Great idea; no notes.

No idea on the men-vs-women thing.

But it seems absolutely crazy for the DRMed media sales industry to remind people that their media could Just Work and be normal, instead of requiring specific proprietary players (a different one for each media source). They shouldn't even mention piracy, because that just plants the seed that people could instead have standard format files, where things are much more convenient than the awkward situation with DRMed media.

If we want people to just accept that things are shitty and must always remain shitty, then it's probably best to not encourage people to think about the topic at all. Shhhh! Don't bring it up, and pretend that the idea of a convenient media library, where users have the choice to use whatever player software that they want on whatever device that they want, simply doesn't exist at all.

It's funny, I keep hearing people say that, which was the exact opposite of my experience. I had a Discover card for six months last year, and in that time had more problems with their customer service than I have had, in total, in twenty-five years or so with other credit card companies.

Never had any experience with Capital One for a credit card, but all I can say is good riddance if they kill off Discover.

"A human" can't review them all in-depth. However, the most profitable company in the country can afford to hire multiple humans, who could review all of them.

This reminds me of how in the 1980s, things like FPUs and MMUs were separate chips. Do you want an 80387 with your 80386? Do you want a 68851 with your 68020? But then the newer CPUs just came with that stuff.

Even if 90% of the machines sold over the next few years never use it (think of how many 80386 chips were running MS-DOS as a "fast 8086" and never went into protected mode), it's nice that on the software side you'll eventually be able to expect it. In 1988 you couldn't assume floating point was fast for everyone, but by 1998 you could.

"....how the hell do I stop him?"

Stop fetching resources from his servers. He can't track you, if you stop giving him the data to do it.

I also wonder how much it would cost to have the flight deck track location based on gps _and_ location based on an inertial reference system; then perhaps warnings could be provided if those locations diverge, and the pilot could opt to use one, the other, or neither as appropriate.

A super high-end inertial reference unit is in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, but I'd wager that something good enough to get you to the other side of a war-zone should be feasible for low five figures; maybe less if it could reuse components from cars or mobile phones.

This article was sourced from these two comments on the Leeham News website. I found the original comments more informative than the Seattle Times version, and while I can't be certain, the author seems credible.

I'm half tempted to apply for a job over at Boeing, just so I can understand if they're learning the right lessons from this (about fixing their culture and processes), or if they're doubling down on the post-McD merger nonsense.

I ordered one.

My planned primary use case is to watch movies while I'm traveling for work. I've been on the road a lot, and hotel TVs aren't fun to use; something with a great screen and sound that's always with me seems ideal. The wife has been talking about getting an RV, and it'd be great for that use case too.

Hopefully there'll also be some good games, and ways to do work, but I don't have a clear vision of how that'll work.

1) Cultures contain multitudes. The fact that there are negative idioms present in American culture doesn't mean that every American is always acting negatively; nor does it mean there are no positive idioms.

2) You are redefining the idioms to be much narrowly used than they are in practice. Additionally, the list of such idioms is nearly endless... people will say "might makes right" to argue that the more powerful entity can do whatever it wants and shouldn't be restrained... they'll say "history is written by the victors" both as a reminder of the flaws in history, but also as a call to ensure that their team is victorious regardless of what it takes.

3) I'm capable of googling. But the fact that a bunch of weird youtube videos claim something is an idiom does not, in fact, make it an idiom. The phrase exists, but I couldn't find it in a print corpus at all, and when I found it on the web it seemed to be used by people ranting about dishonesty, example translation: "people who steal money, steal food, cheat in school, robbing society, cheating whenever they can, don't they have any shame at all??" or "Taiwan is in a moral depression; some people are not ashamed and will not hesitate to cheat if they can".

"might makes right", "history is written by the victors" etc... the examples are endless. you can pretend otherwise, but there are plenty of idioms that Americans use to justify immoral behavior that they happen to like.

Like, Gag me with a spoon, Gen Z slang is grody to the max. It would be bodacious if they would, like, totally talk today's adults did when they were like, teens. It'd b rad to see Gen Z use the totally tubular vernacular of teens of the past!

There are countless American idioms meant to indicate that it's okay to do immoral things to get what you want: "the ends justify the means", "you can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs", "desperate times call for desperate measures", "it's a dog eat dog world", &c, &c.

As for your claim about the chinese idiom, I've never heard it. Can you please provide the precise chinese language translation, so I can verify if it even exists at all?

Great work by the investigators here! I enjoyed reading through the specific examples they found. There are a few that looked like people making mistakes with matplotlib and not catching it; a bunch that looked like people deliberately filling in missing sequence info with other data; and a few that are just baffling (little possibility it was a mistake; but also no obvious reason to fake that specific data). A bit of a shitshow, and clearly unacceptable. I mostly hope that this nonsense hasn't negatively impacted too much research and progress, and that the professional repercussions are appropriate.