ineptech

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by ineptech 3y ago
Same. I found a book back in college claiming (on the basis of some theory about the Egyptian pyramids) that if you made a pyramidal shape with certain dimensions out of cardboard, it would make plants grow faster and keep your razorblades
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by ineptech 3y ago
Like I said, I understand the sentiment in the abstract. But my actual experience is that many good quality essays are often preceded by a gimme-yer-email popup. That's not causal - popups don't make content better - but it do
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by ineptech 3y ago
I understand the sentiment, but those email signup begs are to some extent caused by and a direct response to Google's attempts to capture traffic, which is what this article is discussing. And "[sites like this] is what ruins co
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by ineptech 3y ago
That's the double-edged sword of capital markets, right? If you take investment then you need to produce big returns forever, and if you don't then you're in danger of being beaten in the short term by those who do. Small c
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by ineptech 3y ago
No longer, as of when? I was working on this exact problem two days ago, using an old Lenovo M7 for a magic mirror project for a gift. I went through every relevant SO article and gave up without getting it to show up for adb, so it'
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by ineptech 3y ago
Agreed, which is insane! We'll spend untold zillions fine-tuning and A/B testing the process by which we get users, but when it comes to getting coworkers it's "Well HR says the applicants have to make an account to app
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by ineptech 3y ago
It's legal to lie to the police under questioning in most circumstances, i.e. "I didn't rob that guy" if you robbed that guy. The big exceptions are falsely identifying yourself and lying while reporting a crime. You mi
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by ineptech 3y ago
That's kind of a spoiler.
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by ineptech 3y ago
AIUI, the solar wind does attenuate gradually; the relatively sharp drop-off is the transition from the "I feel the solar wind more than the interstellar medium" region to the "I feel the ISM more than solar wind" region
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by ineptech 3y ago
> a fact I bet you hoped I'd miss. Don't do stuff like this. Communication via text between strangers over philosophical topics is hard enough without it. Assume good faith. This argument has only ever been about one thing: y
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by ineptech 3y ago
If everyone pirated music, musicians would make all their income from merch and touring and it's not clear that they'd be worse off.
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by ineptech 3y ago
You spent a week arguing with me under the impression I believed X, and I pointed out that I had told you at the beginning I didn't believe X. I was curious whether you'd re-read the thread with this new information in mind and r
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by ineptech 3y ago
ELI5 attempt: Suppose you're using Newtonian mechanics to model the behavior of a moving baseball that bounces off a brick wall. You write down some equations, do the experiment, the results match, yay science. Now imagine your lazy c
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by ineptech 3y ago
tl;dr of my comment and of the whole article: a) think of the 3-5 best things you've done recently at work b) practice describing them to a friend (you don't work with) the way you'd tell any other personal anecdote c) When a
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by ineptech 3y ago
I think this is extremely good advice so I'm making a top-level comment to defend it and respond to some of the criticisms in this thread. First, no one is asking you to lie. This isn't about inventing details or exagerrating. T
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by ineptech 3y ago
> Your position re: "the sticker" is a substantial retraction of your initial argument, that piracy is not immoral. That was my original argument, from a week ago. You can go look at it: https://news.ycombinator.c
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by ineptech 3y ago
(you've heavily edited the comment I was replying to, I shall now edit the response) > The expectation of compliance is part of the social contract. Ethics requires that we act ethically regardless of what the law says, period. You
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by ineptech 3y ago
> You clearly have some form of disgust with corporations... Nope. Recall that I said, "corporations are not part of [the social contract], any more than a scorpion is, or a calculator." Do you suppose I'm disgusted by
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by ineptech 3y ago
First, I will cede the idea of corporations being bound by the social contract. It's not so much that I think it's wrong as nonsensical, like claiming a submarine can swim. I guess you can think of corporations as participating
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by ineptech 3y ago
Assuming you are referring to the social contract, I refer you again to the definition of "social"; corporations are not part of it, any more than a scorpion is, or a calculator. Could you answer some of these questions so I can
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by ineptech 3y ago
> If this is an explicit rule attached to every sale, then by purchasing a copyrighted work, you're consenting to that part of the agreement, yes? And if not, then how is this an explicit rule? First, breaking a law isn't by it
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by ineptech 3y ago
A lot to unpack here, sorry to fisk: > do you believe in implicit agreement to contracts? This might take the form of, e.g. an expectation of refund if this DVD ends up being blank, or the belief that the DVD won't contain a virus o
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by ineptech 3y ago
I feel like I'm talking to an LLM with a very limited token history. Yes, it would, if Bob actually agreed to a real contract. Have I not made it clear why I don't think purchasing a DVD constitutes agreeing to the license attac
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by ineptech 3y ago
Of course contracts exist, of course contingent agreements exist, please make your point. edit to add: it sounds like Bob just signed an NDA.
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by ineptech 3y ago
I think you egregiously misunderstood that comment. Of course those silly examples are silly; that's the point, they are silly in the same way and for the same reason that DVD licenses are silly. Do you believe in things that look li
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by ineptech 3y ago
You're welcome, and for the record, I'm equally fascinated by your position - that a corporation can change the ethics of my actions merely by wishing it so. Like, is this limited to corporations, or can regular people wield this
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by ineptech 3y ago
We're going in circles; why are they different? I understand that the movie studio would like them to be different, they put a sticker on the side of the DVD saying so, but I don't care about their opinion on the matter and eve
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by ineptech 3y ago
...yes, much like the very clear agreement in my comment where you agreed to give me all of your money. Why can you ignore the one, and I can't ignore the other? What, ethically speaking, is the difference between them?
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by ineptech 3y ago
See my edit: of course, as a benevolent Rightsholder(tm)(c)(R) I am only demanding your money if you continue reading after the "contract" you "agreed" to. The point, of course, is that there is no agreement in either ca
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by ineptech 3y ago
By reading the rest of this comment, you agree to give me all your money forever. (edited to emphasize "rest of" which OP apparently missed) Assuming you're still here, what's the ethical difference between this and

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