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by cooper12 9y ago
After Musk launches his Tesla into Mars orbit Man I can see Musk one of the first people on Mars, stays there for like a year, no one knows what the fuck he's been really doing there, people start speculating what he can possibly be
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by cooper12 9y ago
Hmm, this really does make me worried for OpenStreetMap. If the competition is so powerful and has a moat protecting it that will only grow larger, how can it ever hope to catch up? This isn't a case like Wikipedia where it entered a m
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by cooper12 9y ago
This is called the Cliff effect btw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_effect
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by cooper12 9y ago
Yeah, one site going down broke the internet. So melodramatic.
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by cooper12 9y ago
Yeah it's always irked me when I press the play button that iTunes decides to pop up. There is a patch [0] you can install, but it's annoying reapplying it after each update and now you also have to disable System Integrity Protec
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by cooper12 9y ago
The title reminded me of a quote from an early Facebook employee [0] : > The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads [1] There's the transcript of the video here btw: https://www.ted.co
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by cooper12 9y ago
Hmm, I didn't have any luck finding any myself, nor did these redditors: https://www.reddit.com/r/gis/comments/3q1jyk/help_me_find_a_... , but you might find this to be some interesting trivia: http
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by cooper12 9y ago
He has a cult of personality like all scumbags who make money. Everyone will kiss their ass to find out their "secret sauce" when it's usually just exploiting people and general psychopathy. He's a big favorite of the 4c
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by cooper12 9y ago
Here's the book at the Getty in case anyone wants to see the other pages or in higher resolution: http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/1487/joris-hoefn...
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by cooper12 9y ago
I know you didn't mean it that way, but calling it doodling is quite a disservice. It's like looking at a DaVinci and calling it professional finger painting and a precursor to ascii art. These are the hands of a master calligraph
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by cooper12 9y ago
Wikimedia sees [0] zero rating as a temporary step to spread knowledge in impoverished areas until costs can come down in those regions. They otherwise [1] do support Net Neutrality: > We support net neutrality, and believe it is crucial
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by cooper12 9y ago
IANAL. Fair use doesn't have a strict definition and depends on a bunch of factors that would be considered in a court: * the purpose and character of your use * the nature of the copyrighted work * the amount and substantiality of the
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by cooper12 9y ago
I think a majority of the commenters are missing the point of the article. We get it, you're all smart and know the rules, this guy didn't. That's his point. Instead of having the rules explained to him, he was treated horrib
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by cooper12 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use%E2%80%93mention_distinctio...
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by cooper12 9y ago
Welcome to the murky world of SEO. If you don't like it, use another search engine. It's up to Google how they want to rank websites and what criteria they use. I also doubt the technical feasibility of "identifying debunked
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by cooper12 9y ago
This is more of a cultural thing. Editing articles themselves is carte blanche of course, but editing people's comments has a stigma. From a pragmatic standpoint it probably prevents petty squabbles over typos, as well as passive-agres
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by cooper12 9y ago
You present both, as long the 20% one is actually represented by reliable sources, and then you balance the article appropriately. There're quite a few subjects on Wikipedia for which there is yet no scholarly consensus but different v
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by cooper12 9y ago
Not really, it's just a prototypical example of a fringe conspiracy that gets pushed and the lead of the essay explicitly notes that you're unlikely to come across them. The point is that the tactics of argument presented would be
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by cooper12 9y ago
Hmm, I guess our experiences are just different then. Personally I've never noticed much amiss in online videos, aside from low bitrate. Meanwhile, I can tell gifs apart right away because of banding, overt dithering, and generally dim
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by cooper12 9y ago
Uhh, GIF only supports 256 colors per frame. I'm not sure what you mean. "Accuracy" of color is more affected by monitor calibration than the actual format (ignoring embedded color profiles used by photographers).
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by cooper12 9y ago
The reason you're seeing such a variation is because the icons are based on per-country map conventions. They have different icons for use in different areas, for example there are some specifically for Japan. Christianity is covered i
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by cooper12 9y ago
Oh please, the other comments weren't inflammatory? My comment certainly was substantive in pointing out a long-term trend I've noticed in blind Apple-bashing on HN without substance. Sorry I care about the quality of HN commentar
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by cooper12 9y ago
That's the norm in Asian countries like Japan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_(East_Asia) . They even have different types of seals that are used for just plain signatures and more important things like loans.
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by cooper12 9y ago
It's Apple. Gotta put those iSheep in their place, know what I mean?
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by cooper12 9y ago
Just because it was when he was young, does it diminish the truth of his statement or that he actually felt that way?
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by cooper12 9y ago
I doubt it will make a difference to most people. The staunch pro-privacy stance really only exists on tech-savvy forums like HN. Go on reddit sometimes and observe how people will say "so what if Google has all my info, it's usef
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by cooper12 9y ago
Mirrors of the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBeD8E2xxck and https://v.redd.it/hal3xc9nwqtz
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by cooper12 9y ago
Thankfully you policed my tone instead of being constructive to the discussion.
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by cooper12 9y ago
Back in March, 265 members of congress voted to reverse an FCC privacy rule [0] in exchange for bribes (whoops, it's called lobbying). I'll leave it to you to figure out whether they had a "D" or an "R" next to
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by cooper12 9y ago
It's just another word the right has latched on to in order to sound more intelligent, c.f. "cultural marxism". It's the same as people who throw around words like "Social Justice Warrior" as if that's a b

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