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by scarcely 8y ago
I agree that our intuitive reaction is to think that in one case there is clearly a victim whereas in the other case this is much less clear. However as I said when I brought up the omnivore vs dog/cat-eater example, our intuitive mora
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(i) Imagine a billionaire who acquired his fortune from pyramid schemes. One day he fell victim to someone else's scam and is left penniless. He goes to confront the scammer to demand his money back. The scammer admits to carrying out
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My reply to the first person who replied to me, above, also tries to address your point about espionage being especially bad.
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Can you explain the moral relevance of that distinction - the reason one kind of theft of intellectual property is morally less bad than the other. One idea is this: stealing trade secret is "active theft" whereas stealing copyrig
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Downloading books and articles from libgen is technically "theft of intellectual property". So is torrenting proprietary software, music, etc. I'm often surprised to observe the extent to which Americans, both inside and outs
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America owes its very existence to the land it stole from Native Americans. It owes a huge part of its prosperity to the entire lives it stole from generations of black people by using them as draft animal (hence freeing the white man to th
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Is this intended to be a notebook in the jupyter sense or in the evernote sense? Initially I thought the former (and so pretty much discounted the possibility of using it as a personal knowledge base) but your response made me wonder if I&#
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This is actually a really good point. It ought to strike us as anomalous as hearing someone say "the notes are stored in HTM". Thanks.
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HN is, at least in name, about stuff that gratifies "intellectual curiosity", not pruient or morbid curiosity.
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Come on, it gets voted to the top because it allows "hackers" to gloat about it under the name of "intellectual curiosity". I bet it brought a smile to your face, didn't it :)
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Biggest disappoinment with the US is how small the average American is.
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Why are you posting the exact same comment you posted three days ago word for word? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18259097 Are you conducting some kind of controlled experiment and using HN commenters as lab rats?
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by scarcely 8y ago
Comic Sans. To remind yourself to be humble at all times
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Courier Prime because it doesn't look like a "programming font"
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By that logic, we can't conclude that anti-Semites are racist until we've resolved the scholarly debate as to whether the Jews constitute a "race" of their own. I'm not saying that Jews shouldn't be regarded as
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If they are to be consistent they should also ban Facebook and video games like league of legends.
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Would it be possible to hack together a usable manual tagging system via the API? I don't mean the automatic face tagging, or built-in tagging functionality (I assume Google Photos doesn't have it). I mean would it be possible to