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> My hypothesis is that piracy drops total spend in dollars My hypothesis is the exact opposite. I think that piracy increases total spend in dollars. With piracy, people get to experience things for free that they otherwise wouldn&#x2
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They would care forbtwo reasons: 1. Their shareholders would be happy. And the CEO will get attaboys from board members. Taking a tough stance on Piracy costs a CEO nothing. Anecdotes matter little, but I have seen in many cases, when gamin
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Whether a product can compete with piracy is also context-dependent. $10 is a paltry sum in the US. But it is really high in third world countries. $10 can give you one healthy meal each day for half a month in suburban Indian subcontinent.
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Also gets attaboys from the board and shareholders!
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The article also mentions that piracy did not have much effect in legal consumption of books, music, and games. People felt that prices were "fairer" in these media. Games piracy even led to people buying more games than what th
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I use wikis to manage my knowledge. It has many parts with links, backlinks, and references. I write down my project plans, notes from books that I read, knowledge about ongoing projects, todos. It has a homepage, several sections, pages, a
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Estimating Displacement Rates of Copyrighted Content in the EU (2017) [pdf](cdn.netzpolitik.org)
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EU Buried $400k Study Showing Piracy Have Almost No Effect on Sales (2017)(techdirt.com)
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I have found that it is not the time duration of sleep, but the waking up time that is important in my productivity. If I wake up at 11 in the morning after 4 hours of sleep, I am much more energetic than after 7 hours of sleep if I wake up
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I made my own. As of resources, I watched the vim course by ThePrimeagen at Frontend Masters. There are also vim books from PragProg Bookshelf. Pretty short ones, too.
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protected -> they aren't. The content is open. Just behind a payeall. The head of ISIS can get access to them if he pays. rational actors -> what's rational for China or Russia isn't necessarily "good" for Ame
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As Sci-Hub only publishes already open content, you are saying all rich entities should have access to all the research even if they have malicious intent? And people with no mal-intent shouldn't have access to research material if the
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I have done this with vim commands. It worked much better than "look up command when needed" approach. My vim-productivity has skyrocketed. I also use spaced repeatation to remember even the most basic concepts of some of the topi
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by rg111 5y ago
This is a sad case of Goodhart's Law playing into reality. People in power have chosen one metric as a measure of progress of historically oppressed races- enrolment in college degrees. And that is costing everyone dearly.
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I get your points. I really do. I know that standardized tests aren't devoid of faults. But, if you want to replace them, you have to replace them with something better . Just because something has faults, it doesn't mean we aban
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I will not touch anything Huawei with a ten-foot pole. Thanks. But I also hope this will drive down prices.
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I like to use my phones for long periods. Switching phones is a total annoyance for me. And, through a decade of smartphone use, I think it is more about replaceable battery more than anything. It seems that companies brought out sealed han
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by rg111 5y ago
FB has created Reason, React.js, GraphQL, PyTorch, and so on. Apple is like jewellery to rich people. This is how I see it. I have friends in FB, and I hear that it is an extremely good place to work. I will never seek a job at Apple or Ama
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For me, in this order: 1. Being able to work in interesting tech. 2. Good pay. 3. Job is stable if performance is good. 4. Being able to work with smart people.
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Tibet, too.
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To OP: Good advice. Listen to this. Focus on finishing the degree, and if possible, get as good grades as possible. That will open a lot of doors. ____ To this comment: I have switched from Physics to Deep Learning. This is more because of
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Can't find the app. Getting an error. Did you add any additional repo?
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Not in case of long audio files. I have some purchased audiobooks that are as long as 21 hours mp3. VLC sucks at playing those. Other than this need, VLC is all I need.
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- Peopleware - The Mythical Man Month - High Output Management
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Are you talking about the Programming Languages course on Coursera? I intend to do it someday. The first few videos seemed very nice, indeed. Phoenix is about webdev, but Nerve is not. There was a recent thread on HN on using Elixir for Mac
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If you are not happy with Lisp parenthesis, why don't you try Elm or Elixir?
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Throw me similar, related, or unrelated documentary recommendations. I will be grateful.
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- The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson is a great book that taught me a lot. It covers the gradual discovery of computers from Babbage and comes to modern ages. I hi
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Don't know how equivalent is this to SICP, but this is very good resource: https://cs3110.github.io/textbook/cover.html
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Math: After Sophomore year in High School, I realised that I have been doing Math all wrong. Although I always got scores close to 100%. I was just memorizing algorithms and formulas to solve problems. Something changed in me, and then I st

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