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by adgar 15y ago
> Lets assume there's an automated process for detecting underage accounts. Why can't they just prevent the account from being used to send email? Any data collection is forbidden by COPPA without parental verification. You seem to thin
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by adgar 15y ago
Protip: You can start playing the video in VLC/your favorite player as soon as the download starts, if your download rate is fast enough to keep up.
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by adgar 15y ago
Grooveshark didn't start licensing anything from major labels until extremely recently. They built their userbase on unlicensed music.
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by adgar 15y ago
I think the implication was that the policy was in place for when they weren't being sued, so that if they were sued, they could be completely reasonable in saying they only had 6 months worth of e-mails to provide for discovery.
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by adgar 15y ago
What context do you think might explain this away, given the content?
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by adgar 15y ago
That's because people don't usually go out of their way to produce damning evidence. Damning evidence is an accident, that's why you don't find much of it, even among "tens of thousands of documents." Which is why careful scrutiny of discov
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by adgar 15y ago
Bigger cities? Hell, there were more than 50 dealers at my college alone. It had 4,000 students and was several hours from any metropolitan area to speak of. Then again, the selection probably doesn't compare to the Silk Road or other servi
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by adgar 15y ago
It seems that when you've decided what the article says before you read it, it makes forming opinions (and avoiding cognitive dissonance with respect to your existing ones) a lot easier.
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by adgar 15y ago
> We actually have no idea why that is. Way to take what started as a reasonable post and trash it with a needless, baseless insult.
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by adgar 15y ago
Are you serious? Extremely few people "resort to this." The Silk Road is absolutely miniscule compared to the overall drug market. I'm willing to bet that if I asked every person in my 5-floor walkup, I'd come out with a list of dealers com
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by adgar 15y ago
> I don't think checking "Asian" or "not Asian" makes a huge difference, because in the end, it's your activities, recommendations, and essays that differentiate you. This flies in the face of the fact that affirmative actions exists an
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by adgar 15y ago
> You're talking performance-critical code already, wouldn't you want to avoid the wrapper? Trivial wrapper classes that just delegate methods to a final ivar should end up inlined.
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by adgar 15y ago
> I do. I would never comply with any government request unless it was preceded by a court order. ... isn't the article in question about a court order?
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by adgar 15y ago
Sigh... so you just couldn't bear to read the second half of what I wrote? It wasn't a long post. It really wasn't. > I agree that in this case hacker news should be higher and that this is a bug. But just because hacker news is calle
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by adgar 15y ago
Actually, search is always subjective. If another site which delivers news for hackers - even if they don't call it "hacker news" - rises in quality, popularity, or X other factors, it may be that users want that site over HN when they do t
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by adgar 15y ago
Ruby unfortunately has non-strict destructuring, but it also has LHS splatting: a, *, c = list And people often use _ as a placeholder when not using splatting: a, _, _, c, d = list
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by adgar 15y ago
Disclaimer: I work for Google. JavaScript doesn't have integers. I suspect that the Dart VM will support integers with overflow. So yes, I suspect in that case they are different. I also strongly suspect this will not be a significant edge
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by adgar 15y ago
Wait, 10-15 albums a month ? You buy well over 100 albums a year? .... that's a lot of music to buy, dude. Did you mean "10-15 dollars"?
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by adgar 15y ago
> I mainly use GS to discover new music, and listen to mixes and live shows which are not for sale. Do you think this is a mainstream position to hold? See, I'm not an audiophile, I don't often go to concerts, and neither are anybody I
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by adgar 15y ago
Based on his post, yes, in his view, everything should be open source.
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by adgar 15y ago
My experience, anecdotally, is that I haven't met a single person who bought a song that was available on grooveshark. We even share accounts so that we can create playlists for shared tastes, to save each other the trouble of looking up so
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by adgar 15y ago
Every industry has deals that are too good to be true. Hell, buying stolen cartons of cigarettes out the back of a truck is "obviously illegal" but people have done it for centuries. No, I'm not equating copyright violation with theft - you
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by adgar 15y ago
That's the thing - its not just about the representative and his/her values, it's about the constituents. There's still too many people alive and voting who oppose eg marijuana legalization to touch it. I think that's going to take another
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by adgar 15y ago
I actually only learned that ctrl-A works in bash 3-4 months ago, and haven't yet picked a new screen/tmux escape and retrained to it. Mainly because these days, I only use screen when I WFH or am traveling, when I ssh into my workstation.
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by adgar 15y ago
Perhaps not, but tmux's bindings are nearly all backwards-compatible with screen's. Well, the default escape char is ctrl-B but I (and I think most folks) just remap it to ctrl-A immediately.
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by adgar 15y ago
tmux is scriptable from the shell via its command-line arguments, so any language can script it. It's certainly true that screen does have tons of small old features... but I sort of swept that in with "unless you're using HP-UX or somethin
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by adgar 15y ago
From the very start he shows he thinks programming requires godlike mastery of the universe: > people who are in the top 2.5% in mathematical ability alone, i.e. people with the capability to be decent programmers Decent? Top 2.5% in ma
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by adgar 15y ago
> screen Unless you only use GPL software, there's no reason to not use tmux these days. Well, maybe if you're on HP-UX or something. http://tmux.sourceforge.net/
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by adgar 15y ago
Disclaimer: I am a Google employee. > Google doesn't have a marketing team on the ground. Selling to enterprise requires face time. Lots of it. Perhaps I'm biased as a Google employee in NYC, but there are hundreds of sales and marketin
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by adgar 15y ago
As someone who went to a new england prep school, I take offense to this characterization of popped collars.

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