lostjohnny

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by lostjohnny 8y ago
That's my point. We should talk about the books and not about anything else. My first answer was to someone who wrote, and I quote > I don't blame any writer for wanting to be anonymous. In today's world, your race, gende
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by lostjohnny 8y ago
That's where the confusion kicks in. I'm sure in good faith you believe Elena Ferrante is a woman, but we don't even know if the books have been written by a single person or if each book has a single author... It's an i
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by lostjohnny 8y ago
Her books are not even hers. Elena Ferrante is a product, we should not speak about the influence of the author(s) of the books, but about the influence the marketing department has.
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by lostjohnny 8y ago
Elena Ferrante does not exist.
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by lostjohnny 8y ago
Yep Internet is a strange place right now, much different from what it was Don't feed the troll was born on the premise that abusers were a minority and that anonymity was protecting the good guys from the bad guys Today anonymity prot
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by lostjohnny 8y ago
The law regulates linked content Web sites are already responsible for copyright infringements committed by their users
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by lostjohnny 8y ago
I think substantial means substantial If the website just posts what's inside the RSS feed it's ok. If they extract meaning from the complete web page, that's a different story.
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by lostjohnny 8y ago
Or just remove all the links from comments... We don't really need to link something to express an opinion BTW HN have to check anyway, if I post a link to an obscure video sharing platform containing copyrighted material, that's
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by lostjohnny 8y ago
> Do you want to try to build a startup today taking on YouTube It was already really hard It's not harder now > Will any VC want to fund you in those conditions? I don't think VCs are the best way to fund a startup In Europ
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by lostjohnny 8y ago
Some of them already do Think of Alibaba
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by lostjohnny 8y ago
Actually, not that bad, if you ask me We had the the Russian Film School, the Polish Film and Animation school because of that We had Stanisław Lem and Andrei Tarkovsky We had East Germany Punk that inspired a lot of European bands (includi
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by lostjohnny 8y ago
Could this be the renaissance of RSS syndication? The users autonomously aggregate the RSS published by the authors or the owners of the content an build their own personal aggregators at home. You wanna share it? Just share the links to th