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by mopsi 4y ago
Only the first few years after publication matter, because that's when virtually all of lifetime revenue is earned. Revenue earned beyond that is usually not enough to even justify proper preservation, leaving huge archives to rot away
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by mopsi 4y ago
It doesn't, because nobody knows what works have commercial value 70+ years into the future and thus current business is not conducted on that basis. That's how many popular works end up in random hands in the first place, like in
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by mopsi 4y ago
Dead people are not known for their appetite, yet copyright lasts 70 years after death. It's particularly egregious when copyright to some of the most popular works of all time is inherited by people who had nothing to do with the auth
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by mopsi 4y ago
That's nowhere near Soviet Union or modern-day Russia. For starters, there's virtually no reliable economic stats for the Soviet Union, because every level fudged numbers and no-one knew then and even knows today what the actual g
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by mopsi 4y ago
Somehow you've managed to hit all the current Russian propaganda talking points ("8 years", "sanctions not working" and so on). Unless you're getting paid to post this, I strongly recommended to change your inf
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by mopsi 4y ago
That's nothing more than a fantasy, it's not 18th century anymore with a group farmers being qualitatively not too far from a military. If you escalate from peaceful protests to armed conflict, then a modern military will win over
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by mopsi 4y ago
I disagree. It's still pretty difficult to come across neutral, high-quality and well-presented information; not as difficult as when you had to walk to a library and hope that your topic is well covered, but it certainly isn't co
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by mopsi 4y ago
> Most popular works from that year have made millions of dollars in profit More importantly, they have made virtually all of their lifetime profit by that time. Rare exceptions and that tiny remaining dribble are weak justifications f
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by mopsi 4y ago
Blender. Learned to use it over the year and its UI is so much better than 3ds max, which is particularly impressive for an open source project; they are usually weak in things that require cohesive overall vision.
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by mopsi 4y ago
> Can you tell me how GDPR has improved European lives over say a New Yorker? My spam disappeared overnight. There was a flood of "click here to give consent" emails a little before GDPR came into force, and then radio silenc
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by mopsi 4y ago
What's draconian about requiring opt-out button to be displayed the same way as opt-in button?
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> it’s easier to ignore the past two decades of context Your so-called context is a strange kind of provincialism that makes everything a result of US actions (and thus sets a blame on them), and ignores history and recent developments
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Most participants of Black Tuesday experienced red color, but in both cases black refers to something more abstract: darkness, death.
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by mopsi 4y ago
You forgot to mention UX. SEPA payments have horrible user experience. The "modern" way of receiving money in automated manner in Europe and using SEPA is through payment providers. On checkout, customers get redirected to payment
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by mopsi 4y ago
> this is like saying that it is illegal for supermarkets to charge us for groceries, even if customers wanted to pay for them. More like banning the import of substandard and dangerous electronics, even if customers really want to plu
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by mopsi 4y ago
I don't find it "chilling in all contexts" at all. Organizations very often set up a single channel for information distribution to avoid confusion arising from rumours, personal opinions and speculations. "Whatever gets
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by mopsi 4y ago
Microsoft does it too: forces everyone to sign up to Microsoft account and defaults to syncing/saving to OneDrive. If you hit OneDrive content filters, you lose everything, including Excel spreadsheets and Xbox games.
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by mopsi 4y ago
Everyone's using AI, and widely. I sell stuff online and sync a product feed to Facebook. Products often get banned based on image analysis. Sometimes it is reasonably close, eg darts getting classified as dangerous weapons, other time
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by mopsi 4y ago
Who's stationing nuclear weapons anywhere? There is no need nor any will for that. It isn't 1962 anymore, modern missiles are intercontinental.
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by mopsi 4y ago
Not only that, but the Twitter thread trying to paint programming for him for free as "fun" and an "opportunity" while actually not hiring seems unbelievably sleazy and cheap. I'm getting no-impostor-syndrome from i
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by mopsi 4y ago
Poor discoverability. This means you have to know that the setting exists in the first place, and then remember its precise name. Type "static IP" into search, do you see a way to set static IP? I don't get any results at all
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by mopsi 4y ago
It's very obvious that pages for the Settings app are being written in some very restricting XML or HTML type markup and they're struggling to give any intuitive structure to settings. Everything is in a very basic single-column l
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by mopsi 4y ago
You can have at least Win 7 start menu on Win 10: https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu It's fast, reliable and highly configurable.
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by mopsi 4y ago
A script that takes text from input field and displays it along with previous submissions in chronological order is trivial; the difficulty comes from serving millions of people.
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by mopsi 4y ago
>> This is a good way to loose valuable knowledge. > It really isn't. Tickets, internal emails etc are exactly the kind of things that tend to get lost when codebase is sold, sublicensed or open-sourced. If the codebase co
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by mopsi 4y ago
> If you don’t fix it… and the code is working… what is the problem? It may be very inefficient, for example. Works now, but may unintuitively slow down when dealing with workloads that looked very far-fetched at the time. I have inher
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by mopsi 4y ago
Subscriber count, view count (neither of which is impressive), and being "big among people who read wikipedia" don't make that channel a higher quality source than any armchair general you can encounter at a bar. Even by Yout
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by mopsi 4y ago
I've run an online community since 2001 and I've yet to meet the boogeymen of self-hosting. A small site and forum with ~100 users doesn't cost a shit to run ($5 per month, the cost of a coke and a sandwich where I live), upd
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by mopsi 4y ago
I don't need to fight airlines and insurance agents for compensation when my flight gets delayed. A smart contract can unlock insurance payouts as soon as independent organizations responsible for managing air traffic verify the delay.
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by mopsi 4y ago
Probably means moralless pursuit of the almighty dollar. There seems to be a sizable chunk of hustlers on HN, who have some tiny dropshipping, newsletter or spam business that depends on invasive tracking, dark patterns and other amoral beh

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