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I recently created a web application that wasn't quite good enough to turn into a product, but was interesting enough to garner attention from the CEO of a major site in the space.…

>Much of the streaming work is "security by obscurity" -- the systems only provide security because the end user either: 1) lacks the technical knowledge to save the data or 2) lac…

I just want to make sure I'm not missing something. By "[download] a stream" I obviously mean "save video that you're streaming to permanent storage". I'm doing an interview projec…

I only watch TV for sporting events. In my area, there’s currently a legal battle going on between the “regional sports network” that has negotiated broadcasting rights with certai…

It isn’t though. If you download someone’s work for your own enjoyment, you can plausibly argue that if you’d had to pay, you wouldn’t have been interested, so there’s no money tha…

No, it’s really not.

Selling copies of an artist’s work without their consent is categorically different from making copies for your own personal enjoyment.

“ For me, this all raises two questions: Who’s responsible for this infringement?” Both the company that wrote the algorithm that submitted the request and the company that respond…

This is a repost. They can transmit one bit (rotate or don’t rotate) with about 85% accuracy. That’s not nothing, but it’s not that much either.

Also true. See, e.g., Breaking Bad ;)

Okay.

Actually, most fortunes go to zero within a few generations. The “1% squared”—the top 0.01%—is not a monolithic group of people. I’d wager that 90% of the 0.01% had grandparents wh…

Real-estate speculation is basically rent-seeking, but inheritance is not. If someone amasses a fortune by creating wealth and leaves his assets to his offspring, they are not para…

Bullshit. He would have died after no more than two months.

I used to have Georgist/geolibertarian sympathies, but my feelings now are pretty much the opposite (and no, I’m not a homeowner). In general, the rich do not create the poor. More…

...as opposed to Yuan, which is spent once and then immediately destroyed?

>That's kind of a childish argument to make - "why should we do it when x doesn't anyway? Hmph!" Whoa there, settle down. That’s not the sentiment behind the argument.

Thanks for the great response. If I understand you, the problem is that this sort of state handling works at a low(ish?) level, and the frameworks that most people use nowadays did…

I have a bit of frontend experience and a general understanding of how backends work, but I guess the "glue" layer between them must be more difficult than I think. Why is it that …

The lack of women in tech has never been caused by discrimination. Even if there’s been some discrimination, spending time and energy trying to increase the participation of demogr…

I didn’t say that I consider you part of the idiotic masses. I said that I hold that opinion if you’re part of the “woke” crowd. I don’t pretend that all idiocy comes from the left…

I see what you’ve done here...and I approve.

I’m interested, but only if you don’t discriminate between the conservative idiotic masses (climate change denial, etc) and the liberal idiotic masses (agitating for a complete bur…

If the average Gen Z / younger millennial is as incapable of using the English language to express his or her thoughts as Lepera is, I’m happy to forsake my younger brothers and si…

“ Amputated the leg in 2 1⁄2 minutes, but in his enthusiasm the patient's testicles as well.” Sounds made up, but I’d it’s not, that’s fucked up. You can’t do that by mistake.