tmuir

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by tmuir 9y ago
When you say that you like nicotene, can you at least agree with the general idea that you like the ability to end the general stress that comes from not being able to smoke when its on your mind? Here's another thought experiment from
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by tmuir 9y ago
I've read that Carr's business expanded to several other vices. The two I know of are alcohol abuse, and overeating. What I've read about them makes me think of the story from WWII, placing armor on areas of planes that wer
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by tmuir 9y ago
There was an author named Allen Carr, an Englishman, I believe, who wrote a book called The EasyWay to Quit Smoking. I can attest to the relative ease his method provides, over quitting cold turkey. Essentially, he uses tools of psychology
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by tmuir 9y ago
On an only slightly different topic, about 15 years ago, there was a pretty healthy community of people distributing the circuit boards and accompanying software to program DirectTV smart cards. These would unlock all of the channels that
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by tmuir 9y ago
He is not trolling. His core point is that there is no sufficient amount of training, or expertise, or monitoring, or punishment, or trying harder the 17th time you've been caught. If you are leaving the decision up to enough/to
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by tmuir 9y ago
The richness of the irony in your question makes me wonder about your level of sarcasm. On one hand, its pretty reasonable to say that absolutely nothing changed at facebook. We are all witnessing the effects of latency. On the other hand,
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by tmuir 9y ago
I think that people who go out of their way to present what they believe are alpha male characteristics are essentially hanging a neon sign above themselves. That sign is begging for someone with those characteristics to come along and fix
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by tmuir 9y ago
It is ironic that you mention reverse engineering, because all of my arguments here are based in details of the most famous copyright infraction cases. The prevailing logic in this thread, whether correct or not, if that is even a quantifi
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by tmuir 9y ago
In the case of Blurred Lines, wasn't Pharrell forced to admit that he was listening to the Marvin Gaye song, around the time of the recording of Blurred Lines? That doesn't prove causation on it's own, but it does seem to blu
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by tmuir 9y ago
I can make the very same retort to you: In a separate post, I said that solving these sorts of "burden of compliance" problems has continually defined the successful players of the internet industry for the last quarter century.
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by tmuir 9y ago
This hypothesis does not survive comparison with even the most well known copyright cases, such as George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord", which was found to infringe on The Chiffon's "He's so fine". Also, The
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by tmuir 9y ago
Because people prefer simple heuristics that allow them to make whatever claims of causation they want. This concept has literally infected our general political discourse in the United States. Everything has been boiled down to SAT style
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by tmuir 9y ago
I write software for a living, you'd probably be better off asking a patent attorney. But as a software developer, I have developed a sense of exploring the arguments people use, to inspect their underlying mechanisms of convincing oth
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by tmuir 9y ago
I agree, which is why I used the undeniable existence of similarities between these two songs to lay out the absurdity of the idea lisper was floating.
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by tmuir 9y ago
The key fallacy you are promoting here is that pointing out instances of similarity is indistinguishable from arguing that this particular collection of similarities constitutes copyright infraction. You first promoted this fallacy when you
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by tmuir 9y ago
I don't think its controversial in the slightest to say that they are highly similar songs. They have a similar beat. They both have a similar style of walking bass line. They both feature a male falsetto singer as the main melodic ins
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by tmuir 9y ago
This is the very sector that has only achieved its current status by automating away the menial tasks that you claim will overwhelm them. If humans can figure out how to make two rockets land autonomously and concurrently, I don't rea
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by tmuir 9y ago
Its probably safe to assume that the person you're recommending this to has absolutely no idea about the general concepts of software development, or the rough orders of magnitude of information that is reasonable to store and serve wi
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by tmuir 9y ago
You seem to baselessly project negative emotions and motivations on to your interlocutors in lieu of coherent points that actually refute their arguments. chinhodado, the GP, framed his feature request as one of the major reasons he is forc
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by tmuir 9y ago
I see, so the relatively low bandwidth of a static QR code is mitigated by a high frame rate. What your saying is that these machines don't log at the operating system level, in the fashion of a tracelog, but count on bad actors to use
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by tmuir 9y ago
Mine is a perfectly valid criticism. You do nobody any favors by conflating the goal of total feature parity with the general concept of business intelligence, and understanding your direct competitor's key features. The strawman you
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by tmuir 9y ago
wouldn't there be some sort of log that the http server utilized the network in some capacity? I have to assume its still opening TCP connections, and using all of the traditional layers below that, all of whose activities are possibl
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by tmuir 9y ago
what exactly am I giving up, by doing this?
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by tmuir 9y ago
Does this mean that gitlab doesn't generally employ people to simply learn their competitors products, to keep informed of their offerings?
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by tmuir 9y ago
Pssh. Gitlab was obviously just tallying the individual sentiments of whether the users were generally in favor of Github continuing to exist as an organization. How could you have missed this?
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by tmuir 9y ago
I often think in this specific realm. From looking back at previous points in my life before I learned the inner machinations of complex systems such as computers, I know that there are subjects which are incredibly far out of my reach of
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by tmuir 9y ago
My spidey sense tingled on the sentence just previous: "Filtering means removing the high frequency components from the signal" Sure, it can mean that. To claim it always and only means that, even in the context of periodic wavef
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by tmuir 9y ago
You misunderstood. I was relaying that I, too, have a decent grasp of sampling theory, and that if I understand the article's main premise, then saying they have disproven Nyquist's Theorem with this example is akin to saying tha
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by tmuir 9y ago
But the last guys that made big bad weapons with unforeseen consequences weren't as smart as we are. Trust us, this time is different.
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by tmuir 9y ago
I agree. You can't maintain credibility by telling everyone that you are the only legal source of information about a subject, even if that subject is yourself. Because in situations like these, the facts of the case look indistingui

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