comicjk

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   by comicjk 15y ago

   The "damage" is even more removed than you give it credit for. Assuming the goal of the IP owner is to sell the content, the "damage" occurs when the subset of downloaders who would have bought, don't buy. Clearly not all downloaders are in
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   by comicjk 15y ago

   Any process that's much harder in one direction than the other is effective for this purpose. It helps that multiplication is very easy and factorization is very hard, but that's not the only way to hide a key in plain sight.
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   by comicjk 15y ago

   Clearly we buy some things on that basis, or businesses wouldn't pay for the ads.
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   by comicjk 15y ago

   Yes, but "90% of a task" is very different from "90% of the code." The parallel parts tend to be the tight loops, etc where the program spends most of its time, which means for some tasks a number quite close to 100% of the runtime is paral
5. 605.▲
   by comicjk 15y ago

   True, because the average person in America has a pretty crappy job. Those who get a chance to follow through with calculus and apply it do much, much better.
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   by comicjk 15y ago

   He isn't breaking convention, he's just breaking the law. That law exists for a good reason - because being stuck in a confined space with a bunch of salesmen is intolerable. Does your tech startup break the law? If so, please call your loc