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by Cushman 14y ago
You shouldn't need to-- you can load a PDF or ePub into iBooks straight from Safari or email.
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by Cushman 14y ago
This is great for SpaceX. A more-or-less anticipated event that was handled perfectly by automatic systems is being reported as a potentially catastrophic failure. They get all the great press for proving the safety of their design without
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by Cushman 14y ago
I don't see how the red text "Web Platform Docs is an open wiki that anyone can help improve. See the getting started guide[0] to learn more." in the alert box at the top of the page could be more clear. [0] http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki
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by Cushman 14y ago
It's a wiki. Why not fix it?
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by Cushman 14y ago
Oh, come off it. It's not in the least hard to understand what she's talking about, and it's objectively no worse than any other self-indulgent post that gets fawned over here. Come back when you have a critique grounded in content rather t
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by Cushman 14y ago
You offering me a job?
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by Cushman 14y ago
I appreciate the backup, though I'm not really hurt-- getting downvoted for that is pretty amusing. It does seems like an interesting little pattern on HN, though. I've found I tend to get the most upvotes for expressing the strongest opi
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by Cushman 14y ago
It varies, but usually I compress my diaphragm to force air from my lungs past a set of vibrating membranes which produce a base tone, then modulate that tone using the various muscles in my mouth to produce a set of distinct acoustic patte
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by Cushman 14y ago
It remains the case that a compass points both north and south by nature; which is a matter of convention.
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Every mechanical compass I've used has two points. Or none, I guess, on the spherical ones.
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That doesn't mean there is copyright protection for doing so.
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by Cushman 14y ago
This is a digression, but I have trouble with the idea of hypocrisy in general. It's difficult for me to conceive that, morally, espousing wrong beliefs and adhering to them in one's personal life is better than espousing wrong beliefs wh
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by Cushman 14y ago
> There's nothing satirical about that. It's pretty obvious this is about perceived hypocrisy on Apple's part. That's what I'm saying. This is pretty clear-cut. There's going to be a lawsuit. It's definitely ironic, and maybe a bit hypo
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by Cushman 14y ago
Sorry, I don't understand the satire here. It sounds like you're mimicking the response to claims that Apple stole designs from Braun? But the two situations are nothing alike -- cribbing industrial design elements from defunct products is
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by Cushman 14y ago
He has to re-jailbreak and re-install all of his jailbroken apps, many of which probably don't work anymore. It probably goes without saying that iOS isn't for him.
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by Cushman 14y ago
No, those guests now stay in room n+2.
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by Cushman 14y ago
Yes, the sound is fake. There is sound on Mars, though very quiet from our perspective, but the rover (and especially the lander) doesn't have a microphone. I did find this totally cool video that uses the status tones the lander sent back
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by Cushman 14y ago
> The disagreement and dialogue in this conversation has been brought to you by Free Expression. Much to the contrary-- try having a conversation like this on a "free" forum like 4chan and see how far you get. This kind of respectful di
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by Cushman 14y ago
So, again, on this issue you disagree with many very thoughtful, compassionate people, including most famously democratic governments who have lived through actual totalitarian dictatorship . (Many of the less thoughtful and compassionate
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by Cushman 14y ago
I was expecting something a little more convincing. That's a complete red herring; you never have the choice not to hear something once you've heard it. Does it help if I don't insult you unless you make eye contact with me? After all, if y
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by Cushman 14y ago
You have never had speech protections of any kind in any private forum. This is nothing new.
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by Cushman 14y ago
You're clouding the issue. "Free speech principles" as you describe them are not weakly protected elsewhere, they are not held . In particular, many -- most? -- enlightened Western democracies hold that hateful speech is not deserving of p
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by Cushman 14y ago
How?
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by Cushman 14y ago
What free speech? When has YouTube ever proposed not to censor videos on the basis of content?
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by Cushman 14y ago
You can even use sexpy syntax if you want to confuse people: (coffee.height (drink coffee, e.angle))
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by Cushman 14y ago
I'm sure I can make the case that bears are the indirect object of my having responsibility -- or rather are not -- but if you prefer, I withdraw the metaphor. The point is that it goes both ways :)
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by Cushman 14y ago
Infants have no ability to care for their parents. Do you truly argue that a child, when they become able, has no responsibility to take care of their parents, when they become infirm? And metaphor need not hew closely to semantics, but
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by Cushman 14y ago
Well, it's not a direct causal connection -- that's how we use "and" in English -- but basically, moral responsibility is commutative. Bears don't have a responsibility towards us: they're bears, they don't realize it's wrong to eat hikers.
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by Cushman 14y ago
Actually, I kind of like this analogy. If 4chan are bears, that means they don't have any moral responsibility, and it's okay to shoot them.
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by Cushman 14y ago
I totally understand what you meant-- definitely, anyone reading that comment had a chance to avoid this. But "you deserve it" is very harsh language for what is for the vast majority a well-intentioned mistake at worst. So, no more shame,

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