robonerd

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by robonerd 5y ago
But what happens when Jim Cramer starts promoting the Inverse Jim Cramer Index?
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by robonerd 5y ago
I checked three libraries. The New York Public Library, the Free Library of Philadelphia, and the Seattle Public Library. None have it.
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by robonerd 5y ago
Libraries don't necessarily pay rights holders or authors. They buy books like anybody else, which means they sometimes buy books on the second hand market. And there's nothing wrong with that.
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by robonerd 5y ago
Probably a better test for Library Genesis would be books that are notorious in Russia (whatever those might be, I don't know.) I doubt the Turner Diaries has much notoriety in Russia, due to the language barrier if nothing else.
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by robonerd 5y ago
I think there is probably a distinction between an archivist and a librarian. A librarian I know explained to me that the job of a librarian is to curate a collection of books, not to archive/preserve every book. Librarians frequent
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by robonerd 5y ago
I'd like to think each missile comes with an instruction booklet illustrated in the same style as the pamphlets airlines have for evacuations.
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by robonerd 5y ago
> The nlaw was obsolete against tanks 40 years ago. That's going way too far. Lots of tanks around the world still don't have ERA, and ERA doesn't make tanks impervious anyway. You can put a lot of ERA panels on a T-
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by robonerd 5y ago
Even if it were true, it wouldn't necessarily matter. Cost-to-cost comparisons, while having some value, don't give the full picture. Real wars aren't wars of attrition between opponents with balanced resources. It's
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by robonerd 5y ago
Your industry pretty much stopped making movies I care about, so I don't care if your industry curls up in a ball and dies.
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by robonerd 5y ago
Media that highlights this dynamic is interesting, though it implies some fourth-wall breaking. Funny Games did it (and I hated it, but it was interesting.) Sometimes video games do it too; Metal Gear Solid criticizes the player for e
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by robonerd 5y ago
When I was a young kid, I hated Disney movies. The villains were always too mean and scary for me (I still hate Ursula), and besides that, those movies had too much drama that made me feel extremely anxious. My aversion to violence and sa
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by robonerd 5y ago
What does a prototypical hipster do? Dresses up in anachronistic clothing. Listens to music on vinyl and plays video games made 20 years before they were born. Hipsters are nerds.
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by robonerd 5y ago
If it's any consolation to you, I've almost certainly never seen a movie with you in it.
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by robonerd 5y ago
Che tshirt, beret, plaid kilt, birkenstock sandals, and a few of those candy necklaces. This'll be my new look.
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by robonerd 5y ago
Corporate DEI has laws backing it, but I don't think that's the full picture. Corporations have a genuine economic interest in diverse hiring even if those laws didn't exist: 1) Diverse hiring expands the labor pool, which
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by robonerd 5y ago
Are Che tshirts still cool? Maybe just one of those raised-fist tshirts. That's sufficiently distant from the Russian matter.
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by robonerd 5y ago
OpenRCT2, OpenMW, DaggerfallUnity Granted, you have to buy the game to make use of these open source engines legally. But these open source engines free you from the limitations of DRM, Windows/Wine and run better than the original en
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by robonerd 5y ago
gaffe: A foolish and embarrassing error, especially one made in public. GAAF is certainly better than the reverse, but it lacks the bite of FAANG.
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by robonerd 5y ago
Torrent client in one hand, blunderbuss in the other, I just hope the Royal Navy doesn't hang me.
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by robonerd 5y ago
Not hypothetical money you think you might have been entitled to. The truth is, not a single cent was stolen from you.
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by robonerd 5y ago
Smurfette was created by the evil wizard Gargamel to undermine Smurf society. (I'm not joking, that's canon.)
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by robonerd 5y ago
How much of your money has been taken from you? Not hypothetical money you think you might have been entitled to, but money that was actually yours . How much was taken from you?
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by robonerd 5y ago
You aren't the only one. Steam is DRM with good PR. Much of the goodwill gamers have for Steam is based on misconceptions, rumors, or delusions, particularly: "If Valve ever goes out of business, they said they'll lift al
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by robonerd 5y ago
> They might say that the kitten "stole" their heart. A great moral crime, no doubt... The problem is once you expand the definition of 'steal' well beyond what is legally considered theft, the immorality of &quot
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by robonerd 5y ago
You're probably right, and honestly the thought of this happening just makes me feel sad. That premise is just like the character Dixie Flatline in Neuromancer. Simply tragic.
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by robonerd 5y ago
> And doesn't provide any money for future shows that you might enjoy. The last movie I pirated was directed by a man who died almost 30 years ago. Do you suppose if I subscribed to Netflix (which doesn't even have any of h
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by robonerd 5y ago
Sure, but not on shared network drives. A network drive only used by a single person is another matter. (And probably not very common, though I also have one.)
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by robonerd 5y ago
Netflix had a long tail, when it was a DVD rental service. Netflix streaming has never had a long tail and definitely don't now. They presently have less than 4000 movies, including all their 'originals' (which should p
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by robonerd 5y ago
Corporate media instills corporate values. Corporations being censored is bad for profit. But corporations not being allowed to censor regular people is also bad for profit.
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by robonerd 5y ago
I think the PRC saw how well Russia has fared against modern weapon systems in Ukraine and is probably getting cold feet. Taiwan has had more time to prepare and very advanced domestic manufacturing; the missile spam would be dense enough

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