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by noah_buddy 3y ago
If no one can acquire a product legally and the copyright owners do not release (or worse, delete) the product, it seems like this wouldn’t actually change anything in those cases. The best you could hope for is contentious right holders po
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by noah_buddy 3y ago
People become Scientologists in Hollywood as it opens doors in the film business.
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by noah_buddy 3y ago
I think we’re getting into muddy waters because the statement conflates moral, legal, and business frameworks implicitly. Legally, they should follow patent law. Business wise, it may be cheaper not to, even considering fines, meaning it’s
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by noah_buddy 3y ago
The issue with your hypothetical is that it presupposes a factual metric for superiority and inferiority. They’re all at best reductive to a single metric that likely doesn’t have much power in making a determination or a subjective weighti
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by noah_buddy 3y ago
I live in probably one of the most culturally diverse and unique areas in the US and it’s not even on the West coast. YMMV :^)
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by noah_buddy 3y ago
I can’t think of a single fact on its own that presents any danger. If anything, facts through the lens of ideology may become dangerous, but data on its own is like technology. Neutral without application, good or evil depending on situati
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by noah_buddy 3y ago
I think that it can be easy to take these stories with a note of cynicism and I understand the place your sentiment comes from. I imagine that if you were to talk to the people from these stories, they would feel much the same as your grand
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by noah_buddy 3y ago
Or if there’s a way to ruin the wood for woodworking without killing the tree itself. It seems like you would need to do something really clever. Inject it with capsaicin?
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by noah_buddy 3y ago
I only smell unpleasant if I consume certain things or have a rigorous workout. I manage to shower every 2-3 days and come across as quite charming generally. YMMV.
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by noah_buddy 3y ago
It’s a funny point. After only taking Ubers and Lyfts all my adult life (young), I have recently switched to cabs because they are cheaper in my city (and I tell everyone I know to do the same). They have dominance now but if I had to guess
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by noah_buddy 3y ago
The fall of communism was one of the largest drops in quality of life and lifespan ever recorded, IIRC.
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by noah_buddy 3y ago
I would take the opposite end of this bargain in a heartbeat. $20 for humans in 2380 :^)
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by noah_buddy 3y ago
Even the founders of the US did not expect the constitution to be used so long.
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by noah_buddy 3y ago
It makes you wonder how many flights take off with several errors and mistakes every day.
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by noah_buddy 3y ago
History is not my forte but it’s funny to use kings in this metaphor.
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by noah_buddy 3y ago
It’s not a fair playing field because there were still people who did not cheat.
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by noah_buddy 3y ago
I have a feeling that there’s probably a way to resync in every case where do don’t run away but that it balloons the command set by every by a huge amount each time making it computationally unfeasible to complete in real time.
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by noah_buddy 3y ago
Building on this, North Korea is not even communist in the traditional, political sense of the word. Most of modern NK’s philosophical underpinnings are based on Juche , a syncretic philosophy of traditional East Asian thought and that of
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by noah_buddy 3y ago
The Chinese government is beyond complicit. It’s active policy to find and capture these people, then send them back to NK. That’s why satellite countries are even intimidated into sending them back.
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by noah_buddy 3y ago
Just read Nothing to Envy myself and one important point is that that work is from almost two decades ago at this point. With the advent of computerized surveillance, it is understandable that the difficulty has increased. A country such as
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by noah_buddy 3y ago
Why is it lazy? Seems like leveraging a tool Google built for distributed systems specifically for consistency guarantees.
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by noah_buddy 3y ago
This reminds me of a thorough and depressing write up of the lost hikers in a south western desert. An experienced search and rescue guy spent years finding where they perished, navigating bureaucracy and the arid landscape even though the
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by noah_buddy 3y ago
It’s a metaphor in the same sense as “strange bedfellows.”
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by noah_buddy 3y ago
Hello, antitrust litigation! Before my time, but what you have just described is what got Microsoft in big trouble in the ‘90s.
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by noah_buddy 3y ago
Birds can navigate in large groups just based on several birds around them. If you had a swarm that was semi-autonomous after being launched, it could avoid comms altogether.
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by noah_buddy 3y ago
It’s cat and mouse. “No, our suite detects nudity and automatically deletes related imagery.”
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by noah_buddy 3y ago
Based on some light reading just now: - SWP is a means of treating green coffee beans pre-roast. They can be roasted any which way afterwards. - Any type of bean can be treated this way. - The process is pretty specific in targeting just ca
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by noah_buddy 4y ago
This is a rose tinted look at how GWB handled Katrina. He so bungled the response that people’s opinions of him dropped precipitously afterwards. The excuse for why he didn’t act sooner was that he was on a month long vacation. He was disco
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by noah_buddy 4y ago
You have touched on something I am incredibly excited about. ChatGPT is going to do away with a lot of the intro level questions you ask researching certain sorts of technical problems, especially as it becomes better able to understand ima
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by noah_buddy 4y ago
Banks move a trillion a day? Granted you could be right in about a month.

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