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by 4bpp 9y ago
> While I do not use Sci-Hub, I think that users who use it are doing so morally and ethically (in the sense of conscientious objection). i hope they are also willing to pay penalties if they are found to be violating copyright (this is
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by 4bpp 9y ago
Nobody is talking about forcing publishers to do anything, though. If demanding free access to electronic copies of papers actually makes their business untenable as they claim, they should put their money where their mouth is and shut it d
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Eh, but on the other hand, the tax payers are the ones who keep voting in governments that do not hold members of the police force accountable (and who hired policemen that do this to begin with). Such is the beauty of democracy: as long as
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by 4bpp 9y ago
This seems to be a general issue with any sort of attempt to impose restrictions on police-like agencies these days - between the boundlessly sympathetic legal system, the political power of police unions and an institutional culture that d
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> Japanese people often told me that Kabukicho (...) was the most dangerous place in Japan and often asked if I wasn’t scared of the Yakuza (Japanese Mafia) who openly parade the area. > My reply was always a simple one, “The Yakuza a
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by 4bpp 9y ago
The standard argument against this says that while every bug, security breach and inconvenience that arises due to the alternative (non-standardised, proprietary DRM, or no in-browser DRM at all) may individually make engineers thinking abo
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Well, this calculus of protected classes they seem to be using does give off an impression that it was either designed by someone aggressively unthinking or sufficiently opposed to the premise that they tried to sabotage it as much as they
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Well, this sort of depiction is always a many-edged sword. After seeing a media argument that amounts to "Nazis are these grotesquely inhumane monsters, and therefore it's okay to punch them", you'll have some people tak
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Sure it's interesting in a certain sense, but is it problematic? The whole point of these sorts of incidents being publicised is to make an argument that men in STEM as a group treat women in STEM as a group unfairly and therefore inte
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How likely would that be to lead to a better outcome than both the slaver or the slave being deported? Any solution that grants immigration status to people (who are often, as the woman in OP's story, not even literate) "just&quot
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I don't understand why these "people who want to do things without the JVM are wrong and deluded" articles never seem to even acknowledge that not everyone might want to go through the trouble of installing and configuring a
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by 4bpp 10y ago
Regarding b): at least the author of DownThemAll!, which has ~1.2m users per [1] (which makes it the non-adblocker plugin with the highest number of users I can find), has come out saying they won't [2]. ...and regarding a), I don&#x27
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What evidence, short of Mozilla going ahead with it and Firefox market share tanking over the course of a few months, would be sufficient to persuade you that this is a bad move? (I do imagine that there should at least be ample precedent o
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Thanks for the lengthy explanation, but my impression is that most people's assessments in here are of the form "Firefox is slow, but it has better addons". The choice you present therefore actually boils down to A) Continue
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by 4bpp 10y ago
I was pretty bewildered by the convoluted way they posited for selecting a subrange of rows, but then I googled around and learned that LIMIT is a nonstandard MySQL extension. Huh. (Apparently, while LIMIT n,k is MySQL-only, MySQL, PostgreS
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by 4bpp 10y ago
Note though that this is n=2, and I'd assume the two subjects were not sampled even remotely randomly from the set of split-brain patients...
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Sounds like an altogether easier problem, assuming you don't care to compensate for noise in your data somehow - supposing you want to identify all distinct m×n×k-sized "elements", simply use some appropriate rolling hash[1]
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What if the goal is actually to get away from the rest of humanity (in particular the part of it that would be likely think that colonising Mars is a ridiculous waste of money)? The circumstance that people of most political persuasions exc
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(Modern) Russian doesn't even have a verb corresponding to "is", so I'm not convinced that this turn of phrase is a thing that exists outside of American movies.
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I think them being Slavic speakers is in fact plausible (one element that seemed salient to me is the use of "cattle" where native speakers may perhaps have preferred "sheep" - it would work as a translation of быдло, wh
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If there is a plethora of hostile, wide-reaching proprietary DRM implementations, then surely this scenario will suck from the average end user's perspective, hindering the adoption of DRM. Helping the W3C create a standard, friendly a
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> Zika virus – this microcephalitic plague demon is almost 100% DNA. I believe Zika is an RNA virus...
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by 4bpp 10y ago
Looks interesting. Unfortunately, I'm not sure my prior probability that a random startup would survive for sufficiently long to be of use to future me is sufficiently high to justify whatever cost their services would come at...
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Blood storage for autologous transfusion has apparently already been a thing for a while[1] and has been indicated to be effective in animal experiments[2], but as far as I can tell, no provider is willing to store it for more than about 20
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I doubt the decision in the Gawker case was made in complete isolation from the public opinion, and public favour these days is significantly based upon who can depict themselves as the underdog/victim and therefore claim the moral hig
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by 4bpp 11y ago
I use the 0.8 series myself, and it does its job without making me pine for any particular improvements. As far as I can tell, there are occasional attempts at reviving development popping up every now and then, but none of them go far sinc
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The question what kind of harassment we are talking about seems pretty relevant here. Stories such as http://tech.mit.edu/V136/N9/harassment.html seem to suggest that overbearing, desperate romantic attention (oft
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What, if any, data do you have to report to authorities or central databases by default, i.e. without receiving a specific warrant? Is there anything in that class you are not allowed to mention (but may be allowed to mention insofar as ans
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Yikes, and I have a paper in the oven I'm hoping to submit to CCS this year... I suppose my mental image was influenced by less flashy conferences along the lines of https://cie2013.wordpress.com/registration/ . Fo
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In CS, conferences (which organise peer review and pretty much all publish open-access proceedings) hardly ever charge more than something like $200 for attendance, and this also pays for the conference venue, logistics and a slush fund of

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