over | 10 years ago | on: Punch Club has been pirated over 1M times
I think quietly doing good is okay, it's the people who talk about it that are risky.
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over | 10 years ago | on: Punch Club has been pirated over 1M times
On the contrary, I think the people who know whether an action is right or wrong don't spend a lot of time arguing either way, they just go ahead and do what they think is right. It's the people who don't know whether an action is right or wrong that get all worked up trying to handle their conflicted feelings about it.
over | 10 years ago | on: Punch Club has been pirated over 1M times
Maybe, but for the silent majority it's pretty straightforward: 1) we view information as fundamentally different from currency, goods, and services; 2)
we don't want to pay for information if we don't have to and we're not going to get caught.
The gymnastics are mostly about just trying to figure out whether we're bad people or not - because everyone else's favorite game is Shame the Pirate - but once you realize you're not a bad person and that you're okay with doing something illegal then it all just sort of fades into the background.
over | 10 years ago | on: The idea of a university as a free space rather than a safe space is vanishing
I dunno, someone was asking why the downvotes, that's all I could think of. I agree it's nasty to highlight the words like that.
over | 10 years ago | on: Malware leads Minnesota school district to close for 1 day
Tell that to the bicycle.
over | 10 years ago | on: Thank you for ad blocking
The main problem I have with the prevalence of adblockers is that now you have to "block" the meta-advertising people in discussion forums that criticize you or attempt to make you feel guilty for blocking ads on your own property any time the subject comes up, and it's a lot harder since the messages are usually targeted, handwritten, interspersed with useful content, and overall difficult to detect automatically.
over | 10 years ago | on: The idea of a university as a free space rather than a safe space is vanishing
Unfortunately I think this makes universities less hypocritical because it's more in line with the way academia works on the inside.
over | 10 years ago | on: The idea of a university as a free space rather than a safe space is vanishing
I think it's just that there's a lot of dramatic and hyperbolic words and phrases in there, here's a list from a quick pass:
> religion, anyone, conviction, enemy, must, silenced
> most, pitiful, cowardice, all, should, every last one of us, ever, surrendered, tyranny, fighting, capitulate, cower, fear
> my own country, America; disgusts, good men, put down their lives, secure, blessings, liberty, lack, confidence, courage, even, a word, defense
A few of these would be fine.
over | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why are London devs paid so much less than SF/NY?
There's just way more capital per capita for developers in SF. You might want to consider why bankers in SF are paid so poorly relative to London.
over | 10 years ago | on: Hulk Hogan awarded payout over Gawker sex tapes
I stfw'd a little and found these links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_laws_of_the_United_Sta...
http://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/resources/revenge-porn-...
over | 10 years ago | on: How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Really Need?
Inch / foot / yard / mile is a really small range compared to what metric can handle (anything), so in practice most science is done with metric units.
over | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: How much do you make at Amazon? Here is how much I make at Amazon
Yeah, but the claim was:
> Companies never give substantial raises to current employees.
and a single counterexample is enough to counter it.
over | 10 years ago | on: I Am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator. AMA
What are the pros and cons of Silicon Valley being the VC capital of the world? How do you feel about it on the whole? Do you guys ever talk about diversifying, either inside the US or out?
over | 10 years ago | on: An Experimental Autism Treatment Cost Me My Marriage
Sometimes people cross their arms because it's a comfortable resting position. It's common in overweight men, the arms rest on the belly quite naturally. Often people will lean back against the chair or wall at the same time.
over | 10 years ago | on: Statically Recompiling NES Games into Native Executables with LLVM and Go (2013)
The FSF considers BSD a free software license, it's just non-copyleft. There was a lot of discussion on Groklaw about taking BSD code, modifying it, and slapping a GPL license on top. I believe the consensus was this is OK, since you are still respecting the BSD license terms.
over | 10 years ago | on: Facebook is the new Excel
The key for me was to change my personal definition of success from winning the lottery to simply doing things well on a consistent basis.
over | 10 years ago | on: Facebook is the new Excel
At the very least I think Musk would have been a good engineer, and PG would be inspiring young people to try.
over | 10 years ago | on: Facebook is the new Excel
Yes, but I think there's also something to be said for learning to swim in life's ocean of ups and downs, making the most of your situation. For me, a successful person is someone that knows how to swim, not someone that caught a once-in-a-lifetime tidal wave. Usually it isn't very glamorous, but it's what I personally aspire to.
over | 10 years ago | on: Apple Encryption Engineers, If Ordered to Unlock iPhone, Might Resist
keep-telling-yourself-that-ocracy
over | 10 years ago | on: NSA refused Clinton a secure BlackBerry like Obama, so she used her own
I've seen the same thing at companies, where employees get in trouble for talking about confidential information that is known outside of the company.
I think the rationale is because sometimes the file gets updated internally such that the leaked info is no longer accurate and the person with access might screw up.
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