curiousgeorgio

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by curiousgeorgio 12y ago
> What is "creating the circumstances" ? I would define it as "exercising the most volition that leads to producing the outcome". Not sure how the law would actually define it. EDIT - Thought experiment: If a photogra
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by curiousgeorgio 12y ago
And I would argue that even if David Slater didn't fully intend for the monkey to take the photo, he had more intention or expectation for that happening than the monkey had for taking a photo. The monkey was only interested in the sou
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by curiousgeorgio 12y ago
The monkey does not own the copyright, just as my intervalometer does not own the copyright to my time lapse photos, and a carefully constructed rube goldberg machine triggered by an ant (and later pressing the shutter release button) doe
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by curiousgeorgio 12y ago
It sounds like a lot of this just comes down to the fact that our processes used for producing cylindrical cans aren't optimized for cuboids, and I won't argue with that. However, part of me thinks that given some time and ingenui
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by curiousgeorgio 12y ago
You mean our tools that are designed specifically for cylindrical cans wouldn't work as well for cuboids? :) I agree, but if cuboids were the norm, I'm sure we'd come up with a better tool for them. Expense may very well be a
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by curiousgeorgio 12y ago
Who says they'd be randomly oriented? When I see examples of cuboid products on shelves (think boxes), they're usually stacked quite neatly and efficiently.
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by curiousgeorgio 12y ago
> If we wanted to use a shape that packed perfectly efficiently, we’d use some kind of cuboid... But we don’t see many cubes on shelves. Let's look at cylinders now... The only real reason the article gives against using cuboids is
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by curiousgeorgio 12y ago
BTW - a web search for this turns up some very... interesting results of people trying to defend the practice of early eBay bidding. The "logic" consists of stuff like "waiting to bid at the end only gives time for more compe
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by curiousgeorgio 12y ago
That makes sense (especially the part about not having access to bid closer to the end time) for something cheap or with few alternatives. Still doesn't make sense to me why these people are bidding - mostly lower than the item value -
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Ask HN: Why do people bid early on eBay?
1 points by curiousgeorgio 12y ago|5 comments
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by curiousgeorgio 12y ago
I might be wrong, but I strongly suspect the behavior you describe (the feeling of indebtedness and urge to reciprocate) is very much dependent on factors like receiving the gift in person, as well as the context/entity who is giving t
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$20M proof that the U.S. government doesn't understand incentives
1 points by curiousgeorgio 12y ago|2 comments
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by curiousgeorgio 12y ago
Sounds interesting. Can you explain how a higher bit depth is used to produce images with less pixelation (higher resolution)?
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by curiousgeorgio 13y ago
I realize now that my comment may have sounded like someone trying to prove all of Horvath's claims to be false. That was sincerely not intended. I apologize for that. Frankly, my purpose in providing a plausible defense for GitHub is
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by curiousgeorgio 13y ago
I wasn't trying to say that "gawking" is acceptable (sorry if that's the way it came across). My point is that one person's description of people "gawking" may very well have been simply the other people a
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by curiousgeorgio 13y ago
Of course we may never know for sure exactly what was said (unless everything was secretly recorded somehow... NSA - data, please), but my initial reaction is that this story sounds a bit... exaggerated. Were things said that shouldn't
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by curiousgeorgio 13y ago
I'm looking at the huge text on the home page saying "The experiment is over." If that can't be trusted, then why in the world would anyone expect to receive a payout at this point (as if it weren't already incredib
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by curiousgeorgio 13y ago
I'm curious - anyone know what happened to cause the (inevitable) end? From what I can tell, it doesn't seem to be the lack of new interest/money. Possibilities I can think of: - Author got scared (of legal repercussions) - A