon was allowed to operate in the red for many years and use that to build up infrastructure that competitors couldn't afford to operate.
You seem to think there's something wrong with that, or that anyone has the right to "allow" it.
Saying that seems OK is completely missing the point. If it's OK, then why have so few other companies managed to run their business like that? I can't think of anybody else that was able to do it.
Yes, why are so many corporation only interested in this quarters results, sacrificing the future of the business and laying off employees at random to goose that result one penny higher? More importantly, why do you think that's a good thing?
There have been plenty of companies over the years with similar long-term vision, most being real-estate focused. But your average typical mainstream non-tech company has sizable debt. That means it was at some point operating in the red in order to build facilities for the future. Pretty much every mill and factory builds their plants by borrowing vast sums of money, many many years of profits, and only paying that debt back over 20+ years. Or fails to ever pay it back, in the case of GM and a long history of airlines.
Spoiler: AOC gets primaried in 2020 and gets kicked to the curb, especially if she keeps trying to cover for Ilhan Omar's anti-Semitism and winds up handing the Presidency back to Trump.
If she keeps embarrassing the senior Dem leadership, being primaried would be a gift. With the people she's pissing off, she's on the path to a small plane accident, or a tragic encounter with a drunk driver who fled the scene. She doesn't seem to understand the rules of the game she's playing, but the billionaires who run things have boundaries they don't take lightly to anyone crossing.
Which of the confirmed candidates do you think has a chance?
None. But at this point in 1991, no one had paid any attention to Bill Clinton. Still plenty of time for someone actually strong to emerge from the Dem backfield. If they can find someone who is quick-thinking, witty, and statesmanlike, they can win. But they'd need to find someone who isn't fighting to be furthest left, and who can respond to Turmp's zingers with biting comments of their own that seem mature instead of childish. Tall order, but that's what will beat Trump.
Vertical bundling can run you afoul of antitrust laws without being a monopoly. Apple is big enough that they should be worried. However, I'm not sure that that Apple ecosystem is controlled tightly enough to get them into trouble. They can certainly claim that basically anyone can sell software on their store, for example.
have the package thrown at my front door by a cut-rate delivery driver
Give amazon credit: they also have a program where you can let the cut-rate delivery driver into your house when you're not there. And they're working on drones that can drop your package near your front door from a great height. They may even plan to leverage Blue Origin to drop your packages from orbit somewhere in your neighborhood!
It is a violation of antitrust laws to run your competition out of business by operating at a loss.
Find a retailer which doesn't operate at a loss half the time! Amazon's retail business has always be solidly profitable, if you ignore what they spend for future growth. That seems OK.