Dracophoenix

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1531.
by Dracophoenix 5y ago
In your vision of it, perhaps. Citizen's United, however, has already decreed that corporations have free speech rights like everybody else. By creating a distinction between commercial and personal speech, the government would be int
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by Dracophoenix 5y ago
4K playback in three cases: Youtube Video players like Plex/VLC Scrubbing through editing software (e.g. Premier Pro, Final Cut)
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by Dracophoenix 5y ago
What about 4K playback?
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by Dracophoenix 5y ago
When was your last replacement and with what models?
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by Dracophoenix 5y ago
Even with Big Sur? How did you manage to keep it running six years down the line? Any limitations to be aware of? (i.e 4K playback, AAA games past 2018, heavy IDEs, etc.)
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Ask HN: How often do you upgrade your laptop?
3 points by Dracophoenix 5y ago|27 comments
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by Dracophoenix 5y ago
If you wouldn't mind my asking, what was Soviet life like for you?
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Ask HN: What technologies do you feel ambivalent towards?
1 points by Dracophoenix 5y ago|1 comments
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by Dracophoenix 5y ago
So what were the more common systems that you or your coworkers worked on between the 80s and the mid-2000s? VAX machines, NeXtboxes, SUN systems?
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by Dracophoenix 5y ago
>The kind of SNR that causes an attempted takeover? As IRC has depopulated it's been increasingly inhabited by a particular type of person and has a particular culture. If you mean anime subbers, 4channers, and the warez/pirate
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by Dracophoenix 5y ago
>The idea is that you cannot just shoo protestors to protest in a little corner of the town where few see them. Because that impacts the effectiveness of a protest and can effectively squash revolution before it begins. That might have b
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by Dracophoenix 5y ago
A bit of both facetiousness and seriousness. I bring those questions up because your claim of there being a moral end to technical goals is vague and lacking in substance. Technology has no more of moral charge than atoms or stars do. In al
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by Dracophoenix 5y ago
What's the moral outcome of an iPhone? What makes it more moral to all the other phones out there? Is Swift more moral than Javascript? Is Objective-C more moral than plain old C? How do you measure morality?
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by Dracophoenix 5y ago
You could access IRC via Internet2? I always thought Internet2 was limited to accessing smaller educational networks networks like Merit, JANET or CERN.
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by Dracophoenix 5y ago
Why not "why"? Having an understanding of his or her motivations, while possibly not serving the purpose of knowing whether an idea is feasible, may help in formulating your own methods to solve the problem.
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by Dracophoenix 5y ago
While I think that kind of thinking the kind that encourages bean counting and half-assery in the name of profit? I would certainly agree that having an ongoing basis for calculation is a metric. But when that metric becomes a target (and i
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by Dracophoenix 5y ago
In your previous experience with FAANGs, were your requests for a higher offer taken as an affront? Also, what was your role with regards to ISP infrastructure?
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by Dracophoenix 5y ago
While I'm not fond of Apple's schizophrenic application of its own contracts, your statements miss some considerations in those Supreme cases 1.physical presence 2.access to private infrastructure for the common person In both cas
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by Dracophoenix 5y ago
Beat me to it!
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by Dracophoenix 5y ago
They have and that's my point. Any medium of communication can and has been used for pornographic distribution. Mail, Lithograph, Magazines, Comic Books, Movies, Telephone, SMS, the Internet, BBS, Usenet, etc and I'm sure there&#x
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by Dracophoenix 5y ago
While all of that is true, the bigger question in this argument is whether or not Apple can justify the premise of restricting speech on its platform as arbitrarily/selectively as it does without being taking to task for interfering in
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by Dracophoenix 5y ago
Baader-Meinhof phenomenon
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by Dracophoenix 6y ago
From what I understand, that decision was made because of potential legal liability.
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by Dracophoenix 6y ago
If you don't mind my asking, how do/did you deal with the contradiction that the very same people whose judgements and thoughts you derived your view of the world from (or felt you were supposed to) were unaffected or unconcerned
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by Dracophoenix 6y ago
More like Star Wars day.
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by Dracophoenix 6y ago
>>Or, you know, he can look at what the land around yours is going for to determine what the LVT should be. And who determines what the land around me is worth? Or the land around that land ad infinitum? In all cases, there is an asse
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by Dracophoenix 6y ago
Not that they're insurmountable at all. More that they are insurmountable to implement in a country where legal policy such as the one you're proposing violates freedom of speech and voluntary association. It seems a lot of what y
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by Dracophoenix 6y ago
>>As long as land is bought and sold, it isn't hard to assess. If I sell my land to someone for a dollar, does that mean the land is worth a dollar? Or is a county assessor pulling a magic number out of his hat that I would have
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by Dracophoenix 6y ago
But how does that change the big question mark inherent to both taxes: "What's the value of the smallest defined unit of land?"
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by Dracophoenix 6y ago
What's sufficiently big according to you? And what qualifies as interoperability? An API? Open sourcing the whole tech stack? What about in companies with hands in multiple markets? Does this apply de facto tech companies in other mark

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