gloob

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by gloob 16y ago
Fair enough. If we take the "popular acclamation" theory of standardization, here's how it breaks down: h.264: IE, Safari WebM: Chrome, Firefox 4 Streaming video with Flash: all of the above In which case the most standardy standard is "h.
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by gloob 16y ago
<rant> "de facto standard" is a meaningless, self-contradictory phrase that really boils down to saying "But this is the way we've always done it!" Standards are not de facto. Standards are things created by standards bodies. The
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by gloob 16y ago
Their rules are mutually incompatible.
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by gloob 16y ago
That's not a straw man. That's a non sequitur.
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by gloob 16y ago
It's possible that I just don't hang out with the cool people, but HN is the only place I've heard any discussion of either of them, and (before this link) I had seen exactly one link about each issue on the front page. (Edit: Were they tal
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by gloob 16y ago
To rephrase what I think the poster's point was: AOL wanted to pretend the rest of the net didn't exist. We've seen where that game plan leads: irrelevance. Facebook, contrariwise, is willing to accept the existence of non-Facebook materia
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by gloob 16y ago
The part where it more or less parses as "Etiquette is more important than freedom of speech, and should be legally enforced at the expense of it."
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by gloob 16y ago
Your complaint against them, in your original post, is a legal one. They are advising that action be taken such that they are no longer in such a precarious legal position, which would seem to appease the complaint you made. Absent other
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by gloob 16y ago
Piracy is theft in the sense that it deprives a producer of the income or potential income that they would otherwise make from someone buying a good. So do successful competitors, boycotts, Internet FUD, and a whole slew of other things,
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by gloob 16y ago
Hence the issues described in TFA.
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by gloob 16y ago
The parent post said the method was dishonest. You are arguing that it is useful. The two things are not mutually exclusive.
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by gloob 16y ago
What about it bothers you, exactly?
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by gloob 16y ago
The modern understanding of democracy is that democracy is a modern idea.
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by gloob 16y ago
Basic human decency, covered with an icing of crossed fingers?
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by gloob 16y ago
Pretty sure I am a dude with some pig heart valves in me.
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by gloob 16y ago
The weird part is that clicking an ad you have no interest in is frowned upon ("click fraud"), but downloading (not necessarily even rendering!) an ad you have no interest in is considered by some to be something bordering on a moral impera
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by gloob 16y ago
Collaborators, then.
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by gloob 16y ago
I can't speak for the poster you're responding to, but if it's easy to make things that pretty in R, I suddenly want to learn it.
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by gloob 16y ago
Well, first we're waiting for someone to invent flying nanobots. Then we're waiting for someone to successfully convince the public that flying nanobots somehow won't kill us all.
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by gloob 16y ago
As near as I can tell, the summary of your lesswrong link is something like: "Some people disagree with me. But they're just playing games about social status!" Which, I mean, is cool and all, but it's perhaps possible that maybe some peop
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by gloob 16y ago
Well, unless your mood is not dependent on having the newest sexiest thing all the time.
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by gloob 16y ago
Unlikely. I get the impression that the channers and their friends care less about whether or not they are "hackers" (by whatever mostly-arbitrary definition of the word is being used this week), and more about (1) not being arrested, and
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by gloob 16y ago
Now you see, I am Canadian. So I could walk in to half the threads on this site and say "I really don't understand this sense of moral superiority these American chaps seem to have," which would be a perfectly stereotypical action from a C
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by gloob 16y ago
Can't claim they lack a sense of theatre, at least.
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by gloob 16y ago
This is getting close to being a No True Scotsman type of situation. I'm reasonably sure that mobs were present during the French revolution, for instance.
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by gloob 16y ago
Every government claims to be operating for the greater good. Sometimes that results in tyrannies. I think this discussion might just be getting lost in the generalities of such statements, though. Do you have a more specific point to mak
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by gloob 16y ago
How nineties.
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by gloob 16y ago
You make two points: * "freedom of information should end where it endangers...people's lives" * "expose the wrong, not the mundane" Forgive me if I'm just being naive, but: wouldn't exposing the wrong be way, way more likely to en
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by gloob 16y ago
I'll get you, Zooko, and your little dog too! https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Zooko%27s_tri...
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by gloob 16y ago
As a Canadian, I'm glad to know that everyone involved in the ongoing Wikileaks debate has managed to remain calm, mature, and level-headed. Here's to you, humanity!

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