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Seeing this simple failure illustrates a risk in moving that direction.

Right. There are currently no known failures in the private system. Let's stick with that.

The phrase 'well has dried up' meant that I'm no longer looking to freelance, I'm trying to apply to salaried positions and was hoping for some examples from other freelancers who have been in a similar position.

The incentive to build new rental housing will evaporate

Or the incentive to build cheap apartments that can be profitable with the caps will increase. If you know you can easily get X amount per apartment, and can build and manage a building under that total amount, why wouldn't you? This is often a recurring theme that I see that people seem to do. Since something can't be as profitable as before, no one will ever try to make a profit now. I don't get it. There will be developers who will figure the numbers out and make good money. Of course the numbers may be too strict and my scenario isn't a possibility, but I would bet you haven't ran the numbers yet to know it's not.

Also, there is no guide out there for streamers, or people who are in the public eye on the internet, on how to avoid getting attacked by script kiddies.

A famous StarCraft streamer made a guide on how to avoid this:

https://blog.destiny.gg/protection-from-ddos-attacks/

I googled "guide to preventing DDOS on twitch" and it came up as the fourth result. How hard did you look?

I would first do some research on probiotics. From what I've seen, the only proven benefit came using them ina very certain situation which I forget completely (it was something like it helped clear up diarrhea after an antibiotic quicker or something like that). My point is they aren't cheap and you could simply be wasting money. I'm honestly not informed enough either way, but when I looked into them a few years ago, there was little to no proven benefits of using them.

I don't know, the Ax FX is insane. I would bet good money that 99.99% of people couldn't tell the difference between it and an amp in ideal situations.

Well the majority of people aren't voting and our system is clearly going to shit on a major level. The point is that it's your civic duty to vote, people fought and died for your right to vote, and it's the best non-violent way for you to impact your world. It boggles my mind when people advocate for others not to vote. You know that's what the power structure wants right? An apathetic population. How on earth can people look at our current situation, where the majority don't vote, and say it's working? How can people look at that and say the solution for more people to not vote? I'll never understand it.

Of course not. This was some government contractor taking the tax payers for a ride. They could charge $x more per train this way and just through in a shitty gps device. Things like this aren't accidents.

It has an SD card reader. You can double the storage for super cheap.

Perhaps he makes art everyday but simply doesn't publish it.

It's funny you mention suburban drivers. I have lived and have friends who lived in both suburban and rural areas and I found that without exception rural drivers are far, far, more likely to drive drunk.

To be clear, Superfish technology is purely based on contextual/image and not behavioral. It does not profile nor monitor user behavior. It does not record user information. It does not know who the user is. Users are not tracked nor re-targeted. Every session is independent.

We've heard this song and dance before. Excuse my skepticism, but I don't believe you and until we can see some source code, I won't believe you.

If you hold that something like 9/11 should be prevented

Nice strawman.

Look at my original comment. Clearly there will be people who can get away with doing little and maintain weight while others will have to work much harder. I would guess you're pretty young as well, most young people stay relatively fit without doing much.

To treat ongoing CDI-related diarrhea problems, the woman received a fecal transplant from her overweight but healthy daughter, via colonoscopy.

One possible situation is that she was eating poorly but didn't gain weight due to diarrhea and when she had healthy stool she gained the weight. Also, 'fatty has no-self control' is a way to stifle opposition to your opinion. Ther is no need for that. The laws of physics apply to all people. Burn more calories than you take in, you lose weight. Clearly there will be factors that determine how many calories you burn (perhaps someone burns them much slower than the average person), but as far as I've read magic isn't real yet. The laws of the universe still apply to everyone. I've yet to see anyone eat well and exercise and not maintain a healthy weight. Ever. Not once.

It bothers me when people post statistics out of context. If the unemployment rate was 48% and now it's 24% that's an amazingly successful policy to cut unemployment by half. If it was 12% and now it's 24% clearly something is wrong if unemployment doubles. Honest question, what is going through your mind when you post a statistic like that with absolutely context? How, to you, does this prove a point one way or the other?

It sounds like you're blaming your problems on the drugs and not yourself. Did you smoke cigarettes before any of this? Why isn't that the gateway drug? People tend to like yellow mustard before they move on to dijon. People tend to like light beers before they move on to IPAs. There is a natural progression there and to blame the drugs for your clearly addictive personality is wrong. Yes, they can be dangerous and because of that demand respect, but you have "mixed feelings" of people seeing if these drugs can help humans who are sick? Honestly, that is extremely extremely selfish. It's like the people who are against pot and refuse to even let sick people use it even though it's fucking magical for stomach issues and nausea (think of cancer patients going through chemo), great for glaucoma, proving to be amazing for seizures, etc... Your mistakes mean we should be hesitant to give sick people relief? Do you have "mixed feelings" morphine drips for people in intense pain? I don't understand how you can be so short sighted and selfish.

It is essentially giving up and saying we are going to live with Internet access being run by monopolies like the power company. It puts us back to the Bell System in 1982, and that makes me sad.

What do you think we have now? A robust ecosystem of carriers?

Also, your post sounds a lot like you don't want Title II because you'll have to comply with regulations and you don't like the current system because instead of complying with regulations you found a loop hole and then the ISPs found a loop hole to throttle you. This whole post sounds like why it's bad for you and provides no reason why it would be bad for the vast majority of people.

Linux is beyond user friendly these days. It just depends on what you want. I gave my wife's parents, two old hippies who live in the middle of nowhere and have literally no computer skills, an old laptop with Ubuntu on it. It's been totally fine. If they can use it, anyone can. Long gone are the days of needing editing configuration files in a terminal editor. Of course power users still can, but for novice users it's just as friendly as Windows and more friendly than OSX I would argue.

So I'm not allowed to dislike sports? It makes me a snob?

the lax rules, for better or worse, is what it really has going for it.

Better. 4chan was the most culturally influential website out there. I don't know how much that's true today but it shaped the humor and language of the internet in a way nothing else did. It's good to have places where there are no rules, no sacred cows, no need to be polite and politically correct. In a sea of bland derivatives, it at least had a personality. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad this site and others are not like that, but it's good to have that somewhere. There is no denying how influential that site was over the last 10 years. The stuff we joke about today was born in the depths of 4chan a long time ago.

The fact that there are literally millions, if not billions, of people walking, driving, riding in trains, and flying every single day with quality cameras on them and not a single one of them has captured a single shred of credible evidence. To quote Tim Minchin, every extraordinary claim that has ever been presented by humans has turned out to be "not magic".

The problem is that TV and computers can be used for far more than 'creativity and learning' and, in my experience with kids, the majority of use is mindless. Kids get hooked on games.

Finally, a topic I'm somewhat of an expert in on HN!

Even in "regular sports", ratings rise when narratives like rivalries or dynasties are in play. We saw the decline of viewership in Starcraft:Broodwar in Korea when such narratives fizzled and when the old stars faded from relevance, despite the considerable increase in overall skill level.

There were new stars and new rivalries. This totally leaves out the Savior scandal, competing games, and how unique and what fluke BW actually was. A game never meant to be played competitively, pushed to it's limits for years and years and years by the players and map makers, broken mechanics that turned out to balance the game near flawlessly. The list goes on and on. BW was an anomoly in the esports world, a game being played competitively 10 years after it's made is not normal. Melee is the only game that comes to mind that is similar. Counter Strike is still being played of course, but not the original game, no patches, like BW or Melee.

Starcraft 2 has arguably suffered from the relative lack of such a narrative, due in part to the fragmentation of its competitive scene.

I disagree 1000%! SC2 suffered from horrible balance decisions, a battle.net system that was objectively worse than BW and WC3, no LAN, and an over-zealous Blizzards-Activision that wanted to extract as much money as possible as quickly as possible. Things like putting limits on how much a prize pool can be before Blizzard takes a cut actually encouraged tournaments to stay smaller the first year or two of SC2. No LAN meant games would crap out and couldn't be restarted with tens of thousands of dollars on the line. No automated tournaments, no clans, no nothing. Battle.net 2.0 was so bad, such a monumental fuck up, it shows that Blizzard literally had no idea what they were doing and did not care what the community thought. We begged for years for things that were not that hard to implement for a gigantic company like Blizzard. Finally, the balance. When you balance a game for the lowest level player, it may bring a short spike in players but the reward of a high skilled play is gone. There is no reason to work hard and figure things out. The competitive scene suffered due to these decisions. Finally, the worst choice of them all, to let Wings of Liberty (vanilla SC2) fester and die while they developed Heart of the Swarm (the first expansion). Broodlord/Infester became so boring and dull to watch for months and months while Blizzard didn't do anything. They waited for HotS. And guess what? Want HotS? You have to buy the original as well! Good call! Not greedy at all. So many truly terrible decisions killed SC2 and it's a damn shame. As you can tell, I'm bitter. SC2 had great narratives. Huk vs Korea, Boxer coming back, Nada coming back, Idra (love him or hate him), the EG/TL stuff then Huk going to EG!, so many great runs through GSL or MLG, White-Ra beating MC at that worlds game!, MMA the prodigy of Boxer, MMA vs MVP at Blizzcon, so many great stories. The scene died because Blizzard fucking killed it. My beautiful Starcraft destroyed out of greed and shortsightedness.

You're "money" quote is provably wrong though. Her music isn't all over Youtube and other services. In fact, you proved this by having to go to the Pirate Bay to download it. They've done a great job at stopping it being available for free anywhere legally. Seriously, try to find any song from 1989 on Youtube that doesn't have a music video released. You can't.

Then comes Spotify (and friends), and suddenly there is an outcome where I'll part with $120 per year and artists earn money from me that they didn't before. They should embrace that, not focus on money per 'played song', rather on 'money earned per consumer/year'.

Honestly, why should she? She just sold 1.3 million albums in a week. Talking in absolutes about this is silly. Just like when Radiohead released a pay what you want album, different methods will work for different artists. I commend Taylor for not doing what everyone else does just because. It took balls to go against the grain and she came out on top. Good for her. She's not advocating to make Spotify illegal or anything which would be where she loses me. Spotify is great for some things and great for some artists some of the time.

LibreOffice has been available and does 99% of what 99% of users need.

Real life is boring, sorry. Posts like this are all talk. It's a fantasy that makes you feel good inside. Go ahead. Throw the first brick.

It plugs into the HDMI slot, how are you having compatibility issues? If your tv takes an HDMI cable, that's all you need.

In other words, Reddit feels really bad that your stolen nude photos are being shared all over its website, but won't do anything about it unless you're privileged enough to understand the copyright system or able to afford a lawyer who does.

This is the most deliberately misinformed way to say that. Reddit's stance, correctly might I add, is that they won't take down anything unless they have to by law. That is the most pure form of free speech they can allow. That means shitty things are going to be posted there and unless they are illegal they won't take them down. Why is reddit getting the blame for all this? They didn't steal the photos, they didn't even host the photos, what do you want them to do?

I'm sorry, but Apple was hacked. There are multiple layers to security. Even the physical security of the building counts. If you have a terrible, easy to crack security system like "What is your first pet's name?" and your customers lose their data because of it, your system was hacked. Plain and simple. Security isn't just blocking a port or an ip range, it's the entire, the entire, system. Those "security questions" are very easy to find out, therefor the system is insecure.