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Ask HN: What can we do to help Andrew Auernheimer?
11 points by wwwtyro 14y ago|3 comments
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by wwwtyro 14y ago
That was very good; thanks.
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> The plea system seems to be loaded with problems, but if you don't want to make a plea bargain you can still simply go to court. Which is what you'd be doing without a plea system anyway. The implication here is that things would be t
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by wwwtyro 14y ago
> There's a kind of emotional economy that nerds don't tune into. Please expand on this as much as you're willing.
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by wwwtyro 14y ago
> Say someone breaks into your neighbors house and steals 10k worth of stuff. I consider crimes of violence to be the use of aggressive force against a person or their property. After some research, this appears to disagree with the gen
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by wwwtyro 14y ago
In my opinion, it's unconscionable to imprison people for nonviolent crimes. > We as a community are right now grasping at straws trying to make Carmen Ortiz as this horrible monster, when she was basically just a woman doing her job. I
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by wwwtyro 14y ago
Has the plea bargaining system ever been challenged in court?
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by wwwtyro 14y ago
This quote was pretty powerful, for me: "In this hypothetical scenario, those 10 years in prison would, practically speaking, have consisted of six months for his original crime (the sentence Ortiz actually thought he deserved) plus a nine-
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The Aaron Swartz Prosecution & Plea Bargaining(techdirt.com)
74 points by wwwtyro 14y ago|30 comments
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by wwwtyro 14y ago
> It's not illegal to change your mac address or wear a ski mask. It can be illegal to do both of these things while committing other crimes. Honest question: why is that? Why is it not enough to charge someone for the actual crime they
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by wwwtyro 14y ago
They have a nice migration guide here: https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/wiki/Migration .
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Ask HN: Is the inevitable future of social networking software distributed?
6 points by wwwtyro 14y ago|3 comments
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by wwwtyro 14y ago
I was under the impression that local governments offer them franchise agreements and keep competitors out.
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by wwwtyro 14y ago
They do something very much like that here: webofknowledge.com ...but it's usually unusably slow. I'm curious: where would you get the data?
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by wwwtyro 14y ago
Very nice. I find crowd-sourced anything very compelling. Is there any methodology for getting users? Is there some reliable way to differentiate between "I haven't yet tried hard enough to get users," and "I'm pretty confident this is simp
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by wwwtyro 14y ago
I have no problem with such an agreement, actually. I would have a problem with physical enforcement of it, but no problem with social ramifications for breaking it (something along the lines of a damaged credit report).
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by wwwtyro 14y ago
> Both exist because of the law, and neither exist without the law. I could not disagree more. Rights exist even in the absence of respect for them. I affirm my right to life, and I would do so even if every person in the world wanted t
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by wwwtyro 14y ago
I find your definition of property lacking. I find it lacking because it implies that there's some series of ones and zeros that I cannot inscribe onto my plastic disc. Emphasis on the word my. If I own something, then I have the right to a
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by wwwtyro 14y ago
How much money did it cost to come up with "pinch-to-zoom"? I bet I could pay a gaggle of 5th graders 10$ to come up with it (and several other ideas) in an hour.
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by wwwtyro 14y ago
Hmm. I'm not following the logic, there. If that were true, wouldn't every company have their wages set to the minimum wage right now?
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by wwwtyro 14y ago
I wouldn't be so quick to consider the anti-IP position as one of simple rationalization. I once held your position, and now consider it to have been a narrow-minded mistake (that was directed at my past self, not you). Give me a moment to
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by wwwtyro 14y ago
Copyright itself appears to be a rethinking of monetizing creativity. The threshold pledge system managed to monetize creativity with no concept of "intellectual property": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_pledge_system
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by wwwtyro 14y ago
> They're about as valuable as old voicemails and the threat of loss isn't palpable. The value of old voicemails goes way up when the people that made them are no longer around.
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by wwwtyro 14y ago
Google is a company that has produced tremendous benefit to society, in spite of having shareholders.
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by wwwtyro 14y ago
Arguably, though, goals and results are two different things. "The road to hell is paved with good intentions", and all that. What does the evidence say about which benefits society more?
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by wwwtyro 14y ago
Additionally, his premise that CPUs will continue to get more and more cores is probably also flawed. The diminishing returns of the extra cores due to Amdahl's law will make them less and less economically viable.
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by wwwtyro 14y ago
Could you explain the reasoning behind this statement?
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Fair and fairly scary point.
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I hate to sound unimpressed, but does biological evolution strike anyone else as rather irrelevant, now? I doubt we will be held hostage by these mortal coils for much longer.
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> a person actively distributing it from their connection and a person allowing others to route CP via their connection are logically equivalent False equivalence. Someone can simultaneously support anonymous communication without suppo

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