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by touchofevil 9y ago
I think that this is the big question! I actually started an auction site based on allowing EU users to resell their Steam games (and ios/google play apps) b/c I think due to the Oracle v UsedSoft ruling Steam users should be able
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by touchofevil 9y ago
I'm also curious about reselling in-app purchases. The Oracle vs UsedSoft ruling only applied to "software" as I recall. I think if you had paid for in-app purchases to unlock premium features of a product there could be a ca
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by touchofevil 9y ago
The whole "lifetime license in exchange for a one-time fee" idea in the Oracle vs UsedSoft case comes from that case trying to determine what "ownership" means in regards to digital products. In Autodesk vs Vernor, Autod
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by touchofevil 9y ago
It's not a question of whether FCPX is a good value. If an EU citizen pays a one-time fee for a lifetime license of FCPX they are supposed to be able to resell that software according to the Oracle vs UsedSoft ruling. Apple has not bui
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by touchofevil 9y ago
If you want to learn about a really interesting aspect of the "first sale doctrine" and how it applies to software, you should have a look at "Vernor vs Autodesk" in the USA and compare it to "Oracle vs UsedSoft&quo
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by touchofevil 9y ago
+1 for CDBaby created by Derek Sivers. You can find his interviews discussing the creation of CDBaby at sivers.org His interviews with Tim Ferris are great.
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by touchofevil 9y ago
+1 for this. I think the idea of hiring a small team to replace yourself is the way to go OP.
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by touchofevil 9y ago
As an extremely dedicated procrastinator, the most insightful idea I have found regarding this topic is something called "The Procrastination Doom Loop"[1] I'd also highly recommend a book called "The War of Art"[2]
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by touchofevil 9y ago
True, but if anyone has a lot of dollars it's Alphabet.
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by touchofevil 9y ago
If Alphabet really wants to mess with Uber, why don't they just buy Lyft and offer lower ride pricing/higher driver pay for as long as it takes to put Uber out of business?
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by touchofevil 9y ago
I've worked in the VFX industry and I find the subsidy situation fascinating. Canada and England have provided large subsidies to movie studios on visual effects work in a (successful) attempt to create visual effects industries of the
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Hollywood’s Most Thrilling Scenes Are Now Orchestrated Thousands of Miles Away(nytimes.com)
1 points by touchofevil 9y ago|1 comments
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by touchofevil 9y ago
Save up some money, get an offer at another company that you think will enjoy (even if for less money), and bounce. Life is too short to work somewhere you hate.
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by touchofevil 9y ago
That's really scary. I hadn't heard about it affecting slaughterhouse workers, but that totally makes sense. I hope the slaughterhouses will stop these sorts of AMR practices.
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by touchofevil 9y ago
I did a bunch of research (googling) back in the late 90's or 2000s when the mad cow disease outbreak first happened mainly in England. I thought it was pretty terrifying and I wanted to know what the hell was going on. I read about K
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by touchofevil 10y ago
Big pharma is allowed to run ads b/c they aren't advertising recreational drugs which is different from cigarettes and the proposed recreational drugs we are discussing.
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by touchofevil 10y ago
I assume that the same rules that prevent cigarettes from being advertised would also apply to legalized drugs.
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by touchofevil 10y ago
I'm not sure where you are getting your estimate that 10-20% of the population would be addicted to morphine if most drugs were legalized in the USA today. If you look at the stats on Portugal, you'll see that drug use and drug r
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by touchofevil 10y ago
It seems like the real problem causing the overdoses is that fentanyl and carfentinal are getting mixed into the heroin. At the minimum, the US should provide a program where heroin addicts can get heroin from government clinics, which is w
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by touchofevil 10y ago
Does anyone use Keeper? How is it? I need a password manager that supports Linux so it seems that LastPass, Keeper, Enpass, and Keypass are the only options. https://keepersecurity.com/
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by touchofevil 10y ago
The social aspect of the game was definitely the best part for me as well. I met great people who were outside of my usual social circle through the game and that was fantastic. I never touched Magic Online, thankfully. I was always trying
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by touchofevil 10y ago
I played A LOT of competitive Magic: The Gathering from about age 14-21. We used to call it "cardboard crack" so we all understood that the game was addictive. I had a lot of fun and met some great people, but even back then I kne
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by touchofevil 10y ago
I recently saw a youtube video of a lithium battery in a laptop catching fire randomly in a home and I started to think about all the laptops that get brought on planes. This article is about batteries in a pair of headphones catching fire,
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Lithium battery explosion mid-flight prompts passenger warning(news.aviation-safety.net)
1 points by touchofevil 10y ago|3 comments
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by touchofevil 10y ago
I love that backblaze has added the ability to back up a server or NAS for $5 per TB per month. I just convinced my friend at a media company to replicate their 30TB backup server offsite to Backblaze and the cost is only $150 per month. Th
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by touchofevil 10y ago
You poor soul...a 2+ hour commute each way is just mind-blowing. I worked with some people who did those kind of commutes and I don't know how they did it (especially because we were doing minimum 10 hour days). I would spend or sacri
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by touchofevil 10y ago
The traffic in LA is soul crushing. I just finished a job where I commuted about 18 miles each way and the drive would take 50 minutes each way. That might not sound unreasonable, but nearly the entire commute was freeway driving, which sh
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by touchofevil 10y ago
My favorite on is by Uesugi Kenshin. "Even a life-long prosperity is but one cup of sake; A life of forty-nine years is passed in a dream; I know not what life is, nor death. Year in year out-all but a dream. Both Heaven and Hell a
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by touchofevil 10y ago
I have found these samurai death poems to be pretty interesting when contemplating one's mortality. https://www.samurai-archives.com/deathq.html
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by touchofevil 10y ago
Right, you can add GPUs in the external chassis, but not CPUs. CPUs are important for compressing video.

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