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by aes256 14y ago
This pointless dilution of the TLD space will be its own destruction. We're heading towards a future in which TLDs are irrelevant.
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by aes256 14y ago
> Yeah man. That's the spirit. I propose everybody does that to the digital things you sell too, if they don't find the format, the price or any service detail conventient. I'm not foolish enough to be in the IP business.
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by aes256 14y ago
This is a discussion about service issues in the legal music download sector. I'm only referring to 'alternative' means of acquiring music as a benchmark to elucidate these service issues. I'm not interested in justifying copyright infringe
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by aes256 14y ago
Not advocating copyright infringement, nor was I suggesting that in particular. That would be a viable back up strategy, though. Have a rare copy of a recording? Make it widely available, then if your copy is destroyed, the odds of you bein
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by aes256 14y ago
Notwithstanding something exceptionally rare, why the need to back up FLACs on S3? I back up my music collection locally, and I have double-redundancy of sorts (it's backed up to a RAID 5 array on a file server, so in theory it could withst
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by aes256 14y ago
If I want a copy of an album, I can go to iTunes/Amazon/etc. and download the copy they offer, in a format I don't really want, encoded at 256kbps or similar. I have no idea what happened behind the scenes; which version of the album I'm do
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by aes256 14y ago
Certainly, in British culture, hard work carries a certain amount of respect, and those who are perceived to have obtained wealth without putting the work in (as applies to many 'entrepreneurs') are absolutely resented. Perhaps related is t
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by aes256 14y ago
Indeed, this article really ought to refer to Western Europe rather than Europe as a whole, and even then there are far too many generalizations.
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by aes256 14y ago
Moonrise Kingdom is incredible. Most everything else was a waste of time.
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by aes256 14y ago
> I do know that I want to encourage him to think about relationships between things, rather than just learning a list of names. (For example; "That tree is evergreen, which means it keeps its leaves all year round. It does that because
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by aes256 14y ago
I stopped contributing [1] to Facebook this summer and haven't looked back. [1] I no longer make status updates, upload photos, like pages, create events, etc. Needless to say I've never clicked an ad.
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by aes256 14y ago
There is absolutely an observed trend of copycat school shootings which flies in the face of randomness. That said, I think this trend is hidden from this dataset because it relates specifically to mass shootings, including only those inc
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by aes256 14y ago
If you haven't already, trade VLC in for MPlayerX on OS X.
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by aes256 14y ago
Indeed, the latest figures (2012, CIA World Factbook) show the United States' 13.68 births per theousand persons is still higher than most of Western Europe. The demographic-economic paradox [1] is fascinating. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/
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by aes256 14y ago
Sky+ works fine with one feed, just with the obviously reduced functionality (i.e. you won't be able to record one thing while watching another)
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by aes256 14y ago
> But it's not that simple. HBO isn't a worldwide network. They need to make deals with lots of different networks in different countries and that takes time. Those networks then need to fit the show into their schedules. National netwo
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by aes256 14y ago
That's not just an aggregator thing. Ryanair (and similar airlines like easyJet) have long been guilty of advertising low headline prices, then tagging on all manner of fees. Add on the baggage fees, landing fees, priority boarding fees, ta
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by aes256 14y ago
> The problem is that there's a limited amount of supply of real estate. Everyone wants real estate, so market participants bid up the price until supply and demand match. In most developed countries, real estate prices are artificially
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by aes256 14y ago
> [...] why would anybody trust a DMCA/FISA-encumbered, subscription-based business with their data? Not only that, but a business with questionable security credentials, that has already had one absolutely spectacular security cock-up
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by aes256 14y ago
Sure, but a $5-10bn valuation for a freemium file hosting service with ~100m users, 96% of which pay nothing? Someone let me out of this bubble.
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by aes256 14y ago
Jobs had it right. Dropbox is obscenely overvalued, and has no place in the future.
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by aes256 14y ago
Although people suffering from mental illnesses may statistically be more likely to be victims than perpetrators of violent acts, the disproportionate focus on the latter is not unwarranted. People are afraid of unpredictability. They are a
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by aes256 14y ago
Does searching for the term constitute support or opposition to greater gun control?
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by aes256 14y ago
> You're making a mistake. There wasn't $14bn in investors pocket that was simply moved to Mark Zuckerberg. Mark Zuckerberg created wealth. It wasn't simply moving existing wealth. There was literally $14bn in investors' pockets that mo
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by aes256 14y ago
> Why would it matter if they're altruistic or not? It's a move, it's going to help. Who the fuck cares why? You have to look at both acts of commission and omission when you're considering someone's impact on the world. Zuckerberg is d
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by aes256 14y ago
I apply the same test to pretty much everything I do online these days, and as a result, I maintain a dignified silence through most social media channels. I whitewalled my Facebook a long time ago, don't 'like' any pages, and provide minim
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by aes256 14y ago
The lack of critical thinking skills is perhaps my biggest gripe with humanity, and one that I believe underpins, in one way or another, all of its other failings. If everyone had perfect critical thinking skills, misreporting such as this
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by aes256 14y ago
Conspiracy theory time. Westboro Baptist Church are pretending to be 'Anonymous' and attacking themselves to gain even more publicity. Personally I don't think attacking the WBC aligns with the central tenets of the 'Anonymous' movement. An
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by aes256 14y ago
Indeed, this would also explain why the search function only allows one to view tweets going back seven days.
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by aes256 14y ago
Ideally (not that this would ever happen) the third party service (e.g. App.net) would be able to query Twitter as to the veracity of each user's archive (verify an md5 hash or whatever kids use these days) then allow the tweets to be backd

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