TFNA

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by TFNA 3d ago
One of the most infamous legal challenges to sampled music was MARRS "Pump Up the Volume" in the 1980s, and that was preceded by other famous cases. Not sure why you think that started in the 1990s.
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by TFNA 4d ago
A lot of people today, particularly young people, no longer use the open web in a browser. They only use the social-media walled gardens through phone apps. Even for some newspapers etc. that might have existed first as websites, they use i
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by TFNA 4d ago
Complaints about loud audio on public transport are common in Europe, where the predominant phone OS is Android, not iPhones.
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by TFNA 5d ago
In cultures where the sight of certain things is taboo, telling a local person that they have to direct their gaze elsewhere feels as much of a rude imposition as someone's phone audio reaching your ears. Please try to step beyond your
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by TFNA 5d ago
Are you thinking of the Aztecs or Mayans thousands of kilometers away? Andean human sacrifice involved customs unable to provide that level of throughput.
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by TFNA 5d ago
China doesn't regard AI as a death race. It regards it as a way to ensure its own global stature and benefit its own population.
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by TFNA 5d ago
Iran's government is ideological as a fig leaf of continuity with the Revolution. True believers are few these days, and the IRG is largely keen to stay in power in order to protect its vast business interests.
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by TFNA 5d ago
Negative externalities is culturally dependent. The Japanese consider the sight of a person eating while walking to be a negative externality. Are we going to start complaining here on HN about people doing it? No, we recognize that those t
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by TFNA 5d ago
Have you traveled Latin America? Loud audio in public is so normal there that immigrants to Europe often can't see what all this fuss is about when people complain about loud phones on public transport. This is very much a mutable cult
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by TFNA 5d ago
Because fuck you, that's why. More seriously, whenever I ask a young person on public transport to use headphones (and luckily I live in a region where I can safely do that and enjoy some authority as an older person), the response is
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by TFNA 5d ago
Shame is deeply entrenched in societies of great inequality and social hierarchy. There's a lot of reading within anthropology on honor cultures.
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by TFNA 5d ago
It has also become more intimidating to interact IRL since so often women say online, "I don't want men to use public places and meetups as a way to meet me." Now, those women may be unrepresentative and a sign of how social
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by TFNA 5d ago
It's not just old people and my heart bleeds for young people now who are fucked compared to how we had it. I am moving back to a university town that 10 years ago had a lively cafe and live-music culture where young people would readi
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by TFNA 6d ago
I am wary of meeting with more than about 2-3 men at a time, because men in larger groups tend to socialize through banter, toilet humor, or talking about fucking women (which I like to do sometimes but don't want to talk about); just
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by TFNA 6d ago
Meetups aren't as effective as you think. I have seen complaints from multiple large European cities that general social meetups don't actually result much in people exchanging contacts and meeting again in future; it feels like a
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by TFNA 6d ago
The internet that people miss was deeply interrelated with the real world. Blogs were read widely enough, even by an elderly non-techie audience, that in real-life meetings with people in a shared community (music-band fandom, a religious d
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by TFNA 6d ago
On a site like this that is very American-centric, where moral rights are not as known a thing as in other countries due to different legal traditions, it was reasonable to assume the OP was unaware that moral rights are a clearly defined c
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by TFNA 6d ago
Legislation. There is a whole Wikipedia article about moral rights if you want to educate yourself.
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by TFNA 7d ago
> I wouldn’t mind a patrol car circling the area, like a damn police state. Very strange that Americans now view a patrolling policeman as a "police state". After all, a strolling constabulary (which would drive in the US since
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by TFNA 7d ago
I get that impression, because opposition to surveillance cameras here is very often accompanied by a statement along the lines of "and society doesn't even see any benefit from it".
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by TFNA 7d ago
A lot of techies have lived in China and seen how that country has stronger social harmony than the West and is gradually outpacing it, so mass surveillance clearly isn't an obstacle to the general prosperity. The problem with mass sur
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by TFNA 7d ago
What you are describing is the view of copyright set down in the US Constitution, but it doesn't necessarily apply to the rest of the world. In many countries, copyright is strongly bound up with the author's moral rights.
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by TFNA 7d ago
I wonder if it is by design. On Nitter, which is fast-loading and streamlined, it is trivial to ctrl-click on a bunch of commenter accounts and readily see they are bots (photo from This Person Does Not Exist, unrealistically single-issue p
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by TFNA 8d ago
This response sounds like "let them eat cake". You realize a lot of people on the internet (even here on HN) are in the developing world and, whether due to lack of means or weak passports, can't necessarily travel to where t
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by TFNA 8d ago
What if I want to spend my time discussing things that are not represented in my geographical region?
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by TFNA 8d ago
You seem to think of language learning only as learning for passive media consumption, and the plethora of mistakes in your English rather underscores that. Most people learning a language want more than that, e.g. being able to achieve at
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by TFNA 8d ago
How would opt-out help at a societal level? Reddit offers an opt-out (old.reddit.com) of some of its most deleterious changes, but that didn't stop the site from going downhill overall: the vast majority of users remained on the new si
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by TFNA 9d ago
Merzbow gets booked for popular-music festivals regularly, and plenty of other artists have credited him. The Japanese noise scene even inspired a Detroit noise scene through the 1990s and early millennium. I don't care for the genre m
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by TFNA 9d ago
When did you use it? It was a more authentic language-learning tool in the beginning, but was then gradually enshittified in order to maximize engagement on the platform, not actual language mastery. A lot of the most competent language-con
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by TFNA 10d ago
As classic as that collaboration now is, the RPO was not top-tier at the time of it.

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