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Notes On Programming Complex Visualization in Javascript, Canvas and SVG(thinkinghard.com)
2 points by pjdorrell 13y ago|0 comments
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by pjdorrell 13y ago
No, actually any proof that supplies a bound must also have some least bound that can be derived from that proof. It could be a calculation that starts from the bound, or it could be some calculation with a result that tells you what the bo
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by pjdorrell 13y ago
Is the bound achieved by his proof actually 70000000? That looks like a suspiciously round number. Why can't they tell us the exact bound that he achieved? (Presumably some slightly smaller number?)
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by pjdorrell 13y ago
Any one of us can work out x by x plus y by y plus z by z less c by t by t where x and y and z and t are each part of how to get from one "here and now" to a 2nd "here and now". I can try to tell you what c is or we can just say that it is
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How To Save Money On Your Next Billion Dollar Government Software Project(thinkinghard.com)
1 points by pjdorrell 13y ago|0 comments
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There Are Two Distinct Justifications of Copyright. Please Choose Just One.(thinkinghard.com)
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Show HN: Complex function visualization with Canvas and SVG(thinkinghard.com)
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by pjdorrell 14y ago
This is the "hyperdeflation" argument that we've already heard elsewhere. The thing about deflation is that eventually it has to stop, because there is a limit to how much value all the people of the world can hold in any currency. People a
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Ask HN: Best new language/framework to learn with commercial prospects?
1 points by pjdorrell 14y ago|0 comments
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by pjdorrell 14y ago
If Rick Falkvinge stopped saying "the copyright monopoly" and instead just said "copyright", then everything he said would make more sense, and more people might understand it more quickly, and he would be less frustrated. There is no such
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Why We Should Have a Legally Defined Public Disclosure System(thinkinghard.com)
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by pjdorrell 14y ago
On a similar theme: "Voted Compensation" - http://thinkinghard.com/ip/PublicGood.html Basically, a government/taxation-funded prize scheme, where everyone gets to vote on who should get prizes. Like nationalized crowd-funding, but strictl
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Digital Signing and Open Source Don't Really Go Together(1729.com)
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A list of digital freedoms that matter, and how they might be threatened(digital-freedoms.org)
1 points by pjdorrell 15y ago|0 comments
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by pjdorrell 15y ago
It doesn't really matter what the purpose of copyright was in the first place. History is interesting, but it doesn't determine our understanding in the present of what is moral and what is not moral. Also, copyright is world-wide, so what
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by pjdorrell 15y ago
So you're not asking the question "What are the strongest moral arguments against piracy?", you're asking the question "What are the strongest moral arguments against piracy, if we all pretend to agree that a country which produces no art i
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by pjdorrell 15y ago
People talk about the "business model" of the film and music industries. But they have a "moral model", which is to present copyright itself as a moral proposition. Everything about why it is hard for us to stop the never-ending creation of
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by pjdorrell 15y ago
This is a very leading question. "Piracy" is immoral within the context of copyright. But if the copyright system itself is immoral (because, for example, the successful enforcement of copyright is in total conflict with important digital f
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Digital Copyright, and the Argument From Guilt(1729.com)
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The Basic Moral Proposition Underlying Copyright And Patents(1729.com)
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Design of a TakeDown API (e.g. for Blogetery-type issues)(1729.com)
2 points by pjdorrell 16y ago|0 comments