munchler

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by munchler 3y ago
How to ruin existing suburban neighborhoods in one easy step!
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by munchler 3y ago
I think it makes a difference, because it shifts the burden of proof. If fair use is a kind of infringement, then it’s up to the “infringer” to prove fair use. I think that’s ethically and legally backwards: the copyright holder should have
723.
by munchler 3y ago
Fair use is not a copyright violation! It’s a limitation placed on copyright to balance the interests of copyright holders with the public interest.
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by munchler 3y ago
Fair use is not copyright infringement! It’s a limitation placed on copyright to balance the interests of copyright holders with the public interest.
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by munchler 3y ago
Why would other pros say “nuh-uh, that’s not a thing”? I thought the concept of a tell was widely known.
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by munchler 3y ago
What the heck is a “physical read” in poker? Is that like a person having a tell? (Something they do that is unintentionally revealing.)
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by munchler 3y ago
(2015)
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by munchler 3y ago
> When sperm disband their cooperativeness, it’s each pollywog for himself. I'm surprised to see Nautilus implying that all sperm are male. Half of those pollywogs carry an X chromosome. You go, girls!
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by munchler 3y ago
I used CFR to solve another card game called Setback (aka Auction Pitch), which is a trick-taking game that’s similar to, but simpler than, Bridge. CFR is very effective, but slow and requires a lot of RAM. I had to create a smaller, abstra
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by munchler 3y ago
Can you elaborate a bit more? That’s actually just a claim, not a legal argument. Copyright law allows for transformative uses that add something new, with a further purpose or different character, and do not substitute for the original use
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by munchler 3y ago
As long as you pay for your copy of the content and the extracts are fair use, how would that be illegal?
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by munchler 3y ago
Let me save you a click and a long read: the innovation is Combat roach traps, which contain a poison bait that a roach brings back to the nest and transfers to other roaches. This resulted in a 93% drop in roach complaints in one survey.
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by munchler 3y ago
That's a useful article, which includes a more mundane example of "forbidden" light: "Phosphorescent glow-in-the-dark materials, which absorb light and form an excited state whose decay involves a spin flip, and is there
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by munchler 3y ago
Having blue bubbles instead of green definitely motivates some people to buy Apple devices in the US. https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/why-teens-hate-androi...
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by munchler 3y ago
Because the world changes, so laws need to change as well. Because capitalism would devour the entire planet without regulation.
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by munchler 3y ago
“Publishers frequently send advance copies to readers in exchange for online reviews that they hope will generate buzz.” That seems reasonable to me. I’m sure newspapers would do the same.
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by munchler 3y ago
To be monopolistic, Apple would have to have a monopoly in messaging, which they surely don’t.
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by munchler 3y ago
Fortran doesn’t even have dynamic memory allocation, so it’s inherently safe.
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by munchler 3y ago
I wonder how long this will last. Once their copyright expires in a few decades, anyone can be KISS, either digitally or in real life. (E.g. No one had to ask Napoleon’s estate for permission to portray him in the recent movie.)
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by munchler 3y ago
Sorry, are you suggesting that this system is somehow the result of artificial design, rather than a natural occurrence?
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by munchler 3y ago
Except that reciting pi is evidence of life and this system isn't.
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by munchler 3y ago
I see Reddit has entered its “rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic” phase.
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by munchler 3y ago
Anyone who appreciates the benefits of simplicity should skip Go and try functional programming instead. The basic tenets are a model of mathematical simplicity: * Values are immutable * Functions are pure (i.e. no side-effects) * Functions
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by munchler 3y ago
F# comes from OCaml, not Haskell.
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by munchler 3y ago
God's Debris is by Scott Adams, not Douglas.
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by munchler 3y ago
I agree with your first sentence, but the second one surprises me. If the practical language and the impractical one are that similar, why pick the impractical one?
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by munchler 3y ago
As a professional who uses F# every day, I appreciate this answer, even though it concerns me. Separating concepts from practical details is worthwhile, but can be taken too far. I think the FP community probably focuses a bit too much on t
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by munchler 3y ago
I always assumed that a Death Star blast is rather expensive, so they only had the ability to do one at a time.
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by munchler 3y ago
I don't think anyone is suggesting that Go should be like Rust. It's too late for that. We're suggesting that people should just use Rust (or Haskell, or F#, or any other robust functional programming language) instead.
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by munchler 3y ago
> One curious fact about our era is that science has become a de facto religion This article starts off with such a dubious "fact" that I was able to stop reading right away. Thanks for saving me precious minutes!

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