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Completely unusable here in Singapore. No response in new chats, unable to list previous chats. Let us spare a thought for those on pager duty right now.

What an excellent idea. This will surely make the protesters go away.</s>

I'd echo the gp's thoughts. There are parts of the City and the West End that are basically devoid of trees.

My biggest bugbear in London is the number of developments that have a "token tree" with one lonely tree in one corner, often doing quite poorly, presumably included to check some item on a planning consent checklist.

Of course, London has many green spaces and on the whole has plenty of trees, it's just they're quite unevenly distributed.

Why exactly? Isn't the primary reason for having public markets that companies can sell equity to fund growth?

The stock market has companies from massive to tiny. Each investor has the right to choose whether or not to invest in any one company. Some might be best served by investing only in profitable blue chips. For others, investing in IPOs is appropriate.

Your ire might be better directed at index companies who change seasoning rules right before a big IPO forcing unsuspecting investors to invest in unsuitable companies. And kudos to indexers like S&P who do not change the rules.

It won't be expedited into S&P.

You could just pay for premium. No ads, you can play content in the background on mobile and the creators get more money out of it. There is so much good stuff on YouTube in pretty much any niche you care to mention. Not to mention that YouTube's equivalent of Spotify is included in the price!

You mean the poor who disproportionately take transit into Manhattan rather than drive and/or suffer the adverse consequences of traffic?

If by "screwed" you mean having to pay a modest fee to access one of the most valuable pieces of land on the entire planet, sure.

Businesses may benefit from this move. People driving past in cars are unlikely to stop by a local business in Manhattan. People passing by on foot are much more likely to.

The article has evidence of modal shift. Car journeys are down, but both subway ridership and foot traffic are up.

Reducing traffic has other benefits in terms of making a place more liveable. If a street is full of vehicle traffic and noisy, it is a place people don't want to be & so pass through quickly. If you make the space nicer, people are more likely to want to dwell and spend money with local businesses & restaurants.

Manhattan can be quite unpleasant at times, but it's been really nice to see recent efforts to try to improve that:

  - Partial pedestrianisation of broadway
  - The 14th Street busway
  - New protected bike lanes

Baby steps for sure, but better than doing nothing!

As much as I love the Internet Archive, is it really that crazy? The four factors used for determining fair use are:

  * the purpose and character of the use
  * the nature of the copyrighted work;
  * the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole
  * the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.

In the Internet Archive case, they're distributing whole, unmodified copies of copyrighted works which will of course compete with those original works.

In the AI use case, they're typically aiming not to output any significant part of the training data. So they could well argue that the use is transformative, reproducing only minimal parts of the original work and not competing in the market with the original work.

What is electronic music? How is it produced?

Desmond Briscoe - the head of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop - enlists the help of Daphne Oram, David Cain and John Baker to explain the fundamentals of synthesised sound.