aphexbr

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by aphexbr 9y ago
Not good enough. The person who got killed was not one of the people involved in the game. The guy who was the target to be swatted gave a false address to the person calling him out. Not playing the FPS would not protect you in this case.
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by aphexbr 9y ago
"I think the real longterm move for Netflix is to incorporate RottenTomatoes and IMBD into their business." I understand the sentiment, but I can foresee problems with them getting a major studio brand and an Amazon property into
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by aphexbr 9y ago
I'm in Spain, and I know a lot of local Snapchat users. Not sure what he's on about.
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by aphexbr 9y ago
No, Netflix are interested in providing a streaming service where you rent movies instantly from their catalogue for a fixed monthly fee. Nothing you said changes this. You also didn't answer my point - if Netflix's model is doome
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by aphexbr 9y ago
If LinkedIn are being that negatively affected by a single scraper, they should deal with it - block it, only allow a specific number of requests from an IP per day, anything that doesn't involve lawsuits. The problem is them trying to
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by aphexbr 9y ago
It goes both ways. If Thiel's money was necessary for Hogan to get justice, that is indeed a problem with the US legal system. But, on the flipside, Thiel was financing numerous lawsuits against Gawker due to a personal vendetta, many
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by aphexbr 9y ago
Actually, the chilling effect is due to that the lawsuit against Gawker only went as far as it did because Hogan teamed up with Peter Thiel, who had a personal vendetta against them over a story they had written about him. By all accounts,
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by aphexbr 9y ago
The number of photos is irrelevant to the analogy, though, as is what people do with the photos afterwards. If the bikes are visible from the public street, people can take as many pictures of every bike they want, and then make money from
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by aphexbr 9y ago
You won't get DRM free, because Netflix don't sell you the content, they rent it. Or, more specifically, they sell you access to the platform to stream the rented content. I'm all for DRM-free purchases, but you're never
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by aphexbr 9y ago
"I also hate the suggestions and that I can't edit them and ban them." If you thumb down a suggestion it will usually disappear from the suggestions list. Also, if you keep getting suggestions based on something watched that
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by aphexbr 9y ago
"they are selling a very well understood, easily replicated goods - namely content" No, they're not. They're selling a service that allows you to rent content and have it stream to you instantly. The content library is w
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by aphexbr 9y ago
The bike example is a very poor analogy - the data isn't removed from LinkedIn, it's merely copied. It doesn't matter how many times the site is scraped, the data is unchanged and still available. A better analogy would be me
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by aphexbr 9y ago
I'd never heard of the investor.. I immediately thought "why are people asking him about investments, and didn't he die?"
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by aphexbr 9y ago
"Isn't that the sort of thing that we have anti-trust laws for?" I might be wrong, but the way I understand it is that anti-trust relates to abuse of a monopoly position, not the monopoly position itself. So, if Amazon were d
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by aphexbr 9y ago
So, nothing happens in your world to drive older people into poverty though no fault of their own? It all has to be because of what they did? No financial crises, stock market crashes, stolen pensions, healthcare related bankruptcies, etc?
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by aphexbr 9y ago
Some people voluntarily help some other people with some costs. There's a lot of people who don't get the care they need for whatever reason, even in a system where there's a lot of volunteers. To get the best deal for everyb
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by aphexbr 9y ago
But, by then treating the addiction as a medical condition rather than as criminal activity, that makes it much easier to overcome, and it's easier to intervene with someone performing a legal vs an illegal activity. Portugal experienc
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by aphexbr 9y ago
"for the general public, the concept of "anonymous hacker" is not associated with anything good" An association that's largely created by these tabloids in the first place. "that's what "general publi
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by aphexbr 9y ago
Why would he be capable of only addressing one issue at a time? If I fight against racial discrimination, for example, why does that mean I'm not also battling for workers' rights?
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by aphexbr 9y ago
DRM might not be an issue any more (at least for purchases), but regional releases, platform exclusivity, etc. sure as hell are.
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by aphexbr 9y ago
You boycotted Nintendo because of what Rare did to their own game when porting it? Do you also boycott Microsoft now that they own Rare or do you have some kind of weird double standard?
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by aphexbr 9y ago
They fact that they included videos they had specifically authorised or uploaded themselves in the list of supposedly infringing videos couldn't have helped.
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by aphexbr 9y ago
"the jet fuel that's used to transport all the world's hipsters to “experience the world”" What about the jet fuel that's used for the other 98% of people who fly on a regular basis? Is that less polluting, or are y
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by aphexbr 9y ago
"Data analyzed for this report reveals, however, that the U.S. led in many broadband metrics in 2011 and 2012." Anything more recent? I can tell you from my experience in the south of Spain that investment and availability in broa
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by aphexbr 9y ago
"You spend 8 hours a day working. Why would you want to be isolated from other people?" So that you can get the work done and not have to think about it when you go socialising with people you actually choose to spend time with? &
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by aphexbr 9y ago
I presume she means there's no such thing for the type of work she does. That is, if she did something else those things would be available to her, but they aren't for her line of work. So, she has to depend on pre-existing relati
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by aphexbr 10y ago
FTA: "The company is relying heavily on innovation in battery technology continuing to improve at its current rate. If not, the firm will not be able to build in enough power to give the plane the range it needs." So, it presumabl
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by aphexbr 10y ago
That response assumes that "unwanted pregnancies" are the only reason a woman would want an abortion. There's plenty of medical reasons why it would be necessary.
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by aphexbr 10y ago
"huge areas have been ghettozied in virtually every major city" Yes, but not just Britain. You hear a lot of Polish around your local Lidl? Well, there's some Spanish bloke also complaining about the amount of English he&#x27