GHFigs

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by GHFigs 14y ago
People use the word "entitlement" because when you say this... I download shit because...there's literally no other way to consume said content ...you're making the assumption that you are entitled to consume that content simply because
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by GHFigs 14y ago
I contend that I have thought about this a lot more than you have, and that your incredulity stems directly from choosing not to think about it. But to respond, anyway: If your relationships with distant friends and family depend on you
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by GHFigs 14y ago
I am not a user, but HBO Go does not strike me as any less of a "modern medium" than Netflix, Hulu, or Amazon Instant.
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by GHFigs 14y ago
If my friends/family are watching some awesome show like say, LOST, I'm not waiting for TV companies/netflix/whoever to get their act together. Lost is among the worst examples you could have chosen. It was one of the first shows availabl
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by GHFigs 14y ago
"The majority of our revenue comes from the search functionality in the Firefox browser. Google is the largest source of revenue and in December 2011, we announced that we negotiated a significant and mutually beneficial revenue agreement w
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by GHFigs 14y ago
When two things are very similar, people tend to develop stronger feelings about the differences that remain. I once discussed the phenomenon that is precisely communities with adjoining territories, and related to each other in other ways
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by GHFigs 14y ago
Be sure to check out the companion article: "How To Get Forbes and The Wall Street Journal to Advertise Your Book Marketing Consultancy" http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by GHFigs 14y ago
The patent in question: http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?DB=... Speech output device for data displayed on mobile telephone converts data from display into speech data for output via loudspeaker
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by GHFigs 14y ago
The FBI coordinated take-down plans with local police, DHS, and big banks. That much seems pretty clear. If you read carefully, you'll see that that's actually an insinuation made by the organization that filed the FOIA request, not somet
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by GHFigs 14y ago
...the texts that form the groundwork for our scientific understanding of the world leave out a whole dimension of the thinking of the people who wrote them... This is a feature, not a bug. Scientific understanding depends on quality of t
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by GHFigs 14y ago
I'm going to go out on a limb and state a preference for Aaron to have been able to "man up and deal with the consequences of his actions" than to have killed himself. It's a coarse phrasing[0], but think the sentiment is and was a valid an
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by GHFigs 14y ago
That doesn't answer my question as to what argument is supposedly attempted to be invalidated by pointing out hipocrisy. The article refers to "...the U.S. government’s message to China and other nations today...". I understood the author
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by GHFigs 14y ago
The history is interesting, but the author's attempt--in the first two sentences--to frame the whole thing as an instance of hypocrisy strikes me as flimsy. If you're trying to invalidate an argument, you can't rest your case on the observa
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by GHFigs 14y ago
Judging by this interview three years ago, it seems to have crossed the minds of the Chrome OS team, but it would be strong to call it a "plan". JS: And this also gets at another issue. I know that Sergey made some comments that were widel
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by GHFigs 14y ago
My guess is that it's more likely to be another cryptocurrency that becomes the standard. Out of curiosity, what are the existing or potential differences between cryptocurrencies? What does the competitive landscape look like?
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by GHFigs 14y ago
Interesting in light of some of his more recent thoughts, too: We have yet to take Google’s measure. We’ve seen nothing like it before, and we already perceive much of our world through it. We would all very much like to be sagely and reli
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by GHFigs 14y ago
Specifically, it's trading away consciousness of probability in favor of a sense of agency. We all do that a little bit from time to time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency_(philosophy)
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by GHFigs 14y ago
See also Sherry Turkle[1], Nicholas Carr[2], etc. [1] http://www.amazon.com/Alone-Together-Expect-Technology-Other... [2] http://www.amazon.com/Shallows-What-Internet-Doing-Brains/dp...
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by GHFigs 14y ago
“The party will combine a small, centralised leadership with maximum grass roots involvement and support. By relying on decentralised Wikipedia-style, user-generated structures, it will do without apparatchiks. The party will be incorruptib
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by GHFigs 14y ago
Without denying that it's "neat", I'd like to be on record as looking askance at the fact that a company that makes >90% of revenue from advertising wants to sell me a tiny screen to put an inch in front of my eye.
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by GHFigs 14y ago
Not surprising when their phones and the apps on them have millions of man-hours of work put into making them interesting. What is surprising (at least to me, non-smartphone-owner) is that it's seems to be considered socially acceptable to
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by GHFigs 14y ago
In the short time that I managed to keep up with using Anki, I found it felt most effective to create my own cards using only the specific bits of information that I had to look up in the docs myself, or when I had a fleeting moment of insi
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by GHFigs 14y ago
One reason that conversation has been hard to have to date is that a bill like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protecting_Cyberspace_as_a_Nati... , gets reported in the press like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_kill_swit
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by GHFigs 14y ago
What "merely"? That's exactly what I said she was doing.
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May be, not will be. Even the article you linked to is clear on that. The point is that attacks on US infrastructure using computers will not automatically be treated as less severe than dropping bombs simply by virtue of how they were
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In what way does an affiliate link deepen the review?
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She's taking a part of her review that might entice people to buy the book— the illustrations— and adding an affiliate link to them. Yes. That's called advertising. Something every page of her site denies it has.
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Attaching affiliate links to those images is not "mundane". It effectively them into banner ads. She's covering her site in click targets that make her money and then claiming to be ad-free on the same page.
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Nobody has a monopoly on exceptionalism.

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