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by mthoms 5y ago
It's my understanding that the deepfake is voice only - but I might be mistaken.
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by mthoms 5y ago
Refusing to reveal all the parts that were AI generated is very unethical IMHO. It's an extraordinarily bad precedent too: Imagine a world where this is the norm. The only benefit to concealing this important detail is generating con
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by mthoms 5y ago
Please stop repeating falsehoods. This simply isn’t true.
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by mthoms 5y ago
This has nothing to do with anything being discussed here. Stay on topic.
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by mthoms 5y ago
Come on, “dumping”? We can visit Facebook for hyperbolic and paranoid cynicism. Pragmatically speaking, it’s the only vaccine (that Canada has access to) that can be stored and transported in a regular fridge. Logistically it’s the best cho
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by mthoms 5y ago
FYI, this website is blacklisted by Adguard https://reports.adguard.com/en/www.bashsupport.com/report.ht...
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by mthoms 5y ago
Requiring people to update to the latest version as a condition of providing support is perfectly reasonable. Giving something to me for free and then altering that free thing at a later time against my wishes is not reasonable IMHO. Consid
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by mthoms 5y ago
> Jewish culture has a bad habit of trying to invalidate and censor people I'm not Jewish but I flagged this comment. There's absolutely no need for that kind of thing here. The commenters' ethnicity is not relevant. Espec
849.
by mthoms 5y ago
Please developers, don't let this become a thing.
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by mthoms 5y ago
I paid in VND which was how I got confused. What I recall is that the meter didn't cut off the last three zeros but rather just two. Maybe it was a faulty meter (or maybe it was me). I was just off the plane, it was middle of the night
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by mthoms 5y ago
Very cool, thanks. The nice thing would be the drag and drop functionality. As far as I can tell (I might be wrong) you still have to find the CSS selectors manually using the dev tools which adds a little friction.
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by mthoms 5y ago
I’d love this as part of browser plug-in to modify third party sites and have the changes persist. I’d combine it with the ability to completely hide elements… The combination would be killer for removing cruft from frequently used sites an
853.
by mthoms 5y ago
Maybe. Looking at the screenshots makes me feel like it’s 1 I’d played but it’s very possible I’m conflating the two. Either way, I have fond memories of it.
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by mthoms 5y ago
Interesting read. Contrary to what the author states, I’m think Pitfall was available in arcades. I’m pretty sure I spent a small fortune playing it. Before now, I never realized that it was (sort of) the first platformer/side scroller
855.
by mthoms 5y ago
I paid $80 for an $8 cab ride from HCMC airport. I was tired and confused with all the zeros. Also, I’m pretty sure the meter didn’t display the same number of zeros as the currency. That is, the last 2 zeros were omitted on the meter. But
856.
by mthoms 5y ago
Oh, absolutely. I'm not American, but like others around here — I was just restricting the discussion to American law for simplicity's sake.
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by mthoms 5y ago
Right, but would 3-4 lines in the middle of a 50 line function also be infringing? What about 2 lines? I don't know the answer. I was only surprised that the commenter seemed dead sure that any and all copying (no matter how small) wou
858.
by mthoms 5y ago
Maybe . But even if true, the shift wouldn't be instantaneous. Hence, lots of lower-to-mid timeframe unemployment.
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by mthoms 5y ago
This is an excellent comment because it captures some important nuance missing from other analysis on HN. I agree with you that the relative importance of the copied code to the end product would be (or should be) the crux of the issue for
860.
by mthoms 5y ago
You sound quite sure that the outlying instances of direct copying wouldn't be covered by the Fair Use copyright exemption. Any particular reason for that? I tend to think it would be covered (provided it there were relatively small sn
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by mthoms 5y ago
That's quite a stretch. In civil forfeiture the victim isn't disappeared/re-educated.
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by mthoms 5y ago
Could this stored data be at all responsible for the sometimes huge “other” category in the storage consumption? Or can it only store small bits of data? I’ve seen reports that wiping and restoring your phone from backup is the only way to
863.
by mthoms 5y ago
The definition of a "derivative work" as stated is correct. The copyright status of a derivative work is a separate issue: A derivative work can be considered infringing, and a derivative work can be considered non-infringing (i
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by mthoms 5y ago
The machine is performing some sort of transformation. Whether you want to call that a "(creative) work" or not is irrelevant to the point I was making: The machine is doing something to the input, and that makes the 'cp&#x
865.
by mthoms 5y ago
It's more complex than just that. For a while (early to late 2010's), Myanmar was widely seen as being on the path to become a functioning democracy. Engaging such fledgling democracies economically is generally believed to be a g
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by mthoms 5y ago
I think they meant “when the output of the machine is significantly original/transformed (i.e. is a new creative work).” I’m not arguing for/against: I just think a straight copy was not what the author intended to be included by
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by mthoms 5y ago
Generally speaking - probably yes. That’s because the output would be (a) transformative and (b) not likely to affect the profitability of the original work (at least not directly). Note: I’m not really trying to comment specifically about
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by mthoms 5y ago
>"and other similar excesses" You chose to ignore that. In doing so, interpreted my comment uncharitably. >Why not just let the OP respond to my comment, if they think they should? When did I stop the OP from commenting? Wha
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by mthoms 5y ago
>>an artifact is a spurious finding, such as one based on either a faulty choice of variables or an over-extension of the computed relationship. Such an artifact may be called a statistical artifact. I know exactly what was meant, the
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by mthoms 5y ago
The parent was referring to 2005 (when PG posted this). Did Dell have that option way back then? Colour me impressed if so.

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