Court won't reduce student's music download fine ($675 000 for sharing 30 songs)

knowshun · 1 day

Quite true, though the median household income in the United States is $21.74 per hour. I'm thinking 15% loss after local and federal taxes leaves you with about $18. If you give just about half of your paycheck, that gets things down to $9. Repayment in around 40 years.

knowshun · 1 day

This assumes he gives 100% of his income to the RIAA before taxes.

thatguyinthesky · 1 day

I'm leaving my six figure job in San Diego to go to graduate school. It sounds like a really stupid move, considering I still have student loans and a car to pay off, but I was rejected ten times from seven different schools. It means longer hours, less pay, more stress, but it's something I've wanted to do for a very long time.

Accepting an engineering position at my company is something I consider one of the bigger mistakes of my life, and now it's time to rectify that mistake.

efritz · 1 day

Ah, I see. Hadn't thought of that. Thank you.

efritz · 1 day

Tangentially related question:

I'm aware that greedy algorithms for teh change-making problem is sub-optimal (and sometimes actually incorrect) for currencies.

For what currencies and values is the answer incorrect?

banhmisupreme · 1 day

I'm so very bummed I missed the live cast for this. I remembered the first one. :(

fregoli · 1 day

A ha! That makes much more sense. Thank you.

xabhsalf · 1 day

Ah. I spaced out and misunderstood the r4r 'setup'. Thanks.

fregoli · 2 days

I'm not even talking about price, just the technical feasibility of having that resolution. Ten angstroms is about the size of five gold atoms next to one another. Given an eight cubic foot area, let's assume you've got a workspace of 2ft by 2ft by 4ft. The maximum distance from the center of the transmitter to the edge is then sqrt(2² + 2² + 2²⁾ [note that I'm assuming the transmitter is at 0, 0, 2. Ten angstroms, or 1.0e-9 at a distance of 1.055858171m (that's the distance from device to edge of visible volume in meters) would be like shooting a bullet from San Diego to New York (3914000m) and hitting the diamond in a playing card. Consistently. Several times per second.

ohgoshwheretobegin · 2 days

Surprisingly, people perceive things to taste better based solely on outside aesthetic. As long as the inside is above average, they can be bumped into the realm of exceptional by a well planned exterior.

fregoli · 2 days

I want to be able to give my computer the finger and have it close the currently running application.

fregoli · 2 days

Edit: As genneth pointed out, its ten microns, not ten angstroms. My numbers are off by six or seven orders of magnitude.

Jesus fucking Christ. That's a time resolution of 33 femtoseconds. The CCD needs to be clocking at 3.03030303e+13 Hz, or 30 THz (30000 GHz).

nomdeweb · 2 days

Sounds like a recipe for hilarity. Also disaster.

custerdome · 2 days

Corollary: Suck boobs if you can get to them.

LifeofaLorax · 3 days

"Mr. Rogers and his colorful friends play a prank on an unsuspecting waitress."

stealthismatt · 3 days

Misrepresentation of information. Foxconn removed family compensation for suicide cases. A subtle but very important distinction.

stealthismatt · 3 days

Private Consumerism and the Lack of Outrage Over Apple Products

http://www.reddit.com/r/SRSDiscussion/comments/p10x6/privilege_consumerism_and_the_lack_of_outrage/c3m2srx?context=1

An absolutely outstanding discussion on the evils and benefits offered by Foxconn in China. It's among the best discussions I've seen in all of Reddit.

xabhsalf · 3 days

What are the other r4rs for Philadelphia?

LucoBuck · 4 days

It's on the bottom of the page.

mcnibbleton · 5 days

He's just picking out some numbers as an example. What's important is you can pick any number (let's call it 'n') and say, "I have a system with n bits of memory." If I have n bits of memory, I can represent any number up to a certain size. 2ⁿ is the biggest number I can represent, but what's really important is there are an INFINITE number of numbers BIGGER than 2^n. Since there are a finite number of numbers I can represent and an infinite number of numbers I can't represent, that means I can not represent most numbers.

Turing mentioned a computer with infinite memory as part of a theory, not necessarily as something to be built. Most of our practical applications do not require infinite memory. If I need to remember four numbers and my computer can store 100000000, then my needs are satisfied! Hooray!

ChadMartin14 · 7 days

Kitler.

EDIT: Missed agent_of_entropy's comment. My bad.

TheCoreh · 7 days

Thanks. Nicely done. :)

TheCoreh · 8 days

"Before the iPhone launched (and keep in mind that was only five years ago), a whole industry had a very clear picture of what were and what were not the needs of their customers. Needless to say, they were pretty much wrong. Today’s marketshare leader (Android) didn’t even exist then;"

Incorrect. The Android operating system was created in 2003, purchased by Google in 2005, and released to the public in 2007, the same year as the iPhone.

charlesh720 · 8 days

I don't think it was appropriate to attack her as a bigot, though she certainly is. Better to simply attack the viewpoint and state facts. One can't argue with facts.

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