Viewing profile — bryans

Having a GPS location doesn't mean you have a suspect. Unless the person called from their own property (zero chance) or didn't move locations at all after making the call (very un…

Late on the reply, but I don't think your argument matches reality. 1. Storage for 50MB is less than $0.001 per month. So, even if you're storing and backing up every every version…

> The servers do not cost 30% of all sales on the platform. Not even close. Specifically, the transfer cost to download a 50MB app is approximately $0.0005. That's 200,000 download…

Even if you're legitimately attempting to analyze political preferences or skew on social media, it seems incredibly inappropriate to be basing that analysis on someone who makes p…

No, you literally cannot stop people from acquiring guns in the United States, as it's baked in the Constitution. Please make arguments based in reality.

If you want to build trust in this industry, I think you'll need to do better than cloning an existing product and slapping a "for the people" label on it. Content creators of all …

When it comes to drug abuse, harm reduction can mean providing clean needles and other supplies to the user. The person isn't going to stop just because they're denied clean suppli…

There are some clever folks on gig sites (Fiverr, Upwork, etc) who are feeding stock video into AI just for the "artificialization" of each frame, while visually retaining the same…

I just moved into an apartment advertised at $1,420/mo that is costing over $1,700/mo because of extra fees only mentioned in fine print inside a 100+ page lease. The "no hidden fe…

MIDI playback does not require a device and is baked into the OS via QuickTime's synthesizer and Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth.

> No, they aren’t. Very convincing argument. Also, that's maybe the one part of this discussion that can't be debated. Possession of illegally obtained property, intellectual or ot…

Absolutely it is. There is two centuries of precedence marking copyrighted works as property. It's literally called intellectual property . The courts have only made clarification …

> Right, the question is, when my computer requests a file from your computer, which one of us is "making a copy" ? It becomes less ambiguous to ask who is doing the publishing. Th…

You say that very confidently, but you are very wrong. If you download music from a source that does not have a license to distribute that music, then they are violating the copyri…

> Possession of copyrighted material in itself is not illegal. The means of procurement matters. If they are in possession of copyrighted material because someone without the prope…

> nobody has ever been sued or prosecuted simply for downloading, acquiring, or possessing illegally acquired copyrighted works Everyone who was sued by the RIAA was done so for po…

> Air has no scent and yet no one insists on only consuming air with scented candles. Well that's not true at all, given that millions of households use continuous plug-in air fres…

Your pedantry is neither appropriate nor correct. Manga is most often black and white purely because of time and budget constraints, not because manga's style is defined as black a…

You're absolutely correct. And it shows how out of touch Hacker News is that the people who understand the existing market get downvoted, while the people who claim "YouTube ads ar…

There aren't that many topics to learn. If you pick one music industry content creator, they will have around two days worth of videos that you can watch. If you do the things they…

You're pretending that YouTube ads are how musicians make money, and that's just not the case. YouTube is one tiny piece of the marketing map -- not the revenue one.

> Making a living doing it is harder than ever! It's extremely easy to make a living from music right now. With a weekend's worth of YouTube training, any decent musician or songwr…

Again, you're making things up because it "sounds correct" to you, but that doesn't make it reality. Your examples of violent crimes that go unreported seem to be based entirely on…

The police would prefer the statistics show a rise in violent crime, because that would quickly result in an increase of their funding, which they actively and publicly pursue cons…

The idea that violent crime is reported less in SF than any other city is a fallacy based on, again, confirmation bias. Also, theft isn't violent crime. And as I already explained …