Czarnian

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by Czarnian 15y ago
Don't blame me for his bad analogy.
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by Czarnian 15y ago
What he's doing is leeching off of other peoples resources. A swap implies that he's letting other people use his phone, which he's not.
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by Czarnian 15y ago
And how many of those things would be around if they weren't generating revenue for someone? He's a living, breathing demonstration of the limits of free software. A world where progress slows to a crawl because the only people who have th
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by Czarnian 15y ago
These days, if you ask someone for a phone and you are more than a few feet away from a landline, you're asking for a cell phone. To say otherwise is being disingenuous. To me, it demonstrates a far less altruistic motivations.
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by Czarnian 15y ago
Don't get them wrong: these people are not fanatic, they are just living and breathing a cause they started for a good reason. AKA Fanaticism. He's become an inflexible, computerized hermit. His dogmatic adherence to a demonstrably unte
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by Czarnian 15y ago
You're right. The APIs don't need to be implemented, just documented. I'll go you one further. It's better to work without a functioning API. With stubs and dummies, you can tightly control inputs and test way more effectively. If you'r
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by Czarnian 15y ago
I was thinking along the same lines, but instead of wiping the file, it changes the password to a randomized 20 character string. If you're doing anything that risks getting pinched, it's probably better to take the obstruction rap than wha
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by Czarnian 15y ago
So if I break into a theater when it's closed and make a reel-to-reel copy of a movie with my own film stock, then I didn't just steal it? Good to know.
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by Czarnian 15y ago
Refusing to move to the back of the bus. Sitting down in the middle of the street to block the movement of troops from point a to point b. Walking from Montgomery to Selma. Downloading the Inbetweeners. One of these things is not civil diso
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by Czarnian 15y ago
Do me a favor, wouldja? Please cast this particular tenet of your moral code into the form of the golden rule. Exactly what are you doing to others that you would have them do unto you?
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by Czarnian 15y ago
The supply and demand curves are independent variables derived from distinct data sets. From Wikipedia: . . . supply is determined by marginal cost. Firms will produce additional output as long as the cost of producing an extra unit of outp
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by Czarnian 15y ago
You probably shouldn't have skipped the day when they talked about market saturation. Infinite supply does not imply infinite demand.
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by Czarnian 15y ago
When exactly are you supposed to do these shows and performances if you have a day job? Copyright is one of the things that allows artists to get in a position to go on the road and do these shows.
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by Czarnian 15y ago
Your premise doesn't seem terribly strong for a few reasons. 1) Artists have memories. When I was much younger, I worked as a telemarketer. It was probably the worst job I ever held in my life. It was soul-crushing. Even though I am no
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by Czarnian 15y ago
Is it really that bad if somebody who needs a bed uses mine without permission while it lies unused, provided it isn't harmed and is returned to its initial condition? Exactly. It's YOUR choice to allow someone to let themselves in when yo
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by Czarnian 15y ago
They won't be taking their balls and going home out of pique, they'll be doing it because they have to go to work. Every hour an artist has to spend at a day job is an hour they can't spend creating. It's an hour they can't spend practicin
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by Czarnian 15y ago
Leaving aside the rather obvious question of what makes you think your taste in music is superior to anyone else, how much MORE of that great, great, great music would get created if the artists didn't have to wash dishes for 10 hours a day
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by Czarnian 15y ago
They didn't really get into to much detail, but what usually happens with these situations is that all of the LLCs are just funneling the proceeds into the same bank accounts, no matter whose name is on the LLC paperwork. In this case, it
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by Czarnian 15y ago
When teaching yoga, the instructor needs to know and understand the limits of the human body. And then, at the very least, need to make sure their students know not to exceed those limits.
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by Czarnian 15y ago
The difference is that when I go to my regular trainer, he is very specific about not letting me exceed my physical limits. He's also very conscientious about making sure I know my physical limits so I don't hurt myself when he's not aroun
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by Czarnian 15y ago
Also, there are some limits that should not be exceeded, period. Like the cases in the article where they exceeded the operating tolerances of the neck and gave themselves strokes. Yoga certifications really ought to include a basic anatom
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by Czarnian 15y ago
Mark Twain didn't say this. His father died when he was 13. Not necessarily a bad sentiment, just not a Mark Twain thing.
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by Czarnian 15y ago
Never said there would be. Just saying that the problems are going to be increasingly obscure and harder to solve.
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by Czarnian 15y ago
That is a horrible way to play baseball.
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by Czarnian 15y ago
What they're looking for is people with under-developed bullsh*t detectors. I suspect the reason IT applications are sometimes being pioneered by younger people has more to do with immersion in the technology from an early age that can prov
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by Czarnian 15y ago
That's true. The general rule I go by is carry between 3-5 months worth of expenses (debt service + living expenses) in cash and the rest goes into various investments to make more money. The cash is my emergency fund and the investments
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by Czarnian 15y ago
Wouldn't even have to go that far. Seasteaders are already paranoid enough that you can just play on the fears they already have. "Nice seastead you have here. It'd be a real shame if some country decided to come out and take your strateg
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by Czarnian 15y ago
Off the top of my head, the only things of value on a seastead are the salvageable materials, which would be a hassle to collect and sell, and the net worth of the various residents. They have no strategic value, it would cost a lot to kee
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by Czarnian 15y ago
If that's the question you wanted answered, it should have been the question you asked. Instead, you asked which goodies are provided by a society with a complex government structure. Leaving aside the direct governmental involvement in th
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by Czarnian 15y ago
Because you have to pay a shipper a lot of money to send a ship somewhere that doesn't have any exports to ship back.

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