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toohotatopic commented on Court dismisses Genius lawsuit over lyrics-scraping by Google techcrunch.com/2020/08/11... · Posted by u/fortran77

cjsawyer · 6 years ago

What will google steal when all the other websites are dead?

toohotatopic · 6 years ago

Nothing, because then you are on google sites all the time and google gets all the ad dollars.

For some reasons, google wants to become AOoL, introducing the A with their AMP service (or with Applied Semantics).

This rises the question: Will content owners create their own content network? If Google steals your content on the internet, why put your content on the internet? Why not have an app that delivers content to paying customers? Now each content provider tries this on his own with his own app. why not combine the efforts and just offer a browser for their closed network or embrace the Brave browser? If all content producers pull this off together, the audience will be there.

Facebook could offer a Facebook content network on their own because they already have the audience, and Genius and all those Recipe sites could publish their content in a secure way. Maybe Instagram with its text pictures is already the predecessor.

It seems like Google was taken over by Applied Semantics in the same way that Boeing was taken over by McDonnell Douglas because in the long run, nobody offers up his content for search if it is ripped off.

toohotatopic commented on Microsoft President: We Need a Hippocratic Oath for Software Engineers capitalandgrowth.org/answ... · Posted by u/jkuria

toohotatopic · 6 years ago

How about a Hippocratic Oath for business leaders? This is shifting the responsibility from management towards the engineers. It's not the engineers who pulled the trigger at Facebook - or Microsoft. They build the weapons. Management fires them.

This is a hypocritic ode. If somebody is acting unethically at MS then it is management. All the innovation that is not happening because MS is abusing their position. Two times they have killed a universal software platform to preserve theirs: Java and websites. Ironically they are pushing websites now that the platform has shifted to mobile with objective c and Google's variation of Java.

>According to Brad Smith, just like it is the Pope’s job to bring religion closer to today’s technology, it is the software developer’s job to bring technology closer to the humanities.

The Pope is to religion as is the President of the biggest software company to software development. It is his responsibility, not theirs. Or does he see himself as that software developer? I guess it is more a Balmer developer and he means software engineers.

He could start by handing out software licenses / EULAS that take full responsibility for any damage the software does cause, like any other sold product has to do. Then, by business processes, management will take care of the ethical issues to minimize risks.

toohotatopic commented on Rome: A Linter for JavaScript and TypeScript romefrontend.dev/blog/202... · Posted by u/acemarke

toohotatopic · 6 years ago

>Regular double quoted strings can have newlines.

This doesn't feel right. There are already ` for multi-line comments. Why not use them? Changing the meaning of " breaks the ability to copy paste an rjson file into regular sourcecode.

toohotatopic commented on The German front in rare color photos, 1914-1918 rarehistoricalphotos.com/... · Posted by u/pmoriarty

Hayvok · 6 years ago

That shot of the men lining the trench... with cloth hats. No helmets.

Imagine the constant artillery bombardment above you - shrapnel and rock everywhere - and you’re wearing not much more than a baseball hat.

Truly an incredible time in history - these old armies colliding with a new type of war.

toohotatopic · 6 years ago

Do helmets significantly reduce casualities or are they more like a courage device that makes the wearer feel less vulnerable?

toohotatopic commented on Rome: A Linter for JavaScript and TypeScript romefrontend.dev/blog/202... · Posted by u/acemarke

_7bxa · 6 years ago

There's something that scares me about Rome: it's lack of plugins.

I really like Babel because of its plugins. My project typecheck.macro, could not exist without Babel plugins.

How will Rome support compile time transformations like graphql.macro or typecheck.macro?

Compile time plugins allow JavaScript to evolve super rapidly & make the creation of frameworks that act as compilers instead of traditional frameworks possible.

[1] https://github.com/vedantroy/typecheck.macro

toohotatopic · 6 years ago

Isn't this the reason why it is called Rome? In JavaScript history, we are past Babel (and the Greek city states) and a centralized tooling will allow for an unprecedented language economy?

Constantinople and Moscow are waiting, as well as Venice and London. A plugin system that wants to incorporate everything will risk having to maintain Byzantine diplomatic relations. On the other hand, restricting the plugin system to its core will create a local powerhouse that will utterly fail to adapt once new ventures become available.

I am waiting for the TypeScript / JavaScript split.

toohotatopic commented on Oatly: The New Coke? divinations.substack.com/... · Posted by u/dshipper

seanwilson · 6 years ago

> I came away realizing that cattle used for milk production suffer more.

I think you could certainly argue that. Beef cows are slaughtered at around 3 years and diary cows are slaughtered at around 5 years but after giving birth with their offspring taken away several times (both have about a 20 year life span).

Personally, I don't understand how vegetarians justify it as being much different in terms of animal cruelty. You're still paying into a system that's killing animals for your benefit.

toohotatopic · 6 years ago

Because they like milk. You can justify anything if you want it to be true.

Where does this end? Industrial farming kills insects. We obviously don't have the same amount of love for insects as we have for cows. But why should cows live and insects die?

This comes back to killing humans, one way or the other. How many insects are a foetus? Are poor people not allowed to have children so that insects can keep on living?

toohotatopic commented on Apple says game streaming services violate App Store policies businessinsider.com/apple... · Posted by u/oblio

bsaul · 6 years ago

It's really ironic how having suffered from microsoft monopolistic abuses in the past, they now do the EXACT same thing.

And the worst is that higher management probably convinced themselves they're not.

Yeah, i believe only a trial will make them realize what they've become.

PS: planning on buying a non-google non-apple phone in the future, after having had to buy a new iphone just so that i could install ios 13 and keep working (the old one being perfectly fine btw). Any advice ?

toohotatopic · 6 years ago

Apple has always been like that: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...

Of course they will relive their desktop experience because some other environment will at some point be better due to fierce competition. It's kind of their omen that the company with the bitten apple from paradise has to created a walled garden. The difference will be that there is no Steve to rescue them again.

Funny thing is, their first logo was Newton's apple. Imagine the difference.

toohotatopic commented on Skyscraper design combines cryptocurrency mining with vertical water park archdaily.com/918389/tehr... · Posted by u/undefined1

curtis3389 · 6 years ago

Is this a joke?

It says that it's "Disconnected From the Power Grid" with "Self Powered Sustainable System Including Generators" and "Taking Advantage of Water Flow for Cooling and Generating Electricity".

I can't think of a way that this works in reality. Electricity costs for the servers would be huge, and you still gotta pump water to the top of that tower.

toohotatopic · 6 years ago

Must be rain water, that comes from above.

toohotatopic commented on Shipshape RenderMan Art Challenge blog.yiningkarlli.com/202... · Posted by u/mariuz

toohotatopic · 6 years ago

Other participants: https://renderman.pixar.com/news/renderman-shipshape-art-cha...

toohotatopic commented on The custom ringtone industry paved the way for the app store and then vanished onezero.medium.com/how-th... · Posted by u/AlexDragusin

buro9 · 6 years ago

This was also the time where music had the highest value.

Consider revenue per song:

- £0 per downloaded song via torrent

- £0.003 per streaming song

- £0.70 - £1 per album song on CD

- £0.99 per song on iTunes

- £0.99 per single song on CD

- £1 per single song on 7"

- £1 per 10 seconds of song in a simplified midi track... equivalent to a per song value far higher

Lesson here if no-one saw it, the more you control the means of distribution and playback, the higher the price you can extract from the listener.

Long-term, when the final vestiges of openly available music vanish (CDs gone, streamed content heavily DRM'd), prices will definitely rise, or at least... those who most control the critical parts of distribution or playback at that time will be able extract the most revenue from the total revenue that exists. I believe that the pressure will be on the labels and artists at this time, and that even with technology helping to reduce the cost of recording and releasing music it's going to be hard on them. The winners are most likely the distributors of music across all platforms - Spotify look like a good bet.

This is the subject of a piece of work I did for the independent music labels in the UK in early 2000s and it's still relevant.

toohotatopic · 6 years ago

Long-term, the only valuable resource is attention. Content is accumulating, faster and faster due to automation, thus its value is declining.

Artists can make money with concerts so they will pay you to become part of your life. Even now, youtube is already playing entire songs as advertisement. Why should it stop there?