pervycreeper

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by pervycreeper 8y ago
Not a surprise to see pi in there really, since we're averaging over "surfaces" of circles/spheres. In general (spoiler), it does generalize to arbitrary dimensions. We get a rational factor for odd dimensions, and 1&#x2
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by pervycreeper 8y ago
Such an experience could be described as the replacement of one ideology with another, rather than an increase in personality trait openness.
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by pervycreeper 8y ago
The key "says lawyer" portion of the headline is missing in the title.
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by pervycreeper 8y ago
The title instantly identifies it as belonging to the genre of vacuous contrarian hot-takes. Without having read it in its entirety either, I would guess that if does make a good point, it relies on confusing the dangers of bad info, excess
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by pervycreeper 8y ago
This requires owning both repositories. The user puts a measure of "trust" in the owner whose repository he had starred already, so this seems more like a violation of that trust rather than an "exploit".
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by pervycreeper 8y ago
>nobody stands to profit from rationally curtailing copyright Except, of course, nearly everybody.
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by pervycreeper 8y ago
I've noticed a lot of hair-splitting in these comments over whether this was a failure of peer review, whether to call the papers, considered as specimens of scholarship in their appropriate fields, "fraudulent" rather than &
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by pervycreeper 8y ago
>The point of peer review is to stop bad research, not fake research I would submit that "fake research" is, in fact, bad research.
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by pervycreeper 8y ago
Can you specify an appropriate forum in which he could have presented his findings to the public without upsetting anyone?
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by pervycreeper 8y ago
Title is misleading. Really it means to say that the oldest still active torrent is 15 years old.
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by pervycreeper 8y ago
Someone mentioned tonsils below, but in the past, we also had bloodletting, trepanation, and various other unnecessary excisions. Foreskin may one day join the list (who knows, though). This all raises the question of why medicine is practi
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by pervycreeper 8y ago
You're implying that there's some ulterior-motive Embrace, Extend, Extinguish plan underlying this? Is there anything, however, in what they announced they will do that will have a negative effect, though?
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by pervycreeper 8y ago
The original IPFS whitepaper mentions Filecoin, so that is one possible incentive, but there are many other ways to incentivize people to keep files available. Constituting a superset of the current incentives for hosting files, at the very
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by pervycreeper 8y ago
Could you explain why you think that Cloudflare's recent effort constitutes an attack on IPFS? That is, wouldn't the pinning of a large number of files, hosted on a fast CDN, be a good thing?
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by pervycreeper 8y ago
>Amazon has no literary opinion This is not exactly true. Amazon has removed books from its publishing platform based on their content, and even makes pseudo-literary judgements by forbidding "placeholder" or "dummy"
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by pervycreeper 8y ago
I'm not sure what point to take from this, other than to be reminded of the imprecision and conceptual vagueness of the terminology he uses ("order", "balance", etc.)
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by pervycreeper 8y ago
When was the last time you replaced an iPhone because a metal bracket snapped or something like that? Hard to really keep them accountable on this because of the large lead times involved in assessing the long term durability of their produ
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by pervycreeper 8y ago
how much for?
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by pervycreeper 8y ago
By "The Romantic Generation", I was thinking more of Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, and Mendelssohn, all of whom were nearly exact contemporaries (b.1809-1811), and who consciously broke with with the past (including Beethoven), by larg
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by pervycreeper 8y ago
> Which is very close to how I feel about Haydn. Glossed over that part when I first read the comment! It was Haydn who essentially created "The Classical Style", which is perhaps the most perfect mode of musical discourse that
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by pervycreeper 8y ago
The wind quintets were written on commission, for public consumption, rather than being "written for the drawer", as many of the works in this recording series were. Nonetheless, they are still first rate compositions and full to
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by pervycreeper 8y ago
Didn't mention explicitly Beethoven's influence on Reicha, but I'd say the sonata movement he played at the end of the video (Grande Sonata in C Major) is inhabiting the same sonic world created in the third movement of the W
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by pervycreeper 8y ago
Glad that he's finally getting some of recognition that he has been unfairly denied for centuries. There is extraordinary intelligence and personality behind his music. It's almost inexplicable that he doesn't get more attent
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by pervycreeper 8y ago
Definitely the influence worked in both directions. Some comments by Ilić on that topic can be found in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2xC3UDeTYo
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by pervycreeper 8y ago
Romero's claim that this was intentional stretches credulity.
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by pervycreeper 8y ago
As a viewer, it's routine to see classical recordings on YouTube claimed as/attributed to/ categorized as the wrong thing. It doesn't help that differences in two different recordings of, say, the same piano piece can be
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by pervycreeper 8y ago
This is more or less the establishment view, held by those who shepherded in the current state of affairs.
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by pervycreeper 8y ago
Will go one further: the use of emoji at all defeats the purpose of having a language and an alphabet.
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by pervycreeper 8y ago
What's a "pro", anyway? The category of people who use computers for work is a comprehensive one.
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by pervycreeper 8y ago
This time around, they have way more cash and maintain a larger share of much larger markets, and keep tighter control of spending and resource use. Their decline, if you are right about the writing being on the wall, will be an extremely l

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