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by vibragiel 16y ago
Ok, what about 10 million people? There is no service in the act of copying a digital work. A service is an economic good, i.e. it needs to be a scarce resource. Scarcity of resources constitutes the core of Economics, so it is hardly irrel
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by vibragiel 16y ago
That's just the same. You're occupying space, a scarce tangible resource at concerts and the subway. Plus other derivated resources. Scale it up if you don't see the damage: I could easily make 1000 copies of a digital work without the auth
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by vibragiel 16y ago
No, it isn't. Watch it again. If you flee from a hotel, restaurant or taxi without paying for the service, you produce a tangible damage in the form of staff time and other physical resources. That's in no way comparable to making a copy of
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by vibragiel 16y ago
The same argument could be made against libelers.
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by vibragiel 16y ago
When this video* was published, I thought the idea it tells was too obvious and well known, but time proved me wrong it seems. Please watch it. (*) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTybKL1pM4
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by vibragiel 16y ago
Been there. Ah, those infinitely nested INKEY$...
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by vibragiel 16y ago
It turns out there's a bigger 152 Gigapixel photograph of Rio de Janeiro, published in September: http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/58857/ Much more crappy in my opinion, but certainly bigger, so this photo of Seville would not set a world
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by vibragiel 16y ago
For those who can't read Spanish, these are some tech details: The gigapan is composed of 9750 pictures (f16, 1/800 S, ISO800) taken with a robotized Canon 5D MkII, a 400mm Canon lens and a duplicator (effectively 800mm of focal lens), and
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111 Gigapixel photo of Seville sets new world record(sevilla111.com)
127 points by vibragiel 16y ago|49 comments
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by vibragiel 16y ago
There are several definitions of "Solar System edge", and all of them are so diffuse that we get these periodic reports, and we'll be getting them for a while.
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by vibragiel 16y ago
I think this problem has no satisfactory answer. We are asked to operate with quantifiable information —probability of special and normal coins coming up heads— and unquantifiable information —my "belief" in a coin being a special coin, whi
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by vibragiel 16y ago
"It's not arsenic-based life" http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/12/its_not_an_arseni...
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by vibragiel 16y ago
You just have to trust other cyclists. If you use a regular lock, anyone with another regular lock could lock your bike and screw you anyway.
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by vibragiel 16y ago
I just exported all of my contacts from Facebook. I'll let you know if it has any ill effects. As a downside, if it finds a duplicate when exporting to Gmail, it refuses to export the contact instead of merging the information.
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by vibragiel 16y ago
I still think it's a very bad word to pick. "Belief" is widely accepted to mean holding a proposition regardless of evidence, which isn't something you could call "scientific".
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by vibragiel 16y ago
There are no forces involved in Einstein's gravitation. You can see it as a pseudo-force (like Coriolis or centripetal) if you like, for practical (and mental sanity) reasons. But it's not a true force. See "equivalence principle". http://
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by vibragiel 16y ago
I think Edge picked a very bad word. Isn't "scientific belief" is a silly oxymoron? At least, many of those "beliefs" weren't actually beliefs, but scientific theories that worked very well but were later improved. It's the case of Newtonia
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by vibragiel 16y ago
He is saying this because, in general relativity, gravitation is no longer explained as a force between two masses, but as their "warping" of their surrounding space(time). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitation#General_relativity
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by vibragiel 16y ago
Or Pycha: http://bitbucket.org/lgs/pycha/wiki/Home
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by vibragiel 16y ago
How thorough would an interview need to be to match thousands of thumbs ups by thousands of tech-savvy (to say the least) people?
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by vibragiel 16y ago
Well it can't hurt. Of course, you can't fully describe a person by just a number. It's theoretically possible that a highly reputed Stack Overflow user could be an awful programmer at work, but I'm sure that the intersection of "highly rep
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by vibragiel 16y ago
A worthy app for Maddox himself. http://alphabetofmanliness.com/
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Query By Example (QBE) for Django(versae.github.com)
3 points by vibragiel 16y ago|0 comments
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by vibragiel 16y ago
I can't forget that time when a London taxi driver made a killing with me by in an unexpected city tour. I took a taxi at Victoria Station and told the driver to take me to Kennington tube station. I'm not a native English speaker, and th
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by vibragiel 16y ago
The fact that this shit is just 20 years old is precisely what shocks me, at times.
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by vibragiel 16y ago
I can't help getting shocked by the fact that "the father of the Web" is a 55 year old guy.
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by vibragiel 16y ago
For those not registered at nytimes.com, here's a bookmarklet to bypass the login page: http://nytimes.blogspace.com/genlink
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by vibragiel 16y ago
I'm from Spain also and have never ever heard "San Pablo" around here.
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by vibragiel 16y ago
I never heard a Spaniard referring to São Paulo as San Pablo.
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by vibragiel 16y ago
There's no such thing as an evolutionary mechanism that keep species alive.

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