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by renlo 5y ago
No clue why you're bringing up sheet music, modern music industry is recorded music, not sheet music. OP was discussing recorded music, ie "the music industry", not the "sheet music industry"
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by renlo 5y ago
“Music” has been around for a long time, likely from hundreds of thousands of years ago. The “music business”, where people can own music, the distribution and modern incarnation of “the music business”, has only been around for a a little
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by renlo 5y ago
This reminds me of the linotype machine's [0] invention. Many had tried to invent a similar machine and failed, the inventor went into it without knowing about the other failed attempts and used a completely different and novel techniq
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by renlo 5y ago
Put another way, "good taste" is like universal ethics. There's no such thing as "universal taste" (as in, God did not ordain something to have the quality of "good taste"), but, most people can agree that
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by renlo 5y ago
I think a difference is that current behavior is to check the interface at runtime vs static check ensuring that the interface's underlying value is one of those types. Have personally seen a number of bugs (ie panics) from the runtime
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by renlo 5y ago
If you live in NYC like me enforcing the current laws would be a good start. The rules aren't followed because there is zero enforcement.
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by renlo 5y ago
Would you support a feature that made your car report you to the authorities every time you drove over the speed limit? Or, would you support listening devices installed in your car, with specific filters in place, which only report you to
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by renlo 5y ago
the buildings one sees today are the ones that "survived" because they were notable. Older buildings are going to be more interesting as a matter of course because the boring ones were torn down to build other buildings.
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by renlo 5y ago
Sounds like she should be vaccinated
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by renlo 5y ago
People in the US drink in the parks, the suburbs and the cities, especially in the evenings. The care and discretion one needs to take is proportional to how much free time the cops in the area have and circumstance / setting. You can
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by renlo 6y ago
It’s because frontend devs are taught to use react, so suddenly every website unnecessarily becomes a react app. If every tutorial and class out there teaches people to use hammers (react) then people start using hammers to screw in a light
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by renlo 6y ago
How do you have a self referential edge? (ie, an edge to and from the same node) foo (1) looks a bit broken
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by renlo 6y ago
I think OP is saying that trauma leads to addiction, not necessarily the act itself; ie, shopping addicts are addicted to shopping because of past trauma not necessarily because of the act of shopping itself. As a prior nicotine addict I do
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by renlo 6y ago
When I watch junk on YouTube I need to open the link using Chrome's incognito mode. When are companies going to give us more control over what inputs we give their recommendation algorithms? There should be a button that says "hey
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by renlo 6y ago
What happens when Target is the only store that 13.5% of the population can access? What happens if it become 25%? 50%? 100%? At what threshold is it proper to put in restrictions on Target?
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by renlo 6y ago
NAL, but IIRC it was alleged in the lawsuit that LinkedIn was making a competing product to hiQ. It also seems related to Associated Press vs Meltwater US Holdings, where the AP has developed a network to investigate and promulgate cutting
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by renlo 6y ago
NAL and the only information I have is from a 2 credit intellectual property class I took in college, but facts (like dollar amounts) are not copyrightable, but curated collections of facts (like an almanac) are copyrightable. It seems this
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by renlo 6y ago
What's in it for the students though? Would just make things more expensive for them.
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by renlo 6y ago
Doesn't a "com" TLD generally imply USA / US audience?
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by renlo 7y ago
School grades are more a measure of conformity and ability to adapt a wage-work environment. Performing well in both wage-work and school requires an individual to jump through arbitrary hoops (performance reviews, office politics requiring
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by renlo 7y ago
My very limited understanding after talking to someone who was interested in this stuff, is that people are concerned with quantizing of the signal, which will happen with that laser solution. I’ve heard this is why audiophiles also use mag
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by renlo 7y ago
Because alcohol has been around for a long time in the public’s consciousness, they equate marijuana with alcohol in terms of impairment and driving. They are not comparable. Test impairment, not the presence of an arbitrary chemical in one
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by renlo 7y ago
There are other forums* where people can discuss those things (*as in, the word forum, not necessarily “internet forums”). It’s refreshing to have a medium like Hacker News where technology news can be discussed without the polemics endemic
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by renlo 7y ago
When I see a videos / images of wolves I don’t perceive that “intelligence” that I perceive from dogs. Not to say wolves are any less intelligent or cognitive, dogs just have had the constraint that they needed to be able to communicat
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by renlo 7y ago
I agree with you, believe it or not, what I was referring to was “our definition of intelligence” (edit: ie, the collection of traits we see as “ingelligent”), not the underlying traits.
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by renlo 7y ago
Just for argument’s sake, my opinion is that intelligence is a kind of social construct. What we view as “intelligence” is the manifestation of traits that are important for our current society to function. i.e, we value bridges, so the tra
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by renlo 7y ago
At least with ecigs the batteries and cartridges probably end up in a trash bin instead of thrown on the ground like with cigarette butts. A single pack of cigarettes is 20 butts, and having been a smoker (and having known many other smoker
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by renlo 7y ago
methadone and vaping, while both used for cessation, are not comparable
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by renlo 7y ago
The distraction aspect is what really gets to me; cancelled my NYTimes subscription after these bright red / orange advertisements loaded all over the page, where the content I was interested in was the bland black text over white back
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by renlo 7y ago
Might be a silly question, but is the block list per extension or is it a global block list? Ie, if each extension can have 30k rules, and the current block list requires 70k rules, could there be 3 extensions, 2 with 30k rules and 1 with 1

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