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by caconym_ 4y ago
> The US broadly has very permissive abortion laws compared to most of Europe a) I assume you're talking about the past, and not the future. b) The issue is less that our laws are restrictive , and more that they're written in
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by caconym_ 4y ago
I think this is more about teaching kids the universality and importance of marketing. If you want to develop a creative skill to the point where strangers will seek out and consume your work (let alone pay for the privilege of doing so)
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by caconym_ 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex_lift
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by caconym_ 4y ago
> Twitch [...] People donate to/tip streamers because they perceive that it will strengthen their parasocial relationship with the streamer in question, and more generally because they're watching a performance where tipping th
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by caconym_ 4y ago
See my other comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31688954 I'm advocating for copyright from the perspective of independent creators, not big media conglomerates. Additionally, my comment is (explicitly,
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by caconym_ 4y ago
Ok, I think I see what you're saying. I would definitely expect the expanded market for modern blockbusters to be a big factor in driving the upward budget trend. As you say (I think), most or all of the different production department
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by caconym_ 4y ago
> Many of those most expensive films spent much of their budgets on major actors. That’s a function of Hollywood accounting where actors need to be paid upfront for the potential value of the income generated rather than paid based on ho
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by caconym_ 4y ago
> Same with movies, television shows and music. They just don't have the impact they used to. You can do special effects for a few grand that cost a million dollars a few decades ago. As it is faster and easier than ever to make a m
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by caconym_ 4y ago
I don't really disagree with any of this. Big business has corrupted the modern implementation of copyright law (e.g. erosion of fair use) and something should be done to turn it back in favor of independent creators. Of course, big mo
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by caconym_ 4y ago
Sure, some developers are cool with public domain; the same is true with writers and other creatives working in pretty much any medium you can name. The fact remains, copyright is very much relevant to the open source community today. It&#x
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by caconym_ 4y ago
> Free software / open source licenses have effectively made copyright disappear for open source code. [...] > I think open source software is a good example of what happens when you get rid of copyright - people still feel owner
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by caconym_ 4y ago
> We know very well what things were like pre-copyright. People still came up with compelling stories. Creativity flourished. Of course we've seen an increase since then, but that's the effect of industrialization and overall p
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by caconym_ 4y ago
+1 People don't seem to consider what it would be like for authors (and similar) if copyright disappeared overnight: just as quickly, their work will be published and distributed by for-profit entities who can still turn a profit on it
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by caconym_ 4y ago
I wrote a bit about this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31663316 In brief, I think Haskell is still the purest expression of what makes it great. This is both a good thing, for the reasons I outlined there, and
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by caconym_ 4y ago
> Then if we want to disprove the null hypothesis there we give one programmer brainfuck and the other Python Hence "reasonably well supported modern general-purpose programming languages". I think this null hypothesis is where
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by caconym_ 4y ago
That's probably why I put 'superior' in "air quotes". The null hypothesis would be that all reasonably well supported modern general-purpose programming languages are about as productive as each other on average. I
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by caconym_ 4y ago
For me the real selling point of Haskell is that it's vastly more powerful and ergonomic for solving certain kinds of problems, in ways other functional languages don't necessarily share. First-class currying, typeclasses, HKTs, d
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by caconym_ 4y ago
I was thinking about Rust a lot when I wrote this comment, actually. IMO, imperative vs. functional aside, Rust does suffer from a lot of the same learning curve issues people commonly pin on Haskell. Rust has plenty of libraries with weird
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by caconym_ 4y ago
In trying to figure out why Haskell hasn't been widely adopted, I think it's very hard to disentangle legitimate criticisms of the language (unpredictable performance, overcomplicated and bizarre APIs, etc.) from the simple fact t
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by caconym_ 4y ago
> Yes, and in fact they were being closely tracked by the same private companies before the pandemic started and will continue to be closely tracked after the pandemic is over. And their personal data has been, is being, and will be used
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by caconym_ 4y ago
My point is that the companies usually referred to as "Big Tech", e.g. Google, FB, Apple, etc., are generally not the ones participating in this kind of unrestrained exchange of PII and sensitive personal data for money. They ge
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by caconym_ 4y ago
I don't use FB, but don't you typically have to explicitly opt in to this kind of sharing? There is a world of difference between that and companies you can't really opt out of doing business with if you want to live in mains
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by caconym_ 5y ago
I think he's more likely to be involved in relatively high-level (but still critically important) engineering decisions rather than "science". That distinction aside, I really wonder what makes people so sure he isn't i
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by caconym_ 5y ago
When every corporation attaches the same fifty thousand words' worth of abusive T&Cs to every service they offer, consumers have no choice: they can consent to being abused (in this case waiving their legal rights), or go live in t
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by caconym_ 5y ago
I think the flood of hot-take Steam Deck reviews has given me handheld console clickbait fatigue. I saw the title and thumbnail for this video on my YT feed, and immediately blacklisted the channel. Maybe it's a fine review; I definite
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by caconym_ 5y ago
It's trivially obvious that an unlit screen will be unusable in the dark. However, the original Game Boy's screen was practically unusable in the light, too. Maybe the comparison just rubs me the wrong way because I actually had o
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by caconym_ 5y ago
> Are you so upset with my opinion that you have to instantly discredit it because "whoever that is" review I based my opinion on isn't subjective? There you go again with the projection. All I said was that you don&#x27
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by caconym_ 5y ago
Do you often feel the urge to project negative emotions onto strangers you have never met? Why do you think that is?
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by caconym_ 5y ago
Here is a great image (from the Ars Technica review) showing how utterly bullshit the comparisons with the original Gameboy screen are: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/IMG_1... Sin
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by caconym_ 5y ago
These days I see way more people spouting the "omg mac users are fanatics!!!!" line than I see actual mac "fanatics". It got very stale years ago, honestly. It's natural human behavior to talk about things we like i

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