Joakal

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by Joakal 15y ago
I looked around for costs; basically the original copyright holder has to prove damages. Since most people using Youtube, et al, are not making that much profit, the DMCA-issuers won't face significant penalties for misusing DMCAs. Seems li
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by Joakal 15y ago
A company can send non-legally binding notices to copyrighted content it does not own? What legally stops me from filing it against all of Warner Bros' legitimate content like trailers then?
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by Joakal 15y ago
It is disappointing to me as well. People should be upvoting articles based on quality, not headline-bait or baseless rants (no data of bugs, no logs, etc) or rants where the person is oblivious (locks are in the docs). Unfortunately, I can
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by Joakal 15y ago
Generally, there's data to support the submission as well. The submission did not have the data (logs, bug reports, etc). So it's pretty much easy to disprove the rant as nothing more than a rant.
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by Joakal 15y ago
It's illegal in some places to collect rainwater. I'm sure they'll ban any such methods too.
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by Joakal 15y ago
SpiderOak is a mix of proprietary and open source according to Wikipedia. Does anyone know how much of SpiderOak is open source? I wonder if they considered OpenStack that several companies including Rackspace, NASA, et al, uses?
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by Joakal 15y ago
It doesn't help that the requests for help were made to sites like HN where the demographics of those sites tend to consist of information-curious people.
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by Joakal 15y ago
You can restore burnt paper. eg: http://creativegame.blogspot.com/2008/05/burned-documents.ht...
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by Joakal 15y ago
Which areas of finance? From what I understand from some finance people is that they don't take away as much either. There's also an oversupply of labour in the city though.
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by Joakal 15y ago
Would this still apply for people on work visas?
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by Joakal 15y ago
As a startup, change of minds is pretty normal to the point that it's far more better to have the tools to quickly implement it rather than plan/document it well. The only documentation is the general gist behind the database. If it prototy
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by Joakal 15y ago
There's a film maker who went straight in without protection 'Chernobyl The Lost Film': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkjAAzkrXSA Then again, so did many other people there as you can see.
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by Joakal 15y ago
Does Apple Inc own the section of trademarks regarding food service?
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by Joakal 15y ago
Gimp's latest update includes interface changes: http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/GIMP_2.6_Released_Off...
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by Joakal 15y ago
Fresh install of whichever browser when they buy a new computer works best but that would make you feel dirty too ;)
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by Joakal 15y ago
In a way, it does make sense. In web design and developer communities; there's a saying that if you give an inch, they want a mile. They are not good clients to work with. While it's very appreciated what those guys did, they should've igno
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by Joakal 15y ago
Interesting that they would cancel when many other de-centralised organisations would be pretty resilient. In fact, losing a member to the enemy would cause an outcry and drive more to join the cause. eg Taliban, Al Qaeda, IRA, guerrillas,
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Ask HN: What deprecating guides are there to minimise problems?
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by Joakal 15y ago
You no longer need approval to create a gem project?
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by Joakal 15y ago
I don't believe Facebook was able to prevent someone who knows enough of that person (eg Palin attack). Or am I misunderstanding you?
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by Joakal 15y ago
Pretty easy to be immune to spam when most of the interactions are between known people. I don't know why FB and other sites doesn't adopt a 'secret handshake' code for friend requests. It would eliminate all of the unwanted requests if som
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by Joakal 15y ago
Could go fully complicated path; 1) Public voting: revealing who votes for who on articles. If people want their votes public, they can mark themselves so (Hopefully opt-in to public votes). 2) Blacklisting voters; let people mark public vo
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by Joakal 15y ago
Interesting Rackspace leaving post: "Rackspace Cloud has had pretty atrocious uptime over the year there has been two major outages where half the internet broke. Everyone has their problems but the main issue is we see really bad node degr
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by Joakal 15y ago
An ambiguous question that does not consider the requirements. eg Latency vs cost. Being based Antarctica can be very cheap and fast. But there's poor connections. It's like a PHP vs C++ argument. While C++ is secure, efficient and takes lo
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by Joakal 15y ago
In Australia, the signing the petition actually gets it heard in parliament if there's enough signatures.[0][1] Is there a similar venture for your company? [0] House of Representatives: http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/petitions/peti
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by Joakal 15y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/classic ?
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by Joakal 15y ago
In Australia, it got passed. It was effectively illegal to use VCR to record programs. How did I know this? Due to the new Copyright Act amendments which made breaking DRM illegal, extended copyright length among other things. One of their
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by Joakal 15y ago
There are some smart engineers and scientists who do not want to be in the spotlight because it's both a blessing and a curse. Not everyone is out for the glory. This excludes the academic community where it's more of a blessing to be popul
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by Joakal 15y ago
I tried to get into it. They have wanted solid metrics, customers willing to buy, etc. And I haven't even started my project because I was in middle of university. I later decided to bootstrap, gut a lot of stuff and continue doing universi
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by Joakal 15y ago
I never heard of payment plan to acquire a company. There's something fishy about this. Unless it happens sometimes (that I never heard about), get a top lawyer in acquisition deals. Make sure that they at least understand the payment plan

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