req2

21 ms·

241.
by req2 17y ago
So I want to link techdirt - http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090426/1837134647.shtml for their (short) commentary on a (short) 1897 music piracy article from the NYTimes. (Direct link: http://www.bestactever.com/2009/04/26/the-long-wa
242.
by req2 17y ago
From the long title of the Statute of Anne, "Copies of Printed Books in the Authors or purchasers of such Copies". In other words, the Statute of Anne protected publishers of books. Not musicians.
243.
by req2 17y ago
You are not entitled to a life of your own choosing.
244.
by req2 17y ago
Crime is a zero sum game. That is enough to need disincentives for crime. No one is really worse off if Dylan decides to stop recording.
245.
by req2 17y ago
Just because I only sell custom suits online doesn't mean I'm not in competition with people selling custom suits in brick and mortar stores with tailors and salespeople and such.
246.
by req2 17y ago
I don't think it's a terribly larger percentage than at any other college. The guys at the other colleges just regret that they don't have the leg up on such a plan that Harvard would give them.
247.
by req2 17y ago
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/04/silly-consensus.html
248.
by req2 17y ago
How about limiting health calamities caused by hypertension or congestive heart failure? http://ims.ivv.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/news/pressrel/2008/08-... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Spinoff has a nice list.
249.
by req2 17y ago
The noteworthy example of a non-gamer hire is Bobby Kotick, CEO of Activision Blizzard. I've never seen any positive gamer news covering him because of his desire to beat franchises to death with yearly updates. (As much as gamers claim to
250.
by req2 17y ago
You're just making it harder for me to decide which #1 crypto post for today is my favorite.
251.
by req2 17y ago
I wonder - would people learn science if they couldn't gossip the newest pop philosophy without it? (Who am I kidding, we call it the intertubes, of course not.)
252.
"Distributed AI Project"(syntheticthought.com)
2 points by req2 17y ago|0 comments
253.
by req2 17y ago
Aha, I hadn't realized PEPs were that far reaching in their scope. Apologies, fine sir. (I liked your article.)
254.
by req2 17y ago
Though I agree these things are best addressed patch in hand, it's worthwhile pointing out that there are design issues that people do need to be aware of to prevent future occurrences of the idiosyncrasies he is mentioning.
255.
by req2 17y ago
"You're a spy! Tribunaled!"
256.
by req2 17y ago
Those aren't adjectives.
257.
by req2 17y ago
Care to suggest a short term that has the same denotational meaning without the connotations you dislike?
258.
by req2 17y ago
It's not in writing 40 lines that something like "blub" hurts, it's in reading it afterward. As long as you don't end up in Perl one liners, shorter code will tend to better highlight the relevant content (e.g., there are four keys that per
259.
by req2 17y ago
> With those monkey calls, how do you know that an increasing freqency through the life of the monkey call doesn't mean something different from a decreasing freqency? Perhaps the length of the call indicates the size of the predator? P
260.
by req2 17y ago
> or communicate with each other in a manner more complex than what we hear as a bark or a chirp. If you're suggesting the supernatural, that's just silly. If you're suggesting linguists have been missing the bit between the formants al
261.
by req2 17y ago
When in doubt, blame the journalist, not the scientist, but this is some pretty deficient evidence. > On three occasion the male monkey picked up tokens she dropped and inserted them into the slot and allowed her to have the food. >
262.
by req2 17y ago
Where "nonviolent debate" means one side baselessly reduces arguments he doesn't like to frivolities and does his best to ridicule. Better discussions: http://lesswrong.com/lw/4d/youre_calling_who_a_cult_leader/ also seen here at http://
263.
by req2 17y ago
So despite the fact that single motherhood has no apparent effect on happiness[1], his solution to the "happiness gap" is instituting a social stigma against sex, to prevent single motherhood. [1] > A working-class Hispanic woman is far
264.
by req2 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak-end_rule begs to differ.
265.
by req2 17y ago
Not to mention memories of a price. I wonder if rebranding when they went free would have helped them.
266.
by req2 17y ago
Maybe Edison is his role model.
267.
by req2 17y ago
Not just more revenue, but more revenue relative to the pre-Internet tail.
268.
by req2 17y ago
I think one of the benefits of features, rather than libraries, is that someone can be expected to know what it does. In C#, ?? should be understood by anyone who knows C#. In Smalltalk, ?? will be understood by the implementer and then nee
269.
by req2 17y ago
I think that two different cultures are being discussed here. > I expect that my life experience constitutes an extremely biased sample of the power elite. I don't have to deal with the executives of arbitrary corporations, or form bus
270.
by req2 17y ago
> On the contrary, a study by Ulrike Malmendier and Geoffrey Tate found that C.E.O.’s get less effective as they become more famous and receive more awards. I can't help but think of Buffett's investors-as-coin-flippers. > After ten

More ›