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by Jiro 5y ago
By this reasoning, "I'm tired because I didn't sleep" is fundamentally different from "I'm tired because I exercised a lot". Also, "the car didn't run because there wasn't enough gas" i
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by Jiro 5y ago
The steps needed to convert the quadratic formula to code are absolutely not trivial, unless you're a geek. If I went to my mother trying to tell her to code a quadratic formula, she'd have no idea how to do it, even if I explain
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by Jiro 5y ago
Because the opportunities to profit from open source are limited, and mostly already taken. Any new company is likely to be either a fraudster, or a zealot and an amateur. Neither of those categories is likely to produce something good.
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by Jiro 5y ago
>If on the box there is written "THIS DEVICE WILL ONLY RUN SOFTWARE APPROVED BY APPLE", how many people would buy that? My toaster can't run any software at all. Most people will care about their inability to run their own
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by Jiro 5y ago
>It's not hard to code, children do it. It is hard to code, and average children don't do it. The fact that exceptional children do it more than they do other adult things is because coding doesn't require a lot of expe
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by Jiro 5y ago
They actually posted about this in 2017: https://blog.archive.org/2017/04/17/robots-txt-meant-for-sea... . At the time it sounded like they might change their robots.txt policy. I guess they never followed
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by Jiro 5y ago
If we were during Prohibition and journals started publishing articles about the positive effects of alcohol at the time there was a movement to legalize alcohol, sure.
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by Jiro 5y ago
I have three words for this: BBC Domesday Project. It may technically count as "File formats created by programmers for specific projects" but there's more than just that going on.
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by Jiro 5y ago
Medical effects of marijuana derivatives are so convenient for recreational marijuana advocates that I'm instantly suspicious that anything like this is overhyped or selectively reported. If it was discovered that the marijuana deriva
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by Jiro 5y ago
I don't believe in decolonizing archives. (It's amazing that the article says this with complete seriousness.)
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by Jiro 5y ago
Numerous prominent organizations have called gun control a public health issue including the Biden administration ( https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases... , the Center for Disease Control ( ht
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by Jiro 5y ago
An innocent person who hears #2 may reason that the police are faking evidence, they'd better give a fake confession because otherwise the police will just use the faked evidence in court. He may not be up to date on the laws about ex
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by Jiro 5y ago
I can see how information that contradicts the CDC falls under "Misleading content related to harmful health practices: Misleading health or medical content that promotes or encourages others to engage in practices that may lead to ser
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by Jiro 5y ago
The format is patented. It absolutely is not free and open technology. The anime encoders are copying things illegally anyway, so they're not going to care about violating the patent licenses.
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by Jiro 5y ago
There's a Scott Alexander essay Against Signal Boosting as Doxxing: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/07/29/against-signal-boostin... . It doesn't matter what the technicalities are, spreading inform
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by Jiro 5y ago
>“The powerful want to say that we are entering a dangerous new era where ‘people disliking things en masse’ has coalesced into some kind of crowdsourced [weapon], firing on arbitrary targets from orbit and vaporizing their reputations,”
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by Jiro 5y ago
I believe earlier Android versions did use camera, but now you have to use Google lens. It's extremely well hidden. On my phone, I have to open up the Google app and click on the icon after the microphone on the search bar to open up
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by Jiro 5y ago
No Japanese creator is going to reply "well, I would rather that the company that pays my salary not censor me", unless they have such star power that they know they can say this with no repercussions, so I'm skeptical of suc
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by Jiro 5y ago
>The kind of strict-enforcement situation the OP describes actually seems like a tidy to solution to the problem of prohibiting prostitution without crating a trap for women in a trafficking situation. That's a good point, but if th
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by Jiro 5y ago
From the article: "The William and Will West story is somewhat sensationalized and omits prison record information, uncovered by later researchers, indicating that William and Will West both corresponded with the same family members an
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by Jiro 5y ago
If someone mirrors a company's free download page, you can't legally download from the mirror, unless they have redistribution rights, which they don't. A free download from a company means that you are permitted to download
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by Jiro 5y ago
The "free edition" was free to download directly from Corel. You can no longer download it from Corel for free, and downloading it from someone else is not permitted by copyright law.
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by Jiro 5y ago
>If someone makes a piece of software available for free, even if it's just a binary, then it remains free unless or until the company revokes that status. This is not in accordance with copyright law. Corel granted permission to ge
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by Jiro 5y ago
>You can legally get and run WordPerfect for free According to your own link, the only version you can get for free is the last Mac version, and you can't run that without emulating the Mac, and you can't do that without a copy
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by Jiro 5y ago
Has there ever yet been a case of someone saying "animal testing is explotative, but it's actually pretty darn effective"? I suspect that it's motivated reasoning. If you don't like animal testing, it's going
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by Jiro 5y ago
The Perry Rhodan series was translated into English in the 1970s, but the series is very long and the translation stopped very soon. I can find Perry Rhodan ebooks and upload to Google Translate. However, converting the ebooks to text doe
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by Jiro 5y ago
There's a reason why construction requires permits and it's not just because governments are being dicks about it. Amateurs have a habit of building structures that are dangerous in subtle ways. If they don't tear that benc
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by Jiro 5y ago
The ink cartridge isn't actually consumed. The printer falsely reports that the cartridge is consumed so that the consumer has to purchase another one.
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by Jiro 5y ago
Something "engineered to fail" may be cheaper because materials that don't last so long are cheaper. But it's also possible that the material isn't cheaper at all, but the manufaturer gains because if the part wears
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by Jiro 5y ago
>I've read the ritual in an exposé; what is all this strange stuff? >Remember that Masons solemnly pledge to keep the ritual secret. An "exposé" is the product of someone who has broken a promise to his friends and neig

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