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by deciplex 11y ago
> Well, large corporations using political influence to extend copyright terms effectively forever to prevent works from ever entering the public domain against the express intent of the Founders (at least in the U.S.) aren't exact
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by deciplex 11y ago
> But it seems to me that you have mostly arbitrarily grouped "restrictions the government does that you don't like" into the category "nanny state" Well, anybody is going to do that, even the author of this
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by deciplex 11y ago
Considering that, every time we have a gun control discussion, every person in Sydney on HN will come out of the woodwork to lecture Americans about how wonderful Australian gun control is and, gee, what a great idea a nanny state is in th
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by deciplex 11y ago
> And yet Google's Go-playing approach still doesn't seem to involve fundamentally novel techniques. So? The fact that it is worth a damn at playing go was unexpected to most people afaict. What do you mean "fundamentally
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by deciplex 11y ago
CCCP has worked great for me on Windows for the last 10+ years.
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by deciplex 11y ago
Even within the last six months I've seen very confident posts here to the effect of "an AI that is worth a damn at go is still at least 10 years off".
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by deciplex 11y ago
They mostly use the AI to try to convince you to buy shit. It may be an uninspired use of artificial intelligence, but it's still artificial intelligence.
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by deciplex 11y ago
> I have a counterpoint- I bet that, given any risky endeavour, there are ALWAYS some naysayers/doubters. So the probability that someone at an organization ends up being correct when a disaster occurs, is probably fairly high. Thu
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by deciplex 11y ago
If you have the option of leaving it alone, then you probably should, however if you've already got to work on the messy part anyway, and if the code is messy to the point of being difficult to read, then you might be reducing the
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by deciplex 11y ago
It seems like what you're trying to say is more that we're trying to optimize economic and industrial processes that are already more than optimized enough for what we need, rather than we've "run out of demand" as
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by deciplex 11y ago
> Wouldn't it be more preferable to build a neutral layer on the top of a non-neutral network...? How do you propose doing that?
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by deciplex 11y ago
> If we ever desire to see real usages of the Internet(that is more than just information exchange medium) We don't, or rather we see any and all "real usages" of the Internet to be that of (agnostic) information exchang
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by deciplex 11y ago
> What makes humans (specifically their brains and the brains of other species) so powerful is it doesn't need hundreds at attempts at playing pacman or Skyrim before it wins. The average human is terrible at playing Skyrim, Pac
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by deciplex 11y ago
> Three: Google+ was tech heavy from the start, which meant it tended to drift "professional" and be considered "for the geeks". Friends and family were already connected to me on FB, G+ tended to be old colleagues w
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by deciplex 11y ago
> I think almost any idea is a better idea than that. Okay I'll take that as a "no", then. Again, this is a fine, not even a tax. Whatever ethical considerations are bothering you about levying fines for corporate criminal
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by deciplex 11y ago
Do you have a better idea? It sounds like you're trying to make a "taxes are theft" argument against fines for committing theft which is pretty hard to take seriously.
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by deciplex 11y ago
Can you expand on the significance of this difference? I guess you're asserting that the "correct price" is the one that someone will pay for it, and that something is only "incorrectly priced" if no one will buy it
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by deciplex 11y ago
Good. Let's have the pastebin, please. This is the same guy who lied to Congress, which lie was exposed just a couple months later, and nothing happened .
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by deciplex 11y ago
> Alien & Primer are excellent counterexamples. Oddly, Prometheus was an excellent example . It's like Ridley Scott documented all the different ways you can make a character totally uninteresting and loathsome, and made sure t
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by deciplex 11y ago
> I mean, if it's a warehouse with massive ammounts of drugs in-out, then yes, a raid makes sense. There are criminals doing illegal things in there. Let's rephrase this a bit: > I mean, if it's a warehouse with cri
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by deciplex 11y ago
Yes, it is.
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by deciplex 11y ago
> While it is impossible to say for certain whether or not Disney’s efforts directly impacted politics, the results heavily worked out in their favor: the bill quietly and unanimously passed in the House and Senate with no public hear
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by deciplex 11y ago
Speaking from personal experience: no they do not.
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by deciplex 11y ago
+1 Unless you legally restricted from doing so, there is no reason to protect these assholes. Tell everyone who did this and for which works.
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by deciplex 11y ago
> If you're a smart guy with Robert Heinlein and copyright is more limited to a few years would you ever have written Starship Troopers? Or would you have gone into something like the real estate business which can last generations
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by deciplex 11y ago
> Never mind the fact that trademark is a better fit for how they use it... I'm not sure about this. I think trademark would prevent you from publishing a work and calling it "Mickey Mouse" or something similar, but it wou
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by deciplex 11y ago
I know this, and even refer to that fact in my argument. It's not clear to me what you're trying to say.
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by deciplex 11y ago
I support strict gun control as well. I believe we should re-open the NFA registry (closed in 1986 for basically no reason at all), and add most or all handguns to it and probably semi-automatic rifles as well. The NFA proved very effective
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by deciplex 11y ago
We let that AI out of the box and point it at patent trolls.
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by deciplex 11y ago
None of that shit looks new or interesting.

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