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by grkvlt 5y ago
yeah, but intent matters, and someone purchasing an ebook is probably making a good faith attempt to obtain the media in a way that compensates the author - hence my elision in the passage i quoted, which seems to mean well, but is badly
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by grkvlt 5y ago
> Anyone purchasing [...] any e-book editions of these books is violating the author’s rights seems inflammatory to me; someone selling an e-book edition is certainly violating his rights, the purchaser is probably not.
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by grkvlt 5y ago
sincere question: can you have a profound fake experience? what would that be, or look like?
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by grkvlt 5y ago
i found richard branson's reaction to his space flight experience interesting too - the man is usually very polished and is the poster child for sound bitey pr, but the post landing interview showed him almost babbling incoheretly - it
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by grkvlt 5y ago
to me, it seems like bezos did exactly the right thing. he got the champagne out the way, then listened to what shatner had to say. and then, when shatner got overwhelmed by emotions, bezos took off his sunglasses and hugged shatner, which
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by grkvlt 5y ago
are you suggesting that fusion plants will be petawatt sized? because that's really not the case. i think the lcoe of fusion is predicted to be around the same as natural gas, with the DEMO reactor costing twice as much.
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by grkvlt 5y ago
yeah, although sibling commenters are complaining about the type of adverts seen on today's platforms being different; namely that byte and computer shopper had ads that were 'useful' or 'interesting' by some defini
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by grkvlt 5y ago
surely seawater can simply be desalinated on site with the plentiful electricity available, and the only fresh water needed would be during initial startup?
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by grkvlt 5y ago
maybe, but if not, and (hypothetically) if it could solve the problem of carbon neutral energy and therefore halt global climate change, destruction of Yellowstone as a 'beautiful place' could well be a price worth paying in the l
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by grkvlt 5y ago
> we do use nuclear weapons [in] their role as a deterrent Yeah, I first heard this idea as the main point of Daniel Ellsberg's (also known for his first book, 'The Pentagon Papers' on Vietnam strategy) recent book 'T
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by grkvlt 5y ago
if you give someone begging on the street with a drug habit money that they use for drugs, they either won't have to steal to fund their habit or they won't suffer through painful drug withdrawl, neither of which is good (the firs
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by grkvlt 5y ago
you are interacting with the chronic permanently homeless population, what gp is talking about is the fact that there is an even larger population of temporarily homeless. although the statement is true, i don't think it is a useful di
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by grkvlt 5y ago
but isn't that exactly the process by which one obtains knowledge about a subject? i.e. i don't know much about X, i propose theory Y that may explain part of it, i test theory Y to see if it holds, if it does, i now know more abo
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by grkvlt 5y ago
i thought about this as well, when i first learned about unification of forces, it seems like an obvious thing to try and reason about, so let's go! [caveat - i'm not a physicist, but] we know forces unify at higher temperatures&#
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Edinburgh’s computer scientists banned from using Alice and Bob as too Western(telegraph.co.uk)
43 points by grkvlt 5y ago|45 comments
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by grkvlt 5y ago
> The sky was the perfect untroubled blue of a television screen, tuned to a dead channel. An homage to this line by Neil Gaiman in Neverwhere...
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by grkvlt 5y ago
but, you can do both, right? that's what alternative text titles and descriptions of images are for, and the font is used to render test that has already been downloaded as utf-8/ascii/whatever characters making up the conten
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by grkvlt 5y ago
good question. every household got a big blue envelope with large print writing in it saying something like 'important information about organ donation changes' (or similar, can't find my copy now) and a pamphlet inside. like
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by grkvlt 5y ago
> Some uses of this are entirely legitimate (eg escaping capital controls in certain currencies). Some are not (ie all the illegal usages). but wouldn't evading capital controls for a countries currency be illegal, too?
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by grkvlt 5y ago
so, basically your only problem is that the possibility of opt-out may not be adequately communicated? and, i think everyone would agree that changing the law but not telling anyone would be bad and wrong. but, spoiler alert, that didn&#x27
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by grkvlt 5y ago
shaped charge type 40mm HE grenades would be fine if you have to defend against a heavily armoured killer robot, but ones like this with exposed hydraulic lines will fall over and curl up after a well placed knife attack, or maybe 12ga flec
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by grkvlt 5y ago
to be honest, why have corporate colours or logos either, or use photographs or artwork that causes extra bytes of data to be downloaded for mere cosmetic effect. i think corporate websites should consist of either the english word 'go
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by grkvlt 5y ago
don't be disingenuous - fairly obviously it is a donation because it is optional, voluntary and non-compensated.
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by grkvlt 5y ago
np, makes more sense now, tx.
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by grkvlt 5y ago
> where does that post stand i think the bit where you talked about Sweden being in the southern hemisphere places it in the top tier of 'confusing' for me...
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by grkvlt 5y ago
so, how does this square with the statement claiming "[...] galaxies in the Local Group stay together" despite space-time expansion, since a galaxy seems rather larger than my proposed space-railway... edit: also, thanks for the
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by grkvlt 5y ago
> over the long distances, the railways would be torn apart by expansion i'm not sure i get it. as i understood it, it was the fact that forces over a small scale dominate the effects of space expanding that prevents e.g. atoms ge
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by grkvlt 5y ago
sure. however, i don't want to consume wholesome media where people are nice to each other but the writing or directing is absolutely terrible and uninspired, ruining the niceness - and having been exposed to christian young adult fi
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by grkvlt 5y ago
fundamentally? yes, of course. there's no physical laws or reason why you couldn't - just observe the usual caveats, such as being unable to achieve 100% efficiency, that sort of thing. now, the question of how to design an actual
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by grkvlt 5y ago
alastair reynold's revelation space series certainly doesn't have ftl, apart from maybe [jumper clowns spoiler deleted]; the conjoiner drives use [science] to achieve 1g acceleration to get to near light speed, and time dilation i

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