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by soundwave106 11y ago
While I agree that IP (patents and copyrights) are currently a farce, many creatives do make a living using IP frameworks as a backbone. And I think many of these creators view the current farce as better than nothing at all. Regardless of
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The only flag raised with me regarding using a minion, is that minions are copyrighted. It makes me wonder if they got clearance from Universal / Illumination before publishing this prank. (If not, I really doubt Universal / Illum
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Accountability for accuracy is desirable. But with strongmen leaders, "accountability in media" tends to be "toe the party line", regardless of accuracy. Practically I don't think Trump would get very far with any
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by soundwave106 11y ago
Donald Trump reminds me more of Silvio Berlusconi than Erdogan, personally. Berlusconi was nowhere near Erdogan's style of strongman politics, but unfortunately, during his term, Berlusconi did stifle press freedom somewhat in Italy...
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by soundwave106 11y ago
One of your statements is what I feel is more of an obstacle to mainstream Linux adoption than anything technical. There's a lot of distros out there with a lot of churn. Not a bad thing if you are a geek and have the time to try out
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by soundwave106 11y ago
One hope of mine, an actual capitalist solution to this problem of capitalism, is that companies start investing in their service employees more as an asset, not as a disposable automaton (eg, using higher quality service as a differentiati
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How about "old vs. new"? That fits Tesla (who are trying to disrupt old auto maker markets). That fits other scenarios that I've seen like, say, large media companies trying to use streaming Internet royalty rates to drive sm
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The entire Republican party is not racist -- any claim that suggests that is pretty laughable. However, the Republican party (since Nixon at least, when LBJ signed the civil rights act) has long had a strategy of, er, courting racists (thou
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by soundwave106 11y ago
To me the problem with this project is more the puffed up description than anything else. Lots of "awesome" "wow" "woah" type self praise for their project, and a lot of "without the suck" "ugly
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Attitudes towards blacks and Mexicans certainly played a large role in the illegalization of cannabis in the 1930s. Attitudes towards the Chinese likewise played a role with the illegalization of opiates before then. I don't think you
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Libraries always are a trade-off between the flexibility of developing it yourself versus the time saved relying on other people's work. To me, it's less the size of the code than the functionality that matters. Code size is not n
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by soundwave106 11y ago
In this case, I too have to question the NPM / Bower (yes, it's optional, but IMHO shouldn't be needed). The CSS file is basic flexbox. I think it would be a bit embarrassing if you were a web developer, and had to npm /
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Obviously if you are leaving a loaded gun in the back of a pickup truck within reach of a toddler, you haven't been paying attention to gun safety rules enough. :) Unfortunately, I don't think "gun rights advocate" these
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Art is more personal though. There is no single path to "winning" in art, and "good art" tends to mean different things to different people. I'm sure soon (if not now) AI can easily create art that regurgitates popu
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by soundwave106 11y ago
Historically, drug prohibition was often seen as an issue of morality, not a medical problem that needs treatment. Certainly when drug prohibition began (eg the early laws outlawing cocaine, opium, and alcohol), the driving force was almost
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by soundwave106 11y ago
The nice thing about VPLs is that they are more intuitive to people with non-programming experience. I imagine many Max/MSP / PD artists have never written a line of C in their life. And even if you have programming experience, VP
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The two temperatures are enough for the basics. Like many homebrewers they probably use single mash infusion for all of their beers. So the first temperature would be the temperature you hold the mash at and they provide the mash length as
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by soundwave106 11y ago
Indeed I'd say this "vanguard of postcapitalism" description, and the "open source" tag, is more a Guardian invented exaggeration. Many craft breweries have homebrew roots and, generally speaking, many of them are p
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by soundwave106 11y ago
Not likely in my opinion. This is not without precedent, there's been several EDM artists who have not thought twice of doing a studio shot with some cracked plugin exposed. This includes some big EDM names that really should have know
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It is 2016, and indeed most of the music software on my computer is tied to no dongle whatsoever. Dongles are understandably thought of as a bit of a pain by many musicians, and I'm sure many developers understand that they'll los
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Ultimately, I think one fundamental "problem" with nuclear power is the worst case scenario at the plant level. Big picture wise, I'm sure it is statistically be safer than fossil fuels (counting the problems of fossil fuel p
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Many current migraine treatments (such as triptans and ergotamine) are serotonin agonists designed to induce vasoconstriction. The "classic psychedelics" are also serotonin agonists. Migraine treatments target different subparts o
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Although not a perfect proxy, the USDA has tracked data for "food available for consumption" (an inventory based statistic) per capita per day since 1909. This makes it good for this question simply due to duration. Charts with th
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Most of these videos I believe were created with Paulstretch, an open source audio time stretching application specifically optimized for creating nice ambient textures for very long stretches. Paul Nasca gives a brief overview of the algor