NoMoreNicksLeft

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by NoMoreNicksLeft 13y ago
I have a deep and lingering suspicion that humans are a "weak hive mind" species. If we use the metaphor that the human brain is a computer, and that human communication is networking... this means that the "you" is soft
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 13y ago
> I'm quite curious what would happen if DRM got banned and everything had to be open. While I personally support many copyright reforms, chief among them is that any work that is DRMed should be exempt from copyright protection. Th
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 13y ago
New business practices could delay prices coming down for a long time. Certain companies are buying up all the housing they can... mostly foreclosures and the like, because they can offer the cash asking price at the end of the auction. But
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 13y ago
There is no logic in politics. What matters is that they come up with a soundbite that is appealing enough to help them get elected.
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 13y ago
This is also called "unsigned int". Postgres has those.
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 13y ago
I did read the article. In the past few years I've ready many other articles on the subject as well. Do you know anything about how any of this works? We do not know what the record company makes off of this, their standard accounting
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 13y ago
So all the stories I've read about how it implies the fine structure constant has changed, those are bullshit?
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 13y ago
I suspect otherwise. We'll never know how much the record company makes (Hollywood accounting), but there's no reason to believe they're giving him half the take. I'd be shocked if he even got 10%, it's probably mor
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 13y ago
What's your point? Instead of trying to make a logical argument, your comment seems designed to inspire some vague outrage.
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 13y ago
That worked for SOPA because a few congressmen were in highly contested districts already, and even losing 0.5% of their voters next election could ruin their chances of reelection. The FCC chairman is not elected. Nor is he appointed by Co
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 13y ago
Maybe it's the supervillain in me, but I think I would try to come up with software to recognize the scraping attempts, and rather than ban them just have it generate fake data on the fly.
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 13y ago
Birthdates are particularly difficult to handle properly in a database if there is even a slight chance that you'll need to enter a foreign immigrant into the data. Just for instance, older Iraqis (if I remember correctly) tend to be p
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 13y ago
They already have a quantity domain... it's called "integer". While I agree that domains are important and should be utilized, I hope your examples are exaggerations.
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 13y ago
We tried that once with Bell Telephone. Their profits were dialed down a bit via regulation, and it was an oppressive, horrible, and un-innovative network. You weren't allowed to buy a telephone and plug it into the jack at home... you
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 13y ago
If the two are to be connected, someone must pay. Consumers are screaming "they're violating network neutrality!" any time someone suggests they (the consumers) pay, so who is left? Grandma just wasn't (until very recent
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 13y ago
I essentially do pay by-the-byte. I have Suddenlink cable in Texas, and I get a bandwidth cap of 350gb for $70, with each additional 50gb at $10. I've heard similar about Comcast and the rest, but no one's put two and two together
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 13y ago
It's a bad analogy. If you buy a cell phone so you can talk to your grandma (who lives 1600 miles away) on the weekend, the phone company shouldn't be obligated to buy her a phone too. Not even if she only uses it for incoming cal
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 13y ago
The big trouble is that we need settlement-free peering, or we'll have a very different sort of internet, or maybe none at all. Though it's hard for some to remember (or to believe), there were big consumer networks prior to the
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 13y ago
At scale, some of the distributed problems are asymmetrical. When they're doing the protein folding stuff or checking for pharmaceutical activity in simulated drugs, it's much easier to confirm a hit than it is to find one... but
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 13y ago
> As I said, the problem is that when a kid is having trouble, it's very difficult to figure out where he's going wrong The correct (though inefficient) approach is to keep trying until you see that he starts understanding. How
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 13y ago
By showing the work, he's busy proving himself instead of learning. This demonstrates that, intentionally or not, public schools have become primarily credentialing institutions and not teaching institutions. I offer a thought exercise
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 13y ago
> It seems that "solving algebra problems and doing two-column geometry proofs" is a necessary step on the road to "generating your own questions about whatever interests you and trying to answer them". Is this so, or
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 13y ago
I suspect that if you interrogated me about last night and I wasn't attempting to lie to you that I would still fail this test. I'm addle-brained, I don't get enough sleep, and I honestly don't remember if I got my daugh