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by domador 3y ago
What I'm mostly wondering these days is if anyone in any part of the display technology "stack" (so to speak) is working on improving the number of colors displayed to us by our screens. Or will we be limited to using 24-bit
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by domador 3y ago
Maybe corporations should have their freedom for filing lawsuits capped in some way to a reasonable, but not unlimited, proportion that would force them to prioritize their lawsuits, hopefully hindering their ability to pursue claims that s
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by domador 3y ago
My favorite is the "Save as MHTML" Chrome extension (the one with a check box).
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by domador 3y ago
An alternative: allow copyright holders to publish new editions but only if they 1) clearly label them as new, edited versions that are not the original and 2) make the unedited originals fully and completely available upon request, for a (
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by domador 3y ago
It's not "just time". It's the nature of copyright in its current form as well as a certain set of cultural values embraced by those overly empowered by excessive copyright protection. And these things can be changed b
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by domador 3y ago
Except you often DON'T get the choice to watch the original. It's simply unavailable, so you'd better like the pureed pablum they're letting you consume.
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by domador 3y ago
I think that at least in regard to culture, works of fiction are likely to be a more effective tour guides of what an era was like than nonfiction accounts of that culture.
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by domador 3y ago
If the original version of a movie were still available and accessible, I wouldn't mind if its copyright holders created a new, bowdlerized, "palatable" version that was available along with the original. However, that'
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by domador 3y ago
What if Cognizant workers shifted their lifestyles to take advantage of their ability to work from home? Going back to commuting and being pinned down to an office could now require significant, problematic adjustments for them. Also, how
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by domador 3y ago
What kind of union victories would you prefer to see more of?
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by domador 4y ago
A relevant essay: Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html (It's by Paul Graham, but I won't assume everyone on Hacker News has read it.)
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by domador 4y ago
Just looking at the headline, I thought the article was going to be about a different kind of quack: "expert" witnesses that champion theories such as "killology", which are pretty convenient for police.
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by domador 4y ago
Maybe there is some justification for Microsoft's design decision, but two undesirable side effects are that: 1. It angers power users who want their computer to retain their workspace's context, which is often easily lost between
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by domador 4y ago
I know I'm not the average customer, but by default I'm skeptical that a) the "smart" part of an appliance actually improves the product and b) a public company will refrain from eventually turning a perfectly good stand
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by domador 4y ago
Maybe many of us are pleased that ordinary customers are (even unwittingly) falling in line with our own values on security or usability and our own distaste for tech hype. (No, putting something on "the cloud", making an app for
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by domador 4y ago
Precisely.
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by domador 4y ago
Yet does anyone think "this is decorative square" rather that "this is checkbox that's off" when they see a checkbox that is off, especially in the context of a list of settings?
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by domador 4y ago
As to the "why", it's probably because some influential program or OS's UI started using toggle switches and then a lot of UI designers felt a need to follow along. It's unfortunate that bad UI designs are so conta
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by domador 4y ago
The mere existence of a cutesy name for a bill forces people to refer to it in a way that is implicitly favorable to that bill. It forces people--especially the media--to keep repeating what is essentially a marketing slogan each time they
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by domador 4y ago
Is there an archive of Paul Graham's tweets somewhere? I was hoping to get around to reading all of them at some point, but now I might never get that chance. pg's current Twitter ban and my desire to read pg's full tweet ar
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by domador 4y ago
Yes! One should be able to take advantage of the speed of a local transfer. One doesn't always have access to a blazingly fast Internet connection and file-transfer service through which to transfer data. One should be able to trans
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by domador 4y ago
The display of sender emails on various email clients and services. It is discouraging to see how blindly clients trust the name provided by a message's sender and display it as-is (and without the actual email address) to the user.
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by domador 4y ago
The kind of software that truly depends on a server or some live resource that must be actively maintained and kept running can genuinely make a claim to charge a reasonable recurring fee to use said software. But for software that is esse
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by domador 4y ago
...and that kind of thinking illustrates the kind of dehumanizing attitude that is harmful to the "products" of such experiments, such as the person that would develop from such an embryo. Very worrisome research.
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by domador 4y ago
That lossy compression "escapes" the Shannon entropy limit doesn't seem like an accurate way of putting it. Lossy compression throws information away, so there is less information to compress. The entropy limit is still in p
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by domador 4y ago
On a related note, you might be interested in the book "How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler" by Ryan North. It addresses that idea, of restarting civilization and reinventing the technology t
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by domador 4y ago
This could imply that according to Sturgeon's law, you'd support censoring 90% of everything out there. (I don't know if your last, pro-censorship line was a joke, but if so, it was a lame one. But I'm against censoring
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by domador 4y ago
The need to pay for storage is understandable, but in trying to turn free-plan users into paying customers, companies seem to misunderstand how seemingly small pricing and feature changes can make their product entirely unappealing. How ma
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by domador 4y ago
Let's see if I can paraphrase your argument: "The iPhone and the App Store exist, therefore developers should be thankful they exist regardless of how Apple treats them as they try to get their apps approved."
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by domador 4y ago
Why do you feel a need to emphasize the number keys and the section sign by giving their characters such a disproportionately large size than other keys? And why do you feel a need to deemphasize the function keys by giving them such a sma

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