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by alexqgb 13y ago
Replace "private citizen" with "human being" and see if this criticism still makes sense.
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Sorry, but that's not going to fly. Spinning an already misleading comparison is dishonest, full stop. And saying you were "concerned" that an accurate analogy "makes it sound like we're talking about elite private schools and urban public
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by alexqgb 13y ago
No, the point is that when you make a comparison as unfair as this one, you're doing something unjust. It also marks you as a person who is conspicuously dishonest. Seriously, saying it isn't "perfectly"" apples to apples is a gross mischar
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6000 mile-long panoramic photo shot from orbit(petapixel.com)
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The Sound of the Big Bang (Planck Version)(faculty.washington.edu)
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by alexqgb 13y ago
When people say "It's broken" what they often mean is "It works both ways". That is to say, the power granted by email to ignore others, send badly composed missives, avoid direct engagement, and conduct extensive time-consuming posterior-c
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by alexqgb 13y ago
Oh I couldn't agree with you more on this point. India's treatment of pharmaceutical patents is a sterling example of a one-sided deal being given all the respect it deserves.
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by alexqgb 13y ago
They are if the cited trade agreements go through. That's the whole point of these agreements. Indeed, it may be you who doesn't understand how IP works. When rights holders try to get IP rules tied up in international trade agreements it's
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by alexqgb 13y ago
It's best that he doesn't. "Most of what we have learned about living in space is that we should not live in space. We are designed for gravity; without it, strange things happen to both body and mind. For each month spent in space, humans
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by alexqgb 13y ago
"I don't think this qualifies as disproportionate by any stretch." Here are the actual facts: A) US Population per the 2010 Census (i.e. the survey that determines levels of representation) ~ 308,400,000. B) 1.4% of this population = 4,317,
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by alexqgb 13y ago
You might think that, but evidence suggests you'd be wrong if the experience of Korean students is anything to go by. As Wikipedia notes in its entry on South Korea's extraordinary suicide rate "In cases of youth suicide, the most common ca
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by alexqgb 13y ago
I was thinking 2009, which is when "app" - as a word with a widely yet precisely understood meaning - began taking off in the common vernacular. http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=app Using language as proxy, this looks like the point
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by alexqgb 13y ago
Today, the iPhone IS the Personal Computer. If that's not massive, category-changing, ecosystem-disrupting, change, then I don't know what is - especially since it reverberates across once-unrelated markets like GPS, photography, cartograph
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by alexqgb 13y ago
The exact same fight is being waged in Texas by the established dealers there. Here's a little known but closely related fact about Congress: its membership has long contained a disproportionate number of car dealers, which leads to "wins"
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by alexqgb 13y ago
Nothing bad, if you've done backup properly (i.e. three copies; two local, one remote.) Mirrored drives on your desktop plus an account with Blackblaze (~$5/mo. for unlimited storage), and you're covered. Done and done.
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by alexqgb 13y ago
Sorry. Perhaps I should have said the artist is "building an exploitable asset for themselves ." Of course, an intelligent reader would have been able to infer that's exactly simply by reading the very next line. And because this is HN, I
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by alexqgb 13y ago
Right, but the owners of the RR continue to charge rent in perpetuity. The difference between straight labor and creative work is that the artist is, in theory, building an exploitable asset. They only time they get paid directly for their
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by alexqgb 13y ago
Here's a case in point. http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2013/03/wi... That fact that it can happen here - and to this extent - should be very good reason to assume that similar efforts are being made by every global cor
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by alexqgb 13y ago
"But does anyone really think that, say, rubbing your fingers together would be some horrendous input method merely because it doesn't have a physical object?" It's a good question, but I don't think the answer is as clear as you make it ou
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by alexqgb 13y ago
RTFA.
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by alexqgb 13y ago
Jesus, if there's one movie that ought to be seen without commercial interruption, that's it. The whole thing is about condemning the commercial interruption of the biosphere. Koyaanisqatsi on Hulu a bit like seeing advertisements for bac
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by alexqgb 13y ago
John Pavlus, writing for the MIT Technology Review, made an outstanding point about wearable computing, and the basic problem with treating the body (which needs interfaces) as an interface itself. http://www.technologyreview.com/view/5141
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by alexqgb 13y ago
It may be true that you're not a fan of copyright, but I'm not sure you know enough about copyright to have a properly informed opinion about an aspect like this. For what it's worth, the transferability of copyrights was established in the
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by alexqgb 13y ago
Um, if the situation where different, then intelligent people would respond differently. This has do do with the definitions of "different" and "intelligent".
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Sorry, but you you've got the concept of "rent seeking" completely wrong. "In public choice theory, rent-seeking is an attempt to obtain economic rent by manipulating the social or political environment in which economic activities occur, r
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by alexqgb 14y ago
Actually, introverts can be exceptionally comfortable on stage since they're not there to have conversations. This is often especially true of musicians, who can be very shy and retiring in daily life, and totally at ease in a spotlight wit
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by alexqgb 14y ago
His point is that that's a good thing, especially when the violence is (more or less) constrained by due process, and expectation of equality before the law, further limited by prohibitions on cruel and unusual punishments, and unlikely to
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by alexqgb 14y ago
"the publishing industry is no longer necessary to spread information and entertainment." What's your real problem here? Are you smart but dishonest? Or are you just a complete idiot? Because there's no way an informed person of good will c
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by alexqgb 14y ago
Why don't you apply this line of thought to the 4th Amendment, and see if it still makes sense to you?
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by alexqgb 14y ago
Right, but the bone of contention isn't the bits, it's the money that should, by law, change hands when a copy is made and which (quite obviously) doesn't. You make a copy, you own me money. You decide to keep that money instead, and it's t

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