noamyoungerm

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by noamyoungerm 12y ago
IANAL but the word you're looking for is "derivative works". In order to develop film, you need to take someone else's work and apply your original interpretation to it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by noamyoungerm 12y ago
You make several false assumptions or gross misunderstandings of how language changes. The reason irregular verbs originally existed is because English is a Germanic language, meaning, that a thousand years ago, what we now call irregular v
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by noamyoungerm 12y ago
Is it that horrible to imagine a world where people use their own two legs to walk that last quarter mile? I don't see what makes the segway necessary.
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by noamyoungerm 12y ago
It's very much a prototype project. The primary benefit is not so much in the product itself but rather that it makes the new concept viable and ready to exploit. It's not that different from the first iPhone, which was really jus
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by noamyoungerm 12y ago
If you send three grayscale images, each one taken through a different colored filter, you can reconstruct a color image back on earth by setting the red channel, green channel, and blue channel of the image to be each one of the colored fi
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by noamyoungerm 12y ago
"physics math" is pretty good for a biologist http://xkcd.com/435/ .
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by noamyoungerm 12y ago
> a point where there will be companies marketing weed at us. What did you expect? I thought it was common knowledge that the weed market would be basically swept up by companies that operate like Marlboro (and as soon as it's legal
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by noamyoungerm 12y ago
What exactly constitute the privacy rights for information that is already public? I argue that an act that is reported in a newspaper does not have a reasonable expectation of privacy, and as a result that the right to be forgotten is dist
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by noamyoungerm 12y ago
Just because you are permitted to say whatever you want doesn't mean you are free from responsibility for the content of your words. Words precede action, and as such uttering words entails some share of the responsibility for the acti
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by noamyoungerm 12y ago
Does the search engine not have a right to freedom of speech? Who is the government to tell Google what they can or cannot say?
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by noamyoungerm 12y ago
What about Google's right to free speech? Censoring search results is a violation of Google's right to express itself, which is just as important and legally defensible as a newspaper's right to do the same.
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by noamyoungerm 12y ago
> ignores attempts to enforce the law This means that the government is not operating in accordance with its obligation to enforce the law. This is neither an issue with the law, nor an issue with the concept behind it - posting libelous
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by noamyoungerm 12y ago
My right to free speech allows me to say whatever I want about anybody. There is absolutely no guarantee that I be nice or understanding or that I take into account their personal wishes. When the government tells me that people have a righ
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by noamyoungerm 12y ago
By definition bench warmers do less work (or the same work less well), so of course they shouldn't be paid as much.
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by noamyoungerm 12y ago
So does Google Now when you enable voice recognition inside other apps.
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by noamyoungerm 12y ago
A space where you have no reasonable expectation of any form of personal injury, perhaps excluding self-inflicted harm caused by negligence (e.g. cutting off your own hand in the kitchen, but not somebody else cutting off your hand in the k
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by noamyoungerm 12y ago
If users have difficulty properly using the platform, the platform is at fault. An arbitrarily naive user should never have to fight the platform to do what he wants.