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by nearbuy 5y ago
One of the movies in which they mention men are overrepresented is Pirates of the Caribbean (2007). I don't think overrepresentation indicates gender bias in that movie. It's a movie about pirates in 1728. Most of the characters i
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The Cityscapes transformations have a photorealism advantage because they're blurrier and more washed out. It's easier to match less detailed photos. The blurriness, green tinge, and washed out colours are qualities photos sometim
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by nearbuy 5y ago
I think we have the same understanding of the case then. We seem to have a different conclusion on derivative works based on the original Mickey Mouse once it enters the public domain. I agree with you that modern Mickey would still be unde
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by nearbuy 5y ago
Yeah, not all Sherlock Holmes stories are in the public domain. As it says in the case you linked only 10 stories out of 56 plus 4 novels were still under copyright (now down to 6). The Doyle estate lost the case you're referring to an
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by nearbuy 5y ago
> The games industry also has lots of good examples of creating new works using existing ideas without violating copyright. Games are interesting because games copy each other incessantly but almost never sue over copyright. The actual s
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by nearbuy 5y ago
I'm really not sure it's much of a problem. Sherlock Holmes is in the public domain, and as far as I know, it's been fine. That might be why there have been so many movies and shows based on the character recently. Imagine it
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by nearbuy 5y ago
I think Disney's control over copyright law has been greatly overstated because it makes a better story. Yes, they lobby in favour of longer copyright. But they're spending a measly ~$4 million per year on lobbying (total, not spe
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Interesting. I really don't see any good argument why copyright should last longer than, say, 20 years. Would any potential authors decide it's not worth it to write books if copyright only lasted 20 years? What benefit to society
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I didn't mean to imply that we should compare it to the 2021_in_literature Wikipedia page. There are many thousands of successful authors living today. I'm wondering, how many were there in 1921?
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by nearbuy 5y ago
> a hundred years ago (say 1921) there were less people (in the US for example), and more successful authors. Are you sure there were more successful authors? There weren't that many notable books published in 1921. https:/&#x
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by nearbuy 5y ago
For the employees and contractors? It's a bit strange to describe a non-profit as a money-making engine.
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by nearbuy 5y ago
He's not a marketer. He's a software engineer. At Google. They do make outsized salaries. He's not donating to charity out of guilt from working on ads. We know this because he was giving large amounts to charity well before
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by nearbuy 5y ago
> If you need to justify your work by calling out the charity you're doing with the earnings then I think you, internally, have identified that what you're doing is causing harm to society. You're misunderstanding the auth
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by nearbuy 5y ago
> Whatever the church thought of the heliocentric model, astronomers must have been convinced as soon as Copernicus proposed it. Far, in fact, from it. I don't think this tells the whole story. The church didn't immediately vie
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by nearbuy 5y ago
I use uBlock Origin for ad blocking. Maybe ad blockers are the secret.
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by nearbuy 5y ago
> I’ll admit, my initial reaction to Mighty was “I can’t imagine it ever being faster than my behemoth PC.” I haven't found Chrome slow on my mid-range PC (i5-7500). Or my phone (Pixel 3). I feel like I must be in some parallel univ
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by nearbuy 6y ago
Funny to think we're nostalgic for something that didn't really exist.
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by nearbuy 6y ago
True, but if someone is really motivated to undermine their own security, I don't think there's anything you can do to stop them. I think the idea is that most users will just choose another password if you tell them the one they
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by nearbuy 6y ago
Even with the surrogate pairs, Java's choice strikes a compromise between the memory efficiency of UTF-8 and the performance of fixed size code points. Most of the string methods work as if all characters are two bytes. So if, for exam
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by nearbuy 6y ago
Better to get the NoPhone Air. If you buy in bulk, maybe they'll send it without the retail packaging.
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by nearbuy 6y ago
I'm not advocating poverty, nor do I think was the parent comment. They were just in agreement with you that poor people work hard.
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by nearbuy 6y ago
But the food needs (and other needs) have expanded 10x. It makes no sense to look at the absolute numbers instead of the percentage. If there had been no technological advancements at all, the workforce would have still expanded (in absolut
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by nearbuy 6y ago
I think you're basically agreeing with the comment you replied to. They're saying people who are financially secure (possibly like a software engineer) are less incentivized to work hard. Someone who really needs the money is more
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by nearbuy 6y ago
I don't see the distinction. Aren't workers also tools used to produce things? What's special about workers that makes them irreplaceable? > Also, the fact that you can't find a human example to make this argument Wha
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by nearbuy 6y ago
The point I made isn't that we should ban hate speech; it's that looking at which countries/companies ban hate speech is a bad litmus test for determining which countries/companies are bad. The parent comment asked if we
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by nearbuy 6y ago
> You ever heard of good people banning books and banning words? A majority of developed democracies have laws that restrict hate speech, including Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, India, South Africa, Sweden, New Zealand, an
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by nearbuy 6y ago
Ever notice that purple foods tend to be called either red or blue (or sometimes black if they're dark purple)? Like red cabbage, red onions, red grapes, blue potatoes[1]. Or for that matter how white grapes are green and black walnuts
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by nearbuy 6y ago
> I'm sorry, but that's not what I'm saying. Sorry for misunderstanding. I'm still not sure I'm following though. > You are comparing me to a slave owner? I'm certainly not saying you support slavery. But
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That seems like a bit of a non sequitur. I thought we were discussing whether plants have feelings. Killing animals painlessly is certainly better than killing them painfully. There are a lot more problems than just the killing though. From
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We don't know what anything or anyone else experiences internally. But we know enough to make some good guesses. Plants lack a brain, the organ responsible for thoughts. There's no more reason to think they have thoughts than a ce

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