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by sjy 6y ago
I read a lot of those huge and ungainly scanned PDFs, even when the text is available as HTML, because I prefer my reference material to be properly typeset and paginated. It’s much more convenient than visiting my local library and handlin
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The starting point is that scanning a book and making it available to somebody else involves copying the book, and therefore infringes copyright unless you have the copyright holder’s permission or a fair use justification. In contrast, len
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What would the side project consist of? A huge range of public domain books have been accessible on gutenberg.org and archive.org for many years now, in standard formats that you can use on any device without installing a proprietary “libra
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The low average quality of online information does not undermine the parent’s point that the internet substantially reduces the marginal value of (physical) libraries. Free online resources like Wikipedia provide more comprehensive, current
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It is not a definition, it’s shorthand for something that is precisely defined so as to exclude the examples you have given. > No person shall … traffic in any … device … that (A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circ
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by sjy 6y ago
Bar exams involve a significant element of speed and time management; being able to consult reference material on a secondary device doesn’t give you a huge advantage and may not be worth the risk of getting caught. Some bar exams are open
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I think you should be more charitable to your friend. “No one should own 6 yachts” is a defensible moral principle. Not everyone accepts it, and there is good evidence that certain ways of preventing people from owning 6 yachts result in wo
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I don’t follow. The part of the article you quoted is about appliances that allow us to achieve a given standard of living with less human labour. Isn’t this a good thing, whether the labour that is still needed is done by the people who be
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I just asked for some pro-permaculture sources in this comment [1], and would appreciate it if you could also point me in the direction of some further reading on the claim that permaculture is a pipe dream. [1] https://news.ycom
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You seem like a smart person who writes well, and I’ve met a few such people with an interest in permaculture. What do you think about the claims that it’s pseudoscientific, and prescribes agricultural methods that couldn’t possibly feed th
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You can! But it’s not necessarily the most efficient way if you already have a native language to build on. It takes children years of full immersion to reach that point.
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What Economics 101 or 102 principles are you referring to? I Googled your comment and found this 2019 research paper [1] that seems to support it, but I would have thought the Economics 101 take is more aligned with what companies tell us –
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This is far from obvious. Caplan’s thesis is contrary to the common sense view accepted by the vast majority of people – the purpose of formal education is to learn stuff, and it works. Of course, that doesn’t make it false, but the argumen
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I think it’s still pretty common; there are plenty of compounding pharmacies in my city. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compounding
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According to Ars Technica: “The majority of Nichols' order is currently sealed; both sides have until 11:00 Monday morning to tell the court if they think it can be unsealed.” https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20
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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, but evidence of absence does exist. “Claiming that it is impossible to prove a negative is a pseudologic, because there are many proofs that substantiate negative claims”: https://e
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I think it took about two months before I was no longer tempted to switch back to Qwerty to get my speed back (my original keyboard layout had a toggle). I don’t recall any issues with switching keyboards, just layouts.
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I still trust some news publishers as reliable sources, and so does Wikipedia [1]. If I see an interesting headline on social media which I know will be covered elsewhere, I’ll Google it and read an article from a trustworthy source rather
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Have you got a source for the claim about developer costs? It seems believable, but I don’t think many media companies publish detailed information about their labour costs, and I also expect a huge difference between eg. local news and glo
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Doesn’t the existence of “loyal readers” imply that the publication approach is not “at odds with consumers”? If we can’t trust consumers to emit the correct market signals then we should not rely on them to voluntarily fund important civic
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by sjy 6y ago
I’ve been using an Atreus split ortholinear keyboard with the Colemak layout for more than a year now, and I have no difficulty switching back to a standard Qwerty staggered keyboard when I use my laptop or someone else’s computer.
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In court? By calling a credible witness, perhaps an expert, who says “X isn’t occurring.”
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The relevant legal powers are indeed confined to “property in which any foreign country or a national thereof has any interest” and this judicial decision illustrates their limits – an irrational assertion that the use of emergency national
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> do the laws give the president the ability to block a foreign company in such situation? Yes, Congress has given the President the power to “regulate, direct and compel, nullify, void, prevent or prohibit, any acquisition, holding, wit
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If Bytedance was violating U.S. laws a “ban” would not be necessary to prevent them from continuing to do so. The executive order is based on a concrete factual assertion: “the spread in the United States of mobile applications developed an
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I was also surprised by the statement that the oldest extant large-scale surface is ~1.8 Ma old. There is a citation provided for this [1]. It seems the point is that older features like mountain ranges are subject to significant erosion (a
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Geologic time is certainly enough to erase evidence of worked soils. It spans billions of years, the destruction and formation of continents, and multiple global mass extinctions. Archaeology concerns only the last few million years of homi
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The paper addresses this objection in section 1.3: “That this paper’s title question is worth posing is a function of the incompleteness of the geological record … The oldest extant large-scale surface is in the Negev Desert and is ~1.8 Ma
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I’m never sure whether to trust arXiv papers outside my field, so I checked and found that the paper was published in the International Journal of Astrobiology, and the PDF is open access: https://www.cambridge.org/core&#x2F
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In fact, if you are used to ad blocking in the web browser, it can make the problem worse! Every digital subscription I’ve paid for put me onto multiple mailing lists, some of which are active multiple times a week, and required me to unsub

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