The Netflix Backlash: Why Hollywood Fears a Content Monopoly
The streaming service is spending $6 billion a year on content, choking basic cable and brusquely rattling the relationship business of the town as fears of a Google- or Apple-sized dominance send a chill down the entertainment industry's spine.
What I Learned From Executing Two Men
The average citizen will never look a death row prisoner in the eye. But we all share the burden of capital punishment.
Hasnain says:
"Since I retired from corrections in 2010, my mission has been to persuade people that capital punishment is a failed policy. America should no longer accept the myth that capital punishment plays any constructive role in our criminal justice system. It will be hard to bring an end to the death penalty, but we will be a healthier society as a result."
Posted on 2016-09-19T14:53:39+0000
My experience rewriting Enjarify in Rust
Last year I decided to rewrite Enjarify (a command line Python application) in Go and take notes in order to get data comparing the…
It's 2016. Dad says that he and Ma will leave the country if Hillary is elected. They are big Republicans. What conservative country shou...
Tim Romero's answer: Pakistan. This may seem surprising at first, but Pakistan is the clear choice for the disgruntled American conservative when you look at it logically. * Pakistan has very low taxes. Fewer than 2% pay any income tax at all. * The national government is limited and most of ...
Hasnain says:
The Answer is kind of surprising, but makes sense after the edit
Posted on 2016-09-18T16:46:43+0000
WashPost Makes History: First Paper to Call for Prosecution of Its Own Source (After Accepting Pulitzer)
The Post received countless benefits off Snowden's back: now its Editorial Page wants him imprisoned.
Hasnain says:
This is pretty messed up. Source reveals N documents, you reveal M "What’s critical here is that Kaplan’s list of Bad Snowden Revelations (just like the Post‘s) invariably involves stories published not by Snowden (or even by The Intercept or The Guardian), but by The New York Times and The Washington Post. But like the Post editorial page editors, Kaplan is too much of a coward to accuse the nation’s top editors at those two papers of treason, helping terrorists, or endangering national security, so he pretends that it was Snowden, and Snowden alone, who made the choice to reveal these programs to the public. If Kaplan and the Post editors truly believe that all of these stories ought to have remained secret and have endangered people’s safety, why are they not attacking the editors and newspapers that made the ultimate decision to expose them? Snowden himself never publicly disclosed a single document, so any programs that were revealed were the ultimate doing of news organizations."
In India, A Rich Food Culture Vanishes From The Train Tracks
Once upon a time, most of the millions of people who travel on India's vast train network brought their own food or bought it from vendors at stations. Sharing meals could turn strangers into friends.
Hasnain says:
"Indeed, there have been several significant societal changes within a single generation. My own quick survey on social media revealed that my friends who take trains don't carry food – they simply don't have the time and patience for it. There are now foil packaged meals served out of train kitchens and phone apps that allow pre-ordering of food, delivered at the next station."
Posted on 2016-09-18T01:12:37+0000
Trying to Live on 500K in New York City
The president's Wall Street salary cap threatens life as some know it in Manhattan.
Hasnain says:
This piece from 2009 makes me want to laugh and cry (because a toned down version of this exists in the bay area).
Though seriously, expecting that you *need* those 2x/year fancy vacations (16k/yr) and have to attend those parties a few times a year with 10-15k dresses each time...
Posted on 2016-09-16T17:38:10+0000
City Councilman Williams sits during Pledge to protest injustice
City Councilman Jumaane Williams declined to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance at Tuesday's Council meeting.
Hasnain says:
"This type of non-violent protest is not disrespectful as some have suggested. He deserves support, not criticism for his actions," he said. "What does it say about our country when there is a national outrage over an athlete sitting out the national anthem, but the same outrage isn't expressed when a young Black man is killed for no reason?"
Posted on 2016-09-15T02:05:43+0000
I made 6 figures at my Facebook dream job — but couldn't afford life in the Bay Area
Why do tech companies insist on being in expensive cities?
Hasnain says:
So much truth. The bay area is crazy expensive, and everyone's constantly hustling just to pay the bills
Posted on 2016-09-15T01:38:50+0000
Why is it faster to process a sorted array than an unsorted array?
Here is a piece of C++ code that seems very peculiar. For some strange reason, sorting the data miraculously makes the code almost six times faster. #include <algorithm> #include <ctime&g...