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Ask HN: How do I parlay a significant project into interviews?
1 points by DATACOMMANDER 6y ago|0 comments
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
>Much of the streaming work is "security by obscurity" -- the systems only provide security because the end user either: 1) lacks the technical knowledge to save the data or 2) lacks the desire to do so (presuming they do posse
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Ask HN: It's impossible to stop someone from downloading a stream, correct?
6 points by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago|7 comments
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
I only watch TV for sporting events. In my area, there’s currently a legal battle going on between the “regional sports network” that has negotiated broadcasting rights with certain major teams and Comcast, to whom the RSN sells the program
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
It isn’t though. If you download someone’s work for your own enjoyment, you can plausibly argue that if you’d had to pay, you wouldn’t have been interested, so there’s no money that you’re taking from them. When you illegally sell someone’s
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
No, it’s really not.
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
Selling copies of an artist’s work without their consent is categorically different from making copies for your own personal enjoyment.
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
“ For me, this all raises two questions: Who’s responsible for this infringement?” Both the company that wrote the algorithm that submitted the request and the company that responded by creating a listing. “What responsibility do print-on-d
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
This is a repost. They can transmit one bit (rotate or don’t rotate) with about 85% accuracy. That’s not nothing, but it’s not that much either.
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
Also true. See, e.g., Breaking Bad ;)
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
Okay.
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
Actually, most fortunes go to zero within a few generations. The “1% squared”—the top 0.01%—is not a monolithic group of people. I’d wager that 90% of the 0.01% had grandparents who were not even part of the 1%.
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
Real-estate speculation is basically rent-seeking, but inheritance is not. If someone amasses a fortune by creating wealth and leaves his assets to his offspring, they are not parasitic even if they never work. What matters is how the wealt
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
I used to have Georgist/geolibertarian sympathies, but my feelings now are pretty much the opposite (and no, I’m not a homeowner). In general, the rich do not create the poor. Moreover, communities have no obligation to make it easy fo
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
...as opposed to Yuan, which is spent once and then immediately destroyed?
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
>That's kind of a childish argument to make - "why should we do it when x doesn't anyway? Hmph!" Whoa there, settle down. That’s not the sentiment behind the argument.
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
Thanks for the great response. If I understand you, the problem is that this sort of state handling works at a low(ish?) level, and the frameworks that most people use nowadays didn’t prioritize it, so in order to do it properly you’d have
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Ask HN: Why do most sites still not track state well?
1 points by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago|2 comments
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
The lack of women in tech has never been caused by discrimination. Even if there’s been some discrimination, spending time and energy trying to increase the participation of demographic X in field Y is something I have a hard time underst
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
I didn’t say that I consider you part of the idiotic masses. I said that I hold that opinion if you’re part of the “woke” crowd. I don’t pretend that all idiocy comes from the left, but what does come predominantly from the left is th
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
I see what you’ve done here...and I approve.
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
I’m interested, but only if you don’t discriminate between the conservative idiotic masses (climate change denial, etc) and the liberal idiotic masses (agitating for a complete burn-down of western civilization). Edit: which is to say, ther
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
If the average Gen Z / younger millennial is as incapable of using the English language to express his or her thoughts as Lepera is, I’m happy to forsake my younger brothers and sisters and join Team Boomer. The best reply to “OK, boom
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
“ Amputated the leg in 2 1⁄2 minutes, but in his enthusiasm the patient's testicles as well.” Sounds made up, but I’d it’s not, that’s fucked up. You can’t do that by mistake.
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
I agree, this is the simplest and most likely explanation. As tempting as it is to buy into the romantic idea that they’re 100 years ahead of everyone else but can only use their powers in extreme circumstances, that just seems very unlikel
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
I’ve noticed a trend recently. Someone will write a very long article about some problem, without mentioning politics once. Then, at the end, they’ll assert that the answer is to remake society from the ground up. This is the template: 500
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
From the end of the preface: “For reasons of space and coherence, our emphasis is also largely restricted to understanding and identifying the effects of applied causes. The problem of identifying the causes of observed effects raises many
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
I nodded in agreement while reading the article with one major exception: I don’t like the idea of changing defamation law to be more journalist-friendly. Yes to more government transparency; a big no to making it even easier for the media
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
Really? I’m not a huge fan of globalization, but it’s hard to deny that it has raised the standard of living for the global poor. Look at China now vs China 40 years ago. They “globalized” by allowing more developed countries to exploit the
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
I don't know who downvoted you, but it wasn't me. I'll look at the papers you cited.

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