Joeboy

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by Joeboy 9y ago
I see your point (two unusual things being similar looks more suspicious than two common things being similar) but I think two "I–V–vi–IV" songs that were as melodically similar as Creep and Get Free would still be pretty suspicio
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by Joeboy 9y ago
I wonder how much this is enabled just due to patents expiring. Patents (theoretically anyway) last 20 years, so you'd expect 10 years to see off a lot of them. I don't know so much about video, but in the end the solution to mp3
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by Joeboy 9y ago
I remember seeing this. Actually the main thing I remember is Alexei Sayle singing, to the tune of Cole Porter's "You're the Top": > I'm the top > I'm Cesare Borgia > I'm the world's > gre
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by Joeboy 9y ago
I watched till the end waiting for a punchline that never came.
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by Joeboy 9y ago
It was actually a great joke, the world just wasn't ready for it :-(
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by Joeboy 9y ago
I'm not 100% sure it was intended, but to me it's in the category of "films that contain dizzying genre shifts". Other examples would be From Dusk Till Dawn or Kill List. I actually really enjoy this trope, I think the f
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by Joeboy 9y ago
Aside from the monomyth, Star Wars was actually the fruit of George Lucas attempting to do a Flash Gordon film but failing to secure the rights. Edit: This talks about Star Wars's influences, and is also great and everybody should watc
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by Joeboy 9y ago
The reasons your family wouldn't keep getting your paycheck are practical though (you'd stop doing the work that earns your employer an income). Those reasons don't really exist in the case of "Intellectual Property&quot
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by Joeboy 9y ago
In my head, I was making a clever remark that succinctly poked fun at HN discussions, Bill Gates, transhumanism and the difficulties of futurology. I may have been overly-optimistic.
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by Joeboy 9y ago
I get that if somebody's partner dies an untimely death it's unkind to simultaneously remove their family income, but 70 years seems like a ridiculously long buffer.
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by Joeboy 9y ago
Sure, and nobody will ever need more than 640k of RAM either.
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by Joeboy 9y ago
I'm dimly aware of the stereotypes, but I'm extremely surprised at how much of a political, hot-button issue it seems to be here.
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by Joeboy 9y ago
I wondered if Laura Dern's role in The Last Jedi was a bit of a nod to her dad's role in Silent Running.
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by Joeboy 9y ago
Not necessarily sure it's the sort of thing HNers will like, but I have a bit of an obsession with Hardware (1990). It's strange, trippy, violent and lots of fun.
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by Joeboy 9y ago
See also https://uetoken.com/ Named "Useless Ethereum Token", marketed with the strapline "seriously, don't buy these tokens", sold $353,180 worth of tokens.
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by Joeboy 9y ago
In the wider world, the stereotype of male geeks seems to be that having endured all the above we're seeking revenge on society (and especially women) for the wrongs they have inflicted on us. Admittedly in my actual life I don't
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by Joeboy 9y ago
The title is a clever misdirection. In the article, it refers to a (claimed) tendency for society at large to react more empathically to perceived discomfort among women than among men. Edit: Although according to wikipedia "empathy ga
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by Joeboy 9y ago
To add to this, I believe Signal is open source and has reproducible builds so its chances of getting away with mischief on a large scale are much lower than Facebook's / WhatsApp's. Even if you (weirdly IMO) think Whisper Sy
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by Joeboy 9y ago
> I won't be able to communicate with anyone else? This is exactly the reason I stopped bothering with PGP. Edit: Admittedly it might be different for a trained / disciplined group of people who really have something to hide.
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by Joeboy 9y ago
I mean that at least relatively speaking, nobody[1] uses OpenPGP for messaging, so it's not a threat to Signal's market share. Which is presumably the implied motive for Moxie to trash talk OpenPGP. [1] I can admittedly think of t
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by Joeboy 9y ago
For messaging, I think Signal competes with OpenPGP only in the same sense that it competes with telex machines.
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by Joeboy 9y ago
Another thing - you could sell music (ie. records / CDs) at gigs. You can still just about do that but probably not for long, at least with most markets. A small independent band will likely make more profit on a single CD sale than th
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by Joeboy 9y ago
It's actually exceedingly anodyne, which is probably why somebody wanted to use it in an advert.
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by Joeboy 9y ago
I haven't read it but the methodology of the study involved is available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3bg_SJKE9GOenpaekZ4eXRBWk0... Seems to be based on sentiment analysis of about 900k tweets. Fro
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by Joeboy 9y ago
> 12 ordinary people came to the same conclusion I'm also not in any way outraged by the outcome, but actually this was heard in a magistrates' court so there would be no jury involved. > big evil government Nah, it's k
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by Joeboy 9y ago
I'm running the code from the bitcoin cash github repo, which I guess means I'm running a full node. Possibly I should be running Electrum or something instead.
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by Joeboy 9y ago
So is anybody making anything that'd allow me to claim all this free stuff automatically? I already did it for bcash but it took about a week to download the forked blockchain, would presumably be longer now. Doing it for all these thi
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by Joeboy 9y ago
Sharing this wonderful two minute '80s Japanese overview of British punk for no real reason other than that I happened upon it the other day: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4ryjm
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by Joeboy 9y ago
Interesting companion piece from today's Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/dec/20/police-made-...
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by Joeboy 9y ago
Just to put it out there, Ardour is a GPL2 project that also offers paid binaries. They've always got an amount of hate from the self-righteous freeloader community but they've apparently made $8815 so far this month and I get the

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