CuriousSkeptic

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by CuriousSkeptic 2y ago
FWIW I agree with you analysis. I am making the argument that that is how it should be and that copyright gets in the way. For context, compare making music with parenting and imagine we had a legal framework allowing parents to extract a r
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by CuriousSkeptic 2y ago
On free speech vs violent acts of speech (if we want to keep using that term) A possible compromise that might work is to protect _good faith_ speech while working against bad faith speech.
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by CuriousSkeptic 2y ago
It would not. It is not relevant either. Music is shaped into something you buy by wielders of copyright. Removing copyright as a weapon would leave them powerless to do so, allowing music to once again be some thing you primarily do.
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by CuriousSkeptic 2y ago
Don think you need to destroy all of capitalism. Just abolishing copyright on music would be a surgical strike with pretty good effect I believe.
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by CuriousSkeptic 2y ago
I seem to recall a similar argument being made a while ago: https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/waldo/files/waldo-94.pdf
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by CuriousSkeptic 2y ago
UBI doesn’t need to be a “left” idea. See the Libertarian angle f.ex https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geolibertarianism Or read John Lockes argument on how land, as given by God to all, must be shared fairly. Expanded a
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by CuriousSkeptic 2y ago
T are ways to deal with the land thing specifically that goes rather well together with UBI: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax https:/&#
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by CuriousSkeptic 2y ago
Not that familiar with c++ but used to have this thought about both Java and C#. Think I’ve changed my stance on it now though. If following something like CQS the bifurcation can be thought of allowing “pure” functions and excluding code w
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by CuriousSkeptic 2y ago
The GPL was never about money, recognition or even abut the creators at all. Copy Left was created “to promote computer user freedom” Free Software already views all proprietary software as inherently immoral. So there is no need to take a
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by CuriousSkeptic 2y ago
Perhaps this lecture series by Bartosz Milewski is more your thing https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbgaMIhjbmEnaH_LTkxLI7FMa... His enthusiasm and energy certainly helps to keep it entertaining
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by CuriousSkeptic 2y ago
Haven't actually done the book. Can vouch for the lectures[1] though. Very much worth it to get a different perspective on various language structures I had just taken for granted. Watching 2-3 of these will probably answer your questi
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by CuriousSkeptic 2y ago
Tying ownership to a market determined LVT has been my goto. That is, when “buying” land you don’t bid on the one time transaction, instead you directly bid on the rent. In practice it could perhaps be implemented such that it would still l
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by CuriousSkeptic 2y ago
Being written in Java was probably instrumental in enabling the huge modding community around Minecraft. Which in turn was probably in large part responsible for its success.
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by CuriousSkeptic 2y ago
> what about Pakistan First source I found now: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00963402.2019.1... > the climatic effects of the smoke produced by an India-Pakistan nuclear war would not be
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by CuriousSkeptic 2y ago
> do not attack us or else you will be nuked This sentiment has been expressed a few times in this thread now. Is it really true? From my understanding nuclear war at any scale will be devastating for the entire planet, not just the aggr
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by CuriousSkeptic 3y ago
A bit curious about your take on this In your advice your optimising for a single listening position. I found, in my home, optimising for a coach with three listening positions, and a hard glass surface wall close to one speaker, that aimin
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by CuriousSkeptic 3y ago
There are wireless standards for this, no need for ethernet https://www.wisatechnologies.com/speakers
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by CuriousSkeptic 3y ago
> that would make all advertising illegal. I’d vote for someone pushing that. As a bonus with all those American ad-driven malware driven out of the market there would definitely be room for European companies to compete on delivering ac
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by CuriousSkeptic 3y ago
Might want to checkout DurableTasks[1] for that [1] https://github.com/Azure/durabletask
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by CuriousSkeptic 3y ago
Assuming a identity must be a continuous single path through spacetime It struck me, when pondering what it would mean for something like a LLM to have an identity, that this identity as a single path notion will have to be replaced with id
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by CuriousSkeptic 3y ago
How about “sustainable web”? It could surf a bit on already established efforts in other domains and the narrative seem to fit with those ideas I think.
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by CuriousSkeptic 3y ago
You scenario seems to only correlate increasing price with lower consumption. I think there should also be viable paths where increased prices for some energy forms translates to increased demand for cleaner forms instead A carbon tax match
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by CuriousSkeptic 3y ago
This is the kind if project where agile can truly shine. “Hey, customer, looks like we burnt through half your budget and it doesn’t look like we’ll be able to complete the full spec on what remains… I could ask you to increase the budget,
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On Moq and Our Part in the OSS Sustainability Social Contract(seankilleen.com)
3 points by CuriousSkeptic 3y ago|1 comments
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by CuriousSkeptic 3y ago
Free software isn't about cost primarily though. Its about avoiding stuff like this: https://petapixel.com/2019/10/08/adobe-blocks-all-users-in-v... In fact being free software means anyone can jump in a
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by CuriousSkeptic 3y ago
> Obviously Google can't prevent content creators from embedding their own ads Of course they could, just make it part of the service agreement. I would feel much inclined to pay for youtube if they filtered out all ad-funded conten
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by CuriousSkeptic 3y ago
Are there truly no ads? Have been putting it of thinking it just removes the google injected ads, but keeping all the promotions and such
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by CuriousSkeptic 3y ago
I suspect I would agree with this today, but just for the contrast. At the time (about 12 years ago now I think) coming from Java it felt like someone lifted the ceiling, suddenly I no longer felt like always bumping into the lid of the jar
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by CuriousSkeptic 3y ago
No need to treat them as property. Just allocate to the highest bidder would have the same effect no? With the added benefit that the revenue from that could go to something fair, like a public dividend, rather than to rent seekers
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by CuriousSkeptic 3y ago
> I wish I could play Outer Wilds again There's a rather extensive DLC to play through as well in case you haven't seen it. A bit different, but really well made too.

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