A1kmm

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by A1kmm 16y ago
How are you planning on getting traffic in the long term? There are free alternatives like http://search.creativecommons.org/ so I suspect most customers will be people who don't know about the alternatives. I'd be sceptical if you could
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by A1kmm 16y ago
I think the author intended the post to be a macroeconomic critique, with personal details given as analogies. Macroeconomic reasoning by analogy, especially personal ones, is not very rigorous, and can sound defeatist; the same article cou
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by A1kmm 16y ago
Authors do benefit from libraries; not as much as if everyone bought every book they ever read, but enough. Public libraries actually have efficient economic properties from a macroeconomic perspective that governments should try to replica
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by A1kmm 16y ago
The down round theory doesn't really make sense. Let's say you own x% of a $y car, but you have the power to crash it and write it off (at which point it is worth $z for parts, z << y) with no consequences except the loss of value i
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by A1kmm 16y ago
The core point makes sense, although I don't think there is a clear line between 'rule' and 'exception'; instead, the influence of companies probably follows something like a power law on metrics like 'how many people recognise the brand' -
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by A1kmm 16y ago
> sites that copy others’ content It would be interesting to know how Google determines, in an automated perspective, which site is the original and which is the copy - especially when copying could go both ways. For example, I could wr
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by A1kmm 16y ago
IANAL, but this is what I know: * In the US, there are three types of jurisdiction: personal, subject matter, and territorial jurisdiction. * Personal jurisdiction of one state over residents in another can be established by contact with th
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by A1kmm 16y ago
If you are right, a website could automate the cycle as follows: 1) Every user belongs to at most two (or k) classes. 2) Each class can have a finite number of users n. 3) When a class fills up, a new one is opened. 4) There are always two
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by A1kmm 16y ago
There is more than one interpretation of what does and doesn't violate the DMCA, and the 6th and Federal Circuits have taken one approach, which makes the DMCA less applicable to non-piracy activities, in Lexmark Int'l v. Static Control Com
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by A1kmm 16y ago
So why are student clubs being giving an effectively unlimited budget out of proportion with the number of members? At all the universities in my country, student clubs (whether they are about sport, non-sport competitive activities, intere
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by A1kmm 16y ago
My mail is handled by a VPS with greylisting, with a wildcard alias. I have greylisting and stringent filtering turned on for most aliases (including my most public one, which is available all over the web) but I have an alias which is more
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by A1kmm 16y ago
How is Apple's app store requirement not straight-forward tying under the plain language of 15USC§14? The language there is: "It shall be unlawful for any person engaged in commerce, in the course of such commerce, to lease or make a sale o
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by A1kmm 16y ago
The article doesn't properly distinguish between simple changes in the type of work that is done and structural changes. Generally the change is n jobs paying $w / hour doing X being replaced by p n jobs paying $r w / hour doing Y. The mark
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by A1kmm 16y ago
If someone uploaded a photo of her from her website, presumably one she held the copyright in, wouldn't she have been better off trying to get the photograph taken down on the grounds that it is pirated? I'm sure Facebook responds to DMCA t
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by A1kmm 16y ago
Just a guess: maybe they have a contract to supply software to one or more governments, and either a term is that they have to do it, or they don't want to upset the government and lose the contract.
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by A1kmm 16y ago
Has it been edited? In the version at the time of writing this comment, it says that they 'will not process the images', but it doesn't say why not.
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by A1kmm 16y ago
Both are GPLd programs, most likely with copyright ownership spread across large numbers of contributors in many countries. The GPL says you can't distribute the program unless you include the complete source code. To legally distribute a v
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by A1kmm 16y ago
If the deal isn't worth it for you, and you don't have any contractual obligations already, negotiating doesn't mean you have to make a deal. But there are several reasons why someone might make an insultingly low offer, and it may still be
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by A1kmm 16y ago
I think there is some truth in that. Markets in which HF trading occur are extremely efficient in the short term, but the information they act on in the short term is primarily about trading and not information which should affect the long
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by A1kmm 16y ago
And think of all the murderers who can't be caught because the walls of private homes absorb the sound waves rather than recording them and sending them to the government. But seriously, governments are supposed to enforce laws to preserve
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by A1kmm 16y ago
I think the real reason monads have a reputation for being difficult to grasp is that they are a big change for someone who is firmly entrenched in imperative / object orientated programming. That doesn't mean that understanding a particula
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by A1kmm 16y ago
Creating advertising supported themes is a legitimate business model, and trying to stop someone removing the advertising by obfuscating code isn't really any worse than, say, distributing binaries to software which have been compiled to ma
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by A1kmm 16y ago
The idea is reasonable. A few comments: * The login system is difficult to use. A user registration system on your site is really worth the effort; if not, at least supporting OpenID would be good. After logging in, returning to the pag
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by A1kmm 16y ago
Triple: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_Damages
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by A1kmm 16y ago
Is anyone else struggling to understand theorem 2 on pages 15-16? It sounds like what they are saying is equivalent to the following: If S1 intersect S2 has a solution, and S1 intersect S3 has a solution, then the system S1 intersect S2 int
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by A1kmm 16y ago
So 98.09% of the profiles on the site are for people who didn't sign up for it and don't want to hear from site members? Meaning that from the perspective of a member of the site, if they contact someone on the site, more likely than not, t
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by A1kmm 16y ago
I think it would be religion to not believe that it is theoretically possible to build a device which emulates the human brain - sort of like the belief that it was impossible to make 'organic' compounds out of compounds from 'inorganic' or
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by A1kmm 16y ago
Have you got one of those transformers too? Is the black double insulated side supposed to be the low voltage or the high voltage side of the transformer?
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by A1kmm 16y ago
One interpretation of the wiring: * Wires coming through the wall are mains voltage. * Exposed wire is ground, the other two are active and neutral. They connect to two white wires. * These two active and neutral wires are connected to two
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by A1kmm 16y ago
Sounds like a useful tool to have if you are a pirate and you want a better chance at shooting the crew before they shoot back as well.

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