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by breck 4y ago
I had never really paid attention to the fact that all the craters are round. If anyone else is just noticing that, this explains it: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-are-impact-cr...
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by breck 4y ago
> SoFi exists because of a quirk in the federal student loan program. While the government charges different interest rates depending on the loan type, within those loan types there is no differentiation. So many businesses in this count
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by breck 4y ago
It's an interesting read. Some nice figures too (I like Figure 3's ontology of sparse matrices). I haven't given much thought to the problems of optimizing operations over non dense arrays. They do a good job of clearly expla
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by breck 4y ago
> On a more serious note, I really wonder where the line is drawn for copyright. As soon as you start thinking about copyright, you end up realizing it's all non-sense. Stephan Kinsella (a patent lawyer!) is the leading thinker on t
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by breck 4y ago
Uh oh. Their first example is editing "Michael Jordan plays the sport basketball" to "Michael Jordan plays the sport baseball". Maybe the authors were babies in 1994-1995? Imagine if they got their whole paper wrong beca
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by breck 4y ago
> If you think co-pilot is cool now, just wait and see what it does in 5 years. What will it do? It can't write exponentially better code. Maybe 50% better, so that I would need to edit it's outputs less often. The only thing I
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by breck 4y ago
Very interesting. Also a bit scary how the government can basically shut down any business under the broad guise of “anti-money-laundering”. The level of detail that they wanted from you is basically like “Provide step-by-step instructions
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by breck 4y ago
Stephan Kinsella's talk "Intellectual Nonsense: Fallacious Arguments for IP", is a must watch. There's no reason to have IP law and in fact there is actually good reason to believe they stand on shaky legal ground. http
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by breck 4y ago
There's no better thinker IMO on this topic than Stephan Kinsella. (C)opyright law started in the 1500's as a form of censorship. There is no reason for it, other than censorship (or if you are in the top 1%, a great way to extrac
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by breck 4y ago
Two options: 1) Copyleft licenses 2) Abolish copyright law I am one of the few arguing for #2, but I think #1 is a good short term option.
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About RACHEL(rachel.worldpossible.org)
3 points by breck 4y ago|0 comments
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by breck 4y ago
I think your assessment of the current situation is probably accurate. My point is it's suboptimal, and the U.S. Federal Government could change things, as the biggest buyer of tech in the world. If they said "everything has to be
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by breck 4y ago
> Proprietary often has a lower total cost of ownership I think you are right in the short run, but I think in the long run TCO is far higher with proprietary software. Because you are sinking money into a lost cause and delaying the cos
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ITDashboard.gov(itdashboard.gov)
1 points by breck 4y ago|0 comments
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by breck 4y ago
"Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" ( https://www.google.com/search/howsearchworks/our-approach/ ) I believe Google earnes
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by breck 4y ago
That's put bluntly but well. I understand the parent's sentiment though. Every few years when I need to use Tex for something it always take me a second to remember that it is not a computer algebra system, just a rendering engine
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by breck 4y ago
I think it would be a great benefit to our country if governments started phasing out the purchase of any proprietary software. If you want to make software for the government, it must be public domain. In the long run we'd all have lo
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by breck 4y ago
"Taiyab is a seasoned UI/UX designer responsible for designing Exercism v3. If you think Exercism looks and feels awesome, he’s the man to thank." Thank you Taiyab!
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by breck 4y ago
Building a future world where every child has access to humanity's best information makes me jump out of bed in the morning. I agree it's an absolute daunting task, convincing people this is the way. This new freedom will not be g
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The Mental Health Industrial Complex(slowmission.com)
13 points by breck 4y ago|1 comments
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by breck 4y ago
Interesting! Thanks for the [4] link.
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by breck 4y ago
Yes, I do pay for Sublime Text (one of the few exceptions I make and it does bother me). I think the government should still pay for software but with the stipulation that it can only be public domain. Governments can pay for textbooks but
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by breck 4y ago
If there is no IP law there is no longer any need for Copyleft. Copyleft is a means to an end. https://c4sif.org/2022/05/against-intellectual-property-afte...
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Intellectual Nonsense: Fallacious Arguments for IP(youtube.com)
2 points by breck 4y ago|0 comments
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by breck 4y ago
I agree with this. Especially with multi-agent systems (anything to do with people or biology), which are inherently vastly more complex and harder to predict than mechanical systems, it's very important to know the incentives of the p
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by breck 4y ago
> Many parts of Github would not exist without intellectual property laws. I do not think this is true. I think most devs on GitHub operate as if there are no IP laws. I think if they went away, almost nothing would change (some noise ar
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by breck 4y ago
> What does a post intellectual property world even look like, though? It looks like Github! People sharing and collaborating to build new things. No lawyers getting in the way. Attribution is automatically handled by git logs. It's
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Counterpoints: A new tool for thought in the Scroll Language(scroll.pub)
2 points by breck 4y ago|0 comments
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by breck 4y ago
Interesting! I am very interested in this stuff. If you ever want to chat I've spent way too long toying with different versions. In my experience editing Markdown tables by hand isn't fun. I just go with CSVs or PSVs or Space Sep
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by breck 4y ago
Thanks! The online recorded demo is neat.

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