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by drucken 14y ago
This case, especially in the context of Rowan Atkinson's very eloquent speech, illustrates clearly why it is the West that has to set the standards for free speech. By contrast, given what the UK has done in the past around Internet speech,
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by drucken 14y ago
I was particulary struck by this quote: "I promise you we will have the AI problem finished long before we have healthcare data that is reliable enough to train it. Until that happens, imagine how Watson would have performed on Jeopardy if
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IBM's Watson supercomputer goes to medical school(bbc.co.uk)
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Rowan Atkinson: speech against the UK's new censorship rules(youtube.com)
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by drucken 14y ago
So, if Apple, Google, Microsoft, IBM and all of the other or some subset of the large software companies came out today to say the same thing or completely endorse Amazon CEO's point of view, you would dismiss their message just as equally
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Nissan steer-by-wire cars(bbc.co.uk)
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Cuban missile crisis: The other, secret one(bbc.co.uk)
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Judge orders arrest of Google executive for Youtube video(hosted.ap.org)
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by drucken 14y ago
"...according to a June Gallup poll that found 46 percent of Americans believe God created humans in their present form about 10,000 years ago." The rest of the world, even developing countries, look on with astonishment while the US unde
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iOS Maps vs Google Maps: Emergency Room(youtube.com)
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by drucken 14y ago
"BREAKING: NYPD vows to protect Wall Street holy sites from angry protestors bent on offending the profit. #s17 #MuslimRage" -- epic :)
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World's first colour moving pictures discovered(bbc.co.uk)
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by drucken 14y ago
Yes. Privately and normally as part of bankruptcy proceedings. The most famous recent example is probably Microsoft's purchase of Nortel's addresses, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12859585
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by drucken 14y ago
Yet... Only one step after this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4506385
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[IRS] Tax cheat whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld gets $104m(bbc.co.uk)
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David Hemler: 28 years on the run(bbc.co.uk)
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by drucken 14y ago
I would be less concerned about HN'ers being able to decipher the intracies of the law around the US patent system than a jury of 12 random people... That said, you are likely correct in one common misunderstanding. Too many people conflate
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by drucken 14y ago
I do not know if I am misunderstanding the OP, but I think they possibly meant non-US services not available in Canada, not services not available in other countries. The latter would not make much sense, or at least would not be expected
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by drucken 14y ago
Amazing and completely topsy-turvey ruling! As far as I know, no where else in the world would you be able to patent a natural thing or arrangement yet be unable to patent a test you designed yourself for it...
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by drucken 14y ago
Science != spirituality. The domain the author speaks of does not fall within the remit of science. Further, it cannot since spirituality is subjective. It would be like saying the an accurate and extendible description of a thing is like a
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by drucken 14y ago
Indeed - same boat. I wondered if Lewis Page's infamous and uniquely biased ramblings, particularly on any issues of nuclear power, US military or IP but in general any topic, would ever grace HN's front page. Guess that day is today... I a
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Seeing Through Walls With a Wireless Router(wired.co.uk)
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by drucken 14y ago
Why submit or upvote the Slashdot discussion instead of the original Buzzfeed article ( http://www.buzzfeed.com/reyhan/tech-confessional-the-googler... )?! Maybe a better question would be how a Slashdot link makes it to the front page...
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by drucken 14y ago
I would be far more interested in reading the original Microsoft legal letter to E.piphany and the detail of the claim. I highly doubt it was over just a letter...
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by drucken 14y ago
Slightly off-topic but as an international, this seems very heavy handed to be charged with criminal tresspass just for seeking help, which for anyone other than this athletic and fit swimmer could have been life-threatening. Is this a "fel
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by drucken 14y ago
This is cool. Would be nice to know how popular a particular tune was, i.e. at minimum Youtube Views and preferably also Likes/Dislikes as columns so you could order by them. This is useful for many reasons, e.g. someone recommended a band
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U.S. Marine Arrested for Facebook Posts(salem-news.com)
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by drucken 14y ago
This is absolutely the correct interpretation, though this article is appallingly badly written compared to the Bloomberg Businessweek original ( http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-08-12/imf-says-bailout... ). The reason why the IMF is c
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by drucken 14y ago
Discussed 5 months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3842033 The original submission date for the paper is interesting ( http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.0162 ) ... Yes, it is real: - http://www.sdsc.edu/News%20Items/PR041312_traffictick
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by drucken 14y ago
All good points. Being in French and reasonably short would have been made it more adaptable for French media and their law experts too. In my opinion, the key is to make this seem like a distinctly French problem and conduct it in French p

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