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by hastur 15y ago
What have you been smoking? Poland is far from poor. Actually, these days it's quite a stretch to call it a "developing" economy. Yes, majority of young people download infringing content from the web, except: 1) The same happens in many ri
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by hastur 15y ago
It should be added, these are Members of Parliament of the populist party Ruch Palikota. Clearly, they are trying to appeal to young voters, who took to the streets in protest against ACTA. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3514133
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Polish MPs display Guy Fawkes masks in Parliament in anti-ACTA protest(tvn24.pl)
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by hastur 15y ago
He meant: surveillance. ;)
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by hastur 15y ago
Third night of protests in progress. Some photos and vids from what's happening right now in the city of Poznan: http://www.tvn24.pl/0,1732237,0,1,lublin-i-poznan-kolejny-dz... And a fun nugget: members of parliament displaying Guy Fawkes
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by hastur 15y ago
The "blackmail" fragment isn't just out of context, it's plain misleading. It suggests that the PM treats street protests as blackmail, when in fact the PM was referring to statements from "hackers" that said they will release official docs
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by hastur 15y ago
You can read more about the Polish eruption here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3502200 And here's some more footage from the protests: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3511980
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by hastur 15y ago
Update: ACTA was the topic of two parliamentary committees on Jan 25th, and on Jan 26th the leader of the main opposition party has called for a referendum on ACTA. (Probably just political grandstanding, but keeps the topic in the headline
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by hastur 15y ago
Yeah, but who hears Cory Doctorow, when he writes on his blog, which is read only by geeks. The problem is breaking through to the wider public, to the mainstream media. We managed to do that in Poland.
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by hastur 15y ago
Obviously, Bits Of Freedom didn't bother to do much about ACTA.
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by hastur 15y ago
There are no outbreaks in other EU countries, because the media don't write/talk about ACTA. So the societies are completely ignorant about ACTA's existence. In Poland, some mainstream media had the balls to talk about ACTA, which coincided
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by hastur 15y ago
I never said national ratification is a mere formality. In fact, you can count on a huge debate in Poland ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3502200 ). I was just saying - even if a national parliament rejects ACTA, 90% of ACTA will stil
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by hastur 15y ago
The title is not exactly misleading. ACTA is first signed by the executive branches (foreign ministers or ambassadors), and this is what happened today in Tokyo for most EU nations. Then ACTA will be ratified by the EU Parliament (i.e. the
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by hastur 15y ago
Yeah, ACTA really exploded in the public awareness in Poland in the past week. You can read more about it here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3502200 And here's some more footage from the protests: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?
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by hastur 15y ago
Update with protest vids and photos: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3511980
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Anti-ACTA protests escalate in Poland
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ACTA comes out of the closet in Poland (and goes supernova)
31 points by hastur 15y ago|3 comments
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by hastur 15y ago
Very cool. :)
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by hastur 15y ago
As I got up on a late Sunday morning, all major news outlets are talking both about the alleged attacks and about ACTA itself. Sunday talk shows are talking about ACTA. The Govt spokesman starts assuring people that they won't rush anything
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by hastur 15y ago
Well, so let's be more specific about the alleged attack. 1) At least one target was attacked quite literally. The website of the Polish Parliament was defaced and subsequently taken down by its admins. [This is the supposed deface image:
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by hastur 15y ago
As I see it, the point of the attack is to get media attention. This way you get public attention. And thus you raise awareness - and the number of participants in incoming protests. So yeah, I'm actually really happy these takedowns took p
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by hastur 15y ago
Oh man, I would have missed it, if not for HN! :) I'm definitely going to the protest.
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by hastur 15y ago
I'm really happy that finally someone with considerable clout has noticed that the business side of the content industries is a threat to our society and needs to be eradicated.
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by hastur 15y ago
No doubt Sublime has all kinds of nice features, but to me the best thing is the aesthetics. It's simply a pleasure to work in this editor. Sometimes I just like to have it sit there on the second monitor, while I do something entirely diff
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by hastur 15y ago
Wow, did Ubuntu finally realize that quite a few people actually use more than one display?! That's so amazing. Only a few years behind Windows and Mac... But what's a few years in the realm of computers. ;) Maybe one day they'll also reali
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by hastur 15y ago
2b) I would assume that the machine on which the AI is run is digital (i.e. discrete), so yeah, a single cycle (tick of the processor) could very well mean change. And since you've got to draw the line somewhere, I'd say that's enough. 3a)
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by hastur 15y ago
To answer your question: If some countries that have capital punishment don't get civilized by the time we have human-level AI, then yes, that would be logical. There is no difference between a mind run on a biological brain and a silicon b
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by hastur 15y ago
Very interesting questions, I'll be happy to try to answer them: 1) yes 2a) yes 2b) It never lived, it was a "frozen corpse", and since you can make copies at will, just having a copy doesn't constitute a new life until it's run. 2c) If the
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by hastur 15y ago
Isn't it obvious? A truly intelligent and self-aware computer will be created by simply simulating a human brain on a powerful computer. I can't see how that mind would have any less rights than its biological counterparts. So the answer i
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Ask HN: Which NoSQL DB is best for a node.js newbie?
1 points by hastur 15y ago|3 comments

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