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Won't somebody please think of the shareholders? How will they be able to make insane profits if people aren't replacing??

All ad campaigns are blatantly self-serving... so what's the point?

I mean... The dictionary definition of "evolve" is basically "things happened over time". But especially increasing in complexity, although it's not a necessary qualification.

So basically, as long as there is any temporal component, it "evolved". But I'd argue that saying it happened doesn't explain how it happened. So the "correct" answer is still B.

Yeah, with the way it's phrased, it's a trick question.

That's funny, because technically the answer is B.

It's a bad race to the bottom. If everyone and everything in on Spotify, then everyone is happy (so long as Spotify is a benevolent dictator). However, the value to consumers rapidly declines the second something they want is not on the platform.

Netflix is already seriously less useful than it was a few years ago now that more and more copyright holders are pulling their content and starting their own streaming services...

It has always been, and always will be, about convenience first.

Pre-Spotify and pre-bandcamp, getting music you could play on multiple devices was hard. Piracy was the only reliable way you could have the same songs on your walkman, your mp3 player, your phone, and your computer.

Bandcamp is nice, in that it offers DRM-free music in high quality, but Spotify offers raw, unadulterated convenience.

And Convenience is King.

Moot point-- it's not possible currently.

However, think of the sheer amount of potential energy cause by plate tectonics... we're talking about continents... moving.

That's literally what he said, yes.

He did imply it would likely not be possible. He said that if it could be captured, it would be an absolutely mind-boggling ROI in terms of energy in vs energy out.

That's because there is no software engineering program, and other engineering programs don't deal with "security" per se.

It's my opinion that the title "Engineer" should be on par with things like "Doctor" or "Lawyer". It should require certification and there should be consequences for claiming to be one if you aren't.

Just replace "software developer" with "self-proclaimed software engineer" in your comment and you'd be spot-on.

A lot of HNers probably have the job title "software engineer" without any of the qualifications of an "engineer"... that's probably why you're being down-voted.

But you're not wrong.

It becomes a meaningless word if anyone can just call themselves one. There has to be some standard, some governing body, some degree of rigour applied here.

In Ontario the Professional Engineers (http://www.peo.on.ca/) crack down on unlicensed use of the "Engineer" word in job titles pretty aggressively.

The point is that the public should have confidence in engineers. Software developers who tout themselves as "software engineers" actively piggy-back upon, and undermine this confidence. It's malicious, and you should feel bad for defending the practice.

If you still don't see why, "Lawyer" and "Doctor" are "just job titles" but obviously that's a problem. I trust you can see that.

But the point isn't to turn something bad into a valid transaction that is simply unfavourable. The point is to deter the behaviour in the first place, regardless of how much you're willing to pay to do it.

The daycare owner didn't want $10, he wanted to go home at 4pm.

You're missing the forest for the trees.

A normal fine simply becomes "the cost of doing business". The point is to deter Google, not to simply add a cost to its activities.

Related links:

https://rady.ucsd.edu/faculty/directory/gneezy/pub/docs/fine...

NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/15/books/chapters/freakonomi...

NPR: https://www.npr.org/2008/03/31/89233955/dan-ariely-takes-on-...

Too Big To Be Accountable ??????

It is indexed, just not to the damages, but to the revenue of the guilty party.

Other countries in the EU do this as well, even in personal matters. For instance, a speeding ticket is based off a percentage of your annual income. Why? Because if you make $200k a year, a $50 fine isn't a big deal, at all, but if you barely scrape by, $50 could break your budget for the month.

That's really not relevant.

Imagine if the punishment for stealing was to be fined for 10% of the amount you stole. Like, you get to keep 90% of it.

You'd rob a bank and then drop by the police station to drop off their cut just to avoid the hassle of "getting investigated" later.

So obviously the punishment has to be worse than the value of doing it. But not 1:1 either, if you know you'll only catch 50% of robbers, then the fine would have to be something like ${amountStolen}*3 so that the equation makes the Expected return of robbery sharply negative. I.e. if you expect to get caught 50% of the time, and only had to return the money you stole when caught... then robbery would be very profitable. If you had to pay twice what you stole, then the Expected return is actually a wash, and wouldn't necessarily deter potential robbers. However if you have to pay a fine of 3x what you stole and you think you'll get caught 50% of the time then it's a money-losing venture.

This is all ignoring jail time, of course, because no one can send Google to jail... so from the corporations point of view it just comes down to money.

Not sure why you're being down-voted... without a punitive component to the fine, (i.e. if it were only damages) then Google would have absolutely zero incentive to even pretend to change their ways. They could just pay a small fine, laugh, and say "See you next year."

EDIT: And now I'm getting down-voted too. Would you nay-sayers care to chime in with more than an e-frown?

If we somehow end up in a dystopian nightmare, I'm 99% certain it will be (at least in part) because of one of those 5 companies.

Other than all the reserved words and major libraries being in English, what do you mean?

How does western philosophy or culture impact software design? I'd argue that how software works is influenced by how computers work, which is influence by how physics works, which is culture-agnostic. You can't possibly say "binary is so Western". So, what, exactly is influenced by the culture / philosophy?

There's an old saying: "There's profit in confusion."

The kick in the teeth, here, is that it appears that rather than expose such profiteers, the institution would rather quietly sweep such incidents under the rug. :(

English is riddled with latin phrases, and many words have latin roots. That and many original sources are in latin.

It's well known that stress weakens the immune system[1]. So it's not a surprise that stress might encourage dormant infections (such as HSV-1) to enjoy a resurgence.

[1] https://www.apa.org/research/action/immune

Yup, academia is outrageously political.

I think it's safe to say that if the processors do not use partial address matches above address bit 11 when resolving load conflicts then they would not be vulnerable to an exploit which can gain access to partial address information above address bit 11 during load operations.