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by rosser 9y ago
Your second point, as specifically phrased, is probably factually false. SCotUS ruled in Feist Publications Inc., v. Rural Telephone Service Co. [0] that, "Many compilations consist of nothing but raw data — i.e. wholly factual infor
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by rosser 9y ago
You're confusing Bitcoin with blockchain . The former is a specific implementation — the first, yes, but that doesn't limit its other uses — of the latter. The latter is an abstraction that has uses far beyond mere money . Th
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by rosser 9y ago
This will almost certainly be a warranty-voiding action, if it isn't made straight-up illegal.
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by rosser 9y ago
> Blockchain's primary utility is in creating what initially was a complicated way to allow people to convert money into another currency... Blockchain's primary utility has nothing to do with money . An attempted alternativ
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by rosser 9y ago
Not at all. Objective Idealism doesn't claim physicalism is wrong because it only has "one kind of stuff", but rather about what kind of stuff that one "stuff" is. The failure many see in physicalism is that the phy
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by rosser 9y ago
I use a bookmarklet with the following as the URL to submit whatever page I'm currently viewing: javascript:window.location="http://news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u="+encodeURIComponent(document.location)+
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CLOUD Act: A Dangerous Expansion of Police Snooping on Cross-Border Data(eff.org)
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by rosser 9y ago
> Back to depression it is? For some people, I suppose. For others, a non-trivial point of the work is to learn not to care that other people don't care. It's about improving yourself , changing the relationship you have wit
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Ajit Pai's “proof” that killing net neutrality created more broadband(arstechnica.com)
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by rosser 9y ago
You're right; I spoke hyperbolically, to fend off pointless counter-arguments of the "the invention of cars put buggy-whip manufacturers out of business, but look how many jobs that created!" sort. In the short-to-medium term
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by rosser 9y ago
Efficiency isn't an absolute good. It can, in cases, be an unambiguous bad. If, for example, we're going to premise a society on "having jobs" then efficiency-ing those jobs out of existence might not be the wisest move,
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by rosser 9y ago
I was speaking more to the resource utilization part of the statement, but sure: technically, there will probably still be humans left, in places, if we keep going at the rate we are. If we're (as a species) lucky, that number might ev
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by rosser 9y ago
> It would also need to reach a balance with its planet and not simply eat up all the resources and die out. Like we're kinda doing?
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by rosser 9y ago
"stops speaking to me for a whole five minutes" != "forces him to be silent" There is no abuse in this anecdote, either way. There's some passive-aggressiveness, and some dismissal, but neither quite rises to the le
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by rosser 9y ago
IANAL, but yeah: shouldn't these works not be under copyright, just on the basis of their age? Wouldn't the "phone book" doctrine apply here, also? There's no creative authorship in a collection of previous works.
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by rosser 9y ago
My point is: this is not necessarily true. The Fine Article even mentions that the benefits are situational.
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by rosser 9y ago
Do you have any numbers on how much extra time (that is, time spent servicing queries above the normal query times when your tables are indexed) application queries take after the loads, but before the index rebuilds are complete? If so,
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by rosser 9y ago
Maybe that's as far out as they can or will predict its visibility? 2088 hours is 87 days, even.
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by rosser 9y ago
"Orbiting the Earth every 90 minutes and visible from anywhere on the globe…" "You will not be able to see the satellite within the next 2087 hours. Please check again later."
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by rosser 9y ago
From a quick skimming of The Fine Article, it seems to mean people living in "modern" environments — like, e.g., plumbing. If I had to guess, diet is probably among the most salient characteristics, with lessened sun exposure fro
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by rosser 9y ago
Wait, what? You do things differently when the goal of the exercise is learning instead of production ? Of course you do. Why on earth would you think that's a bad thing?
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by rosser 9y ago
This is an oft-repeated article of faith, which I have yet to see realized despite years of sustained extra demand for GPUs.
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by rosser 9y ago
It's not his only issue, but Ron Wyden (D-OR) is pretty reliably one of the "good guys" on surveillance.
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by rosser 9y ago
Does he endeavor in any way to correct this mis-perception or disassociate himself from those who hold it? A lack of condemnation can, not unreasonably, be construed as a tacit endorsement.
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by rosser 9y ago
The pi thing never actually happened. The bill was proposed but did not pass . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill
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by rosser 9y ago
Appeals to authority aren't necessarily fallacious, if the authority being cited is actually an authority .
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by rosser 9y ago
There have been some interesting, if not entirely consistent, results from "restorative justice" efforts.
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by rosser 9y ago
A theoretical alternative no-one is deploying is not an alternative .
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by rosser 9y ago
I'm really not. The is in this particular thread is what "literally the entirety of the natural world" thinks is "food". The ought is whether we should "think" likewise, or use our purported rational
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by rosser 9y ago
The thing in question being dead isn't a lasting consequence? Or did you mean besides that?

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