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by halo 9y ago
Does anyone know why the original Civilization (or CivNet) and Civilization 2 aren't avaliable to buy digitally?
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by halo 9y ago
I've long wondered why there isn't a significant levy (say $15) on existing antibiotics that goes into a fund for the development and release of new drugs. All antibiotic users benefit from new antibiotics, it would discourage ove
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by halo 9y ago
This aligns a lot with my personal thoughts about desktop operating systems, especially the document database, ala BeFS on steroids, which is something I've thought about for years and would be a huge improvement over the current situa
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by halo 10y ago
If other countries follow USSC's lead in declaring APIs as copyrightable, many of which have far looser fair use rights than the US, then this could create a lot of headaches, especially since this seems like a very loose interpretatio
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by halo 11y ago
Why does rephrasing a sentence magically turn a derivative thought into an original one? Why is using someone else's uncited phrasing considered the worst thing in the world? Why is it so vital that every single creative idea goes back
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by halo 11y ago
Why is my position, that our slavish obsession with plagiarism is counter-productive, untenable? Especially given that plagiarism inherently implies a lack of credit.
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by halo 11y ago
That is the core contention, the mass self-plagiarization is very much secondary in the article and is a rather different issue. The actual plagiarization of the NYT puzzles is relatively minor and the sort of thing that should be considere
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by halo 11y ago
That's my contention - why? Isn't that slavish devotion to quoting and sourcing all turns of phrase somewhat limiting? Why do we irrationally consider plagiarism such a horrible blight to be eradicated at all costs?
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by halo 11y ago
Led Zeppelin famously copied, adapted and evolved others people's songs, leading to legal issues on songs including Stairway to Heaven. I'm suggesting they had it right in the first place and our obsession with "plagiarism&qu
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by halo 11y ago
Why do we care so much about reformulating ideas in our own words? If someone expresses an idea in a good way, why shouldn't we be able to repeat it verbatim without being raked over hot coals for it?
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by halo 11y ago
Disagree, the core contention is he was copying clue themes from past puzzles (or self-plagiarising, which is a slightly different issue), not copying entire puzzles. That's a far cry from what you describe. I don't really have a
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by halo 11y ago
It has been drilled into us that plagiarism is theft and therefore bad, but there is nothing more natural in the world than taking others work and building on it or sharing it. Ownership of thoughts and ideas is a modern invention, and harm
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by halo 11y ago
Netflix's expenses increased due to continued international expansion. It has a very lucrative business model, not that dissimilar to HBO, which is extremely profitable. It was definitely undervalued until relatively recently. >The
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by halo 11y ago
I'm under the impression they were legally prohibited from "[giving] up on their OEMs 5 years sooner" due to US antitrust action. DOJ oversight ended in May 2011 and the Surface line was announced in June 2012.
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by halo 11y ago
Thank you so much for posting this. My PC suddenly started waking up from sleep, I couldn't figure out why (powercfg or the event log were no help) and it has been driving me crazy. Looks like Spotify was the cause!
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First robust genetic links to depression emerge(nature.com)
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by halo 11y ago
I'm honestly surprised there hasn't been antitrust action over this. Apple are trying to leverage one monopoly (iTunes Music Store for digital music sales) to gain a monopoly in another market (music streaming) by forcing unreason
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by halo 11y ago
The world view of the founders was pretty clearly "tech libertarianism" (incidentally, not a view I share), which, in the context of the site, meant a hands-off moderation policy, which allowed the site to deteriorate in many ways
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by halo 11y ago
I'm not even a Powershell fan, I'm just not especially fond of Unix-likes, which feel like a local maximum that has turned into an unchangable standard. I think Unix-like environments feel dated, clunky and there's a tendancy
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by halo 11y ago
>Wishlist: tmux, emacs, vi, netcat, shell option for vi-mode, rc-file with preferences, ncurses library, something simpler than curses, zip and unzip No thankyou. I can certainly understand including SSH support, but I don't want wh
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by halo 11y ago
There's also XC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XC_%28programming_language%29
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by halo 12y ago
The original source of this diagram: http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9704009
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by halo 12y ago
Google uses tracking data from previous searches to influence their search ranking. As soon as you figure that out then it's easy figure out why it's so tough to compete with Google on search. No-one else has a similar set of data
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by halo 12y ago
I'm only speculating, but I imagine telnet was removed because the security issues and misuse vastly outweighed the legitimate use by powerusers. And I'm not really sold that an OS should ship with a bloated utility like modern wg
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by halo 13y ago
I'm surprised Square-Enix isn't getting involved in this mess, since it's not hard to imagine them wanting to resurrect the SaGa brand at some point in the future, if only for phone ports.
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by halo 13y ago
The main rationale for building HS2 is that the West Coast Main Line is close to capacity. They aren't going to close the WCML. I believe the plan is to use the freed capacity for more frequent local trains in around Birmingham. On a r
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by halo 13y ago
I feel Khan Academy and current MOOCs need to be treated like alchemy or Freud. It's people creating half-baked initial versions of a potentially revolutionary idea, even if it may not live up to the hype and never quite deliver on the
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by halo 13y ago
It seems self-evident that lecturing is a hugely inefficient and ineffective way of teaching people. But I don't think it's about stroking the academic's ego as much as maintaining academic jobs. Remove the unnecessarily labo
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by halo 13y ago
>And he upset them further by turning political prognostication into something understandable by common readers -- instead of something only pointy-hatted political wizards could divine with the right amount of eye-of-newt and other secr
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by halo 13y ago
I'd argue HN has seriously degraded over the last year or so, with masses on articles containing low-quality shallow content, including endless stories about the NSA and Bitcoin, burying any interesting in-depth content. This has come

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