pessimizer

New to me. Thanks a lot.

Aesthete file sharers frequently have access to movies and music that simply can't be purchased. In the case of movies, subtitles are made every day in a myriad of languages for movies that have never…

I'm not talking about scene ripping, where things are pretty much already perfect for that sort of thing - I'm talking about all of the other rips or original content that tend to start as personal us…

Are you aware of any (free or open) code out there that has implemented a reasonably efficient fingerprinting system? I'd love to take a look at it and/or use it for a project I'm working on.

We'd need a universally agreed on coding or tagging system in order to copy files that were actually different, rather than just different rips. Probably want to include quality in there too, so each …

The inferior part is the file format (DRM ridden and weird) and the convenience, not (usually) the sounds and the sights.

This is pretty amazing. I didn't know that the old internet was still there! This may become my new favorite search engine.

Merchants don't pay for their goods as a proportion of their profit. Unless you mean streaming music and movie services, which for some reason get to be a special case.

There's no 30 second rule for sampling - IIRC the limit to sampling is how many people you want to negotiate a composition credit with. That's why newer music that uses popular samples usually just so…

It's not themselves they should be protected from, but the people who are going to try to sucker them. Now if you lay out all of the facts in front of the mark, and he/she dismisses them as pessimism …

You really find Chick-fil-a appetizing and support gay rights at the same time? I'm jealous of you - I once loved it, and now the idea of eating there makes me slightly ill. It's your own personal dec…

Could you leave while the grown-ups talk? There are cookies in the kitchen.

When strangers ask you for specific information about claims that you make, they're not trying to insult your trustworthiness. They don't know you, so you start from a place where there's no reason to…

After imposed austerity or before?

If the homeless man and you ask for equivalent loans in proportion to your salaries, he is also a far better investment than you.

Currently, that interest rate is negative.

"Spain was running budget surpluses and had a considerably lower debt to GDP ratio than Germany." http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/spain-did... …

There's nothing wrong with the European welfare state model, just look at Scandinavia. The problem is with sharing a currency with countries that you have large trade deficits with; so not the Europea…

Because that, in no way, will prevent researchers from trashing studies until they get the results they want, or fishing for any significant correlation after the fact as if that's what they were look…

Might have been better for me to say "a free ecosystem of legally usable source code comparable to the one a large part of the industry depends on today." Or maybe I should have just capitalized "free…

This argument could be made against anyone who stands by any conviction. The diagnosis of some psychological problem solely based on the fact that he won't agree to follow the arbitrary established or…

>Open source was (and would be) alive and well without him. You're making a assertion with no evidence or argument, and using it as a premise to dismiss a rhetorical question.

Because slaves would have magicked out of slavery due to the passage of time? I'm not sure why you would laugh in their face rather than suggest alternative scenarios where other processes might have …

"[...]just 85,000 views[...]" ??? He's not Britney Spears, he's a guy that's looking for enough name recognition to fill clubs on the road. That's all you need if you don't think you're above workin…

But high income inequality and low social mobility (low social mobility isn't particularly in question) together as facts are at odds with a significant likelihood of folks to lift themselves out of p…

I feel the same way at conferences, and I actually do drink, though I never binge drink. But, that's not why I came to the conference. I can drink at home. I think you're fighting a losing battle, t…

Without copyright, there would be no need for the GPL.

I like the idea of timed lockout. Teaches the kids how to budget.