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by advisedwang 2mo ago
This is great, so long as you don't get caught. But if you get caught, the consequences could be disastrous. For the person whose phone it is, you could get a lifetime ban from the US or charged with a felony. For the developer of a s
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
This article, and possibly the owners of the site, seem to muddle together several problems: 1. bot traffic causing infrastructure cost 2. scraping circumventing paying for licenses 3. the risk of hacking
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
Yes, it would be nice to universal access to all content. But the streaming providers must negotiate licensing fees, and having a commitment to provide all content would allow the rights-holders to charge whatever they liked. That drive the
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
That doesn't help for the kind of search happening here. If the traveler refuse to give the agent the access demanded, they would be denied entry. We need courts to protect the privacy so that you have the right to say no.
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
> The original promise of streaming was simple. Everything would be available whenever you wanted it. You could sit down in the evening and binge an entire season without waiting a week for the next episode. That's not how I remembe
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
> “code is data and data is code” is a fact of computing The general purpose computers we have today all follow that principal, yes. However it's not a fundamental fact of computing. Turing machines, cellular automata provide other
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
They geoblock EU users so that the EU doesn't have jurisdiction over them.
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
Can you imagine how annoying it would be for checkout workers to have a giant barcode with a different product on the front of a book!
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
This website is a small, local company. They have a newsletter signup page so they do collect user info. Quite likely they are not GDPR compliant (e.g. take longer than 30d to delete records, don't have a process for answering data req
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
I like the kind of output artists make when they work on individual creative projects. I don't really like the kind of output artists make when they feel they need to crank out something every week that has to have roughly equal appeal
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
I believe there is a material difference between "content" and other modes of creative output: content is defined by a pipeline. It is desired for it's recurring revenue. You could make the tackiest, most commercial and deriv
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
This story naturally ends after Claire's departure, but "that the era of sanctioned dissent was over" did not mean that dissent was over. The lesson for many was that "asking nicely" wasn't working. I believe
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
To apply for a visa, even a B1 visa, you have to go to a consulate and show them proof of your bank account, property you own, family details, your job and such things (supposedly to show that you are tied to your home company and not secre
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
> LLM generated code is not copyrightable [citation needed] I've seen cases where it was determined that the LLM itself doesn't hold copyright. But where are you getting the idea that nobody holds copyright?
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
The departures kind of subtract from the "flow state" feeling you get when lining things up. Sure, that's an additional challenge, but it's not that fun.
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
OK, but a heatwave isn't going to buy a derailer
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
I hope they are telling teens that their conversations are being surveilled.
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
That appears to be saying you cannot make a trademark of something that is well known to be used by someone else, which is very different from needing the new trademark you are trying to register to be well known.
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
Being well known is not part of determining if a trademark is valid
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
We've had speed cameras and red-light cameras for years. Flock cameras are not traffic enforcement cameras.
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
Jay walking is the big crime here?
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
Some reasons why a computer system is beneficial: * Can send out updates quickly, e.g. changing rooms when you discover your secretary forgot to book the usual one that week 5 minutes before the club meeting. * Folks can see/post updat
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
The system seems to have no master or leader at all. Where in the article did you get that reads from a master have no consensus? Of course, you could build database that uses meerkat to do leader election, and then neither reads nor writes
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
It doesn't mention CAP because it's obviously opting for consistency over availability, and is explicitly compared next to other systems that treat consistency as paramount. There's nothing interesting or new about it's
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
This sounds like a very direct approach to linearizability - just put everything in a linear order. But this includes READ operations too! You have to get global consensus for every read! Most distributed systems have additional complexity
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
Until legislators fear loosing their seats more than they desire a policy, they're not going listen to the people. That's why political manovering, lobbying, activism etc are part of the political process. It's even worse fo
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
Which makes this effect even strong, because the civil service and it's internal priorities are long lasting and don't change with elections.
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
So many comments about the EU constantly re-trying the same law with minor tweaks, and about how legislatures do this in general. I wanted to provide an explanation for this behaviour. The way legislation is expected to proceed in countries
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
OMG are people actually doing this for personal chats? That's psychotic.
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
This article and the one it is responding to are explicitly talking about non-business meeting contexts. They are talking about personal conversations, medical appointments and much more casual business contexts like informal interviews. Pl

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