betterunix

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by betterunix 12y ago
Even more amazing is that there are still a few 19th century steam engines being used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corliss_steam_engine#List_of_o...
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by betterunix 12y ago
Quite a few conferences now require that experiments involved human subjects be reviewed by an ethics committee of some kind before being carried out. Universities have such committees and they do oversee themselves pretty effectively. S
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by betterunix 12y ago
"One expects that judges will sort this mess out" Who expects that? Judges failed to stem the growth of militarized police forces for decades .
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by betterunix 12y ago
"it seems to me that it's better, or at least more efficient, to assume everything is copyrighted once it has been created rather than requiring everyone to file a form with an associated fee for everything that a person ever deci
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by betterunix 12y ago
"Illegal digital downloads disrupted everything, and cut profits substantially" Only because a decade beforehand the RIAA decided that instead of working on ways to monetize the Internet, they would work on ways to make computers
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by betterunix 12y ago
"labels really do have a bad situation here" Are people expected to feel sympathy for these companies? Have we forgotten that people turned to big centralized services for their music as a direct result of the recording industr
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by betterunix 12y ago
In other words, legalizing MDMA and regulating the production process could help to save an endangered species. (What, we can't turn the propaganda around?)
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by betterunix 12y ago
I can't help but to be amused by the irony of the NSA systematically weakening computer security and swooping in to help the FBI when American companies become victims of foreign spies that exploit poor security.
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by betterunix 12y ago
Just like SWAT teams are used sparingly...
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by betterunix 12y ago
He's a little narcissistic, but limited it to talking about his being a "perfect gentleman" and things like that. There is also this part: "I am Elliot Rodger...Magnificent, glorious, supreme, eminent, Divine! I am th
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by betterunix 12y ago
It is a mixture of psychopathy and megalomania. He expresses a belief that women exist to provide men with sex, and his anger stems from a belief that women have been given the power to choose who to have sex with yet failed to choose him.
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by betterunix 12y ago
Not all Jews are Zionists and most American Zionists are not Jewish. Stop referring to a "Jewish lobby" when you mean an "Israel lobby" or "Zionist lobby." The term "Jewish lobby" is misleading, eas
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by betterunix 12y ago
This is not offering you a discount in return for your viewing targeted ads, because nothing here actually requires you to view ads in the first place. This is more like saying, "Pay us more and we won't sell your browsing histor
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by betterunix 12y ago
The history of mother's day is rather informative: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%27s_Day_%28United_State...
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by betterunix 12y ago
Actually, I think coroutines are easier to understand in higher-level languages that support call/cc -- Scheme, for example. Yield is just another continuation, no different from return, throw, restart, etc.
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by betterunix 12y ago
"They remove the gatekeeper for financial services" Hardly. Even if you ran your entire business on Bitcoin, you would still need to find an exchange when the tax man came around demanding fiat currency (unless you are dealing in
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by betterunix 12y ago
"Something that just came up to me: why is making porn movies for money legal, but prostitution is illegal?" The law is not a strictly logical system (this is usually a good thing, despite the common negative perceptions). Pornog
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by betterunix 12y ago
Not that I want to that guy , but... "If this president is established and takes roots"
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by betterunix 12y ago
I think Comcast, owner of NBC Universal, has little ground to stand on here. Streaming is an inefficient use of the Internet that is popular only because people are too terrified of lawsuits to use better technologies like BitTorrent. Com
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by betterunix 12y ago
"Evolving business strategies" like fighting new technologies to maintain a decades-old business model ? Interesting perspective you have there...
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by betterunix 12y ago
It's more like asking your neighbor to fetch two burgers, and then give you one of them. Except that your neighbor has a burger-multiplying-machine that can keep giving you burgers once your neighbor gets their first one. There is no
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by betterunix 12y ago
It is worse than that. "15 Mbps peak speeds" is actually "15 Mbps bursts." I am fine with getting less than my maximum speed; I understand that the connection is shared and that my neighbors' service can interfer
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by betterunix 12y ago
It is actually rather simple: * Netflix cannot make money if individual Internet users cannot connect to Netflix and stream their movies. Netflix brings in a lot of revenue from its customers, and even after the cost of its own Internet co
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by betterunix 12y ago
Yeah I stopped reading at that point. An ISP with a history of interfering with certain traffic and lobbying against net neutrality is not a supporter of an open Internet at all, let alone the "strongest."
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by betterunix 12y ago
Maybe HBO should embrace an innovative distribution model, instead of clinging to the obsolete premium-cable-channel model. HBO itself would have been impossible if the media establishment had been success at killing cable; why should I fe
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by betterunix 12y ago
"To strike a contrarian tone, how much is this going to matter a handful of years from now as the internet at large and bandwidth to the home continues to increase?" Who will enjoy the benefits of the increase? If you are only ge
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by betterunix 12y ago
Nobody is talking about taking away HBO's right to sell entertainment in ways that make them money. They can and should out-compete BitTorrent.
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by betterunix 12y ago
That is why distributed storage would be so much better. You know, if 10 people download a movie, I should be able to download it from any of those 10 people. Or all of them could send me part of the file, improving throughput. Oh, wait,
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by betterunix 12y ago
Does it matter? Email addresses are harvested by spammers all the time. The key piece of the puzzle now is that spam filtering is advanced enough that we do not need to care. I almost never see spam in my inbox, and I almost never see ha
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by betterunix 12y ago
The most obvious answer is this: you sell the money printing machine for more than the money it would have printed. In other words, anyone selling a mining rig believes that they will make more money from the sale than they would make fro

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