la_barba

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by la_barba 7y ago
Your point seems to be hiring humans is wrong, because YouTube incorporated more AI to pretend like they're doing something, remain in the good books of copyright folks and make themselves more money. Is that correct? So, what if a per
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by la_barba 7y ago
Okay? But you can apply that logic anywhere to anything. Its also a "frightful gamble" that Google needs Microsofts and Apples blessing to operate on their platform. They have intrinsically tied themselves to a particular company&
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by la_barba 7y ago
Your math is flawed. This is about reviewing videos that face copyright strikes. Every single minute of uploaded content does not need to be reviewed. And on top of that there are several technology aids that can be used to shorten review t
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by la_barba 7y ago
I don't think that stat is relevant. This is about reviewing only those videos that face copyright claims.
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by la_barba 7y ago
Yes, whats more likely is that one of the countless bean counters at Google saw the long-tail revenue pie chart/breakdown and thought to themselves "Hmm! Would you look at that!" and just decided to not upset the apple cart..
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by la_barba 7y ago
Can you explain exactly the level of scale you're talking about? How many humans do you think would be needed to handle copyright claims?
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by la_barba 7y ago
You don't need scripts to know who visited your website. Scripts can potentially tell you how many are blocking your ads though. But its always a cat and mouse game. I prefer to simply avoid sites that show shitty ads.
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by la_barba 7y ago
You think you're doing that, but in reality the site thinks they're hot shit, and people just are annoyed with the ads.
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by la_barba 7y ago
By "we" do you mean only people who agree with you? Or do you accept that in a democratic society there can be ads? Personally, I don't block ads on principle. I simply don't visit websites that feature blaring over the
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by la_barba 7y ago
Fair enough, yes the convenience factor can drive more sales which is mutually beneficial, I'll give you that. But the OS can still put you in control and let you run things inside a sandbox. Its the 30% money grab that I was complaini
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by la_barba 7y ago
What I said was much milder - "A lot of small companies that were selling shrink-wrapped software have shuttered down - for various reasons no doubt, but the effect of a steady revenue stream on any business cannot be dismissed" S
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by la_barba 7y ago
Not to dismiss your point, but there was also a generation of people who wanted to mine the grand canyon. I think that as people we still have the same psychological trappings as we did before. But I do think we're becoming more consci
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by la_barba 7y ago
As a consumer, you are free to engage with a business of your choice. Likewise, a business is free to adopt a business model of their choice. That is the only "logic" at play here.
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by la_barba 7y ago
Well, I could sell it on my website and keep 100% of the sales? Modern operating systems seem to think any binary is malware these days. Windows ads a NTFS metadata tag to any file thats downloaded online and will throw up scary looking war
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by la_barba 7y ago
Interesting comment to read on HN where a lot of people want their software to be free too. :) Just sayin'.. But yeah, I get your point.. its super annoying when people do those things or when they say "you must have a nice camera
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by la_barba 7y ago
A lot of small companies that were selling shrink-wrapped software have shuttered down - for various reasons no doubt, but the effect of a steady revenue stream on any business cannot be dismissed. Most of the software I use is either free,
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by la_barba 7y ago
>What ever happened to making a product, selling it once to the customer, who then gets to use it as they wish for as long as it works? That was the old business model. It worked well for a while. Then most small software companies that
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by la_barba 7y ago
That's a good point. I'm overall positive about subscription software, but I don't like the fact that it always seems to go hand in hand with DRM and other nonsense. I'd rather they take some modest amount per year and l
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by la_barba 7y ago
>99% of single threaded industry software doesn't need more power. Again, I don't know if that is true. I'd love to see stats on that. My gut tells me improved single-threaded perf will always be welcome in most software
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by la_barba 7y ago
I have no idea what happens under the hood in Linux, but I have never observed my Linux desktop 'crawling to a halt' because of some silly webapp. This is normal expected behavior. I know for a fact that ensuring responsiveness of
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by la_barba 7y ago
I don't think its true that most people do web browsing. Its just an easy generalization to make. The world has thousands of industries and each specialty domain has their set of software suites that they need for their business. In my
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by la_barba 7y ago
Well.. I don't know what to say, I guess you should report those bugs to the appropriate vendors then. I don't believe a memory leak means we tell people to buy more memory :) >"Primarily because any modern OS will throttl
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by la_barba 7y ago
>The ability to run a few webapps without having your system drag to a halt is a feature that's important to essentially everyone. Webapps such as? I have a 4 core CPU from 2014 (i7-4790K) and I can't recall that ever happening
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by la_barba 7y ago
What is the "outright lie" here? Its their opinion on what they think is important for the needs of their audience. Taking advantage of so many extra cores by a single process is not all that easy or common. In a multi-process sce
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by la_barba 7y ago
A Japanese client of ours ran into some trouble with the Japanese government due to some financial irregularities, and there was a huge shakeup.. the entire top management was sacked by the owners of the company. Not saying Japan is perfect
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by la_barba 7y ago
Well, the suppliers supply to other companies too, and they use raw materials from other suppliers themselves. Why would the they move to EU or US for a single customer? Apple squeezes their suppliers so there's no real love there to b
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by la_barba 7y ago
Well, thats a fair criticism. But I'm saying its like trying to avoid being kidnapped when you're already in the trunk of someones car. Sometimes the trunk is nice and large and roomy... :)
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by la_barba 7y ago
>They’ve simply made the economic decision that it’s more profitable for them to cheat the system then work within it. Well, a private company created an arbitrary system with arbitrary rules to make them gobs of cash, and now the entire
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by la_barba 7y ago
Apple pulled the liquid damage bullshit on my ipod. The device wasn't worth much so I declined and got a el-cheapo sansa. Apple is also trying to shut down independent repair, so in the future, there might not be a third-party repair s
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by la_barba 7y ago
Why are the powerless people the parasites? Google (and also others) is not a morally neutral entity here. They created this problem. They could stem the flow of malvertising or click-farming or spamming by hiring more and more review staff

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