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New comment by bean469 in "The lost joy of music piracy"

bean469 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:14:55 +0000

You decide whether or not the benefits from you obtaining the information outweigh the cost of obtaining the information. Or you convince Elon Musk to buy the book and leak the EPUB on twitter

New comment by bean469 in "The lost joy of music piracy"

bean469 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:49:04 +0000

> "Well it came from a book. Check it out if you're interested."

> "What? It's not free? Hell no I won't pay!"

I am also sceptical that my burning questions will be answered in the book, thus I choose to not buy it. Also, the Goodreads reviews don't look too good

New comment by bean469 in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"

bean469 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:46:36 +0000

I would also assume the same for non-Chinese as well

New comment by bean469 in "The lost joy of music piracy"

bean469 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:31:07 +0000

Since the explanation for the claim is essentially pay-walled behind the book, I will just choose to ignore it

New comment by bean469 in "Grok Build is open source"

bean469 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:26:55 +0000

Absolutely. That's why their self driving will not be allowed to roll out in the EU and other places until it works well

New comment by bean469 in "The lost joy of music piracy"

bean469 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:03:38 +0000

Ah, my mistake!

New comment by bean469 in "The lost joy of music piracy"

bean469 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:00:05 +0000

> That's total bullshit. Global music revenue fell by 50% because of piracy[1].

The article you linked does not provide any source and / or a methodology for how this was calculated and attributed specifically to piracy

New comment by bean469 in "The lost joy of music piracy"

bean469 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:56:48 +0000

> Public p2p sharing is pretty much dead in the West.

Orpheus and RED are going extremely strong right now, with very active userbases

Liberal Crime Squad: New Age

bean469 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 07:52:27 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/ashley-s-fox/lcs-new-age

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48931507

Points: 3

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New comment by bean469 in "Grok Build is open source"

bean469 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 07:00:19 +0000

With all of the videos circulating online of the Tesla self-driving getting itself into extremely dangerous situations (like increasing speed once a child appears on the road), I'm not really sure that their self-driving tech is there yet

New comment by bean469 in "DOGE is done. What happened to its records?"

bean469 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:42:36 +0000

> why exactly is the US responsible for feeding people in random countries around the world?

It was not as in not responsible, since international agreements between countries are de facto non-enforceable. Such programs though did help the US in gaining influence and soft power in those parts of the world

New comment by bean469 in "Top researchers leave USA for the Netherlands (in Dutch)"

bean469 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 08:13:12 +0000

There are lots of funding possibilities with Horizon Europe projects with new proposals being approved all the time

New comment by bean469 in "Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society"

bean469 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 08:38:08 +0000

> I called siriusxm to get them to turn off their stupid advertising on my in-car infotainment

I know that ads on radio always were and still are a thing, but on actual screens as well? This just gives another reason not to upgrade from my 2010 car.

New comment by bean469 in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

bean469 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:25:37 +0000

> Cursor has $4 billion annual revenue rate so $60b is 15 years of future cashflows.

This assumes that Cursor's annual revenue will be the same or higher for over a decade. It's not really like they don't have competitors

New comment by bean469 in "Typst 0.15.0"

bean469 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 06:08:28 +0000

Yep, usually what people do is import the template into Overleaf and work on it from there. It's only when journals and conferences will provide typst templates is when we will see wider adoption for writing papers

New comment by bean469 in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

bean469 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 07:16:18 +0000

Not all people need the SOTA. Also, many take into consideration speed, token / plan cost and many other factors when choosing a model

New comment by bean469 in "BYD is bringing its 5-min 'Flash' electric car charging to Canada"

bean469 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:33:48 +0000

I looked, but didn't find anything. Perhaps it's too early to tell?

New comment by bean469 in "BYD is bringing its 5-min 'Flash' electric car charging to Canada"

bean469 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:30:59 +0000

> The automaker has built over 5,700 Flash Charging stations in China in about a year, and as we reported earlier today, it is now deploying 2.4 times more charging power per month than Tesla adds to its Supercharger network.

Glad to hear this!

New comment by bean469 in "πFS"

bean469 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:26:58 +0000

It almost always will be, except for the extremely rare case of your string being somewhere early in the pi string.

New comment by bean469 in "Can we have the day off?"

bean469 — Thu, 28 May 2026 13:03:29 +0000

> if someone defects to a longer work week they tend to get ahead at work. Thus we all do it and thus we all lose.

If that is the case, wouldn't the same would apply to those who work overtime and on weekends?