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by zucker42 6y ago
Isn't Blender 2.7 to 2.8 widely considered a successful redesign? Blender is experiencing continuing and dramatic industry support. I've heard Blender is comparable to the proprietary alternatives. I've not used Blender much
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by zucker42 6y ago
The problems with the article that I perceive: 1. It makes claims about the SSC readership and the rationalist community intended to invoke an emotional response with little verifiable evidence. > This plea conformed with the online pers
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by zucker42 6y ago
LibreJS may be an option, but I've never used it myself.
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by zucker42 6y ago
Reverse engineering is generally legal. Reverse engineering DRM can potentially get you a lengthy jail sentence.
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by zucker42 6y ago
I remember back before the ad algorithm was changed to be more favorable to ~10 minute videos, there was some complaining about how YouTube was all short, stupid videos and long form more substantial content was not viable. Personally I pre
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by zucker42 6y ago
> apart from them working with some entities you don’t like In principle, isn't working with entities you don't like sufficient to call a corporation despicable? Like if you think ICE is a despicable organization, and Palantir
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by zucker42 6y ago
> There are plenty of societies that don't respect intellectual property and copyright. And those societies don't innovate at the rate as those who do. For one, this claim suffers from a correlation/causation issue. But al
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by zucker42 6y ago
To agree with your point, LeCun did many things which indicate he takes this seriously: 1. Responded with a detailed summary of his views. 2. Said he was open to changing his mind in the face of convincing arguments; indicated a desire to l
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by zucker42 6y ago
> I think one issue here is that Twitter makes it hard to have good conversations because it motivates people to optimize for pithiness and likeability/retweetability over substance. Which is why it's probably a good thing on b
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by zucker42 6y ago
Great link, the one part of LeCun's argument I don't understand (or maybe I disagree with it) is that in Tweet 9 he minimizes the effect of architectural bias mentioned in Tweet 6 by saying that modern DL models have "generic
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by zucker42 6y ago
Without taking a position on the original argument, the person involved seems to hold an influential position at Google and in the community, so I don't think this is necessarily a satisfactory response.
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by zucker42 6y ago
The EFF could be just trying to limit the damage. Indeed, the article mainly focuses on CDL and not the unlimited lending of the NEL. Even a partial victory could protect the right to digitize old books not out of copyright.
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by zucker42 6y ago
Which law specifically bans the NEL? The IA seems to be arguing copyright law doesn't because it's covered under fair use.
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> so that person should be paid Almost all people agree that creators and publishers should be paid, though perhaps in different amounts than they are now. However, some people think that criminalizing sharing is not necessarily the best
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by zucker42 6y ago
> Why am I willing to offer you money for a promise you wrote or will write a book? Generally, reputation is sufficient check to fraud in situations like this. In a simple setup, you may trust the author because they've written many
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by zucker42 6y ago
If you own a taco stand and I open a pizza place next to you, I will deprive you of some potential sales. Clearly, that condition isn't sufficient to indicate theft.
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by zucker42 6y ago
$500/year is a nontrivial amount of money anywhere, but especially in many countries outside the U.S.
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by zucker42 6y ago
Copyright infringement isn't the same as stealing. I'm saying this as someone who can't recall ever using unlicensed software.
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by zucker42 6y ago
I'm not a professional economist, but to my eye this assumes that if I'm willing to pay $10 for one channel and $3 for another, I'm willing to pay $13 for both. This seems like a bad assumption especially for media, because s
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by zucker42 6y ago
This comment almost reads like a joke.
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by zucker42 6y ago
Does it work with GCC on your computer? This might be 32-bit specific.
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by zucker42 6y ago
One practice that seems relevant is when a large company buys a smaller product which many users depend on, then after a year or two proceeds to kill the product with poor or no replacement options. Some examples: https://ourincr
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by zucker42 6y ago
> There is no way to stop them from tracking your phone location Is airplane mode or turning your phone off effective? I've heard stated before that they are not, but I don't understand the technical details.
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It's quite possibly different people arguing either side.
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by zucker42 6y ago
There's a real, specific concern here that doesn't apply to Google analytics on blogs. The concern is that if this data is available for purchase by a company consumers haven't heard of, it's available for purchase by po
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by zucker42 6y ago
Does the ethnicity data also come from phone companies?
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by zucker42 6y ago
Does anyone know more specifically how a company like Mobilewalla gets location data? Is it from Google, or from apps people open on their phone, or from trackers on websites, or from cell data, or from something else? Also, is there any wa
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by zucker42 6y ago
I think the point of people advocating the Swedish model is that it's not fair to compare Sweden now with the Czech Republic now. If a country implements strict lockdown measures for three months and then no lockdown measures it might
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by zucker42 6y ago
Did Github just undergo a design update? The buttons are flatter and it looks more like Gitlab to me now.
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What is the ostensible purpose behind that law? Seems like something you could get changed (with considerable effort) considering there appear to be no strong interests who benefit from it.

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