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by decode 16y ago
I'm guessing you were downvoted because your suggestion was neither simple nor a solution. Since you can't easily predict which sites will use Tynt, it's not simple. Since you (presumably) still want to read the content on sites using Tyn
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by decode 16y ago
who could I distribute the app to? Anyone with a jailbroken phone, right?
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by decode 16y ago
That's pretty amazing, since it was first released in 1993.
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by decode 16y ago
That's incredible. I've been running the 64-bit flash player in Ubuntu for a while and it fails horribly at high resolution video. Two questions: 1) Where did you get the 1680x1050 youtube video? The 1080p video I tried was 1920x798. Ca
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by decode 16y ago
"So, Tony Stark gets to choose: disclose the details of the invention in a patent and correspondingly get superior civil (i.e. monetary) relief if someone copies it, or try to keep the invention secret himself and hope that criminal law dis
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by decode 16y ago
> What's the big deal about facebook? And what did we ever do before? Facebook has solved two standing problems for my social groups. Your friends and acquaintances may be using it similarly, without you knowing it. Or maybe not. 1. E
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by decode 16y ago
Because trying it and failing you teaches you not to do that. Or, more generally, 90% of programmers failing the task tells us programmers are bad at programming without testing and we need to have solid testing in place when we code.
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by decode 16y ago
You're right, his perspective is fascinating for several reasons: 1) He makes the argument that he has some natural right to control the entirety of his creative output. In the US (where he lives), this is not true, it has never been true,
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by decode 16y ago
IP law can vary significantly between Europe and the US, and the publisher of this book is in the US. This is the take of a US IP lawyer on whether or not tweets are copyrighted: http://www.canyoucopyrightatweet.com/ Essentially, he says
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by decode 16y ago
It's good to be reminded that just 300 years ago, people didn't even have a concept of copyright. These days, copyrights are often described as natural rights founded on basic ethics, but that's just not the case. Copyrights are a set o
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by decode 16y ago
"A person who is a creator will build and write things regardless of the copyright protections." That's an interesting thought, but almost certainly not true. Some forms of creation require a large amount of time and effort. Some people w
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by decode 16y ago
The illusions you linked to are different from the one Mr. Ishiguro describes. In those illusions, the person is actually being touched at the same time as seeing something being touched. In Mr. Ishiguro's case, he wasn't being touched at
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by decode 16y ago
You can read the full version of the story here: http://blog.johnwurth.com/?p=110
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by decode 17y ago
"I also don't see how Harris is defending classical utilitarianism." His primary mode of definition is hand-waving, so it's hard to pin him down, but it seems like he is advocating for maximizing wellbeing/happiness/flourishing among all pe
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by decode 17y ago
Here's what Harris said in his TED talk: "If you hold to classical utilitarianism, science can help you decide which actions are in line with that morality." Here's what Harris claimed to have said in his TED talk: "Science can help you dec
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by decode 17y ago
I think that's unlikely. Microsoft filed an amicus brief in the Bilski case last year that made it clear they fully support software patents: http://www.patentlyo.com/am-brief.pdf
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by decode 17y ago
In an interview I can't find right now the band explains that they came up with the idea of supplementing the income from the video with a corporate sponsorship. EMI helped them negotiate a sponsorship deal with State Farm (in return for a
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Mozilla's statement on the MetaLab design issue(mozillalabs.com)
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by decode 17y ago
It's really interesting to look at the trends of the covers. If you start looking in the 1930's, you have occasional military themed covers, but primarily civilian themes: http://books.google.com/books/serial/wzsEAAAAMBAJ?rview=1&#3... Th
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by decode 17y ago
This whole article is strange. First, the author can't decide if patents last for 17 years or 15 years. The correct answer (in the US) is neither: since 1995, US patents have enjoyed protection for a maximum of 20 years from the filing dat
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by decode 17y ago
Here's a much more thorough discussion from an actual IP lawyer: http://canyoucopyrightatweet.com/ The skinny: "The question is not: Are Tweets Copyrightable. The question is: Is This Tweet Copyrightable. The copyrightability of Tweets is
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by decode 17y ago
This gets said every time Firefox comes up here, so I have to finally ask what I've been confused about for a while: exactly what things are faster that you like so much? I've used both Firefox and Chrome and all of the things I do more tha
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by decode 17y ago
He's only the CEO: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/krzysztofkowalczyk
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by decode 17y ago
"the bible says that you cannot take anything that alters your behavior or your body" I think most people wouldn't take such an interpretation of the Bible, but even if you did, your explanation doesn't line up with current societal mores.
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by decode 17y ago
Could you update your comment with a link to the HN article where we called it cute when Google couldn't figure out how to manage its WiFi network and rickrolled its users? I can't find it at the moment. Pointing out where anyone called Mi
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by decode 17y ago
> Where did you get 95%? Of course, I just made it up based on anecdotal experience with friends and family. For all I know, my friends and family could just be weird. However, I wonder if you encountered significant selection bias by
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by decode 17y ago
Here's my junk mail folder: http://i.imgur.com/2IwpW.png
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by decode 17y ago
> I went to Costa Rica with three other friends. At the end of the trip each of us had about 1GB of photos. [...] The entire process was cumbersome and took about an hour. This means that each person "uploaded" 1GB of data and "download
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by decode 17y ago
I think the messiness and multifaceted nature of 4chan is one of its most interesting features. Even a cursory look reveals that it's shockingly horrible, mind-numbingly mundane, and a surprising force for good, all at the same time. To me
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by decode 17y ago
> (Is that an acceptable expression around here?) You're new around here, so I'll explain your downvotes. It's not that a particular phrase is or is not unacceptable here, it's that your comment as a whole did not add to the discussion

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