cabaalis

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   by cabaalis 9y ago

   Funny, I was listening to oral arguments on the Supreme Court last night on the way home from work. I'm not a lawyer, but my layman interpretation of what they were arguing (specifically in reference to sports betting) is that if the f
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   by cabaalis 9y ago

   I was about to agree that robots.txt prohibitions should be considered a form of authorization. But I think what is being argued is that "if it's publicly available on a URL, it's available for any client to download and use.
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   by cabaalis 9y ago

   It's been mentioned already in this thread, Ajit Pai was appointed to the FCC by President Obama, a democrat.
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   by cabaalis 9y ago

   To answer your question, probably laziness. I've got all those contacts on FB and would take a decent effort to connect on other platforms. Secondary to that, I'm sure several of my family members are FB-only.
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   by cabaalis 9y ago

   Thanks, sounds like exactly what I was asking for! I'll look into that this evening.
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   by cabaalis 9y ago

   You missed a possibility: I wanted to complain about seeing things in Facebook that I do not want to see nor add any value to my life, which is exactly what I wrote in my post. It also happens to be the accurate selection of my intent.
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   by cabaalis 9y ago

   As a mid-30s guy, I use Facebook primarily to share pictures and updates of my son and things we do together with my friends and family. Every. Single. Person. that I personally know despises the political crap, occasional venting of some p
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   by cabaalis 9y ago

   I think the problem stems from ISPs also in large part being the telecommunications platforms. The internet is impeding their ability to sell TV channels and telephone subscriptions, so they are trying to wring that money from their interne
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   by cabaalis 9y ago

   I had searched for "Luther" because I had heard there was information about Martin Luther King in this release. I found this paper in which a Panamanian sailor swears his belief that an Alabama-based motor company was going to att
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    by cabaalis 9y ago

    How do you overcome the argument from some that the cables/infrastructure/etc are owned by the Telcos who should therefore be able to control what data flows through them? The argument is that if they take that right too far, the
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    by cabaalis 9y ago

    Isn't this 500m being paid from the value of the stock being sold? Therefore paid by CVS who is buying the stock? In that case, CVS is primarily a pharmacy company, which makes their money by directly selling drugs which heal the sick.
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    by cabaalis 9y ago

    > why does it need to be roughly thirty-three thousand times minimum wage Because that's what he negotiated with his employers.
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    by cabaalis 9y ago

    I would bet that he was indeed serious about the call for impeachment. If anything, it represents the current state of the public's awareness of appropriateness in politics.
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    by cabaalis 9y ago

    I hope some good comes from this testimony. I help run a product that works with a tremendous amount of data. I welcome additional accountability as well as the security that would come from knowing that any regulatory requirements are prop
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    by cabaalis 9y ago

    I think the intention of this is to get closer to "on the metal" as a teaching tool of the math and low-level graphics rendering. Using SDL or others would abstract all that away.
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    by cabaalis 9y ago

    Allow me to recommend this book as well: 3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development https://www.amazon.com/Primer-Graphics-Development-Wordware-... It helped me tremendously when I was into game development back in co
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    by cabaalis 9y ago

    Is the availability of fair use limited when the creator explicitly states that the product is only available for licensed uses?
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    by cabaalis 9y ago

    I'm not sure what you're getting at here.. these are quite obviously the same images. Down to the reflection of the camera on its tripod. Generic as they are, you can't just google search for an image and steal it from a web
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    by cabaalis 9y ago

    I would put my content (development tutorials) on YouNow if it paid less than YouTube but didn't engage in the crazy shenanigans YT does. Meaning a real due process for DMCA including punishment for false claims, and truly specific and
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    by cabaalis 9y ago

    I think the reliance on open source work is too heavy. Plenty of amazing engineers have done work at organizations serving millions of customers but have not made contributions to open source. A portfolio is mentioned but is at the bottom o
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    by cabaalis 9y ago

    I am in favor of net neutrality. But the way you win this argument is not to support it en masse, or to blindly ask your representatives to support it because you think it's good. You have to craft an argument that overcomes the "
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    by cabaalis 9y ago

    The "some random idiot" is correct in his blog post. Cortana could be the greatest compilation of code ever written, but here it's directly advertising a feature to the user, asking them to take time from their day to use thi
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    by cabaalis 9y ago

    Despite your glowing review, I cannot bring myself to download and install anything from sites like these. I'm sure it's a great program.
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    by cabaalis 9y ago

    I had the exact opposite reaction; I was wondering how in the world they could be functional with that amount of noise going into their minds. To each his own, of course, but I cannot fathom how they could possibly be consuming that amount
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    by cabaalis 9y ago

    At least with a corporation you understand their goal completely.
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    by cabaalis 9y ago

    This is so awful that I'm sad to see the word "advice" being used. I lost my wife due to my commitment to my startup. I'm still at a startup, but the one that I loved and dreamed about so much which cost me so dearly ult
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    by cabaalis 9y ago

    It does make sense to pay a fee for usage of the hardware, if only to guarantee legitimate usage.
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    by cabaalis 9y ago

    I have a US perspective so I'm interested in why this ruling was made. If the driver doesn't want to drive on a given day, there's no one he has to call. There's no approval of the time off. He just won't get paid b
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    by cabaalis 9y ago

    I spent many evening hours working, and did not foster the relationship. I stayed up late at night, she was going to bed alone. Even good relationships need constant work. Secondly, I think working for myself somewhat transitioned me from &
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    by cabaalis 9y ago

    Having started now a couple of businesses, one of which is doing well, I can say: There is a ridiculously high bar to vault in order to break through to a self-sustaining income valuable enough to employ multiple people. This is why vcs&#x2