GHFigs

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by GHFigs 13y ago
There is something humorous in making a statement against copyright predicated on fans giving a PILE OF POO[1] about the creator's will. People already share what they like; they just don't like most of the stuff that's given away for free.
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by GHFigs 13y ago
Figs's Law: Inaccurate information travels faster than accurate information.
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by GHFigs 13y ago
I am reminded of one of Taleb's aphorisms: "You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept", and of Glenn Gould's interview with himself: "G.G.: I simply feel that the artist should be granted, both for his
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by GHFigs 13y ago
At 400 you get to downvote. At 401 you get to apologize for accidentally downvoting someone. At 419 you get lucrative business opportunities. At 420 you get baked. At 451 you get [deleted]. At 777 you get lucky. At 1337 "they" teach you the
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by GHFigs 13y ago
It might be more helpful for this audience to think of it as "just with ten years of work".
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by GHFigs 13y ago
I may buy a lot of stuff, but should I only be viewed as “a consumer” in the eyes of the government and my democracy? Notice that the author is attributing words in a blog post on thehill.com to "the government and my democracy".
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by GHFigs 13y ago
In practice, attention is credibility. You can look at this as a cultural problem[1], a psychological finding[2], a propaganda tool[3], a business model[4], etc. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Postman [2] http://en.wikipedia.org
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by GHFigs 13y ago
The extant differences are not universally thought to be so great as to warrant the dramatically greater public acceptance and promotion that prescription drugs receive in the US. This is not aided by the fact that methamphetamine is itself
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by GHFigs 13y ago
I think it's disingenuous to bring up the Taliban and then deny you were saying anything about ideology. It was an emotional appeal that buries your true point. You know who else did that? Hitler.
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by GHFigs 13y ago
That's a weak point. You could just as easily say it makes you "the Northern Alliance", "the French Resistance", "the Black Panthers", or "the Swiss". Weapons do not dictate ideology.
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by GHFigs 13y ago
I would hesitate to generalize from what you saw on TV. What you see on TV has a lot to do with where the TV crews are set up and where they're allowed to go, which has to be somewhere safe and not in the way of the people with work to do.
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by GHFigs 13y ago
I'll gladly acknowledge that there were plenty of people trying hard to keep things in check, but it can be observed that at some point things went off the rails, e.g. http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/1cn9ga/is_missing_st... Yes -
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by GHFigs 13y ago
the Boston police scanners said they were looking for Sunil Did you hear this yourself, or did you read it? That's really what I'm asking. I know many people were listening, but it's hard to tell what people heard first-hand and what peop
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by GHFigs 13y ago
before name appeared on police scanner Is there a recording of this? Because it sounds a lot like it never happened.
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by GHFigs 13y ago
Your link points to Reddit, which points to a Twitter user, but when that Twitter user is asked how he knows, he says it was on Reddit. I'm now completely convinced that story is total fucking bullshit.
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by GHFigs 13y ago
Mentioned by whom, where?
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by GHFigs 13y ago
The article does not use either of those names.
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by GHFigs 13y ago
I would not trust tweets regarding the names going out over the radio.
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by GHFigs 13y ago
I definitely understand that view, but on that drawing board are the words "two-thirds majority". It comes down to a choice between an impotent veto and an impotent signing statement.
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by GHFigs 13y ago
Most people seem to not understand that that's the same bill . The NDAA is an annual bill specifying the defense budget. The indefinite detention provisions that upset so many people are attached to that bill. As the President cannot veto
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by GHFigs 13y ago
You could make the same argument about any law. The point is that makes it a weaker argument, not a stronger one.
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by GHFigs 13y ago
Observe that 4chan users did not set up a whole board devoted to the topic and a spreadsheet of suspects. Nor, for that matter, do alleged journalists frequently use 4chan as a primary source.
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by GHFigs 13y ago
Cynically, Millennials can be coaxed into doing anything if they can be convinced it's sticking it to The Man.
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by GHFigs 13y ago
On top of that, most potential employees are shit at negotiating. Most never negotiate at all - they take the offered number or leave it, but they rarely push. This is why the article sounded so strange to me. It seems like the idea that'
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by GHFigs 13y ago
The addendum for the Explorer Edition states: you may not resell, loan, transfer, or give your Device to any other person . That's what the story is about, because there are no other editions of Glass.
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by GHFigs 13y ago
A fake identity is less likely to have passed Google's selection process, and may be be difficult to verify when they go to pick up the device in person. Also, the terms specify that Google is allowed to deactivate the device if they find
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by GHFigs 13y ago
Said comments are completely non-skeptical about the provenance of the images or their actual significance. Because Hacker News never gets anything wrong, right? We're smart here, right? No, actually. We average out to the same kind of mob-
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by GHFigs 13y ago
Oh, please. It's on the front page of Hacker News because Hacker News is full of credulous idiots, not because talking about pictures is bad or wrong.
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by GHFigs 13y ago
They are publicly "accusing" (or putting somebody in a very specific corner) two guys. FYI: This submission is just some images pulled off a thread of idle speculation that somebody posted to Tumblr. It's not some kind of organized campai
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by GHFigs 13y ago
It's hilarious to see anything from /pol/ show up on Hacker News.

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