PostOnce

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by PostOnce 4y ago
If 1000 big youtubers put $100/month toward an association or union of some kind, they could afford a $100,000/month legal team to combat this. Obviously, there are more than 1000 big youtubers. The fee could be reduced and the bu
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by PostOnce 4y ago
I know I am late to comment, but I just want to point out that the money isn't necessarily solely for Ukraine's defense... it is also in our own self-interest to invest in stabilizing Europe and the global economy by hindering Rus
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by PostOnce 4y ago
It may be that irc is used by 0.0001% of the general public, but approximately 90% of open source developers use it, me included.
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by PostOnce 4y ago
What kind of fairness can there be in charging for stolen books? I believe in free access to education, but charging for these books they have no rights to is a whole other thing.
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by PostOnce 4y ago
Well, my coworker's wife wound up in the hospital because he brought covid home, and I don't want mine to. I wear a mask, he never did. Case load hasn't dropped much yet. Also, even if I didn't care, there's no gua
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by PostOnce 4y ago
Commonwealth countries also have something called "crown copyright" unlike the US putting all tax-funded works in the public domain. I still don't really understand it.
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by PostOnce 4y ago
It's not that my business is weather, it's that I can't do certain things in the rain, and not being able to work out a schedule is a big problem. It can cost people and businesses a lot of money. It can cost the country a lo
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by PostOnce 4y ago
Maskless face-to-face meetings are more effective than masked ones, in my opinion. Nevermind more effective than email or a phone call. I'd like to meet when I can have a frank discussion without a mask on so that we can gauge one anot
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by PostOnce 4y ago
New Zealanders pay taxes for a weather agency and a separate climate agency, neither of which provides weather local for most farms (one farm client of my agtech automation business is an hour from town; the weather report only applies to t
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by PostOnce 4y ago
Off by default in one app on one device, we still have to worry about smartwatches, cell tower positions, network geolocation, 400 thousands apps with location access to GPS or who knows what; your car reporting back to tesla that you ate s
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by PostOnce 4y ago
It should be off by default, rather than on by default, so you can choose to have it, and we don't accidentally go to prison for going to a doctor who was legal to visit last week and forgetting to alter one of a million privacy settin
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by PostOnce 4y ago
https://github.com/snakers4/silero-models/tree/941f911858f51... Looks like it was previously GPL until 2 months ago, you could use the old version
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by PostOnce 4y ago
I think it is implied that the views on YouTube will generate the revenue... It's not as though there are no YouTube millionaires, after all.
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by PostOnce 4y ago
TCRF is fantastic. I consider it half of a duo, along with https://www.unseen64.net/
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by PostOnce 4y ago
The USGS LIDAR maps. https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-lidar-data-and-where-can-i-do... ... direct links from https://prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com/LidarExplorer/index.html#/ then click an area and
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by PostOnce 4y ago
Yes! That's it. That's the same book, that's the German name (which I couldn't remember). I know there are at least 2 of them, maybe more, and they are wonderful, it's so concise, they don't bullshit around at
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by PostOnce 4y ago
I know of a book that similarly impressed me, though I've not yet seen the one you refer to, although it won't be quite so deep: The reprinted-under-many names book from Germany in the 70s? called variously: "How Things Work&
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by PostOnce 4y ago
This is predicated on the idea that new computers are meaningfully better, when they generally aren't for most of us. I want a new computer, but I go shopping and here's what I see: They don't have any more RAM than they di
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by PostOnce 4y ago
Man that little "downloads in the past 30 days" tracker is cool. (HN made it a hockey stick.) It'd be cool if every indie/amateur website had that in lieu of the old "webcounter".
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by PostOnce 4y ago
Yes, because there may be something to learn from the old comments and the new. It's good. Different people comment in different eras.
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by PostOnce 4y ago
http://www.emhsoft.com/singularity/ This is not a 3D technical achievement nor is it highly replayable, but the first playthrough is marvelous for any fan of scifi or cyberpunk. Hard AI, trying to grow and avoid discov
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by PostOnce 4y ago
I think it makes more sense to mandate they post on a govt-funded platform simultaneously with any other media. More media (Facebook etc) means reaching more people, that's not a bad thing, but it IS a bad thing for everyone else to
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by PostOnce 4y ago
Facebook privatized the town square. They control the primary forum for local community chat, they control the swap-meet (facebook marketplace); I have no access to any of that anymore, it used to take place on many other forums, but it has
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by PostOnce 4y ago
The fossil fuels are pumped out (and refined) with billions (and billions...) of dollars of high tech machinery based on complex ideas, though, rather than just being natural pools of gasoline you drive your car up to.
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by PostOnce 4y ago
Wikipedia doesn't have it wrong per se, it's just that it can't have two articles by the same name (Ireland the island, and Ireland the nation, only one of those can be at /wiki/Ireland), so I guess they opted for I
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by PostOnce 4y ago
No, I don't support defeatism. The end is nowhere in sight; a struggle, privation perhaps, but that can be overcome, as we have done since time immemorial, and as we will continue to do. There is no alternative. Defeat and death are no
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by PostOnce 4y ago
Can we transcend the ecosystem in perpetuity? No one knows. Can we try? Yes. Should we? I think so. We won't pave all the forests. We won't kill all the bugs. We won't net all the fish. Partially because of hysterical people
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by PostOnce 4y ago
We were naked, starving hunter-gatherers once. Hyenas preyed on us. We struggled to find wild plants and animals to eat to survive. The ecosystem could support only a few of us, only so many food-plants could grow in such and such an area.
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by PostOnce 4y ago
The very act of living is a war against entropy. It wants our motion to cease. All the other animals want our food. Many of them want our flesh. Plant viruses destroy our crops. Locusts will starve human children to death. We are absolutely
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by PostOnce 4y ago
Betrayal in Antara (the sequel to Krondor) was like Skyrim to me. The reviews mostly focused on the outdated graphics, but we've long since moved beyond "graphics keep getting better" and I suspect it would be more happily re

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