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by q-big 4y ago
> That is the downside of piracy... by taking the pain out of unfair monopolies, it takes off the pressure to overturn or compete with them. Shadow libraries are a competition to the official ways to access the papers. Just like in any
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by q-big 4y ago
> Hum... I answered that just on the next phrase. Concerning "And quite likely brings better results for both the investor and the founders.": That "[it] brings better results" for some groups does not imply that it m
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by q-big 4y ago
> I think this would be much more healthy than the multi-phase aim-for-the-moon approach everybody takes today. Healthy for whom? - startups founders? - angel investors? - VCs? - national economy? - financial markets? - ...
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by q-big 4y ago
At least in Germany, there does exist a movement (YouTubers Union) that demands that YouTube should pay more to the creators. YouTube, on the other hand, denies that it makes money. So the question whether YouTube does make money or not is
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by q-big 4y ago
> And all reports are that YouTube is still barely break even… A company can often tweak business metrics to give the message that the company wants the world to believe.
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by q-big 4y ago
> Would you rather Google police content and not allow native ads that the content producer includes? Why not downrank such videos a little bit - just like Google attempts to downrank pages that look like made by content farms? Since a l
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by q-big 4y ago
Quote from the article: > By introducing so many versions of design, it forbids a pattern to be established and recognized by the users. Essentially, the users look at the design, get confused about if there is going to be a “Skip Ad” bu
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by q-big 4y ago
civilized wrote about enhancing the ranking for the person who casts the vote. Using these votes to do changes in the Google ranking for the general public can of course easily be abused.
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by q-big 4y ago
> Sounds pretty ripe for abuse too. civilized wrote (emphasis by me): "and Google enhances its ranking for me based on that".
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by q-big 4y ago
> It's a right answer but also a frustrating one to a programmer who sees correct implementation of algorithms to mean that you get the ticket done and they don't come at you with a ticket about it again. This rather sounds lik
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by q-big 4y ago
> That sounds a lot like psychologists decided to call "Not Neurotypical" (however you define that) as "Autism" and then dumped everything into the category. "Neurodiverse" includes a lot more conditions, su
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by q-big 4y ago
> Autism or at least high functioning autism is characterised by poor theory of mind. Neurotypical people have (with few exceptions) a similarly poor theory of mind of what goes on inside autistic/Asperger people. But because the la
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by q-big 4y ago
> There's a reason that ADHD and autistic people come together under the umbrella of neurodivergent/neurodiverse. There's a ton of overlap between the two. "Neurodiverse" also includes schizophrenia, bipolar dis
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by q-big 4y ago
> 4th Edition isn't too bad, besides needing a BA degree for the basic rules and a Masters for magic. Which is a requirement that should rather trivially be fulfilled by the HN audience. :-)
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by q-big 4y ago
There were such projects, e.g. Shumway and Gnash: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shumway_(software) > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnash_(software) It is not Adobe's fault that these
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by q-big 4y ago
> And before you say Flash & Java Applets already tried that, they had two problems: [...] Second, they resisted open standards. Flash was partially opened by Adobe: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ado
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by q-big 4y ago
> I sometimes wonder if Marxism has a bigger influence in some "language designer circles" than (for instance) Darwinism ;) Or some (programming) language designers are creationists deep inside their hearts (without willing to
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by q-big 4y ago
> I think people wearing masks for privacy are a very small minority. That is why I wrote 'having been influenced by a "privacy-consciousness bubble" ;-)'. But I actually do know quite a few such people.
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by q-big 4y ago
> That is, wear a mask (that's no mask at all) and you're all but unmasked. Possibly even worse: you feel better protected as thus behave more riskily with respect to COVID-19 transmission. Keyword: risk compensation > http
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by q-big 4y ago
> My guess is about 50% in super markets still wear them, with regional differences. My personal gut feeling (being German, but also having been influenced by a "privacy-consciousness bubble" ;-) ) is that there exist people wh
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by q-big 4y ago
Why not delete your HackerRank account and tell HackerRank the reason for this?
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by q-big 5y ago
One thing is laws, the other is "understanding [of free speech]". My comment was about the latter.
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by q-big 5y ago
> We have good definition of what is considered, or rather, NOT considered free speech given by decades of SCOTUS/court jurisprudence. "We" is only "citizens of the USA". Other countries have quite a different tr
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by q-big 5y ago
> I get the appeal of how it seems easier to train people with business domain expertise on how to be no-code devs than it is to translate requirements to an engineering team Why do you think this is the case?
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by q-big 5y ago
> i.e. if signup is "email and credit card number" then you're going to be hard pressed to explain why a similar option to cancel does not exist So you argue that to cancel a subscription, you should have to provide your c
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by q-big 5y ago
I don't know how TopoR implements this, but the linked Wikipedia article contains a reference to a PhD thesis on this topic: > https://web.archive.org/web/20170718184145/https://pdfs.sema...
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by q-big 5y ago
Relevant: TopoR, an EDA program developed and maintained by the Russian company Eremex: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TopoR "The most recognizable feature of TopoR is the absence of preferred routing directio
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by q-big 5y ago
> Just look at the humanities, who are having an even harder time getting funding. Many people who do research in humanities are keen on spreading their left-wing political agenda. Couldn't this also be a huge part of the story why
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by q-big 5y ago
> "AI" has been used to market so much nonsense it's probably becoming a problem communicating actual interesting uses of AI. On the other hand: if the people who do serious work in this area don't call out this nonse
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There exist two sequels to this video: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dUVZozf-i0 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz0TOQ1BF-M

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