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by wbhart 7y ago
Rousseau found a way around the block. He uploaded the video again in a way that caused it to be claimed, rather than blocked, by a different company. He'll still have to dispute it, but YouTube is not obliged by law to take down conte
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by wbhart 7y ago
This is everything to do with the DMCA. YouTube claims it is required by law to take down content that receives a takedown notice. That law is the DMCA. Edit: I'm probably wrong. It seems a claimant can also issue a block. They do no
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by wbhart 7y ago
I assume you are being facetious. Rousseau doesn't owe anything to any publisher. Just checking you understood this.
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by wbhart 7y ago
It's ironic that a system of rules (DMCA) that was designed to help performers not lose revenue is actually causing a performer to lose revenue. Rousseau is one of the most recognised pianists on YouTube. He works tirelessly to perform
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by wbhart 7y ago
I imagine that Amazon are going to argue in court that if the publishers are held to be correct, then computer monitor manufacturers are not licensed to display copies of the work and that they also should pay the publisher (again) as shoul
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by wbhart 7y ago
I wouldn't disagree that dependent types are great for certain specialised problem domains, but they've already been around for ages and didn't yet revolutionise the world of software design. I think the sentiment that this i
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Fast Parallel Multivariate Arithmetic – Final Report(wbhart.blogspot.com)
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by wbhart 7y ago
I once saw a case on a conspiracy forum of a guy who claimed that taking worming tablets had cured his cancer. It wasn't a clear case to me, as he'd also been taking traditional chemo. His doctors apparently told him that the worm
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by wbhart 7y ago
Why not call it "Symmetry: A Colouring Book". The title is misleading given that you won't learn much about the standard results of group theory from this book.
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by wbhart 7y ago
If you do a calculation of the number of Ebay purchases that are handled by PayPal, it's certainly in the millions, and probably hundreds of millions. The rate of outright fraud is unfortunately very high, and the average person is so
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by wbhart 7y ago
The first seems quite reasonable. The very public smokescreen would be to control the narrative. Every time someone reported seeing such a thing, the public could be told it is probably just the US working on UFO technology. Certainly I bel
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by wbhart 7y ago
The first doesn't seem plausible for the reason I gave. The second occurred to me. But how stupid do they think the Chinese are? If the top Chinese military researchers really have such a poor grasp of physics, then their research effo
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by wbhart 7y ago
They seem to be confusing friction due to interaction with air and water with inertial mass. This is crackpottery at the highest level. It's a bunch of technobabble. How does writing a patent for a device that obviously can't work
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by wbhart 7y ago
There was also a 3 million dollar extortion attempt against Assange to not publish footage of him in the embassy. His lawyers filed court proceedings in Spain. I'm sorry I don't have a reliable source in English for that. [1] [1]
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by wbhart 7y ago
Yes, the NYT reported it for example [1]. Edit: ok, to be more clear, they were medically qualified to examine victims of torture, but they gave him a full medical evaluation. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2019&#
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by wbhart 7y ago
The rapporteur has addressed that. He took medical professionals with him and their assessment is he is gravely ill. The specifics won't be made public, as that would violate his privacy, however they have been clear that he is sufferi
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by wbhart 7y ago
The serious decline of Assange's health is worrisome. Even Belmarsh prison (where Assange is currently) does not have the best record when it comes to human rights violations [1, pp. 21]. However, it seems the main concern at the momen
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by wbhart 7y ago
I am not convinced by any of this. His lawyers have argued repeatedly that he should not be extradited because he would face the death penalty, torture or mistreatment. Ecuador sought written assurances from the UK that he would not be extr
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by wbhart 7y ago
I think people are only claiming they potentially do. It is unlikely the DOJ would seek the death penalty for the particular violations, especially since he would not be extradited if they did. What happens after he sets foot on US soil tho
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by wbhart 7y ago
"Binding", in that the parties had signed the convention and agreed to "uphold" such rulings. They instead claimed that "Assange was free to leave at any time", i.e. that they were "upholding" the rul
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by wbhart 7y ago
I agree with you. I believe he even offered to present himself to Sweden if he could be guaranteed that he would not be extradited to the US. A Swedish prison would be a country club in comparison. But I think the concern of the UN here is
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by wbhart 7y ago
Interesting observation. I didn't know Assange signed his tweets with a PGP key. What I find odd though is that he hadn't got a message out of the embassy through supporters such as Pamela Anderson that his twitter feed was compro
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by wbhart 7y ago
Is there verifiable intelligence to support this? I recall the Roger Stone story which didn't look like it had much depth to me. And I know Assange had a show on RT for a while. But has any evidence surfaced of an actual conspiracy inv
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by wbhart 7y ago
According to the UN Special Rapporteur on torture, who just visited Assange [1], he has fallen gravely ill and shows all the signs of prolonged psychological torture. Apparently at first he assumed Assange was just a good actor, but after v
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by wbhart 7y ago
I don't see how conflating inscrutible with non-deterministic is useful. But this is the argument the author is making. They seem to argue that it is a useful thing to do scientifically. Perhaps philosophers would do well to focus on w
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by wbhart 7y ago
Why would Von Neumann probes make silent, sharp, right angled turns at impossible speeds with no visible thrust, defying the known laws of physics. It can't be evidence of aliens if it isn't even possible.
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by wbhart 8y ago
Is there a known example of something a digital computer can do that a Turing machine cannot?
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by wbhart 8y ago
There are practical problems in pure mathematics that require multiplication of numbers with 85 billion digits. For example, polynomial multiplication can be reduced to integer multiplication, and certain problems, such as computing congrue
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by wbhart 8y ago
The big-oh notation is an asymptotic notation, so it is meaningless to describe an imul as being O(n). Given that an imul is doing 64x64 bit multiplications, it is almost a tautology to say it can be done in a constant times 64 ops/cyc
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by wbhart 8y ago
The title and the article are severely misleading. One can easily try the method described in the article and find that empirically, it doesn't work for large numbers. That implies that no one is seriously taking such a naive approach.

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