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by acabal 10y ago
Looks like these are just epubs rehosted direct from Project Gutenberg. Why not just go to gutenberg.org instead?
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Fixed, thanks for catching that!
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Thanks for the suggestions! The project is very small, not for profit so indiehackers.com would probably not be interested. It's all volunteer-based so if you're interested in contributing work somehow then drop me a line. The O
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by acabal 10y ago
Shameless plug, Chekhov's complete short fiction for free, at Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/anton-chekhov/short-fictio... We took the Gutenberg transcriptions, compiled them into one eboo
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by acabal 10y ago
I've been using a Razer Blade 2015 as an Ubuntu-only computer for several years now, and I've recommended it on HN in the past. It's been a great machine, and Linux works surprisingly well. (Of course that means that there a
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by acabal 10y ago
(Shameless plug) Check out the free Standard Ebooks edition: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/honore-de-balzac/father-go... It corrects a lot of typos in the Gutenberg/Amazon edition. It also corrects missi
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by acabal 10y ago
I've mused on this idea elsewhere, but it's applicable here too: I can't help but feel today's absurdly draconian copyright laws and lengths are going to make our century a terrible cultural black hole for our future-hum
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Yes, I commented above. I have a 2015 model and I frequently recommend it. The color scheme is tacky but the machine is basically unbeatable in the non-Apple category. Excellent Linux support, which is something Apple makes very difficul
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by acabal 10y ago
I've been using a 2015 Razer Blade and it's a great machine. 14" 3200x1800 screen, 16GB RAM, decent battery life, very thin, great trackpad with click buttons, which I like. Excellent Linux support; I run Ubuntu on it as my
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by acabal 10y ago
These criticisms, when phrased in the manner of the post ("HN is full of mean and rude people"), suggest by omission that there's some kind of internet forum Nirvana out there where everyone's nice all the time and nobod
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Greenland is Melting(newyorker.com)
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The uncertain future of copyright in the on-demand age(slate.com)
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I've been using desktop Linux exclusively on various laptops for at least 10 years. If your production servers are on a Linux stack, then running desktop Linux is extremely convenient for developers. I could never go back to Mac or W
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Yes, well, that's basically the story of laptop Linux unfortunately. I wish it were otherwise! In my experience "Linux compatible" always carries the "except for..." rider, and outside of old Thinkpads you're
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I have a 2015 Razer Blade that I really like. I use it as a my daily Linux work computer and it runs Ubuntu great (with the caveat that I don't use sleep, hibernate, or the nvidia card; and the webcam doesn't work). Pros: - Almos
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by acabal 10y ago
Sure--but a faithful photographic reproduction, like a faithful text transcription, isn't something that can be really different from another faithful reproduction. Sure, I guess a few pixels would be subtly different based on scann
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Tragic and nonsensical decision. Just one more avenue for our cultural heritage to be locked away for eternity, when technology is on the cusp of allowing us to share that heritage with everyone worldwide for the first time in history. How
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This is pretty unfair. I basically did just what this satire describes, minus the trust fund and eye-gouging. I did it by working hard and saving my modest salary for a pretty long time, finally having saved enough to take 6 months to a y
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by acabal 10y ago
Copyright grants you some protection, but consumers also have rights. In your world where you have ultimate and complete control over the distribution and use of your work, my rights to fair use would be trampled, for example--and I d
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by acabal 11y ago
Personally I've found the keyboard on mine to be just fine, but I'm using a 2015, not a 2012. For those of you who are interested in a try-before-you-buy, when I was shopping around they were selling them at Microsoft stores and
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by acabal 11y ago
I've been using the Razer Blade 2015 and I highly recommend it. It's expensive, but the machine itself has Macbook-level build quality and internals. The screen is great and everything works out of the box with Ubuntu. While I
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by acabal 11y ago
I don't think "honorable software" is a great idea. Laws and social mores change all the time, but software could be forever. What if, in the 70s, the first creators of Unix tried to make it "honorable" by baking i
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by acabal 11y ago
From my reading it sounds like this blockchain-based proof-of-copyright is a solution looking for a problem. IANAL, but from what I understand damages for copyright infringement are high. Today if an individual has their copyright infringe
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by acabal 11y ago
I upvoted you, but I want to add my voice too. The web succeeded in part because it was possible for anyone to do "view source" and see what was going on under the hood. Having that source available is also an important aspect of
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by acabal 11y ago
Good on both of you. What a pleasant, enlightened, and refreshing exchange to read in today's internet of easy outrage. I really mean that :)
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I'm not sure which is more embarrassing: today's ludicrous copyright terms that automatically lock away culture from all of us for potentially over a century, or the fact that legislation that spans centuries can be bought for a m
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by acabal 11y ago
Perhaps you got the wrong takeaway from my post--I think free markets are the bane of life-or-death products like health care, and free markets are in part why America is in the health care mess it's in today. When you're dying on
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by acabal 11y ago
I wrote about this last year on my blog. It would be cheaper to fly to Colombia and spend 7 days there while having a mole removed, than to have it removed in Chicago, with an ACA health insurance plan. The round-trip flight to Colombia
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In the post they state that Mozilla never sees your password and that content is encrypted locally, so Mozilla doesn't actually appear to know very much about you at all. See the link in the post: https://blog.mozilla.org&#
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Glad to hear they seem to have fixed the fuzzy finder. It was really terrible, and I actually switched back to Sublime because its fuzzy finder is fantastic. The relief in switching back to Sublime's finder was palpable, but I'll

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