Brendinooo

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by Brendinooo 5d ago
They are deprived of the payment they asked for in exchange for someone viewing their work. Also, "the pirate was never going to pay" is a far more imaginary thing here; it's an unproven claim (especially since it's ofte
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by Brendinooo 5d ago
The motive of the pirate doesn't matter: they are deprived from the revenue that was circumvented.
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by Brendinooo 5d ago
>Duplicating a video doesn’t deprive another person of anything This was the claim. I said what I said to point out that if everyone acted on this belief for a feature film, there would be a thousand people who ultimately don't get
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by Brendinooo 5d ago
>The production crew is getting peanuts anyway 1000 people on a feature film, you're looking at about $70 million in salary. That's peanuts to you? > If one out of 100 people donates them some money, they come out ahead. In
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by Brendinooo 5d ago
If a production crew of 1000 people makes a movie and everyone pirates it, you don't think those people will be deprived of anything?
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by Brendinooo 9d ago
As is often the case with our commander in chief, things once expressed subtly are now expressed brazenly.
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by Brendinooo 9d ago
I mean, if you really believe that, then no politician would ever be able say something like "I'll work to get you free health care".
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by Brendinooo 9d ago
Apparently not. >In Brown v. Hartlage (1982), a Supreme Court case where a Kentucky county commissioner promised to reduce his salary if elected, the Court unanimously drew a line between policy promises and vote buying. “A candidate’s p
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by Brendinooo 11d ago
>They see it as some great holy mission from god to go out into the hinterlands and convert the local people from their local existing belief system to their own particular form of Christianity That is, pretty famously, the "great c
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by Brendinooo 11d ago
Why would I switch off of Ubuntu? It's what came with my system.
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by Brendinooo 15d ago
Anyone starting from the couch just needs to start. I started by just pursuing a goal of "run a mile without stopping", then 2, etc. I've messed with zone 2 a bit and read a fair amount about it. If it gets you out there movi
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by Brendinooo 16d ago
As someone who loves buying music - yeah, I hear that. I just never really felt like the incentives were quite the same to purchase movies. They've always been constrained by their formats/vendors in a way that was never as true f
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by Brendinooo 16d ago
Nope, not a Netflix exec. One would imagine if I was, I'd have used Netflix as my example. I dunno about you, but in my lifetime, if I would have invested in owning VHS, DVD, or HD-DVD, that would not have paid off for me. (I might hav
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by Brendinooo 16d ago
Still a great ecosystem and value for dollar overall! That's one reason why prices have gone up. No long-term contracts, no additional hardware needed, no hidden fees. Still the option to not see ads for most of the services. You can f
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by Brendinooo 16d ago
This is such a weird take. Did you gatekeep people who built sites with FrontPage as well?
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by Brendinooo 17d ago
I dunno. Maybe there's a sense in which there's some untapped use cases out there that Apple needs to go figure out. But in a different sense, the idea that I buy a watch that lasts for years and I don't feel like I'm mi
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by Brendinooo 20d ago
I'm not morally/philosophically opposed to someone generating text with AI. I just don't want to read something that isn't really "owned" by the person creating it (that is, the writer knows what he is sending
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by Brendinooo 21d ago
Right. But it doesn't say what kind of geopolitical unrest, and it draws a stark contrast to an article that is filled with all sorts of unproven guesses about it (guesses that are quoted as being "inherent").
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by Brendinooo 21d ago
I mostly agree with this; your comment paints a far more plausible and level-headed picture than the article does.
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by Brendinooo 21d ago
> It’s easy to say that Trump was a factor in this decision I don't disagree with that. (I mentioned Iran, a crisis that was precipitated by the current administration.) I disagree with "Experts say that rhetoric appears inhere
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by Brendinooo 21d ago
I mean, if I hear the phrase "geopolitical unrest", I'm far more inclined to think "Iran"/"Russia" than "51st state". If the point is to get your gold away from the US and its president, why
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by Brendinooo 21d ago
Data from a chart in the article: Share of gold before relocation: New York: 31.33% Zeist: 30.83% Ottawa: 19.72% London: 18.12% Share of gold after relocation New York: 18.52% Zeist: 30.83% Ottawa: 18.52
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by Brendinooo 22d ago
Yeah, exactly this. The Web has always been a bunch of things: complicated backends that just need something in the frontend to operate, flashy marketing sites that don't do much behind the scenes but build brand credibility, cheap-t
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by Brendinooo 22d ago
Ah yes, right around the time when I buy my heating oil for the winter...
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by Brendinooo 22d ago
Perhaps you want a website for your Monterey cypress and want the domain macroc.arpa?
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by Brendinooo 23d ago
> Who is still using Anthropic seriously...Subscriptions only get you frustrated If you're using Claude in a pair-programming/"exoskeleton" sense, you'll probably never get close to maxing your subscription allot
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by Brendinooo 25d ago
My impression is that Opus 5 can be very impressive if you don't care about maintenance, novel-length comments, and really having any input in general. But otherwise it's borderline-to-totally unusable. It seems tailor-made to not
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by Brendinooo 25d ago
Useless for reverse-engineering the software that talks to a ten-year-old video cam + DVR system I was given, really nice for things I actually do in my day job (web dev at an agency).
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by Brendinooo 27d ago
Love a good IKEA hack. Readily available, standardized, low-cost materials are a great platform to build creatively!
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by Brendinooo 29d ago
bwahaha. I mean to say, I don't run it.

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