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by repolfx 7y ago
Thankyou for making these arguments. Anti-DRM groupthink in geek communities has always been one of the more grating aspects of the software world. Video game producers have detailed data on how DRM protects their sales - they can literally
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by repolfx 7y ago
Look carefully at the response they sent you. Their perception is you're asking for a license for an open source product, i.e. a license that would remain valid even as random people contribute code or fork the product. That clearly ca
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by repolfx 7y ago
The thing about the iron works is actually one of the main problems with scaling up nuclear power. Modern designs are very safe yes, but, building them requires steelworking ability that apparently only exists in (yes!) Russia and Japan. Th
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by repolfx 7y ago
I think you're missing the deeper point. In a highly mobile labour market training people makes no sense. A trained workforce is a commons, and what we see is a classic tragedy of the commons. Consider two firms with a budget of $100,0
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by repolfx 7y ago
You can also see that as meaning the odds are 100% that it'll need a public bail-out - it'll just be a budget transfer to or writeoff for the DoE instead of a bail-out of private sector lenders. Depends how you define 'bail o
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by repolfx 7y ago
Part of the theory was that if we put students in debt bondage for their education, they'd made better choices That might well be the case. In my experience, people in countries where university is free frequently complain about life
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by repolfx 7y ago
great for the publishers with huge audiences, not so much for smaller news sites. How many news subscriptions will people pay for after they sign on for the New York Times, Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal? Well, does there ne
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by repolfx 7y ago
The steelman is that Widevine is a DRM platform; to tell the difference between a browser and a ripper application it needs a lot of knowledge about the context in which it's meant to run, and how to tell the difference between a &#x27
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by repolfx 7y ago
I have a modern CPAP machine that can do both. At first I found it quite hard to stay asleep with my initial prescription. Altering the machine to use APAP mode with a lower max pressure fixed things right up (with the doctor's approva
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by repolfx 7y ago
These aren't American companies. America's actual position is something more like this: "If you do business in any way with any Americans at any point, regardless of who you are or where you're based, then you will be th
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by repolfx 7y ago
Java Time is a renamed Joda Time with some improvements, from the same guy who did Joda Time. It's a pretty great example of Java being defined by its community actually.
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Large parts of Java are handled via the Java Community Process.
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Hmm, are there many Ocean going birds that can fly at 50mph?
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by repolfx 7y ago
There's mass downvoting and flagging in these sorts of threads, regardless of how well put or politely phrased a point is. HN isn't set up to handle political discussion well at all, so I wouldn't read anything into it. I thi
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by repolfx 7y ago
Remember that fossil fuel burning power plants also generate a ton of waste and nobody has a realistic plan to clean that up either (beyond CO2 extraction or geo-engineering, neither of which are more plausible than nuclear waste containmen
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by repolfx 7y ago
I did read the article and their views. But I'm not sure I missed anything. The students in question sound like classical Marxists: one literally takes photos of himself with a clenched fist. Obviously the Chinese government is rotten
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by repolfx 7y ago
I've encountered a paper before that argued the opposite, that Hitler's rallies didn't appear to actually have much impact on voter preferences, but now I can't find it. Too bad. Firstly, where did you get that abstract?
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by repolfx 7y ago
The UK has not had more restrictive free speech laws than Germany, what are you thinking of exactly? Certainly for most of the 20th century the UK was a bastion of free speech compared to Germany during WW1, then pre-war Germany in which po
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by repolfx 7y ago
The case for free speech preventing nasty dictators is an empirical one - America has the strictest free speech laws and has never been taken over by a dictatorship, Germany and other places had very weak free speech laws and was taken over
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by repolfx 7y ago
A good essay. Something it didn't seem to mention (or maybe it danced around it) is that one reason Hitler flew around in planes so much was he was completely banned from the airwaves by state censorship. Obviously that didn't sto
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by repolfx 7y ago
Indeed not, but I think maybe that's the point. There are lots of cases where you can disagree with the scientific consensus without being "anti-science", whatever that means. Basically all scientific or logical analysis abou
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by repolfx 7y ago
I think you are being terribly naive, sorry. From the study you just linked to: > Posts containing links to external websites are cross-referenced against lists of fake news publishers built by journalists and academics Have you seen o
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by repolfx 7y ago
But your belief can't be true because I'm both trump and Brexit the side that spent the most money (by far) was beaten. Clearly that's a syringe against the idea that political power covers directly from money. See also: tech
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by repolfx 7y ago
You can't make that comparison because the Supreme Court is not dedicated to the agenda of the US Government, in fact, it's not even meaningful to say the US Government has any sort of long term agenda because what the USG wants
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by repolfx 7y ago
FWIW I once summed up the various fines (anti-trust etc.) doled out by the EU by country/continent I would be interested in seeing this analysis, but I'd also be interested in knowing two things: 1. When was it done? 2. Were you
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by repolfx 7y ago
If you don't mind me asking, how do you support yourself and why did you choose to dedicate your time to this project?
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by repolfx 7y ago
You don't need a new programming language for that - any type safe, memory safe language with capabilities can do it. Java or C# are good candidates. Especially with the work on Project Loom in the JVM, you could get cooperative multi-
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by repolfx 7y ago
I'm interested but I've also read a lot about money laundering over the years, and I know you could easily say "Barclays has been implicated in a lot of money laundering" or "HSBC has been" or "JP Morgan h
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by repolfx 7y ago
Are you sure? https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/05/07/5-httlpr-a-pointed-rev... There's good reason to believe most of the "single gene affects complex trait" stories are false.
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by repolfx 7y ago
So, are the Germans the new Russians then? Sounds like having failed to pin a dozen or so different crimes on Trump now his enemies are trying to harass his banks in retaliation for working with him? A classic strategy. Any bank can be foun

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