apersona

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by apersona 1y ago
> Ownership of "content" is a legal fiction invented to give states more control over creativity. 1. I hate the argument of "legal fiction" because the whole concept of law itself is a "fiction" invented tha
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by apersona 1y ago
How does copyright limit creativity? If you want to write a new story about a boy wizard going to school, no one can legally stop you. If you want to make a new Mario-inspired platformer, no one can legally stop you. But if you want to make
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by apersona 1y ago
> I do not agree with your conjecture that big corps would win by default. Why wouldn't big corps win by default? They have the brand name, own the resources to make more polished version of any IP, and have better distribution chan
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by apersona 1y ago
You can't do a damn thing with it not because of copyright, but because you don't have the resources to make the movie in the first place. Copyright can't legally stop you from making a movie about wizards fighting each other
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by apersona 1y ago
Let's separate the implementation of copyright and the concept of copyright. I don't think you would find anyone who would say the US's implementation of copyright is flawless, but the OP seems to be talking about the concept
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by apersona 1y ago
I think you have a misunderstanding of what's copyrightable. > This idea that they own the very idea of 'boy wizard who goes to school' is insane and plays right into this flawed and pernicious idea. Copyright protects an
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by apersona 1y ago
> We have millions of teachers going above and beyond expectations. We have mothers and caregivers. We have comedians crafting jokes for comedy and they have no ability to protect those jokes. We have brilliant chefs creating recipes aft
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by apersona 2y ago
Ah yes, USAID, the agency that provides foreign aid (disaster relief, combatting poverty, providing technical advice) to create a strong, positive impression of the US is "working against your interests". Please tell me what you h
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by apersona 3y ago
You are not a machine. Have you noticed that authors and artists love sharing their inspirations? Let's say you're an up-and-coming author. In an interview, you list your sources of inspiration. Using your logic, why does the crea
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by apersona 3y ago
This is so reductionist, it's not even funny. Imagine debugging your own code (your code being your intellectual work) and this guy barges into your room and says "Why are you wasting your time? Why didn't you just pick a bet
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by apersona 3y ago
I saw someone say they stopped reading after this line: > At one point, we wanted a command that would print a hundred random lines from a dictionary file. I thought about the problem for a few minutes, and, when thinking failed, tried G
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by apersona 3y ago
I am baffled by the original poster's claims. The original poster claims that they're tired of the millionth LISP interpreter and want software engineers to focus on "certified real TM problems", and concludes with peopl
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by apersona 3y ago
I'm sorry, but I am really baffled by what I'm reading. > Like I ranted recently here in HN, can we stop with the millionth LISP interpreter already? Except, the millionth LISP interpreter is a hobby project, that people are ma
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by apersona 3y ago
I'm sorry, but have you tried the Quest Pro's pass-through? I have, and it was an awful experience. They had color pass through but faked it and it felt like a grayscale video that someone shoddily tried to paint over it. There wa
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by apersona 3y ago
I didn't believe it either until I met one. They exist , but it takes more than an interview to gauge and they're so rare it's not worth trying.
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by apersona 7y ago
I think both 0.1x engineers and 10x engineers exist. 0.1x engineer: one of my friends works at a certain government contractor. One of her coworkers had difficulty understanding short circuiting in evaluating boolean statements, everything
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by apersona 7y ago
That sounds depressing. Why would you want to confine yourself to working on CRUD apps instead of working on cool tech?
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by apersona 7y ago
I don't get why the justification for not needing to understand CS is that 80% of the programming jobs are CRUD apps. That's such a weak justification in my opinion. Why would you want to work on CRUD apps over more interesting
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by apersona 7y ago
The model I have right now is that talent is learning rate, so I don't see how the beliefs conflict with each other. Some people pick things up faster than others, but if you put more effort you can still catch up. It also explains why
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by apersona 7y ago
It's the easiest way to get all platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux) if you're already comfortable with web dev.
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by apersona 7y ago
> It's understood that if someone holds the title 'Engineer', they went through a certification process from a regulated body, traditionally. You can see this for example in countries and per state. [0] [1] [2] I think you
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by apersona 8y ago
From my perspective it looks like a good amount of teachers decided to give up a portion of the compensation earlier (i.e. they gave up good pay not when they're looking for another job in an industry they're already in, but the
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Google Takes Down Artstation Android App for Explicit Content(magazine.artstation.com)
291 points by apersona 8y ago|204 comments
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by apersona 8y ago
Why do you think it's not both? If you were running a startup (company), hiring people who match your team's work style and values is as important as capability.
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by apersona 8y ago
Even without Facebook, what's preventing Myanmar's authoritarian government from flooding their own media with propaganda still?
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by apersona 8y ago
> and you sell that power to the highest bidder You make it sound like FB knew that the accounts that "...posed as fans of pop stars and national heroes" were run by a military operation. > because "we can't scal
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by apersona 8y ago
Quoting the original poster: > but there are other options for materials and landscaping that could make homes basically impervious > basically impervious That (for a layman like me) can easily be interpreted as fire proofing.
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by apersona 8y ago
If you're a normal software engineer, I agree, you shouldn't implement it yourself. But if you're a researcher/had a CS research background, I don't see why not. By definition research results in novel approaches (i
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by apersona 8y ago
But Steve Jobs himself didn't do any of the engineering or design either, so...isn't he a people manager himself? And didn't he bring success to his company?
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by apersona 8y ago
That's an issue with their implementation/use of animations, not animation in general. Animations are (if done right) very useful in games. It's what makes you feel, for example, the difference between a weak damage (HP bar d

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