Which American companies do this?
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I suppose different countries have different strategies on this, rich countries are trying to benefit from foreign labor and capture some taxes from them while less rich countries are trying to increase their haul by encouraging their citizens to become foreign workers (example: Philippines).
I was nodding my head very hard at this essay, but this has given me something to chew on.
Yes, the company has been making moves recently that look exactly like any other company in the market rather than sticking to family values in all things. But the company is also structured like any other company - it's publicly traded and the CEO, Iger, reports to the board and the shareholders and has a fiduciary duty to maximize the share price, which contradicts a duty to remain family friendly or keep with Walt's express preferences. So, it's not mystery to me why this kind of thing happens, it's by design. Personally, I think the fiduciary duty thing is not a great way to make decisions.
Does knowing the name of something make you an expert? I am not sure, I think perhaps the definition of "expertise" at use in this paper is more precise and demands more. I am not familiar with this area of research, it appears to me that this paper draws on a well-understood meaning of "expertise", probably one that is established in one or several of the citations (or, perhaps, it is a contested definition even today).
That said - I think your intuition is a useful one - knowing something can enhance your enjoyment more than knowing nothing. I think this paper asks, can you know too much?
Not to make light of these tragedies, but this paragraph got a laugh from me - who thinks of Exxon Valdez, Three Mile Island and Chernobyl as, primarily, examples of _morning sleepiness_?
It's a little bit funny to say that a metric is skewed by measuring the thing it is designed to measure...
I also find it charming that they've managed to become a massive retailer while sticking to their religious values, although there are plenty of examples of that in other chains in the US that don't sit as well with me, personally (Chick-fil-A, Hobby Lobby, etc).
The notion here is, because of these annoying steps and gotchas, there will not be 4k rips of their content floating around. I don't keep up on the piracy scene these days but I have to imagine that it can still be done, as with the setup from the blog. So goes the story of DRM, it is a painful step that doesn't quite prevent piracy - but if you're netflix or other streaming services, you're working closely with the implementors of the DRM tech (microsoft, widevine, others) and you're not going to just throw in the towel given that it's always a work in progress.
Sometimes there are also licensing requirements around having DRM attached, probably applies to Netflix in certain cases (although less and less these days).
Parts of the BMT from this article still exist, but mostly aligned to and from Manhattan rather than across the borough itself.
> Maybe the current "implementation" is compatible but not with the specs itself.
It's perhaps worth noting that this is a "preliminary specification" and an extension of HLS. HLS itself is an IETF standard (well - an "Internet Draft"): https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pantos-http-live-streaming...
Based on my loose understanding of HTTP/2 server push and ALHLS, the sequence of events will be:
1. Client requests playlist for future media segment/"Part"
2. Server blocks (does not send response) until the segment is available
3. Server sends the playlist ("manifest") as the response body along with a push promise for the segment itself
The push then begins with the segment.
The push stream can presumably occur concurrently with the response body stream. So I don't think you can wait until every bit of the playlist comes in. Likewise, you can't use the playlist bits itself to gauge bandwidth because the server imposes latency by blocking.
Here is one: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/380056714
It begins with a montage of progress shots but there is also hours of him in the sim. It's really incredible.
I remember touring the computer science building at the university I would end up attending before I had enrolled there - some students in one room were discussing whether there was a regular expression for detecting prime numbers. I laughed to myself - because in my mind, that's not at all what a regular expression was.
Sure enough, there is in fact such a regular expression (or "regex pattern", if you prefer)[1]. Regular expressions in practice encompass BOTH the academic level-3 regular grammar stuff, and a bunch of other stuff that's been tacked on because it's useful in real-world applications.
[1] - This has been posted on HN before, probably a bunch of times: https://iluxonchik.github.io/regular-expression-check-if-num...
But many do not do this, as well. It all depends on what the production target of the factory is and how much throughput the supply chain has. I think those factors tend to determine this much more than worker satisfaction.
In my personal experience, I worked at a factory that would typically run two shifts, so 16-20 hours a day in production (variable), and the third shift overnight for maintenance/cleanup, 7 days a week. But if the prices were high enough for the product at the time and the supply was in place, it would run as close to 24/7 in production as possible.