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by cooper12 10y ago
The original footage of the moon landings was actually erased and recorded over when NASA had a shortage of data tapes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11_missing_tapes . So yeah there is definitely some pragmatism
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by cooper12 10y ago
Well the decompressor would be cached by the browser so it would pay off for repeat visitors. And if it gets used enough, the user will already have downloaded the decompressor from another site.
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by cooper12 10y ago
They don't need his blessing because David Revoy explicitly released their webcomics under CC-BY. Although you're right about your clarification, I think the parent just wanted to talk about David Revoy in general rather than the
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by cooper12 10y ago
Your tldr is missing the point though. They know how they messed up, the point of their post is to show the disproportionate and impersonal response they received to something that was just supposed to be some fun.
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by cooper12 10y ago
Unfortunately, these kinds of things happen all too often. Corporations don't have souls. Someone likely reported the guy and some worker making pennies in the Philippines spent a few seconds on his case and moved on to the next hundre
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by cooper12 10y ago
I've used it and it seems to use a proxy connection to computers that have appropriate access to download the paper, and then it caches it server-side for any future requests. And many journals actually have prominent lines on the side
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by cooper12 10y ago
You won't believe what happens next!
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by cooper12 10y ago
They had knowledge too, just in other areas. They would probably look down on modern humans for not knowing how to skin a deer or how to rotate crops.
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by cooper12 10y ago
Mediawiki (the thing behind Wikipedia) actually lets you transclude whole pages and it's also the way its templates work. It's pretty cool because you can also have options to not include certain info inside <noinclude> tags
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by cooper12 10y ago
Umm, I'm not sure you understood my point. How are they going to earn more? They don't have degrees to fall back on, and the only skill they have is driving taxis. They're going to be replaced by younger people willing to wor
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by cooper12 10y ago
I'm not saying that the taxi drivers are right, but your example ignores the education and certification that modern professions require. These days most professions require degrees. Taxi drivers need to be certified and that requires
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by cooper12 10y ago
Works created by government employees as part of their official duties are in the public domain in the U.S. However, scraping might break some ToS and with that comes the possibility of the CFAA.
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by cooper12 10y ago
You might enjoy (and probably have already seen) "Why Japanese People": https://youtu.be/AqragQq63Js
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by cooper12 10y ago
I love well-illustrated writeups. Even a reader without mathematics or programming knowledge can understand what steps the author took. His model actually seems to better represent the warped paper than a cylinder would. (though I don'
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by cooper12 10y ago
Regarding the SSH randomart, it's enabled by adding `VisualHostKey=yes` to your ssh config or adding the flag `-o VisualHostKey=yes` on the command line. It was announced with OpenSSH 5.1 ( http://lists.mindrot.org/piper
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by cooper12 10y ago
The fact that you say that a thinkpad with an 8-year old cpu suffices only proves the author's point. Why is it a bad thing when this is good enough for Apple users, but a good thing for you?
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by cooper12 10y ago
The sad part is that the companies will use this security by obscurity argument against open sourcing.
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by cooper12 10y ago
The difference here is the intent. And I already explained why they likely wouldn't get a specific water pistol emoji. HNers actually think that they think they changed it to a water pistol because they wanted an emoji to represent a w
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by cooper12 10y ago
Yep, changing the look of an emoji is tantamount to state-sanctioned censorship and oppression. Ridiculous statements like these only spawn more ridiculousness. Try grounding your arguments in reality rather than an Atlas-sized persecution
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by cooper12 10y ago
A text filter is very different from the visual representation of an emoji which the unicode consortium gives a lot of leeway to IMEs to implement. Everyone is only angry about this change because it was a normal pistol first and changed to
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by cooper12 10y ago
Can we stop with this hyperbole anytime something is changed? What do emoji have to do with the iTunes store? You're assuming an awful lot about Apple's intentions with stuff like "such stimulation might lead him to commit ho
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by cooper12 10y ago
Unicode only says that it's a gun, and only recommends how it should look. IME's are free to make the emojis look however they want at their discretion. Note Samsung's saltines instead of chocolate chip cookies for "U+1F
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by cooper12 10y ago
I was surprised to find that Google Maps didn't have any streetviews of China. This might help explain it, though Google's relationship with China itself didn't seem to have fared well. ( https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by cooper12 10y ago
For the record since many people are mentioning Facebook's metadata, the actual name for what it uses is called Open Graph : https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters
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by cooper12 10y ago
FWIW, some buzzfeed articles are supposedly of a higher calibre and have been shared and successful on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=buzzfeed.com&sort=byPopularity...
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by cooper12 10y ago
The most likely explanation is because that's where they were the most prevalent or most well-documented. The lead of the article notes: "Closed cities are a feature of heavily militarized countries and secretive regimes, and many
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by cooper12 10y ago
What does this have to do with the article?
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by cooper12 10y ago
If only it was ever as easy as data in = results out. The quality, accuracy, granularity, accessibility, and existence of data is an important prerequisite. (For healthcare in America, HIPAA will be a big hurdle) Deep learning has been a b
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by cooper12 10y ago
You got anything to back that first part up or is this more singularity hyperbole? So far the only use of robots in medicine that I'm aware of has been to assist doctors, such as in delicate surgeries. (Or more mundane stuff like a rob
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by cooper12 10y ago
By the way the ones you are thinking about are Candy Japan: https://www.candyjapan.com/candy-japan-hit-with-credit-card-... .

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