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by snickms 5y ago
These collection societies are actually the opposite of the mafia. They collect royalties on behalf of the composers. If the composer has a publisher, the royalties are forwarded there instead (so the publisher can take their contractual cu
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by snickms 6y ago
What if in the future we could examine the contents of a particular rock from space? Have instruments sensitive enough to detect the remnants of Vogon breath from their visit millions of years ago? A pristine planet has value beyond 'I
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by snickms 6y ago
This mission is an incredible achievement. The images are as advertised (stunning) and I'm sure all the sciences - and even art - will benefit from the data. What I find a little sad is that we seem incapable of doing this without leav
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by snickms 6y ago
Spoiler alert - If you were looking for the controversial 'Harold was smitten in the eye by an arrow' scene, its at the '57' mark. I'll leave it for others to decide what killed him, but from the lower part of the t
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by snickms 6y ago
They should have explained that copyright belongs to every author and singling out one industry as being worthy of compensation works against the spirit of the treaty. They could then explain how their content uses excerpts of copyrighted m
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by snickms 6y ago
> ...used to control politics in three major large democracies Five eyes my foot. As you have noted, three of them appear to be completely blind. If they cannot protect us from this, then what are they there for?
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by snickms 6y ago
> The way some people are angry at google here reminds of of Brexit. Indeed. Both are the result of flooding the media with specious arguments designed to make people fight over irrelevant details. 'Google is a grifter' 'T
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by snickms 6y ago
Quite a few people here think that this legislation exists solely to prop up various News Corp outlets. https://www.crikey.com.au/2020/11/26/coalition-news-corp-fun...
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by snickms 6y ago
My neighbour used to have a Dyson leaf blower. I would wake up thinking I was in the men's room.
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by snickms 6y ago
To be fair, the Dyson model claims to heat and cool the air as well as filter it - unlike the DIY purifier.
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by snickms 6y ago
I've used podman-compose for a few web projects. Rootless means you can't bind to privileged ports etc. but after a bit of fiddling I can now spin up my choice of DB/server/mock pretty quickly - just like I could with do
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by snickms 6y ago
If those damned Argentinians would just mine bitcoin exclusively, we could all get on with our lives. We also need to talk to South Africa about Youtube.
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by snickms 6y ago
True - and even with this tremendous waste, it pays for itself. We have never looked beyond monetary return to justify the existence of anything and i fear we are doomed to stay that way. Thankfully, renewables are becoming more profitable.
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by snickms 6y ago
I think both the article and this comment miss the point. If we generated power cleanly in the first place, there would be far less environmental damage everywhere. The fact that Bitcoin now uses half the power of Youtube (from a terribly u
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by snickms 6y ago
If the goal is to educate the public on the scale of power involved, a comparison with a commonly used service would help a lot IMHO. Something like 'Bitcoin consumes 14 times the energy of Google and half (according rough estimates) t
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by snickms 6y ago
Lately I've seen boxes marked with just the penis - no 'Amazon' at all.
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by snickms 6y ago
If there were one video we could archive to describe the world as it is right now, this would be it IMHO.
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by snickms 6y ago
Would it make sense for these companies to make bets against their customer's trades? My guess it that the customers are wrong most of the time.
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by snickms 6y ago
I'm not convinced that a plot formed openly on the internet actually qualifies as a conspiracy. I'm sure things would have worked out differently for Nixon had he distributed a press release regarding an up-coming DNC burglary bef
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by snickms 6y ago
Its a little trickier in New Zealand, where one pulse means '9' :) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_Zealand_Rotary_T...
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by snickms 6y ago
Congratulations! You've just shown us all that the gradient started to shift upwards less than 300 years ago. Seriously, look at some basic calculus. Try to understand what you are doing. I look forward to your further efforts in debun
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by snickms 6y ago
When someone talks about anything changing over a period of time, they are talking about slope. There really isn't another interpretation.
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by snickms 6y ago
The data points at the top are at 16.6 year intervals. Recent data is represented by a line. The punch line is not the absolute temperature (as this wanders around a fair bit), but the gradient at the end. Because the recent data is over a
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by snickms 6y ago
I believe the parent is talking about rate of change rather than absolute temperature. Discounting collisions with large meteors, the statement that the average temperature over time has never risen so fast is true.
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by snickms 6y ago
The BBC is not a government-run service. It is a publicly-owned corporation.
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by snickms 6y ago
I think it highly unlikely that weather.gov is faking it's forecasts in either direction.
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by snickms 6y ago
If he has not communicated his vision clearly enough for the company to survive without him, then he has failed. That world. [Edited] - as I thought you were asking a slightly different question. My bad.
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by snickms 6y ago
The article was paywalled for me, but if you made your cars in lisp, you'd run out of braces way before you ran out of semiconductors.
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by snickms 6y ago
Personally, I wish Twitter was one audio-only party line. Two minutes of listening to a million people yelling their thoughts in real rime would reveal exactly what is happening there - and what a complete waste of time it is.
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by snickms 6y ago
Surely the fuel cost savings would wipe out the price difference within a couple of years? Not sure what the average price of petrol is where you are though. [Edit[ https://myelectriccar.com.au/calculator/ confirms thi

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