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by 0815test 8y ago
> So if you live near the any ocean, Great Lakes, the Mexican border or Canadian border, you live under a different set of rights than the rest of America. Interesting. You'd think that "real America" was just a turn of ph
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by 0815test 8y ago
> It’ll take a long time to find a way to reliably save data that is served in a distributed sense That's actually easy - it's literally what blockchains are for. The whole issue is how to manage the tradeoff between reliably a
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by 0815test 8y ago
The reality is not far from this - AIUI, the Internet Archive does have a fairly sizable archive of very early Usenet that was extracted from backup tapes stored at a random zoology department somewhere in Canada. So dangerous snakes wer
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by 0815test 8y ago
> To "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" They still do a few things like that, very occasionally. When they got rid of Freebase (notice a pattern?) they did preserve that dat
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by 0815test 8y ago
Context: https://blog.garrytan.com/goldman-sachs-sent-a-brilliant-com... And this is why people are saying to exercise caution around this stuff!
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by 0815test 8y ago
> Most of it is not due to religion but the sheer overwhelm that you just shut off your senses. You can keep on giving and giving and giving and giving and giving. It will not stop. This is why the article is so focused on strategic ,
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by 0815test 8y ago
One of the most effective ways of "empowering people" who are living in extreme poverty (as with many in India) is actually to provide them with starting capital, with no strings attached. Job creation can be useful of course, but
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by 0815test 8y ago
These are just De Brujin indexes! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Bruijn_index Far more elegant than literal lambda variables, since they save you the trouble of dealing with variable renaming and/or defining a
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by 0815test 8y ago
Many rural farming jobs are seasonal - there's nothing much to do for part of the year so no matter how successful the farming is, they're still better off coming to the city and earning an income there.
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by 0815test 8y ago
Yup. Moreover, most "state espionage" and the like is really just a state-sponsored variation of garden-variety opportunistic/criminal activity that would otherwise be quite ordinary. This is something that most people mig
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by 0815test 8y ago
France has sky-high minimum wages (and, just as importantly, labor market regulations), and the French labor market also has huge issues with low-skilled workers being essentially shut out of it. Coincidence? Germany had the same issue,
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by 0815test 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_easement are relevant.
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by 0815test 8y ago
They would get a lot more done for the price by just contributing to existing Open-Access-focused efforts. Mind you, there is a lot of "IP" (or even just tacit know-how!) floating around, that could be "ransomed" ou
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by 0815test 8y ago
> invalidate their legal defences against people downloading Netflix movies. I highly doubt that. A ToS violation is still a ToS violation (in the case of Netflix, which is expressly a streaming service), and copyright infringement
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by 0815test 8y ago
> ...and there would be little ROI to the business. Not having DRM on just the Netflix content would get very few new customers, if any... This is where your narrative is strategically short-sighted. It would be a very significant levera
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by 0815test 8y ago
Come on, that can't possibly be right. If they can get shows sold "exclusively" to them, why can't they get shows sold to them without DRM requirements? (The closest I can get to an explanation is that the "exclusiv
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by 0815test 8y ago
So, like the warez d00dz of old? That's to be expected I suppose, but not really what parent poster was talking about!
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by 0815test 8y ago
Turns out Netflix is an evil legacy studio after all!
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by 0815test 8y ago
Then Google/Microsoft/Amazon and others who are being impacted by this issue should throw some non-trivial money at media creators who are willing to commit to DRM-free content. Like Creative Commons or the Blender Foundation, fo
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by 0815test 8y ago
>> The best way to get a law changed is for everyone to be breaking it all of the time. > Everyone is the magic word here Unfortunately the "everyone" in this case is just a handful of centralized services - because dat
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by 0815test 8y ago
> good DRM is transparent and unnoticeable, and if that is the case then users do not care. Then there's no such thing as good DRM, since many users will want to make use of the content they've paid for (either monetarily, or p
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by 0815test 8y ago
AIUI, ipfs is not "infeasible" to block - so it's nowhere close to an actual "solution". You'd also get the same sort of copyright trolling that you have with Bittorrent downloads today - the technologies are
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by 0815test 8y ago
> I'm sure that "library of Alexandria" would be burned quite quickly. Rightly so-- and nothing of value would be lost. SV companies don't have much in the way of "secret sauce", they just have $$$ to bur
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by 0815test 8y ago
Well, practically, there absolutely is a difference. You can host above-board content any way you like, even on things like IPFS, and tell anyone who makes fraudulent copyright claims about it to sod off-- but if you're not being tot
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by 0815test 8y ago
OK, since it looks like these libraries are going down after all, can we systematically download the content in them that's verifiably in the public domain, and upload it to the Internet Archive so that it becomes legitimately avai
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by 0815test 8y ago
Hungary wanted out, for reasons that had nothing to do with Wilson. The first "Compromise", partially restoring her sovereignty, is from as early as 1867! And after the Austrians lost in WWI full independence was clearly in the ca
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by 0815test 8y ago
> The "international" world order isn't international. It's american. This is a contingent fact that's only true as of the end of WWII. The international world order was British before it was American; it was Fre
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by 0815test 8y ago
Okay, so the "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution" wasn't Marxist? And what about the many, many scholars who tried to understand culture using a Marxist, historically-materialist analysis, e.g. in Britain? Just because &q
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by 0815test 8y ago
Or maybe, "culture" theorists don't understand IR-- or economic development, for that matter. Culture, taken in a broad sense, explains almost everything about which societies become economically successful and which don&#x27
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by 0815test 8y ago
They have committed to doing it though, and this is a huge political change. Congestion charging used to be the kind of thing that social scientists would point out as the obviously right thing to do and that never got any traction. Then

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