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by waqf 15y ago
I'm confused by at least the tone of your question, because this is exactly what companies like Google are doing to ensure that the Internet is not run by Hollywood. They testified against SOPA in Congress, and Matt Cutts' article inclu
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by waqf 15y ago
I just cut out the middleman and don't buy ebooks in the first place. Less effort, same result.
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by waqf 15y ago
Are you expressing surprise that Russians complain about Russian weather, that Russians complain about Finnish weather or that Russians complain about Norwegian weather? None of those seems surprising since all those countries are, at least
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by waqf 15y ago
I would like to believe you are right, but I think Big Content has time for a few more tries before everyone of legislating age understands the situation.
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by waqf 15y ago
No surprises there since CNN is a content provider and MS is also believed to be pro-SOPA: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3249396
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by waqf 15y ago
"Terrorism" has less power to persuade, justifiably or not, when recent terrorist attacks are not on people's minds. "Child porn" doesn't have this disadvantage, because you can be told that it's going on all around you without your knowle
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by waqf 15y ago
And it certainly does not imply "one chance in 100 the result is a fluke". Will science journalists never learn how to interpret a p -value into English?
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by waqf 15y ago
> SOPA is ostensibly an anti-counterfeiting bill. ... FTFY.
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by waqf 15y ago
Well, I feel uncomfortable using a product that is designed to fill such people's needs at the expense of mine. Just like Yahoo's homepage full of entertainment news, Google's aggressive query correction sends me the message "You are not ou
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by waqf 15y ago
Can I enable literal mode permanently with a cookie? Otherwise, you better make sure that going into literal mode is fewer clicks than, say, going to DuckDuckGo.
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by waqf 15y ago
Funny, for me spelling is least likely to be an exception to the rule. If I misspelled a word in my query then I meant it to be misspelled ... I was probably trying to track down a specific article in which I knew the word to be misspell
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by waqf 15y ago
The optimal way to play any "reputation" system is to build up an exemplary rating until you've unlocked all the "trusted-people-only" privileges, then suddenly exploit them all at once and disappear. In the case of credit ratings, this me
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by waqf 15y ago
For a fair number of people it is simply not possible to get their finances in order without massive life changes. Doesn't mean they shouldn't do it, for values of "shouldn't" such as "wouldn't be better off and happier, five or ten years
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by waqf 15y ago
I think there are two different questions here. I agree that the semantics of operators such as >>= is a Good Thing and makes Haskell a Better Language Than The Competition, but I still think that the grammar and syntax (such a
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by waqf 15y ago
Well, this explains why incognito mode doesn't have the features I want: I mostly use it because I don't want website X to know (via web bugs, syndicated advertising, etc.) that I visited website Y, or what my account name there is. And wh
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by waqf 15y ago
Any group that is as big as government and as organized would be already on government's radar as a major threat. So you might want to work on your robustness before working too hard on your organization.
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by waqf 15y ago
You can? How? Who is 'we'? How many people, how much time and how much money do you need?
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by waqf 15y ago
because as we all know, once you have thoroughly checked for exploitable bugs your system is completely free from exploitable bugs!
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by waqf 15y ago
So what does the bill say? This article told me pretty much nothing about that important detail.
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by waqf 15y ago
I want to see someone use a language model for SQL to reconstruct the query just from that photograph , and then debug it.
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by waqf 15y ago
I have heard stories implying that you can reliably produce an "original" doctoral thesis by digging out something from the vast amount of work published 70–100 years ago in German.
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by waqf 15y ago
Any reasonable editor can be set up so that the tab key will take care of that: ideally, you would also indent with tabs not spaces, and then you could set any tab width (in pixels, or better, points) you wanted and your code would still l
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by waqf 15y ago
There are plenty of things to criticize in the Haskell syntax rules — they're hard to get used to and they're not so beneficial that the learning curve seems worthwhile — but parsing isn't as ambiguous as it seems at first. When you see a
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by waqf 15y ago
Where do you live that is safe from the content industries? Not that such places don't exist, but the problem is much wider than the US, partly but not entirely because of the US's ability to strongarm other countries into passing their own
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by waqf 15y ago
Isn't that backwards? If east were up, north would be to the left. Unless you're making a celestial map.
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by waqf 15y ago
I'm confused. Would it also be ironic if it were instead funded by the US government?
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by waqf 15y ago
We're talking past each other: the disagreement is not with anything you just said. I just want you to rephrase your perfectly good argument without the word "privilege", because although what you mean by it (which you have explained) is
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by waqf 15y ago
I agree, the "privilege" expression is adversarial and will offend people you might want to get onto your side. Personally, I instinctively ignore people who use it because it makes me think they either aren't serious about having a coöpe
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by waqf 15y ago
I agree with the author that Bayes' rule was not applied in this case, but I don't see why, in principle, a likelihood ratio couldn't be presented to the jury and weighed by them in combination with other evidence.
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by waqf 15y ago
Meh. If you think of randomness as information entropy, then the uniform distribution is the unique most random distribution. So you can argue, "when you said at random, it's reasonable to assume you meant completely at random (i.e. in

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