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by GHFigs 15y ago
And in the case of Syria, American silence is deafening. "In a statement, President Barack Obama strongly condemned "the abhorrent violence" committed by the Syrian government. "I call upon the Syrian authorities to refrain from any furt
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by GHFigs 15y ago
When you pirate a game, do you also pay for it?
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by GHFigs 15y ago
I told you how I interpret "free speech organization". If that interpretation is not what you meant, I'm not surprised: that's why I asked to you define what you meant in the first place. I had thought that asking for a clarification would
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by GHFigs 15y ago
The fact that at least five people on Hacker News think it's wrong to even ask makes me even more certain that it was worth asking.
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by GHFigs 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glittering_generality
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by GHFigs 15y ago
Define "free speech organization".
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by GHFigs 15y ago
What was the point of saying that the size of the winning bid "echoes the sentiment" of a rant about Lodsys?
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by GHFigs 15y ago
I don't understand. For one thing, Google wasn't "the early front runner", they were the stalking horse bid--essentially the minimum. There seems to be this retroactive meme going around to the effect that Google was expected to win with th
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by GHFigs 15y ago
When I look at Lytro I think of E-Ink and FingerWorks, both companies that (like Lytro) grew out of academia and both of whose technology has been significant (arguably revolutionary) in the last decade.
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by GHFigs 15y ago
There may be a decent argument to this effect, but the one presented is extremely weak. I don't understand why you get to ignore all[1] mobile native gaming because of an unsupported assertion that "most people" don't play web games. Firstl
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by GHFigs 15y ago
Specific advice is good when the audience doesn't necessarily know enough about what they need to differentiate between the various options. Thousands of man-hours are wasted every day by people trying to decide which of two (or more) entir
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by GHFigs 15y ago
That advice is entirely to do with the fact that the information was classified and the federal government doesn't want to hire people whose treatment of classified information is to post links to it on Facebook . It is a reasonable sugges
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by GHFigs 15y ago
If he was sharing a physical machine with the bad guys, then yeah, sorry, that's collateral damage. However, if he was on his own separate leased machine, there is absolutely no reason for the FBI to seize it. The problem is that with bla
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by GHFigs 15y ago
Whatever else you do, keep a journal. Cheap notebooks with a decent pen work well, but OhLife (YC S10) is pretty great. Keeping a public blog is not the same thing. Consistency is unimportant, but the habit is vital. "Keeping a journal" is
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by GHFigs 15y ago
http://putthison.com/ , the series and blog are both nice, and the accompanying "Sites we Like" sidebar is everything the other commenter mentioned and then some. In my experience, having a female friend you can get rapid feedback from is
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by GHFigs 15y ago
Get a cat.
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by GHFigs 15y ago
It could also mean shorter N1 or N3 phases of non-REM sleep. From my limited understanding it seems like the subjects falling asleep faster would correspond to a shorter N1 phase, but I haven't read the paper yet.
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by GHFigs 15y ago
Unless apparently it is from a group criticizing the government. As we see in the article, that's the real crime. Read it again, or better yet read the linked Reuters article, which RWR just re-wrote and sexed-up. There is no causal conne
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by GHFigs 15y ago
I don't understand where this idea comes from that ideas can be owned by anyone. Intellectual property is not about owning ideas. Consider that if you read a book and take in it's ideas, you have not violated copyright, because it applies
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by GHFigs 15y ago
Seymore Papert, in Mindstorms : "By deliberately learning to imitate mechanical thinking, the learner becomes able to articulate what mechanical thinking is and what it is not. The exercise can lead to greater confidence about the ability
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by GHFigs 15y ago
FUD. You don't know if or when or how this would ever be implemented, and wild-ass claims about what could happen given any number of dubious preconditions don't get more plausible just by making them scarier. Are iPhones and YouTube so c
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by GHFigs 15y ago
They've certainly created the "worst case scenarios" that politicians can point to now. Briefly DDOSing a government website is not a "worst case scenario" by anybody's reckoning.
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by GHFigs 15y ago
The propagation of ideas is more often a function of their fecundity than their nobility.
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by GHFigs 15y ago
Please accept my inclination to never post on this subject on HN again as a sign that I was not trolling. It is always exhausting to try to explain what is to me a fairly intuitive and moderate point to an audience that seems quite devoted
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by GHFigs 15y ago
The easier and healthier option is to just avoid commenting on intellectual property issues on Hacker News in the future.
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by GHFigs 15y ago
The previous post is explicitly referring to a situation that involves gross abuse of rights. Which I said nothing about in mine. One might speculate that I omitted such reference because I found no particular fault with what was said abo
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by GHFigs 15y ago
The entirety of your previous post was putting words in my mouth, and now you're doing it again by suggesting interpretations of what I wrote instead of what I actually wrote. No, thank you.
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by GHFigs 15y ago
These domain seizures are such a disturbing issue because there is no due process. I agree. What I reject is the entirely different idea expressed in the previous post, to the effect that violating other people's rights is an essential co
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by GHFigs 15y ago
Legal rights aren't rights?
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by GHFigs 15y ago
When has freedom ever meant violating the rights of others?

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