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by arg01 13y ago
How do we estimate a fair market price on what the average person is willing to be paid to be hit? Let's not forget to price in what people would accept for you taking away a loved one through reckless behaviour. I'd hazard in a l
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by arg01 13y ago
I don't disagree with your wider point that their are other useful motivators out there but it's worth noting that the space race was militarily motivated. Sputnik flying overhead effectively showed the soviets had/would have
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by arg01 13y ago
I'd assume you do agree that excessive speeding constitutes a crime as a it raises the chances of inflicting injury on others. If there was a statistical link between a drug and increasing the chance of the user committing violence wou
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by arg01 13y ago
The peers with less of the file and further from the seeders will tend to have higher bandwidth as they have more peers they can download from. The vast majority of the network is after only one piece of the file and few peers have it. This
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by arg01 13y ago
Generally being a sole infrastructure provider is a very secure investment. This is because you can overcharge until a competitor enters the market and then when competition appears you can undercut them as you no longer need to recoup capi
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by arg01 13y ago
Honeycombs are a difficult structure to manufacture. They often get mentioned in relation to 3d printing as one of the useful application. They're actually a very strong structure for the amount of material used and were even hand piec
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by arg01 13y ago
Which gives you between 2-10 years of storage if it was recording everyone in the world. (Based on the assumptions above).
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by arg01 13y ago
Keep in mind this isn't targeted only at netflix but also at other provider that do price geo-locking and may have local support. Also consider I could sign up to netflix with my credit card 'not get access' and initiate a ch
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by arg01 13y ago
Yes because he thought his life would be a lot more convinient by realeasing the NSA documents to the world. Generally whistle blowers are seen as having incredibly cushy lives. I too believe that Edward Snowden did it for the fame and fort
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by arg01 13y ago
I agree with the sentiment but I see it as being unworkable. Do you arrest the talking heads for reading the prompter about how earlier someone asked if Obama had a US birth certificate(Technically true)? Do you arrest the evangelical chris
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by arg01 13y ago
There is a bill to remove geo-blocking on sites like netflix in Australia. Currently though you could theoretically get 2 years in jail for the usual unauthorized access or modifying communication device identifier. It would be unlikely tha
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by arg01 13y ago
Yes but the peers with less blocks tend to catch up to the peers with slightly more blocks as they can download from more peers. This means you reach a point where all the peers are after roughly the same set of blocks and few of the peers
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by arg01 13y ago
Only last year it was cheaper to fly to the US buy a full featured copy of photoshop fly back than to buy it in Australia (including digitally distributed versions).
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by arg01 13y ago
There is nothing to stop a request for a specific block of the data (i.e. one close to the start). It does mean that the network is not as efficient in the case of high demand (As your more likely to have the same chunks as others and rely
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by arg01 13y ago
I haven't had time to have a proper look at it but it appears they were only using the top movie list and aren't anymore. I bring it up on the basis that the ease of use goal would rely on being able to nearly always download the
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by arg01 13y ago
So it looks like the key API that Popcorn Time uses is YTS. So I guess that will be the target of any attempts to disrupt the service. The entertainment industry is going to have to fight hard to remove geo-locking, content siloing by produ
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by arg01 13y ago
From the article: // But if you're feeling up to it, you can run the following line via an extension to prevent // this abuse: // Object.defineProperty(window, 'console', {configurable: false, va
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by arg01 13y ago
Things like this always annoy me. It's a marginal annoyance to people who know what they're doing. For those less knowledgeable, who were using something they learnt by rote to improve their experience, they'll either google
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by arg01 13y ago
Doesn't that just shift the argument to renting computation time? Edit: Thinking on this I'd assume the whole argument is based on this whole sum of the parts thing. Obviously I wouldn't question if a machine shop is legal or
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by arg01 13y ago
Those users can't buy the service they want from the broadcasters. We'd all have much more sympathy for the broadcasters if they were offering a replacement service for Aereo. You might as well argue that a car companies battery t
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by arg01 13y ago
Depends on your visa. I ANAL etc, just spent a bit of time a while ago looking at the visa situation. Basically you will probably get away with a B-1 visa for your three month run very simply (electronic registration online and ~$15). It&#x
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by arg01 13y ago
It's because it is also linked to temperature, the higher your pressure the higher your boiling point. It also effects how fast the fluid travels through the ground coffee which effects not just how strong it is but also can have an ef
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by arg01 13y ago
I wonder if in the case of a technological singularity would you be able to tell that the original species was human? That is to say if we're at the point that we are augmenting our brains to that degree will the difference between a h
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by arg01 13y ago
I also have your intuition but after thinking about a couple of the police's jobs I do understand how it could easily go the other way. You have the somewhat obvious want of a visible police officer ranging an area to deter criminal
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by arg01 13y ago
My money is on people realising there will be a drop in value but want to get a return on the short term rise due to publicity between now and then. It's reasonable if you time it right but if everyone is playing the same game...
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by arg01 13y ago
Yep, at about 2 million dollars you could go to a small friendly town buy a house there and have an income close to the median (and have your assets track with inflation) assuming you can get a 5-6% return on investment, not at all unachiev
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by arg01 13y ago
Stock price should include risk. Just like a lottery ticket might be worth $0.5 and costs $1 to buy that doesn't mean that after the draw it's not worth buying it off someone for $10 dollars. In this case I'd expect that he i
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by arg01 13y ago
But of course no one advocates capitalism as an actual philosophical goal, they advocate that it's the best way to distribute our limited resources to get the most out of them. So if you accept the existence of natural monopolies it&#x
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by arg01 13y ago
Cogent has been trying to upgrade their connection to Comcast and Comcast has been stalling working with Cogent for months. It's pretty clear cut in this case. A rule when the CDN and the ISP already have a direct connection is not ove
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by arg01 13y ago
Unfortunately for a lot of the planes the cost of education isn't really any less. The reason you want that babysitter is for when something goes wrong and if the pilot doesn't know much then the only thing he's supplying is

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