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IBM 1401: a User's Manual, for Orchestra and Tape(youtube.com)
2 points by shervinafshar 6y ago|0 comments
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by shervinafshar 6y ago
Wonderful take. Thanks for sharing.
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by shervinafshar 6y ago
Touché. Eno could be elevator music then.
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by shervinafshar 6y ago
Devo was a bunch of brilliant, genre-defying creatives. In my point of view they have been as influential as Kraftwerk, but don't get as much love and respect.
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by shervinafshar 6y ago
Corrected.
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by shervinafshar 6y ago
Thank you Captain Pedantic. HN threads won't be the same without nitpicking and pedantry. I think by "ambient" you mean piped music, elevator music, Muzak(tm). Because Eno ain't no elevator music.
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Attention K-Mart Shoppers: Piped Music Collection on the Internet Archive(archive.org)
274 points by shervinafshar 6y ago|91 comments
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Is It Bandcamp Friday?(isitbandcampfriday.com)
1 points by shervinafshar 6y ago|0 comments
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by shervinafshar 6y ago
Seems like the text is removed now and the link just goes to NIN store homepage. Here's the archived link: https://web.archive.org/web/20200916172127/https://www.nin.c...
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by shervinafshar 6y ago
Agreed. They wanted to include these texts as booklet, but there were some legal issues apparently. The print-ready files are available here (no CAPS): https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2486/0276/fil
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The Making of Quake Soundtrack; Carmack, McGee, Nine Inch Nails(nin.com)
29 points by shervinafshar 6y ago|5 comments
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Suffering, Compassion, and Being a Perpetual Student(bostonglobe.com)
1 points by shervinafshar 6y ago|0 comments
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David Foster Wallace on commercial literature and reading in the US(youtube.com)
1 points by shervinafshar 6y ago|0 comments
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The Space Station's Solar Transit(nasa.gov)
1 points by shervinafshar 6y ago|0 comments
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Hubble Captures Gravitational Lensing Effect(nasa.gov)
2 points by shervinafshar 6y ago|0 comments
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by shervinafshar 6y ago
I tried to find an official response from the company to no success through their CS so I asked the community-driven forums. After receiving some pedantic let-me-copy-paste-a-sentence-from-article-you-just-posted, I found the closest thing
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by shervinafshar 6y ago
Quoting my own message: > EFF previously used to have a scorecard[1] for all the messaging applications, but they reconsidered the model of their recommendation
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by shervinafshar 6y ago
Depends on what you need. EFF previously used to have a scorecard[1] for all the messaging applications, but they reconsidered the model of their recommendation and put together a good set of articles on the topic which ask questions to con
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by shervinafshar 6y ago
Also discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23485182
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by shervinafshar 6y ago
You made your point very clear. Regretfully, I can not agree with your fervent enthusiasm for the law of the land in this case that this is an obvious and open-and-shut case of illegal conduct that one might very much want it to appear. Thi
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by shervinafshar 6y ago
I think the value is not in memorizing such trivia; for a 7 years old it might be discovering the pattern of data encoding and its why and how. It opens all sort of paths of discovery in future for understanding software. You'd be surp
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by shervinafshar 6y ago
"random .org"? IA? That concludes our fun conversation from my point of view. We'll just have to wait and see.
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by shervinafshar 6y ago
I beg to differ. I see at least two main arguments here: Argument 1: Since these publishers are suing IA (premise), I find it justified for myself to boycott them (conclusion) Argument 2: Well, you were not spending money there anyway (conc
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by shervinafshar 6y ago
I can imagine the answer to all those questions from IA wouldn't be "because we are a law unto ourselves" as you suggested, but it would be along the lines that following bureaucratic channels during a national emergency to b
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by shervinafshar 6y ago
Copyright Office mostly agrees with you in their response to an inquiry about IA National Emergency Library by a senator[1]. But there are things in that response to distinguish IA actions and motives from other bête noires of Copyright law
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by shervinafshar 6y ago
Not a IP lawyer here, but I speculate that when and if this lawsuit goes to higher courts, the fact that IA was acting in favour of the public in a national emergency would be in their favor.
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by shervinafshar 6y ago
Ad hominem; Not everyone standing in support of IA in this case is even a user of their emergency library.
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by shervinafshar 6y ago
It should be noted that the cumulative annual revenue of these four conglomerate were north of $4B in 2017. Unfortunately, they own so many smaller publishers, that it's very hard to boycott all of their subsidiaries effectively and wi
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by shervinafshar 6y ago
It sound apologetic to me to write their jerkiness to stress and high responsibility of leadership. > Name one famous historical figure who had power of some sort who didn't do anything "jerk-like". Since the list are of k
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by shervinafshar 6y ago
The page doesn't load for me. Here's the content from the Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20200226133832/http://www.davisr...

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