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by donpott 6y ago
I was mid-way through watching the newly released (on Netflix) S2 of "Derry Girls" and they deleted it mere days after making it available. I was annoyed. Turns out they had messed up the rights. https://www.radiotimes.
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Rocket League now requires an Epic account to play, even through Steam(reddit.com)
105 points by donpott 6y ago|80 comments
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by donpott 6y ago
WhatsApp too. My version of it "expired" yesterday and wouldn't work until I updated it.
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by donpott 6y ago
For the purposes of preventing locking out, I've had some success installing Autohotkeys and sending the MouseMove event every minute or so in a loop. No need for plugging additional USB devices.
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The Brussels Effect(en.wikipedia.org)
37 points by donpott 6y ago|14 comments
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by donpott 6y ago
My anecdotal experience suggests that today it is slightly more difficult to find pirated content than in "the golden age of Piracy" (namely the mid-noughties to mid-10s). My hypothesis is that having a critical mass of people wil
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by donpott 6y ago
I'd agree with the proposal, but I'm not sure it would work equally fine today. I'm starting to think that the advent of Netflix weakened piracy movements too much, at just the wrong time. After all, media conglomerates have
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by donpott 6y ago
which is the stated end goal of many a terrorist organisation.
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by donpott 6y ago
Plus a Github repository of companies that kowtow to China's interests from a previous discussion here on HN: https://github.com/caffeine-overload/bandinchina
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by donpott 7y ago
I was surprised not to see Kip Thorne there. He has been heavily involved with Hollywood for ages apart from being an accomplished scientist.
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by donpott 7y ago
Related to the concept of a Dunning-Kruger "test": Shibboleths. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth
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by donpott 7y ago
I think we would probably both agree that it wasn't the only factor, but it was a factor.
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by donpott 7y ago
Elon himself has cited Brexit uncertainty as a reason for choosing Germany over the UK. Source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/13/tesla-cit...
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by donpott 7y ago
Very good point. On the other hand, I'm a somewhat passionate proponent of the mentality because it provides more frequent feedback loops and to me it seems to effect more actionable change in some situations. But you're right, I
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by donpott 7y ago
Very good point, I had failed to make the connection.
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by donpott 7y ago
I'm genuinely curious: Why do you think the "vote with your wallet" mentality is broken?
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by donpott 7y ago
Would "having links to the chinese government" make the cut for this list? because if so, you can add Tencent, and by extension Epic games, Reddit and Riot games.
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Legal Basis for Questions Asked by Officers of UK Border Control(whatdotheyknow.com)
1 points by donpott 7y ago|0 comments
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by donpott 7y ago
I had the same feeling. If memory serves, the problem of optimal stopping is discussed (using a parking lot as an example) in the book "Algorithms to live by" http://algorithmstoliveby.com/